People Who Touch Your Junk
I love Venn Diagrams. This is a good one: It’s from a site I need to visit more, Chartport.org.
I love Venn Diagrams. This is a good one: It’s from a site I need to visit more, Chartport.org.
If you’re not a writer or a computer nerd, just skip this. Really. I’m editing my book (and being doing so for a long while). It’s very near done and still a very slow process. About six hours ago, I bought a text-to-speech program online for $50 (NaturalSoft, for what it’s worth. I have no…
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The headline says: “Portugal’s drug policy pays off; US eyes lessons.” Of course it should probably say, “US ignores lessons.” I like pseudo neutral editor’s note: “This is part of an occasional series by The Associated Press examining the U.S. struggles in its war on drugs after four decades and $1 trillion.” The story is…
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This time from Jacksonville, Florida. It looks like the Hamrock Hotel is a pretty upscale place, with all them nice new Ford motorcars out front! The only old building left is vacant, abandoned, and falling apart. And as usual, business and buildings have been replaced with parking lots and vacant lots. There’s one big new…
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Happy Boxing Day (if you’re Canadian). Or Second Day of Christmas (if you’re Dutch). Why don’t we have two-day holidays (especially the Friday after Thanksgiving)? In the news: People in jail recording themselves reading books for their kids to listen to. The DEA is big and scary and still unable to stop world leaders from…
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Seems to be what’s happening in Newark, which laid off 163 police officers last month.
First, as my wife sits near me working on a guidebook to the Yucatan (that’s Cancun, Playa del Carmen, and the Mayan Riviera for you tourists in Mexico), I feel obliged to point out that the Yucatan has a lower homicide rate than Canada. And Canada is safer than America. So not going to Cancun…
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Stranger things have happened. But I can’t think of when. I saw this the other day watching the 700 Club [not true]. “We’ve got to look at what we’re considering crime.” Robertson also comes out against mandatory sentences. “It’s costing us a fortune and it’s ruining young people.” Preach on, Brother Robertson. [Update: Robertson clarifies…
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I compiled a little top ten lost of things police learn on the job. You can see it at Criminal Justice Programs.com. Peter Moskos is a former police officer and author of the popular law enforcement blog, Cop in the Hood (www.copinthehood.com). He is currently a professor of law and police science at New York’s…
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I like then-and-now shots of life in America. I posted two of Newburgha while back and got some interest. This one of downtown Poughkeepsie, NY, isn’t as dramatic or depressing a change as was Newburgh, but is it really to much to ask for things to be bettertoday than they were 99 years ago? Apparently,…
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