I remember that dude. Adler something. He wasn’t a troll, either - you could tell he was sincere and had fully drunk the woe is me Koolaid.

That’s good to hear, thank you.

Spontaneous my ass.

Maybe her underwear undoes at the sides, and someone is holding the hanging side aloft (aloft, I say!) so that her art can be revealed?

Oh, hell. I assumed it was SAINT, for her new nephew.

“severely injured the honor and dignity of many women”

“Let’s just call it like it is — from the get go, women are taught to be competitive with other women.”

But it’s been a lie-eee for six.

I was actually a fan in the early days. But then he had his mole removed and now he is dead to me.

Um ... but which one had the heart boobies? Did I miss that mention?

That’s fascinating, thank you...

Yes. I’m already dead.

“Damn right I got a licence for this vagina. Got my card right here.”

Legally and ethically, I *do* think it’s right for the people who answer the call to be prepared to (or more likely, accompanied by someone equipped and trained to) take physical action, if required. It would be unfair to expect social workers or even doctors to be first responders at actively volatile situations.

(Rest of world shocked that Enrique still has tours.)

Yes, a taser isn’t always a safe or workable solution, but damn it feels like a better one than shooting a man with a bat (no one has yet said he was using it against anyone, but I agree with you that we have no way to know as armchair outsiders.)

May not have been a “let” situation. Parents can be imperfect people and have problems. Health issues, addictions, prison. Sometimes courts take kids away from families who want them — most those times the courts are right, sometimes they can be very wrong. I’m not in a position to say what the story is, here. But we…

Is it time to invent some new source of mental health emergency assistance? A specific number you can call for a new hybrid mental health/armed security response unit that has specific training on deescalation and the requisite tools to subdue and detain.

Oh God, I could do this all day:

I really hate when third parties (often with kind intentions) reflexively claim mental illness in these situations, since not all violent people are mentally ill, and not all mental illness makes one violent.