@cassiewithaK: Yep, I had the same thought. People trying to wean themselves off drugs are prime targets for conversion, so why not have the Feds pay for faith-based conversion mills/rehab centers?
The sad thing is I would much rather addicts (to say nothing of people simply busted for pot!) be lectured about Jesus than sent to prison, so... yeah. I guess I'll take it?
A word to this little skidmark's parents: this is all your fault! Instead of laughing at him, just kill yourselves. Maybe some wild animals can raise him right.
@JohntheCraptist: With all due respect, the heyday for the East Village as bohemian playground was the '80s. If the first time you visited NYC was post-9/11, you missed that boat by a mile. Shit, by then even the Lower East Side and Williamsburg were becoming gentrified.
@Pope John Peeps II: Exactly. "They, uh, tricked me into acting like a psycho, on camera!" is not winning you any sympathy (or votes, as it turns out).
Ugh. I'm a liberal, and an Obama supporter, precisely because he would never, ever stoop to that kind of juvenile, partisan bullshit. Conservatives may not like him, but he's their President too.
He's going to play it cool and let the teabaggers hang themselves with the rope they've won. They have the House majority now, and they'll have to actually do something other than spout bumper sticker platitudes about freedom. Let's see how well that works out.
Let's see... When the government pays otherwise unemployed people a living wage to do things like fix and clean roads, build maintain bridges, lay broadband cable or whatever, that’s socialist. When the government gives otherwise unemployed people hundreds of thousands of dollars of real estate and some unspecified amount of seed money and says "try being a farmer!", that’s just a common sense/patriotic/Real American solution.
@quotidian: What? Nobody is saying he shouldn't be permitted to say or think or write those things, it's that he shouldn't be honored by Harvard. The 1st Amendment doesn't give you license to be a racist asshole without suffering any criticism, you idiot.