No, they’re not “basically allowed to do anything” because of the Bong Hits 4 Jesus decision, which you’re also not describing accurately. (The student wasn’t on school property, but he was at a school event.)

What would the Massachusetts state appetizer be, anyway? Speeding tickets? 

They also can’t ever admit they’re wrong and that Trump despises them. It’s like standing up for your no-account husband through thick and thin and telling all your friends they’re wrong and he’s a good guy deep down. How much of a sad fool are you if you admit to yourself he’s been cheating on you all this time?…

“worth the trouble” to whom? Prosecutors protecting their win record? How odd that hate crimes are the one thing they aren’t willing to risk overcharging.

Students have a lot more rights than schools would like them to believe.

If God intended us to drink corn milk, the Midwest would already have served it at potlucks.

It’s a target-rich environment.

The original commenter didn’t say “Most fanfic is great, look at Sherlock!” What they said was that dismissals of fanfic as ‘illegitimate’ ignore how often mainstream, commercial, highly popular entertainment is really fanfic, and gave “Sherlock” as an example.

Interesting. “I was born there but you couldn’t PAY me to set foot in the city now” is what I grew up hearing from white people who fled to the suburbs in the white flight of the late 60s.

Except that nobody is a fan of their radio. Nobody says “I have a collection of every set of headphones Bose ever made on my shelf because I like the Morrisey song I can hear through them.

A lot of writing is dumb and ham-handed and says some creepy things about the author’s sexual tastes, but nonetheless is very very popular. Why should fanfic be any different?

Remember, it’s only “fanfic” if women are posting it on the Internet for free. Otherwise it’s a “transformative work” or a “bold-reimagining”.

You’re saying that Detroit, a majority black city, is a racist shithole?

Reporting on the Conways’ teenage daughter’s public social media posts is not “litigation bait”. Whether there are ethical issues is a different thing - and when it comes to allegations of abuse by her parents, turning away in polite decorum would seem to be the opposite of ethical.

They are also rich and immensely privileged, so their disagreements about politics don’t really affect them. It’s not as though anyone in their lives they care about is harmed by Trump’s actions.

Fucking Western Michigan. This is DeVos country. The police had a plan for a violent rally, it was to do nothing as long as the BLM protesters were on the receiving end.

If Kellyanne is okay with her own husband playing the role of Concerned Never-Trumper, I think she’s probably okay with her daughter playing the role of SJW Teen on TikTok. Without the supposed interfamily drama she’d have faded off the stage as just one more of POTUS’ syncophants. Whether or not her husband and…

Aren’t they just the same troll?

His wife is in family practice and got her medical degree three or four years ago, but you’d expect even a novice doctor to know better.

Real estate is all he understands, to the extent he understands anything. He was an is a slumlord. So of course the worst things in his mind are having to provide housing, especially affordable housing, to anyone other than rich white people.