• Cheating is the system, or how my phone bill woes demonstrate what destroyed the economy –
    When so much of your economy is built on manipulating the basic enforcement techniques to get money people genuinely owe you to get all sorts of money they don’t, in a just system, owe you, things are going to fall apart. But sure enough, without most of the public realizing it, we moved to a system where people were selling stuff with no value, using outrageous forms of usury to squeeze blood from stones, and just generally trying to use deceit and extortion to make money instead of offering goods and services for a price, which is apparently not fun enough of a way to make money. But as long as the government refuses to regulate and even bails people out for this crap, there’s no incentive to quit.

    I mean, Jesus, at least GM was basically trying to make money by selling cars instead of bullshit.
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  • Papa Ratzi to be bombarded with 5 million condoms –
    [This is both totally awesome and a terrible waste. Better to donate the condoms in the name of the Pope to charities that will give them out gratis to economically disenfranchised populations. --Lee.]
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  • Forget “sexting”; what’s up with that prosecutor? –
    Some very good news for the teenage girls being persecuted for having a sexuality in Pennsylvania—the judge has ruled in their favor, and ordered a prosecutor to drop child pornography charges against three teenage girls who committed the “crime” of engaging in a routine sexual display for their boyfriends. And by routine, I mean laughably routine—they showed the boys they were with and/or interested in pictures of themselves in bras, and one girl actually showed some nipple. [...]

    What really concerns me about this entire situation is that the alarm bells over the “sexting” are distracting from the real problem, which is this prosecutor’s massive abuse of office deployed so that he could go on a full-blown misogynist sex panic in public. He needs to be relieved of his duties for this, because he’s indicated that he doesn’t think that the female half of the population he’s supposed to serve and protect deserves his service. One thing that really struck me in reading blogger coverage of this was that the prosecutor George P. Skumanick had the gall to imply that the girls’ parents should be thanking him.
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