Jive turkey is actually available in 15 different varieties here in NY:

It’s not quite that level of operation, but remember that Uber’s chief propagandist (David Plouffe) was behind the creation of the whole Obama 2008 online machine. They definitely know how to both leverage the internet and also which palms to grease.

The cab companies are bad. Uber is bad. These are not mutually exclusive ideas.

Yeah, except that Uber sets the rates at which you are paid (both the normal rate and the surge rate), sets down rules for how you are supposed to pick up passengers, takes the bulk of the money you generate, and at this point it is brokering the rates at which people can buy and rent automobiles.

Whenever people talk like Uber is this god-given right, the proper riposte is that we got along fine without it for —I dunno— quite a number of millennia.

It must be said, too, that Sikhs can be very consciously anti-Muslim themselves.

What gets me: each of these incidents had to involve a couple of hours of this guy not reporting his location, not answering radio calls, etc. No one notices this stuff?

They threw a ton of charges at him. I doubt they are holding back against him.

From my sketchy recollection, MADtv could be brutally dumb in terms of actual sketches. They didn’t just drive certain jokes into the ground, they got it pretty damn close to the core.

Gotta say, an orange jumpsuit would be an improvement over this Regis Philbin teal-on-teal monochrome mess.

No, not the Red Matter!

“For fuck’s sake, how many times do I have to tell you: don’t bring props from Star Trek onto the set?!”

I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt: this case is, by its very nature, incendiary. All it takes is one word from the DA said in jest (e.g., “What a nutbar!”) and the state ends up going through totally unnecessary competency hearings and pre-trial motions about sanity.

The angle I’m going with is that after ripping off the feds for student aid money, Trump ran for president to make prosecution more difficult.

Who knows these days, though. It might not have even been anti-choice nuttery but your typical InfoWars crowd’s “CRISIS ACTORZ BE FALSE FLAGGING” crap that happens after these shootings.

I think you omit a couple of options:

Again, the law is only as good as the enforcement. It would have been entirely possible to have an order of protection continued, without any other criminal charges pressed. And FWIW, that would preclude someone from buying new firearms from a licensed dealer—orders of protection are mandated to be entered into an FBI…

That isn’t true. The federal Violence Against Women Act bars anyone with *any* kind of order of protection against them from owning firearms. Orders of protection do not have to stem from criminal convictions, but can come from any number of court orders of protection that fall short of beyond-reasonable-doubt.

I’m responding because I don’t want any victim thinking that domestic violence charges aren’t worth pursuing —it’s certainly arduous to press charges, but the law is only as good as the willingness of victims to uphold them.