No one could have predicted: George Zimmerman was taken into custody Monday after an apparent domestic altercation with his wife and her father at a home in Lake Mary, Florida, police said. “As of right now, (George Zimmerman) has been placed in investigative detention,” Lake Mary police spokesman Zach Hudson said. The incident comes two …
Keeping it Classy
George Zimmerman, the innocent, traumatized victim of dangerous Skittle-flinging ninja-thug Trayvon Martin, has been doing what you would expect someone who was acquitted after shooting an unarmed minor to death to do: lying low and contemplating the fragility of life while respecting the grief of the Martin family. Or not: That’s Zimmerman touring the fucking …
God, Guns & Guts
First: God, or rather his alleged representative on earth: As a colander-carrying Pastafarian, I’m only interested in the religious beliefs of others as an anthropological exercise or mode of self-defense (knowledge being power and all) and care about the Catholic Church only insofar as some of its hierarchy seek to use political influence to restrict …
Walking on Gunshine
Zimmerman trial juror B29 is muddying the waters for those who claimed the proceedings should have never happened in the first place since Zimmerman was clearly justified in shooting Trayvon Martin. B29’s comments reveal her own conflicts about the case, but more importantly, they make plain the fundamental flaw with Florida’s version of “Stand Your …
Exploding Noggins in 3…2…1
President Obama made some remarks a short while ago about Trayvon Martin and the Zimmerman trial verdict: Excerpts from his remarks in the White House briefing room: “Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.” “If a white male teen would have been involved in this scenario,” he said, “both the outcome and the …
Wang Dang Dickhead
Proving that there really is no bottom that teahadists and other assholes like Ted Nugent can hit, here is the Nuge sharing his deep thoughts about what should happen next in the Martin/Zimmerman case: While there is little he can do to protect himself from a civil-rights charge by our gun-running, pro-New Black Panthers attorney …
The Invisible Hand’s Trigger Finger
Slate’s Will Saletan takes a break from concern trolling reproductive rights to declare that everyone who is upset about the outcome of the Zimmerman trial has it all wrong: Race, guns and Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law weren’t significant factors in the outcome after all. According to Saletan, the real problem was that George Zimmerman …