Hey, I work in the same arena - juvenile court, public defense. I also live in Atlanta so many, many of my neighbors, friends and clients are black. I have a somewhat clinical view of race in the job itself. I want to know if the state has arrested/investigated my clients for the wrong reasons (i.e. racial profiling),…

Wow, thank you guys so much for writing this. To be honest, the mods have been dealing with this on and off for years. It's never been as bad as this. But back when we had main page abilities, we were able to remove the content alongside authors and tech. It helped protect our readers, our writers, everyone. It's…

The average sentence only nets around eight. Which is longer than the average manslaughter charge. So while five years does seem to be unduly lenient, it is not extraordinarily so (as say two or three years might be). A US judge would be more likely to hit out a longer sentence, with the average being about 11 years,…

Yes Judges can be disbarred in the UK. Also this sentence will be appealed and placed before the Attorney Generals Office as 'to lenient'. Just like the sentence for Rolf Harris.

A cop's son could steal his gun? How often does that happen? We don't need gun restrictions because of some ridiculous scenarios you thought up?

This is my video! I have no idea how this site picked it up. Georges (My dog) loves sports, seriously, he loves sports, all sports. I had to film this because it was too awesome to not share. Here is a clip of him watching football

I guess I find most offensive about that line is that it's this broad brush generalization as if it's 60's Deep South or apartheid era South Africa. As for my own personal experience, it simply is not true.

I think it is based in simple statistics: India is a mind-blowingly huge country, with a mind-blowingly huge amount of people living there. As such, even if the population still has a perfectly normal "douche-to-decent"-ratio, there will still be a very, very large population of creeps. Let said creeps onto the…

I'm very sorry that you and the others who've posted have had negative experiences with Indian men in the past. On the other hand, as an Indian man, a feminist, and a regular reader of this site, this discussion makes me wince. Fact: there are shitty and not-so-shitty people out there from every culture and creed.…

This is somewhat off-topic, but this article reminds me of a story.

It's actually very common among aircraft carriers that don't have a catapult launch system. So pretty much everything not American or French, though the British are building a new class of carriers without it.

Is "priviledged" the new all-purpose insult?

Because cooking is women's work, except for the kind of cooking that wins awards and is treated like fine art, in which case it's for MANLY MAN-CHEFS ONLY.

I live in Georgia which also has a Stand Your Ground law and it is a badly written piece of legislation that has created bad results. The original intention was to reinforce the 'defend your castle' concepts, mainly because there are so many home invasions. Basically, if someone enters your home, by law, you are…