I Have To Agree With This

MSNBC has decided to write about the current heat wave in the Phoenix area. The article is mostly just the normal make-you-feel-good-you're-not-there type of story. But towards the end they attempt to pull the usual feel bad for the plight of the prisoners in jail:

About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts.

On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees inside the week before. Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their pink socks.

"It feels like you are in a furnace," said James Zanzo't, an inmate who has lived in the tents for 1½ years. "It's inhumane."

To which the sheriff of Maricopa County responded:

"It's 120 degrees in Iraq and the soldiers are living in tents and they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your mouths."

I got to admit that the sheriff has a pretty good point, if it's good enough for the men and women in uniform, it is more than adequate for a common petty criminal. 'Nuff said.