Try your alumni associations or some kind of business association? You might not find the right person right away but if you find someone who you think you could learn from, offer to take them to coffee. If they say yes, they’re open to at least one conversation with you. If, after that conversation, you feel…

And there is no evidence that there is an causal link between that decrease and increased incarceration. In fact, all of the evidence points to those two phenomena being demonstrably unrelated. But if you’ve already decided that no amount of statistical evidence is going to be credible for you, then I don’t know why…

I think your position is “It’s a shitton safer ...” with mandatory minimums in place. But only because that’s what you said.

So your assessment is that there is no credible evidence either way? And as a result, you conclude that your gut feeling must therefore be correct and should guide public policy?

But earlier you said that you couldn’t find any contradictory reports?

I’m having a hard time following here - what do you see as the motivation of unaffiliated researchers to continue manipulating statistics to come out with one consistent conclusion? And why isn’t there a similar effort underway to publish reports that reach the opposite conclusion (the one you believe is the…

Here’s a just-published report about how prison reduction statutes did not lead to an increase in crime: “The report found that, on average, urban crime rates did not increase as considerably in counties with higher rates of Prop 47-related prison releases or larger reductions in jail ADPs. In fact, there was no…

Does anyone know of a place to buy star wars bedding for adults (meaning full-size bed and high-quality fabrics)?

Can you find a single study that suggests that they do improve safety? Cause if you can manipulate statistics to say anything, you’d figure there’d be at least as many reaching the opposite outcome, right?

Ok, if research showing that mandatory minimums haven’t improved public safety isn’t enough to answer your question, I don’t think anything is.

Yes, there is widespread bipartisan agreement on this question and it spans the entire ideological spectrum.

Mandatory Minimum Sentencing Reform Saves States Money and Reduces Crime Rates: https://www.alec.org/app/uploads/2016/03/2016-March-ALEC-CJR-State-Factor-Mandatory-Minimum-Sentencing-Reform-Saves-States-Money-and-Reduces-Crime-Rates.pdf

What kind of quandary is this? In a fucking heartbeat.

I’ve been calling them back and trying to rope them into long conversations explaining to me exactly what I owe and why. I figure at least I’m wasting their time too.

Can confirm. Wore mine out in West Hollywood last weekend; lots of approving lesbo nods.

“The Canadian”

I totally get it. And it is very tedious to feel like you’ve got to be so vigilant about your every choice. I also have long blonde hair and wear it up almost constantly because it attracts too much attention.

Yeah, I feel like I’m always just one accessory away from “sexy secretary.”

I definitely contemplated sending a picture of my butthole as a “fuck you” response to a particularly unwelcome text message (from a friend with whom I’d had a terrible falling out). Never as a sex thing.

I do really appreciate that this song is about agricultural practices and NOT the dangers that GMOs pose to human health (none at all).