BadMoonRosin

1. 45 minutes outside of Atlanta
2. "No Starbucks": You weren't living on the north side
3. "2 bars": You probably weren't living on the Douglasville west side
4. "I'm on Reddit": Odds are you're white, so you weren't living on the south side

That leaves east.

Hi David, thanks for doing this AMA. I'm paraphrasing a bit here... but you've said on a number of occasions that the main theme of The Wire is the failure of various institutions to solve social problems, and how people should focus on what's within their individual control instead.

As a strong skeptic/cynic, this has certainly always rung true for me. However, I'm wondering to what extent that theme wholly captures your own full worldview? Does any part of you believe that society and human institutions are heading in a better direction long-term (perhaps with fits and starts and setbacks)? Do you personally believe that working for positive change within institutions is worthwhile and not necessarily a fool's errand?

Or does The Wire's theme pretty much sum it up, period full-stop? :)

Metalhead here. Among other factors (such as us being decent human beings!), there's also the practical issue of our shows having a MUCH lower percentage of female attendees. So they, and any creepers messing with them, stand out a lot more.

Whereas if you're at a Coldplay show (or whatever), three-quarters of the audience are female. You're basically invisible to everyone except for creepers.

I'm pro-choice, but the Supreme Court also declared that the Constitution says it's totally okay to disallow black kids from going to whites-only school... just a few decades before they decided that the Constitution actually says the exact opposite (for now).

I'm not saying that "stare decisis" (the legal doctrine that decisions should stick for awhile) is TOTALLY meaningless... but for the most part they're just making shit up from one generation to the next.