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Nelson </span></strong></span></h1> <p class="p2"> </p> <p class="p2" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-10817" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/John-Espinosa-Nelson1-300x300.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300" />Every soul that has ever experienced “criminal justice” in America carries a story, either about themselves or someone they encountered along the way. No matter the circumstances, it haunts them. It’s a story from which the world will never benefit unless they push themselves to get it out, as if doing so would free them from a sense of disenfranchisement. Driven by that awareness as well, Where Excuses Go to Die is John Espinosa Nelson’s own way of encouraging others ––incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals, students of criminology and creative writing, victims, CJR advocates, and storytellers of all stripes–– to find their voice and tell their story.</span></p> <p><span class="s1">Nelson has been published in Esquire, Details, Players, the LA Weekly, and elsewhere. He’s written for the United States Veterans Initiative (U.S. VETS) and for Mattel Toys’ Sound Design Studio, helping to create words "...for what the dolls say when you pull the string." </span></p> <p>Criminal and social justice, anti-recidivism, and re-entry have often dominated Nelson’s blog of the same name. Yet his personal motto, “Get Character or Become One™,” also compels him to write about the funhouse mirror of American culture and the excuses we all make.</p> <p> </p> <!-- wp:jetpack/tiled-gallery {"className":"is-style-square","columnWidths":[[72.72740067667462,27.27259932332538]],"ids":[8117,8123,10534]} --> <div class="wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-square"><div class="tiled-gallery__gallery"><div class="tiled-gallery__row columns-3"><div class="tiled-gallery__col"><figure class="tiled-gallery__item"><img alt="" data-height="782" data-id="8117" data-link="http://working-copy.local/who-is-this-guy/attachment/2_university-of-san-diego_fall-2014_where-excuses-go-to-die/" data-url="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/2_University-of-San-Diego_Fall-2014_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" data-width="1205" src="https://i2.wp.com/whereexcusesgotodie.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/2_University-of-San-Diego_Fall-2014_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg?ssl=1&amp;resize=782%2C782" layout="responsive"/></figure></div><div class="tiled-gallery__col"><figure class="tiled-gallery__item"><img alt="" data-height="609" data-id="8123" data-link="http://working-copy.local/who-is-this-guy/attachment/classroom-by-classroom_augustus-f-hawkins-high-school_where-excuses-go-to-die/" data-url="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Classroom-by-classroom_Augustus-F.-Hawkins-High-School_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" data-width="812" src="https://i2.wp.com/whereexcusesgotodie.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Classroom-by-classroom_Augustus-F.-Hawkins-High-School_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg?ssl=1&amp;resize=609%2C609" layout="responsive"/></figure></div><div class="tiled-gallery__col"><figure class="tiled-gallery__item"><img alt="" data-height="454" data-id="10534" data-link="http://working-copy.local/who-is-this-guy/attachment/l-a-sheriff-accountability-forum_8-24-2019/" data-url="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/L.A.-Sheriff-Accountability-Forum_8-24-2019-e1597783319718.jpg" data-width="467" src="https://i2.wp.com/whereexcusesgotodie.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/L.A.-Sheriff-Accountability-Forum_8-24-2019-e1597783319718.jpg?ssl=1&amp;resize=454%2C454" layout="responsive"/></figure></div></div></div></div> <!-- /wp:jetpack/tiled-gallery --> 13 2013-02-05 23:52:12 2013-02-05 23:52:12 2020-08-25 13:56:28 2020-08-25 20:56:28 closed open who-is-this-guy publish 0 0 page 0 _edit_last 1 _wp_page_template default _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:2;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _yoast_wpseo_focuskw john espinosa nelson _yoast_wpseo_title Who Is this Guy? John Espinosa Nelson - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 84 _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw_text_input john espinosa nelson _yoast_wpseo_content_score 30 _thumbnail_id 10531 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"bfc62710165ed7b51223b165689d40a3";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705607804;s:7:"payload";a:4:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:17;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10718;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3384;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excerpts-from-excuses/ Tue, 05 Feb 2013 23:52:41 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?page_id=17 <h1><b><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/X82.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-3437" alt="X82" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/X82-150x150.jpg" width="84" height="84" /></a><span style="color: #000000;">Where Excuses Go to Die</span></b></h1> <div> <strong>By John Espinosa Nelson</strong> <h2 style="text-align: left;" align="center"></h2> <h2 style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>Table of Contents</b></h2> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>Credentials and Consequences</b></p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>Genuine Mexican Parts</b></p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>Finish this Sentence</b></p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>The Freeway</b></p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>Bring Me the Head of Elvis Presley (or, Just ‘Cause You Can, Doesn’t Mean You Should)</b></p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>Bus Therapy</b></p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>Ernie’s Auto-Erotic Wallpaper *</b></p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>My First Cellmate</b></p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>Shot Down over the Cuckoo’s Nest</b></p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>A Month with Mo</b></p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>I Played Prison Football and Lived to Write This</b></p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>Requiem for an Excuse</b></p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>Three Hole Days</b></p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>“You Got All the Answers, Don’t You?”</b></p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>Don’t Stare at the Sun</b></p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>Gun Tower Bookends</b></p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>“Departmental Realignment”</b></p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>You Can’t Beat the Folsom Channel</b></p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>The Red Balloons</b></p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>Straight Outta Christmas</b></p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b><a title="Download this chapter excerpt from Where Excuses Go to Die by John Nelson" href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/JNelson_WEGTD-Shower_2013.pdf" target="_blank">Prison Shower Hazards (Download PDF)</a></b></p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b><a title="Download this chapter excerpt from Where Excuses Go to Die by John Nelson" href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/JNelson_WEGTD-Severed_Head_2013.pdf" target="_blank">“If We Can Keep a Severed Head Alive” <b>(Download PDF)</b></a></b></p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>Big Brother Has a Lazy Eye</b></p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>Some of My Best Friends Are Jewish (Inmates)</b></p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>Blood &amp; Oatmeal</b></p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>“Hey!”</b></p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>The Law of Averages</b></p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>Lock Me in the Storeroom</b></p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>Dismissed in the Interest of Justice</b></p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>Get a Whiff of This</b></p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>“Earliest Possible Release Date”</b></p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><b>Aftershocks</b></p> <p style="text-align: right;" align="center"><strong>*</strong>(The Good Men Project – Featured Content 6/17/2013)</p> </div> 17 2013-02-05 23:52:41 2013-02-05 23:52:41 2017-11-06 12:37:27 2017-11-06 19:37:27 closed open excerpts-from-excuses publish 0 0 page 0 _edit_last 1 _wp_page_template default _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:2;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"bfc62710165ed7b51223b165689d40a3";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705564664;s:7:"payload";a:0:{}}} http://working-copy.local/?page_id=19 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?page_id=19 <h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #339966;">John Nelson/WEGTD in the Media</span></h1> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://latalklive.com/new/thebookbeat" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The&nbsp;Book Beat&nbsp;w' Jean-Noel Bassior on&nbsp;LA Talk Live &nbsp; 9/30/13 &nbsp;(Begins at&nbsp;34:05)</a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/September-2013_The-Book-Beat-on-LA-Talk-Live_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="wp-image-4985" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/September-2013_The-Book-Beat-on-LA-Talk-Live_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="September 2013_The Book Beat on LA Talk Live_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="457" height="155"></a></p> <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/healyourselftalkradio/2013/09/26/where-excuses-go-to-die" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">HealYourselfTalk</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;9/26/2013&nbsp;Online Self Help Talk Radio with&nbsp;Rebecca White <a href="http://ftpcontent.worldnow.com/kfmbam/podcast/audio/its_your_money_and_your_life_10729.mp3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">"It's Your Money &amp; Your Life" 9/14/13 KFMB 760 AM</a> <div> <div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/share-books-with-prisoners-through-word-books_b75041">GalleyCat</a></div> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"></div> <div style="text-align: left;">Mind Of The Geek</div> <div style="text-align: left;"></div> <div style="text-align: left;">The Good Men Project</div> The Ray Carr Show &nbsp;WCSB 89.3 FM &nbsp;Cleveland ––&nbsp;<a href="http://raycarram.com/userfiles/file/show_archives.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Part 1 • 7/23/2013 ––– Part 2 • 7/30/2013</a> <div>Going Home w/ Mark Cope ––&nbsp;<a href="http://wendleebroadcasting.com/newstalk-program-schedule/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">KYXL NewsTalk 102.3FM/1240AM Brownwood TX &nbsp;–– &nbsp;7/9/2013</a></div> <div></div> <div>Road LESS Published&nbsp;7/31/2013</div> <div></div> <div>Every Way Woman &nbsp;7/8/2013</div> <div><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Everyway-Woman_Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4986" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Everyway-Woman_Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Everyway Woman_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="309" height="232"></a></div> <div></div> <div></div> <div></div> <div></div> <div></div> <div></div> <div></div> <div></div> <div></div> <div></div> <div></div> <div></div> <div></div> <div>Salt Lake City Deseret News 10/20?2012</div> <a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765612958/Visitation-critical-for-inmates-during-after-incarceration.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Visitation critical for inmates during, after incarceration</a> <h3><strong>Long Beach Playhouse Short Story Slam&nbsp;</strong></h3> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/B111.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-1740" title="B11" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/B111.jpg" alt="" width="471" height="98"></a> <h3></h3> <h3></h3> &nbsp; <h3><strong>ABC’s </strong><strong>20/20 -&nbsp;</strong></h3> <h4><strong><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/inside-mind-bookstore-bandit/story?id=14933623#.T3SyA5huH8s">&nbsp;</a></strong><strong><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/inside-mind-bookstore-bandit/story?id=14933623#.T3SyA5huH8s">Read the ABCnews.com companion article here.&nbsp;</a></strong></h4> <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/uKVSgDUQVcw" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0"></iframe> &nbsp; <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/16.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1294" title="1" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/16-251x300.jpg" alt="" width="251" height="300"></a> <a title="Permanent Link to Women’s View Radio: John Nelson – Feb 03,2012" href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/gillespie/2012/02/03/womens-view-radio-john-nelson" rel="bookmark">Women’s View Radio: John Nelson – Feb 03,2012</a> <a href="http://thecyberhoodwatch.com/activism/where-excuses-go-to-die-picking-up-the-pieces-with-john-nelson/">CHWR Interview #2 &nbsp;w/ Dave Ballard &amp; Bill Wardell 07/28/2011</a> WOCM-FM Baltimore 98.1 Monday, September 6th, 2010 –&nbsp;Rude Awakening Show FM106.5 KMMT –&nbsp;Tuesday, August 17, 2010 Tuesday, July 13, 2010 –&nbsp;AM730 KDAZ KTIE Part One: &nbsp;Wednesday June 9, 2010 IE News Hour Seg 3 06-09-10 With Lou Desmond KTIE Part Two:&nbsp;Wednesday June 9, 2010 IE News Hour Seg 4 06-09-10 With Lou Desmond WOCM-FM Baltimore 98.1 –&nbsp;June 15th, 2010&nbsp;Rude Awakening Show WEB FOXNews.com&nbsp;•&nbsp;June 08, 2010 –&nbsp;Click <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/06/07/charlie-sheen-popular-prisons/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Here</a> to Read 19 2020-08-14 13:40:47 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2020-08-14 13:40:47 2020-08-14 20:40:47 closed open media draft 0 0 page 0 _edit_last 1 _wp_page_template default _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _yoast_wpseo_content_score 90 http://working-copy.local/buy-the-bookv1/ Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:58:51 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?page_id=3384 <h5><i><img class="alignleft wp-image-10677" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Book_pic_solo_award-233x300.png" alt="" width="188" height="242"/></i></h5> <div style="text-align: center;"> <h2 class="p1" style="text-align: left;">Where Excuses Go to Die&nbsp; -&nbsp; a memoir</h2> <h4 style="text-align: left;"><i><strong>"Some people need to get in the box to think outside of it."</strong></i></h4> <p class="p1" style="text-align: left;">Witness the problematic birth of a maximum security prison. From inmate bus #1 bursting through a “Welcome” ribbon held up by cheering civilians to correctional officers marking their territory before the general population gets a chance, these are the details in the devil.</p> <p class="p1" style="text-align: left;">A showcase facility meant to relieve systemwide overcrowding, this high-tech wonder is activated before it’s even completed, kicking off months of glitches, gangs, and high weirdness. Endlessly flickering lights test the mental stability of all. Electric doors fail, freeze, and crush. Tap water runs black. The high-voltage perimeter fence is faulty, and personnel gaps get filled with rookie badges. As the headcount quickly swells, <i>their </i>top priority becomes keeping inmates away from both the compound’s feral cats and its weaponizable construction debris.</p> <p class="p1" style="text-align: left;">And this only part of the story’s landscape. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Award_shadow_1.png"><img class="wp-image-10716 alignright" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Award_shadow_1-184x300.png" alt="" width="127" height="207"/></a></p> <p class="p1" style="text-align: left;">At the center of it all is a mindlessly privileged 22-year-old who thinks courteous, corporate-only robberies conducted with a fake revolver will offer built-in absolution. But when his drunken lawyer bungles his plea-deal, <i>“Who the hell robs bookstores?”</i> becomes a mirror he’s made to face more often than he’d like. In prison, his presence is greeted with collective offense. He’s told it’s a place for criminals, not snotty tourists. The young man’s subsequent journey through the justice system initiates the wake-up call one might expect, while the brass tacks of life inside for a mixed-race inmate defy everything he thought he knew.</p> <p class="p1" style="text-align: left;">But this isn’t a fish out of water story, ‘cause when the tank sets the rules, lessons learned aren’t limited to the fish.</p> <p class="p1" style="text-align: left;">Delivered with the humor, heart, and humanity that <i>also</i> abound in custody, <i>Where Excuses Go to Die</i> gives a middle finger to the way we’ve been trained to recognize prison and prisoners.</p> </div> <!-- wp:spacer {"height":42} --> <div style="height:42px" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> <!-- /wp:spacer --> <!-- wp:separator --> <hr class="wp-block-separator"/> <!-- /wp:separator --> <!-- wp:heading {"align":"center","level":3} --> <h3 class="has-text-align-center">Some Reactions</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>“John Nelson, in a very poor choice of maturity management options, had a momentary brush with the fast-moving world of Crime. He found himself in prison, surrounded by some of America’s finest. <em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em>&nbsp;is an insightful and hilarious piece of work from a guy who is an extremely talented writer. I can’t think that prison is anyone’s idea of a good time, but it definitely gave John something with which to apply his very obvious talent. This is an excellent work that would also make a great screenplay.”