This public bookmark will give me a chance to double-check this guys assertion that corporate-based crime steals more from society and kills more people than oor people and minorities do. If he’s right (and I don’t doubt it) it gives creedence to the complaint that government support of big business is accessory or at least complicit.

For example, when a criminal breaks into someone’s home and shoots a family of six, we have no trouble identifying that as mass murder. But what about the mine disaster that kills 26 miners — after the owners had committed 1,250 safety violations in the last 13 years? (4) If the mine owner callously and knowingly risks human lives in his pursuit of profits, shouldn’t he then be guilty of murder?

Ignoring spelling errors, this list of Homer’s songs is fun. For a minute I was upset that Spanish Flea hadn’t made it onto the list, but I soon realized that the Dating Game used it as a theme song. Poor Herb Alpert.

…or at least the verbal spreading of.

Use this in any comment string you feel neccesary to signify your ignorance detector has gone off:

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—Yes, jank, you should use this on me liberally…heh…liberally.—

I love Target as much as the next guy, but I’m pretty sure this is a sign that knitting has jumped the shark as a fad.