I feel like the anti-gay bigots have been making so much noise lately that this move really won’t get the attention it deserves for its monstrosity. This isn’t refusing to issue a marriage license, or bake a cake, or letting the high schoolers have a LGBT club. These are children. This man is announcing an official…

If you’re ever in KCMO, these people would love to have you over for dinner.

My general response to excitement about 3D printers is: this is dumb, this technology is really only useful for things like building airplane parts. And I’ve never cared for gummy candy. But even I have to admit that this is a fun use of the technology and I can respect that people are excited about it.

he told me that if I wanted to sleep there then we were going to have sex.

I guess I don’t think of it as giving him the benefit of the doubt as much as valuing evidence-based reasoning. I mean, I’m not donating to the guy’s charity or defense fund. I’m not sure what’s up with him and I kind of think if he’s really a St. Louis based guy there is something weird about him up and moving to…

Looking through the list of famous SAE members is interesting. There are some that are surprising - Sam Elliot?! And others that are so not - David Spade, at Arizona State, no less.

Ideally, in terms of maturity, I wouldn’t want to see people going into prostitution before the age of 25. But I’d say the same thing with about five times as much feeling about people going to law school.

This occurred in Maryland, the man first came into the public eye as an activist in Ferguson,MO. The story is confusing on this point and I personally would love to know why he’s in Maryland. I think it’s fair to assume the young woman is in a bad place in life when she’s relying on the kindness of strangers for…

Lol. I have no idea what you are trying to say there. “A lead forgot questions 1 and 2"??? Not being sarcastic, it makes no sense as plain English and I can’t spot any obvious typos or predictive text fuck ups that would make it sensical.

Check out that low-skilled pimp letting your niece have access to a cell phone. Or, you know, fuck you for thinking her story is similar to the story we’ve been given here. There’s absolutely no indication that the young woman in this case feels saved by the cops. I’m not disallowing the possibility that she was…

I actually don’t blame the cops as much as I blame the society they work for. People who think only jack booted thugs become cops are terribly naive. Most big city police forces do their best to keep the jack booted thugs off the force because they’re so destabilizing and unreliable. The scary reality is that our…

No, the “I’ve got lots of hotel points” thing is definitely odd. But shelter beds for minors are also incredibly scarce, and putting her up in a hotel could definitely feel like the safest option. Homeless teenagers are very vulnerable to sexual exploitation. I’ve seen anecdotal reports from several people who…

I think you should wait for the young woman to label herself a victim of rape and trafficking before you institute your “believe the victim” rule. You’re not really believing the “victim” right now as much as you are believing the cops. I’m skeptical the cops would’ve even labeled her a “victim” if she’d been a few…

I don’t want to spoil it for you, I’ll just say that I cackled and said “fuck yeah” a lot. I don’t normally watch it live, but I’m happy I did so tonight.

Off topic, I need a The 100 live thread RIGHT NOW.

Sure, but defending non-exploitative “pimps” in general is pretty hard core.

I don’t know the right combination of words to express how offensive I find it that sex workers are targeted for prosecution based on their vulnerability and then the cops act like they’ve got to have all the bases covered in triplicate as if these women have The Dream Team on retainer.

Read the statement of probable cause that is provided, in toto, in the Love B Scott link, supra. (I assume you are legally educated enough to translate those italics as — you stupid bitch.)

Between his statement and the description in the police report, it’s pretty easy for me to imagine this being a case of him trying to help her out with temporary shelter, her mentioning the possibility that she turn a trick to earn some cash (assuring him she is of age and experienced at this) and him offering to…

In some jurisdictions, yes. But there’s been some relatively high profile pushback from judges in others. All sorts of loathsome practices are normalized in Vice sting operations.