&nbsp;<strong>—Henry Rollins</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>“This book had me from page one with the author, John Espinosa Nelson, under arrest and in front of an FBI agent. The moment of truth comes when asked ‘who the hell robs bookstores?’ and after wrestling&nbsp;with all the rationalizations he can think of, Nelson simply replies, ‘a criminal.’ A wonderful coming of age journey through his time in prison and beyond.”&nbsp;<strong>—Karen Connick,&nbsp;<em>ForeWord Reviews</em></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>“An unexpected delight—a story of hubris and horror that is one of the funniest and most touching cautionary tales I’ve read. Instead of a tired catalog of prison tropes, Nelson guides his readers through a world that is indeed grim and dangerous, yet his self-deprecating wit, caustic sense of humor, and incisive eye for observational detail make the journey at once exhilarating, hilarious, and ultimately uplifting.”<strong> —Helen Stringer, Penguin Random House , Spellbinder Series</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>"Wow. This book was fantastic and written with honesty and humor. I haven't laughed so hard at a book in a really long time and Nelson delivers. His journey is filled with great insight–both to his external and internal world, as well as a look into the prison system."&nbsp;<strong><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17657274-where-excuses-go-to-die?from_search=true" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">—Goodreads community reviews</a></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Very insightful, a somewhat horrifying look into California's jail and prison system. Sometimes sad and other times laugh out loud funny. <strong><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Where-Excuses-John-Espinosa-Nelson/dp/0988573601#customerReviews">— Amazon customer reviews</a></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:more --> <!--more--> <!-- /wp:more --> 3384 2013-02-11 17:58:51 2013-02-11 17:58:51 2020-08-18 22:11:51 2020-08-19 05:11:51 closed open buy-the-bookv1 publish 0 0 page 0 _edit_last 1 _wp_page_template default _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:3;s:10:"googleplus";i:1;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _yoast_wpseo_focuskw where excuses go to die _yoast_wpseo_title Buy the Book - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc No one's ever written a book about prison like this, ever. Where Excuses Go to Die is a 2014 Book of the Year finalist. My starting point was a prison cell. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 78 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"bfc62710165ed7b51223b165689d40a3";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705564664;s:7:"payload";a:0:{}}} http://working-copy.local/scroll-of-honor/ Sat, 10 Aug 2013 21:36:01 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?page_id=4670 <h1 style="text-align: center;">Welcome to the Where Excuses Go to Die Scroll of Honor</h1> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/The-Excuses-Bee.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4681" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/The-Excuses-Bee.jpg" alt="The Excuses Bee" width="381" height="305" /></a></p> <h3 style="text-align: center;">The following individuals and couples deserve serious thanks and recognition for their contribution to the <em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em> Kickstarter campaign. This project wouldn't be where it is today without the early belief and backing of these good people:</h3> <p style="text-align: center;">Tina and Dean Athans</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Heidi Bauer</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Susie Bauer</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Marilynn and Aaron Blair</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Stephanie Blume</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Rob and Hilary Mays Bolger</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Carrie and Tony Calderone</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Joyce and Jerry Chaffee</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Sally and John Conner</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Heidi Coughran</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Louis D'Esposito</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Tim and Vicki Davis</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Alicia del Mundo</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Argie Demas</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Nathaniel Devereux-Schellin</p> <p style="text-align: center;">David Dickinson</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Joann Estoesta</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Brian and Heidi Evans</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Brian Frankel</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Michael James Gerardo</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Donya Giannotta</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Howard and Linda Glick</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Phil Gofberg</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Karen Graci</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Mary Grossberg</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Marlen Gumny</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Elise Guthmann</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Dan Jacinto</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Adam and Priscilla Espinosa Kaiserman</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Ronel Quinn Kelmen</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Jill Kleinman</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Anita Lawson</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Margie and John Levy</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Christopher Lewis</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Melissa Lockhart Fortner</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Jennie Marie Mahalick</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Bob and Genie Martin</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Angela Mattioli</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Michael and Susan Mays</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Bruce and Elizabeth McAllister</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Michael McMahan</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Tom Metry</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Fred and Alice Metry</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Joanne Metry</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Chuck Miller</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Dee Mondeschein</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Donna and Said Muawad</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Nelisse Muga</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Michael and Rebecca Nelson</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Guy Nelson</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Roger and Margaret Nelson</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Joe Nemit</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Stephanie Ogren</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Samantha Perry</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Savilla Pitt</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Dennis Przywara</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Tasia Regos</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Naomi and Joel Richman</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Constance Roberts</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Janie Robinson</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Darran and Jennifer Robinson</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Siri Rosen</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Michael Rousselet</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Emily Simon</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Justin Stanley</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Dana Stewart</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Helen Stringer</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Steve Svastics</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Jack Thomas</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Erin Tyner Egloff</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Kirk Vandersall</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Serena Zamora</p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> 4670 2013-08-10 14:36:01 2013-08-10 21:36:01 2018-12-06 11:58:52 2018-12-06 18:58:52 open open scroll-of-honor private 0 0 page 0 _edit_last 1 _wp_page_template default _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _yoast_wpseo_content_score 60 http://working-copy.local/?p=5269 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=5269 Kerik, former Homeland Security Secretary nominee, should shut up. Bernie Kerik is no friend to those who have been prosecuted excessively for drug crimes or, for that matter, to <em>anyone</em> serving time in prison. By my estimation, his unlooked-for discovery that America's drug sentences have created a huge underclass of offenders is little more than fodder for Kerik's own PR agenda. Here's both barrels: For starters, though Kerik did spend time behind bars, he can't speak on behalf of the general population. A former NYPD Commissioner and the man who once oversaw the very facility in which he was detained, Kerik definitely did not live among gen pop inmates. He was housed in protective custody, a much less transitory and smaller environment. Protective custody (a.k.a. administrative segregation) is mainly for informants, self-harmers, perverts, and anyone else facility administrators deem likely to become stabbing practice. So from my perspective – and probably that of every other rational general population convict – Bernie Kerik is free to speak only for snitches and kid touchers. Sure, like me, he's entitled to a second chance and the opportunity to use that chance and his platform productively. But I say, consider the source. Whether or not Kerik has <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2004/12/13/keriks_nanny_just_the_tip_of" target="_blank">Mafia ties</a>, as has been speculated for years, isn't the problem: neither is <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/07/AR2007040701398.html" target="_blank">Rudolph Giuliani's ignoring them</a>. Even Bouncin' Bernie's truly <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/bernard-kerik-double-affair-laid-bare-article-1.340899" target="_blank">asinine marital indiscretions</a> and <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/2004/12/13/kerik-withdraws-from-dhs-over-nanny-problem/" target="_blank">his very own Nannygate</a> aren't what get me. I simply look at the company he's kept throughout his life, from when he was a once-proud Marine to when he was a dutiful police officer, innovative corrections administrator, <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/prosecutors-expected-file-charges-bernard-kerik-article-1.231367" target="_blank">bribe-taking</a>, mobbed-connected cop, and finally, the man I met and briefly served, back when he was one of many conspiring to take advantage of post-9/11 homeland security fervor. Creepy old rich guys, law enforcement groupies, witness tamperers, crooked political appointees, and so on. Now Kerik is seeking to insert himself into another national dialog, this time on prison reform. Frankly, in terms of character, I think ol' Bernie's a player. And the yearn to be an even bigger player – a <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=decider" target="_blank">Decider</a> – didn't get shaken during his incarceration. It makes me want to ask him what did. Yet here's Kerik, out the gate, telling the nation what it needs just like he did when George W. Bush nominated him to head Homeland Security. He's shown us no proof of personal growth. A change of heart requires more than merely glimpsing another man's perspective. I smell a rushed approach to a fast flag planting. Today, I was asked whether I thought Kerik's views were a legitimate part of the overall discourse on prison reform. My answer is an unequivocal NO. Why not? Shouldn't I be happy when someone with a big media platform brings attention to issues about which I care passionately? Maybe. But Kerik ain't the guy to sing this song. In addition to what I've already cited, let me share my experience with his <em>last</em> planted flag. As detailed in a 2011 post called <a href="http://working-copy.local/celebrity/from-beat-downs-to-bear-hugs/" target="_blank">From Beat-downs to Bear Hugs</a>, Kerik was part of a cast of characters you would've had to hear and see to believe. Many of them were law-enforcement brass, political appointees, and flat-out con artists – the core group of whom went on to be indicted, disgraced, incarcerated, or all three. For those who'd rather not bother with my previous entry, this was 2003, and I'd been hired to write teleprompter banter, announcer intros, and presenting-the-award speeches for a Beverly Hills gala/fundraiser hosted by LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling and others. The theme was homeland security; the attendees were a garish, cosmetically-enhanced who's who of Los Angeles power players, real estate moguls, sports team owners, philanthropists, and military brass. (For the record, besides my future wife and the lady who'd hired me, the military personnel were some of the only genuine human beings there.) Though my direct exposure to Bernie was limited to the date of the event, someone from his team had to approve what I'd written for him and the producers had asked me to introduce myself as Show Writer in order to facilitate each presenting luminary's last-minute changes. For the most part, the task was a joy for a guy whose then-biggest hope was to "never go back." It wasn't that far after 9/11, and the raw materials for our current, protracted state of war were being grabbed by anyone who knew the lyrics to the Star-Spangled Banner. This marked a new frontier for private security companies, construction contractors, defense firms, and especially tactical uniform manufacturers. That night, if you weren't wearing a tux, suit, ball gown, or cocktail dress, SWAT gear was all the rage. But the homeland security fanfare was more than a theme: it signified compliance. The problem with compliance is that it's easy to fake. So while many were were high on badge and hero worship – or simply playing the part well – the whole circus was so full of itself that even the red carpet press release declared the alert status of a high-value target. "War footing," was listed as the official security "posture" for journalists, attendees, and any jihadist sleeper cells in the LA area who may have been paying attention. The clear implication was, "Don't mess with us: we've got lawyers, guns, and money." It was as smug and self-righteous as anything I've ever seen. In truth it was mostly hype for the donors: an aura of power for them to soak in (and soak they did). But even though I was feeling like I'd snuck in the back door, I also felt the American flag and its colors were being abused. Not by right wing ideology or conservative values, but by people who'd hijacked those beliefs for personal gain. And there was Bernie Kerik, parading around like a principal show pony. How is it, then, that Kerik imagines he's any different from those who turned on each other in court and in the media when it all fell apart? Before the curtain went up that night, I'd watched him chat comfortably with a guy who, just one year later, wore a wire to help bring down a fellow crook and save his own butt. Now if you're still back on how the world a convicted felon winds up in the hive itself, first check out the <a href="http://working-copy.local/celebrity/from-beat-downs-to-bear-hugs/" target="_blank">aforementioned blog entry</a>, then consider the fact that you yourself have just survived a government shutdown. Get it yet? These crazies were high as a kite on "If you're not a cop, you're little people," and everyone was jerkin' everybody else to the same theme. In other words, <em>they were preoccupied as hell</em>. I was vetted about as thoroughly as a certain newly minted healthcare website was tested prior to launch. Which brings me back to Bernie Kerik and whether or not he's a legitimate voice for prison reform. Kerik played along with these phonies that night and probably countless nights with other tuxedo-wearing clowns before and since. He was as rah-rah as they wanted him to be – even as his fingers were in pies so questionable they led eventually to allegations of nefarious profiteering. He was as corrupt as the rest of 'em, even though he held on longer. You think a guy like this didn't find an angle to exploit in prison? Of course he did. The fact that he chose prison reform itself is what's nauseating, this full circle that he and I have come. So do I give this bastard a chance because <em>I</em> was given one? No, he won't get an empathy pass from me. BUT Bernie Kerik is the only former police-commissioner-turned-political-hustler-corrections-administrator to ever do real time, even if it was on a snitch yard. He's in a class by himself in many ways, but this is the one that might actually be of some value to the rest of us. (I hold the line at <em>might</em>.) We might be able to learn from Kerik's experience in the same way folks are telling me that others can learn from mine. So I'll listen long enough to determine if the guy did any real growing as a man. If he did – and <em>only</em> if he did – Kerik may yet prove to be one of the RIGHT men to talk. 5269 2013-11-05 11:06:15 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2013-11-05 11:06:15 2013-11-05 18:06:15 open open the-wrong-man-to-talk draft 0 0 post 0 administrative segregation Bernard Kerik Beverly Hills Bush Celebrity Character Donald Sterling Homeland Security LA Clippers Mike Corona Nannygate NYPD Prison Rudy Giuliani _edit_last 1 http://working-copy.local/trailer/ Thu, 13 Aug 2020 05:30:10 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?page_id=10555 <!