Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Jail in America
Guess how many American adults are in jail? Would you guess 1 in 500? 1 in 100? 1 in 50? Would you believe 1 in 32?
1 comment:
Anonymous
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I'm clean a few years now, but shit like this REALLY pisses me off. Especially living in Oakland - crack kills, alcohol kills even more, and mild narcotics (the kind people are being incarcerated for) do NOBODY ELSE ANY HARM.
hey, sorry to rant (and feel free to delete/ignore) ... but it really does drive me nuts. -- Not that sitting around in your underwear all day watching cartoons is a GOOD idea ... but do the taxpayers need to fund the incarceration of all these losers? Why not let Darwin take care of them?
"instead of a war on poverty/They got a war on drugs so the polics can bother me" -- Tupac Shakur
1 comment:
I'm clean a few years now, but shit like this REALLY pisses me off. Especially living in Oakland - crack kills, alcohol kills even more, and mild narcotics (the kind people are being incarcerated for) do NOBODY ELSE ANY HARM.
hey, sorry to rant (and feel free to delete/ignore) ... but it really does drive me nuts. -- Not that sitting around in your underwear all day watching cartoons is a GOOD idea ... but do the taxpayers need to fund the incarceration of all these losers? Why not let Darwin take care of them?
"instead of a war on poverty/They got a war on drugs so the polics can bother me" -- Tupac Shakur
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