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Mar 26 gnossos commented on My Ego Is Too Big for Sam Bellomio.

@28...she strikes me as being the long lost daughter of Michelle Bachman.

Seriously, just watch a few minutes of the first video. Mia is a clusterfuck of incoherent, deeply impassioned crazy.

Mar 26 gnossos commented on Amanda Knox Can Cross Italy Off Her List of Places to Visit.

ack! does *not* need to be present.

Mar 26 gnossos commented on Amanda Knox Can Cross Italy Off Her List of Places to Visit.

re those commenting on extradition: under Italian law Knox does need to be present for a retrial, thus no need for extradition. The issue would come up, however, if she was found guilty at a retrial and received a sentence.

But, as some have noted, no chance in hell that she'll be extradited.

Mar 26 gnossos commented on Driver Who Hit Four Pedestrians Blew Nearly Three Times Over Legal Alcohol Limit, Say Prosecutors.

Fnarf @23

I wonder who owns the truck he was driving.

According an article I saw earlier on one of the local news sites, the truck he was driving yesterday was the same one he was driving for both his December and January DUIs. So yeah, taking away the vehicle of someone w/a DUI until an ignition interlock is installed seems like an obvious first step on the enforcement side.

Mar 26 gnossos commented on Columbia City Neighbors Meet with Police About Shooting, Get Few Answers.

heavyJ -- thanks for your input/reporting. Very interesting.

Mar 26 gnossos commented on Form A Reading Group.

Cockroach -- Rawi Hage
Lullabies for Little Criminals -- Heather O'Neill
The Signal and The Noise -- Nate Silver
The Reluctant Fundamentalist -- Mohsin Hamid
Gun, With Occasional Music -- Jonathan Lethem

Mar 22 gnossos commented on Tampons, Live Slugs, Garlic, Dimes, and Other Items that Get Stuck in Vaginas.

And, let's not forget pistols...

Mar 21 gnossos commented on More George W. Bush Art!.

@6: Awesome!

Mar 21 gnossos commented on What Happens If the United States Postal Service Express Mails a Very Important Package to the Wrong Country?.

@27: scanning does not work in cases where documents have to be notarized or absolutely must be the original. Unfortunately, for some things it still is 1997.

Mar 16 gnossos commented on Prisoners of Color Have Less Access to Education Than White Prisoners.

venomlash @4, I'm fine w/your assumption for the sake of argument/forming null hypothesis, but in fact there is considerable bias (not necessarily the intentional kind, but the skewing kind) in the US criminal justice system. Blacks are far more likely to be arrested for exactly the same crime than whites. And after arrest, they are far more likely to be convicted than similarly situated whites. And upon conviction they receive longer sentences.

So the fact that folks of color end up in inferior penal colonies comes as little surprise.