I just erupted in solid Beavis and Butthead style laughter in my office.

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Here’s the thing about this that was easy to miss in the segment: Part of the reason that rapists maintaining parental rights is important is not just because of the possibility of rapists gaining visitation/custody rights. (Obviously, that’s awful.) It’s also because rapists can use the threat of suing for custody as…

Proposed alternate legislation from the GOP:

The New Mexico House JUST (like, last month) passed a bill preventing rapists from getting parental rights! SO relieved! Not only did a republican and a democrat team up to pass this bill, but pro-life and pro-choicers came together over it. amazing and awesome.

Yep.

Ok so... we can’t have abortions, we can’t miscarry, we have to give birth, adoptees have to jump through hoops, but... our rapist can get us pregnant and then take partial custody?

If we, as a nation, can raise $862,000 in a day to cater a hypothetical gay wedding with hate pizza, I’d like to think that we could afford $5 million per year to not further cause harm to rape victims.

Call me stoned at 3:18 in the afternoon, but I just read the first sentence of your comment and took it to mean that you wanted to binge watch the show Cosmos with Megyn Kelly until you found out all her secrets.

I want to get drunk on cosmos with her and find out all her secrets.

No no, that was a police officer. Obviously the fetus had done something to warrant the abuse.

Not to worry. Very soon, we won’t be seeing this sort of thing anymore.

It’s Texas, so the law says that’s a baby in there, doesn’t this video make the cop guilty of child abuse?

The SCOTUS ruled that a police officer can only shoot a fleeing suspect if the said suspect is armed and pose immediate danger to the general public.

So no. Just because you are running, doesn't mean the cops can shoot. Otherwise, shows like "Cops" would be very different. I mean why bother running through hedges when…

Holy Fuck you're right. Maybe he was running towards a loaded cannon. Better put 8 rounds in him just be sure.

Just two things of note

My dad is a cop. I am also the black sheep of the family, so its been many years since I have seen him. Every single time something like this happens I can only hope my dad is one of the good ones. While it's easy to say "my dad would never do something like this", you don't ever really know.

One thing I found interesting in recent news (and by "interesting" I mean "depressing and soul crushing") is that, while 36 black people were killed last month, officers being killed in the line of duty is at all time low and, according to an NPR report I heard over the weekend, there has been 46+ days without an…

Or send a Latino interviewer. He would literally bolt.