While mass incarceration is a huge problem and I think that sentences should err towards leniency, if we want to have a system in which people trust the judiciary, the judiciary can’t SUDDENLY remember the problem with mass incarceration and overlong sentences when it comes to rich white rapists, and then promptly…

Part of the problem is the why of the sentence, as you so well put it. But the sentence itself is the problem too, because out of a possible 14 years, he was sentenced 6 months which will very likely be only 3 months for good behavior. In the Ta-Nahisi Coates quote you cited, he suggests cutting 80% of the prison…

And if the expected minimum sentence (two years) that the judge was over-ruling was unreasonably harsh, then you would have a point.

It’s amazing how much more frequently these “we need prison reform” comments come up whenever a man faces any sentence at all, no matter how lenient, for raping a woman. Suddenly it’s ridiculously important that violent offenders, as long as they’re white, male, and committed a noncrime like raping a woman, should be…

Right?! What the fuck? How can someone going to a party a year after a gang rape be used against them? So, she wasn’t destroyed enough to stop attempting to have a normal life so fuck her and her case? This asshole.

Oh, so victims are never allowed to party or wear fishnet stockings for the rest of their lives. Makes sense.

He didn't realize the toilet paper was perforated into sheets, and was just going to cut off some.

Incidentally, “kid gloves”, also the name of the mittens from the children’s department that Donald Trump must buy to fit his tiny hands.

She looks really good.

Hey, Bishop McDevitt H.S.:

She’s going to cherish her memory of being on the show and high school will fade away for her like it does for everyone else.

‘Surprise!’ I yelled. ‘Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself!’ Cuteness overload.”

I like K & P, but this is a really thoughtful response and you’ve given me a lot to think about. Thanks for taking the time to share your perspective!

My friend Kate would never allow her son to grow up to be such a revolting lech!! I once shook her hand, so I know this sort of thing. Consider me a ‘source’. ;) Also.. my middle name is Elizabeth.. the baby princess’ middle name is Elizabeth.. coincidence? I think not. Kate did me a solid and named that baby after…

Even though this was just Trump getting his restaurants mixed up, I love the idea of the conversation with that restaurant that must have gone down.

You'd think that Donald would be the top- notch, best in transparent pandering, but he's not! Sad!

I also can't name a single female writer that inspires me. I can't name a male writer who inspires we either. I am a sentient hunk of cheese that someone plugged directly into the Internet. I am inspired by mold and bacteria.

Someone on Twitter said they wake up to Trump and Cruz every morning- they have suffered enough.

Other than hatred? Visceral revulsion is all I got.