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Companies that have reported blowout quarters--like Yahoo and Akamai--have been punished for no apparent reason, while other companies are trading much higher or lower on no news at all.
A "Talk of the Town" item argues that Clinton should be punished by prohibiting him from giving the State of the Union address.
That doesn't justify the ongoing disparity between criminal sentences for possession of powder cocaine and possession of crack--crack is much more likely to be used by blacks, and is punished much more harshly--but it does justify the tougher approach law enforcement agencies take in general today, as compared to two decades ago.
Once we punished sleazebags by ostracizing them; now we unnecessarily jail them.
As we house shopped, we realized we were being punished for our sanctimonious attitudes and for enjoying our easy bus ride to work.