Actually the Wonkette writer wrote that. Goldberg ain't that smart.

So there are "strings attached" to state money? The horror! Anybody who hands out cash calls the shots. That's not the rule of the oppressive state, it's the rule of life. Grown-up people understand this. Why do some people on this thread not get that? Think of it this way--if the state handed out cash for kids to attend a Che Guevera guerilla training camp, would you be in favor of parent's getting your taxpayer cash, in defense of their "school choice" and "academic freedom?" I'm betting not.

So you called the Duke case a hoax in less than 2 weeks? Stand in line behind everybody else who did, too. And what is "fishy" about the way she is handling things? I know a woman who gotten beaten by her husband, and did not say a word, because she was ashamed. Lots of sexual assault victims, male and female, do not say a word because they are ashamed, too, without any reason. Innocent people hide in the closet a lot when society shames them, or people who don't know them conclude that they are probably the guilty party, as you have.

You say that I have already concluded that it's Brown's fault. Please quote me any part, of any of my postings, in which I said or implied it was. Reading comprehension can be your friend.

Re: DV rates. Look at the link in my first posting. The death rates for male victims are declining, and at a faster rate:
"...the number of black males killed by intimates dropped by 83%, white males by 61%, black females by 52%, and white females by 6%."

"Write that on your forehead and leave it there for a week so you remember it." OOOOOHHHH! You get mighty huffy when someone talks back to you.

"Where Rihanna is being strangely quiet about it, I suspect she started a serious physical altercation."

You don't know this woman--or her boyfriend-- from a hole in the wall. You have no reason to suspect or "read" anything, but you are mighty good at slander and innuendo. And if the sexes so actively hate each other's guts, why has the domestic violence death rate fallen so much in the last 30 years? It's especially fallen a lot for men, for which men should be happy, right?

For people who wonder why Rhianna isn't "speaking out" about this: she told the cops. That's all she has to tell. The idea that everybody needs to put their lives out in public or make a statement is silly. You, me, nobody knows what she is thinking, whether she is going to take him back or not, or even what is truly going on.

As for, "why do people stay in that relationship?" I theorize that it's like a frog in a pot of water, with the heat slowly being turned up. You are being cooked, but you don't realize it as things slowly ratchet up. At first, the yelling escalates into a shove, and who walks out on somebody for shoving them? Then it's a harder shove, and you keep quiet, and that gives you and the abusive partner a secret you keep from other people. By the time it comes to serious blows, it has been getting worse for some time, and you always found a rationale. Till things get too big to rationalize.

Makes about as much sense as anything I've read here.

Well, if there is something terribly "hip hoppish" about Rhianna's abuse, and if blacks are the "canaries in the coal mines" blah blah blah of our decaying society, can you explain why the black intimate homicide rate (that is, blacks killed by their SO's) is plummeting, while it is going up for white women:

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/intimates.h...

Indeed, according to the report:
The intimate homicide rate --
* for white girlfriends was higher in 2005 than it was in 1976

* for white wives and ex-wives has declined but not as much as that for white husbands and ex-husbands

* for black husbands and ex-husbands was 20 times greater in 1976 than it was in 2005

* is higher for black girlfriends than any other group in 2005, although it has declined 66% since 1976.

Hmmm. Your theory is not panning out so well.