This isn’t justice

And thanks, Cynical, for this graphic.

Like you’d ever have the chance, but:

Since Pope Francis is on U.S. soil for the first time, if you had 10 minutes with him, what would you say? I’d congratulate him on bringing the conversation around to wealth and income inequality, and then I’d ask him to look at his church’s history with women, and focus his attention there, as well. …

Will Kim Davis quit?

Kim Davis, the Rowan County, Kentucky, county clerk who refuses to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples (or, for a while, to any couples at all), returns to work at 8 a.m. today, having spent a little time as a guest of the county, in jail. There’s no indication Davis has had a come-to-Jesus moment in regard …

Kim Davis? Still in the news.

That Kentucky county clerk who refuses to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples has rejected a suggestion that deputies issue licenses while she spends time in jail for contempt of court. Fortunately, five of her deputy clerks have stepped up and said they’ll issue the licenses. Had she agreed, she could have been let out of jail. Meanwhile, …

We know who killed Sandra Bland

If you’ve not been keeping up, Sandra Bland (known online as #SandySpeaks for her conversations about race and the world) was a 28-year old Illinois woman who was stopped for not using her turn signal on her way to a new job in Texas. Three days later, she was found hanging, dead, in her Texas …

Had Freddie Gray lived, would he be in prison?

Freddie Gray was picked up for no good reason (the State’s Attorney says the knife he was carrying was legal, though one of the officers arrested in his death disagrees). So had he not received that fatal spinal injury while in the custody of the Baltimore police department (and we most likely would never have …

Prayers for former Gov. Rowland and his family.

Connecticut’s former governor, John G. Rowland, has again been found with his hand in the cookie jar and now he’s going back to jail. The actual crimes were: seven counts that included obstructing justice, conspiracy, falsifying documents relied on by federal regulators and other violations of campaign finance laws. As a former member of the …

Philly monsignor’s going to jail for covering up child sex abuse

Msgr. William J. Lynn is the first U.S. Roman  Catholic official to be convicted and sentenced to jail (three to six years in a decision handed down Tuesday) for covering up the church’s child sex abuse scandal. You can read more here. Given the environment post the Freeh Report on Penn State, do you think …