I am an American living in Italy and I can tell you that the American media made her out to look like an innocent person being wrongly accused by an unjust legal system. I have zero comment on the legal system here (the prosecutor in this case is clearly an idiot, TBH) but I also believe she had some knowledge what…

My science teach in fifth grade told us it was lack of zinc. Which just makes me think of this:

wait... what? Why yuck? So you don’t believe that a person has a right to a defense in court?

So far ten people have starred that. So at least eleven people here seem to be okay with punishing innocent people for the crimes of others.

> so please forgive me if I don’t feel a single bit of pity for this dude even if he’s innocent.

Yes, but also an independant bookstore that called a newspaper rape apologists only after the newspaper declined to link to the bookstore’s fundraising platform in exchange for an interview and called the show “trans-antagonistic and trans-misogynist” but also let it be known that the show declined to pay a higher fee…

Nobody’s mad at them for “trying to do good,” they’re mad at them for blasting a show they like, and doing so in a way that implies a moral defect in them for liking the show. If Portlandia’s racist, anti-gay, transphobic, misogynistic, etc. - then am I all those things for liking it? I’m pretty sure I’m not, so…

And places like that rip on the Southeast constantly.... Most black people live in *drumroll* THE SOUTHEAST! http://www.censusscope.org/us/map_common_race.html

I find this confusing because a commenter above goes on at length about how the bookstore isn’t really interested in being a bookstore anymore, more of a meeting space for various groups (and, it’s implied, as a free meeting space) and also mentions how most of the people working in the store when she was there were…

This line so fucking tired. Portlandia makes fun of uppity people, people who take themselves too seriously, and people who are too dumb to advance the ideas they want to advance.

...and... I’m hungry.

I believe that you still owe us Brits for some tea.

Finally, the families of 9/11 victims can get restitution from the Saudi royalty respon--

yep and everyone knows it. im 100% with obama on this one:

To be fair, it would be political suicide to oppose this bill as a presidential candidate, because it’s a very popular bill. Obama could veto it because he’s in his last term as president. But nobody up for re-election was going to oppose it.

I really want him to troll the GOP hardcore and sign an Executive Order renaming Alabama to Mohammed al-Abama.

I said a solution. Locking the doors until they pass a bill could be another and better one.

To be fair more gerrymandering is a favored tactic of both parties. So either doing a better job at it would also help to stop impasses.

Hell no. EOs are a double edged sword. If we support bypassing Congress by Obama than we have no logical argument when a Republican chooses to do so for causes we fundamentally disagree with.

True, but those directions are an estimate, and because of all the factors that can impact cooking time, you aren’t supposed to take those as gospel anyway. Instead you should check things for done-ness, however it is you do that based on the recipe (eg with a meat thermometer).