kids have been convicted of trafficking child pornography for sending others pics of themselves ... there is zero tolerance of child pornography, because the issue is not the age of the person conveying it, the issue is the age of the young people who can be harmed by its dissemination, because pervs use it to groom…

in your wild imaginings, have the u.n. troops defeated the united states armed forces? or has our military willingly joined forces with the u.n.?

ah, yes ... and i would be very sad if i'd never been able to give her the opportunities that her gifts demanded and that my own parents hadn't been able to afford for me ... and, to her credit, she has taken her training and run with it ... plays all kinds of instruments now

i know you are right about this ... my teeth, just like any singled-out body part, seem more important in the mirror

well, that was the weird thing ... i grew up with zero dental care, but i never had a cavity, so my grownup elaine, big city dentist said "don't worry" about how they look

there's a video artist, bill viola, who did just that ... pre-bieber, though ... with super slo-mo "portraits" of people ... you find yourself watching for 20 minutes, hoping that the subject will blink, and then you yourself blink, only to discover the subject's eyes are opening post-blink ... you missed the big…

man, i wish i'd had a video cam as a kid ... i could have just followed my bro around while he did stupid shit ... like the time i walked into the garage (i was 7, he was 5) just as he'd set fire to a coffee can lid full of gasoline ... the column of flames shot to the ceiling, and although i happened to be illicitly…

after 9/11, we didn't blame guns, we blamed liberty, specifically the freedom to travel without scrutiny by government officials ... which is why, despite our constitutional protections against searches and seizures without probable cause and/or a warrant, every plane passenger is subjected to invasive, warrantless…

aw ... i was 5'10" by the time i was 11, towering over my classmates and most of my teachers (and getting into r-rated movies and served in bars, ugh) ... then, in 6th grade, a 6'3" kid from south africa enrolled in my class ... that "big kid" was my hero

because andre was one of the awesomest dudes who've ever lived and it's impossible to live up to the andre standard?

weirdly, wonderfully legit

free speech is in the constitution, too ... and yet we all accept that that right must be subject to compelling, competing interests, such as public safety

good point ... and to be fair, the reporters on the ground are probably having difficulty keeping their distance from this story, and they've probably been forced to shut down their personal judgement on this one, just to keep going

i am sitting here in chicago thinking that there's no way in hell i would have allowed my child to be used like this, but i am hesitant to judge parents who are in the middle of a mind-blowing trauma

i don't really see the difference between creating the videos and exhaustively re-posting ... either way, you have failed to respect these young people, their families, and the families of the victims ... so maybe you can answer your own question?

chuck todd has already mentioned video games and tv/movies ... i think we can expect congress to put aside political differences and enact a politically-innocuous ban on video games to "solve" this problem

last summer, a huge dogfighting ring was busted in my chicago neighborhood, and it horrifies me to think that i live among humans that can do such things ... i want go live at the dog park, where the humane critters hang

thank you ... i am gonna work at remembering ... smiling and remembering!

i love it when people dismiss this country's crimes against native peoples as being in the distant past, or worse, that it's time to stop giving them "handouts", when in fact we are required, by treaty, to provide them safety, housing, healthcare, and education ... obligations that we violate every freaking day by…

omg, i forgot about that! that was some evil-genius-grade social irresponsibility