re: #120 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I remember a time when I often considered GOP candidates and even voted for some of them in local elections.

I don’t remember such a time in my life. YMMV

re: #112 Sufficient unto the day…

Jesus Christ.

Crime rates and absolute number of crimes are very different. Smaller city, smaller absolute number of crimes, but my city has a higher crime rate therefore it is more dangerous.

Also…you said 60. 44 is not 60.— jay

I use the town in my county where a murder and car arson occurred in 2012 when I have to demonstrate the difference between crime rates and absolute numbers.

Angora has a population of one. In 2012, it had a murder and a car arson. (The one person who lives there was not a victim or the perpetrator.)

Therefore, in 2012, Angora had a 100% rate of murders and car arsons.

In normal years, the rate is 0%.