I’m afraid your rest may be eternal.

It’s not ignorance when people told her. It’s indifference.

If you truly love Dwayne, you’ve probably already seen this, but if you haven’t, prepare to love him even more.

Trust Tony to give it to him.

Congratulations, I didn’t think it could get more inane that the OP in this thread, but you have upped the ante. How about we just not pit people who’ve been horribly victimized against each other to decide who suffered the most harm? How would that be?

Why is the name-calling so appalling to you when it’s directed at a commenter who was being snide, but not when it’s directed at someone who was horribly victimized? That’s what I don’t understand.

Well, when people don’t behave decently, it’s pretty unreasonable for them to expect that they’ll be afforded the decency they themselves failed to exercise. Calling the plaintiff in the McDonald’s suit “some dumb lady” was hardly the height of courtesy.

This comment should have at least a thousand more stars.

Carson posted the article that he claims backs his story. Except it doesn’t, at all.

It would send a message to the Board that having appointed a feckless jackass with no academic credentials, no sense of common decency, and no intention of exhibiting any real moral leadership on this or any other issue as President of the most respected university in the entire state system was a bad idea, and they…

I wouldn’t know, I didn’t grow up in those states. However, does the phrase “Missouri Compromise” mean anything to you? Missouri came within a hair of seceding and joining the Confederacy. I know there are racist pockets in any state, but Missouri’s are especially wide and deep.

Missouri: all the boredom of the Midwest plus the vicious racism of the South!

That is the Missouriest thing I ever fucking saw. I love the place I grew up in. It’s beautiful. I miss it all the time. But I can’t live there, because I can’t stand being surrounded by this kind of smug, stupid asshole. Go on, UM Columbia students, I’m proud of you.

Sorry, that was wrong — he was granted an appeal, the conviction wasn’t reversed. I would imagine it still made her feel as if she was going to have to go through everything all over again, with no assurance that he’d be found guilty.

If it were that open-and-shut, they wouldn’t have needed her presence. Did you not actually read the article?

Just out of curiosity, when was the last time you stood up to someone who’d repeatedly beaten the shit out of you and told you he’d kill you if you damaged his career? If you’ve actually done this, good for you, but it ought to give you some compassion for how terrifying that is, and some perspective about whose…

I wasn’t talking about Nicole Holder, I was talking about Kristina Laurence, but in your haste to blame the victim, you didn’t bother to read carefully. Holder was brutalized, and has every valid reason to fear for her life. It’s not her responsibility to control his behavior, it’s his. Why don’t you save some of your…

How do we know that this was done against the victim’s wishes? It may have been, but what’s your reason for being certain of that? I’m not arguing with you, necessarily — you may know something I don’t, I’m not very well versed about this case.

I’d just like to point out that Kristina Laurence is a goddamned hero. So is Diana Moskovitz, for that matter. But Laurence stood up and said no in the midst of a violent scene, put herself at considerable risk to do, and kept on insisting on telling the truth when it would have been much, much easier, not to mention…

Damn you, I was all happy that someone won a lawsuit against the L.A. Times and then you had to go and spoil it.