Cognitive dissonance. These people are so contradictory and hypocritical it’s painful. I say if you hate the government so much, when your house has been destroyed by a tornado, instead of going to FEMA, hike up your bootstraps and get to rebuilding.

Totally forgot about Medicaid for some reason. You’re right, they are costing these states so much money but remember it’s those brown/illegal people and evil single mothers who are abusing the system

Which is extra scary. Let’s not forget that the Duggars were the darlings of the right wing mainstream and a lot of their views are similar - extreme gender roles based on biblical interpretations, rejection of secular society, limited education/exposure to the ‘outside’ world, cultish devotion to a particular…

It continues to amuse/irritate me to no end that these people - white, conservative, religious - are the real face of welfare fraud. Not saying that other people don’t cheat the system but the FLDS have turned welfare fraud into an art form. Yet somehow when some people use the term ‘welfare queen’ you just know the…

A sniper would have killed her. They don’t shoot to wound or incapacitate. They may not have wanted to go that route because the snipe may not have been able to hit her without hitting the kid - even though he ended up getting shot anyway. Tear gas can be very dangerous to young children. If they thought she was…

Just going by some of her previous social media postings - thank you Facebook and The Root - it sounds like she had some serious mental health issues and was extremely paranoid about and hostile towards police. I’m not necessarily inclined to believe the police side of things. There’s too much history of police…

I have a rolling chair but I back it up against a wall to do squats and I only just touch the chair, not sitting all the way down. The pull ins and body lifts would be more problematic because there’s no way to stabilize the chair. Luckily I have a couple of non-rolling chairs in the office but otherwise I’d skip…

They all look like 1980s Barbie outfits to me.

On board with this. Don’t give these assholes more publicity or let them encourage/inspire other assholes. Don’t turn them into martyrs or celebrities.

My statistics teacher in undergrad was probably an excellent statistician. You could tell that he loved the subject. But he was not a great teacher. He taught the intro level class as if it were a 300 level class. At first I thought it was just me because I suck at most math but even students who were good with math…

Someone else who, presumably, meets the qualifications, does the same job and would have the same duties as her but would be willing to take on more work because...reasons.

Because they’ve absorbed the same negative racist and classist stereotypes that as nom-blacl people and this shapes how they view other black people both consciously and unconsciously.

Shockingly, black people can actively be part of a system that is biased against black people. Often it’s not necessarily the race of the police officer/judge/lawyer/juror that matters, it’s the race of the suspect/victim. Black people are perfectly capable of being biased against other black people and their presence…

We’re already back to business as usual. I think once the first case was dropped, we knew what the overall outcome would be. The fact that charges were filed was a negligible victory but even that is overshadowed by the fact that the SAs office utterly failed at building a solid case of any sort. So yeah, same story,…

They most definitely disregarded their training and general orders however the case could be made that they did not mean for him to die or be injured to the point of death. That’s one of the main problems with charges against the officers. The State’s Attorney’s office was unable to prove that there was any intent to…

In my opinion, the SAs went with extremely serious charges to make a show of trying to do something to hold police accountable rather than just sitting around twiddling their thumbs. It was a way to placate a volatile situation. This was during the midst of protests and riots and deciding not to charge the officers…

Excellent book. I got to see him at a book signing at my local library. He was hilarious and very friendly.

I don’t always trust turning my back on my little house kitties.

I’d like to focus but it gets a little hard when everyone is holding their phones up making it hard to see or people are bumping into you because they’re trying to take pictures of the stage or take pictures of themselves and their friends. And if the venue is dark or small, the lights from multiple phone screens is…

He really does make an excellent point about cops being used to fill in the gaps in other systems. Especially with mental health services. Police are not mental health experts but they are often called to deal with people in crisis. With the current style of policing which seems to be more about zero tolerance and…