One of the most pernicious problems with police narratives is how easily we all accept and repeat them. “The NFL free agent fought with officers who arrived at the scene and had to use a police dog to arrest Sherman.” They didn’t have to use a dog, they chose to sic a dog on a combative Black man.

Wow... this story has about five layers of irony.

I feel super bad for this guy. He was likely incredibly happy to get to do this (he’s an account manager - do you know how dry his days are?) and then bam!

Everyone at Jezebel is turning into my super cranky Nana.

we want salt 2

Current Texan, and you’re 100% correct. I swear one of these days I’m gonna get arrested for rolling my eyes.

I made this point earlier, sort of.  We don’t know what the kids told the counselor. It’s possible they told them they didn’t want to pick, or wanted to see their dad more but didn’t want that decision to be revealed to their mom. Who knows. I can imagine being a kid who knows their mom (who they love) doesn’t want…

Is that to the first sentence or the second?

I always thought people would leave cash so the server didn’t have to claim it on taxes.

At least in the Denver area, all the good (name brands with low wear) stuff is snatched up by resellers very quickly. It’s rare to find anything good, mostly just rack after rack of crap nobody wants.

Agreed--although, granted, she has established that she’s not into looks.

or even how they react when you call other white people racist. I’ve seen that a lot. Some POC will say “This seems kinda racist” and all the white people in earshot will tense up. Like they think this is now an active shooter situation and this POC might just start indiscriminately start spraying the “R” word all…

I would have stood in the middle of them and acted like it was normal. 

This country would be in a much better place if Hillary truly was the killer people think she is.

“Throwing balls for a living.” Is that what they call it now?

I wish we could leave Soon Yi out of this. Yes, Allen groomed her and abused his paternal trust. But Soon Yi doesn’t want to be part of this conversation or have her sex life litigated by strangers. It seems that the sexual relationship started when she was 18. It’s too muddy and detracts from Dylan’s story.

I have hard time believing that William Barr cares about what protestors and black activists want. 

“How is monthly removal of dead voters from voter rolls “ voter suppression”???”

Says someone that was never forced to vote on a provisional ballot because they were listed as deceased at the polls (Me, 2004). Those registration scrubbing lists are terrible, with bad matching that are designed in such a way that they…

I once bought a ridiculous puffy blouse (think Seinfeld here) at Express as a teen because it was the single garment they sold in my size when I was shopping there with friends. It looked awful on me, and I wore it for years.

Can’t say I didn’t expect it.