That was my first thought, too. The fact that the cops blatantly lied about this shooting is somehow a footnote in many of these conversations.

Even if he had a knife, I would think it would be difficult to legitimately fear for your life given the whole car window being in the way and all.

The degree to which society has normalized the “well, the cops obviously lied about the shooting, but it’s not that big a deal, let’s focus on what happened here” attitude is really amazing.

lunged at the officer with a knife, not just had one. Which still... did not happen

JFC, man. Aside from “I was scared for my life”, what about your damn partner?

he instead produced a weapon and pointed it at an armed police officer

So the cops told the public the suspect was outside the car and had a knife and then was shot?

Once More With Feeling is indisputably number one.

I saw someone describe this guy as “Bright Eyes for people who live in states with 3 electoral votes” and I laughed and laughed.

(Admittedly, somewhat cynical) translation: I got my bag, and the longer this remains available for purchase, the more liable I am for the obvious and blatant copyright infringement the game made its fortune on.

Which, to be clear, I don’t really begrudge. I doubt this dude thought this game would ever have the…

The twist is they arrested a white guy instead of the usual shooting a black man 

Guess he shouldn’t have tried it in a small town...

His smear campaign is disgusting. Not a surprise that he ran to the usual places where misogyny reins supreme—TMZ, Page Six and The Daily Mail, but I would like to mention that People Magazine, a magazine devoted to a female audience, seems all in for him too. They have regurgitated the whole sordid mess with quotes…

Joe Jonas must have done something unspeakably bad to be going this hard in the media over what should be an average celeb divorce.He also has a history of being super shitty towards his ex-girlfriends. The way he ran his mouth about Ashley Greene should send any woman running far away.

Riiiight, I’m sure that’s it, and it’s absolutely nothing to do with him having his share of faults and using his Jo-Bro Disney machine to quickly paint her the bad parent so he receives no scrutiny.

It’s awful that he feels compelled to make sure that the world understands he’s a quality parental figure because publications like this are going to automatically assume the worst. What a world we live in. 

Here’s the thing.  When you ARE a good dad, you don’t need external validation of same.  And people who say “you’re not a good dad”, well, you simply know they are wrong ... and why listen to people who are wrong?

He has the kids because his family members help while on tour. Family members that the children are familiar, and feel comfortable, with. Not because she’s an absent parent.

The civil trial, covering the church’s heinous response to the Masterson allegations, is scheduled to resume in October (it was put on hold while the criminal trial played out).

And yet, Scientology leadership, which stalked, smeared and harassed these victims for years, won’t see a day of jail time.