The problem with police culture is that too often it teaches that cops have to “win” every encounter.  So they escalate some situations that could be deescalated because they feel they can’t, for example, retreat and let the person cool off.

Definitely.  Look at how the NRA responded, or rather didn’t respond, to the Philando Castile shooting.  Here was a guy who was murdered by police for lawfully carrying a gun.  He should have been a cause celebre of the NRA, but they said basically nothing about his case.

It worked well for gun control.  Although that’s not what the Panthers intended, their march on the capitol with their guns prompted Ronald Reagan, of all people, to sign a landmark gun control bill in California.

In the early decades, the Republican party was very anti-Mormon.  So that’s kind of consistent.  And, as I’m sure you know, the Mormons were viewed as weird and dangerous invaders by whatever community they moved into.  That’s why so many of them ended up in the Great Basin where they finally had the power, and the…

Not pursuing impeachment is not “going the high road”.  It’s about what’s realistic.  And the realist fact is that the Republican Senate is never going to convict Trump.  Maybe, and I stress maybe, they would have done it if Mueller had caught him working with the Russians, but they’re not going to do it for anything…

This is a prime example of white privilege.  A guy whose family has been in this country for so short a time the ink has barely dried on their naturalization papers thinks he can tell people of color who were born here to “go back to your own country”.

Forrest isn’t just “the head of the KKK”.  He’s a terrorist and a war criminal.  He’s responsible for the Fort Pillow Massacre, where he ordered his troops to murder hundreds of black soldiers who had already surrendered.  After the war he lead the Klan, which was a terrorist organization.  So the Republican Governor…

Zack Snyder directing an Ayn Rand project?  The douchebag factor would be off the charts

I believe she minimized/defended some of Louis CK’s behavior and said that she let him jerk off in front of her. 

He probably thinks the outcome will be nothing.  Bill Cosby got away with flat out drugging and raping women for decades.  This guy probably thought he’d get his rocks off and face no consequences.

The idea that GB and France would have forced emancipation in an independent Confederacy any time soon is a complete fantasy.  These countries had no problem buying slave made cotton for their factories before the war and would have had no problem with it afterward. 

For me it’s that I don’t have any faith that a pair of guys who were so clueless that they didn’t realize that Sansa getting raped would be controversial, will have the senstivity to handle that kind of material.

She seems to be really in love with Harry, so I guess she’s willing to put up with just about anything from the in-laws.

I found it terribly dull as well.  The romance, which is central to the plot, is really underdeveloped.  And the main heroine is extraordinarily passive.  Maybe the book is different, but I also though it weird that the main character is a historian, the author is a historian, and there’s almost no history in it. 

And on the other side of this you have Miramax scuttling their attempt to hire Ashley Judd after she wouldn’t suck Harvey Weinstein’s dick.

This seems right up there with Rush Limbaugh’s apparent belief that the amount of sex you’re having influences how many birth control pills you take.

I thought the Christmas special was a lot better than the second season. 

And they started the series with a popular girl getting murdered after having a phone call with the killer.

You should see her in the third season of the Killing.  She’s great as this homeless teenager whose community is being preyed on by a serial killer.

I assume Karlie Kloss Kushner doesn’t share Jared’s politics.  Her new husband certainly doesn’t and has publicly denounced Trump and his brother’s enabling of him.