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Congress can pass a law that overrides or overwrites some of the now clearly excessive protections for police officers found in union contracts.  The DOJ can sue cities in order to set up consent decrees regarding police conduct.  They could even tie federal funds to standardized mental health/personality and background screening processes for police and sheriffs departments.  And Congress could end or curb qualified immunity for police officers as well.  Really, all it takes is(in practice) for 60% of white people and 60% of white politicians to agree that this is a serious problem worth a lasting, effective solution, and let the chips fall where they may. 

Man, if I were about fifty years younger.  .  .
 
 
 

Winston Churchill is supposed to have said, “Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.”
 
This is one of those times---and it doesn't happen as often as it should.

Biden isn't the (presumptive) nominee because a small cabal of party insiders considered him the, "most electable" - it's because he got more votes than any other candidate.

I'm calling this in favor of steriaca's entry.  Nothing against Quackhell's entry--both of these were very good.
 
And I apologize for the outburst.  I was not in the best of moods that day.

He is Ramahaukan, a forgotten deity from the Egyptian pantheon, who through some twist of cosmic circumstance has found himself in the present day.  Although he lacks much of his power from before--including his immortality--he can still control and manipulate minds, and has used this to build a following of devoted and committed worshippers, who are ready and willing to do anything--anything--to advance his cause.  As his worshippers grow in numbers, so does Ramahaukan's power--and it may not be too long before he can regain the full range of his divine attributes.

Foxbat - the GREATEST OF ALL TIME!
 
He is his OWN category!

So John Fogerty is standing at the ticket counter at the airport.
 
"Which section would you like to sit in, Mr. Fogerty?"
 
"Put me in coach."

Winston Churchill is supposed to have said, “Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.”
 
This is one of those times---and it doesn't happen as often as it should.

“It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid.”

A friend in Germany tells me everyone's panic buying sausages and cheese.
 
It's the Wurst Kase scenario.

Here are two more superhero images I created for past character write-ups several years ago, Lady Victrix and Shadowhawk.

I admit, I am of at least two minds.
 
On the one and, yes, American culture fetishizes guns to an astonishing degree. Insurrection from any nationwide attempt at sudden, serious restriction or regulation is a real threat.
 
Though bluntly, I think the odds are high of insurrection within the next 5 years anyway. A civil war disconnected from real economic or political issues -- only about mythology and identity. I hope I am proved wrong, but there seems to be a significant percentage of the population that is *flipping crazy* at the loss of their caste privileges and cherished myths of identity.
 
OTOH, we do have the example of gay rights. There were predictions of civil war over that, too, and it didn't happen. First laws against homosexuality were rolled back. Society didn't collapse, either in a Gay Sex Orgy or an Evangelical crusade. Then a few states tried civil unions. Again, nothing happened. Then outright marriage. And what do you know, nothing happened. Finally the Supreme Court (narrowly) declared same-sex marriage had to be legal everywhere. And God did not smite the country as He smote Sodom and Gomorrah, neither did the Evangelicals rise up in armed rebellion and the military join them. Too many people realized they had friends and family who were gay, lesbian or bisexual, and they were just people instead of some abstract boogyman of "The Gay." A solid majority of Americans think same-sex marriage is just fine, and what's the big deal?
 
Already, polling shows that a solid majority of Americans think some kind of tighter gun regulation is okay. So it may be possible to follow the same-sex marriage playbook. A few states or major cities institute small restrictions, such as on magazine size. There are lawsuits, some laws fail but some stand. Some politicians support these restrictions, the NRA fails to unseat them in the next election, and starts looking like a paper tiger. More regions institute more restrictions, and yet the people are neither crushed by jackbooted government thugs, nor massacred by brown criminals invading their homes! And the myth starts crumbling.
 
Success is not assured. Like I said, we could still get a Seinfeldian civil war over nothing, or Donald Trump could secure de facto dictatorship. But all hope for improvement is not lost.
 
Dean Shomshak
 
 

Talking about Michelle Yeoh in SilverHawk, am I alone in thinking that high-end Hong Kong martial arts movies are basically super hero movies?

"Let me get this straight--you rolled an eighteen/ninety-six for strength---and you're making the character a wizard?"
 
"Hey---how often do I roll a seventeen for intelligence?  I'm not going to waste that score on a fighter."