Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.

How easy it is for a fantasy to grab hold of your foot like a rope, and dangle your life upside down while brigands go through your pockets. Deal with the life you've got. Solve the problems you have, rather than fantasizing about a life without them.

On the other hand, if you suggest to a person who has been a victim of a serious crime that we take the issue too seriously, they'll look at you like you're crazy. So that's a really tough issue, whether we're doing more harm than good by paying so much attention to a few cases that honestly don't normally intersect with our lives.

Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers?

You can't ultimately dodge defeat by winning close elections.

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.