Brief Thought

I have very little to write about today. Sorry.

I do want to point out one thing, though. I was looking on John Kerry's website to try and figure out where he stands on various issues, and I noticed a statistic claiming that hate crimes rose 3.5% between 1999 and 2000.

First of all, why is he using a 4 year-old statistic? Second, does that actually indicate that there's more hatred now?

Think about this: If you're in charge, and you decide to make blinking illegal, couldn't you then say that blink crime has gone up 100%? That's my problem with hate crime statistics. When you define hate crime as "bad things that people do to minorities," you're going to have a lot more hate crime.

In any case, hate crime laws are idiotic. By the logic they use, we could vary the sentence for breaking and entering depending on how much the intruder was planning to steal, even if they didn't get away with it.

See what I mean about critical thinking? If everyone learned to make logical distinctions like that, there'd be no more liberals, and Rachel Lucas' dream could be a reality at last!