The prison population is already disproportionately black:

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/prisons.htm

Is that solving the problem?

The first rule of statistics is that correlation is not causation. That is, being black correlates more strongly with committing rape than being white. But these people don't rape because they are black...they rape because they are low SES (socioeconomic status).

If you want proof, look up the statistics for ONLY middle class blacks and whites.

It's called television.

Obama is stepping through the shit...Cheney wallows in it.

who says the navy doesn't teach you skills?!

Does sex have to be a reward for doing stupid tasks?

they're just play-acting you know.

probably not .06%

so maybe they'll give this one a thumbs up.

and different is bad!

You could also try making tiny cuts all over your forearms.

the proof is in the pudding, as they say.

not a mattress on the floor...just on the floor. Actually on a bedspread. It was really good for my back.

I prefer the floor...but most momen don't seem to want to have sex on the floor, for some reason. Luckily they all have their own beds these days.

Ikea needs to start selling the SEX Collection...this is the minimum furniture configuration you need to get laid.

you're good to go

is alive and well at Salon.

I sleep strong in cheap bed to work hard in field next day. Da!

I tried AA for awhile but my problem was actually depression, not drinking. Of course the people in AA didn't see it that way.

Now I drink occasionally and it never turns into anything bad. However one might say that I'm just addicted to my meds instead of alcohol.

My point is that your girlfriend is making her choices, she seems to be doing ok, and AA is no longer part of her reality except for YOU and your judgements.

I have a Sultan Flataker hard foam mattress on a Malm bed. The hard foam doesn't develop a hollow like cheap spring mattresses or futons do.

No it isn't the cheapest bed they have...but I wouldn't buy the cheapest thing that anybody sold.

The idea that shopping at IKEA is a "Kafkaesque nightmare" is fairly ridiculous. What a drama queen!

don't take my word for it...look it up on wikipedia.

so you really can't say that they're unprincipled.

but apparently not between us and tyranny over others.

Africa, like the Middle East, has a lot of problems. I would suggest that the Palestinian question, like apartheid, has been over-emphasized by the American left...particularly among those who are obsessed with constitutional issues.

Yeah...and the end of apartheid really improved things in Africa as a whole.

we certainly look like nazis to them

put em in a studio apartment for a week alone, and they're going nuts...putzes.

or maybe with a weed-whacker...or a leaf blower, or perhaps a wagner powerpainter.

During a commercial break.

There is no sense of outrage at the top.

That really isn't surprising, since "the top" is in this case part of the problem.

JINX!

perhaps the bastard will mellow into some sort of elder statesman around here...although I think Fester currently has that title.

the trolls want to "score points" with a "zinger". But like you say they don't really believe what they're saying. That would require some basic understanding of both sides of the issue.

heroes like the bastard ultimately fail, not because they lose arguments but because the trolls eventually wear them down.

The bastard is loud and vulgar, but he has a brain. The trolls have no brains at all...and this is their great strength.

pt. defiance sounds familiar...we must have gone that way.

We visited friends who had a house there, friends of his parents, something like that. I live in a small apartment downtown so I'm always impressed by homeowners in trendy places like islands.

I've never been to Chicago...I'm only familiar with the Civil War prison camp with that name.

Luckily in our Civil War on these pages, there are no prison camps...

Of course when you live someplace you often don't notice all the pretty stuff. I usually only ride my bike to work but there are about a million other places to ride here.

Speaking of pretty places, I went to Seattle a couple of years ago and took the ferry out to Vashon Island. That was really nice.

if you're coming this way

He loves them but they don't love him...ouch.

Och jag är bara 173 cm lång, tyvärr!

and there are three of me at work...it's confusing

just wait until it snows 1/4 inch

really

I have no desire to see the film.

never seen that before

Midi-chlorians were intelligent microscopic life forms that lived symbiotically inside the cells of all living things. When present in sufficient numbers, they could allow their symbiont to detect the pervasive energy field known as the Force. Midi-chlorian counts were linked to potential in the Force, ranging from normal Human levels of 2,500 per cell to the much higher levels of Jedi. The highest known midi-chlorian count belonged to the Jedi Anakin Skywalker (over 20,000 per cell), who was believed to have been conceived by the midi-chlorians.

A single mutation leading to better insecticide resistance may be "freshman biology". An unbroken chain of non-sterile individuals, over thousands of years, leading from one species to another, is not.

yet like many of us, Rush only seems to own his big fat mouth.

"national security"

thanks for the tip...however I no longer want to invest any time in constructing pre-discredited opposing arguments regarding various policy scenarios.

If "idealism" is the fundamental force behind a writer, it is unlikely that an appeal to utility will have any persuasive merit, no matter how well-argued.

My position is that most people are not moralizing idealists, and are instead somewhat amoral pragmatists.

So naturally our elected representatives reflect this.