Fine with me, as long as “the rest of his career” is as long as a courier’s trip to deliver his termination paperwork. We know that won’t be the case though. I’ll bet he’s in uniform on those same streets right now...

Given that cops can and do erase behavioral incidents like these from their records if the police feel it’s been sufficiently “dealt with,” I wouldn’t be surprised if this follows a pattern of behavior.

Wanna know why this happens in America, all day, everyday, every year? Because in civilized (keyword: “civilized”) countries, such a POS cop would a) be scheduled for a court appearance at the blink of an eye; and b) would, at this very moment, be arguing with staff at the unemployment office about when his first…

Even giving the cop the benefit of the doubt - why’s the gun out? How hard would it be to just say, “Police officer. Saw you put that in your pocket. (to cashier) did he pay for this? ... Yes? Ok, my bad” That same conversation without the gun and attitude may have been understandable since dude came in midway through…

Fight, flight, or freeze. The cashier could easily be locked in his usual count-the-money-put-it-in-the-till mode and his brain hasn’t yet been able to make sense of a customer pulling a gun on another for seemingly no reason. If you haven’t been in a situation like this or if you haven’t reacted to a situation in…

You almost took someone’s life over FUCKING. MINTS. You pulled your gun on someone because you thought they had taken candy???

The cop saved everyone in there that day. All that was left for this terrorist to do was grab a Diet Coke and that place would have exploded.

GREAT observational skills, chief. Next time, perhaps reach for your badge instead of your human hole puncher? We’ve had enough blood spilled over candy.

The tortured genius is a pretty damaging and self-destructive concept. The reason a lot of famous men were abusive assholes isn’t because they were tortured but because they grew up in a society that taught them it was okay to act that way. And the reason that a lot of famous women self-destructed and committed…

Interesting how often “turmoil of the soul” is justification for men abusing women in service of “art.”

This fucker followed a five-year-old child home from school. No amount of “literary genius” excuses that behavior, and to brush that off as if this indicated Wallace was mired in turmoil is gross.

In his book Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace, D. T. Max mentioned in passing that Wallace “threw a coffee table” and “tried to push Karr from a moving car,” which Karr said is “about 2% of what happened.”

What Rude Negro said.

*jerking-off motion*

I bet you could count on one hand the number of male literary idols who were not abusive assholes.

DFW intensely loved dogs, and his harassing, stalking and threatening women with violence made him a really fascinating guy and great writer. Got it.

I used to be a child abuse investigator. A hokey story like that, blaming a 2 year old for those injuries would not only not be believed, but create a very bad attitude in the investigators/cops/ prosecutor - everybody. Better not to have an explanation at all than a bogus one blaming a child obviously too young to do…

Maybe the person Trump shoots will be Giuliani

I think it goes beyond sexual frustration - it’s frustration that they are not in control of a woman or women.

This is good and important work.