Seriously.

A 5'9" guy who only weighed 140 would be skinny as a toothpick. There's no freaking way he was that thin at the time of the killing, and If he does weigh that now (which I don't believe, but IF) he must have been on one hell if a crash diet.

And in any case, Mr Alleged Toothpick Man was armed, as were all the other cops that were there (and Floyd was NOT).

What an absolute load of crap.

Yes, as with abortion laws, this is about controlling other peoples bodies.

It's also about telling doctors and other health care providers how to do their jobs, instead of allowing them to make decisions based on their professional judgment and the training that they spent years and untold amounts of money aquiring.

In effect, they are saying: "We, a bunch of ignorant, redneck politicians, believe that we know more about how to practice medicine than all you highly trained and officially licensed medical professionals, and you are going to do it OUR way or else. Fuck your training and experience and professional judgnent." Which is, of course, a huge giant load of bull crap.

Assholes.

Agreed, on standardization.

The current crazy quilt of election regulations disenfranchises many and makes absolutely no sense to me, especially when it comes to electing a potus.

The idea that all American citizens do not have the same access to the ballot box is deeply offensive to me.

My reaction to Moscow Mitch being upset is as follows.....

The idea that you can't con an honest person makes no sense to me.

A person can easily be both deeply honest and highly gullible. Look at the scams that people fall for and the kinds of people that fall for them. Many, if not most, are based on the willingness of the "mark" to believe whatever outlandish notions they are fed (Nigerian "princes," I'm looking at you), and that has very little to do with whether they themselves are honest people.

Greed can certainly make a person more vulnerable to certain types of "get rich quick" scams, but greed isn't a synonym for dishonesty, any more than gullibility is. Chump's followers are gullible, but I do not believe that automatically means they are all dishonest people. To say they fell for Trump's dishonesty because they are not honest themselves sounds like victim blaming to me.

Here's an article that talks about the reasons people get suckered into scams: https://theconversation.com/five-psychological-reasons-why-people-fall-for-scams-and-how-to-avoid-them-102421 (Dishonesty on the part of those being scammed is not on the list.)

I have never observed Lent.

I was raised Baptist (though I left that a long time ago) and Baptists don't do Lent. The word didn't enter my vocabulary until I was an adult.

Now I'm considering joining the Episcopal Church, which does observe Lent, and I'm trying to get my head around exactly what that means, as well as the differences between the Catholic and Anglican observation of Lent and how traditions differ. I'm pretty familiar with the Catholic approach, as I live in a heavily Catholic area, but not every branch of Christianity that observes Lent handles it the same way. Fortunately for me, I actually find it all rather fascinating.

The Jewish sabbath

Observant Jews can't do any work from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. That includes firing space lasers!

Me, neither.

If her 👀 were any closer together, she'd be a cyclops.

Ordinarily, I don't believe in making fun of someone's personal appearance. Especially things they can't change. But the crazy and the evil are both so strong with this one that I feel like she deserves it.

Sometimes I am not a very nice person. 😏

My sister and bil never wore seatbelts until they got pulled over and fined for it.

Of course, they thought the whole thing was terribly unfair.

In this state, we have a slogan: "Click it or ticket." Seatbelts have been required by law for years, but you didn't get ticketed just for that. Not unless you were pulled over for something else and caught beltless. Then they changed the law so that the cops can pull you over and write you a ticket just for not wearing your seatbelt. And by golly, it works.

Here is our theme song for when we go pass out food and water to exhausted voters!