> New-car smell is an amalgam of synthetic fluid odors and plastic factory scents that are likely all carcinogenic

I think I lived in your town until third grade. Do they name an Okra Queen every summer? Is the high school football stadium still the tallest structure? (maybe that's just how my third-grade brain remembers it)

Part of Cersei's power draws from her being the one attractive woman the men in the story *can't* easily see naked. She holds it back as a source of power, and that's part of what makes this particular scene so pivotal (and utterly unsexy)

My ten-year-old has cued up The Lego Movie, and the pizza man is on the way.

I have no intention to defend him, I'm simply asking someone to clear up my confusion — they raided the home, and are now trying to figure out if anything they found is illegal? Seems backwards somehow. Not precisely how investigations are supposed to work.

Both are tissue filled with so much fluid that they become something close to rigid. I suppose it's probably not a bad comparison, really.

Didn't you mean to spell that Riunite? $3.99 sounds about right.

"The most generous reasoning I have is that they felt it would slander Brown's character, diverting attention away from his murderer, maybe paving the way for a mistrial or even acquittal if it ever comes to a court case."

Precisely. I've seen some reports that outside anarchist groups are showing up to start problems.

When my youngest turned 9, I gave him one of those simple cell phones that can call me, a trusted neighbor and the police, taught him which streets were the boundaries of where he could go by himself, and turned him loose in the neighborhood after school and on weekends.

Yes. I wonder how many victims don't know they have this option. I wonder how many know it and don't want things to drag on further. I wonder how complicated it is to pursue one of these, how much time it takes, if it requires a lawyer, etc. It may be out of reach for many victims. I have no idea.

A school gets on this list when someone alleges an assault, goes through the entire school investigation until the school itself concludes the case, then the accuser contacts the federal Dept. of Education to say "my case was mishandled" and files a formal title IX complaint.

I think it's important to note, every time this story comes back up, that this is a list of schools where someone has complained to the DoEd that their investigation was mishandled.

National guard help might not be a bad idea, if he's genuinely able to relieve the police department of duty. It's hard to imagine this thing calming down without SOMEONE taking over for them, and ironically, the National Guard could come in with a less-militarized force.

After all, the article Jez posted last night…

He was also never charged with anything, so there is no charge to throw out based on the lack of Miranda.

I'm a white male who lives elsewhere, and at the moment, this is the only thing on my Facebook feed. My feed is mostly white people, mostly on the coasts, and all they're talking about is how horrifying this is. A handful of fairly conservative people are hosting conversations saying the same.

Everyone has their own way of resolving differences, and they're not all recognizable as "fighting."

It's a branded thing. National Geographic paid Gawker to post this. They have National Geographic Explorer magazine, a National Geographic Explorers TV show, and if you enter one of their contests, they brand you an "explorer." This article is an ad.

As a single dad of two, just...thanks for this. Thanks for even noticing.

Thank you for telling the story, and I'm so sorry.