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Back in the good ol' days of the Cold War, a Soviet doctor was bragging to an American doctor at an international medical conference. The American doctor was listening with amused scepticism to the Soviet doctor's accounts of the superiority of Soviet medicine when the the Soviet doctor said...

"Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad." --Euripides Whom humans would destroy they first declare mad.

In what way are "we" not addressing this?

Like Natalya Gorbanevskaya.

When you're picking up, you're tipping the staff of the restaurant. Or possibly the management/owners. Tip or don't, in the amount you wish.

How does what not happen in other places? Homelessness? Or government efforts to keep the homeless alive?

Well, ya can't say it ain't traditional. . .

The equations make all the difference.

Could be. I freely admit I'm damned if I can see a difference between the Liberals and the NDP. I'm not Canadian. And you're not American.

The appropriate response is "You know a shaman who has a Ph.D. in mathematical physics? Cool!"

I suppose the fact that the Klan feels the need to come up with disingenuous lies is progress of a sort. Day was they proclaimed their race hate proudly. "Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!" was a political rallying cry during my lifetime.

Wait. . . he's less than three days old and he's already seen a lot? Reminds me of the prisoner who spent 15 years slowly, carefully digging a tunnel to escape, and when the day finally came, he went through his tunnel and came up in. . . a children's playground. He was so overwhelmed by being...

Yeah, I've been saying that for several posts. Nice of you to catch up.

Oddly, I'm not too worried about the racial aspect of the song. I'm well aware that hometowns are happy to murder anybody who stands out. But in much of the U.S., melanin is a clear "stands out" criterion. The song threatens lynching. I'm sure you're fine with that.

I'm not sure there were that many kids in the room during a House committee hearing.

Most of this board is rebab.

You are proposing, and I quote. . . I don't know what "nothing" means to you, but to me it means nothing. No books. No videos. No deck of cards No company. No human contact at all. No sensory input beyond staring at a bare concrete wall. That's torture. By comparison, hanging is kindness.

I'm totally good with it, if you can't hang him. But that's not what you proposed, was it?

The purpose of jails is fourfold. 1. It protects the innocent for a time from a person who has a demonstrated propensity to victimise the innocent. 2. The limitation on liberty is an undesirable consequence (negative reinforcement) to disincentivise the offender from re-offending. 3. The...

If he has no right to life, why not kill him? Torture (and what you propose is defined as torture) says more about the torturer than about his victim.