-- wp:core-embed/youtube {"url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXwbiMAZ0AM\u0026t","type":"video","providerNameSlug":"youtube","align":"center","className":"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"} --> <figure class="wp-block-embed-youtube aligncenter wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXwbiMAZ0AM&amp;t </div></figure> <!-- /wp:core-embed/youtube --> 10555 2020-08-12 22:30:10 2020-08-13 05:30:10 2020-08-12 22:34:40 2020-08-13 05:34:40 closed closed trailer publish 0 0 page 0 _wp_page_template templates/page-full-width.php _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"bfc62710165ed7b51223b165689d40a3";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705607804;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10718;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:17;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:13;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3384;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/blog/ Fri, 14 Aug 2020 20:49:32 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/uncategorized/blog/ 10633 2020-08-14 13:49:32 2020-08-14 20:49:32 2020-08-21 10:18:23 2020-08-21 17:18:23 closed closed blog publish 0 1 nav_menu_item 0 Main Menu _menu_item_type custom _menu_item_menu_item_parent 0 _menu_item_object_id 10633 _menu_item_object custom _menu_item_target _menu_item_classes a:1:{i:0;s:0:"";} _menu_item_xfn _menu_item_url http://working-copy.local http://working-copy.local/criminal-justice-reform/ Fri, 14 Aug 2020 23:04:14 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?page_id=10666 <!-- wp:html --> <form name="clock" onsubmit="0" action=""> <p style="color:red; font-weight: bold;">As of <span id="clockface">--:--:-- -.-.</span> today, there are an estimated <span id="prisonpop">-,---,---, </span> people in U.S. prisons and jails. <span class="credit"> <br /> (Source: <a style="color:red" href="http://www.prisonpolicy.org"> Prison Policy Initiative</a>)</span></p></form> <!-- /wp:html --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Feeling wonky – or simply seeking solid resources? Start here for facts, newsletters, and ideas:</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://prisonmap.com/" target="_blank">Prison Map</a> –– Using snapshots of the earth's surface Prison Map asks examines the geography of incarceration in the United States. Ever wonder the amount of Earth's surface that is covered by roads, malls and parking lots? NYU Telecommunications graduate student, Josh Begley, applied this question to detention facilities. The results are fascinating and uniquely informative.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><a href="https://www.bjs.gov">Bureau of Justice Statistics</a> ––  The United States' primary source for criminal justice statistics, collecting analyzing publishing, and disseminating information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><a href="https://bailproject.org/">The Bail Project</a> –– Reimagining Pretrial Justice The Bail Project is a non-profit organization designed to combat mass incarceration by disrupting the money bail system ? one person at a time. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><a href="https://homeboyindustries.org/">Homeboy Industries</a> –– Homeboy Industries is the largest and most successful gang rehabilitation and re-entry program in the world. <strong>“Nothing stops a bullet like a job.”</strong>  Father Greg Boyle is a superhero.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><a href="http://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/about.aspx">National Registry of Exonerations (University of Michigan Law School)</a>  The NRE  provides comprehensive data on exonerations of innocent criminal defendants in order to prevent future false convictions by learning from past errors. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><a href="https://newjimcrow.com/study-guides">Michelle Alexander’s <em>The New Jim Crow</em> website and study guides</a> –– To use  <em>The New Jim Crow</em> organizing guide, multiple study guides, and a teaching curriculum for high school students. All of these resources are based on The New Jim Crow and can be used as companions while reading the book.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://famm.org/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://famm.org/" target="_blank">FAMM</a> –– Families Against Mandatory Minimums is a very busy prison reform advocacy group, and an inspiration. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.prisonpolicy.org/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.prisonpolicy.org/" target="_blank">Prison Policy Initiative</a> –– The research oriented non-profit, Prison Policy Initiative, works shed light on Incarceration America. It creates prison reform advocacy and is essentially a think tank, ever in study of "how mass criminalization undermines our national welfare." PPI's website is a great learning tool.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://antirecidivism.org/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://antirecidivism.org/" target="_blank">Anti-Recidivism Coalition</a> (ARC)  –– Veteran film producer and justice reform activist Scott Budnick’s journey from volunteerism to volume philanthropy speaks more truth to power than a thousand well-lit press conferences. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://prisondivest.com/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://prisondivest.com/" target="_blank">National Prison Divestment Campaign</a> –– Perhaps calling on all public and private institutions to divest their holdings in America’s private prison corporations isn't your thing. But if you think it's wrong for Wells Fargo to aggressively market programs that allow immigrants, without U.S. identification, to open bank accounts  –while investing in detention corporations who lobby for ever-increasing incarceration of immigrants–  here's where to learn more.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://nationalreentryresourcecenter.org/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://nationalreentryresourcecenter.org/" target="_blank">The National Reentry Resource Center</a> –– Everything “prisoner reentry” as interpreted by the Bureau of Justice Assistance and U.S. Department of Justice through the Second Chance Act (Public Law 110-199). This is about as upbeat and user-friendly as it gets in understanding what states, tribes, territories, local governments, service providers, non-profit organizations, and corrections institutions are doing to advance the field of prisoner reentry and improve the chances for a successful transition from incarceration to civilian life. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.aclusocal.org/en/issues/jails-project" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.aclusocal.org/en/issues/jails-project" target="_blank">Jails Project</a> –– The ACLU Foundation of Southern California is the court-ordered monitor of conditions of confinement and medical services within all Los Angeles County jail facilities. “Conditions” refers to beds, change of clothing, food, gay inmate classification, recreation, showers, phones, overcrowding, protective custody, religious services, mail, allegations of violence and retaliation and other similar issues that may arise.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.rightoncrime.com" data-type="URL" data-id="www.rightoncrime.com" target="_blank">Right on Crime</a> –– Right on Crime is a national campaign to promote successful, conservative solutions on American criminal justice policy—reforming the system to ensure public safety, shrink government, and save taxpayers money. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.aclu.org/prisoners-rights/" data-type="URL" data-id="www.aclu.org/prisoners-rights/" target="_blank">The ACLU National Prison Project</a> – The National Prison Project is dedicated to ensuring that our nation's prisons, jails, and detention centers comply with the Constitution, domestic law, and human rights principles.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.thehouseilivein.org/get-involved/" data-type="URL" data-id="www.thehouseilivein.org/get-involved/" target="_blank">The House I Live In</a> –– Filmmaker Eugene Jarecki takes on the failed U.S. Drug War with a gripping film and dynamic website that links to ways to get involved. Watch the movie and take some action.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/" target="_blank">Open Justice</a> –– A transparency initiative led by the California Department of Justice that publishes criminal justice data so we can understand how we are doing, hold ourselves accountable, and improve public policy to make California safer.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> 10666 2020-08-14 16:04:14 2020-08-14 23:04:14 2020-08-21 19:53:19 2020-08-22 02:53:19 closed closed criminal-justice-reform publish 0 0 page 0 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"bfc62710165ed7b51223b165689d40a3";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705607803;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10718;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3384;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:17;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/10667/ Fri, 14 Aug 2020 23:04:14 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/uncategorized/10667/ 10667 2020-08-14 16:04:14 2020-08-14 23:04:14 2020-08-21 10:18:23 2020-08-21 17:18:23 closed closed 10667 publish 0 4 nav_menu_item 0 Main Menu _menu_item_type post_type _menu_item_menu_item_parent 0 _menu_item_object_id 10666 _menu_item_object page _menu_item_target _menu_item_classes a:1:{i:0;s:0:"";} _menu_item_xfn _menu_item_url http://working-copy.local/buy-the-book/ Mon, 17 Aug 2020 19:02:49 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?page_id=10718 <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":10771,"width":180,"height":267,"sizeSlug":"large"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Where-Excuses-John-Espinosa-Nelson/dp/0988573601#ace-g2342880709"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Book_pic_solo_amazon_new.png" alt="" class="wp-image-10771" width="180" height="267"/></a><figcaption> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Where-Excuses-Go-Die-bookstores-ebook/dp/B08HX9JV5Y" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.amazon.com/Where-Excuses-Go-Die-bookstores-ebook/dp/B08HX9JV5Y" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img class="wp-image-10927" style="width: 100px;" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/kisspng-kindle-fire-iphone-kindle-store-amazon-kindle-5b24436ca37669.7804752715291032126696.png" alt=""/></a></figcaption></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:heading {"align":"left"} --> <h2 class="has-text-align-left">Where Excuses Go to Die - a memoir</h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"left"} --> <p class="has-text-align-left"><strong><em>"Some people need to get in the box to think outside of it."</em></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>"At the center of it all is a mindlessly privileged 22-year-old who thinks courteous, corporate-only robberies conducted with a fake revolver will offer built-in absolution. But when his drunken lawyer bungles his plea-deal, <em>'Who the hell robs bookstores?</em>' becomes a mirror he’s made to face more often than he’d like. In prison, his presence is greeted with collective offense. He’s told it’s a place for criminals, not snotty tourists. The young man’s subsequent journey through the justice system initiates the wake-up call one might expect, while the brass tacks of life inside for a mixed-race inmate defy everything he thought he knew."</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":10716,"width":116,"height":189,"sizeSlug":"large"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Award_shadow_1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-10716" width="116" height="189"/></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>But this isn’t a fish out of water story, ‘cause when the tank sets the rules, lessons learned aren’t limited to the fish.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Witness the problematic birth of a maximum security prison. From inmate bus #1 bursting through a “Welcome” ribbon held up by cheering civilians to correctional officers marking their territory before the general population gets a chance, these are the details in the devil.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em> is a funny, heart-forward middle finger to the narrow manner in which we’ve been trained to recognize prison and prisoners. It stands against mass incarceration and the cultural shorthand of "custody-themed entertainment."</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:spacer {"height":40} --> <div style="height:40px" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> <!-- /wp:spacer --> <!-- wp:separator --> <hr class="wp-block-separator"/> <!-- /wp:separator --> <!-- wp:spacer {"height":20} --> <div style="height:20px" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> <!-- /wp:spacer --> <!-- wp:heading {"align":"center","level":3} --> <h3 class="has-text-align-center">Some Reactions</h3> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>“John Nelson, in a very poor choice of maturity management options, had a momentary brush with the fast-moving world of Crime. He found himself in prison, surrounded by some of America’s finest. <em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em>&nbsp;is an insightful and hilarious piece of work from a guy who is an extremely talented writer. I can’t think that prison is anyone’s idea of a good time, but it definitely gave John something with which to apply his very obvious talent. This is an excellent work that would also make a great screenplay.”&nbsp;<strong>—Henry Rollins</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>“This book had me from page one with the author, John Espinosa Nelson, under arrest and in front of an FBI agent. The moment of truth comes when asked ‘who the hell robs bookstores?’ and after wrestling&nbsp;with all the rationalizations he can think of, Nelson simply replies, ‘a criminal.’ A wonderful coming of age journey through his time in prison and beyond.”&nbsp;<strong>—Karen Connick,&nbsp;<em>ForeWord Reviews</em></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>“An unexpected delight—a story of hubris and horror that is one of the funniest and most touching cautionary tales I’ve read. Instead of a tired catalog of prison tropes, Nelson guides his readers through a world that is indeed grim and dangerous, yet his self-deprecating wit, caustic sense of humor, and incisive eye for observational detail make the journey at once exhilarating, hilarious, and ultimately uplifting.”<strong> —Helen Stringer, Penguin Random House , Spellbinder Series</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>"Wow. This book was fantastic and written with honesty and humor. I haven't laughed so hard at a book in a really long time and Nelson delivers. His journey is filled with great insight–both to his external and internal world, as well as a look into the prison system."&nbsp;<strong><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17657274-where-excuses-go-to-die?from_search=true" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">—Goodreads community reviews</a></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Very insightful, a somewhat horrifying look into California's jail and prison system. Sometimes sad and other times laugh out loud funny. <strong><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Where-Excuses-John-Espinosa-Nelson/dp/0988573601#customerReviews">— Amazon customer reviews</a></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:core-embed/youtube {"url":"https://youtu.be/k3G54gy5-Jk ","type":"rich","providerNameSlug":"embed-handler","className":"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"} --> <figure class="wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> https://youtu.be/k3G54gy5-Jk </div></figure> <!-- /wp:core-embed/youtube --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> 10718 2020-08-17 12:02:49 2020-08-17 19:02:49 2020-09-22 12:27:46 2020-09-22 19:27:46 closed closed buy-the-book publish 0 0 page 0 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"bfc62710165ed7b51223b165689d40a3";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705607803;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3384;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10555;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:17;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:13;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6;}}}} _edit_last 1 _oembed_83af6212ddc9a702a4b445d6c8ed04ae <iframe title="Where Excuses Go to Die Book Trailer" width="780" height="439" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/k3G54gy5-Jk?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe> _oembed_time_83af6212ddc9a702a4b445d6c8ed04ae 1738222605 http://working-copy.local/excuses/10747/ Wed, 19 Aug 2020 05:13:06 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=10747 10747 2020-08-18 22:13:06 2020-08-19 05:13:06 2020-08-21 10:18:23 2020-08-21 17:18:23 closed closed 10747 publish 0 3 nav_menu_item 0 Main Menu _menu_item_type post_type _menu_item_menu_item_parent 0 _menu_item_object_id 10718 _menu_item_object page _menu_item_target _menu_item_classes a:1:{i:0;s:0:"";} _menu_item_xfn _menu_item_url http://working-copy.local/?page_id=10791 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?page_id=10791 <!-- wp:group {"align":"wide"} --> <div class="wp-block-group alignwide"><div class="wp-block-group__inner-container"><!-- wp:media-text {"mediaId":10792,"mediaLink":"http://working-copy.local/?attachment_id=10792","mediaType":"image"} --> <div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Photo_CBS8.com_.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-10792"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"></div></div> <!-- /wp:media-text --></div></div> <!-- /wp:group --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Hey, it’s not like celebrity-felon parents Mossimo Giannulli and Lori Loughlin’s choices were about their daughters’ academic goals, let alone the ascension of their character through a journey in studies. Greedy schmucks got their daughters kicked out of school.  </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>According to U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel Gorton, Giannulli’s and Loughlin’s part in the so-called college admissions scandal was all about an “inexplicable desire to grasp even more.”&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Sounds right. As for the five- and two-month (respective) staycations in federal custody? Works for me. After all, the minimal confinement isn’t the zinger, it's having taken the gold in the 2020 Privilege Summer Games. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>After recounting the celebrity-felon parents’ “fairy tale life,” Judge Gorton handed down their real punishment: “Get Character or Become One.” In other words, they’re gonna have to work absurdly hard to reverse their now intimate association with the worst element in American society.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Oh, I don’t mean the drug dealers, gun runners, and violent criminals who routinely stand before the same judge. I mean the vulgar cheaters of 2020: the scum of high office; the chips off the old systemic block of wealth; the suited, self-centered, swampy wall-building <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/private-border-wall-fundraisers-have-been-arrested-on-fraud-charges">con-artists</a> who bilked their own base.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>For Giannuli and Loughlin, the real penalty is being seen as parents who used their own daughters to further their status,&nbsp;prestige, and entitlement. Their prison number is the side-eye they can expect both in person and on social media.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Gorton insisted the crimes here were made even less excusable by how unnecessary they were. “You’re not stealing bread to feed your family,” he said to Gianulli. “You certainly did know better.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Ouch. As someone who also had to stand before a sentencing judge to&nbsp;truly&nbsp;“know better,” I’d say those words are likely to last a lot longer than 5 months.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> 10791 2020-08-22 19:08:22 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2020-08-22 19:08:22 2020-08-23 02:08:22 closed closed draft 0 0 page 0 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"bfc62710165ed7b51223b165689d40a3";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1598170843;s:7:"payload";a:5:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:13;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10718;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3384;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10666;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:17;}}}} http://working-copy.local/?p=5499 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=5499 <h2><span style="color: #000000;">Too many of us are suckers for ideological sulking and resentments</span></h2> Our priorities are insane:  Health insurance costs, like the price of gas, will never decrease or be explained fairly or honestly. And yet every single day in this country, we allow ourselves to be worked into a finger-pointing frenzy of judgment and hate of one another, on a nationally televised, minute by minute basis. Believe the free market competition and pricing of our current healthcare system is better for America? You're crazy and stupid and Hitler would've invited you to admire his art collection. Do you insist the regulation of health insurers will prevent them from signing only the wealthy and healthy? Well, you'd just put a public option right on your mother if Bill Clinton winked at you, no? Idiot liberals with their transgender global warming and head-up-their-ass conservatives alike, everybody's so caught up with condemning each other that people are too busy to stay relatively well-informed. Worse, the media blows up fringe issues and shellacs a thick coat of fear and class discrimination on everything it broadcasts. We perpetuate cheap shot ethics handed down from us from the kind of people we would've been suspicious of and avoided in high school. We all pretend to have more money than we do, holding ourselves above the homeless and second chance hopeful. This, at the same time that we all pretend we have more money than we really do, making personal debt the new bling; the more you can carry without letting anyone see you sweat, the better. Television commercials show people fighting over who's smart phone is better while precious few of us will ever achieve the brainpower, let alone the personal initiative to master all the devices are capable of doing. &nbsp; and we're too distracted making sure everyone knows what we stand for to be of much use to anyone. And by that I mean going outside of yourself and helping someone perhaps whom you don't know. Having a conversation with a homeless person, stopping and asking how they are and giving them a couple of singles is a simple and kind gesture I encourage on a regular basis but even more so this week. No, not just because it's a guilt fueled gesture that comes around once a year along with shopping and buying, but because people are more receptive to acts of kindness, so why not use it? In other words, backup the talk. &nbsp; a &nbsp; 5499 2013-11-24 15:33:20 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2013-11-24 15:33:20 2013-11-24 22:33:20 open open hate-bait-health-insurance-big-oil draft 0 0 post 0 Uncategorized _edit_last 1 http://working-copy.local/?p=6174 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=6174 My restored voting rights remind me I've paid my debt to society. It shouldn't matter that my right to vote was taken away because I was sent to prison. What should matter –and what matters to me– is that I earned it back. I'm proud of that. My right to vote does a lot for me, too, starting with being a happy reminder that the state of California and I have settled our differences amicably. I tend to think less of slackers who come up with excuses not to vote, which can be a dialogue-friendly counterbalance to feeling "less than" because of the criminal record stigma I'll always have. <!--more--> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium;">I like it when others assume that, as a convicted felon, I'm not allowed to vote, because answering that my vote was restored once my parole requirements were complete boosts my sense of purpose. Successful parolees in all 50 states should have it as lucky as I do when it comes to  electoral eligibility and being vocal about that is important. Attorney General Eric Holder, the leading voice on criminal-justice reforms, called the impact of state laws preventing convicted felons from voting even after they've served their sentences "disproportionate and unacceptable." In a recent Georgetown University speech, Holder cited the roughly 5.8 million Americans who are prohibited from voting because of felony convictions. Among that 5.8 million are people like me, who'd like to fulfill their civic duties and (here's the boosted sense of purpose thing again) add that humbling single vote to their self-image. Say what you will about your vote not counting because it's all alone in this big corrupt world. And say what you will about Congress, boring 'ol politics, or how things never change. When your right to vote has been taken away and won back the hard way, your insights allow you to forgive a certain degree of government apathy – but not excuse inaction. Because state and federal agencies can't predict what might get the attention of a criminal offender, one of the secrets to genuinely reducing recidivism is casting a wide net where each crisscrossing strand is an incentive to reengage. Restoring voting rights for ex-cons is just one strand in the net, yet it can help pull offenders from cycling through the system. What rang my bell were the writing instructors and teachers working in the various facilities to which I'd been sent; they saw potential in me I couldn't see in myself. That's my story, but it's not unique. Lots of other convicted felons answer the call to apply themselves in new and better ways. So while restoring voting rights in all 50 states isn't the answer to recidivism, it is part of the answer. The bottom line is this: even if casting a vote won't empower me much as a citizen, entering a polling place to find someone waiting to check me off a list for a good reason is part of what keeps me out of prison.</span> 6174 2014-02-19 15:50:25 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2014-02-19 15:50:25 2014-02-19 22:50:25 open open draft 0 0 post 0 Uncategorized _edit_last 1 http://working-copy.local/?p=6794 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=6794 I was hired to pen a speech for this asshole – not once, but twice. It wasn't really a speech, like you might imagine, with shuffled papers and important ideas. It was teleprompter crap Donald Sterling was to read in the acceptance of one of his many, many bought 'n paid for, prearranged Civic awards. Angelenos are more than familiar with the Sterling damage control-public relations machine that cranks out questionable looking media promotions for fundraisers seemingly assembling the same group of power players and B-list celebrities over and over. The advertisements take up very expensive real estate on the pages of the Los Angeles Times. I like to think of them as a collection of highly unflattering head shots, designed and approved by the 10th grade newspaper team at Willy Wonka high school. What began as a simple request for few words, "to get him started," wound up being a full-blown novel, which by Teleprompter standards is pretty short, but still, the man couldn't say thank you on his own. Not by my estimation at least. Although what did I care?  I needed the money, and the pay was good for my world. Besides, it would be <em>my</em> Teleprompter crap the real estate mogul and others would be reading. Plus, the gig would see me rubbing elbows with military brass in uniform, movie and television stars, sports franchise bigwigs, local politicians and more rich L.A. society tantrum throwers than should ever be allowed to ever gather in one place. In this case, the Beverly Hilton Hotel. By the way, I've mentioned this and similar events in previous entries, most notably, "From Beat Downs to Bear Hugs," so if you requre particulars, dropped names dates, etc. check it out. I was hired by producer who chose to give me a break, not as a some former convicted felon wanna-be writer, (no way in hell was I going to disclose status), as someone who proved they could do the job.  I had auditioned for it – period.  My interview was basically chitchat that preceded a homework assignment: "Were planning a three minute video on a life of astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Here's a copy of the video. Come back tomorrow with the narration and you got the job. If we use what you've written will pay you for it when we hire you or not." I knew that I didn't qualify and that night at my desk, in my apartment, in Hollywood, I was a loss. Buzz Aldrin's life!? Me? Would Aldrin punch somebody if he knew about this?  Of course, I recognized this long Hollywood tradition of producers telling chumps like me whatever they want to hear to get cheap labor and rush 'em out the door, so in a sense of mystery much so qualified. I'd made myself available to be said chump. After about an hour I started thinking how Aldrin might be described in a Simpsons episode, and BOOM!  There it was. The instant I decided to treat it sarcastically, as blowzy and overstated as the event itself is shaping up to be,  a string of words began to take shape. I laughed and wrote, fiddled with it, and laughed again. "The grand tapestry that is Buzz Aldrin's life is stitched together with the golden thread of service to his country." I decided that if Harper Lee went and dug up Tennessee Williams and Hunter S. Thompson so that they could dismiss that gem in unison, I'd tell 'em to start a petition, collect signatures from Steinbeck, Whitman, Rand, and Hemingway, and then crumple it up and cram it. It was a sentence that allowed me to complete the rousing voiceover copy and get hired. If I had known was coming next, or be far less deserving recipients would be receiving awards for the event, I still would've gone ahead and done it, but I would've probably taken a lot less seriously. Perhaps it's better I never found out until it was too late. Donald Sterling was to receive the evening's humanitarian award, which by the time I actually sat down to write its introduction as well as his acceptance, I'd experienced enough behind-the-scenes machinations of those putting on this event to know it was all for show. There wasn't anything humanitarian involved. It was rich people giving other rich people trumped up phony baloney awards. It was all dressed up for show. &nbsp; &nbsp; 6794 2014-06-08 23:05:00 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2014-06-08 23:05:00 2014-06-09 06:05:00 open open unfurling-donald-sterling draft 0 0 post 0 awards Beverly Hilton Buzz Aldrin Celebrity Character Donald Sterling Hollywood humanitarian teleprompter The Simpsons _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw donald sterling _yoast_wpseo_title The Unfurling of Donald Sterling _yoast_wpseo_metadesc The Unfurling of Donald Sterling really began back in 2009, but could be traced as far back as 2003. You see, bigotry always leaves a trail. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 74 http://working-copy.local/?p=7471 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=7471 Under the surface, aside from the cause, there's adrenaline's power <p class="p1">Many of us have experienced anger and intense frustration as we've followed the still unfolding, but less frantic events in Ferguson, Missouri. Some of us have seen our fair share of footage staring looters, who make us scratch our heads.</p> <p class="p1">Lesser "troublemakers" are "rioters" which TV news defines with clip after clip featuring people running amuck in the presence of – riot cops. They aren't throwing bottles, screaming, dancing on cars or even hoisting signs. They're white, black, brown, and in many cases standing stock still, frozen amidst the fury, threat and spectacle.</p> <p class="p1">In fact, they're just about anyone who isn't confronting police or smashing storefront windows. They're the ones helicopter camera operators love to zoom in on, and whose dwindling numbers tell television audiences it's okay to change the channel. It's a mixture of people who were on scene when things went crazy, onlookers can pull themselves away, and finally, those ready and willing to cross the line from mischief into vandalism or violence.  There are also those who, during events like these, were at first purposeful, peaceful perhaps, but lose their purpose wants chaos and teargas become factors.</p> <p class="p1">Myself, I've spent a fair amount of time time thinking about these side-liners, these peripheral participants who run past the camera, or force cameramen to move around them in their stunned sate.  They are part of the fuel that keeps things going, keeps the helicopters in the air, and keeps the cops comin'.  Those who aren't hostile initially might turn so, and those who thought they'd scream bloody murder in cop's faces wind up whimpering on the sidewalk with a bloody head.</p> <p class="p1">The common thread running through each and every soul is the stress-related hormone, adrenaline.</p> "Riot cops," how quaint. There's no more riot police, just jocks trying to move freely in shingled, armored cladding so layered footage of them sprinting is rare. In olden times we knew the cops were serious when they put on helmets with Plexiglas face shields, otherwise known as riot helmets. 7471 2014-08-24 17:53:30 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2014-08-24 17:53:30 2014-08-25 00:53:30 open open squaring-riot-cops draft 0 0 post 0 Uncategorized _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw riot cops _yoast_wpseo_title Squaring Off with Riot Cops - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 76 _yoast_wpseo_metadesc "Riot cops," how quaint. In olden times we knew the cops were serious when they put on helmets with Plexiglas face shields, otherwise known as riot helmets. http://working-copy.local/?p=7550 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=7550 T.J. Lane's prison escape shows just how wrong  –and right–  I was. I figured "TJ Max" was a good prison name to speculate for Ohio's youngest triple-lifer because when it comes to nicknames, inmates tend to go with what they've heard before, and there are 41 T.J. Maxx clothing stores in Ohio. But while I'm sure some clever cellmate or Yard Ape followed suit, I was wrong about a number of other things, starting with the Ohio Department of Corrections. When it came time for the Ohio Department of Corrections to step up and honor the survivors and those affected by the Chardon, Ohio High School shooting in February of 2012,  it failed to even match the level of competency God gave junkyard dogs. &nbsp; &nbsp; 7550 2014-09-13 19:05:50 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2014-09-13 19:05:50 2014-09-14 02:05:50 open open tj-max-middle-finger-pt-ii draft 0 0 post 0 "Killer" T-shirt Chardon High School Geauga County Jail Lima Prison Ohio Department of Corrections Ohio school shooter T.J. Lane TJ Max TJ Max and his Middle Finger Uncategorized Youngstown maximum security prison _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw T.J. Max _yoast_wpseo_title TJ Max and his Middle Finger – Pt. II _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 50 _yoast_wpseo_metadesc T.J. Lane or as I like to call him, "T.J. Max" for maximum security, http://working-copy.local/?p=7734 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=7734 7734 2014-10-12 13:31:24 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2014-10-12 13:31:24 2014-10-12 20:31:24 open open draft 0 0 post 0 Uncategorized _edit_last 1 http://working-copy.local/?p=7736 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=7736 <h2><span style="color: #0000ff;">Research shows more incarceration leads to greater union influence</span></h2> <p class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Is the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA) finally getting out of the way of prison reform in California? </strong></span></p> <p class="p1">In 2011, the CCPOA claimed it "played a decisive role" in electing Governor Jerry Brown after dropping $2 million on his campaign alone. The characteristic boast came in the form of a video, griped about <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/may/22/local/la-me-0522-lopez-calprisoncosts-20110522" target="_blank">at the time</a> by Los Angeles Times columnist, Steve Lopez.