At least AP made those new laws about aggressive panhandling. It is NJ though, so they could try passive aggressive panhandling.

A woman asked me for money so she could get some food at the buffet place she was standing next to. I wasn’t going to give her money, but I had an empanada from the place next door, so I offered it to her. She declined free food. Sometimes beggars can be choosers.

Actual fraud in welfare, etc is very rare.

That’s why most conspiracies fail. They’re founded on the mutual trust among untrustworthy people.

I live in NJ.  If someone from NJ is asking for money, it’s a scam.  That is all.

Huh, it’s almost like our system of people desperately begging on gofundme for money for medical care, housing, etc isn’t great and there should be a better social safety net in place that isn’t so easy to scam.

To the other commenters, where did they act like they cured inequality? They proved a point and people, like local news, took notice. That’s like step #1 of deconstructing white supremacy - using your privilege to not only acknowledge it exists but also right the wrongs it produced.

I see this divergence around what’s…

Cute generalization, but if you hung around a while you’d know that feminists are quite divided on the subject of porn, and have been for a long, long time.  It’s not hypocrisy, it’s more than one voice.

He wasn’t making fun of his missing eye, specifically. It’s not like he said “oh his political stance is pretty myopic” or something like that. He was making general dumb jokes about a bunch of candidates appearances, that was the whole point of the segment. We have a president that regularly disparages everyone who…

I just can’t agree. Crenshaw is a politician with a white supremacist, misogynist, nationalist background who has been elected to represent the people of his state. Davidson is a goddamned comedian who represents nobody but himself and in an extended sense his employer (who is also not a politician).

The problem is that SNL almost NEVER makes jokes that provide any real commentary about political agendas. They make fun of politicians to be sure, but almost always in a lighthearted manner. For some reason they get credit for speaking truth to power, but they never really have in a real sense, at least not until a…

For the actual reason why maybe Davidson felt the need to apologize, refer to what he said three seconds after the porno hitman comment: “I’m sorry, I know he lost his eye in war, or whatever.” It was the dismissive “or whatever” that put this shit in the same league (if clearly not the same ballpark) as “I prefer…

You’re confusing two different kinds of tolerance and inclusion. Liberals preach that people shouldn’t be discriminated for their innate differences—their skin color, sexuality, gender identity, etc. That’s completely different from tolerating harmful ideas and policies that people choose to support. Allowing…

What a strange thing to obsess over. Really odd.

And here I thought Republicans loved guys who mocked veterans and people with disabilities while sporting ridiculous dye jobs and being publicly snubbed by their former romantic partners.

Whatever. Crenshaw is a Republican. With one eye, he can still look in the mirror and see a piece of shit.

When my brother hosts his wife’s extended family and ours, her sister-in-law will make a few dishes. She’s not a bad cook overall, but she has certain blindspots. Anytime she makes one of her mother’s recipes, everyone can tell. She makes a sausage stuffing at Thanksgiving, but DOES NOT BROWN THE MEAT FIRST. She…

My grandparents did that kind of thing, and it sort of rubbed off on my dad, but they were very much products of the Great Depression in a lot of ways. I suppose when your food sources can be questionable at best you learn very quickly to boil, bake, and cook the hell out of everything just in case.

You should have served everyone who wanted it properly cooked and fried hers in a pan really quick.

“Well, I won’t eat it. It needs to go back in the oven for at least another 40 minutes.”