If I had been in a coma for 20 years and woke up today and turned on the news and saw the tear gas, riot police, etc. I'd think I had gone back in time to the 60s or that I was watching news footage from the Middle East or a war zone.

That's disgusting. What the fuck is going on. I'm so incredibly frustrated, I can't even imagine the restraint that those protesters need to have.

I'm trying to understand why the Governor suddenly needed to order a curfew, after a very peaceful night on Thursday, and a mostly peaceful Friday night. Some looting occurred on Friday, reportedly by some "drunken youths", but local residents stood in line to protect local businesses, including the store that the kid…

I hear a lot of "the police are being attacked" with no evidence to back it up. I read a lot of phantom "Molotov cocktails" with no evidence of fire or explosions in the police lines other than the tear gas grenades and flares being launched into the crowd. I read a lot of "shots fired toward police" with no one…

A journalist named Mustafa Hussein had a gun pointed at him by a policeman and was told to "get the fuck out" or similar. He work for ArgusRadio and provided the live feed that many of us have been watching tonight.

Its not a coincidence that the cops started cracking down tonight. They knew the autopsy report was going to drop and this is a great way to both distract from it and use the few protesters seeking confrontations as a way to build support for the police and their actions. The cops may be heavy handed and just plain…

This may be for naught but I think this should be the first thing people see too so I'm going to try to help bump it up.

This needs to be the first comment everyone sees. This is exactly the kind of thing those in power do NOT want to be public knowledge.

Exactly! So well put. Terrorize and murder and lie and CYA on people for CENTURIES and then when they finally raise their voices in anger and demand you stop, call all tens of thousands of them "rioters" and "looters" and tell the nation that they're so out of control you have to lock them all in their homes at night…

Does OKC do this too? I'm freaking out, Josie!

Exactly. I also think the Ferguson police chief's presser where he smeared Michael Brown over an issue that had nothing to do with the shooting was designed to get the residents upset and provoke violence simply so they can justify their actions (tear gas, blocking off streets, etc.).

So...he's determined that monogamy is a failure by looking only at the people who use a site that helps them cheat on their spouse?

I just want to be clear on the selection bias. They're using ONLY data from people that cheat to say monogamy is a failure FOR EVERYONE. Isn't that a bit like using interviews with atheists to "prove" about how organized religion is a massive failure? I'm not defending either institution, but using those who have…

Replying to bump up. This is exactly what happened. They couldn't be bothered to declare a state of emergency when their own police were attacking citizens and media, but a "handful of looters" warrants a state of emergency. This is a deliberate police action. They deliberately stepped aside and failed to do their job…

Seriously. The cops want looting and rioting to happen so they can use those things as excuses to impose draconian measures to keep protesters from protesting. And to attract sympathy for their department. You have tons of white people who were initially horrified by Mike Brown's killing hearing about the scary riots…

Called the local sheriff in the morning and had a complete fucking conniption fit until he came over to pick it up. His eyes were like saucers when he saw it. He said, "Best get rid of that suitcase, because it's going to smell mighty interesting to some sniffer dog. It's a damn miracle you weren't caught with it."…

Apropos of smuggling coke, last year I was visiting my parents at their cottage in Maine, flying into Boston. I got to the cottage and unpacked my suitcase and found a large rectangular package of white powder tucked between my sweaters. Just under a kilo. I nearly shit a brick.