What happened to Miles O’Brien is so flukey that it kind of freaks me out. The next time I drop something heavy on my forearm, I’m definitely going to overreact. I feel really sorry for him, but I guess he’s taking it well.
Amanda Marcotte created a Twitter war with this piece. I think her side is badly outnumbered.
Remember when the Republicans acted like people who like their health insurance should be able to keep it? That was a lie.
As I understand it, polls have shown that it would be easier for a black lesbian to get elected president than an atheist. That’s fine. You know, a lot of people don’t trust atheists because they don’t understand them at all. But, Ayn Rand was an atheist. So, I just thought I’d point that out.
Yeah, I agree that most people are less likely to be falsely accused of rape than to have a space rock land on their head, but that’s only in our world. In the world where pregnant baby girl is going to get beaten half to death by angry daddy, making the false “He forced himself on me” excuse seems like a rational self-preserving decision. That’s how you know that guys who are obsessed with being falsely accused of rape are about as enlightened about women as your typical Mormon outlaw polygamist. Or, in other words, James Taranto would probably throttle his daughter before flying her to some place where she could get an abortion without the neighbors being any wiser. Guess which half of that he thinks should be legal…
The National Review’s Quin Hillyer can’t enjoy his ice dancing without some flamboyant homosexual getting in the way. Really.
What’s on your mind?
I was absolutely stunned when O’Brien’s tweet popped up today with reference to the story and I went over to his blog and saw what had happened to him. What a crazy thing. Man, you just never know. Sure that kind of accident happens to people all the time, but you would never dream of losing your damn arm.
I know. Especially that quickly.
I mean, if you ignore it for days and days, sure. But he didn’t.
Why didn’t he get checked out for a broken bone? That’s what I would have done. Especially if they were big and heavy cases. But I don’t know all the details, obviously.
Most people think it’s fine for someone to be an atheist…………….As long as they’re already dead.
It’s us living ones that freak them out.
She wasn’t only an atheist, but a meth pill popping atheist ……. but libertarians refuse to accept that reality any better then they accept how truly delusional her writings are.
Here is something important:
http://www.wapt.com/news/central-mississippi/jackson/jackson-mayor-chokwe-lumumba-dies/24670358
Lumumba just took office last year. He’ll be missed.
very sad. impressive guy with an impressive porgram
program
This nonsense from Marcotte serves to dissuade reporting. She surely must know this – and so this necessarily raises the question of why Marcotte hopes for such reporting to be discouraged.
Has she stated her reasoning further? Is this a prosecutor who has sent rapists and stuff away for a while? Her piece doesn’t really answer very many questions about the case and why there might be a good reason for the DA to take that step. But all the facts need to be laid out to make a better judgment. Also, too, she’s wrote that piece for Slate. Which just compounds things against her.
Her reasoning looks clear to me: It sometimes makes sense to temporarily detain a victim of sexual assault in order to press charges against the perpetrator.
True Detective, episode six.
Episode 8 is the last.
Does Cohle finally crack the case in 2012?
As I understand it, polls have shown that it would be easier for a black lesbian to get elected president than an atheist.
Hell, a Republican has a better chance of getting elected than an atheist.
Americans are just stupid.
No doubt that the arrest of this witnesses will motivate so many others to cooperate. /snark
I was gonna say Dick Cheney must be an atheist but he probably worships Moloch.
Ha! Cheney worships the twin gods, Money and Power. Child sacrifice is just a bonus to keep his fake heart going.