This is the crux. I don't really know why this woman is pitching a fit over something she simply had to turn down if she didn't feel it was worth her time. Every business has to weigh their return on investment for exposure, marketing, etc. Lots of people take a lower rate or work for free or do more work than…

Revolva is not an employee. No one has stolen one thin dime from her for services rendered. She hasn't been fucked over. She didn't have time on Oprah's show before they asked her to perform for exposure, and she still doesn't have time on her show. She's lost nothing, she hasn't been coerced into doing anything for…

It is amoral, meaning that companies aren't operating in bad faith when they try to minimize cost. Oprah didn't put her show on for charity; she's allowed to try to maximize her profits by minimizing her costs. Revolva isn't a charity; she's allowed to turn down performing for free if she thinks it's not worth her…

Business owners always try to minimize costs, and performers are not the only business owners who have been asked to work for free or exposure or whatever. This wasn't especially egregious. If performers collectively refuse to work for free, then their value would increase; it's not Oprah's fault if performers devalue…

I am well aware of Marxist theory, and I didn't claim we aren't in a capitalist system. I said that Revolva and Oprah are BOTH capitalists; they are both business owners who have to negotiate their interaction with each other. Sure, Oprah is a more powerful company, but it really doesn't come into play here. She is in…

Your entire premise is wrong. Both Oprah and Revolva are capitalists. Revolva isn't an employee of Oprah. They are two business owners negotiating with each other. I presume that there are and have been other potential customers that have and will pay Revolva if she finds them, and she had no obligation whatsoever to…

Does this woman not know that she isn't obligated to perform, even if Oprah Winfrey asks her?

Rachel is the woman. I love her most when she is giving daylight to issues that the MSM isn't talking about and highlighting connections of things past to things present. She is a really valuable voice, and we are lucky to have her on our side.

Certainly it's possible, but it can't be proven either way which means that they shouldn't be convicted.

Who says they were fucking? They had their clothes on. They might have been grinding, but the pictures show she's got on her top and bottoms, and he has on his shorts. Furthermore, I just looked at the elements of the crime as as long as neither of them touched their own or each other's private parts, the charges…

I did google the pictures and I saw for myself that there was no nudity. Her top and bottoms were on, he clearly has on long shorts. If I were walking by them, I'd simply think, "Ugh, gross," and carry about my business. Who calls the cops on two people making out?

The pictures I saw of them weren't in any way conclusive. She clearly had her clothes on. I don't know how someone accuses people of public lewdness when there is no nudity whatsoever.

I just listened to the audio— why is everyone saying that she's being a dick? She's upset as anyone would be who feels they are being unjustly harassed. And asking if they are being approached because she's black and he's white is not "playing the race card"— it's a valid concern that a hell of a lot of people in this…

I'm with you. If they were in the car— even with the door open— people should avert their eyes and carry on with their day. Having sex in a car is not the most public of settings and used to be considered rather quaint. It may not be the best decorum and may be kind of gross, but other than telling them to move along,…

Only if you go looking for them. I have no idea what "Green Boots" even is, and I haven't seen people falling from the Twin Towers since about a year after the event. You won't find any of these images on mainstream TV news or news magazines or news websites.

Yep, and Trayvon Martin's crime scene and autopsy photos.

The difference in the way white bodies and black bodies are treated in the media is not limited to Ebola. It is common for dead and dying black people's bodies to be shown without regard to privacy or dignity or sensitivities of the viewing audience, but it is rare for white people to be shown in the same way. If…

His niece Alveda King is the pro-life Republican that Fox News likes to trot out every now and then. Her name doesn't lend itself well to your joke at all, of course.

A French braid is NOT just a large cornrow. Cornrows are created with underhand braiding; a French braid is created with overhand braiding.

The sad part is that I usually acquiesce to these assholes. I think from now on, I'm going to give the biggest, clowniest, wide-eyed grin, and wave like they are 100 yards down field of me.