Month: April 2015

Politicians say whatever they’re going to say, but there are a lot of things they tend not to say. One thing they almost never say is that we’re locking up too many people in this country. So, I welcome Hillary...

I’m going to quote driftglass at length here for the simple reason that I like to reward and draw attention to good writing: Eventually even very high-powered, very highly-paid and very public political con men like Mr....

Where I live here in Chester County, Pennsylvania, there are no easy refuges from the heroin problem. Even in the county prison some of the correctional officers are dealing H. I swear that I am not shitting you when I tell you...

I had a busy day today offline. How’s the riot porn going?

There are many factors that contributed to the riots that broke out yesterday in the lower income community of West Baltimore, the day of Freddie Gray’s funeral, despite the best intentions of community leaders, Mayor...