For the third straight year, even as the Great Recession pummels ever more people into poverty, the national crime rate has dropped. Murder, rape, burglary -- almost every kind of criminality has fallen, with the rate of violent crime and property crime dropping by another 5% in 2009. Since 1991, the United States has seen the murder and manslaughter rate drop by half, violence in general fall by a third, and automobile theft dropping by half in
Just when I'm feeling a bit optimistic, Ken, you come along and kick me right down into existential despair. And that's why we love you.
You know, if you're like me, and I know I am, you're constantly thinking about killing that neighbor of yours that lets his nasty poodle crap in your yard and never picks it up. But killing another human really takes a lot of effort and planning. Seeing that the neighbor is MUCH fatter than you he probably stroke out way before you do and while that won't give you as much satisfaction as snapping the poodle's neck and stuffing down your neighbors throat until goes smurf blue and cold, I think I'll just take a nap and get caught up on my Two and a Half Men reruns.
Soon, the only thugs in America will be lithe, in-shape <a href="http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=BjyOpiNuLBw" target="_blank"> dancing thugs.</a>
Is anyone else thinking about the Sopranos? I am visualizing Vito Spatafore running down a sidewalk in a windbreaker to shoot Jackie-Junior Aprile. Tony, Big Pussy, Bobby Bacala -- all of them lard-asses, all of them perpetrators of violent crime.
It&#039;s the unemployment benefits! Extend mine or I&#039;ll return to my life of crime.
Just when I&#039;m feeling a bit optimistic, Ken, you come along and kick me right down into existential despair. And that&#039;s why we love you.
Clearly lowered military recruitment standards are to blame; all the good criminals are in the Army.
You know, if you&#039;re like me, and I know I am, you&#039;re constantly thinking about killing that neighbor of yours that lets his nasty poodle crap in your yard and never picks it up. But killing another human really takes a lot of effort and planning. Seeing that the neighbor is MUCH fatter than you he probably stroke out way before you do and while that won&#039;t give you as much satisfaction as snapping the poodle&#039;s neck and stuffing down your neighbors throat until goes smurf blue and cold, I think I&#039;ll just take a nap and get caught up on my Two and a Half Men reruns.
Soon, the only thugs in America will be lithe, in-shape <a href="http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v=BjyOpiNuLBw" target="_blank"> dancing thugs.</a>
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Could it be that it&#039;s just <i>you</i> that can&#039;t turn a corner without running into a police car?
Is anyone else thinking about the Sopranos? I am visualizing Vito Spatafore running down a sidewalk in a windbreaker to shoot Jackie-Junior Aprile. Tony, Big Pussy, Bobby Bacala -- all of them lard-asses, all of them perpetrators of violent crime.