Well, if there was any question about how so many battered women end up getting murdered by their abusers, here’s the answer. Sigh.

No domestic violence conviction, no bar to weapon ownership if you are referencing the recent Supreme Court decision. (For obvious and perhaps unsatisfying reasons there needs to be a conviction.)

I’m guessing that was the point of the plea agreement. It sounds like they dismissed the only charges that would have kept him from owning weapons. Courts: Not so interested in protecting women.

I hate dumbfuck Trump more that any candidate and/or person ever, and he scares the shit of me, but sitting justices shouldn’t make comments like these. Just because Scalia was moral free disgusting individual doesn’t mean justices should feel free to all act like him. RBG is better than this.

I think what she said was a lot more pointed than anything Scalia has said. I was pretty horrified when I read it. I'm a die hard RBG fan but it didn't feel appropriate at all to me.

I love RBG more than I love my dog (who I love more than most people), but I am not too sure about this move. Her insights weren’t exactly ground-breaking and I don’t know what they added, and she may have crossed a line. Other justices, Scalia particularly, talk politics, but I’ve only ever seen them do so AFTER a…

He can’t handle the Ruth.

It used to be “I don’t go to midtown, midtown is a shit hole”, then, it was I don’t go above 14th st, above 14th street is a shit hole, then it was I don’t go much above Houston, above Houston is 90% shithole, then I don’t go much above canal, above canal is a shithole... Then, I don’t go into Manhattan, Manhattan is…

This is exactly right. I don’t understand why everybody has to say he’s either an unimpeachable angel or the most despicable person on the face of the earth. Is it just our inherent American-ness that makes it impossible for us to view people as complex individuals? Do we have to take the same black-and-white approach…

I’ll take number 3. I grew up a few miles outside of State College, am a 2nd generation PSU grad and like many others, I held Joe in a very high regard throughout my childhood and early adult years.

Don’t forget the 24 year-old teacher tied to a cinder block at the bottom of a pond: