Silliness. I thought she liked to copy from Michelle? Mrs. Obama’s picture with the kids would be her down on a knee and talking to somebody face-to-face. Melania’s like “here, walk behind me, the cameras are this way." 

You were travelling in a strange city and region without a car, and you wore flip-flops? I feel compelled to commend you for a courage I’ll never have. I’m glad you experienced relief somewhere. 

Freedom of speech is outdated and dangerous? That idea seems so weird to me.

Cops are given extra credibility in courts of law, as becoming one also grants one status as “Officer of the Court,” at least where I’m from. That status carries the implication that an Officer is more observant of very specific details of their surroundings — which is why things like an unmeasured but visually-estimat…

right? I’m surprised he admitted it too. That amounts to “I fucked up.” When someone fucks up and somebody dies, that isn’t “Ope, my bad” for any non-cop; it’s an egregious crime, 25-to-life. But somehow the folks we “trust” with the authority of the state and a license to kill are held to a LOWER standard than anyone…

Probably a combination of being a style at the time (nowadays the tie approaches the belt, and anything else is indicative of failure to know how to tie, but that hasn’t always been the fashion) and the Full Windsor Knot. What most American men currently do is actually one step short of a half-Windsor. A full Windsor…

What I meant was that what he did before isn’t relevant to this case. It’s not that I disagree that it’s conceptually irrelevant, just that that’s the way the f-ed up “justice” system is usually applied: case-by-case. And also that this offense is egregious enough on its own; it should be unnecessary to complicate it…

If you’re white and here (and it’s not to troll) then you’re here to learn. Learning is a good thing, and learning how to leverage our privilege for the benefit and eventual equality of folks yet lacking privilege is what we should be here to learn. Then, it’s important to take this knowledge and do our best.…

It doesn’t matter what he did before, or what he might do again; not for this case. How are people ignoring that what happened was this guy told her he was going to kill her, and then made killing gestures to the point that she became unable to practically prevent being killed?