in November someone kicked my front door in and stole my DVDs, digital camera, spare TV and coin jar

and you know what? i don’t care. period. sure it sucks and my wife felt scared for a month or so, but the DPD caught the guy and life goes on

everyone is responsible for their actions, including criminals, that’s a given, it’s just been my experience that break-ins and petty thefts seem to occur at higher frequencies when we’ve got a lame-duck GOP POTUS in office. go look at the stats and prove me wrong if you want

it was real hard finding working as a 19 year old in 1991 and i bet it’s tough now for kids that age. kids that i believe are extremely susceptible and impressionable to societal whims they don’t understand yet and are more apt to steal a bunch of DVDs and sell them to Half-Price Books for $100 than apply for a job at WMT or McD etc.

“We got our dirty little fingers in everybody’s pie
We love to cut you down to size
We love dirty laundry” — Don Henley, “Dirty Laundry”

Don’t worry. I did the exact same thing Monday to MushMouth.

DMN readership would be way up if it had more stories like this(i.e. interesting tales about interesting people who live among us).

Tell me you wouldn’t have had a lot of fun with a story like this if it occurred in your readership area.

Let me get this straight — the folks committing crimes aren’t at fault at all. Rather, it is the fault of our Republican president (but apparently not our Democratic Congress). When, if ever, would you ask someone committing a crime to take personal responsibility for that action? Possibly when you (or someone you actually care about) are the victim, if I had to make a guess.

I suppose the “logical” extension of your argument is that these “petty crimes” are just a form of political protest speech and would therefore be protected by the 1st Amendment.

Give me an f—ing break!

This is the sound of my brain.
Then I said, this is the sound of my brain on Don Henley!

Then I said, 1 2 3 4…

He’s a tortured artist
Used to be in the Eagles
Now he whines
Like a wounded beagle
Poet of despair!
Pumped up with hot air!
He’s serious, pretentious
And I just don’t care
Don Henley must die!
Don’t let him get back together
With Glenn Frey!
Don Henley must die!

Turn on the TV
And what did I see?
This bloated hairy thing
Winning a Grammy
Best Rock Vocalist?
Compared to what?
But your pseudo-serious
Crafty Satanic blot
Don Henley must die!
Put a sharp stick in his eye!
Don Henley must die!
Yea yea yea

Quit playin’ that crap
You’re out of the band

I’m only kidding
Can’t you tell?
I love his sensitive music
Idiot poetry, swell
You and your kind
Are killing rock and roll
It’s not because you are O L D
It’s cause you ain’t got no soul!
Don’t be afraid of fun
Loosen up your ponytail!
Be wild, young, free and dumb
Get your head out of your tail
Don Henley must die!
Don’t let him get back together
With Glenn Frey!

Don Henley must die!
Put him in the electric chair
Watch him fry!
Don Henley must die
Don Henley must die
No Eagles reunion
The same goes for you, Sting!

as for the recent rash of break ins: we’re in the last throes of a long eight years of GOP rule and lots of folks are getting hungry and desperate and stealing TVs, stereos, coin collections, etc. is their only way to make a buck, if you will

the past few years have reminded me of the late ’80s early ’90s in that regard

when folks get kicked in the teeth for years by a government they feel has abandoned and/or neglected them, those that feel most betrayed turn to petty crime to take out their frustrations…just my opinion and no where near a thesis or anything

/So was my neighbor’s.