This is exactly right. I’m not sure (meaning I don’t actually know) what the shooting cop’s situation is. But based on the info out there The Police, as a system, are responsible for this shooting (or perhaps, the government that doesn’t give them enough resources to pay for trainings). Basically, this did not have to…

We really can’t say this was sucide by cop. If this man was in the middle of a mental breakdown who knows what he was thinking. Maybe he thought he had a gun and tried to shoot it. Maybe he was trying to give the police something in his pockets b/c he thought they wanted it. Maybe he was scared and thought looking…

It’s being reported that the non-lethal force cop had mental health training. This situation was handled all kinds of wrong but I don’t know how much we can blame the shooting officer. And by “I don’t know” I’m not defending him, I mean literally it’s hard to say based on the information out. I do think officers do…

That same logic is all over this election with Hillary and women voters, along with the charge that you are “racist/sexist” if you supported Obama/Hillary “because” (s)he is black/a woman. It was stupid then and it’s stupid now. When you see someone who promotes your political beliefs and values AND they are breaking…

What is the difference? Normally by the time I hear slang it’s likely past its prime :)

he has a very good chance, sadly.

I think they’ll figure it out as they get older. And with toddlers you really have to pick your battles, they have lots of nonsensicall opinions and demands. Some are naturally shy with strangers and forcing them to interact is just not worth it. I encourage my 2.5 year old to say hi or whatever but if he doesn’t…

Thank you. This argument is so gross. We have influence in the world, but we are not electing a president of the world and we are not electing a God who can magically fix the problems of every country. Do we even know if she made the wrong decisions? Less force was used in Syria and it’s not like that’s going well.

It’s beyond just insulting. He made Trump look like Teddy Bear and almost certainly won him votes. If Trump wins narrowly, some of that is on Fallon.

omg me too

I can only do my best

Thank you - even the desecription of Clinton’s faults in this article are annoying, although I’ll give her “hawkish”. The only thing I really find “uninspiring” about Clinton is the public’s stupid sexist reactions to her.

I consider it a bad day unless I’ve made at least 5 people miserable.

ha - no need at all to be sorry, I laughed b/c you had a good point and the tabloids are ridiculous. 

no... coastal elitism includes, or even focuses on cities that have very diverse populations. I find a big part of coastal elitism is white “coastal” people seperating themselves from poor rural whites.

haha, okay well maybe I’m mostly speaking for myself

My feeling is that it’s not necessarily that Jen is (portrayed to be) happy *just* because of the marriage break-up but because of the long-standing abuse from the tabloids linking her to Brad and Angelina and portraying her as this sad spinster woman. That narrative gets turned on its head with a Brad and Angelina…

Or maybe HE is stupid or dull or boring and Angie was done with him so he cheated. Or maybe new sex with a beautiful but slightly less beautiful woman is more fun than sex with someone you’ve been with exclusively for a decade and have six kids with.

Even judging a non-profit by those percentages is faultly. Some work takes more admin support than others. If you have a non-profit with 95% going to it’s programs, but it’s programs only help 15 people, and another non-profit has 75% to programs, but the programs help 50,000 people, is the former non-profit really…

Cultural appropriation doesn’t necessary mean a specific person is appropriating the culture with malice or even aware they are doing so. If we didn’t have such a bad history on racial relations and colonization it wouldn’t matter, but we do so it does. I don’t know the historical origins of white hippy dreadlocks but…