Yes. How “strange” that a black man, when confronted by a cop, would put his hands in the air. It couldn’t possibly be that he wanted to preemptively signal that he was unarmed, given that so many other black person-cop interactions turn deadly without provocation.

I have always really liked Lady Gaga, even if I haven’t always liked her music. Two main reasons:

Seriously people? Do you not listen to ANY hard rock with female vocalists? ‘Cause that’s how it sounds and it is awesome. I’m kind of impressed that Lady Gaga gave this style a try. Always love people stretching themselves and trying something different. Also, you are doing yourself a major disservice because there…

FBI estimated the rate of “unfounded” allegations at 8%, so not that far off from this study.

“t doesn’t like this woman’s attempt to discuss this issue is somehow pro-rape”

Chhetri closes the piece by justifying the relevance of “Smashers Against Sexual Assault,” arguing that “Sexual assault isn’t a women’s issue, or a gaming issue, or a men’s issue. It’s a human issue. Do your part to keep our Smash scene safe.”

But the information that Yamamoto was going to be on an inspection tour fell into the Americans lap because the Japanese were careless with their transmissions. It wasn’t like we spied on him to discover his location and then sent in a squad tasked specifically with taking him out.

I moved to South America four years ago, a decision I’m quite happy with. Mostly. Man, I miss American breakfasts.
I worked for 15 years in the U.S. on graveyard shifts, so I would clock out at 9 a.m. and some days I’d get some breakfast for dinner before going home and ending my day.

That should be our focus, not a future domestic criminal trial that may take years to complete.

“Enemy combatant” is a complete chicken-shit way to escape having to provide the rights and protections of criminal justice or prisoner of war status to someone.

Not really, because chickens don’t menstruate. It’s really more like (exactly like) ovulation.

lordy did an omelette kill your parents or something

It’s really got to be hard to be your father’s second choice for a date.

As much as Phoenix sucks (a lot), they’ve gotten serious about densification and alternate transportation. I love to dump on Phoenix, but that city itself is pretty progressive in terms of planning. It’s suburbs, barring Tempe, on the other hand....

Phoenix is a traffic nightmare that desperately wants to be the next Los Angeles, but with worse schools. What’s to love?

Yes, the demand for affordable units is high. The demand for $20,000 new Teslas would be equally high.

Developers aren’t keen on building new structures (which would be necessary in order to increase central city density) that can’t be sold at market rate and are kept artifically devalued. The answer is precisely what you suggested above - making it easier to build newer, denser structures to increase the supply, not…

Phoenix is an extended strip mall. Holy shit, that place sucks.

Exactly. There’s legitimate arguments for densifying cities, but one of the major pitfalls is infrastructure. It’s pretty hard to argue to your current town of 25,000 why they need a wastewater treatment plant that can support 400,000 and 4 lane one-way streets with dedicated bus lanes. Cities scale because people…

Awesome, I had been looking for a kind of financial arrangement that would allow me to trade in one of the few remaining hopes your average person has of building any wealth over the course of their lives.