There are a shocking number of religious Americans who believe in literal demon possession. I grew up in an evangelical community and while my parents did not believe in insane things like that, so many of my friends’ parents would just casually suggest exorcism for what were clearly medical conditions. In the high…

We need a good guy with a tumor, stat!

It’s infuriating and disgusting how Republicans use Mass murder events to market and sell more guns. and they’ve being reading the same marketing script for decades.

Tell that to the cop who showed up at my doorstep because he couldn’t figure out that even numbers are on the west side of the street and odd on the east side. I’m lucky his wrong address flub just meant he had me terrified that he might want to enter my place and wake my (sound asleep, wakes up very poorly, owns…

Y’all have these superhero fantasies that have no bearing in real life. Research shows you are more likely to harm yourself with weapons than attackers. Attackers are more likely to turn said weapons on you. Also there is the risk of friendly fire. What’s to let another “good guy with a gun” looking to protect the vuln…

This guy is clearly a cop.

Even if an investigation finds the cops did nothing, it won’t matter. Words no longer have meaning. Truth no longer has meaning. People are going to believe what they want to believe regardless of facts that prove them wrong.

Cops are for protecting property. Specifically wealthy people’s property. Which is why abolishing them won’t happen. They do actually serve a (shitty) function if you own a building and people are protesting outside. Gotta protect those precious windows! And because we live in a cult that worships the rich, that by…

Even armed police are too afraid to confront shooters. But republicans demand teachers lay down their lives to stop shooters. Armed police hesitate to attack shooters, yet this mad country thinks training 5 year olds to attack with scissors is the answer.

The band 10cc is named after that specific amount of spooge. A teaspoon is about 5cc.  Maybe men who use the metric system produce more?

If you let the cops in, you’re basically giving them consent to search. There’s flavors and variations in laws. But one trick police will do is they will say, “Mind if I come in to talk?” and they’ll lean forward and angle their body as though it’s a foregone conclusion that you will let them in. That’s a sure sign…

The way they say he was “contained” is so bizarre.  He was contained....in a roomful of children he was killing.

Exactly. The vast majority of cops have never shot anyone, despite what it seems like in the news. They seem to be terrible judges of when to use lethal force. A police department is lucky is they have one good sharp shooter on staff. And even then, they were probably trained by a previous career in the military, not…

There is not a better argument for defunding or abolishing the police than this video (not to mention what happened at Parkland). What are police for, as presently constituted with guns, bulletproof vests, any amount of offensive and defensive military gear, and authority to use all of that at the drop of a hot, if…

Cops exist to protect property, not lives or freedom or any other bullshit they claim, not even elementary school kids trapped in their school with a mass shooter. They’re the enforcement arm of our dictatorship of the wealthy, nothing more, nothing less. They’ll kill you for stealing a pack of Pokémon cards or…

If kids have to regularly do armed shooter drills in school, the cops should as well. We all remember the cop at Parkland who drove away from the shooting in his golf cart.

i am staunchly ACAB but even this is surprising to me somehow. f the police. 

Was this physician’s name T. Ravis Barker, M.D., by chance?  And did he look just like Travis except for a lab coat, a toy stethoscope, and a fake-looking moustache?  

LOL this perfectly encapsulates my “love/hate” relationship with Louisiana. (well, I *love* New Orleans, I *hate* just about everything outside New Orleans within the Louisiana borders.) the amount of casual racism there that you run into unexpectedly is pretty shocking. No Cassidy, you’re not being misinterpreted, we…