It’s not really about him, it’s about criminal justice reform for all juvenile defendants

Glad one of the victim’s family members went for the bigger picture: Malvo is staying in jail, but this is as much for other juveniles that haven’t received equitable justice who are sitting in prisons for life for shit they did when not fully formed.

This is so typical of the powerful having it both ways. A 17 year old is legally considered too immature to drink, smoke, vote, enter in to a legal contract or do various other “adult” type things. That same 17 year old can still get a gun or join the armed forces with minimal parental input and if he commits a crime…

I followed this story and I always felt sorry for this kid. His step-dad was supposedly a good father and a kind man before he was sent to war and came home changed. He basically brainwashed this kid. I wish journalists would tell his whole story.

There’s some shamelessness. But haven’t you also noticed, it’s all white men? If these were Black or Hispanic men doing these things, I’m certain our society would be less forgiving....Also, with some of these men, I really liked Louis CK and Al Franken, before the allegations against them came out.  I saw them as…

I heard that redemption really means to change one's thinking, which would require recognition of the error of his ways before redemption could be achieved. I don't see that here.

This is far beyond Trump, though Trump exposed just how deep into the sand people will jam their heads to ignore the truth.
I still can’t listen to anything from the 1970's without thinking of David Bowie, Mick Jagger, or Roger Plant sleeping with 14 year old groupies. And I LOVE David Bowie- I can name any song within…

It’s hard for me to see these men as anything other than taking an example from Trump’s playbook. After ignoring responsibility after Access Hollywood tape came out, he’s somehow been untouchable (literally today 42 new misconduct allegations came out against it). Then they perfected it with Kavenaugh. You get angry,…

the south has a rich heritage of treason

That’s not fair. A confederate flag doesn’t mean you intend to marry your sister. It means you’re a traitor-loving racist who intends to marry your sister.

I’d say they were more like ISIS. 

More like the Taliban, since they were domestically/internally-minded. But the point is taken taken. lol

Considered a part of rich southern heritage for some...

Nah, it is the thing you use to say you are an American hating traitor. Confederates were the 19thC version of Al Qaeda.

“If she can’t wear that belt buckle, then why is it appropriate to make an assignment out of it?”

That defense always makes me laugh, seeing as the Nazi swastika and the Hindu swastika aren’t the same.

Oh come on. At this point, displaying the confederate flag and then crying over people’s negative reactions is the equivalent of a German girl wearing a swastika belt buckle and being all: “I don’t understand the outrage! It’s an ancient Asian religious symbol I’m wearing! I don’t mean that! Gee, people really like…

Is she wrong?

“cousins and brothers”

Maybe the lesson hit a little too close to home. Has anyone interviewed the cousins and brothers of the confederate flag belt buckle wearing teen, Fuller, to ask if they’re betrothed to the vixen?