People have gotta stop using commas if they don't know what they're for. At least there isn't one in the actual original headline, although there are far too many professionally produced headlines nowadays that do have a comma separating the subject from the verb.

He was literally forcing children to listen to him pray, infringing on their civil rights. It wasn't a free speech case. He's not even a genuine Christian; he's just a right-wing agitator. The school and community are debased by his presence.

Yep, the whole thing was fake, and this illegitimate SCOTUS rubber-stamped it without even giving it a serious look.

Fire them both. Then fire any higher-up who defends them.

Either the police are a serious organization, or they aren't.

College town I worked in . . . city development board basically forced out a three-generations family-owned grocery adjacent campus despite it being dearly loved and a huge university tradition. They wanted to put in a strip mall, and they did.

Dude on the board straight up told the local paper that the public's memory in a college town only lasts four years.

He wasn't entirely wrong, but you're not supposed to say it out loud.

College town I work in now is a total steaming craphole compared to what it was like twenty years ago . . . but the college kids have no idea. The way it is now is all they know about it.

Meanwhile, alumni come back to town, come into my shop, and complain endlessly. Yeah, I know. Vote against senseless development? Or put up with it.

2nd Amendment was meant to stop the federal government from grabbing state militias to use in a federal army, anyway, because the slave states were worried about slave uprisings if their militias got depleted that way.

There are no private well-regulated militias in the US. Closest thing to what the Founders were arguing about is the National Guard. We're at least not enough of a joke so the National Guard is committing school shootings, but . . . .

A lot of internet businesses are basically Ponzi schemes, with their theoretical value tied to growth and unrelated to reality. If they don't grow, it proves the value is inflated, and then big sad.

We're buying almost nothing we can literally live without, these days. Artificial inflation is just way too high.

If prices go down again, fine. If they don't, we'll be glad we weren't spending our money on non-essentials.

You'd need to add at least two more zeroes to make this a punishment and not just a business cost. They make far too much by selling out America for this fine to really cut into their margin.

It's a rocket. They're reporting that they have a new improved rocket that can lift satellites to orbit.

Which is an impressive sort of thing, but the article wants to be vague about it for awhile, as if you're gonna think they've come up with an electromagnetic catapult or something. It's a rocket. If it works, that's potentially terrific.

It's a terrible version of a stale idea, promoted as if the people behind it don't know a damned thing about the thing they're doing.

Zuckerberg is not some business or technology visionary. He's a shemp who stole a frankly unoriginal online yearbook idea from some guys he knew and then cashed in increasingly on how exploitive it could be. He's done nothing else whatsoever to suggest that he's a genius. He's not even Elon Musk, let alone Bill Gates, let alone, I don't know, Bob Forward, or something.

He's not a genius. He has clout because he has money. He has money because he had luck and gall. He's throwing his moneypower down a bad Sims version of The Sierra Network and he doesn't even seem to know that the concept (never mind the execution) is stale even to know-little venture capitalists.

I'm not saying he can't succeed, especially if Meta just weasels out in another direction that turns out to be an easier path. But if he had less money, he'd sure have less success.

No one could have predicted this! Except honest people!

Actually a sewer monster at Hogwarts.

I'd sue them until local taxes tripled to cover it. Then see if the public has an effective interest in regulating the police.

Even if it was an accident, the depraved indifference after he told them he was injured should lead to criminal charges.

Not to mention the liability they exposed the public to. Any supervisor or superior officer who defends them should be fired immediately.

Cop: Hey, criminal! They're investigating you. Better destroy the evidence.

Cop's Attorney: He didn't know that was wrong!

Hey, you shouldn't have stupidly, pointlessly thrown away what was left of your credibility and international good standing if you wanted to be taken seriously. You decided to fly a suicide mission into the Hated Laughingstock Mountains, against much advice, and justifiably no one cares if you hurt your butt in the process.

Right, Thomas said his mission in life is to piss off liberals, so you can't expect much thought from him beyond rationalizing that.

It's all so stupid. The Constitution has nothing to do with most of this, and the courts and (mostly) legislature know it perfectly well. Neither originalism nor textualism justifies any of this crap.

Massachusetts was being MUCH more logical when they ruled that the Constitution doesn't say "guns," so "arms" doesn't just mean guns. But the gun fetishism is just a weird perversion. I couldn't walk into Walmart carrying a battery-powered circular saw without getting stopped, but for some reason an AR should be fine.

It has nothing to do with American ideals and everything to do with the lowest lazy politics. I can't respect a judge that's transparently disingenuous about it. If you want to just blame the Supreme Court, say it plainly, or it's on you.

I'm not even anti-gun, not by any stretch. But the people most rabid and down-votey about this are always the people you wouldn't want to see driving, much less holding a gun.