</p> <p class="p1">The union endorsed candidates it favored to the tune of $7 million that year and got plenty for its money. Of 107 candidates it backed in California, 104 were elected.</p> <p class="p1">Boom. And with that, <em>yanked</em> into perspective is the lobbying power of one of the most influential unions in American history. Frankly, I'm surprised a movie biopic hasn't been produced of Don Novey, the CCPOA's own Jimmy Hoffa-esque boss-man, who ran the union from 1980 until 2002, and the stuck around to keep a hand in things well after.</p> <p class="p1">Indeed –among other chapters–  the story of the CCPOA is, "higher incarceration leads to greater union influence," or so writes, Joan Petersilia in volume 37 of  <a href="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/series/CJ.html">Crime and Justice: A Review of Research</a>.</p> <p class="p1">And from Ordinary Times writer Tim Kowal, comes a thorough and concise <a href="http://ordinary-gentlemen.com/blog/2011/06/05/the-role-of-the-prison-guards-union-in-californias-troubled-prison-system" target="_blank">explanation</a> of how California's prison system, once a model of corrections management, pulled a hard u-turn while Don Novey's CCPOA made roid rage look like lollipops. Under his leadership, the union's influence exponentially grew right alongside the 18 prisons built in California between 1985 and 1995.</p> <p class="p1">Just skimming the Lopez and Kowal pieces is sure to serve as a fine introduction to the whys of prison reform, (and getting a bit more into it, see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Plata" target="_blank">Brown v. Plata</a>, <a title="Plata v. Schwarzenegger" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plata_v._Schwarzenegger">Plata v. Schwarzenegger</a> and <a title="Coleman v. Schwarzenegger" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman_v._Schwarzenegger">Coleman v. Schwarzenegger</a>. But since the public has become aware of how the war on drugs/three strikes mentality has so poorly affected the national welfare, the CCPOA has softened its "prison guards <a href="http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/agitation/prisons/campaigns/ca/caguardunion.html" target="_blank">as neighbors</a>, and prisoners as the scum of the earth," rhetoric.</p> <p class="p1">Yes, for years California Prison guards driven back reforms, rehabilitation, house cleaning, and operational transparency, all of which is reflected in the way the California Department of Corrections has changed its tune and softened up. The CDC and added the "R," for "rehabilitation,"  in 2005, after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals used words like "depravity," "unconstitutional," and "failure," to describe the department's <a href="http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/toyed-discarded-inmate-human-age-mass-incarceration/#" target="_blank">appalling</a> inadequacies.</p> <p class="p1">So why, I wonder, is the CCPOA silent on California's <a href="http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_47,_Reduced_Penalties_for_Some_Crimes_Initiative_(2014)" target="_blank">Prop 47</a> initiative? Proposition 47 seeks reclassify non-serious and nonviolent property and drug crimes, from felonies to misdemeanors, and allow re-sentencing for inmates doing time for offenses eligible for reclassification. The legislation strikes at the very heart of the CCPOA's unwavering job security interests.</p> <p class="p1">Why? Because they're good, that's why. The CCPOA, its fortress of layers, and the <a href="http://www.mcnallytemple.com/" target="_blank">public image strategists</a> hired by the union, the are are all as coldly shrewd as ever.</p> <p class="p1">The union can afford to sit this one out because it's spent the last 35+ years preparing for the tide to turn. It could care less what happens with proposition 47. Any reduction in the prison population that may result from its passage won't make a dent in its comfort, strength, or lobbying power. Sure, prison reform might be a bipartisan issue, corralling fiscal conservatives and lefties in the same arena, but when you wield the power of omission and obfuscation like these guys, what's little flexibility?</p> <p class="p1">I wrote Where Excuses Go to Die to tell the public about the civilian employee prison educators working to rehabilitate not only myself, but anyone in whom they saw potential – with a shift in splinters they were given to work with. I found rehabilitation not in the system, but in the compassion and humanitarianism in those who believed in what they were doing, rather than in the higher-ups they could hide behind.</p> <p class="p1">You go CCPOA – same as you ever were.</p> 7736 2014-10-14 09:35:58 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2014-10-14 09:35:58 2014-10-14 16:35:58 open open ccpoa-ever draft 0 0 post 0 California Correctional Peace Officers Association CCPOA Election Politics Jerry Brown mass incarceration national dialogue on prison reform Prison Prison reform _edit_last 1 http://working-copy.local/?p=7894 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=7894 A thirty-something woman I know recently tried to become a firefighter, but was turned away for not being strong enough, but if there's one thing I know, it's men, and men always compensate for the week one of the bunch. You know, the little guy, the one who's funny and can drink good. If he can't lift the other end of the heavy thing, the guys will help him out. Whatever. Sometimes he gets teased, but never outright dismissed. Even that time he dropped the jaws of life on Dave's head. You should have seen Dave. He was pissed! He dragged the little fella to the gym and made him do bench presses. That was crazy. I don't care if you're a sacred cow Firefighter or not, this gender posture is a pillar of pride in our male-dominated Western world. American network broadcast television reenforces it every Thursday. Oh, it might be it implied or repurposed for a more sensitive age, but network shows are still being written with women, gays, and minorities being merely tolerated. I can almost <em>feel</em> the pandering when I watch, which ain't much, or for very long. Why? I have another friend who does the token black thing on a network cop show, but he's no token anything. He's a fine actor and dedicated to his craft. He's a generous and genuine person too, which thankfully, his onscreen persona conveys no matter the scene. But every year, when I come across the show's new season billboards, which we have an awful lot of here in LA, I get angry because network television promo shots often telegraph the industry's inner hierarchies.  The layouts in supermarket check out magazines are the same, with the new clothes, characters and &nbsp; and there he is, marginalized. I hate it. Granted, part of my frustration is his role not being expanded, and it makes me suspicious &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The woman is a school teacher and her husband is a cop. Their faith in the system, what they believe it stands for, and how it should function is based entirely on their life experience. To look at the pair you'd see absurd physical fitness, personal confidence, and faith in the rewards of hard work. Their young daughter will no doubt benefit from these values. She'll will also benefit from the manner in which her mother is handling this rejection. To pass the Los Angeles County "Candidate Physical Ability Test" and be awarded a coveted "CPAT" card, one must perform physical tasks tailored around the serious rigors of firefighting. These include but aren't limited to, stair climbing, hose dragging, ladder raising, forcible entry, ceiling breaches, and rescue operations. &nbsp; 7894 2014-11-14 11:11:33 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2014-11-14 11:11:33 2014-11-14 18:11:33 open open gender draft 0 0 post 0 Uncategorized _edit_last 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1678174570;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10880;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8912;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9442;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:293;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1134;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:549;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor http://working-copy.local/?p=8131 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=8131 Alex Friedmann's private prison power plays are an ingenious form of protest. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 8131 2015-01-19 17:03:24 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2015-01-19 17:03:24 2015-01-20 00:03:24 open open draft 0 0 post 0 Uncategorized _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw private prison _yoast_wpseo_title Private Prison Hero - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 47 http://working-copy.local/?p=8222 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=8222 <h2><span style="color: #000000;">Brain "Get to the choppa!" Williams' character lapse – makes him one. </span></h2> <p class="p1"></p> &nbsp; 8222 2015-02-10 12:16:55 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2015-02-10 12:16:55 2015-02-10 19:16:55 open open draft 0 0 post 0 Uncategorized _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw war _yoast_wpseo_metadesc The exaggerations in Brain Williams' war story open the door for others to weigh in and repurpose details for their own gain. Get character for become one. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 78 http://working-copy.local/?p=8254 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=8254 Prison survival literature is for the sucker born every minute. &nbsp; &nbsp; 8254 2015-02-25 18:42:27 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2015-02-25 18:42:27 2015-02-26 01:42:27 open open draft 0 0 post 0 Uncategorized _edit_last 1 http://working-copy.local/?p=8399 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=8399 In 2013, I suggested that society judge furniture dumping by respective degrees, like murder –first-degree, second-degree– and so forth, right? Well, today I'm wonder which might be worse, excessive force culture and its killer cops, or couch dumpers?  No, I'm not rally questioning whether abandoning an old mattress is worse than police brutality, but the parallel is inspired by a lack of footage of individuals committing this act, versus the detestably increasing number of clips featuring cops breaking necks, shooting people in the back, and punching women in the face.  I just wish more La-Z-Boy Litterers were caught on camera my vigilante creed remains: “Don’t magistrate: humiliate!” &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 8399 2015-04-30 13:09:00 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2015-04-30 13:09:00 2015-04-30 20:09:00 open open draft 0 0 post 0 Uncategorized _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw hate crime _yoast_wpseo_title Abandoning Furniture is a Hate Crime Pt. 2 _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Okay, maybe not a "hate" crime, but I do wish more La-Z-Boy Litterers were caught on camera, as my vigilante creed remains: “Don’t magistrate: humiliate!” _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 59 http://working-copy.local/?p=8423 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=8423 8423 2015-05-08 08:40:07 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2015-05-08 08:40:07 2015-05-08 15:40:07 open open draft 0 0 post 0 Uncategorized _edit_last 1 http://working-copy.local/?p=8606 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=8606 8606 2015-06-23 07:16:29 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2015-06-23 07:16:29 2015-06-23 14:16:29 open open draft 0 0 post 0 Uncategorized _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw prison visitation _yoast_wpseo_title Prison Visitor Hardball – Part II - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 29 http://working-copy.local/?p=8730 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=8730 The Satanic Temple, a religious organization with the most self-explanatory name in the world, lobbied unsuccessfully in 2012 to have a winged, goat headed sculpture placed on Oklahoma State Capitol grounds, after a Ten Commandments monument had been installed there. 8730 2015-08-02 12:34:01 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2015-08-02 12:34:01 2015-08-02 19:34:01 open open draft 0 0 post 0 Uncategorized _edit_last 1 http://working-copy.local/?p=8862 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=8862 8862 2015-09-29 12:15:59 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2015-09-29 12:15:59 2015-09-29 19:15:59 open open draft 0 0 post 0 Uncategorized _edit_last 1 http://working-copy.local/?p=9139 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=9139 The youngest is a gang shooter charged with murder, attempted and blasting away at people's homes. The oldest, 9139 2016-01-26 10:31:21 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2016-01-26 10:31:21 2016-01-26 17:31:21 open open the-control-key-3 draft 0 0 post 0 Uncategorized _edit_last 1 http://working-copy.local/?p=9188 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=9188 9188 2016-02-11 16:28:47 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2016-02-11 16:28:47 2016-02-11 23:28:47 open open all-the-kings-henchmen draft 0 0 post 0 Uncategorized _edit_last 1 http://working-copy.local/?p=9549 Wed, 12 Oct 2016 00:18:02 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=9549 <h3><span style="color: #000000;"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9552" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Locker-Room-Reeducation-Camp_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="locker-room-reeducation-camp_where-excuses-go-to-die" width="323" height="288" />Actual locker rooms aren’t comfortable, especially those butcher blocks of high school where the mince of male groupthink is cranked out and spread all over the place. But we know the whole <em>Lord of the Flies</em> trip begins much earlier...</span></h3> When young boys group together they become their own little life raft, floating atop the waves of approaching adolescence and the world's countless uncertainties. It's here that the raw material of leaders and followers can be found, as the risk-averse tend to find safety in mimicry, making Locker Room Talk the cackle of copycats. <!--more--> "Those who lead, and those who follow" seems stitched into the fabric of this country, but with so much of America's criteria for leadership now bravado over bravery, the stuff of  influence is left unguarded far too soon. And I really mean <em>unguided</em>, limited window of time in which to instill respect for others is gravely short, hence "guardianship." And parents  –<em>Jesus H. Christ</em>–  they're far worse copycats than kids, as they too often imitate other parents while simultaneously drawing from their own damaged blueprints. We accept, forgive and excuse with "boy will be boys," and dismiss this laziness with, "it's all part of growing up." I mean, if anywhere on earth so-called life coaches,  could earn their fees, it would be in school locker rooms. Why? Because Locker Room Talk is the syntax of the intimidated. It's seeming intent is to let loose the pressures of belief, ideology, and fear to coax change, and order; the order of leaders and followers. The language of the life raft <em>does</em> advance and evolve, but will do so with or without manners. It remains myopic, in part due to American values, because prestige is to bravado, as bravery is to nobility. How? Because Locker Room Talk crushes that part of us it's ready take a chance on something different, or new, because no one told us it couldn't be done. Nobility exists right there, right in that tiny instant when you decide to <em>go for it</em>, because you have no reason <em>not</em> to. Locker Room Reeducation Camps replaces young boys joyful spontaneity of I called my mom a "bitch" once. She spun and lowered herself as if to shoulder my head against the stove. "Don't ever use that word, she warned with a finger in my face. "It means you hate women. Only <em>idiots</em> use that word."  <em>Wait-wait, </em>I thought.<em> I don't hate women! </em>The second part, her signiture door-slammer, "idiot," was always an effective closer; as in, "if you stick a needle in your arm, you're an idiot." This ever-expanding donation to the Over-thinker's Union, of which I'm a proud member, I treasure to this day, as I wold go on to apply it all of those words the other boys were using to describe women and their parts. I'd soon be wearing boots, raggedy jeans, studded wristbands and spikey, colored hair, so a confirmation came in the form of routinely "faggot" yelled at me from passing cars or growled into my face when cornered by jocks at school. (Funny how once you leave the life raft, the sharks are you.) From there my struggle with these and other words became semantical, as with the doubt of using "bitch" to describe a workaday pain-in-the-ass, or referencing someone's incessant bellyaching. And I say, <em>ever-expanding</em> because the epiphany that it is still demeaning to women to to assert "Stop being a pussy, you big pussy," didn't hit me for years. 9549 2016-10-11 17:18:02 2016-10-12 00:18:02 2016-10-12 08:57:26 2016-10-12 15:57:26 open open draft 0 0 post 0 Uncategorized _edit_last 1 _wp_desired_post_slug _yoast_wpseo_content_score 30 _yoast_wpseo_primary_category _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john http://working-copy.local/excuses/lone-wolf-arsonist-vegan-ladies-man/ Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:33:18 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=258 <strong>Violent Vegan Torches Sheepskin Store Because Wolves Eat Sheep and His Nickname is Wolf-related</strong> <h6><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/violentv.