Very challenging article. Brave stuff.

What a horrible thing to be burdened with. At least the people in this article have insight and the desire not to offend.

We should start a pool for how long this will last.

They deserve each other, if you ask me.

This is the kind of thing I would have predicted via Gawker comment in 2008, but then I would have deleted the comment and said to myself "No, ambitious. That's too mean."

... because the answer is obviously "no."

Well, at least no one can say "Does the person she's marrying have any idea what they're getting themselves into?"

This is one of the finest things I've seen in all of Gawker, Patrick.

"With that said, when people riot, burn down stores, loot, and generally create an entirely lawless situation, the police are going to respond like this. Even if they didn't have armored vehicles at their disposal, no American police force at any point in history would simply allow a riot to continue unchecked. This…

Where you in England in 2011? No you weren't.

Yes it did.

Great piece. I've lived in St Louis for 16 years and I've never seen any of this equipment before Monday. Yesterday the Ferguson chief was all over local news saying that they wouldn't do anything if protesters were peaceful after 9pm. Cut to 9pm exactly - cue up the bullhorns rubber bullets and tear gas while…

When you give the police a big friggin' hammer, everything starts to look like a nail

Fox News had the Ferguson Police Chief on and he talked about violence is being caused by "outside agitators." That is the exact wording used in during the Civil Rights fight by racists in the South.

I have a feeling the MSM will show picture of that one kid throwing back tear gas or the guys trying to light that molotov cocktail and then talk about how the "situation" in Ferguson has escalated but not mention that there has been NO rioting or looting since Sunday night. and they will mention some bullshit about…

How did our police become autonomous little armies?

I use "Shark Week" as a euphemism for menstruation, which makes this article 100% more entertaining. Ladies on their periods, having insatiable endangered shark cravings.

Turns out that in the wake of the Discovery Channel's annual feature, restaurants are trying to sell as much shark meat as possible, and people are eating it like crazy.