I used to go to Chuck E. Cheese when I was a littlun' getting straight A's. I'd show them my report card and they'd give me four tokens for each A, which added up to a gleaming, glorious pile of tokens for all my academic hard work. It was the best time of my life. I'd play Galaga for hours. I once had my birthday party there.
On the "televise the execution or not" debate: I read a very good editorial in favor. The reasoning was that if the average joe actually watched a live execution, the average joe would stop thinking that the death penalty was a good idea, and the average joe would perhaps vote for government officials who opposed the death penalty. The writer reasoned that, in the long run, a few public executions would go a long way toward halting all state-sponsored executions. The guy who wrote that editorial is Steven Brill, who founded Court TV and now edits Brill's Content. But he also acknowledged that someone would try to profit off televising an execution, which is rather bad in ways I can't comprehend.
I tossed some bread out for the birds, and a mean old rabbit decided to eat all the bread himself. I didn't even know that rabbits liked baked goods. This changes everything.
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