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  1. Because it's performative. And arbitrary.
  2. And, how can you predict who is going to be habitual? Once they are habitual or recidivist, I can't argue much with longer incarceration. My overall thought is that sentences are, by and large, too long. And I'm very interested in diversion programs for first offenders or those in "vulnerable" (probably not the right word) populations.
  3. A clearer pic and the actual explanation. https://boingboing.net/2025/10/21/progressive-populist-graham-platner-has-nazi-totenkopf-tattoo.html Not knowing that that is a Nazi/SS symbol is probably acceptable from a meathead enlisted guy.
  4. That's been my sense of things, also. Our talent is always somewhat overrated, in this particular case on the OL, but it's everywhere. And I think/hope that the answer is coaching/recruiting consistency. OSU, Georgia and Alabama have been stacking five stars longer than Sark has been at UT. Is our talent as good as ND, Penn State and some other helmet schools, and better than a lot of others', sure, but it's those tippy top teams we're measuring ourselves against.
  5. MIT did it best when they said federal scientifc grants should be awarded on merit alone. The boostrap crowd is hard-pressed to argue with that. The powers that be at UT don't give a rats ass about academic freedom, they think that's the problem. But I'm not sure they're willing to come out and say so. And I think they're really hesitant to differentiate themselves from schools like MIT and UVa, in any way. I think the bad publicity attending the law firm capitulations weighs heavy on them.
  6. Yeah, the only question is how public will be the goatse'ing.
  7. Note that my "concern" such as it is, is not with hands-on offenders, but non-contact offenders. I can't disagree about actual child molesters. But then there's that Oregon State pitcher.
  8. You've given it some thought, so I commend that. I admit that I don't have any real solutions, but I ask that people not knee jerk. There are absolutely incorrigible criminals out there of all kinds and the only solution may be lifetime incarceration/incapacitation. But that's not all of them or even the majority. I do think things like "drug courts," "veterans courts," and "first offender" programs are a step in the right direction.
  9. Didn't say it was rational. So is watching scat porn and driving drunk. So is burglarizing a Walgreens to get or pay for drugs. Nor did I say that moral outrage is unwarranted. But moral outrage tends to displace rational thought about what we're doing with big chunks of our criminal population. You can go from relatively simple cases like addicts and drug users/possessors, whose irrational acts have mostly been decriminalized, to other areas of criminality with a large psychological component. And some, like drug dealing, that have little or no psychological component at all, and might even be considered rational.
  10. The whole conflict between the Article II CIC power and the Article I declare war power is pretty insane. A major flaw in the Constitution. Congress doesn't want the political baggage associated with declaring war for every little (and not so little conflict) and so is happy to have POTUS holding the bag for the Vietnams, Iraqs, and Afghanistans. But they don't want to be judged harshly by history, either. So, you get an Authorization for Use of Military Force, the last of which was this one https://www.congress.gov/107/plaws/publ40/PLAW-107publ40.pdf That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons. They have been trying to crowbar everything subsequent to 9/11 into that. It's laughable at this point.
  11. I had guessed that it was CIA assets doing the strikes outside the military chain of command and might guess that's what "special forces" means in this context. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Activities_Center
  12. They will know we are Christians by our love, by our love.
  13. I know I'm not winning any hearts and minds here, but I am pretty uncomfortable with most aspects of our sentencing regime, particularly at the federal level. And, as I said, I think child pr0n offenses, other than production, are a microcosm of what's wrong with it. Dime store psychology and moral outrage displace everything else.
  14. Lotta truth to this. I think it stems, again, from his overestimation of what our players can routinely execute on offense. The question then becomes what informs that overestimation. And the answer to that question dictates Sark's fate as a coach.
  15. You just made my point for me. I did not say the moral outrage was uncalled for. But it replaces rational thought, which is pretty common in our criminal justice policy.
  16. Have we? Speaking from ignorance or memory failure. I was reading Dead Wake and a reference to the first German gas attack with chlorine gas and had to contemplate what kind of monster would think that's a really good idea. Also musing that while the origins and prosecution of WWI are more complex and nuanced than WWII in a lot of ways, Germans really do seem to have a knack for being morally compromised (U-boat attacks on civilian and even passenger shipping, chemical weapons, etc.).
  17. Neither are most convicted criminals, or unconvicted criminals (the lot of them being justice involved), but that could easily change, both in the addict and criminal affecting you, personally. But they do affect society as a whole in the social cost of their crime, the social cost of their incarceration, and the social cost of their being essentially wards of the state after they are eventually released into the community. And I'm not talking about drunk drivers, I'm talking about addicts that do other crimes. I'm not even going to dignify your criticism of "justice involved" people.
  18. More evidence that the adults are in charge. Also, Lindsay Halligan texts a reporter. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna--lindsey-halligan-here Reporter seeks comment from DOJ before publishing texts and gets this: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna--lindsey-halligan-here From cross- and crazy-eyed spokesbitch Natalie Baldassliar.
  19. Also something truly bizarre. Lindsay Halligan texted Anna Bower of lawfare, unprompted, to bitch about Bower's coverage. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna--lindsey-halligan-here For context, Bower is a "justice reporter" at lawfare who rarely posts "original content." On lawfare, she mostly live "tweets" hearings and apparently on Twatter retexts other reporting.
  20. Comey has already filed his vindictive/selective prosecution and invalid appointment motions.
  21. Too late to edit. But our incarceration rate may say something about the American people, who I am coming to understand are a worse group than I ever comprehended. But that's not because of their justice-involvement.
  22. You either can stop drinking or you can't . . . . The above is what got me interested in this whole area. Alcoholics and addicts rehabilitate and in the process leave behind a lot of morally questionable if not reprehensible moral choices. A lot of crimes are driven by addiction or other psychological problems that can be "rehabilitated."
  23. I might could get on board with recidivist long sentences, but I think most of our criminal justice policy needs a hard rethink. I don't think our incarceration rates can possibly say anything good about our criminal justice policy. Non-contact child pr0n offenses are a microcosm of our criminal justice policy where moral outrage displaces rationality.
  24. You've expressed these notions before in other contexts. They do, eventually, get out of prison and, as things currently stand, almost no rehabilitation occurs in our prisons. So, they're rehabilitating in "our communities" however you want to slice it. And they are also rehabilitating from the damage that prison does to them, including likely being unable to support themselves. Do you favor life sentences or the death penalty for all crimes where you don't want people "rehabilitating in the community"? Also, the latest figures show that non-contact sex offenders have among the lowest recidivism rates of criminals, despite a post-conviction regime that is virtually designed to imprison them again for technical (non-sexual, non-criminal) probation violations. Also, one of the things that is most disgusting about the criminal regime at the federal level is that it was entirely implemented by Congress and the US Sentencing Commission has almost no role in establishing sentencing guidelines. And one of the major pieces of legislation in the area is named after a D-list celebrity. Performative work by Congress in a moral panic at its finest.
  25. Well, it seems we have more or less let the deadline pass (not sure the deadline really exists anymore). Would be fascinating to know why given that the powers that be would all seem to be for gobbling the orange crank.
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