I also thought about that, but I also thought if Sidibe is cool with it, or doesn’t see it that way, I’m not going to shit on her about it. Like, maybe her view on the situation is completely different and forcing her to see her presence as an insult is also very insulting? I don’t know!

I second this strongly. He reminds me of Harry Potter in the other photo. Let’s not sully Harry’s reputation.

A commenter on the last post requested that this is the photo we use for him from now on. A damn good idea.

She may not have grand meal seizures very often, in which case getting a service dog would be difficult. Mine were mostly petit mal and not hugely disruptive, but then every once in a while...yikes. I have an aunt who was seizure free for 20 years and then suddenly had a big seizure in a parking lot.

wouldnt it be lovely if all clothes were sold up to size 30 (or whatever the highest plus size is) and we didnt have to distinguish it at all?

Is that in a van?

As Tennessee lacks a state minimum wage law, its tipped workers get the $2.13 under federal law. Tennessee also has one of the highest percentages of minimum-wage workers in the United States. So fuck those legislators.

Fair point, but then I come back to the fact that our international relations would be fucked with him in office. Other world leaders aren’t going to take him seriously and he’s so off-putting and offensive that none of them are going to want to work with us. That, to me, is the scary part of a Trump presidency. Not…

This would be deliciously funny if an innocent kid hadn’t been scarred for life. Fuuuck. Guessing the authorities chalk this up to an accident as per usual.

I think the closest I can recall in real life was when Owen Labrie’s lawyers dressed him in a nerd costume for his sexual assault trial so he didn’t look like the captain of the varsity rape team anymore.

Sweet Jesus, I love aerie so much. They have the best underwear in so many different styles, and their comfy wear is beyond.

Many times, in families where a loved one has a mental illness, they disappear so many times that the family becomes accustomed to them coming and going.

I agree. I understand what you mean and I do think it’s better to acquit someone given the circumstances than convict. Like I said, it was a perfect storm. To be honest, I don’t know what I would have done had I been on that jury. I would have had a hard time voting to convict even if I “felt” he was guilty due to the…

One alternative theory I heard is that his son from his first marriage despised Nicole Brown and is the one who killed her. And Ron Goldman was killed because he would have been a witness. OJ took the rap thinking a former football player turned actor would have a bit more luck beating the rap.

I feel the exact opposite watching it. When it happened, I was a young teenager and couldn’t believe he was acquitted. As an adult who recognizes domestic violence in the world, I’m certain he did it, but from that first episode of ACS, I realized why he could never be convicted.

I have no doubt that he did it and was a wife abuser. That being said, if your police force is SO terrible to portions of its population that despite so much evidence someone as obviously guilty as OJ can get off, then you can’t fault the jury. The cops obviously were being lazy and stupid relatively often in this…

I’ve really fallen down the OJ rabbit hole as of late, and I am 100% convinced he did it. Sure, the LAPD mishandled some of the evidence, but I really think it was incompetence and not a set-up. For a set-up like that to have been conspired, it would be pretty much impossible for it to still be a secret 20+ years…

Despite our often deeply flawed justice system, the problem of intimate partner violence is still not made up. If a woman is murdered, there’s a pretty high likelihood that she was killed by her male partner: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/09/men…

Can we also get a shout out to Dahlia Lithwick and her sharp, comprehensive SCOTUS coverage? For years she has done a great service by distilling frequently dry and convoluted supreme Court arguments for Slate and I think the internet is a better place because of it.