Oy -_-

Any time, ReturnOfTheLivingDarcy! GREAT name btw ^_^

Ratbitch is, oddly enough, a great band name.

Wooooooowwwwww. People are THICK. They probably thought they had found some killer loophole to the whole insurance process.

Her RAT? What the HELL??? I hope her rat became a zombie rat and ate her brain. And now she's roaming the night and her soul will never be at rest.

Ugh noooooo

Yes! It also strikes my drink addled mind that Garner Support is a great name for a protest organization in light of all this.

Probably =\ I know some young and highly educated morons who have fights on Facebook about how race has nothing to do with it. Both the content and the venue say we're in trouble, nationally speaking.

GROSS. All around gross.

Standing under their Christmas lights. Effing hypocritical racist fucks.

Exactly; the people who think the Garner decision is right are the ones who think that any criminal act justifies death, that institutional racism doesn't exist, and/or that cops should just be able to do what they want.

I'd like to say you're right, but remember a lot of these morons were alive through the 60s and 70s, when white people and people of color were already protesting together. If they didn't learn then...

My rage compared to my coworkers' apparent indifference to the situation finally prompted me to create a Facebook thing so they can't see my posts anymore. Also one of their husbands is a cop, so.

With that in mind, I'd love to read the transcripts the pollsters read from.

So much context, so suddenly.

I was able to get my dad to understand riots by very not-calmly explaining to him that the rage that caused him to throw things during parental disputes was a small version of the rage each rioter was feeling personally, and that there were hundreds of them. Two hours of screaming on my sister's birthday to help him…

For a second I thought you were actually my sister. Only difference is that me, my mom and sister and I were eventually able to scream him into a silence in which some facts got through. Also he's half Mexican, and I really had a hard time understanding his inability to comprehend the situation.

Excellent point. I was reading a novel set during the Civil Rights movement today and thinking along a similar line, that institutionalize racism is now boys going to jail for having a bit of weed in their pocket rather than being strung up on trees, and how much harder it is to get comfortably safe white people to…

Swiss cheese and jalapeños! I think you qualify as an X-Men.

That's just a cruel joke!