Um, no. It’s because I’m advocating for donating time, money and resources to actual organizations doing the legwork instead of marching with a posterboard in a city (you know, your standard tantrum - or as you call it, “expressing anger”). Unless you didn’t see the link dump at the end there ;)

I think that is part of his plan. He initially floats names that are totally out there and insane (Guiliani for State, Palin for Interior or Energy) and freaks people right the hell out with them, and then, when he picks a more qualified, moderate choice (Romney, for example) people will say “How intelligent of him.”

Okay, let me say before I say anything else that I speak solely for my own half-Native self and nobody else. And this is just how I feel, personally.

Except the analogy fails. A tornado is a genuine natural event with little ability of humans to impact it. I can see how people could see some kind of supernatural force present there, because there are factors beyond our control. This is NOT one of those cases. This was preventable. This was an act totally driven by…

I can understand grief, and the media is not helping by giving her a platform. But there is still a difference between a basic statement and trying to argue that the deaths of 6 innocent kids (and the maiming of many more) is some kind of divine will. THAT is inflammatory beyond belief (and I say this as a religious…

And she will never, ever accept any evidence to the contrary, most likely. Nothing the police find will ever convince her that her son was solely responsible for this, either through negligence or through intention acts. I understand the impulse, but right now, the families of these children do not need to hear this.…

His mother is not helping his case. She’s been all over the media, making really, really stupid comments. It sounds like she will never accept anything the police find. Which will just make it even more heartbreaking for the families of the children.

I think that’s BS, and you kind of know it. You don’t think the Dems feared the precedent that would be set if the successful candidate could then prosecute his or her opponent? That’s a genuinely scary idea. And do you really believe that there was no chance of something genuinely bad happening to her if a…

Hasn’t anybody considered the possibility that Clinton and Trump might still be talking behind the scenes and maybe there’s some kind of deal? It’s pretty clear that Clinton won the popular vote, but she’s not the winner. Still, it makes Trump look less legit as President. Then all of a sudden he reverses course on…

Except your own link doesn’t show more than a a single-digit variation from any one age group to the next (also, it shows no margin of error - so we don’t actually have any accurate gauge for assessing the numbers).

[citation needed].

[citation needed].

That’s why I don’t really place a ton of weight in it, personally. I mean, the USA is no haven, but Iran doesn’t rate much better. Or Afghanistan. Or Saudi Arabia. Which all technically adopted it, but I’d say they’re not living up to their promises.

Except if he’d doing commutations, he’s releasing people from prison. Hard to get a a commutation if you were not sent to prison. So odds are a good chunk of these people are white (if the sentences were within the last 10-15 years).

I don’t think Texas can exactly shock me anymore. Not the people of Texas, who are by and large a lovely group (even when I disagree), but their government...ouch.

This wouldn’t exactly help that. While POC are more likely to be arrested for drug crimes, most actual prison time for drugs is served by white people. That is largely because the drugs with the highest sentencing guidelines - namely opiates and meth - are favored far more heavily by whites over POC (who tend towards…

UNCRC is a weird thing. Conservatives oppose it because it creates serious limits on the punishment of juvenile offenders, among other reasons. But there’s also some liberal opposition - which mostly focuses on LGBT issues. The convention has language that says that all children have a right to things like knowing…

Somalia.

Legally, yes, you can!. If you claimed to actually be illiterate, that is a preclusion to jury service. However, where I live, you have to be able to read the form asking if you are illiterate in order to check the box stating you are, in fact, illiterate. So, you know, it’s a trap.

State lawyers also say that the prosecution is ignoring “many other factors that contribute to illiteracy, such as poverty, parental involvement (or lack thereof), medical problems, intellectual limitations, domestic violence, trauma, and other numerous influences.”