I mean, he did spend three months in jail. That's not a light punishment for a punch in the face that left no injuries.

I thought he looked awesome. Made me want to buy a suit just like it. Could be he has a career as a model for Men's Warehouse after he is done with the whole president thing.

I meant more like the person on top is obviously consenting because they are the ones driving the encounter. The other person, maybe or maybe not.

It says in the law "verbal or physical assent", which actually opens a stupid loophole I would think where the defendant is all "she totally wanted it because x, y, z", but it addresses your point. If you forcefully penetrate someone you are physically assenting.

These aren't criminal trials we're talking about though, they are university investigations. You don't have the same rights.

I think it is mostly supposed to represent a shift of the bar a little more toward the defendant than it was before. So you no longer have to prove that you rigorously resisted your rape, only that it was unwanted. I think you are right that procedurally it doesn't seem to change much, but psychologically it should…

It's not changing the requirements to legally convict someone of rape. It only affects college investigations and adjudications. Maybe they are using it as a kind of trial run? I imagine it would take a lot more effort to pass a law changing the way rapes are prosecuted.

You're right that it's bad, but not quite that bad. Here is some data from the National Women's Law Center. Note that black men are actually paid less than white women, implying that race is a larger consideration than gender.

I think it's as another commenter said, the 24% is in Oxford county. Hillary confused it with the entire country.

Okay, this is slightly off topic, but I just read this article yesterday that said rape conviction rates in the UK were at an all time high of 63%. It suggests that the difficulty is in getting them to investigate and bring charges, but that the conviction rate once that happens is very high. One of these articles…

I was going to try and come up with a funny comment but, wow, I really hope I am that sharp when I am 100 years old. I'm frequently terrified about being old and impending dementia, but this woman is fucking awesome.

God bless you. Or Xenu or whatever. The one that's cool with birth control.

I think the hard part is getting the police to investigate and the prosecutor to bring the case in the first place. If you get past that then the conviction rates are pretty high.

I'll just stick to being a vegetarian and you can have that raw meat. Nobody ever got trichinosis from a potato.

Yep, Chipotle is going to put Boloco out of business which is kind of sad. Their burrito is just plain better though, sorry Boloco. If you're talking about that McDonalds on Mass Ave, I think it was bought by Berklee for a new building, not that it went out of business.

I don't think we can take much from the autopsy yet. As before, we still need more information. He said that all the shots hit him from the front which is inconsistent with him running away like the witness said. But there's no GSR on his body which implies that it wasn't very close range. But maybe it all ended…

Pretty sure curfew only applies to loitering in the street. You can still go to and from work.

I don't know. I'm no supporter of the police, but it really seems like you have to stop that kind of thing before it starts, which you can't do in a selective way like that. The minute one person throws a brick through a store window, it probably gets out of control incredibly fast.

That is a huge red flag, and it makes me think that won't see any justice from local law enforcement on this. Our real hope is a federal investigation, and those take time. We might not have answers for a good long while, but a civil rights case seems to me like our best chance. As someone said a few days ago, it…