You know, I've sat in the first lecture for a class and gotten the distinct impression that spending two hours every week sitting there for the next four months would be overwhelming. I reacted by dropping those classes and quickly signing up for something that seemed more tolerable.

Acknowledged here. If this kid had been black, he would have already been serving time.

Will white people finely acknowledge that the justice system treats them better?!

. . . your opinion is highly disturbing to me, as you essentially seem to be saying that, in all cases, an animal's wellbeing is more important than a human's life. That's a pretty horrifying moral compass to steer by.

"I would hope the concern that's shown here could be shown for the homeless, the helpless, the hungry"

I love puppies, but I used to work in the sex crimes and child abuse unit in the same county at the same courthouse, and I never once saw protesters show up to protest against a defendant in a case I worked on. Just saying.

Wow, one whole road was closed down in the middle of a foot of snow? One whole road?!?! Holy crap, that's just as embarrassing as an entire region falling into chaos in 2" of snow.

Nope, just a Mexican in a sombrero talking about Margaritas. Same if I used a Texan wearing a cowboy hat talking about BBQ. Just a visual...

Try the ocean. I hear-tell the ocean has salt.

So this is why I have no Margarita salt .... Damn you!!!!!

Men.

Wouldn't it make more of a visceral impact if we called it what it actually is; rape trafficking. The women being held captive and moved around by gangs for the purpose of selling them to people for sex are being raped by their customers.

Cue the shitstorm as people vehemently defend their 10% tips.

Awesome. I always tip servers 20%. You can't fucking live on $2 an hour and every bit helps.

I found myself agreeing with Jenny McCarthy. Which makes me assume that the Polar Vortex was actually hell freezing over.

It pissed me off.

I was never sexually abused, but physically. And while behind closed doors my mother was awful, she always put on a nice "persona" in front of others. So I'm hardly going to take Walters' word on this.

Did anyone happen to hear what Barbara Walters had to say about all this? As Michael K points out, if Sherri Shepard is the voice of reason, you really gotta think about what exactly it is you're defending.

Oh. His attorney issued a statement? How fucking brave.

I notice he completely leaves out the investigation done by people who were not paid by Woody Allen who came to a very different conclusion. Shocking.

Fuck winter indeed. This has been one of the coldest winters we have had in Chicago in many decades (since I've been alive for sure) and the snowiest one since I've been alive too. It's usually one or the other- cold or lots of snow, but no. We get both. Which means the snow piles up, then ices over. OH, and then…