These are people who are alienated and don't really identify with their fellow residents in any positive way. They feel the tragedy is an opportunity for them.

Bigotry and hatred and prejudice rise and fall depending on certain situations.

Gossip, then, is content, a message about people; rumor is a process. It takes a bit of gossip and reshapes it, modifies it in some way, and passes it along from individual to individual in different ways.

Building prisons to fight crime is like building cemeteries to fight disease.

I think healthy competition is good for business, and really at the end best for end-users. Just think about what Android would have been if it was not for iPhone - a better blackberry?

I am fairly average in my expenses as a person in a technical line/CEO of work.

In some cases, this may actually make the difference. It has an impact on those people who aren't rigidly in favor of the death penalty, but who could still change their minds.

These things take a while to sink in before people decide they're not going to take it anymore. I don't think we're there yet.

You don't give the perpetrators a slap on the wrist.

apparently nobody noticed before this disaster that the crime rate was always extremely high in New Orleans.