Screwdriver snobs are making a case for themselves!

Her explanation, I think, is way worse than the tweet, which is 100% something my snarky ass would have come up with.

Meh. I thought it'd be much more specific if they're trying to scare you. Where in the US do they live? Do they drive like maniacs? Do they have health insurance? Have they been ill before? etc. Those things matter.

I don't mean to stir up a hornet's nest here Tom, but that kind of inaccurate reporting is one BIG reason that I don't watch CNN. Channels like Fox news and TBN get a bad wrap for some of their inherent bias's and perhaps rightly so, but at least their reporting is always accurate so that the viewer can decide. I…

Woah now. The credit goes to the Prince, who happened to have the right swimmer in the right place at the right time.

You probably shouldn't shoot people while on neighborhood watch, either, but G.Z. is a maverick so rules don't apply.

Actually, the article doesn't question the validity of holocaust survivors per se. It questions the validity of labeling all holocaust survivors automatically as good, virtuous people.

He's Black. Black people end up living by a different standard in life.

Love, love, love this. It is not a reach. The RS cover is upsetting to people because they think that cover should represent the pinnacle of achievement, they say, but you know that this would not be an issue if he were heinously ugly and evil-looking - that wouldn't be glamorizing at all. Part of the hysteria is…

Preach! RS has two Pulitzer prize winners on staff. They broke the Petraeus scandal. It is not a music and celebrity magazine! This isn't GQ (which I am sure has excellent writers on staff and killer articles). He's not being glamorized. That photo was chosen because the reaction is precisely what the article is…

This picture is a selfie from his FB page anyway, isn't it? People are acting like Rolling Stone showed up at his jail cell and fluffed him up for a glamor shoot.

THIS. A MILLION TIMES THIS.

This actually echoes my thinking on why people are bothered by this cover. It really hits you hard in the gut when the "bad guy" is this:

I think the article is pointing out just that. Appearances can be deceiving. A terrorist can look like the lead singer of an indie rock band. An innocent child can be tall and black and wearing a hoodie. We rely too much on simple coding in our society and people suffer for it.

The teenage girls are swooning because white men that look like rock stars can't possibly be terrorists. White people who commit large scale acts of violence are usually only guilty of having mental issues, at worst. This is what the media tells us. Teenage girls actually believe he is innocent. That is the problem.…

"I firmly believe the main reason that the U.S. has become an unapologetic incarceral state over the last 30 years is because we refuse to think of criminal defendants as human beings."

They're completely related, and the author did a pretty good job spelling out why.

People from Chicago are idiots. And I say that with affection.

I can't believe people are getting so mad over this. I mean, there's meat stuffed in a too-tight, unnaturally-reddened casing, super-artificial, with the flavor of something that's been sitting around since, like, 1999... and if we can get over his call of the Derby every year, surely we can get over some ketchup on a…