despite knowing it was nothing but racist lies

Sounds like he’s arguing against some policy (being sold as) meant to increase black control of the city in some popular way that he thinks will scare away white investment or business to impoverish the city, specifically going against the argument that he needs a lock on the black vote (possibly meaning that he’s…

Is it just me or do these complaints seem very Great Man-ish in nature, just replacing kings with social science academics and professional activists (like those making the complaints)? Similarly, while I guess this isn’t a history course (honestly, one of the big issues with X-studies courses is not knowing what they…

Why does it look like Johnny Test? Am I just biased against strong lines from when cheap Flash animation was a plague?

Most of these are just the terms saying what they mean. The deceptive ones are either terms of art (“light” using the oil definition most famously used for crude, “organic” being an agricultural term for the things used to grow the plants, “uncured” apparently referring to lack of curing salt because I guess it’s…

Because it’s distant enough that she didn’t need to worry about the paycheck coming with blowback and he’s probably going to take a maternity break over the time it would take for blowback to dissipate anyway.

So in comics Kang is kind of a supervillain Booster Gold, coming back from the future to conquer the past with advanced technology and education but no army and a long in-comics history of punching well below his weight class, right? Has he ever actually had a win, or is he basically The Worf for heroes?

I kind of see it as sort of endemic to any dedicated department/group that is given a specific goal (and often one that’s operationalized in a very problematic way, such as this unit focusing on total arrest numbers rather than suppressing numbers of particular crimes compared to trend in candidate neighborhoods that…

Even if you say racism requires power (which is actually conflating it with “systemic racism,” and even then deliberately misusing that definition), the violence and threats of violence detailed in this report plus the real violence Jews face are obviously an application of a type of power, cultural influence like…

The term was apparently orginally “work wife” and was used by British ministers as a description of their relationships with the (male) secretaries who essentially kept their houses in order (cut to some scene from Yes Minister).

There isn’t an real need to eat tuna given that salmon, sardines, kippers, and mackerel are all right next to it on the shelf at similar price-points. Basically the only benefit is that skipjack’s a bit higher in iron than all but mackerel.

This methodology of course has the limitation that it can’t give guidance as to how many would have happened with a difference reference and how many hate crimes happened because of his statements but didn’t have an easily-recorded explicit endorsement.

It makes some sense that arrests would be disproportionately black given that the unit was premised as a response to criticism that the overall department was letting black neighborhoods turn into Mad Max. The bigger question is why this “elite unit focusing on flagrant lawbreaking in high-risk neighborhoods” had five…

The salmon one is only for those who purchased to re-sell.

There’s another way someone could become the face of the sport, and that’s by breaking out of the sports section and onto the front page. This is rarely a positive representation. If Herchel Walker somehow manages to retain public relevance and gets a brain scan leaked, he’s the new face of the NFL(‘s CTE problem). I…

In this case, institutionalized classism via it being easier for a store to go after petty shoplifting than aggressive/debatable use of coupon combos and the return policy.

a small but significant correlation

Seems like there’s a definite bias toward foreign/imported cuisine rather than homegrown. It’s like the old distinction between Sicilian-American and Northern Italian restaurants’ reputations.

Was a lack of clear direction and protocols a frequent topic of public meetings? That would certainly be a smoking gun, especially if there was no evidence of effort to develop protocols.

Yeah, the video was just a video of a random person claiming that MGA stole from the Harrises without knowledge of the case or availability for cross-examination. That breaks pretty much every rule of testimony.