You are equating a bank robbery and punishing a child who did literally nothing. Although it is the law, the law should he changed (not the murder part, the deportation part). I'm also much more open to immigration, so I doubt we'll be changing each other's minds.

Probably 75% of my clients are men just getting out of prison who need a permanent address for their P.O. Some of them bring in the prison mentality and try to rule the shelter, while others just want to keep their head down and get the hell out of there. And I would say your experience is what most of the guys go through: boredom with a little bit of excitement thrown in.

Northern New England. Most of the people who take antabuse have to do it by court order. They do not take probation lightly here.

That could happen, but those things are clamped on extremely tightly. The chance of something getting on the sensor is pretty small. Some of my clients are on antabuse, a pill that causes violent reactions when any alcohol is ingested. They can't even use hand sanitizer.

Through sweat. It'll detect even the smallest amount.

Dude, Google "cop kills dog" and there are articles after articles detailed how cops have shot non-threatening dogs.

2 once-in-500-years hurricanes happen within two weeks of each other, and Harvey was a once-in-a-thousand-year storm. Plus the west is on fire and there are massive floods all over the globe. The climate had changed, and our response to it has been poor.

I think it's Patton Oswalt.

My point was that the majority of the statues honoring Confederate soldiers were put up with the specific intent to intimidate those fighting for civil rights, which wasn't all that long ago. And telling somebody to "grow a spine" is pretty cruel. How about we don't honor people who rebeled against the United States and wanted to keep people as property instead?

Anachronisms in history are tough because they put up a barrier when trying to study it when an academic eye. But we're not talking about the academic study of history here: we're talking about huge, world shaking events that are still felt and remembered today. The memory of these events, and who that public memory especially, belongs to, is the issue. And just because his slaves liked him doesn't excuse the fact that Jackson has slaves to begin with. Let's not equivocate for a second that the Confederates didn't want to keep legal slavery in this country, and that the Nazi's didn't want to exterminate the Jews and others. The memory of those periods of history belongs to everybody, but we need to honor those most affected, not put up ugly, cheap statues 100 years later to scare black folk.

Exactly. The camps are there to preserve the memory of what happened to the victims, not to celebrate the monsters who perpetrated it.

That sounds great, but better ideas aren't going to stop a white nationalist uprising. And they aren't just spewing out bad ideas, they are actively trying to bring about a white ethnostate, which would be extremely violent.

It's probably drugged.

Hockey doesn't have tackles, so the players don't go hurtling toward the ground and their heads bounce off the turf on a regular basis. And I'm not arguing which sport is tougher or more violent; I played football as a kid but I have a hard time watching it anymore.

The SS originally (and at the end of the war, too) had roving bands of death squads that would go town to town and do just that, famousone. Many collaborating nations did that too, to prove their bona fides to their new Nazi masters.