Recent content by spikepipsqueak

Can only speak for myself. I wouldn't know about those small events if I didn't spend time here. When I see you guys discussing some issue I know nothing about, I often have to Google it. Many times only a name is mentioned in the thread as there is an assumption that anyone reading it will...

I think this might need a thread of its own. I doubt that Brendan Nugent's actions had anything to do with US politics. Would bet that he's mentally ill. At the least that he has existing anger and self control issues. Hardly a rational statement of his political stance. I hear she's lost a...

Human life is either sacrosanct or it isn't. You are advocating killing someone for killing someone.

You're a pretty Old Testament sort of Christian, Tigers!. This thread prompted me to see which countries still use capital punishment. The top 5, by number of deaths, were China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Yemen. What's the betting the last 4 are also on religious grounds? And China is not...

I saw The Wicked Wit of the Royal Family for 10c and thought it might be fun. It wasn't. Just about worth every cent. Near the end of James Clavell's Taipan ($3 in the same place) and enjoying it. Not to the same extent as I remember being absorbed by his Shogun.

You're breaking my heart. Until this, I would have said that neither actor had been in a bad movie. (From a standpoint of not having watched all of them. )

I'm confused. Is there a reason we hate him? That was hilarious. BTW, I think he said "in the UK", not "us in the UK".

He always seemed full of life. Perhaps he just didn't let go the first time. I shouldn't joke. He was a good man, to all appearances. So probably wouldn't object to the joking.

Not what I'm eating right now (that will be a can of tuna in about an hour) but I'm wanting some sympathy. A few weeks ago I bought a hindquarter of beef, wanting to guarantee good quality. That didn't work on this occasion, it wasn't up to scratch. To add insult to injury I over loaded the...

Bullshit, Tigers!. You're better than that. The cost to any society of training its citizens to believe that the right to live is a matter of pragmatism far outweighs any financial cost of maintaining criminals in isolation. Doing that is how you fill your prisons in the first place.

Thanks Tigers! First to post has it.

It seems to me (on admittedly minimal information) that the countries with the most draconian notions of the rights of their citizens are the same ones whose citizens fail to respect each other's right to live. I can't figure out which is the chicken and which the egg. Suspect it is a...

Shank it is. : ). BTW. I had forgotten about Robertson Davies. You have prompted another massive rereading binge. Thank you.

Don't know for sure, but I thought there was some pay for the work people do in prison. It pays for small luxuries.

My mum had a jokey plan for when I was grown up and off her hands. Commit some "victimless" crime that would get her 20 years. A financial crime would do it. "They" value money more than people. Go into jail, where food and lodging are provided. Read, when not working at some task. Die before...