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-259" title="violentv" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/violentv.jpg" alt="" width="109" height="165" /></a> <strong> Original story on <a href="http://www.globegazette.com/news/local/article_16c28532-9774-11df-8465-001cc4c002e0.html" target="_blank">Globalgazette.com</a> | Saturday, July 24, 2010</strong></h6> I’d rather not have this blog become a source for dumb criminal stories, despite my own being its key inspiration. <!--more-->With the hilarity so universally associated with excuse-makers, I do realize that this will be an uphill climb, but there are plenty of other sites on the Internet to showcase the antics of Darth Vader bank robbers and car thieves who by some means immolate themselves. The reason I’m so attracted to this story, though, is that it reminds me of two significant points on my own road: one in L.A. in the early ‘80s when the Animal Liberation Front literature crept into the L.A. punk scene and the other on a yard full of guys with big bold fonts on their throats. This Walter Bond character is an arsonist who found a reason to set things on fire, a classic example of the cause finding the joiner and not the other way around, where there’s a genuine principle to defend or a personal battle to fight. Bond’s affidavit, courtesy of our friends at the<a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0723102alf2.html" target="_blank">Smoking Gun</a>, says what we don’t need to, regarding the obvious behavior associated with chicken-shit fire setters. It’s enough to know that Bond, who went by “Lone Wolf,” felt compelled to burn something – probably anything, really. We care that Bond saw this store’s products as representative of animals hunted by wolves only as much as we can hear the laughter coming from the Denver District Attorney’s office. Reminder number two, and the real question for Bond is, does he have any idea how many mean muther-effin’ fools on the yard are gonna’ see his neck and demand, “Yo fool, who’s your people? What the hell does Vegan mean? What’s with the crossed tools?” What’s he going to say? Will he respond with what the Animal Liberation Front website states, that veganism is based on the principle of least harm to all creatures? If he does, he’ll get throat-punched immediately and be laughed at for a week – while others target him. If he doesn’t, he’ll get throat-punched immediately for roaming without an affiliation. No protection? No friends? Double throat-punch. And when they hear about Lone Wolf, there’ll be another round of throat punching. Hell, when ol’ Bondsy sees the menu inside, he’ll throat-punch himself! 258 2010-07-25 02:33:18 2010-07-25 02:33:18 2010-07-25 02:33:18 2010-07-25 02:33:18 closed open lone-wolf-arsonist-vegan-ladies-man publish 0 0 post 0 '80s Darth Vader Excuses Food L.A Punk Scene _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1688509871;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:922;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3083;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11561;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6473;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6520;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:362;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/blowback-lindsay-lohan/ Sun, 11 Jul 2010 02:43:30 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=265 <div> <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/blohan_aeq4.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-266" title="blohan_aeq4" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/blohan_aeq4.jpg" alt="" width="140" height="182" /></a> </strong> <h6><strong> </strong><strong>Original story in the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-lindsay-lohan-20100704,0,4835943.story" target="_blank">Los Angeles Times</a> | Sunday, July 4, 2010</strong></h6> Between the courtroom hysterics and so-called “jail sentence,” not to mention Lindsay’s FU fingernails, I’m about Lohan’d out - you? <!--more-->I’d rather go back to the Russian spies who showed up to lend a hand in the Gulf oil spill. But first, I’m compelled to double-take on a contrast between movie director Matthew Wilder and Hollywood producer Kerry Wallum that I found in a drawn-out<em>LA Times</em> recap of Lohan’s rise and mess, probably known in celeb coverage as “Lohan Template 2”. As usual, the article mentions her childhood potential and the self-hate over her freckles. It brought up all of those California drunk-driving laws that’ve got the young lady so stumped, as well as her current loveable pariah status and future prospects. (I dig the <em>tsk-tsk</em> quotes from mentors and assholes alike that always accompany such pieces, like the inevitable claims of having seen “the warning signs.” Schmucks.) After being reminded that Lohan is still a human little girl –not just TMZ and webloid fodder– I was led to the bit on Wilder and Wallum. Wilder is set to direct Lohan in a film dramatizing the life of a deceased porn queen; Wallum is producing a comedy that would see the actress alongside the venerable Willie Nelson. One guy is about to direct Lohan’s remaining talent to tell the icky story of Linda Lovelace, a woman sexually and psychologically abused to incomprehensible levels and then exploited to the, um, hilt. Wilder seems to think that Lohan’s parallel personal troubles are no big deal, saying, “there’s so much noise around her in the press that people forget she’s a really great actor.” Whether Wilder believes this or not about his “star,” he can sleep at night knowing Lohan at least has the faint heartbeat to get his movie made. Wilder seemingly bragged that, even while partying at the Cannes Film Festival, Lindsay found time for film finance executives “who, after having met her, put up money” for his biopic. You see? She’s fine! Why, Heath Ledger was busy arranging and re-arranging the furniture until he died, but you know, he could’ve sat up straight for a promo picture, right? So, did the <em>LA Times</em> writer intentionally position Wilder’s quote about how dedicated Lohan is to his project next to his cavalier description of her personal life and her ambiguous obligations around getting the film financed? I mean, it’s a film about abuse and exploitation, with a script rumored to be trashy bordering on soft porn. And it’s being made by a guy whose artistic vision will require Lohan to shake it, spread ‘em, and get slapped around… Framework of the article notwithstanding, Wilder’s assurances that Lohan’s personal problems are just “noise” are as repellent as Lindsay’s parents, also covered. And sure, plenty of “really great” actors have had to two-step for film financing over the years. But severely troubled, addiction prone little girls sent to fetch cash from foreign bag men holed up in hotel rooms at the world’s most glamorous coke party? That was the troubling part of the contrast evident to me as I read (into) the article. Here’s the nice part… This cat Kerry Wallum –the producer attached to this Willie Nelson project– probably knows Nelson relatively well to describe the singer/songwriter as having “seen it all,” right? Right. Well, Wallum goes on to describe his project, “The Dry Gulch Kid,” like this: “Everybody makes mistakes, and some people make them over and over. She’s a good actress. Maybe this is the deal that will straighten her up completely. And even if it ain’t, we’ll be out in the country. I guarantee she’ll be to set on time. She’ll be stuck out in the middle of nowhere.” You see? I like this guy. He’s not making excuses nor downplaying or ignoring the many known issues of a suspected cokehead actress’s erratic behavior, admitted irresponsibility, and dufus decisions. He just sayin’ what you and I have been thinking, plain and simple-like: <em>Hell, that girl will either act professionally or she won’t, but out there in the scrub she sure won’t have any rave parties or clubs or traffic to drive against. She’ll only have ‘ol Willie, someone who has seen her type come and go. Someone who has had his own difficult Hollywood lessons to learn. Someone who might actually sit her down and tell it to her straight. </em> No pimpin’ required. </div> <strong> </strong> 265 2010-07-11 02:43:30 2010-07-11 02:43:30 2010-07-11 02:43:30 2010-07-11 02:43:30 closed open blowback-lindsay-lohan publish 0 0 post 0 Cannes Film Festival Excuses Idiots Linda Lovelace Wllie Nelson _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703718249;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:417;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3878;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:663;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/study-divorce-is-contagious/ Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:47:29 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=269 <!-- wp:image {"id":10529} --> <figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Just_Divorced_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-10529"/></figure> <!-- /wp:image --> <h6><strong>Original story in <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1291916/Divorce-contagious-If-friends-split-75-cent-chance-marriage-fall-apart-well.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Daily Mail</a> | Tuesday, July 6, 2010</strong></h6> <p><em>Researchers working on a well known, ongoing study of more than 12,000 Americans living in Framingham, Mass., since 1948 have found that divorce is contagious.<!--more--> The researchers, led by Brown University’s Dr. Rose McDermott, “have discovered that divorce is catching and spreads like a disease through families, work places and groups of friends,” the Daily Mail reported. <strong>If an immediate friend—or even a colleague—gets a divorce, the chance that you will also get a divorce jumps by 75 percent.</strong> The likelihood that you will divorce increases by a third if a friend of a friend’s marriage falters. The researchers describe the effect as “divorce clustering” and “believe that break-ups within friendship groups force couples to start questioning their own relationships,” said the report. “They say that a friend’s divorce can also reduce the social stigma of splitting up, even when children are involved.”</em></p> <p>•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••</p> <p>Oh, divorce is contagious my ass! Boy, if that didn’t just make excuses ten times as communicable! C’mon people, must we first look at the person next to us to know what our own reactions should be, or can we think for ourselves? “Ooh, that Davis guy in accounting left his wife because he feels trapped. Wait, is that what I’m feeling?” Shut up! Are there no squirming young Americans even conscious of how difficult it was to get a divorce only 30 or 40 years ago? In those days, divorce made people look like the quitters they were. It exposed creepy family secret, lies, cowardice, hidden orientations, and, ta-da! Excuses galore! Most couples divorcing back then would’ve genuinely needed to – and no, not like you need that new iPhone app. Today, divorces happen over BMWs and dry skin. And now, with this study suggesting that just knowing divorced people can be bad for your marriage, the easy way out just got a red carpet.</p> 269 2010-07-12 02:47:29 2010-07-12 02:47:29 2019-09-16 14:24:04 2019-09-16 21:24:04 closed open study-divorce-is-contagious publish 0 0 post 0 Cowardice divorce Excuses iPhone app _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_primary_category 3 _yoast_wpseo_content_score 30 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1688527471;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6952;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:341;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2485;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:347;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2172;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6295;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/thread-count-screw-you/ Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:52:06 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=274 <h6><strong> </strong> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/thread_68ji.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-275" title="thread_68ji" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/thread_68ji.jpg" alt="" width="144" height="124" /></a> <strong>Original story in the</strong><strong> <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-jail-bedding-20100705,0,450629.story" target="_blank">Los Angeles Times</a> | Monday, July 5, 2010</strong></h6> <em>“’L.A. County jails are equipped with so-called suicide-safe blankets purchased for less than $55 each; the thicker, sturdier blankets sheriff’s officials had requested cost more than $135 each,’ said sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore.<!--more--></em> <em>“The blankets that have proven to be faulty for suicide-risk inmates in county jails are also used in other prisons and jails across the country. But sheriff’s officials have said conditions in their jails are particularly challenging…”</em> <em> </em> <em>“Department officials say inmates chew at the blankets’ border stitching, working them until they give and inmates can tear the material into strips for nooses. ‘They come up with some very clever ways,’ said Cmdr. Stephen Johnson, with the sheriff’s custody operations division, ‘ways we would not consider.’”</em> <em>••••••••••••••••••••••</em> So let me get this straight: the Sheriff’s Department is essentially saying that jail detainees are outwitting its custody operations division? That’s an excuse! Wouldn’t it stand to reason that, in order to chew through bulletproof bedding, suicide-risk prisoners would have to be left to themselves for awfully long stretches at a time? And I’ve seen firsthand how equally vigilant and lethargic deputies at the L.A. Men’s Central Jail can be, so I know what the quality of their supervision looks like. With eight suicides in 2009 alone, no wonder Peter Eliasberg, Managing Attorney with the ACLU of Southern California, called MCJ “a modern-day medieval dungeon, a dank, windowless place where prisoners live in fear of retaliation and abuse apparently goes unchecked.” Say what you will about the ACLU, Eliasberg is right when he further describes the conditions there as “simply among the most barbaric of any jail or prison in the nation.” 274 2010-07-14 02:52:06 2010-07-14 02:52:06 2010-07-14 02:52:06 2010-07-14 02:52:06 closed open thread-count-screw-you publish 0 0 post 0 Excuses L.A. County Jail Sheriff's Department Steve Whitmore _edit_last 2 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1688535737;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2309;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5616;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3469;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:521;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1180;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2523;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/im-his-mother-but-hes-not-my-son/ Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:56:47 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=278 <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":10957,"width":298,"height":369,"sizeSlug":"large"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SuperMom_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-10957" width="298" height="369"/></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <p><strong>Michigan SuperMom Given Nine Years for Sex with 14-Year-old Biological Son – And Begins Human Extinction Process</strong></p> <p> </p> <h6><strong>Original story on <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38217476/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">msnbc.com</a> |</strong></h6> <p><strong>id•i•ot</strong> – id-ee-uht  – noun<br />1. an utterly foolish or senseless person.<br />Synonyms: half-wit, imbecile, moron</p> <p>It's difficult <em><strong>not</strong></em> to write this woman off an idiot, so if I refer to her as an idiot many, many times, A) it's my opinion, and, B) generally speaking, idiots do declare/write things like this.</p> <p>For those who haven’t heard the story, Aimee L. Sword gave up her son when he was an infant, receiving birthday photos over the years from the boy’s adoptive family.  When he was old enough to start a Facebook account she allegedly contacted him, cursing her posts with anonymity, treachery and sickness. Eventually, Sword initiated a sexual relationship with her biological son, for which she pled guilty and was sentenced to 9-30 years.</p> <p>Theories as to what motivated Sword are stacked up like inbound flights at LAX, and her attorney says his client has decided to “seek counseling.“ Ha! Whether or not she’s curious about why she viewed her own child as a sexual object, or even which Simpson’s character will best represent her in court, she’s going to have both court-appointed and private psychiatrists muttering “idiot” under their breaths for the rest of her life –and on every reality show she’s ever "invited" to participate in.</p> <p>But back to the theories…</p> <p>There’s one that says that since Sword wasn’t around to raise her son, she wasn’t “inoculated” against a romantic fixation. A more household theory relates to Sword’s claim that she was abused as a child and that the “pattern” could be a partial cause. But the prizewinner making the rounds is GSA, or “<a href="http://www.gsaforums.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Genetic Sexual Attraction</a>” (are you listening Pfizer? GlaxoSmithKline?). Presumably, sufferers of GSA syndrome are ruled by incestuous romance and sexual fantasy.