I believe this case got attention earlier as well, but here's a February 2014 write-up from CNN on the "affluenza" case where a spoiled rich kid from Texas got sent to rehab for killing 4 people .

Oh, I apologize. I forgot that you to the Wall Street Journal is an unreadable socialist rag. Not to worry though, soon enough some conservative blog will pick up on this story for you and tell you that like your previous hero-in-chief, Hunter Biden recently heroically dodged military service and snorted coke. However Hunter demonstrated some one-upmanship by doing those two acts simultaneously.

Don't worry it will set the conservative blogosphere alight soon enough. I'm sure someone can feed you a reason why this is something that President Lawnchair should be immediately thrown out of office (as usual, sans trial) for.

A grant from General Mills or another cereal producer, perhaps. As someone who has spent time working on federal (in particular NIH, NSF, DOE) grant applications I can tell you that this wouldn't fly with them - at least, not in the current fiscal climates that they all face.

This supports their notion that Cheerios have a large amount of natural ingredients. If Cheerios were mostly artificial they wouldn't likely grow much of anything. It would be interesting to try Cheerios vs store brand, regular vs honey-nut (or other varieties) and see how they do.

No. I don't have time to meet you in person and all the rest can be faked. What cannot be faked however is your lengthy record of being anti-learning here on slashdot.

That is a lie. Your own journal entries show your disdain for knowledge and preference for fact-free spin (and that is just one obvious example of you doing that).

It would be interesting to know what you think you are saying by that.

... as if such statements have ever panned out ...

Except for all the times that you have been.

Your distractions are so reliably hilarious, too!

As someone who has looked into doing exactly that, I can tell you that is actually a lot more difficult than what some want us to believe it to be. If you are an American and you want to move to Canada, you need to have a job offer first, and then you still need to take the entrance exam to determine if you will be allowed to emigrate. You can't just simply drive across the border and start looking for work. Furthermore there is little (if any) incentive for Canadian employers to hire Americans; you have to be a really truly exceptional applicant for a very highly skilled position in order for the employer to be able to justify hiring you.

I'm not sure where the free world is, but Americans are generally not welcomed in it.

Why should I take those claims at face value? More so, why should I take them at face value when you repeatedly demonstrate your disdain for facts and learning? You can use your comments here to make whatever claims you want regarding your life accomplishments, but when you brag about illiteracy they make me doubt your claims of educational merit.

The notion of my assessment of you being vicious or fictitious is purely a creation of your own imagination. I evaluate your intellectual dishonesty by reading the comments you write here on slashdot.

I've seen studies support the notion that the magnitude of pot problems in smokers goes up in correlation with younger ages of starting, and I have seen that myself.

Oooh, channeling your inner Thugnificent, there? You should realize:

• McGruder's joke is on the conservatives (hence you likely would be offended if you were one)
• Your character here would fit in great in Woodcrest, but you'd be running with Gin Rummy and Ed Wunceler III, not the Lethal Interjection Crew (hence your line would be "fuck y'all lookin at?")

You are almost unbearably funny, friend. I can't help but wonder how much damage you could do to the conservative cause if people actually read what you wrote and took you seriously.

Nice one, there. Few people put cherries on turd sundaes with your degree of showmanship. I'm sure you're proud of yourself. Thanks for mixing up the week for me.

I never had the Razr (though I did have the RIZR which I thought was pretty cool aside from the fact that the most important buttons were stickers that eventually fell off and seriously hindered the usability of the phone). One of my all-time favorites was the samsung 3500 or n200 which were flip phones designed such that the entire screen was visible - though the keys protected - when the phone was flipped closed. It was comparable in size to the Razr. They also had great batttery life and there were extended-life batteries available for them to go even longer (my LG android phone makes it about 6-8 hours on idle before going completely dead).

As for giant phones I've seen a surge in people using the Samsung Galaxy Note as a phone, it is almost comically large for a phone. Where they carry it I have no idea.

You hold so dearly to this silly concept of "winning" and "losing", in spite of the fact that there is no evidence anyone other than you and I are reading the vast majority of what we have written at each other.

I guess that fits well with your disdain for literacy, though - and your general attitude against education as well. Even though you choose not to believe it, I come here trying to teach you. I want you to actually be knowledgeable and to pursue knowledge. While I might never accomplish that, I won't stop trying. When you brag about illiteracy and embracing misinformation I will still reach out and try to get you to actually read before writing.

I suspect I would need to lower my standards and just hope to some day again see a complete thought from you. Over the course of these past several years I don't recall you having shown even one yet.

You are the one who has fooled himself into thinking this site has some sort of significant readership - and you're trying to claim to not be "the greater ass"?

You can call it a platypus, but that won't make it into a monotreme. If the entire body of your argument was dedicated to mocking me, then you could have gotten there a lot quicker. More so, you could have gotten there without making yourself look so ridiculous (repeatedly) along the way.