If legal highs are now being blamed for increasing violence, could the interests of the prison authorities and the expectations of the public at last converge?
Fire suppression has been blamed for increasing stand densities and a shift from fire-tolerant trees to shade-tolerant but fire sensitive trees.
Absence of management has in turn been blamed for increasing the risk of fire, thus forming a vicious circle of low profitability, little management and high risk of fire.
Although Rangel's more comprehensive plan enjoys the support of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, few other Democrats have endorsed the measure due to the risk of being blamed for "increasing taxes" ahead of an election year.
The media have been blamed for increasing tension between Indonesia and Malaysia, and giving Malaysians a bad image of Indonesians.
The political manipulations of districts, particularly following the 2010 mid-terms, has been blamed for increasing polarization and extremism in our politics because contestants in safe districts position themselves to win primaries, the only contest that actually counts.
"The alleged rise of Satanism in the 1980s was being blamed for increasing divorce rates, feminism, kids using drugs, and kids not wanting to go to the army," Nicky Falkof, a lecturer in media studies at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, told me with a laugh.
This approach has been blamed for increasing the risk of damage to the superior gluteal nerve and to the gluteus medius muscle (Jolles and Bogoch 2006, Arthursson et al. 2007, Khan and Knowles 2007).
The rising use of these potent drugs has also been blamed for increases in two very serious, hard-to-treat infections: antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (known as MRSA) and severe diarrhea caused by Clostridium difficile.
