Louisiana’s hate crimes statute makes it a crime not just to discriminate against someone based on race, color, or creed, but to commit a property crime that is motivated “because of actual or perceived membership or service in, or employment with, an organization.”

- Caring whether a bar or a restaurant is cool.

Shit, I imagined a group of prisoners being led slowly blinking out into the wild wild woods of Connecticut* while a prison warden whispers “you’re free”. Imagine my confusion.

David Johnson previously worked for the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office as a full-time deputy from July 1997 to May 2003 .

Congratulations, this is the dumbest comment I have ever seen on this website. I didn’t think it could be done, but you’ve done it. Feel free to clock out now.

an armed woman who is otherwise weaker, physically, than the unarmed man has just armed that man. Every statistic back that up.

I grew up in a household with guns. I am fine with guns. I would own a gun if I felt like I needed one.

Jails and prisons are full of victims of domestic violence who fought back and ‘dropped’ their attackers. The system is full of cops and professionals more than willing to explain a victim’s behavior as “That’s not how a real victim would behave.” So excuse me if this guy giving someone the pass to ‘drop’ their…

Any automated moderation will be lacking, it’s a system resorted to from compromise and necessity.

Make a note, anti-Spanish people: The US has no official language. It’s a fact. Also, if you have a problem with people speaking Spanish, you should probably leave California, and maybe just go ahead and leave the US altogether. Lots and lots of people speak Spanish here, probably because a huge portion of this…

Yeah, I’m super not here for the police going “we don’t know what’s going on, so we’ll just say some crazy shit and see what works” and trying to pass it off as an investigative style.

lol fuck off with this. there’s nothing wrong with having a nanny. there are shitty parents with nannies and shitty parents without nannies. this is malarkey.

I was injured last year by the flu vaccine, and I still believe in vaccinating. Because vaccine injuries are rare. There is no such thing as zero risk. Just being alive is a risk. And I would rather take that risk - and it suuuuuuucks - than risk dying from a preventable disease. Maybe I can grasp risk communication…

This is going to be long, because I have a lot of pent up feelings.

I didn’t realize it was a two for one offer: Vaccinating and brainwashing. Florida is known for it’s coupon clipping early bird mentality so I guess someone never got the memo about loving a bargain. It’s a shame the mother wasn’t vaccinated for “Stupid”. Put the “duh” in Florida.

I'm 27 and it didn't bother me at all! I spend way too much time obsessing over how every new musician and actress is younger than me, and how youth is glorified in this culture and old age is invisible (especially for women), and how George Harrison was my age when the Beatles broke up and Keats was two years younger…