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Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Was Edna St. Vincent Millay Writing about a Booty Call or is this just a more elegant "Bye Felicia"?

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I'm warming up for poetry month (April is the cruelest month) and can't help wondering if this tidy gem was a lyrical description of...
Saturday, May 2, 2015

Attending to The Last Business of a Child's Life. Chris Martinez

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When I worked for a plaintiff's firm, we represented the wife and mother of a young man who had been murdered at his place of employment...
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Friday, May 1, 2015

I am a cautionary tale of woe.

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I don't know how it got by me.  I'm pretty good about health care. But I really never thought about the shingles vaccine.  Perhaps I...
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Sunday, February 16, 2014

Hound Dog. Macy Gray burns it down.

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Macy Gray on fire.
Sunday, October 13, 2013

Emmylou, Peggy Sue and the Burrito Connection

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     I think of two scenes when I think of the movie Peggy Sue Got Married.  One, where Peggy Sue, newly time-transported from her twentiet...
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Was Ruby talking about the Repubs and their planless Gov't shutdown?

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"Every piece of this is man's bullshit.  They called this war a cloud over the land.  But they made the weather and then they st...

You don't say hi to strangers--says the cop--at least not in this neighborhood.

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Philadelphia police conduct an abusive "stop and frisk" motivated by racism which permeates the entire stop.  Probable cause for t...
Wednesday, August 7, 2013

My conviction, right or wrong.

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Sworn to do justice  get convictions, or else.  Prosecutor disciplined for dismissing charges she couldn't prove. http://www.suntimes.c...
Sunday, July 28, 2013

This is just so sad. 23 with four children; ages 3, 2,1 and 4 months. The baby doesn't make it.

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The couple's other three children, ages 3, 2, and 1, were taken into protective custody by the county Child Protective Services. http:/...
Friday, July 19, 2013

Killing the innocent

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Because it's really important that the man with Down's syndrome and an IQ of 40 not sit through the movie a second time.  So kill hi...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

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Sunday, June 16, 2013

A look at coerced confessions. Always necessary when there is NO evidence.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/nyregion/reinvestigating-the-friedmans.html?pagewanted=1&hp
Saturday, January 5, 2013

DefPublic: You poor children ought to be ashamed

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DefPublic: You poor children ought to be ashamed
Friday, January 4, 2013

Wailers

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http://www.openculture.com/2013/01/bob_marley_the_legend_live_in_santa_barbara.html
Saturday, December 29, 2012

We are such hypocrites

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Seniors doing life for pot
Monday, December 17, 2012

You poor children ought to be ashamed

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http://gawker.com/5968711/cafeteria-worker-rehired-after-losing-job-for-giving-food-to-low+income-student
Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Um.

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"You know I'm good for it. It's just that all my money is tied up in, uh, assets and stuff."  Vernon Hightower  (Nadine)
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Texas cop knees teen in head and proudly gives his badge number to the cameraman

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/27/texas-cop-suspended-after-kneeing-teen-in-the-head/
Tuesday, October 9, 2012

For being a f*#king mutt-- and of course, for being black

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/09/nypd-officers-stop-and-frisk-black-teen-for-being-a-fcking-mutt/
Sunday, October 7, 2012

Ya think? College police shoot and kill naked student.

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/07/alabama-police-shoot-and-kill-naked-college-student/