I guess I’m a day late and a dollar short. I didn’t actually know it was MLK Day (but hell, I’m in Thailand). But happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day to everybody. Seriously. Some mock this holiday, but not me. Not only is it good to have more holidays in general and particularly in the…
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Amazingly for Detroit, this building is stills standing: Mind you, nothing around it is. [I’m on vacation; life is good. While I’m gone, I’ve scheduled some non-timely non-police filler posts.]
Plain clothed friendly fire police shooting. [please don’t post stupid or disrespectful comments, or respond to those who do.]
Another one from Fall River. This one isn’t so bad. At least the bank building is still standing. Of course pretty much everything that has changed is not a change for the better. Notice, if you zoom on the old picture (best to go to the Shorpy site for this), you can see in front…
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So off the main road you make a right at the train track next to the highway and walk down the tracks a short distance to the first food stand and get a papaya salad. There’s a bunch of cops sitting at one table eating and drinking. I befriend them and ask for a picture…
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Newt Gingrich and Pat Nolan in the Washington Post on the need for less prison. We urge conservative legislators to lead the way in addressing an issue often considered off-limits to reform: prisons.
It’s my nameday, school is out, and my wife and I are whizzing through the air in an amazing flying machine that but 110 years ago, was an unimaginable fantasy. (When this post comes out, we’ll be on our way to Dubai, en-route to Bangkok.) My second book, In Defense of Flogging, is all-but done.…
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This one is almost too much to believe. And not for the normal reasons of becoming abandoned. Fall River, Mass, is still doing OK, I think. But not what used to be the heart of downtown. And now. It doesn’t look like the same place. But it is. Where’s that beautiful building on the right…
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I’m ran the latest draft of my book through a word-frequency count. 47 uses of “simply”?! That’s simply too many, and I got that down to 11 (mostly just by deleting them–it’s interesting how often “simply” simply isn’t needed). Now I’m working on “certainly,” “of course,” and “actually.” It’s very easy to fall on such…
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Sort of. And only in response to a lawsuit. Here’s the Times story. Why not just give out the raw data so academics like me can actually use it? It might actually help the NYPD and the city. Just sayin’…