Don't Put Bernie in Jail

I think it is a terrible idea to put Bernie Madoff in jail. I am not saying that I think he is innocent and I am not saying that I think he should not be punished. I think he should be punished and severely.

But if he is put in jail, he will once again be living off other people. He will continue his parasitic lifestyle. He will be sucking his livelihood from the taxpayer. We will be paying for his food and shelter and his health insurance.

Instead of putting him in jail we should make him live in a suburb of Pheonix or Cleveland or Fresno. Make him live in a nondescript badly struccoed apartment complex with meth addicts and hookers. In a small one bedroom with broken air-conditioning and dark wood paneling. With the only view being the back of an equalling depressing building and the dumpsters between them.

Make Madoff work at a minimum wage job that does not provide health insurance. Make it so that he can never be promoted and always has to clean the bathrooms. Make him stay there till he croaks with no retirement and terrible health insurance.

Yes, this might fall under "cruel and unusual", but shouldn't the punishment fit the crime?

Food

From an article in the NY Times -

Chili’s cook up “hyper-palatable food that requires little chewing and goes down easily"

hmm...doesn't sound hyper-palatable when it's put that way

and

the Snickers bar, for instance, is “extraordinarily well engineered.”

Now I know why I love Snickers...good engineering!

Redundancy

A PIN number is what people use at an ATM machine.

Re: G.U.T

G.U.T is this.

An aesthetic has no inherent tool or logic.
A tool has no inherent logic or aesthetic.
A logic has no inherent aesthetic or tool.

Violence begets Violence

What would have been the worst thing to happen if police and the Basijis hadn't shown up?
Sounds like the bad stuff started when "police and militia forces used guns, truncheons, tear gas and water cannons to beat back thousands of demonstrators" Where did they need to be back from? Did the demonstrators have pitchforks and torches? Were they threatening anyone?

Trying to use the fear of pain is obviously not working, so why does the government insist on escalating it? It is just making the current Iranian government look bad.

The situation would have blown over much faster if the protesters had been allowed to march peacefully. Let them get their yayas out and then eventually they'd go home.