These white-supremacist and anti-government groups have spent the last 100 years painstakingly tailoring their messaging to skirt the very edge of free speech protections. As official entities, they stay just this side of constitutionally-protected, putting the right disclaimers in the right places, carefully…

And that’s what I get for oversimplifying the issue. I’m sorry for denigrating the work you did and the work that dedicated public defenders do everyday. I’m a law librarian, so I see far more public defenders who’ve been thrown in the meat grinder and are jaded and exhausted and/or know that if their poor client…

Regardless of whether you did anything or not, your court-appointed lawyer will pressure you to take a plea deal rather than force them to research case law and take your case to trial and provide you with an adequate defense, which takes up the lawyer’s time and costs them money (since they’re not appropriately…

If you can’t afford to pay for a trial, your court-appointed lawyer will pressure you to plead guilty to a lesser charge to clear their caseload.

You could try hipchecking him into a Christian Side Hug (TM)?

Did I metamorphosize into a parrot? Am I one of those redundant decimals from math class? Because I DON’T KNOW WHY I HAVE TO KEEP REPEATING MYSELF.

Apart from “taking lives”, that is exactly what the North did to the South. The South was treated as badly as Germany after WW1. It’s easy to lure people into white surpremacy bullshit when they’re working their asses off for no gain. When you’re failing despite your best efforts, you will believe anyone who will tell…

Yeah... this is some Tumblr-level outrage. The quote wasn’t misattributed to any particular culture, and this was certainly put together by a communications team. If Hillary’s leaked emails are any indication, she doesn’t actually design her own websites and has yet to learn how to print.

In this case, 50th is the best spot to be because it means that state’s percentage of revenue coming from federal aid money is the lowest. So North Dakota is the winner at #50. Granted, Texas is only barely in the bottom half, and if our current state government wasn’t utterly hell bent on taking only federal aid that…

Hold up. As a percentage of Texas’ revenue, the amount of federal aid Texas takes is 32%, ranking Texas at 28th. Mississipi takes the most federal aid as a portion of their state’s revenue at 41%. Remember that Texas has the second largest population, so while Texas might take the most percentage of federal aid given…

How is that Snidely Whiplash level shit even legal?

Pfft, free speech only counts if it’s spoken in English

The problem here is that, unless an insurance company is required by law to cover a specific type of care—be it for checking prostates or ovaries—that company won’t offer a policy that covers it. When insurance companies were not required to cover maternity care, the only policies you could find that did cover…

My favorite is when people say that Islam is a religion of hate while spittle forms in the corner of their mouths and they turn red from apoplexy.

No, dude, are you nuts? Leave them here on the planet whose environment they’ve significantly damaged.

Well, clearly the answer is for everybody to open carry, especially children in schools, because one of those nine-year-olds could have stopped the shooter if they had been armed.

Don’t be the older son in the Prodigal Son parable. What you’re describing is one of the most told and celebrated narratives in Christianity: God sends you a trial to change your heart. It’s the format of at least a half dozen stories in the Bible and of dozens of saints. Once someone has come to see that they were…

Pfft, I’m a librarian, and it was all I could do not to bombard you with links and references. For the record, a VPN could also turn around and sell your browsing history, so we’re all at the mercy of companys’ privacy policies.

Your browser history is local, meaning it’s on your tablet. When you delete it, you’re deleting that local information. Your ISP also has a record of the sites you’ve been to, and that record is not on your tablet, so even if you’re dilligent about deleting your browser history, you’re not able to affect the ISP’s…

If I had been left alone in a room with Hitler, I would not have killed him. I would look at the situation in Germany the same way we look at the situation in Syria right now, not knowing what effects killing Hitler would have, not knowing whether his death could stop the Wehrmacht. And probably, like the rest of the…