</p> <p>GSA’s origins began with “The Forbidden Love" and continues with “I’m His Mother, But He’s Not My Son,” by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Barbara-Gonyo/e/B004UF8EB8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Barbara Gonyo</a>, a woman who –while making no excuses for her own “atrocious” behavior– does paint creepy pictures of clowns, children and a nature scene that, given the context, looks to me like a writhing orgy. But that might’ve been the power of suggestion, as her website, which supports others dealing with GSA, makes it soul-scorchingly clear that it isn’t a porn site or “a place to fantasize.” Neither is it, oddly, “for incest victims of childhood abuse or their abusers,” which sorta makes the whole bunch seem a bit all over the map. I’d think Gonyo would want to encourage incest victims to seek potentially pertinent information…</p> <p>Okay-okay, despite the heavy “they just don’t understand us” vibe that permeates the GSA site –and I’m not denigrating Gonyo’s effort to educate the public– as far as I can tell, no one is claiming what GSA may <em>sound</em> like: that it’s in your DNA, and that the day your threw your tattle-tale sister into a ditch, genetics were routing you toward something rated XXX and so forth.</p> <p>But others <em>might</em> make GSA an excuse, and that’s my beef! With all of this enlightening chatter about GSA, how long will it be until we hear someone tease a co-worker with, “Ooh, I think I have a little GSA for the new girl!” And how long after this cutesiness will we see full-blown GSA segments on the afternoon news or Dr. Phil? And never-mind Aimee L. Sword, who –GSA-or-no-GSA– should have stepped the hell off and not pursued something she knew damn good ‘n well was Caligula-Level Wrong: when does all this become “treatable?” Because where ever there’s a cure, or more accurately, a diagnosis, you’ll find an excuse.</p> 278 2010-07-15 02:56:47 2010-07-15 02:56:47 2020-09-23 11:10:53 2020-09-23 18:10:53 closed open im-his-mother-but-hes-not-my-son publish 0 0 post 0 Aimee L. Sword Barbara Gonyo Dr. Oz Excuses Facebook forbidden love GlaxoSmithKline GSA Pfizer Phizer Your Adorable Child _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706435034;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:672;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6473;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9474;}}}} http://working-copy.local/?p=9801 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=9801 <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Fear-and-Loathing-at-McDonalds_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9807 " src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Fear-and-Loathing-at-McDonalds_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="217" height="294" /></a>I don’t have to chew as much.</strong> Because what’s chewing when I can chimney-slide it in? From the second my McDonald’s Double Quarter Pounder is unsheathed to when I squish 'n toss the wrapper, I barely have to work my jaw. It's a true metaphor for American cultural identity: <em>less chewing/more swallowing</em>. And whoever thought up printing "nutritional" information on something with such a limited hand-to-mouth life is a genius! <span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span class="s1">Don't look at me; I'm hideous. </span></strong></span>Even as I decry such privileged attributes as lazy eating, I'm occasionally swayed by food-matter that requires neither fork nor self-respect. Never mind that I'm hunched in my car, windshield angled at a hedge to hide my <a href="http://laist.com/2012/01/16/woman_arrested_for_offering_sexual.php" target="_blank">private shame</a>? Kookiest part is, the way I wipe my mouth, use my napkin, and react when a chunk falls from my fingers or face is <em>very</em> different than what I exhibit at my own dinner table or in an actual restaurant. It's the Jekyll and Hyde of posture and table manners: as if it would feel right somehow to take off my shirt to eat a Big Mac. <!--more--> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/WHY-GOD-WHY_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9820 " src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/WHY-GOD-WHY_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="296" height="228" /></a>Fast food is often for people who waited too long to eat.</strong> </span></span><span class="s1">When I’m suddenly dizzy and using words like “fuck,” "goddamn,” and "shit-for-brains” to describe my recent attendance at a child's birthday party, I realize I need to eat -- NOW. Parking the car where it won't be towed or ticketed, navigating crosswalks, and remembering to lock away my valuables are all things the McDonald’s drive-thru eliminates.</span></p> <strong>They have to take $4.43 in change and lint.</strong> Now that I'm frenzied and possibly hypoglycemic, <em>of course</em> I'm willing to claw for console coins and risk <a href="http://triblocal.com/glen-ellyn/2010/10/18/loose-change-sparks-car-fire-in-mcdonalds-lot/" target="_blank">learning the hard way</a> why it’s a good idea to have some folding money or plastic on you. For now, the McDonald’s kid is gonna have to cup his hands through Window #1 to avoid a short register. <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/YES-McDONALDS-IS__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9814 " src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/YES-McDONALDS-IS__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="298" height="161" /></a>I can't win anyway.</strong> McDonald's franchises require that their "fresh leaf lettuce" be treated with ten different chemicals just to keep it the right color at the right crispness for the right length of time. Not only is that an extraordinary attention to detail, it matches the polypropylene environment of my car's interior, the berserk toxicity of my yoga mat, and all of the resin compounds I inhale while sitting in just about any movie theater. Hey, if <a href="https://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/index.htm">my pen</a> finds my mouth while I'm jotting something down, am I not essentially teething a Chinese smokestack? Right. Back to my McCrispy Bacon Squeezer. <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Jesus-Died-For-Your-McDonalds__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9822" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Jesus-Died-For-Your-McDonalds__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="160" height="204" /></a>McDonald’s French fries can’t be beat. </strong>Actually they can, but I repeat this to myself as I witness customer after customer struggle with the fit of their pants through the doorway. (Seriously, watch how many people yank determinedly at their drawstrings and elastic waistbands <em>right before</em> entering.) My own visit is mentally justified by the fact that I “only” make 8-10 McDonald’s runs a year. But I also pretend McNuggets are healthy 'cause they’re chicken. If I really am smarter than <a href="http://www.bridgingthegapresearch.org/_asset/7kn84a/btg_child_directed_marketing_in_fast_food_12-18-12-final.pdf">child-directed marketing</a>, what am I doing? Do McDonald’s fries taste better than my own dignity? Apparently they do. When Joan Didion wrote, "Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price," she may have been pulling up to Window #2 herself. <p style="text-align: left;"><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/FAT-ELVIS-IS_Where-Excuses-Went-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9823" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/FAT-ELVIS-IS_Where-Excuses-Went-to-Die.jpg" width="154" height="146" /></a>"Last call" says it all. </strong>The "McGriddle Spittle" and the "<a href="https://youtu.be/dkGUI4bnQbQ">Hoff Burger</a>" are truly great equalizers. Club-wreckage, shit-faced frat-tards, your own neighbors and co-workers...there are an awful lot of us who hear the 2:20 am siren song, coaxing us to stuff handfuls of meat-paste and vegetable protein into our gullets and/or smear them across a cheating girlfriend's car door. This is as close to being Elvis Presley that any of us rock 'n rollers are ever gonna get, so my drive-thru D.U.I. soundtrack always includes "And the Grass Won't Pay No Mind":</p> <p class="p1" style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="s1" style="color: #000000;">"The moment we're living is now now now now now now now now..."</span></em></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/You-bring-the-kids_We’ll-bring-the-party.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9825 " src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/You-bring-the-kids_We’ll-bring-the-party.jpg" width="184" height="138" /></a>Superior f-f-fullness f-f-factor. </strong>Yeah, this part's not so good. Far from “lovin’ it,” I feel literally <em>injured</em> after eating McDonald’s. But hey, I got what I came for, didn’t I? I picked the place so I could feel full without delay and without leaving the car. I pay in pennies if necessary and decrease the burden of mastication. Since I'd let my own self grow straightjacket-starving, I could retrieve no memory of how well my <em>last</em> full-term Mickey D pregnancy worked out. So it serves me right to be left with the sensation of being 100% USDA embalmed with no one – not even the clown – to blame.</p> &nbsp; <p style="text-align: right;">.</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-9828" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Ronald-McDonald__The-God-of-Gullible_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="498" height="372" /></p> <p style="text-align: right;">.</p> 9801 2017-01-10 22:51:33 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2017-01-10 22:51:33 2017-01-11 05:51:33 open open draft 0 0 post 0 Big Mac blood sugar chewing drive-thru DUI Elvis fast food Food french fries GUILTY PLEASURES Joan Didion McDonald's McNuggets Quarter Pounder USDA _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw_text_input McDonald’s _yoast_wpseo_focuskw McDonald’s _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 73 _yoast_wpseo_content_score 60 _yoast_wpseo_primary_category 908 http://working-copy.local/?p=9870 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=9870 <strong>There's no excuse for getting angst ridden over the news headlines before reaching a daily goal of accomplishing something first.</strong> That’s right, there’s no excuse for scratching that outrage itch without first empowering yourself with personal performance. The strength we get from knowing that we put ourselves first has the power to unclutter our thinking and bring us to feel deserving. Look back at the end of any hard, productive day and you can’t help but notice how much the sense of completion downgrades the same daily anxieties that are tearing others apart. Complainers are monsters, except for those complaining about how sore they are from a good workout. Gym rats are less prone to intense muscle soreness, so their brand of groaning is easily dismissed. Not so for our sloppy coworkers and friends. We may roll our eyes, but we do so out of respect because we recognize that they managed to get over themselves enough to try. They’ve made a struggle to put themselves ahead of the very same obligations and worries that we face, but now they got an edge. So here’s what I’m saying, people out there are short-circuiting like bad toasters, so much so that we're hearing about things like "headline stress disorder" and companies having to navigate the productivity impact of employees' sociopolitical anxieties. So I've come to the realization that from now on, for me, it's got to be fulfillment before fury. If I <em>must</em> veer off course into anxiety porn, I'll have to do so only after accomplishing a sizable daily goal (or a number of smaller ones). If I'm going scratch that outrage itch, it'll have to be as a reward, 'cause it eats up time the same way any other unproductive distraction can. If I'm gonna hang out on Argument Street, I'll have to commit to working on feeling fulfilled first. I'll have to agree not to engage the day's news or headlines until <em>after</em> my obligations have been addressed. This way, engaging the topics of the day with others will feel more like a reward and less like some sort of last laugh my esteem depends on. This way, if I’ve earned that above-mentioned “edge,” I will be better positioned to know the difference between aggrandizing my misery, (which is what happens when we empower dread and fear with inaction) and staying informed. If I’m operating in that headspace I’m a lot more likely to pick smarter battles, improve my comebacks and zingers, offer a better debate, and walk away feeling clean rather than feeling like the world is going to end. I like Facebook because I enjoy antagonizing my cousins and my brothers. I refuse to wind up one of those crybabies who bellyaches about deactivating their Facebook account because they just can't take it anymore. Shut up! The answer is so simple! Work out really hard. Pick up that To-Do list and get that shit over with! After that, feel free to tackle the worlds problems, make something great again, we’ll roll out of the dirt. You’ll be doing so with improved wiring. You’ll be winning. You will be pushing yourself toward the light, and by example, those around you. Doubtful? Rolling your eyes? That's fine, but this were excuses going to die. 9870 2017-03-07 11:27:39 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2017-03-07 11:27:39 2017-03-07 18:27:39 open open fulfilled-before-furious draft 0 0 post 0 America American angst anxiety blog Election Politics Excuses Facebook hatred headline stress disorder Islamophobia isolationism news outrage prison sarcastic dysfunction stress the Onion Where Excuses Go to Die _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_content_score 30 _yoast_wpseo_primary_category 408 _yoast_wpseo_metadesc There's no excuse for being angst ridden over the headlines before reaching a daily goal of accomplishing something first. Be fulfilled before furious. _yoast_wpseo_focuskw_text_input fulfilled _yoast_wpseo_focuskw fulfilled _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 78 http://working-copy.local/?p=9966 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=9966 <h3><span style="color: #000000;">Passenger Bill of Rights? They call us "guests" but they think of us as pigs, so</span><span style="color: #000000;"> let's just admit it, huh? As an airline passengers it's difficult even making eye contact with one another because we're embarrassed to have sunken so low as to travel this way. </span></h3> Okay that's a bit dramatic sure, but you know that sort of lowly, self-conscious feeling you get excusing yourself back to the curtsy cabin?  That's how battered wives and drunks feel admitting to have excused a life lived in shame. Airline passengers are like captives who are whipped everyday except Thursday. Thursday is the happiest day ever, 'till its Friday. For decades we have been trained to diminish our expectations and forget the now quaint notion that sense that the customers always right. Despite being strapped into a flying gas can traveling at 570 miles an hour, our greater fears are of being accused, scolded, publicly shamed, or even pushed around. We fear the speed at which simmering crew members can go from begrudging to badgered. For those of us who  remember a heritage of Jet-age pride that made us all equally special for boarding a plane, its a bummer to find that esteem reduced to cell phone footage of angst-ridden finger-pointers. &nbsp; 9966 2017-04-24 19:26:04 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2017-04-24 19:26:04 2017-04-25 02:26:04 open open draft 0 0 post 0 airline passengers Uncategorized _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw_text_input airline _yoast_wpseo_focuskw airline _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 58 _yoast_wpseo_content_score 60 _yoast_wpseo_primary_category http://working-copy.local/?p=10034 Thu, 04 May 2017 22:34:26 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=10034 For those of us who follow incarceration and reentry issues, the Federal Bureau of Prisons' recently approved inmate-created, inmate-run, prerelease program in Cumberland, Maryland will be something to keep an eye on. Ideally, <a href="http://sfbayview.com/2017/04/bop-approves-prisoner-created-and-run-rehabilitation-and-reentry-program/">Young Men Incorporated</a> (YMI), as the program is known, will prove that switching from curriculum enforcement to the much more coercive power of wisdom and teachable moments is the <em>right</em> way to reinvent prisoner reentry methodology. Getting out of prison is a trip. Individual results may vary, but when it comes to civilian employees, frontline custody personnel, and prison administrators, soon-to-parole inmates often face disparagement and placating attitudes. The way some Badges see it, you're still a criminal, soon to be protected by rights that weren't there a couple of weeks ago. More than a few are just waitin' for you to act special, by which I mean <em>individual</em>. The well-intentioned are represented too, of course. Some of the guards and staffers who spoke down to you one day actually demonstrate a slightly higher regard for you the week before you leave. Others see you as merely transferring from punishment to welfare. Some acknowledge they're <em>supposed</em> to recognize that a milestone of some sort has been achieved, but they can't seem to go further. Even having Badges and brass treat you a little better highlights an formidable aspect of prisoner reentry: the awkwardness of having been disqualified from society and now returning to it – but you haven't left yet. Again, there are exceptions, but the reentry process typically contains some pretty discouraging social booby-traps. And naturally, some navigate the transition better than others, fraught as it is with negative reinforcement, posture, and pride. <p class="p1">As a former teaching assistant to the civilian educator running Wasco's reentry program, <span class="s1">I saw how frustrated that teacher was </span><span class="s1">when his efforts got marginalized amidst larger prison programing, obstructed, and fiscally isolated. To some administrators and staff, his inmate advocacy represented kittens, rainbows, baseball games, and other things that criminals simply didn't deserve.  </span></p> <p class="p1">Most facility personnel don't think about you much beyond “undeserving.” And<em> all</em> are trained to remain emotionally remote, which means that even their congratulatory sentiments can come off like sour grapes. Undercurrents of doubt and dismissal are inescapable (and where <em>you’re</em> going, you’d better get used to that).</p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Once you’re out, you find that larger society has the same struggle. It knows where you came from and often doesn't quite know what to do with you. With America's prison systems traditionally recycling offenders rather than rehabilitating them, truly effective reentry policies and practices have too long been viewed as "bleeding heart."