Frederick Brooks received electric shocks to his penis and testicles, and had a sparkler inserted into his urethra and then lit after which this torture was repeated a second time; after his toes were crushed and his nose and ears burned with cigarettes, he was allowed to choke to death on his gag.
 | Snowtown Murders (John Bunting)- Australia 

I do not have words of my own,
to bury my anguish, I borrow another's.

This heart is too small, too timid, and frail
to journey across these plains.

Carry me home, on your hips.

Where are you my God?
I have been calling you all my life.

But me I'm not stopping there,
Got my own row left to hoe
Just another line in the field of time
When the thrashers comes, I'll be stuck in the sun
Like the dinosaurs in shrines
But I'll know the time has come
To give what's mine.
             | Neil Young

Has any one, any persona in the Mahabharata, the epic, any one- who has sought refuge at the feet of Sri Krishna, did they perish not ?  O son of Partha....

Our prisons are profit motivated. Therefore there is no incentive to correct behavior. The only incentive is to increase head count, as that will increase shareholder value. This is why the U.S. holds one quarter of the global prison population right here in the 'land of the free'.

| Benny Acosta
 Wichita, Kansas
Re: (Op-Ed)
The-living-death-of-solitary-confinement (NYT)

At least the bear didn't have a gun and a badge, like the N.Y. cops. I'll take my chances with the bear.
| In response to a bear killing a man while being watched and photo-shooted @ Denali Park in Alaska