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Not as funny as several things on this page, but..."It's better to be late to a positive place than to drive faster and get to a negative place." I think a drivers' training teacher said that first. By now lots of people in my part of the world say it.

Considering some of the things some people in prison have done, I wonder whether society should bear any responsibility for feeding them during their prison time. Let the people who oppose the death penalty provide food for somebody who shoved an old lady out of her car in order to steal it, but...

Wow...no answers? I was hoping to read some answers...

I prefer knives because it's almost impossible to hurt an innocent person with a knife.

I hate street harassment and think men who do it should be banned from the streets, but I look at the statistics. If I really am likely to be harassed or have my knitting bag stolen by some fool who thinks it's a purse, in that area a man is likely to be maimed or killed. (Rape, as such...no, I...

A police officer lived around the block from my husband and me in a suburb in Prince Georges County, Maryland. P.G. is sometimes stereotyped as a rougher place than most of it is. Actually that was a very nice neighborhood...I think people were trying to show that a multiethnic community could...

How it happens? When a small car hits a bridge, the car shows most of the damage. When a big rig hits a bridge, the bridge shows damage too. Or were you thinking about why it happens...as in drivers on drugs, drivers on phones, drivers falling asleep...?

I used to live in a city neighborhood where all kinds of businesses, certainly including convenience stores and bakeries, offered "police specials" on the theory that thieves would avoid stores/restaurants where police cars often stopped. I always thought that was the origin of the stereotype.

(I'm not a police officer, not sure whether the person who started this thread wants civilian answers, but for what it's worth...) I find it easier to exercise regularly if what I do for exercise is useful, whether it's gardening, a physical labor job, or walking to the post office. For me the...

In my part of the world I don't think the standards are high enough. Thinking of one specific person here...it's laudable if someone over age 50 still wants to be a sheriff's deputy, but if he's overweight, can't keep up with a 50-year-old woman walking, and can't climb a steep hill at a fast...

This is interesting to read. A friend-of-a-friend just shook pepper up in water in a spray bottle and spritzed a nuisance dog, and cured the dog of being a nuisance. I've wondered whether pepper spray would work on a seriously aggressive dog.

I'd like to see some police officers stand up against this abomination. It came up in the Virginia legislature this year. I was really counting on my State Senator to outlaw this practice (he's a former State Trooper and had sponsored a bill that would outlaw seizure of assets prior to...

Sometimes I wonder whether all outright lies indicate...ineptitude? If I don't want people to hear my name on the radio, I say that. If the true answer to "Did you see the incident?" would involve revealing that I was doing something I'd be ashamed of doing, well, that's another reason not to do...

In cyberspace I'm a cat--a very special social cat whose willingness to adopt kittens reminded me of something I like about myself. There are plenty of house cats in the world. If I were going to transform into an animal under stress it might be a panther or leopard. Not big or aggressive, but...

By any chance are you on the e-mail list of the Sloth Sanctuary of Costa Rica?

I only wish having dogs and cats "put down" were counted as cruelty against HSUS. A friend was having that problem last week--a lovable old dog was dribbling all over the place. I saved extra newspapers for them to put on the floor where the dog was. There's medication that helps some animals...

What, y'mean all the homeless people in California did not move to Washington, D.C.? Sounds as if Californians need to grow backbones. Washingtonians pay for shelters, learn to walk past the ones who don't go into the shelters, and offer G.E.D. and job training courses to the ones who can profit...

Do youall think the payment plan makes a difference? If I gave a child a cell phone, it would have prepaid minutes. Seeing even a half-minute call eat up his money is a good way to teach the kid that the phone is for emergencies, not for sending pictures to friends.

Virginia law enforcement should not be shy about this. I've seen people going around tight, blind curves on a rainy night, obviously thinking the phone conversation must come first. The only thing that I can imagine would stop them would be tickets. There used to be a social norm that using a...

I've heard that Amadou Diallo's problem was that, in some countries where guns are less often carried, the rule is "If stopped by police, show ID."