I met Bill Quigley long ago as an activist against the death penalty. Now he says: Three recent reports help show the way for New Orleans to improve the criminal justice system. They stress earlier and better communication between the police and prosecutors, a wider range of pretrial release options and greater use of alternatives … More On Criminal Justice in New Orleans
Watch this video in which Blake Miller, the ‘Marlboro Marine’ of Fallujah fame describes in his beautiful eastern Kentucky accent what it is like to kill someone and what things are like for him now. Miller saw the people he killed as people, and does not believe it is right to kill people. Who, one … More The Marlboro Marine
XP needs a job. Here are his skills: EDUCATION: MSW with a concentration in Macro Social Work and Community Development WORK EXPERIENCE SKILLS: program evaluation; assisted in a variety of reports through writing, editing and formatting as needed; researching social service trends; data analysis for agency reports; advising program coordinators on identification of appropriate performance … More In Which XP Seeks Employment.
From Keith Gessen’s Gracelands: …But the book was also about hitchhikers, misfits and especially drug addicts–its title came from the Velvet Underground’s ode to heroin–and this put it in a different tradition, less of Carver’s suburban miniatures of desperation than of the American hopped-up song of the open road. …Tree of Smoke traces the gradual … More Armistice Day
Check him out. Wouldn’t you like to have him come to speak at your school? I know I would. I would need to get several departments on board with me to organize this, though. Perhaps for next year. Meanwhile, following the advice of Unsane and inspired by Morphological Confetti and Wandering Caravan, I have been … More Geoffrey Philp
I dreamed that it was the beginning of the fall semester, and over the summer the building had changed. Many people had been hired and I now had to share an office smaller than my old one with two faculty members. Yet our small office was much better laid out than the old ones, and … More Dreams of Peace
But keep reading Agua de Tabasco. Axé.
This week’s best and most beautiful post is by Liprap. Read it, then act. Carlos Pellicer, the modernist poet, was from Villahermosa, Tabasco. He wrote in 1943 of Tabasco in blood, water, earth, sun, and time. . . . /water of Tabasco, I come / water of Tabasco, I go / my lineage is made … More Agua de Tabasco
This is another of my magic charms against Reeducation. As we know, it was said there that I had too much personal power and was not in enough pain. I therefore tried hard to relinquish power and to feel pain. Later I discovered that I had in fact not been deluded the first 35 years … More Magic Charm
One Black Man’s Blog has a number of useful points to make on the Jena situation. Perhaps the parents of a few of the black students would have informed the Jena School Board how threatened their children felt if they had been given their right to speak at the school board meeting. According to the … More Donald Washington
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