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Hitting a nerve?

My posts here and here on the South Dakota JAIL initiative (PDF file) seem to be hitting a few nerves. In addition to some random comments on the blog, I’ve had e-mails directly from the founder/author of JAIL and the head of the Oklahoma JAIL project deploring my lack of understanding.

Mr. Chief JAILer tells […]

A précis on parental dilemmas and joys

One thing should be clear to anyone who reads this blog or knows me — I would rather see Bruce Springsteen perform than almost anything.

Tickets for Bruce’s Oct. 12 solo acoustic performance at the less than 5,000 seat Northrop Auditorium at the U of M went on sale this morning. Early this morning it […]

Two year anniversary

Other matters kept me from posting this earlier in the day as intended or from commenting on other things that will show up later. Couldn’t let the day expire, though, without must mentioning that this blog was launched two years ago today. While it has changed with time (as all things should), I still see […]

Booker Award short list

The shortlist for the 2005 Man Booker Prize was announced today. The prize goes to “the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the [British] Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.” The six books emerging from the 17 on the longlist are: The Sea by John Banville; Arthur & George by Julian […]

Guilty as charged (and the media too)

Okay, the pacifist left wing pinko who writes this blog has a confession and an accompanying plea of guilty.

I knew better at heart but it took a well-deserved rant by Stephen Eley of Escape Pod to finally bring me to the court of common sense. Escape Pod is a weekly audio program of excellent […]