Yeah, I don’t think there’s any disagreement about that.

Absolutely.

Exactly: they are different levels of escalation. As long as all levels of escalation are crimes, think it’s appropriate for the offense targeting the higher level of escalation to be a greater crime (that is, punished more severely) than the lower level. Just like I think unwanted touching of someone should be a…

Thanks very much, but I think we’re talking about two different things. I’m talking about the statutes enacted by various states that criminalize behavior that those states’ legislatures have labeled “stalking.” That behavior frequently does not necessarily involve violence or physical contact, and as a result, the…

We have a platform bed with drawers. Somehow the cats STILL get under there.

Does this guy look a LITTLE bit like Healy from Orange Is the New Black?

I don’t know, aggravated burglary is pretty bad. Stalking (in many states) doesn’t necessarily involve any kind of violence or even physical contact, whereas burglary (in many states) is breaking into someone’s home with the intent to commit a felony (like, for example, rape, kidnapping, or murder) therein. As long as…

I’ve thrown all kinds of random crap under my bed AND in the closets. Safety first.

As a child I used to vault into bed from a distance of about five feet to avoid the monsters that were absolutely 100% under there and that would grab my ankles given the chance. (They didn’t have an extensive criminal record like this guy, but we did have a pretty nasty breakup.)

Oh no! Poor Jena Malone!

And exhausting.

This book is so sexy! I haven’t had a boner like this since I read that history of the Donner party!

All men would like to stop being represented by Refn. (We put it to a vote; the new representative of men’s collective experience is Tilda Swinton.)

And newsies from the 1920s dreamt of being office workers in the 21st century surfing the Internet and watching the clock, just trying to make it to the weekend. Just another example of how the grass is always greener...

I replied to someone further down that one of the ways the charged officer might have evaded negligence liability was by convincing the judge that the applicable duty of care was defined by what a reasonable Baltimore police officer would do under the circumstances, rather than what a reasonable person would do,…

One possibility is that the duty of care was framed as what a reasonable Baltimore police officer would do under those circumstances, such that to establish a breach of that duty of care (negligence) would require that the prosecution show that the charged officer acted differently than most Baltimore police officers…

But he wasn’t charged with vehicular manslaughter or criminal negligence, he was charged with a crime that requires establishing intent. This is actually a way prosecutors can evade getting a conviction; charge a police officer with a more severe form of the crime that the prosecution will not be able to prove beyond…

Could Jonathon Cheban get on it? I heard he’s very well known.

If you added March Madness coverage to that list, I’d never go anywhere else.

Oh, so now it’s wrong that I only comment on Jezebel so that I can get on Bachelor in Paradise?