This gets at the heart of a major problem in US policing. Officers are taught that ANY form of noncompliance is resisting and a danger to them and the public at large. The idea is that they have to maintain control of the situation at all times or else they are in danger, so the instant someone doesn't do what they…

Even easier, open your calculator app and multiply the total by 1.2 or 1.15 if you're feeling cheap. Even cheap Nokias have a calculator and you don't even need to unlock your phone if you have an iPhone.

Ah, l'esprit d'escalier, a way of life.

Yeah, I just wrote in another post that someone did the smile thing the morning after I found out my grandmother had died and that I couldn't afford to fly home for the funeral. I did not take their advice.

Some dude did this to me when I was out on a walk, trying to clear my head after I found out my grandmother had died. He was shocked when I started screaming obscenities at him.

When you're out in public you do expect interruptions you? Sometimes people stop to ask for directions or you've dropped something and that's fine. It's easy to get back into it after that and a little human interaction can help get you out of your funk but I can never get back into it after being told to smile. It…

I like to go for walks when I'm stuck on ideas and I'm often writing in my head. That's why I look distracted—because I am.

You have to replace all the blah blahs with unnecessary polysyllabic words. Make sure your reasoning is circular and contains at least three logical fallacies (appeal to authority, false equivalency, and straw (wo)man seem to be popular). Then, you'll be good to go—that is, if you can wrap your pretty little head…

It's not late, it's just been percolating.

Oh my god, that dude is a dipshit. Sometimes I wish we could arrest people for stupid.

"Project Veritas would never do anything that we believe would incite violence against police officers. Anyone suggesting otherwise is clearly unfamiliar familiar with our body of work."

Because, he's busy telling me that I don't deserve to have a family of my own, that I would be a bad influence on children, that being raised in a heterosexual household is the best option, that it shouldn't even be legal for me to be married, yet his kid's perfect-before-the-lord heterosexual upbringing didn't stop…

I am totally envious of their voices and lack of facial hair

I think that depends on how broadly they define clergy. It seems like the part about allowing judges and ex-judges to issue certificates was struck from the final bill but "other ecclesiastical dignitary of any denomination" could be very broad and could include secular humanists and other atheist groups. However,…

I asked her about it once. She's the one doing the parading. She feels very strongly about it. Whether she changes her mind in the future has yet to be seen, but for now, it's something she really wants to be doing.

I've worked with kids her age, it's better than it was for us, but not as easy as it seems from the outside looking in.

I think forcing people to use intermediaries is exactly the point. If the courts are going to make them recognize same sex marriages, they'd rather go through this whole convoluted mess, risk legal action, and messy unintended consequences, rather than force clerks to do the ceremony. It's a lot of energy for such a…

They're still murdering murderers. Also, native birds and mammals are much cooler than house cats, which are essentially invasive pests. Fact.

Let's be honest, even house cats are murderous little shits. They suck up to humans for food and shelter but when the people are gone, they fill their days with murder, murder, and murder. They have decimated bird populations to the point of endangering species (especially on islands like NZ). The point is: never…

Posting that gif reminded me how amazeballs No Doubt was in its prime. I am now rocking the out to Tragic Kingdom. Fuck yeah, 90's nostalgia—10million degree summer days, awkward groping, baggy pants, street skating, being chased by cops and security guards—my day is going great now. Thanks Family Research council!