I don't know how comparable meth or cocaine (in either powder or crack form) is to alcohol.  Most people seem to be able to use alcohol without developing addictions; at the worst, they can be functioning alcoholics.

I don't know how what you said relates to the criminalization of drugs.  The powder/crack disparity is a problem.  Personally, I think crack should carry the same penalty as powder; I don't think that either should be legal or decriminalized.

@avclub-0a7d7a81e8e3a20e4c34748e98ef45f6:disqus 
Thank you for the luck, but I'll be honest.  The conviction rate's due more to over-criminalization than callous judges or juries; over 90% percent of convictions result from plea bargains because the defendants are guilty in the sense they done something the law says is…

@avclub-0a7d7a81e8e3a20e4c34748e98ef45f6:disqus 
I know most Americans (and most people globally) have the same views I do; I don't know why they hide them.  What's the point of paying lip-service to an ideal why ignoring it in practice?

@avclub-0a7d7a81e8e3a20e4c34748e98ef45f6:disqus 
No, I'm a former service member currently studying law with an eye at criminal defense for the indigent.  Eventually I'd like to focus on D.U.I. defense for college students, but Congress isn't really of interest.  I'm many things, but not a whore.

@LurkyMcLurkerson:disqus 
How very adult.  I know why I don't care about people with whom I have no connection.  Do you know why you do care?

@LurkyMcLurkerson:disqus 
I don't embrace the post-Christian morality of the modern West.  I went my own way.

@avclub-0a7d7a81e8e3a20e4c34748e98ef45f6:disqus 
Regarding your example, no, that woman wouldn't deserve my support, unless I knew her or the kid.  If I know at least one, then I suppose I'd care (although my concern would be tinged with some scorn due to the doomed nature of the child).

Carnivorous Danus
I never said they deserved their treatment (except in the sense that a person who sticks his hand in a fire deserves to get burned).  This sort of thing is what happens in Russia.  They knew that going in.  I don't remember King ever complaining that he didn't think he'd get arrested (or fire-hosed or…

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Dr. Nunianvonfok

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Logoboros
No, revolutionaries overthrew the tsar with the intent of replacing his dictatorship with their own.  The country was incapable of any other sort of government; the Kadets were fucked from the get-go.

The status quo is neither justified nor unjustified; it simply is.  I try to avoid judgments about right or wrong; that's not the source of my contempt for the members of this band.  Russia isn't a democracy.  It's never been a democracy.  That sort of societal change isn't imposed from the ground up; when the Russian…

Feel free to be combative.  I won't take offense; I've actually had some interesting discussions here about politics, culture, and the ability of certain societies to change themselves.

They're pissing in the wind.  To the extent that I've actually followed this particular instance of wanna-be martyrdom, I've felt a slight amusement.  It's like the girl running around Tunisia with "my body isn't anyone's honor" painted on her chest; she clearly doesn't understand where she lives.

This review contains the same level of historical ignorance and cultural provincialism that I found over at National Review.  I'm not sure where these three individuals got the idea that they have rights (at least as the concept is popularly understood in America), but they were sorely mistaken, and now they're…

Well said.

I know it seems petty, but the rest of the review seems pretty solid.  It's not that hard.

Don never saw his mother work in a brothel; she died when he was a baby.  It was his step-mother.  Also, Peggy calls STAN for help with the rat.  Get it right.