Andy Roddick On The Ugly Truth Behind How We Treat Serena Williams
Go Roddick!
What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
A Missouri man sentenced to life in prison for marijuana-related offenses has been released after spending two decades behind bars.
Mo. man serving life sentence for pot charge walks free
hmmmmm
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal signed a bill that reduces penalties for pot possession, and another that will eventually allow medical marijuana through a limited number of distributors.
Louisiana marijuana laws: Lesser pot penalties, medical pot OK’d
hmmmmmmmmmm
‘As the United States’ bridges, roads, and other infrastructure dangerously deteriorate from decades of neglect, there is a mounting sense of urgency that it is time to build a giant wall.’ Andy Borowitz, New Yorker
Nation With Crumbling Bridges and Roads Excited to Build Giant Wall
lolololol
Outpouring comes after officials said Iceland would only take 50 refugees.
Thousands of Icelanders Have Volunteered to Take Syrian Refugees Into Their Homes | TIME
Police in a German city have been forced to ask the public to stop bringing donations for arriving refugees after being inundated with food, clothes and toys in an overwhelming show of support.
Refugees Welcome, which matchmakes citizens willing to share their homes with displaced people, also receiving offers to set up schemes across EU
Source: ‘Airbnb for refugees’ group overwhelmed by offers of help | World news | The Guardian
The twisted, true story of the drug-addled, beer-guzzling hardcore punks who made the most popular T-shirts in Boston history.
Source: ‘Yankees Suck! Yankees Suck!’ «
Erasing the stigma, one high five at a time.
Source: 100 Men Of Color Greeted Kids On Their First Day Of School To Make Incredibly Powerful Point
Not bad for a caveman
Neanderthals Had Houses With Hot Water | Smart News | Smithsonian
It truly amazes me that any of this is surprising to people. I mean, do you think they were closer to animals or to us?
The Gentrifier’s Guide to Not Being an Asshole | Village Voice
As usual, the best advice on not being an asshole is well, not to be an asshole.
Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis Defies Supreme Court, Turns Down Gay Couples – NBC News
She is persisting in defying the law. She needs to be arrested, prosecuted, and convicted. Yesterday.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Arab ban proposed in Jewish areas
a depressing blast of inhumane bigotry and evil from the past
WORCESTER, MA—”Like everyone else, I got sucked in at first,” said the Rev. Paul Doherty, the pastor of the church, who admitted he had once kissed the tears streaming from the eyes of the 5-foot wooden altarpiece. “But now it’s just too much—crying in the morning when I come in, crying during baptisms, crying, crying, crying all the time.”
Virgin Mary Statue Crying For No Good Reason – The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
oh Onion, so many layers…
Fox Host: Why Hasn’t Black Lives Matter Been Labeled A Hate Group?
Oh-my-fucking-gawd….
It is so embarrassing to be white sometimes!!!
#imnotwithheriswear
Donald Trump vowed to deport Jeb Bush’s Mexican-born wife on Monday as he called to end the policy of citizenship by marriage.“She has to go,” Trump said via conference call of Jeb Bush’s Mexican-American wife, adding: “What she’s doing, she’s having sex with an American. And then all of a sudden she’s American? That doesn’t make her American.”
Spouses of United States citizens have been able gain permanent resident status and seek citizenship (after 3 years) since the adoption of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution in 1868.
On the conference call one reporter asked if Trump’s policy would affect his own wife Melania, who immigrated to the USA from her native country of Slovenia.“No, Melania is a beautiful piece of ass so this doesn’t apply to her. We’re talking about Mexicans here, stop trying to change the subject. Go back to Mexico!”
Source: God, the Good Lord Above (.com)
Good lord!
At first, I was resistant to the idea of my young girls (ages 7 and 11) playing video games. My sons — and husband — have always been the “gaming” junkies in our household. My girls have been more interested in singing, dancing and finding any excuse to be up on stage.
Source: Why Our Daughters Should Play More Video Games | Samantha Parent
I cannot begin to describe how much it bums me out that we are still a point in our society where we need to have this conversation.
It provides lonely men with an online community of like-minded lonely men. It’s comforting; it’s reassuring. It provides order in a disordered universe to imagine that shadowy forces organise horrific events, rather than to have to confront the terrible truth that death and destruction happen, all the time, apparently at random.
Sigh…
Judge Declares Mistrial In Richard Combs Case
Motherfukcer…
If our justice system has this much trouble convicting a man of murdering in cold blood then it simply is not capable of delivering justice to anyone. Why bother with courts? Just let the police be judge, jury and executioner already. IT’s not like that’s not what is already the societally accepted norm…
Our justice system is so fucked up. If this is going to tbe the way we treat murderers with badges why don’t we just own up to the fact that the police do not have to follow the laws?
Seriously, if we as a society are not going to impose consequences on officers of the law we should own up to. Just make it legal for them to kill whoever they want, whenever they want? Oh wait… It pretty much already is that way…..