In Oakland, a 16 year old sex-trafficked girl went to the cops for help. They sexually abused her. Something like 11 different cops. A lot of people started talking about how she was raised and how unethical she was. But not a word about how the cops were raised, how unethical they were, or how it’s them who should…

You are a little bit confused here. First, in the US - you provide your client the best defense your abilities allow. Second, in this particular case, it was a civil suit and the attorney was representing the school - not the pervert. School was trying to lower the amount these children would be awarded by shifting…

Wow. Wow. Dear FEMA:

It makes things swim in front of my eyes a little how much I loathe these peoples’ borderline-genocidal ineptitude

I’m in Houston and FEMA has a few temp offices around town where people can file papers. I know that as of a few weeks ago, my local FEMA office was also accepting donations of material goods, ostensibly to redistribute to our harder hit neighbors down the road. WTF is going on in Puerto Rico? How can so many people…

It just seems easier to move everyone to Florida if it still takes months to fix the power.

It’s official. Trump’s FEMA is worse than Bush’s FEMA.

I had no idea how deep car seat and stroller-buying was until my friends started having kids. They talked about which make and model the same way people talk about buying cars. There are strollers that cost three stacks!

I’m reminded of Disney firing Keith Richards from Pirates of the Caribbean because he published an autobiography and admitted he...

They’ll also use pictures of McGowan when she shaved her head to reinforce the message that she is, indeed, crazy.

I don’t think anything I said was “wrong”, so I’m pretty comfortable saying you’re rude. I still doubt the safety of inmates is a high priority here.

I’m wondering what kind of training and equipment they have. I’m an EMT, but I have asthma so branching over into fire has never appealed to me. Because of local protocols, that means I’m not allowed to respond to any fires at all. I thought about taking the fire class just so I could go to scenes involving fire, and…

Two words: Mel Gibson.

I do. I wish I didn’t but I do. I’m not even remotely close to being in the know when it comes to most things, but I heard my first Weinstein rumor when I was in high school in the 90's, so the idea this is some New! Shocking! Revelation! is disingenuous at best. I don’t even reeeally think it’ll destroy his…

I go back and forth. Some moments I think we are in a sea-change of bringing the behavior into the disinfectant of sunlight. Then I remember that Clarence Thomas is on the Supreme Court and Donald Trump is President.

Preach Annalise Viola!

I made it to all the way to “Life Scout” in Boy scouts from “Wolf” in Cub Scouts. That was something like 10 years total?

It absolutely depends on what your local community is like. I happen to live in the San Francisco Bay Area, so we’ve always been a bit more on the progressive side.

Yeah, the programs are pretty different.

Eagle Scout, Assistant Scoutmaster, and merit badge instructor here: This is fine.

Honestly, Scouting needs to be more inclusive if it wants to survive. The Mormon Church was unofficially running the show for a long time (hence the shitty track record towards the LGBTQ+ community), and only recently announced they…