Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

Bark louder, little dog.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

In after Baud. Damn.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.

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  2. 2.

    lamh36

    “@BlackCanseco: This a real pattern, tho. Black person killed by non-Black and they do a toxicology on them. Must be their fault they got killed.”

    “@BlackCanseco: Toxicology reports in these cases are about criminalizing Blackfolk even in death.”

    “@JamilSmith: Unsure how this matters in the homicide investigation, unless Renisha McBride being drunk meant she deserved to die:

    Renisha McBride Update: Teen had .22 blood alcohol content when she was shot to death by Mich. homeowner

  6. 6.

    lamh36

    @WereBear: Exactly. This is the same. thing that happened with the Trayvon Martin case. So because he may have smoked a little weed then of course he deserved what George Z did to him.

    It’s basic tainting the rape victim strategy.

  8. 8.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @WereBear:

    Not every 19 year old.

    Mud people 19 year olds.

    If Trayvon Martin were white, George Zimmerman would be in a cell right now. No fucking question about it.

  17. 17.

    scav

    They drug test that Australian kid shot while running? Funny, that. Guy running for no visible reason scares some people.

  19. 19.

    maximiliano furtive, formerly known as dr. bloor

    No doubt reminiscing about that electric night at CBGB back in ’78.

  23. 23.

    Elizabelle

    I’m dancing barefoot….

    This pope is smart enough to realize Patti said “heroine”, not “heroin”.

    I iz liking this pope.

  24. 24.

    Aji

    @lamh36: And THIS is why pushing back against Cohen and his fellow travelers is so important. Because anyone who can look at an interracial relationship (and biracial children) and regard a “gag reflex” as “conventional” sees one half of said relationship as “less than.” And when you see certain classes of people as “less than” based on such characteristics, then you get (in addition to the thousand and one daily microaggressions and tiny cuts) Renisha McBride and Trayvon Martin.

    I’m sick of this bullshit trope that says pushing back on this is something that “doesn’t matter.” Come and live in our skins for a week – hell, even a day – and then tell us again how much it “doesn’t matter.”

  26. 26.

    Roger Moore

    @lamh36:

    According to the Detroit Free Press, the man told police he thought McBride was trying to break into his home, and that his shotgun fired accidentally.

    So he has two excuses for shooting an unarmed woman on the other side of a locked door. That’s called having a belt and suspenders.

  27. 27.

    ranchandsyrup

    First ER experience for our family. 3 y.o. was a total champion. No tears even during the shots for the local. When she was done she exclaimed, “Mommy! I got a check up!”

  28. 28.

    Sloane Ranger

    @Geoduck: Just seen the Science of Dr Who lecture from the Royal Institution given by Brian Cox. Good basic science concepts for Dummies with entertaining experiments plus some inserts of the Doctor meeting Brian.

    Looking forward to the docu drama on the early years and the Special.

  29. 29.

    Francis

    @Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader: Men have borne the name Francis for centuries. The female spelling is, usually, Frances.

    [insert gratuitous insult here — because I’ve heard the “but you have a GIRL’S name” line about a billion too many times in my life]

  31. 31.

    fka AWS

    @lamh36: Maybe I’m wrong here, but I assume they have a toxicology report any time an autopsy is done? Would seem to make sense.

    Not trying to excuse whatever’s going on, just seems like that would make sense.

  33. 33.

    salvage

    Has the Pope gotten around to settling the abuse lawsuits and having all the files opened to local and international law enforcement?

    He should.

  36. 36.

    At This Point I Am An Angry Black Woman

    @lamh36: I suppose now we will be told how unusual it is for a 19 year old to be drunk.

    I’m 34 and that was probably my blood alcohol level at a wedding I attended last week-end. I guess I should have been shot it the face, but all I had was a hangover.

  37. 37.

    cckids

    @ranchandsyrup:

    First ER experience for our family. 3 y.o. was a total champion. No tears even during the shots for the local. When she was done she exclaimed, “Mommy! I got a check up!”

    Awww. Hope all is better now.

    When my now 20-yr old was 3, he’d been to the ER more than to the doctor (ok, not counting vaccines). He was a really healthy daredevil. Thank FSM we didn’t have a suspicious doc calling CPS on us!

  40. 40.

    sparrow

    @Francis: The funny thing is how names morph regarding gender. Tells you something about the non-equality of the sexes. Example: “Shirley”, in the 1850s, was a boys name only. Until Charlotte Bronte decided to name her eponymous female heroine. Giving a girl a boy’s name is “edgy”. But if it becomes popular, then it’s an “unmanly” name.

  41. 41.

    lamh36

    @rea: hmm got it so they ONLY release it when something shows up as a way yo discredit whom??? Someone brought up the Australian runner who was shot by those kids awhile back. I don’t recall them releasing the results of that one. I do remember them releasing the results on Trayvon Martin though & that was used to discredit whom again?

    Yeah it’s just us black folk being too sensitive again.

    I’m out of here. Got to get to my bowling league.

  42. 42.

    Baud

    @lamh36:

    Can’t be certain, I can see it being a problem with what the media chooses to report rather than a problem with the local authorities doing the tests and releasing them on a routine basis.

  44. 44.

    PaulW

    @Geoduck:

    Something cool for any Doctor Who fans out there who haven’t already seen it..

    I’ve seen it. I’ve blogged it. I can verify there are 2 million Who fans fangasming and putting that YouTube clip on replay for the rest of the weekend.

    Paul McGann deserved more love to play the Doctor on TV than that sad movie pilot Fox commissioned in 1996 (*another* reason to hate Fox: they not only screwed renewing the series, they screwed the show’s continuity!). Every fan I’ve met loved McGann’s performance, just not that script.

  46. 46.

    David Koch

    Patti Smith is religious?

    of all people, you’d think her consciousness would be raised above supernatural stories lacking any evidence.

  47. 47.

    maya

    @sparrow: Same true of many other names. Evelyn and Carol come to mind Originally male names but then something something happened. Though I don’t believe Debbie was ever formerly masculine.

  49. 49.

    karen

    @PaulW:

    I didn’t start watching til RTD brought it back in 2005 and Eccelston was my favorite though Tennant was great too.

  50. 50.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @lamh36: It is my understanding that Michigan law requires an autopsy for all deaths caused by violence. The toxicology report would be a part of that procedure.

  51. 51.

    Yatsuno

    @karen: McGann played the Doctor great. The movie was horrid. Not even so bad it’s good horrid. Just…horrid.

    @PaulW: Moffat is cheating on the regeneration issue in this. I’m laughing my ass off about it, but only giving the minor spoiler here.

    (Am I the only one disappointed that he’s not with River here some way?)

  59. 59.

    Pogonip

    As a (not very good) member of his flock, I like Pope Francis, for what it’s worth. Seems like a good guy.

  62. 62.

    Paul in KY

    @Violet: Probably will argue that, but it won’t fly as she was outside, with a door between. Also how could home owner have felt threatened while holding a 12 gauge?

  63. 63.

    canuckistani

    He’s a shiny wrapper on the same old turd, but it’s fun to see the old angry catholics weep tears of blood at the sight of that shiny new wrapper.

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