HBO abases itself

Network pauses briefly in its ongoing planning of future rape spectaculars to apologize for having portrayed the head of a person many Americans worship as a tutelary deity stuck on the end of a spike.

Two items

President Obama said Friday his administration would stop deporting some illegal immigrants who were brought to the country as children and have gone on to be productive and otherwise law-abiding residents, forcing the emotional immigration policy debate into the forefront of the presidential campaign.

The comments are in general not supportive of this move. I assume the Post is like the CBC and there are hordes of conservatives poised to post angry responses to every article.

In what the report called a “notable reversal of the historic pattern,” the number of Mexicans leaving rose sharply in the five years after 2005, while the new flow of migrants coming from Mexico into the United States fell steeply, Pew demographers found.

I'm pretty sure I know what my crazy old man ranting button is going to be

In a discussion of California's population, in response to

>There are also ethnic considerations - many Hispanic
>girls want to have a big family because they come from a big family -
>even if they are citizens, even if their family has been in the US and
>California for generations. This desire to start young and have a lot
>of kids isn't going away for that ethnic community, which is a
>burgeoning part of our population.

I say

Is there like a law or something that requires the claim of alarming
fecundity in various minority groups during discussions of population
growth? I mean, Ted Turner and his kin breed like mice; he alone has
had five kids and there's no reason to think he's stopped, despite
which I seem to be the only one agitating for a humane or at least
humane-ish capture, neuter and release program for the Turners. What
is it about them that makes people comfortable with the Turners
spilling out over the long suffering Earth like an all consuming
flood of pink, smugly entitled meat but nervous about Hispanics? What
could that subtle factor be?

(various spelling errors fixed or at least altered)

Which are

Tomoyasu Hotei's best songs?