“one wonders why they wouldn’t just remove R. Kelly—a man whose despicable and alleged predatory behavior has spanned decades—completely from their catalogue?”

Maybe she just meant, like, compared to his brother?

A face only a mother could love

Jesus, man, he’s not Hitler. No need to get your hot take in while his body’s still warm.

The report sites sources who say “the artist is challenging to work with, declining many promotional opportunities and not touring behind his last album.” Translation: he’s a difficult dude who doesn’t do his work.

Nope, pop-country versions of Earth, Wind and Fire songs do not have the right to exist. Also, the breathy, slightly sexual panting on that cover combined with the fact that I can easily imagine this version on the soundtrack to a Nicholas Sparks’ movie made me very uncomfortable.

I live in paul ryan’s hometown, and let me fucking tell you, he is every bit the troll, gremlin, goblin, creep, fuckface you imagine him to be.

Your argument doesn’t apply in this situation. In order to equate it you would have to have a scenario in which Charles Manson kills a person himself, but instead they charge a different person that was with him for the murder. And not only let Manson go free, but also say that his killing was justified, but the…

I take a lot of issues with Cardi B, but I don’t think that this particular gaffe needs to undermine everything else about her and her work that is potentially positive.

She has a problematic boyfriend, there is room for growth in her personal life. Did you read this article or Caity Weaver’s GQ article: https://www.gq.com/story/cardi-b-invasion-of-privacy-profile. It’s strange how sometimes we as women are held accountable for our partner’s short-comings.

I like Bodak Yellow quite a bit, but I’m not feeling the rest of her work. She’s a compelling media personality, though.

Then charge him with those crimes not some other bullshit

Bill Maher is trash.

The two different verdicts here are the part that I really don’t get. How is it consistent that the death of an individual can legally to be determined to be justified, self-defense in one court but that same death is unjustified, felony murder in another? I get that the accomplice law is how he got charged and that…

That is the laugh of a kid who knows the system is fucked, knows he’s getting locked up for no reason, and knows the actual cop who committed the actual murder got off free.

I laugh at absurd things as well. Its why I never do well when confronted by police.

When I am being treated like shit and unfairly its just my nature to laugh uncontrolably.

It’s a story about a rich white kid who faces zero consequences for his actions.

Yep. STEM bros often have huge victim complexes. And they openly justify their shitty treatment of women with a Sad Backstory. As if that makes it ok.

“the opioid memorial”

...... federal footprint in education.