Part of the exhibit “A Bunch of Crock” by Safwat Saleem.
Equal is equal. We all share our rights. You want to deny my rights because you have an opinion? Are opinions laws all of a sudden?
When we give equal rights protection, there is always the reflexive outrage and predictions of gloom. Do they ever happen? Not really.
If your first thought is how does treating someone fairly hurt you, you better think about your life.
Teleprompters
Just got a comment over on Facebook that isn’t worth picking a fight over, but it leaves me wanting to vent someplace, so I guess we’ll do it here. What the fuck is the right wing’s hard-on against Obama using a teleprompter all about? Their beloved Saint Reagan did it too. I am unaware of any speech in which Obama has come across sounding one-tenth as stupid as his predecessor, or of half the current GOP candidates, so seriously… what… the…fuck?
Meredith Melnick of Time:
“… in the mid-1990s, the U.S. Department of Justice cited nearly 70 fatalities linked to pepper-spray use…. Getting pepper-sprayed is worse than getting maced [PDF] — mace causes burning but no respiratory effects [which pepper spray…
