Re: Ash - am I just experiencing some weird deja vu, or did that exact write-up appear in a Morning Spoilers post a week or 2 ago? I swear to god I’ve read that exact paragraph (or something very close to it) before.

I’m seeing a lot of comments about the need for improved public education around things like financial literacy, which would certainly be beneficial, but can we focus for a moment on that paltry $9M fine? With their current business practices, TitleMax achieves about $1bn in annual revenues, which means that $9M fine…

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective — loved it when I was a kid (I was 10 when it came out), and to be honest the first ~75% is still funny, but the overt transphobia of the final act really does not hold up, and knowing it’s coming makes it damn near impossible to enjoy the first 2 acts.

(Go ahead and ask a Walmart manager why the Black hair products are locked up while the equally expensive white ones are sitting untended on the shelves.)

If parking was $250/month, which is on par with what I’ve had to pay for parking in some cities, then I would at least somewhat sympathize. But for $250/year? Fuck this guy. If you can afford that $40k car you can afford $250 (less than $1/day) to park. He didn’t find a clever way to beat the system, he’s just a…

Cops are trained to shoot for center of mass, they’re never going to try (as the vast majority aren’t good enough marksmen) to shoot someone in the arm or leg. If you get shot in the arm or leg by a cop it’s because you’re lucky enough that said cop missed his target by a wide range.

..with 2.2% of Black women obtaining Ph.D’s in STEM fields in the U.S. in 2016, compared to 47.9% white men and 25.7% white women

1) A taser and a gun do not feel remotely the same. The weight, the feel of the grip, the holster position on one’s belt are all vastly different. The vast majority of civilians can and should be able to tell the difference between the 2 easily, it is beyond inexcusable for a police officer with any modicum of…

yes, but what would happen if, say, Prince William and his wife and children were to all die together in some tragic accident? Harry would then be next in line for the throne after his father. Is it a particularly likely future? Doubtful. Does the remote possibility of that future coming to fruition exist? Inarguably 

I mean, the 2 definitely deserve prison time for shooting the dog walker alone, that’s assault with a deadly weapon at minimum and possibly attempted murder. But the fact that he’s saying as much on Fox News while talking about how cops are heroes (despite having done literally nothing of value with respect to this…

Not that it’s remotely the point of this story (another black man horrifically brutalized by the police) but why the fuck do police have any control whatsoever over their own body cams? What is the point of officers wearing body cams if they have the ability to turn them off? This has happened so god damned many…

They can have her get really shitfaced before deciding to fly to her home planet and then dying when she “lands” and exits her ship (without a suit or anything) where Alderaan used to be...

I understand why he doesn’t want to apologize, it’s because he doesn’t feel like he did anything wrong. I’m certainly not trying to argue that he’s correct about that, his actions were abhorrent and it is no small miracle that Christopher Miyares did not suffer the same fate as countless other black men, women, and…

That has been my experience as well. The last time I clicked “report spam and unsubscribe” was when I somehow ended up on an email list for a politician that a) was running for office in a state that I have never lived in, and b) had political views diametrically opposed to mine; when I clicked to report spam and…

wait what? in what fucking universe is “i’m a viking at sleeping” an even remotely plausible interpretation of that line?

You brown the meat, remove it from the pan, and then sauté the peppers and onions in the grease that ran off of the meat. Absolutely enhances the flavor of the peppers and onions, and prevents you from needing to use any oil. Win-Win 

it’s based on the fact that non-white people overwhelmingly support Biden over Trump and the (horrifyingly offensive) idea that most black people only voted for Obama because he’s black, and thus they’ll switch their allegiance from Biden to Kanye for the same reason. In other words, much like every other idea coming…

It’s also distinctly possible that he was rejected on a purely academic basis, just because Mark Meadows nominated him does not necessarily mean he was academically qualified. Not saying that he wouldn’t necessarily have failed the psych eval, just that I don’t have a hard time believing that someone who barely passed…

I know it’s completely besides the point, but “wig a (white) man and paint him” sounds like some tar-and-feathering type super old school punishment