Poooof! Blowing the Dust Away
It’s been a long time. Apparently it’s been five years. That’s long enough for a lot of hackers and spammers to have trashed the installation of WordPress this site runs on because I wasn’t actively...
View ArticleArt in the City
How The New York Times Magazine’s recent ‘walking issue’ cover was made. @ It wasn’t Photoshop!
View ArticleChild life without parole: The U.S., Somalia, and South Sudan
Last week Cook County Judge Angela Petrone resentenced Adolfo Davis to natural life in prison without the possibility of parole for his actions as a 14-year-old accomplice to a gang-related double...
View ArticleCPD checkpoints targeting black & Hispanic communities
84 percent of Chicago’s roadside checks were slated for black and Latino neighborhoods @
View ArticleSet your children free!
Take your children to the park…and let them walk home by themselves. It’s not a radical idea, just an old-fashioned one. @
View ArticleLAPD officers kill unarmed man, decry “rush to judgment”
It seems like almost every day we hear a new report of the police killing an unarmed person. The latest to come to my attention was last week in LA, where two officers shot and killed a homeless man....
View ArticleA very dated blogroll
Do blogrolls even exist anymore? Are they a thing? I remember the day there was this awesome new blog toy called blogrolling.com. It was this cool site where you could collect links that you wanted to...
View Article“Vindictive and retaliatory” prosecutions: Welcome to the USA!
What happens when you exercise your constitutional right to a trial by jury? Well, if you have sex on a beach in Florida and take the case to trial you might get 15 years in prison and have to register...
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Le Tour: Week 1
I am no expert on professional cycling and I have not had the pleasure of watching this first week closely, but my observations, nevertheless: Sagan: Dude, what are you doing 40 minute back and not...
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