MDS writes: i'm sorry for commenting on your blog so often lately but today really got my dander up about an issue i never understood. the idea that there are such things as "hate crimes" drives me positively batty. no crime is committed with love and it's not LESS of a crime if you murder/beat/abuse someone of the same race,
religion, sexual preference, etc. by the same token it shouldn't be
MORE of a crime if it involves parties of opposing views.