I'm guessing you probably mean most black people that are murdered are murdered by black people, not that the cause of death of most black males is murder by other black males. :-)

That is true (I think). But the point is that, even so, the odds that a particular black person is a criminal or a murderer is very very low. So there's no need to be afraid of every black person you see. Just because the odds are higher than for other races, doesn't mean the rate is actually high enough to be worried about when you see a person. That's the point Colbert tries to make.

Well, first of all, the local news doesn't report all crimes. But even if they did report all crime proportionally by race, and blacks do have a higher rate of committing crimes, again, the point is that the odds of any black person you see being a murderer is extremely low.

All pigeons shit. A very very small fraction of blacks commit murder. http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/428008/july-23-2013/the-word---color-bind

There is a petition on change.org asking TSA to get rid of "priority" screening lines. As the petition says, the speed of a government service should NOT depend on how much we pay to an airline, and TSA should not allow airlines to profit by offering better access to a government service as a perk for a high priced ticket (or participation in their reward programs). The petition doesn't have a lot of signatures yet, but to me it's a no brainer, so I hope it catches on.

Well, petitions on change.org have no time limit, so you can take your time to get a bunch of signatures, then message all the signers to sign another similar petition on the White House Petition site, where the administration has committed to at least responding to all petitions that hit a certain threshold in a certain amount of time.

That's a huge cop out by TSA. Why should TSA allow the authorities to run the lines? TSA runs the checkpoint area. TSA could easily insist that they should run the lines too. At the very least, they shouldn't allow the airport authorities to run the lines that way.

On top of that, there have been times where I have made it through the lines and gotten to the designated "priority" screening area, and TSA turned me away because I didn't have priority access. They appear to be fully complicit in this.

This is a little off-topic, but concerns getting TSA to change it's ways. There is a petition on change.org asking TSA to get rid of "priority" screening lines. As the petition says, the speed of a government service should NOT depend on how much we pay to an airline, and TSA should not allow airlines to profit by offering better access to a government service as a perk for a high priced ticket (or participation in their reward programs).

The petition doesn't have a lot of signatures yet, but to me it's a no brainer, so I hope it catches on.

Let's say a company like Amazon came up with a packing algorithm that allowed them to use 10% less packing material. Do you really think that would affect the price so much so that people would buy 10% more items from Amazon? I think that's highly unlikely. If people bought more goods, but less than 10% more goods, there would still be a net decrease in packing material.