The practice of law enforcement suing someone for costs of a false police report with the case to be decided under a preponderance of evidence or similar type standard just seems like a ridiculously horrible practice in a country where police departments routinely label sexual assault allegations as false reports…

True. But like, Laquan McDonald case just happen and Rahm is out here yelling like Jussie walking away is the worst thing to happen to Chicago since that cow.

That whole motive reminded me of the Fugitive, where they’re asking the cops (Chicago PD too i think) what Kimble’s motive was for killing his wife.

Seriously, how can anyone be upset about this? Worst case scenario: a mentally unwell man gets away with wasting some of the [notoriously vicious and corrupt] police’s time without being sent to jail and only having his career ruined. Nobody’s dead!

Am I understanding correctly that Smollett basically gave the City of Chicago $100,000 (by forfeiting his bond) and they dropped the charges?

I can’t be the only one relieved not to find myself in there.

If Chelsea Manning had never joined the military she would probably be the resident creepy IT girl at some firm in flyover country, who spends her nights spamming reddit with drivel. Instead, the military decided to recruit an obviously unwell person. And for some reason (cheek bones?) the media decided she would make…

Happens all the time. I was molested. So was my mom when she was a kid. It’s apparently different for me, though, because I’m a male who turned out to be gay and had an abusive father, and she didn’t. Clearly it’s awful that a man chose to do that, but it’s not so traumatic because clearly I wanted the male attention…

Ayanna Pressley is a master of the slightly arched brow and nearly pursed lip.

Yeah the only way to tell a story about this band that does not depict them treating women horribly is to not tell a story.  

It’s not really fair to lump Luke Evans in with men in the closet though. 

Lauren Duca (maybe) got drunk at a work party and did some stupid shit in 2015. It (probably) led to her moving on from HuffPo.  Since then, she’s gone viral and moved up in the world, but “everybody” (the media cliques running around on the east coast) still subtweets about her stupid shit. Jezebel’s tired of the…

Bernie’s relentless self-promotion and utter lack of interest in creating a movement that could possibly have anyone other than him at its center is a major turn-off to me. I don’t think he can swing the nomination, given that he’s not really done anything to show improvement since he lost in 2016.

To be fair, when I was given a MacBook Pro for my job as a mandatory piece of equipment needed to fulfill my role, I insisted IT Put a VM install of Windows on it, because fuck everything Apple related. Although I eventually did get a Windows desktop to minimise how much I have to use that shitty MacBook.

As someone in IT, I guarantee this is a thing. People do this.

You lost me at the notion that university business profs still teach labor law.

Yeah, when I saw she was in her first year at a top MATH PhD program, I wondered about this...sounds like she was immensely talented, and it takes a very high achiever to accomplish what she did by the age of 23. PhD programs can really exacerbate existing mental health issues, especially in the first year, when…

I don’t know if this counts as being fired so much as the director realizing they made a mistake by casting someone who is too far from the character and make-up just isn’t doing the trick. Same idea as when Peter Jackson realized the original Aragorn was way too young, looked too much like Orlando Bloom and costuming…

Been a huge Pam Grier fan since Coffy. 

I gotta disagree with the ‘level playing field’ part. Sports have never been that way. The top athletes are always at an extreme biologically.