Thursday Night Links

* Qapla’ we can believe in: Klingon-Speaking Candidate Could Complicate NC Senate Race.

* Milwaukee’s really taking me on a roller coaster ride this week.

10 Unhappiest Metropolitan Areas With a Population Greater Than 1 Million1. New York, NY
2. Pittsburgh, PA
3. Louisville, KY
4. Milwaukee, WI

* Wisconsin police given $28 million in surplus military gear.

* Elementary teacher suspended for asking white student ‘cops’ to shoot black ‘Michael Browns.’

* “Persistent inequality”: America’s Racial Divide, Charted.

* Convicting Darren Wilson Will Be Basically Impossible.

* Ferguson and the Modern Debtor’s Prison.

You don’t get $321 in fines and fees and 3 warrants per household from an about-average crime rate. You get numbers like this from bullshit arrests for jaywalking and constant “low level harassment involving traffic stops, court appearances, high fines, and the threat of jail for failure to pay.”

* The view from the far left: Love Me, Ferguson, I’m a Liberal. In Defense of Looting.

* Could you be seated on a jury? I was bounced because I was perceived as too sympathetic to the defense, which is… weird.

* And at last some real talk: Why academics really use Twitter.