BBQ Becky, while trash and deserving of being thoroughly mocked, seemingly was acting in good faith. It appears she believed she was witness to a crime, and behaved accordingly. Not so in this case, where a person seems to have intentionally lied to police as part of a premeditated scheme. 

He’s saying his distrust of the Chicago PD runs so deep that he believes there’s a non zero chance Mr. Smollet has been telling the truth the entire time and the police have created an elaborate scheme to frame him.

Being a victim of the patriarchy has many faces. Men don’t get to cry, we don’t get to be afraid, and we don’t get to love freely without some kind of consequence. The child isn’t afraid to lose to a girl because he’s trash, or worthless; and he wasn’t born with those mores. Try and be empathetic, even if your…

“is nothing more than a desperate attempt to make headlines”

Hi Hallie, you write

Really tho, why are they giving him a hard time. He's just trying to impress his girl. Don't they know how he's the dating game is for disgustingly rich white men? 

You meant weeks right? Years is pretty late term.

I laughed pretty heartily. How wonderful would the US be if you could depose corporate owners. Just saunter into their boardroom with a bunch of guns, a guillotine, while wearing a $5000 Italian suit, and send them home. You get to keep the company, you’re the owner now.   

I too enjoy busting ass on my way out the elevator.

I'm no apologist for the guy, but it seems wildly unlikely he's smirking about the damage he did. Hockey is violent, that the face of a pest that has been threatened, or reproached. We've all played against guys that make that face when you tell them you're gonna beat their ass. It's infuriating, and effective.…

Early front runner for next chief of staff? 

Please stop perpetuating this type of toxic masculinity. You have no right to demand a man subject himself to physical violence on your behalf, and certainly should be ashamed to attack his masculinity. A man should have the right to chose what happens to his body, rather than be compelled because of his gender. You…

Yakupov was bad, but he's s not that bad. He's not even in the top 10 worst picks at first overall. https://thehockeywriters.com/the-worst-nhl-draft-picks/

That's the thing, it wasn't. He started using I as a word, and now it's a problem. He coached himself up to be a distraction on day 1. Specfuckingtacular. Imagine what he'll be able to do with a year. 

“But those photos should never, ever be shared.”

I’m going to repeat this as fact to as many humans as possible in an attempt to retcon it into reality. I want to live in the universe where people believe this happened. 

You're super wrong. The second assist is a relatively (for hockey history) recent addition to the counted stats family. It does matter, but the second assist is not a goal, or the setup. 

Ya, I hesitated. But he used his body and exploited a skill set more in line with a forward, as opposed to say Potvin or even Coffey. I think it's a fair inclusion. 

*that we know of, or can prove

There’s no precipitous drop off common to forwards at age 30, the way you’d see with an NFL running back. Peak performance for most elite forwards puts their best career years peaking at 23 to 25, (Gretzky 24, Lemieux 24, Howe 25, Richard 24, Orr 23) with a steady decline down from there.