Wow, 26 years old. Is it weird making jokes about someone you never saw play? Seriously, the ball off the head, 40/40, upper deck in the Sky Dome, etc. I mean, you weren't even 5. Even "Juiced" came out when you were only 16.

Interesting point. I think the thinking should be more along the lines of how victimless the crime the perpetuator committed.

Because imprisoning black people for fun and profit is basically a national pastime.

It's all about the $$$

I was coming here to say this. The whole point of prison is to keep violent and highly manipulative people away from society. But in the US it more like a storage house for black guys who happened to annoy a cop once.

There are women who probably need to be in jail? Are they in jail? Are the women who are in jail the…

That was a fascinating article (thank you) and I look forward to the comments but - lordy, lordy Miss Maudy - the real issue here is why the incarceration rates in general in the USA are so gobsmackingly high. What the hell people?

I don't really see why the focus has to be on women here; just non-violent offenders in general.

People in Germany felt pretty happy about all their government was doing to protect them on June 29, 1934 too. History is full of lessons about why we should all be very concerned about the massive unchecked expansion of federal power. Perhaps you should listen.

Rydem even looks like some soulless demon in that picture........what's even worse is that he's a human being willing to violate everything our nation was founded on in the interest of fake security.

Look, I understand the argument he's making here, but it's a false alternative. Let's rephrase the question: would it be appropriate to treat a puppy-sized spider (or an endangered katydid) this way if it were a human being? (the answer is no, you monster).

Wired just did a great interview with him in last months(?) issue where they revealed for the first time some of the other stuff the U.S. government was trying to get away with. I'm not an expert on his methods of releasing the info, but the guy's intentions were not traitorous....he was a whistle blower. In other…

No thanks.

HERO.

As someone said, it might be old enough to be exempt from the regulations. But it's also not at all unusual for Manhattan landlords to bend or break these rules - one of my favorite tactics is counting the area underneath walls as part of the total, including insulation and bricks.

As a Seattleite, I really don't understanding this "micro-housing" or "apodment" bullshit that is getting pushed here.

400 square feet is quite a bit smaller than my bedroom.

"I didn't want to be birthing a breech baby at home alone with my 2 year old."

Is it really a hard ROI if all this tech is being used to fight people whose most advanced weapon is a Toyota Hilux?

And we're marching right back there with our roboplanes and robosoldiers and roboguns and...

The article lost me at the end. Why was Reagan blamed by Cohen for the failure to develop and deploy the weapon? It sounds like the promises of the "death ray" never held up, and the Europeans rightly opposed the folly. Samuel Cohen sounds like a demented mad-man. The title of his book, "Shame" seems to imply he was…