American justice is rubbish though. To save money they want people to plead guilty and threaten you with dire consequences if you don't....therefore people who consider themselves innocent plea bargain to avoid the death sentence or to get themselves put into a 'soft' prison. Swift justice can mangle the innocent under its wheels as well as the guilty....especially if you are poor and/or black.
I agree, especially as the European Courts don't like our Home Secretary's right to prevent someone ever leaving prison. Some criminals will never be redeemed and will always be a risk to the public.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-32201995 I know people from Essex are notoriously thick but this is just beyond moronic.
I'm sorry DTLW, but whenever I think of Essex, I think of planks such as Joey Essex who have more thumbs than brain cells. When I saw that story I couldn't help thinking "only in Essex could people like that do something so stupid".
Talking of thick...one burglar was caught recently because he posted pictures of himself with his swag and equipment on Facebook.
You keep saying its a generational thing but I not sure that's the case, acdc are before my time anyway. Also I like led zep, but only the epic stuff like stairway, not so much the bluesy stuff. I don't know sho Frampton is. For what its worth, my primary choice of rock music is late 90s/ early 00s punk. That is defiantly my era as I'm in my 30s.
It's a generational thing for me then. That's all I can think of. I could say they were crap, but that is obviously not true as they appeal to a lot of people, but I suspect generally to those people who heard them before they heard those who had influenced AC/DC. By all accounts I should think that Queen, for example, are one of the best bands that ever strode into a recording studio, but I could never take them seriously, and it even took me two purchased LPs to realise it. Sting is another artist who leaves me totally flat [Indeed, if anyone wants that vinyl album of A Dream of Blue Turtles, that I tried to give away on here a few years ago they are welcome to it]. And FWIW, I was born into early 60's Pop, Rock, Psychedelic, Progressive, you name it. I don't really feel that I have an era as such though. Like yourself obviously I just like what I like, be it Gilbert & Sullivan, Mozart, Hendrix, Moody Blues, Nick Drake, Donovan, Beach Boys, Simple Minds, Talking Heads, XTC, the list is practically endless. And I discover music that I've never heard from almost any era and some of it astonishes me how good it is. A couple of years ago, for example, I decided to listen closely, pretty much for the first time, to some of Bjork's albums, and they were incredible. So music takes me where it will. Here's a Wiki link to Peter Frampton, and a Youtube of Do You Feel off the well known Frampton Comes Alive album. Turn up the volume. You may like it.
A US Police Officer has been charged with the murder of a black man. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-32213482 Warning: the link contains a video which shows the officer shooting the man.
Get ready for the usual character assassination of the victim, accompanied by a mug shot photo, and for the cop a graduation photo. Before the video was discovered this shooting was reported as self defence.
Fancy Fatboy Slim, Adele and David Walliams as neighbours? One of the houses on 'Millionaires Row' in Brighton has become available... http://www.brandvaughan.co.uk/pdfs/BV1587.pdf
