I favour bastinado, myself. Then to complete the sentence the offenders have to perform a tap dance immediately after a 10 m firewalk.

Death sentences for trafficking anything on the endangered species list would pretty much put a stop to it... just saying.

I’m going to start saving mine and selling them as “Pericorn scales” (pericorn scales are 5x more effective at curing everything).

There is a compound called aristolochic acid which is derived from a plant and believed to have been introduced to Chinese herbal remedies by a typo. It is known that this compound causes kidney injury and failure. In addition, it causes kidney cancer. It is so bad that if someone has kidney cancer in one kidney from…

Let’s address the problem where it begins: people. It’s not that people are doing unnecessary things (though that’s also true)...it’s that the people themselves are unnecessary. There are way too fucking many of us.

In the end what destroys this planet will be unnecessary things.

Probably not very traditional if it requires access to non-native species.

Chinese traditional medicine, specifically, is killing off everything from pangolins, to tigers, to the vaquita (via totoaba fishing). Adherents are complicit in the demise of these rare creatures in search of absolute hogwash remedies. 

Fucking Texas.

One of the most frustrating things about arguing the inequities of the ‘justice’ system is explaining how utterly impossible it is to get an improper conviction overturned. Too many people are too stubborn or dense to understand how fantastically useless appeals court and higher courts generally are. They don’t want…

Death row is basically solitary confinement and the article makes clear that this is especially cruel to people with intellectual disability. Why can’t he serve in a facility for people with mental issues?

Instead of waiting for him to smarten up, why not fucking laser focus your efforts on being rid of him completely. Seems like a win win. The longer you stay there, the more you’re gonna smell like garbage when something finally happens and you’re still loitering around the dump/landfill.

That guy with the flag would be a white supremacist today. Not too many progressives try to stab the people they want to accept.

The fact that racists existed back then doesn’t erase those that fought against them.

Some things might have changed a little bit in 43 years.

Frost is only 21 and couldn’t place South Boston on a map.

Name a major city in the US that doesn’t have a history of racial violence?

You know they did. Through back channels of course.

I’m no City official, but even I could look at a permit being submitted by a group of Nazi’s and think “Hmm, should prolly call over to the Police Department and see if they’ve asked for some back up.”

It seems to me that the city knew but the police were plainly sympathetic to the white supremacists. Most who saw how restrained they were in the face armed — armed! — nazis wouldn’t recognize them as police at all.