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Re: 22 Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Totally Differently From One Anothe A drive-thru liquor store. I thought those were called a pony keg. :D

If you're a math geek, you already know. Pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. You can use pi to to calculate the circumference or area of a circle (area = pi times the radius squared: A = πr2). The Pi Day celebration is held annually on March 14th, because 3/14...

That's because this conversation isn't about police officers acting lawfully, it's about police officers enforcing a racial bias, sometimes in a brutal way. If the initial contact by the officer is such and has a tone of disrespect and superiority, of barking orders in military or slave-owner...

The twin-towns of Walnut and Hoxie, Arkansas got in trouble, finally, back in the mid 90s for doing exactly that. They were going after rich white folks, the nicer the car the more likely you were to get pulled over, like it was money rolling by on wheels.

Sorry, but that's simply wrong, especially in the context in which you are trying to use them. The criminals in your statement did not take extralegal measures, they took explicitly illegal extrajudicial measures to met out a punishment without due process. While both terms may be used as...

I'm not defending ignorance, I'm defending the right to be ignorant. I'm not defending what they said, I'm defending their right to say it. I have no problem with the national fraternity kicking them out, since the fraternity is a private social organization and they can set up the rules any...

They reason they didn't realize it is, because it's not true. Your Constitutional rights don't get left at the door when you enter a public university, especially and specifically a state university (now, private universities, that's a different deal). The Supreme Court made that very clear in...

Well, gee, maybe you should draw pictures and post them, because in your "restatement" you didn't restate the point, you reworded it to mean something different than the original. Your new point is to enact swift justice on those who act against law officer who are doing the assigned duty...

Reparable or irreparable, the police department did it all themselves. I would, as well, except their findings and conclusions aren't in a vacuum. The conclusions and findings aren't based on unsubstantiated allegations, or rumor, or wishful thinking, they're based on verifiable evidence which...

"Somebody should have stood up and said, 'Hey, we should not say this,'" student JD Baker said. And then right after that someone else should have stood up and said, "But I will defend to the death your right to say it."

That's the argument in favor of the status quo, where those in power make the laws in order to dispense their own version of justice, regardless of how corrupt their version of justice might be. Obviously, the changes aren't big enough and they're not happening fast enough to satisfy those who...

You haven't read the DOJ report, have you? If you had, there's no way you could draw the conclusion that "the agitators" caused any harm to that police department at all. That police department caused their own problems without any help from any agitators.

You mean like the slippery slope of a majority black population of South Africa being policed by a white justice system? The "racial agitators" as you call them turned out to be illuminators of fact. Black in Ferguson have for years been targeted specifically for their race, and have been...

There's some stiff competition in this thread, but that right there may be the most ignorant statement in it. Black folks in Ferguson aren't arrested, charged and convicted at higher rates than whites because they commit more crimes, they are targeted, arrested, charged and convicted at higher...

Justify? No. But it's not at all unexpected. Vigilante justice is extrajudicial punishment that is motivated by the nonexistence of law and order or, in the case of Ferguson, gross dissatisfaction with justice. People in Ferguson are sick and tired of the mostly white justice system dispensing...

People will have their opinions, usually with logical-sounding rationale behind it. Back just before I got my learner's permit I began to get interested in the nuts and bolts of how to drive a car, because it was something that was quickly approaching as I got closer to my 16th birthday. I would...