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[Healy]

Really from what little I know about prisons in this country (very little) it seems like practically any US prison would make that place look like a five star hotel.

[Classic]

Any place that would house someone under that much "suspicion" of that many counts of premeditated murder, at least.

[Büge]

Really from what little I know about prisons in this country (very little) it seems like practically any US prison would make that place look like a five star hotel.

Assuming he didn't end up with a bad case of shiv-holes in the first couple of days.

[Brentai]

I dunno, I think the guy who worries about what kind of sweater he's wearing while in prison might become quite... valuable here.

[Brentai]

I guess all the other Breivik stuff got moved to this topic, so here we go.

Speaking of:

In his final words, Mr. Breivik regretted not killing more people, apologizing to other “militant nationalists” for not achieving an even higher death toll. He said he wouldn’t appeal the ruling because that would “legitimize” a court he said got its mandate from a political system that supports multiculturalism.

I'm actually starting to get a little worried that he's ever not in handcuffs.

[Sharkey]

Though it should be pointed out that there's a difference between killing kids with a shitload of guns and staging some kind of superhuman Hannibal Lecter-esque unarmed escape. I don't think he's particularly dangerous to anyone but himself under these circumstances, and honestly, if the point of those circumstances is to keep someone from offing themselves there's a certain degree of irony there.

That said, I really couldn't give fewer fucks.

[Classic]

The government really wants to let the world know that they're the rule of law and not tolerating this shit.
They are not going to let him die until they say he should and they are going to let him bitch and moan his cause into as much irrelevancy as he has the power to do.

[Brentai]

Not that I think the dude is exactly The Joker with a Glass of Water, but I do think that, given the opportunity to at least shank an officer of the law in the ribs, he would consider it a sin NOT to do it.  That's enough to warrant some caution, and if that means more frequent searches by the people you "feel bad about not killing more of", well, that's what you get for failing to kill them, you incompetent nobody.

[Brentai]

Don't worry, kids.  Hostess may be dead, but there are PLENTY of others out there willing to feed you confectionary disasters.  For example: Cracker Jack'D.

http://m.nydailynews.com/1.1203251

Given what it will probably do to kids I can actually think of a few more terrible names than what they went with.

[Shinra]

"Kickin'". What is this, 1996?

[Brentai]

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/09/14

[Mongrel]

Speaking of White House Petitions...

[Mongrel]

http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/vce-authorities-apologise-for-phantom-robot-20121119-29lbl.html

Bawhawhawhaw

[Mongrel]

Here's a small holiday giggle for you: http://exclaim.ca/News/slayer_make_their_own_ugly_christmas_sweater

[Ted Belmont]

So I had a date tonight! Not too bright, but cute. Things were going pretty well, until she told me something a bit odd.

She has two daughters, you see. And when her daughters were born, she gave them a second last name.

The second last name? Hitler.

[R^2]

Sounds like somebody who would be urgently pursuing Lottel.

[Caithness]

I was thinking the same thing. In fact, I had to double-check to make sure that new coffee-drinking avatar didn't belong to Lottel.

[Ted Belmont]

Hmm, good point.

There we go.

[Mongrel]

Japan's remaining ninja grandmasters have decided not to pass on their training

I think that article a little overblown seeing as how codification was only a later development. Early ninjas didn't have much (if any) specially-made weapons or dark clothes and just used whatever was at hand. Early ninja were simply folks adept at breaking & entering, skulduggery, much like a typical assassin or spy from any other nation's preindustrial history hired by nobles to do dirty work, in many cases just barely above a thug or street thief.

They probably gradually gained specialized weapons codified tradition during the long peaceful period of the mid and later shogunate, when samurai life became more stiffly formal and ceremonial and covert "problem-solving" would have been more common than open fighting for resolving issues between nobles and when building fearsome legends was useful "You better not complain about your rice allotment, or the Shogun'll send his MAGIC NINJAS after you!" So this is more like the death of the marketing tradition.

[François]

I'm not saying this is actually what's going on, but... telling the world you're not appointing a successor, and then appointing a successor without telling anyone about it, would seem to me like a very ninja-like thing to do.