Waiting for the flack to fly.

A young lady on one of my local lj-communities asked the group for aide in a project for her sociology class. This aide was in the form of a yes or no answer poll dealing with capital punishment. I do not think she or any of those who did the poll are going to like my response:

" I would take this poll if it wasn't a yes/no poll.

Unlike the lunatic fringe on both the right and left, I don't believe these issues are so clear cut as to give simple yes or no.

I also believe anyone who does believe they are clear cut issues is either incredibly naive or incredibly self-deluded. "

(no subject)

In case anyone needs an example of just how FUCKED this area's bureaucracy is:

A Dallas TX man who owns a house here paid the city's late web registration fees so he could pay his garbage collection bill online.

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20050227/1059067.asp