What the Danish and European media misunderstand (and misrepresent) about America, and vice versa. And other stuff.
When an American says “ignorance of the law is no excuse” they usually mean that you’re not exempt from the consequences of breaking a law just because you didn’t know you were breaking it. For example, telling the judge you just didn’t know those speed limit signs on the highway were anything more than recommendations…
In the course of another post I mentioned that for all the academic studies on police shootings, not a single one has shown a correlation between race and the likelihood of being shot by a cop. What’s interesting (and by “interesting” I mean “disgusting”) is that rather than allowing the record to be corrected with…