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From Paragon's 2nd link: But Mr. Clements [a prison director] had barely begun his work when he was assassinated last March. In a tragic irony, he was murdered in his home by a gang member who had been recently released directly from Ad Seg. This former inmate murdered a pizza delivery person, allegedly for the purpose of wearing his uniform to lure Mr. Clements to open his front door. A few days later, the man was killed in a shootout with the Texas police after he had shot an officer during a traffic stop. Whatever solitary confinement did to that former inmate and murderer, it was not for the better. The article cites this incident as a reason to cut back on Administrative Segregation (solitary confinement) but one could reasonably ask, I think, whether this guy was somebody one would want freely interacting with other inmates. I suspect that some of the more timid cons were much relieved to have him in Ad Seg. I lean toward doing without the death penalty though I have to confess it is no longer something I get all that worked up over. And I am strongly in favor of releasing a substantial chunk of our prison population (just a guestimate but maybe half of the guys incarcerated in Mississippi have no business being there in the first place). But what are we to do about that residue of troublesome folks who are hell bent on doing damage to the persons and property of ordinary citizens? I've always thought that the story of Jack Abbott, the guy who stabbed to death his young waiter 6 weeks after being released from prison at the noisy insistence of Norman Mailer and a number of other NY literati illustrated the issues involved in the criminal justice system rather well. ==== Damn, my "anchored" link doesn't work. Try this instead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abbott Is there a clever person here who can tell me how to attach a link to the text of a post? I have tried my usual method of trying out every random thing I can think of for several months but so far, no joy.

Hito, it goes without saying that a place that's "too messy" has to be thoroughly scrubbed. But don't you worry. A princess can count on her friends' help in getting ready for the ball.

Blake who?

Takes time, AS, takes time. See, reading all those Brit papers just gets you depressed! Everything in moderation.

Nugent, rock musician, out and proud serial child molester & NRA board member, was campaigning in Texas with the Republican candidate for government when he was called out for some remarks on Obama that were apparently considered a bit over the line even in Texas. When Abbott, the gov. candidate, declined to disavow Mr. Nugent's pungent views on the Prez, all kinds of hoorah ensued. My problem was I couldn't find exactly what Ted said that had everyone's knickers in a knot. I did find that one time he vowed that the only way Obama would take office was if he (Nugent) was dead or in jail, meaning, I guess, that he would whack the dastard before he would let that happen, but that hardly seemed particularly extreme (again, we're talking Texas here). Well, I finally found the quote and present it here for any MERmen curious enough to have read this far: in an interview with Guns.com, [Nugent] blamed himself for Barack Obama. “I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame, enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let a Chicago communist-raised, communist-educated, communist-nurtured subhuman mongrel like the ACORN community organizer gangster Barack Hussein Obama to weasel his way into the top office of authority in the United States of America.” Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/20/pruden-loose-lips-to-sink-republican-campaigns/#ixzz2tvvf3c5G Now the question of why his bragging about boinking numerous bubble gum popping, under-aged teeny boppers back in the day doesn't seem to have occasioned much comment among Texans I leave to better informed folks than me to figure out.

hmmm... Woody Guthrie? Alternate lyrics?

You really need to cut back on those English newspapers, AS.

LOL, so medical studies indicate that having to deal with gays actually gives homophobes cardiovascular problems? Stroke on out, Bitch!

What? I'm supposed to know Sherman did Stevens parodies now? Hell, I thought Stevens was Christian or something.

So AA is spending tens of millions of bucks a year to refine & re-jigger their algorithms to squeeze every last possible drop of revenue from their flights and not one knot-headed programmer has bothered to scratch out a few lines of code to stop this little scam? * Which is why black box auto-trading on the stock markets should be banned. Only an algorithm could come to the conclusion that flying you to Seattle and back first would maximize revenue per seat mile for the airline. Whaa ha haa ahaa haa haa, fucking insane! ==== * Or maybe the algorithm figured out that there were a certain number of folks like Tomcal who could only be lured into booking flights by conning them into thinking they were getting one over on AA?!!! Oh God, now my paranoia ia kicking in big time!

Meh.

Why thank you, lookin. (batting my eyelids; flirty smile) You're ever so kind. But as to the marjolaine, that's way to foo foo for me. Besides I learned a long time ago not to fix stuff that took longer to clean up than it did to eat.

YAY!! Cliff's not me!

LOL, it's no fun if you don't name names. ==== (And if you've got somebody besides me for Cliff, speak up for God's sake!)

Back to playing tricks on Sucky again?

Hmm, so if we're Cheers... who is Woody Harrelson? and which of us is Dan Hedaya? I'm working on my Kelsey Grammer: (here proving I can run with scissors) but I've resigned myself to Cliff Clavin:

Sounds pretty good but I need someone to try this out and post his results before I go through all the trouble. (Did I mention I'm really conservative when it comes to trying out new food?)

No. ==== On further reflection, I realize I can't be sure about Hito so change my vote to maybe.

Guess who's been binge reading gay webcomic strips until the rasterburn fried his retinas. Just for clarity, Fox (right) is a risk-taking twenty something twink bi and the guy he's talking to is Nyarlthehotep (left), priest/messenger of the blind idiot god Azathoth. Oh, and a toaster-Mac is just what it sounds like. I wonder if he means to resurrect sassy early 1970's Julia or hunched over, slightly senile 1990's Julia? As for Barbara, not sure if it would make much difference.

Did he achieve lift off?

Read this or some piece based on it a while back. I've felt that way about Greens for a long time now. Way too much smugness and feel-goodery and just plain silliness. Lovelock is just stating the obvious when it comes to tree huggers. How can one take anybody seriously who preaches climate doomsday and then fights nuclear power plants to the death?

That's what I imagined, TV. Standing so far away I could be using binoculars and still feeling the sound waves jiggling my innards around.

Too messy. She should take the watch for repair. Did her shoes get dirty? Where is my Prince? I hope my Prince wasn't in the audience but I will wait for him if he was there.* *Saving Hito from having to post a response.

Thanks for posting this, Tomcal, it brightened up my whole afternoon.

JKane's link works but you have to back up the blog 2 pages to get to the internal link to the Orientation Police episode (at the very last part of the page. It's there, I promise, you just have to look close. )