Posted on 04/03/2006 10:36:07 AM PDT by mlc9852
I grew up wanting to be Bond, Matt Helm or Hugh Hefner. It was quite a shock when I found out how much Hefner paid those girls.
But I'm sure you considered being as rich as Hef and matching him dollar for dollar at least once.
Maybe in your teenage years, that is.
Anyone catch the Britney Spears photo in the article? Ewww x 10.
No, but I can see why certain media blowhards wish these sorts of facts away. Like the global warming chicken littles, they have nothing to gain unless there is a "crisis" to bemoan.
The data is from U.S. Department of Justice - Bureau of Justice Statistics. The particular chart is from here.
Immaterial to this raw data directly from the DOJ has been superimposed a few video game related dates, to give context for the timespan.
All that has increased is media coverage of rarer and rarer events.
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