ArcticUnicorn

http://abc7news.com/dna-that-cracked-golden-state-killer-cas... This article states that the main DNA sites and Ancestry.com didn't release the information, so I'm curious about where it came from as well. Though it does say they'll comply with 'valid legal requests' it also says they weren't contacted.

'As he was being arrested, he told officers he had a roast in the oven. They said they would take care of it.'

Humans are an odd bunch.

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"It’s been several decades since Daniel Bell wrote The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, but his insights have proven prescient. Ever-more-powerful market forces actually undermine the foundations of social stability, wreaking havoc on tradition, religion, and robust civil associations, destroying what conservatives value the most. They create a less human world. They make us less happy. They generate pain."

This articulates the feelings/observations I've been mulling over recently. Also the idea of opiate abusers being a self-selecting group of the "failed" areas of society was something I hadn't thoroughly considered. Very interesting. If opiates caused a more distinct rise in violet crime, would public policy be forced to respond similar to the other drug epidemics? (Though I might argue that those epidemics were just replaced with this one, yielding quieter and more easily ignored victims.)