Hmph. Everyone wants a free dress.

Thank you! Hi! I’m really happy to be back. I’ll be here during the weekend for the foreseeable future.

Dunno how I didn’t see that you’ve been back (at least on a freelance basis) for a week now, but welcome back Harron! I’ve read some of your stuff on Vice, but you’ve been missed here for sure.

In addition to BedandBreakfastMan’s point about the lies the PD told about how the eldery bloke was injured, there’s this:

I thought this was what most of the 2A proponents wanted their guns for? For when the state rose up against them?  I guess they meant as long as it didn’t come for them.

25 years ago, I came to the conclusion that all branches and forms of religion are equally divisive and completely bonkers. I’ve found being a kind and honest person, not to avoid avoid damnation, but because my one chance at a life should be used to leave this world at least 0.00001% better than when I arrived,…

The conservative mind can only process things as true if they happen to themselves or someone they love/like. 

Trump’s Moses act would be more klutzy but far less funny than Mel Brooks’ Moses.

I say let’s arm our barista’s. Starbucks customer’s are d-bags and I wouldn’t mind seeing a couple taught a lesson.

My question is do you gradually become a psychopath after becoming a cop, or are they just hiring psychopaths? Because all I see is white dudes getting raging boners from inflicting simply pain because they can.

Yeah, I recently saw a video of someone filming a cop beating up someone else, and the cop tells the person filming to “Back the fuck up” and shoves them. People were like “Well, they were disrespectful!” but like, a barista cannot tell someone to “Back the fuck up” and shove them. Any person working customer service…

Religion in America is toxic. It is so entwined with capitalism and political power that any “spiritual” dimension long ago withered.

Of note: the protester in question, Martin Gugino, is a longtime peace activist. (https://buffalonews.com/)

that’s an absurd number of police offices

I love how they rush forward to attack the people trying to help him.

EXACTLY! At least 20 offices had to agree to say that he tripped after WATCHING HIM GET PUSHED. That’s not 2 bad apples, that’s the whole fucking force - that’s systemic.

I’ve always preferred “America The Beautiful”. It’s a better song, describes natural beauty., not bombs, and it has a range people can sing.

His ‘lots of people loved it’ means he heard it on Fox, which is enough for his own need for affirmation. Like fucking Tinker Bell.

Please let’s not pretend what Trump did was normal or comparable to anything done in the past. Gasing protestors outside the White House to walk down to a church and do this...

I have to say, as a person whose parents are fresh off the boat and who is not part of one of the more popular Christian denominations, this piece is spot on. I have never heard the people of any other (largely) Christian country go on and on about Jesus the way Americans do. The irony being that the true god in this…