how's your blood pressure?

Oh, climbing steadily. It's been that kind of week.

You name it, we've tried it. It doesn't work with the underclass.

Clearly we need to just put them in boxes and ship them far away from the white people. They might be contagious, after all.

I can feel a rant building and I'm not even from there... Just argh...

Remind me not to look at my keyboard. Because my depth perception is a little off, so it looks like the keys are all at different heights.

Did I mention that the opthamologist said my eye might get worse before it gets better?

My brain hurts, so I cannot suss out what this means:

The reason the White Sox and Indians wouldn't play a one-game playoff is because, with the Red Sox and Yankees playing each other this weekend, one team would be guaranteed to finish out of the playoffs if the Indians swept the White Sox. And in instances in which two teams from the same division are guaranteed to make the playoffs, MLB does not use a one-game playoff, instead relying on head-to-head records to break the tie.

Am I wrong, or is there a hanging deixis in the last sentence? That "two teams from the same division" seems equally to apply to either of the pairs in the first sentence, and I have no idea what the author is attempting to say. Except that the stupid White Sox clinched the AL Central, for reasons esoteric.

When Ronald Reagan took office, 0.9% of the population was under correctional supervision. That figure has continued to rise. When crime began to fall in 1992, it stood at 1.9%. In 2003 it was 2.4%. Crime has dropped, but criminality has continued to rise.

This is called "Lying with statistics." The crime rate is falling for lots of reasons, but when people are sentenced to 30-year prison terms, a short-term drop in crime will have no effect on the size of prison population. It's not that people are more incorrigible now; it's that their incorrigible gets them locked up for life now.

Ronald Reagan is notorious for having caused the closure of a lot of insane asylums, in most cases jus plopping the disturbed inmates onto the street. Most of them ended up in prison, where the prisons really struggle to treat their mental illness, because that's not what prisons were designed to do.

Ronald Reagan can be blamed for almost everything. Who do you think told the Greeks to store explosives in the Parthenon, during their revolution??

Who do you think told the Greeks to store explosives in the Parthenon, during their revolution??

That was Nancy-Pants.

Oh, climbing steadily. It's been that kind of week.

Maybe we should all buff dive the bad taste from our mouths.

Lillian is going as a lion, on account of getting the costume for a buck-fifty at Goodwill.

Plus? You made her so she growls.

studiously avoids asshate racist nonsense as already has big headache

Oh. "Asshate" is a typo, but I'ma leave it.

Was the original article accompanied by illustrations from those old Sambo cartoons?

Clearly we need to just put them in boxes and ship them far away from the white people. They might be contagious, after all.

There's a more cost-effective way than that. We could set up a separate government interface system for the underclass. It would be equal to what is offered to what hard-working Americans have, only separate. They get their own school system, their own reserved seats in public transit, even their own drinking fountains.

I've dubbed this system "segregation," and I think it has a great future. Of course, we will need to put things in place to prevent the underclass from mooching off what hard-working Americans will have, e.g. preventing marriage between the two groups. We could also use law enforcement to keep them from mixing, but I don't think the underclass would want any trouble around hard-working Americans. And I'm sure some group of hard-working American citizens would band together to enforce "segregation" via some form of private organization. Such "privatization" would save the taxpayers money, for sure.

I think this is a great idea, don't you?