Chart 'O the Day
by digby
Nobody really knows why this happened. There's a pretty good theory out there about lead in our atmosphere and in older dwellings with lead paint leading to that huge spike in violence, but it's not been proved.
One thing we do know is that the so-called political science that hypothesized that America had bred a "Super-Predator" that was so uniquely evil that we needed to throw out all common sense and constitutional principles to thwart it turned out to be hysterical nonsense. Now we're applying that superstitious nonsense to "terrorism", mostly foreign. We just love that boogeyman theory ...
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