Are you sure? Or you pull that from your backside? Different strokes for different folks. Of course, there's another drug that "intellectuals" partake in. Baseless indignation.

If it's to the detriment to society on the whole, why not? Honest question. None of that "slippery slope" nonsense.

If your foot had inoperable cancer, would you let the cancer grow? Or would you cut it off?

By your own account, those problems aren't medical. They're cultural.

Gay rights are rights to gay people. I thought "conservatives" were all about rights and limited government?

Luck still has a lot to do with it. The sweat of your brow alone will only get you so far. No excuses for the folks that aren't reaching for better, but there's a reason it's called a "trap"

Is that why Unemployment Insurance was a big point of contention in the last budget debate?

The article is absolutely correct. But it also fails to take into account that the new jobs are lower paying while inflation decreases the value of the new wages.

I'm calling shenanigans on this one. Here in the US, KBR and Halliburton along with other defense contractors put out the lowest budget product with the largest profit margin possible... that does not make for responsible uses of our tax dollars. Hold your government accountable for its ineptitude and change the culture sounds like a pipe dream, but why go for the easy targets that give us short term roi and long term continued failings? I don't want my government perverted by a profit motive. Its been happening for the past few decades in earnest and it's gotten us nowhere positive.

Correct you? Nope... seems like you pretty much nailed it.

If I were getting put away for a long time, I'd have a few people with a thumb drive and as soon as the conviction fell, it'd be blasted to every sharing site on the web. Let em spend their cash trying to contain that collateral they use to borrow millions against. It'd be interesting to see what the math geeks and analysts make of the code.

If they're gonna be frying him like this, why don't he let everyone get a peek at what's so important? They're gonna keep hammering him til something sticks, why not spill the beans?

Man, that's some good righteous condemnation right there. Instead of wrapping your brain around the idea of depriving someone of life being immoral in itself, you lambast the guy as if he's taking part in "honor" killings himself. Then you proceed to call him a child. Do you get nosebleeds that high up on your horse?

We can get legal amphetamines, legal gamblings, but folks can't smoke a bowl without the Feds busting up the place... I wonder why that is? If our country is running out of money, why are our politicians getting so stinking rich?

Judging from your comment, it wasn't the drugs. You and the guys in your shop were just assholes being irresponsible with other peoples' property. /DBG

Maybe carriers would reduce their crazy pricing models for SMS messages!