Pay Them Dust

*Interviewer* “Be honest: Would you have married Trump if he wasn’t rich?”

*Melania* “Would he have married me if I wasn’t beautiful?”

That is a great comeback line on people who are snobby about trophy wives and “golddiggers” in general.

New Cartoon “Feeling the Bern”

Darren Seals, Ferguson activist, was found shot to death in burning car

Darren Seals, a prominent Ferguson, Missouri, activist, was found shot to death inside a burning car Tuesday morning, The 29-year-old’s body was found inside the charred vehicle on Diamond Street, 12 miles from where he lived, after the flames were extinguished. 

Seals’ death is being investigated as a homicide. According to the Times, Seals led protests with the activist group Hands Up United. Seals was oftentimes critical of the Black Lives Matter movement.Described as an assembly line worker and hip-hop artist by the Washington Post in a 2014 profile, Seals was active on Twitter under the username King D Seals, often tweeting about police brutality. Very recently, Seals had spoken out on the Kaepernick controversy.

Get ready for Zimmerman Part Two.

I’m surprised this story isn’t getting more press actually because whether you sided with Zimmerman or not, the facts in the Michael Dunn case are a lot more clear cut and I can’t picture a scenario that justifies his actions.  Still, Attorney Angela Corey – the same woman who prosecuted Zimmerman and lost – is prosecuting this case as well, so I’m not holding my breath for justice.

(CNN) – There is no reason Marissa Alexander should spend the next 20 years in prison.

If you are the most hardened law-and-order person in the world, even you should have some compassion for Alexander, the Jacksonville, Florida, woman who has been struck by the ridiculous Florida law known as 10-20-life.

The law requires anyone convicted of an aggravated assault when a firearm is discharged to serve a minimum of 20 years in prison with no regard to extenuating circumstances.

Alexander says that on August 1, 2010, her husband went into a rage and tried to strangle her after reading some text messages she sent to her ex-husband. She fled the family home, got to the garage and realized she didn’t have her keys. Fearing for her life, she says she grabbed a gun and went back into the home to retrieve her keys.

She says her husband threatened to kill her, and to keep him at bay, she fired a warning shot into a wall.

Why was she charged, convicted and sentenced? Because State Attorney Angela Corey, the same prosecutor leading the Trayvon Martin case, said the gun was fired near a bedroom where two children were and they could have been injured.