I think the issue might be that we’re being asked to care disproportionately for dead cops. This officer was one of ten Chicagoans killed this past weekend, the two officers shot were less than 4% of the total people shot last week...the news media all showed up at the hospital to show hundreds of cops and first…

The first 4 lines of your final paragraph kinda puts it in perspective. Gun crime is a problem in Chicago and civilians get killed every week - usually young people of color, and the media and general public usually barely notice. The Chicago Police Department, on top of various issues of bigotry, use of force…

You left out corollary 8: these anti-vax, anti-mask memes and social media posts are being spit out, circulated, and amplified by the same off-shore bot (or “zombie” or “puppet” account) army that delivers election misinformation and other various and sundry conspiracy theories.

Biggest one everybody seems to forget: if you don’t drink tap water, don’t brew coffee with it. If your tap water tastes like rust, or chlorine, or smells like rotten eggs, or leaves a filmy aftertaste, I will guarantee that running it through your coffee maker is gonna yield coffee that tastes/smells just as bad, but…

The NY AG just needs one Trump Org. fraud charge to stick. Then other states and the feds pick up the scent and start pulling threads from that knock-off Coogi sweater, and the whole fundraising apparatus quickly unravels.  When Trump can’t raise money for the GOP anymore, they’ll ghost him overnight.

The louder and prouder Mr. Cannon is about his role in making these babies, the more I have to presume there’s a certain amount of hush-money and some sort of contractual arrangement with the mothers. Otherwise he’s laying down plenty of foundational evidence for some future child support cases.

Didn’t he somehow manage to catch COVID19 last spring, when most of the U.S. cases were still clustered in a handful of cities?  Unless he’s been vaccinated since, I’d say he’s overdue for a run-in with Delta, or one of the other fun variants his anti-vax anti-mask acolytes have helped spawn and spread.

...with the twink model who looks like he hasn’t had a sandwich since his mom cut the crusts off, let alone one with bacon in it.

This is another aspect (of many) that bugged me about this case. Whenever a cop is on the stand in any other case they’re experts, they have perfect recall, photographic memories, all sorts of special experience we mere mortals could never fathom, and are always calm cool and collected under pressure...yet when Amber…

The TX Attorney General is up for re-election and has been endorsed by Trump. There will be a push to pardon her or commute her sentence, and if Abbott decides not to get involved, she’ll still get ”white glove treatment” in prison.  She’ll be in front of the parole board before Botham Jean’s family even gets their…

Now I need to know if Texas has one of those laws preventing criminals from profiting off their story, ala the civil case against OJ by Ron Goodman’s family.

Never hear about any consequences for these false police reports...

A million stars right here.

Except it won’t be a “federal agent” at all. It’ll be some poor temp or intern (possibly a trainee nurse or med student) the county health department hired to fulfill a pandemic grant.

Treacherous. Even a smallish branch can easily accumulate a couple pounds’ worth of fruit by late summer, just waiting for a good gust of wind to drop the whole payload. They’re bigger than a golf ball, dense, and oily/smelly, so as a kid they made awesome projectiles, but running around or mowing the yard after a…

I had no idea Clear was that expensive. I’ve rolled past their kiosks a few times and there was no attendant vs. pre-check always has at least one lane open. Also at MDW and LGA I’ve seen people scan into Clear, get escorted by an attendant past the boarding pass/ID check, and dumped into the line right at the…

If keeping Scholastic “in the family” was actually so important to all parties involved, you’d think they would’ve had this all ironed out and legally documented some time ago. He was 84 for pete’s sake - pandemic or not, his days of running the family business were numbered.

In an ice cream maker.

Cooking oil also starts to solidify at higher temperatures than mineral oil...which starts to become an issue in cold weather with frozen locks being an issue.

Canonization is political and comes from the church’s marketing/PR department, and plenty of saints were actually trash humans (see: Mother Teresa) or their good deeds were straight-up fabrications.