What’s also amazing is the willingness of our penal system to prioritize crimes against property over crimes against people.

Kalief Browder spent years in prison over a backpack and an iPod Touch. Yet this woman is free, after serving less time than he did, after she murdered someone? White privilege is amazing.

Fuck the police. I have nothing else to say.

These studies—which you can read in the links above—show that your guess is not compatible with the data on what actually happens in these contestants.

I’m sure that this was all due to economic anxiety.

Best Denver-area food challenge performance by a journalist since Maureen Dowd.

Some dogs do it better than others.

Let’s just talk logistics: there is zero way a teenager with a box of Nice & Easy dye could go from blue to blonde, especially with fresh blue dye. Zero. Zip. Not happening. Anyone who has ever dyed their hair ever would know this.

They’re definitely going for the Gelfling look from The Dark Crystal.

It won’t tank. She should have named her new album Molly Brown because she’s unsinkable.

It needs to be stressed that this wouldn’t have happened without crowd-sourcing his identity. The Cville police have made no effort to investigate these people. Every single arrest has come only because private citizens have identified these people and assembled evidence themselves.

“Mumble mumble something about budgets...”

Predictions:

Justine was a dear friend who was horrified about police violence and committed to making the world better in every way. She had just picked out her wedding dress last week and was so excited to show me. She was texting me trying to get me to go to “dance church” with her on sunday morning, but instead I went to a…

Every other damned thing in the world is being digitized, why not electronic gun holsters? The strap doesn’t unlock unless the body cam is running.

If you are a skittish, nervous, risk-adverse person, do not become a police officer.

This doesn’t make sense to me. How was it road rage? He decided to throw beer bottles at them, and then beat Ms. Hassanen to death? Where did road rage come in: it wasn’t as though they were in another car.

The Guardian reports that Police Chief Calvin Williams stated Loehmann was not fired over Rice’s death, but because of “inaccurate details on his job application.”