Do a quick google on Rhiannon Booker. She was mentioned in one of their signs. She claimed her BF raped her 5 times. Based on phone records and work records, he wasn't available to commit these crimes. This was all predicated on her failing her bar exam. She needed an excuse as to why. He spent 36 days in jail and…

You're getting carried away. It's almost 2 separate issues. People who lie about rape should be in jail. One of the placards says "Free Rhiannon Brooker", out of curiousity, I looked her up. She lied about being raped by her boyfriend so she could have an excuse for failing exams. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl…

I think you need to go back to Fox News.

Oh I agree with that, yes. Which is why I think you couldn't have any...murky?...quality about that at all. I just also think that if you are, in fact, found to be lying, you should not get away with that. And I know that a hundred times people have said there is ZERO reason that anyone would ever make a false…

According to the Guardian, De Freitas, who had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, left a suicide note

I know a completely vile pathological liar who once went as far as fooling her friends she was dying of cancer for three months. One time she accused a close friend of mine of rape which due to him having an alibi (thank god) he was never officially charged with. He was threatened with violence, had to delete all…

There are documented cases where the court is sure that people filed false rape accusations. Those people should be in jail.

Exactly. Every prosecution for false-rape is pretty much an iron-clad case. Studies show that at least 8% of all rape claims are false, and only a tiny fraction of those are prosecuted. You have to be pretty deranged to get upset about these handful of prosecutions.

I'm curious as to whether anyone writing for, commenting on, or even just reading Jezebel actually believes that anyone makes false allegations of rape, ever. It doesn't seem that way, historically speaking (comments-wise): if you say it happened, then it happened, no matter what, and anyone questioning the validity…

I think this is a valid point as well, even if #NotAllAmericanBeer.

Recently revisited The Patriot, and I will elaborate on your comment by pointing out an awkward theme in films about that era. Slavery is acknowledged and depicted, but the protagonists are usually the 'good' slaveowners who say please and thank you.

One of the thing a lot of movies tend to do is forget that most of the gender mores of Medieval Europe we are familiar with were the mores of those who could write - the upper classes. Among the peasantry, the gender divide, while there, was a lot more blurry. On the farm, everyone worked, no matter what you had in…

Actually, in a world without much sugar, dental health was pretty good.

Any biblical movie. They mostly portray bunch of white people in Mideast, which I don't think that had ever happened.

It depends on what criteria you use. This tree appears to be using the standard criteria of differentiating language families through their grammar and syntax, and historical relations with one another. Walloon is a Romance language that simply has a lot of Germanic loan words. Now, language mergers do exist, they are…

It's not about not caring, it is about this tree being about Indoeuropean languages. Malayalam is a Dravidian language and as such would be in a different tree.

Right- this is the Indo-European tree, and Tamil wouldn't be present there.

I feel like I'm missing something here, because I usually agree with your points, and here less so (which, as an aside, I can cope with. We don't always have to agree. I will live on. I am just surprised).

True, but we also don't execute people that are found out to be innocent after the had been executed and we don't let a Grand Jury, consisiting of a dozen non jurists decide, whether the slaying of a black man in broad daylight by a cop warrants a trial or not. So that is that.

As well they should have. This is the time for African-American athletes to take a stand. Their children are just as much at risk as Michael Brown, et al.