Reverse racism, right? ‘Sgotta be reverse racism.

It’s bananas how President Obama has spent eight years being scrupulously nuanced and careful in his discussions of race relations in America and the persistent impression on the right is still that he’s constantly calling everyone who disagrees with him racist.

This is not a particularly substantive comment, but I had to say that the photo on this article is amazing. It communicates so much information.

I’m astonished at Thomas’s dissent. I can’t recall ever having seen a dissenting justice (or concurring, for that matter) accuse the opposing opinion of being motivated by bias in favor of a particular constituency. That’s pretty outrageous.

Does anyone know if there’s any medical reason — like, something that I should get checked out immediately — that, under the conditions of both skimming and downward scrolling, I read this as Taylor and Princes William and Harry kicking it “when they have that diarrhea tribute concert every year”? (Which would have…

I just assume that this was the home visit episode. Hiddlebaking doesn’t happen until the fantasy suite.

So sensible; even double-stitching will start to give under the strain of helicopter interference. I totally ruined, like, three American Giant sweatshirts to exactly the same thing.

Supposedly, this will bolster his campaign to be the new Bond. (Or, as I think of him, Idris Elba.)

The directions are super easy to remember. Boys who refuse to ever become men simply need look for the second star to the right. From there, it’s just straight on ‘til morning.

Without taking sides on the question of whether they LIKE like each other, I will note that if you were to take a picture of me walking with my wife in hot weather, you’d assume from looking at it that I wanted to kill myself. And you’d be right, but it’s because I basically lose the will to live at 72 degrees in…

In fairness, Taylor Swift probably wears more makeup in these public candid (“candid”?) shots than Tom Hiddleston, which I’ve been led to believe can make a difference in how young one looks.

This absolutely adorable otter video is just another piece of their highly effective propaganda campaign to distract from the fact that they are pretty much the worst members of the animal kingdom. (See, e.g., http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-ani…). Thats having been said, I want to rub this otter’s belly very,…

Yes, I agree with all that. I still think that it’s reasonable for stalking behavior that doesn’t include imminent violence (classified as a statutory offence called “stalking”) to be a lesser class of felony than stalking behavior that does include imminent violence (classified, in this case, as a statutory offense…

Are we talking about offenses being taken seriously by the police or by sentencing statutes? I’ve talking about the line from the article about the charge of stalking being a “lesser” charge than the charge of aggravated burglary, which is a question of relative sentencing ranges (i.e., 5-10, 10-25, etc.). I wasn’t…

Even though I keep agreeing that stalking is a serious crime and that police should take it seriously? What if I said that stalking should be punishable by forty years in prison and that breaking into someone’s house to murder them should be punishable by fifty years? Would that still be discounting the seriousness of…

I’ve been repeatedly saying in still-grayed comments on this article that I think stalking is very serious and should be a crime. I’ve also repeatedly explained the difference between stalking in the colloquial sense and stalking as a crime created by statute, consisting of different statutory elements that vary from…

Yes, I agree, which is one of the reasons that I never said that stalking DOESN’T involve trespassing, threats, intimidation, and other conduct. (I haven’t researched what the stalking statute in Tennessee covers, but I assume that it includes the conduct that you describe.) I also agree that it can be just as…

I totally agree. I think that stalking should absolutely be treated more seriously (meaning punished more harshly), since it’s pretty much a gateway offense to other, more serious offenses like aggravated battery, sexual assault, and murder (or breaking into someone’s house with the intent to commit one of those…

Not to be disagreeable, but I keep saying exactly the opposite of that: that the conduct your describe SHOULD be a crime. All I’m saying (and I’m surprised that this has become so controversial) is that I don’t think it’s unreasonable to have a crime that consists of breaking into someone’s home with the intent to…

But, on the other hand, yes? Possibly? (I’m not 100% on what we’re disagreeing about, so I thought I should hedge.)