Instead of thanking "mandatory minimums," perhaps you should thank the criminals?

Totally flawed.
People spend THEIR OWN money on education.

PUBLIC money is spent keeping criminals from killing you.

Actually, D, you genius, PUBLIC money is spent on PUBLIC universities.

Speaking of higher education, how has there been no mention yet on Blogtown of Dan Savage being "glitterbombed" at Univ. of Oregon for being "transphobic"?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/02/d…

Chuck, that is also called be assaulted. But considering it happened on a liberal campus where it is always permissible to limit conservatives free speech, nothing will come of it.

If we emptied the jails, much of Oregon would begin to look like Occupy Jonestown on the park blocks. Maybe the Mercury Kool-Aide drinkers like the smelly, dope smoking, vagrants, but the Mercury ideals are only a tiny portion of the populous.

Allow me to clarify - in addition to public funding, parents aren't handing over fists of cash to send their kids to state prison.

Andy: I'm assuming from your comment about limiting "conservatives free speech" that you don't know who Dan Savage is.