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soften penalties for violent crimes including carjackings, murder and sexual assault! the upside? well, now the courts won't have to deal with violent offenders. they could be free to prosecute gas-oven owners, and it's about time! the overall city's criminal code includes reduced maximum sentences and the elimination of nearly all mandatory minimum sentences. this is crazy! there's also provisions that let violent criminals ask for early release 20 years into their sentences in case they were too stupid to demand they go to the women's jail. grow your hair out for god's sake. so ...

NR Narayana Murthy, nice man and one of the seven Infosages, publicly 'requested' that 'our youngsters must say, 'This is my country. I'd like to work 70 hours a week.' He didn't specify whether he wanted them to say it standing with hand on the heart or not. Unlike the former president, Murthy has not ignited minds with his 'request'. Instead, he has lit a bonfire at every water-cooler corner, open-plan office, conference room meeting, and peeved Sunday column.

I asked for stelter water. they brought me a pint of blue cheese. >> greg: it gets better. he's got to get through the awful one and then -- he starts off with an awful one. second one is better. then he ends with the best one. did you get through them all? >> i think that's everything. right at the bottom it says, keep going. that's funny. >> greg: we never get invited to this stuff. >> what the hell would we do there besides drool? even the guy who was hosting it -- did you actually hear what he said? did anyone bother to hear what he said? well, the problems are forth and major and whatnot ...

A fortnightly column from The Wire's ombudsperson.

One of the premier oracles of truth about public health – or so we are told – is once again lying about the latest infectious disease scare, also known as monkeypox. Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, [...]