Comments on: Open Thread Monday

By: David Marcoe

David Marcoe — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:57:39 +0000

The above post was directed at Mike.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:10:20 +0000

Just hoping it won’t come to that. I like the guy. Lowell, too, but I’ve made my peace with that.

By: David Marcoe

David Marcoe — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:45:12 +0000

I’ve sent Man-Boobs to exact retribution. Drunk cussing shall follow.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:27:43 +0000

Didn’t he all but say goodbye yesterday when he spurned their latest offer? He and Johnny Damon taking the same stupid pills?

By: Kit

Kit — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:23:53 +0000

Matt Damon responds to criticism that People Speak! is just stupid, poorly made propoganda made solely for the purpose of celebutard onanism:

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By: Kit

Kit — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:08:48 +0000

the Kaiser abdicated the throne circa 1918-1919 I believe, so yeah, 90 years.

By: Kit

Kit — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:07:03 +0000

Well, the Russian Mafia will go after your family.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:29:37 +0000

From Big Hollywood: What’s the difference between the Mafia and a Hollywood Leftist? …the Mafia doesn’t go after your family.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:06:14 +0000

Dude I just told my husband this phrase and its now on the list of things to say….love it.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:23:36 +0000

Now that's a weird coincidence. I've just been scratching my head over this article at The American Prospect. It's making the point that it's a crying shame that 1% of Americans are in jail, and Joe Carter at First Things is pointing to it as evidence of a growing movement to release imprisoned offenders to some sort of supervised freedoms as something conservatives should get behind.

These are the types of reforms that should be led by conservatives. Yet instead we settle for empty sympolic gestures (e.g., executing criminals) that give the impression we are “tough on crime” while ceding real crime-reduction policy solutions to the liberals.

Carter also says, "Fortunately, not all politicians are choosing to put the safety and concerns of the public ahead of their own electoral prospects." Which doesn't make sense to me. It sounds backwards, but if I reverse it, then he's undercutting his own argument, so I give up. But back to the weird coincidence: 1% of Americans in prison. Dalrymple claims that 1% of the population of his city is "saturated with arbitrary violence." Obviously, not every criminal is caught and imprisoned, and the 1% in prison includes drug addicts who probably shouldn't be there. But it's interesting that these numbers are the same.