Tragedy exploitation: Hatemonger
Dylan summer tour dates.
"Fighting back was not an option, #2." Big Lizards
Mark your calendar. May 5 is Free Comic Book Day
China's farmlands are in big trouble.
Honk if you're married and can't cope with anger. Dave Barry
Done with Mirrors took the time on Earth Day to post some graphs on climate.
Prejudice. GSN will begin production on a new game show based on the UK format Prejudice (the original show Prejudice also airs on BBC America). According to Variety, the US version will be called Without Prejudice?, and is a sixty minute series. The network has ordered up 8 episodes. The game is about how the contestants are perceived to strangers, and they are awarded cash for each successful round they complete.
Bedlam Revisited. Regarding the de-institutionalization of the dangerously mentally ill. Dr. Kellerman in the WSJ. A quote:
Penning up and carefully scrutinizing the killer was never an option. Not in Virginia or California or any other state in the union. Because in our well-intentioned quest to maximize personal liberty, we've moved conceptual eons away from taking the concept of dangerousness seriously.
The best predictor of future violent behavior is past violent behavior, yet we regularly grant parole to murderers, serial rapists, chronically assaultive individuals and habitual pedophiles. Even when we do attempt to segregate low-impulse multiple offenders with effective tools such as with three-strikes laws, liberationist clamor never ceases.
Talk to anyone who's tried to commit a dangerously violent child or parent for even a few days: A stranger with a law degree will show up at the hearing and paint you as a fascist. So it's far too much to expect anything resembling a decisive approach to those whose level of threat remains at the verbal level.
