One factor that can make getting help from law enforcement so difficult is an abuser who knows how to hide his true nature in front of other people. This is when you get the monsters like the judge who recently killed his ex and who everyone had vouched for as a helluva guy. For some reason, this idea persists that a…

I think you have been posting the wrong link?

Thank you for providing complexity to this issue in regards to local taxes. I think people often think of a homeowners’ tax as being a way to target wealthy people to make them pay “their fair share” for the community, but these taxes are no joke for homeowners of limited means.

Honestly, I like the idea of there being pockets of culture that are unabashedly uncensored and unwoke. There are a lot of conversations currently surrounding culture that are taking place regarding issues of representation, fairness, language use, and so forth, and they are incredibly important conversations to have;…

The cross looks like a lowercase “t,” which makes the message look like “treason for the season” instead of “reason for the season.”

These are the ubiquitous “outside agitators” who are hypothesized to be the root of all the worst evils that could be brought about by protest. When a contentious issue arises, people in the mainstream might not want to believe—or be able to believe—that their own community has such alarming levels of internal…

I would go so far as to say that MOST of the major Christian churches in this country have endured rampant damages—even if on a micro level—in the name of bible-backed misogyny. Very often, particularly in large or “mega” churches, they are also permeated with layers of corruption, greed, pedophilia, and sexual abuse.

I don’t think it is fair to assume this bias exists before it has had opportunities to be tested. Perhaps EVERY leader of a nation, upon his or her death, is likely to have a certain level of idealization and veneration thrust upon them? After all, they are held up as symbols for that nation, and in the historical…

I was beyond elated when my ex and I got our first apartment. I had finally moved away from my psychotic family and I’d have control of my living situation, right? It was a nice two-bedroom unit that we fixed up in our quirky 20 year old kid ways (let’s use a porch swing in our living room instead of a couch and then p…

Ugh.  How often does it happen that a person on the internet is able to change someone's mind?  You just succeeded.

I’m unclear as to how this leaves the officer who was attacked? The case is being prosecuted as a criminal offense, but is someone paying for his medical bills? His substantial pain and suffering? The fact that he has probably lost his career for good (let’s hope he already hit his pension if he was a longtime…

When I moved to Minnesota from New England, I knew the winters would be a lot colder. I was perfectly fine with that. But I had NO idea about the summers! I think I must have thought it was sort of colder here all year round. Nope, I moved here the beginning of one July and I’ll be damned if it wasn’t ABOVE NINETY…

I’ve seen several people mention the global freezing part who are unfamiliar with the context. My explanation won’t make the idea any less stupid, but there IS a history to it.

I know, I was thinking the same thing, and I also wonder what extra special characteristics that child’s family has to have had in order to gain admission. It can’t even be as simple as JUST being wealthy, so it must include some kind of substantial political or economic power. I hope, just for the student’s sake,…

This cannot possibly be a thing!!! Off to google I go!

This was my experience when I attended Catholic school in an urban area in the 80s.  A large proportion of the students were actually the children of immigrants from all over the world.  It was kind of funny because probably about half of the students were not Catholic, but we still had Religion class, Chapel masses,…

Yes, but east and west are directions and thus are relative to the location of the observer. By whose perspective is the Orient—"The East"—defined?

Even though this has all been covered in lies and corruption, in the end, at least this young man is still alive and his story WILL fully see the light of day. Most of the time in similar situations, neither of those things end up being true; we end up with a dead body and missing/doctored footage.

The other aspect I’ve started to think about is how this incident would be analyzed in terms of class. Generally speaking, if you heard that one side of town was well-off, one side was poor, one side was black, and one was white, you’d certainly think that the poor, black side was the victim, but this is where the…

Okay, that is even MORE disturbing. It’s not like Oklahoma has such a long and interesting history that they had no choice but to edit things out. I don’t know anything about Oklahoma history specifically but I’m pretty sure that this Tulsa Race Massacre would still rank as one of its very most significant historical…