Tag: rape

Immigrant Workers, Sexual Assault, and Law Enforcement

By Erik Loomis

In General

On September 27, 2015

If you want to start your Sunday morning with a truly horrific story, here’s one on how a Florida tomato packing employer used his workers as a harem of women to rape on the job, how the police ignored the women’s complaints, and how it took a lawyer filing an EEOC complaint and using newspapers […]

Robert Farley

Delhi Agony

By Robert Farley

On December 28, 2012

If you haven’t been following, this unbearably horrible story has come to a tragic conclusion. We can only hope that this will provide activists with momentum and focus for demanding significa

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Wrap Yourself in the Flag, Because the GOP Always Puts the Soldiers First!

By Erik Loomis

On June 13, 2012

Republicans truly do care about our troops….. Republican Senators John McCain, Scott Brown, and Susan Collins all support an effort by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat from New Hampshire, to expa

Strauss-Kahn

By Robert Farley

In Robert Farley

On May 15, 2011

And so we have the season 13 premiere of Law and Order: SVU: The head of the International Monetary Fund was removed from a Paris-bound flight in New York minutes before takeoff Saturday afternoon and was arrested in connection with a sexual assault on a housekeeper at a Manhattan hotel earlier that day, police told […]

engineerscotty Why is Roger Daltrey the governor of Florida?
Poetic justice as fairness · March 25, 2023
engineerscotty Fairness is, like many things, a one way ratchet. The lower orders get their usual screwing? Life isn't fair, you whiners. The lower caste get any advantage over the upper, including a differential...
Poetic justice as fairness · March 25, 2023
Jerry Trying to ascertain whether a person is a mindful asshole or a clueless asshole sounds sort of Heisenbergian to me. At least we could get a read on his velocity.
Poetic justice as fairness · March 25, 2023
Just a Rube Current "AI" (really, just looking at large training sets and determining what the most like response is from that data) has the problem that it is very vulnerable to biases in its training data....
Poetic justice as fairness · March 25, 2023
ranglecat Can't help but read that as "I, Anal."
Poetic justice as fairness · March 25, 2023