</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">YMI, however, is not designed to make it easier for inmates and guards to navigate their feelings. Instead, it's intended to relax the custody-over-your-shoulder mandate, allowing inmates to follow a tailored-for-them prerelease curriculum. The idea is to lessen the specter of detention and the learned defensive mindset that accompanies it to make room for what the program is teaching so it can sink in.</span></p> It's mission-critical to make that room, and I can say from experience that<em> any</em> de-escalation in resentment and poor custody coping skills will help.<span class="s1"> Besides, i</span><span class="s1">nmates teaching inmates to fill out apartment rental and job applications or get through the day without drinking is an idea that's been on the shelf too long. Seeing what improved reentry outcomes might be achieved by allowing<span style="color: #000000;"> <strong>inmates to interpret for other inmates</strong></span> the whys of social values is an even more crucially important experiment. </span> <p class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1">With mass incarceration and the private prison industry no longer on the defensive, as they were under the Obama administration, some say the national dialogue on prison reform is over. So it's not surprising that mainstream news outlets are failing to pick up on this story. (My own primary source was the black online newspaper, the <a href="http://sfbayview.com/">San Francisco Bay View,</a> though stylish Vice Media, Inc. supposedly has something in the works.) In the meantime, this is where we prison reform and criminal justice advocates come in, as we return to our blogs –amid renewed War on Crime rhetoric– in hopes of having our voices heard. </span></p> <p class="p1" style="text-align: right;">.</p> 10034 2017-05-04 15:34:26 2017-05-04 22:34:26 2017-05-04 15:52:47 2017-05-04 22:52:47 open open first-ever-prisoner-founded-reentry-program draft 0 0 post 0 badges custody Federal Bureau of Prisons frontline custody personnel guards Incarceration Nation inmates kittens mainstream news national dialogue on prison reform Obama prerelease program prison prisoner re-entry reentry Reentry San Francisco Bay View War on Crime YMI Young Men Incorporated _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_content_score 30 _yoast_wpseo_primary_category 1429 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw_text_input reentry _yoast_wpseo_focuskw reentry _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Young Men Incorporated aims to show how the coercive power of wisdom and teachable moments is the right way to reinvent prisoner reentry methodology. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 87 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1603995695;s:7:"payload";a:0:{}}} http://working-copy.local/?p=10562 Thu, 13 Aug 2020 05:41:40 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=10562 <!-- wp:image {"id":10563} --> <figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/NO-e1597297237295-768x1024.jpeg" alt="" class="wp-image-10563"/></figure> <!-- /wp:image --> 10562 2020-08-12 22:41:40 2020-08-13 05:41:40 2020-08-14 14:18:32 2020-08-14 21:18:32 closed open under-construction draft 0 0 post 1 Uncategorized _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1598193710;s:7:"payload";a:2:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5755;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:841;}}}} http://working-copy.local/?p=10914 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=10914 <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Who doesn’t want to kick in the teeth of a kid-toucher? </strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Does QAnon&nbsp;symbolize a need for unity?&nbsp;<br />Who doesn’t want to kick in the teeth of a kid-toucher, right?<br />I’m just riffing here, but at the heart of every protest movement is a people’s need to be heard.&nbsp;<br />Conspiracy theories offer followers opportinities to feel very specifically engaged, enlightened, special really.&nbsp;<br />We currently occupy a time when everything is divided, carved up, and split. Well from what I can see nobody’s elbowing anyone out of the way to drive a wedges among&nbsp;QAnon followers. Is that by design, albeit subconscious?&nbsp;<br />Is QAnon kalidoscopically unhinged to ensure that it remains separate from so many causes, accusations, authorities,&nbsp;privileges, banners, flags and trumpets?&nbsp;<br />Maybe&nbsp;QAnon’s blood sugar sex magic trip is a symptom, yes, but is it also an unwittingly beyond&nbsp;coalition? Is it a subconscious excuse to fight for a cherry-picked crusade.&nbsp;<br />Or is it a fleeting movement allowing for a slew of undecideds, head-in-the-sand types, or gullible chumps to rise up when they haven’t in the past – and to do so in manner that is itself too bonkers to even rise to the level of being written off. Its own existence is an insurance policy against being persecuted?&nbsp;<br />The answer is no. It’s not too crazy to be taken seriously. It might not have been at first but when sure enough it began producing anti-Semitic flavors and&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> 10914 2020-09-13 13:12:49 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2020-09-13 13:12:49 2020-09-13 20:12:49 closed draft 0 0 post 0 Excuses _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1600071169;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5883;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8961;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3256;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6264;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5755;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10865;}}}} http://working-copy.local/?p=10916 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=10916 <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Proud Boys, Boogaloo Boys, Good ‘ol Boys. What's the fixation American adult men have with being boys? Between card-carrying members of AARP who dress like 9th graders, to the whole driving a locomotive and calling it a truck –– </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> 10916 2020-09-14 16:49:39 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2020-09-14 16:49:39 2020-09-14 23:49:39 closed draft 0 0 post 0 Excuses _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1600124194;s:7:"payload";a:0:{}}} http://working-copy.local/?p=11123 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=11123 <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>For years I kept myself convinced that a World War II size challenge would remind Americans of what they can accomplish. Only some extreme form of mass deprivation, I reckoned, similar to the wartime rationing of gasoline, tires, meats, dairy, and so forth, could reunite America with its own character. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I offered grouchy statements like, "Trust me, when China and Russia finally sign a nonaggression pact and turn off a third or half the North American power grid, we'll rediscover character." I believed that if Americans were robbed of tech and plot twists, campfires would replace them, and we could only rise from there. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Well, a long-overdue reappraisal of our word, our handshakes, and our unity is occurring. If it hasn't yet included a forfeiture of retail and binge therapy, or for that matter electricity, </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> 11123 2020-11-17 13:12:37 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2020-11-17 13:12:37 2020-11-17 20:12:37 closed draft 0 0 post 0 Excuses _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1637991565;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1064;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7041;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1343;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8634;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7132;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:309;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor http://working-copy.local/?p=11127 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=11127 <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>Is "COVID fatigue" an excuse for poor coping skills, or are Americans now expected to roll this behavioral impairment in with its' other ethical turds? </strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Will we soon see "Service Excuse" registration sites websites selling COVID-19 FATIGUE </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> 11127 2020-11-18 12:46:51 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2020-11-18 12:46:51 2020-11-18 19:46:51 closed draft 0 0 post 0 Excuses _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1606212371;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10966;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5883;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3256;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11042;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10880;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10865;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor http://working-copy.local/?p=11692 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=11692 11692 2021-11-26 11:28:54 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2021-11-26 11:28:54 2021-11-26 18:28:54 closed draft 0 0 post 0 Excuses _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:2:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1637994534;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4346;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7779;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9010;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:753;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1495;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1539;}}}s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1637994540;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4346;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7779;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9010;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor http://working-copy.local/?p=11724 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=11724 11724 2022-01-28 11:17:52 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2022-01-28 11:17:52 2022-01-28 18:17:52 closed draft 0 0 post 0 Excuses _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1643389594;s:7:"payload";a:0:{}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor http://working-copy.local/?p=11726 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=11726 <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>It's a result of laws that allow "patterns of local malpractice," among other systemic failures, as well as police, jailers, judges, and lawyers to stretch initial appearance deadlines</strong>. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The Legal Information Institute of Cornell University’s Cornell Law School defines an initial appearance as “when a defendant appears before a judge within a certain number of hours of an arrest in order for the the judge to determine if there is probable cause for the arrest.” </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>According to this fascinating and alarming report by the Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center at Southern Methodist University, if your black, brown, poor white trash, perhaps just unlikeable, or even targeted, you're familiar with negligent representation or prosecutorial misconduct, or both. You or someone you know can express what it feels like to be delayed constitutionally guaranteed due process or even "disappear" in detention.   </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>An initial appearance is an arraignment, yes, a ‘Fair and Speedy" process most of us quite literally take for granted. With only 20 states currently maintaining laws that hold hard deadlines for initial appearances, it's a far less protected right than many realize.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Writes Eva Herscowitz for The Crime Report, "The burden of the chronic “Initial Appearance Crisis” falls disproportionately on Black people, who are far more likely to be detained before trial than white people because they lack money for bail or for legal counsel."</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Not in the least bit shocking, there, but what the defendants from any of the remaining 30 states left to face "within a reasonable time” interpretations of the Constitutional guarantee to fair and speedy? Like the authors of the report, we ask, what's "reasonable"?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> 11726 2022-01-28 12:52:16 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2022-01-28 12:52:16 2022-01-28 19:52:16 closed draft 0 0 post 0 Excuses _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1646158436;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7896;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:381;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4697;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:334;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1896;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:379;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor http://working-copy.local/?p=11809 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=11809 <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>When loyalties among LA County Sheriff’s personnel lean more toward stations and units where deputies train than in the department as a whole, it’s no wonder gangs and secrecy permeate their ranks.</strong> </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>RAND Corporation researchers found that gangs, referred to with finesse <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA616-1.html" target="_blank">in its report</a> as "subgroups," prevail as a "normalized part of the organization." Over half of RAND survey respondents agreed that LASD assignments, such as in the Compton or Lynwood areas, pose challenges not all deputies can handle much less survive. One result is patrol areas and stations that function as "independent police departments." </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The findings in the RAND study, "Understanding Subgroups Within the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department" are fascinating. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>What's tedious and inexcusable is that the LA jail system, still largest in the world, still overcrowded despite a lower national average, and still overseen and operated by the County Sheriffs, remains the same as it was 1990 when I was a pre-trial detainee. That’s 31 years worth of studies, reports and journalism covering the cover-ups. Three decades of excessive force litigation costs and related settlements totaling $100 million with $81.5 million in payouts during the fiscal year, 2018-2019 alone. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p> </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> 11809 2022-04-13 14:09:55 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2022-04-13 14:09:55 2022-04-13 21:09:55 closed draft 0 0 post 0 Excuses _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1649927325;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6993;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11224;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2309;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5616;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1180;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2523;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor http://working-copy.local/?p=11932 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=11932 11932 2023-01-25 23:54:36 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2023-01-25 23:54:36 2023-01-26 06:54:36 closed draft 0 0 post 0 Excuses _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1674716072;s:7:"payload";a:0:{}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor http://working-copy.local/excuses/hello-world-2/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:29:46 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1 <strong> </strong> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/callahan_okwk.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-250" title="callahan_okwk" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/callahan_okwk.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="161" /></a> <strong> </strong> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>John Callahan, 1951 – 2010 </strong> <strong> </strong> <h6><strong>Original story on <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128828510" target="_blank">npr.org</a> | Wednesday, July 28, 2010</strong></h6> As far as media figures go, quadriplegic cartoonist John Callahan wasn’t a pleasant man to look at or even learn about.<!--more--> It’s said that when he walked — or rather rolled – into a room, those of lesser character would inchworm the walls to the nearest exit. My first exposure to John Callahan’s work came in the form of a cartoon entitled “Inconvenience Store,” which depicted an angry cashier pelting a customer with coins. I cut it out and have carried it with me for over 20 years. It hard to let go of how creatively empowering it felt to discover it, though to say that Callahan’s cartoons are an acquired taste is a colossal understatement. <div><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/callahan2.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-251" title="callahan2" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/callahan2.jpg" alt="" width="379" height="281" /></a></div> John Callahan has been described as a once-mad alcoholic who wrecked a car early in life and was rewarded with quadriplegia, and as a spiteful cartoonist who offended everyone and picked especially upon the disabled. He’s been called a “survivor” with a blend of resentment and respect, mainly for forcing others to see the world through his eyes and watch him live in it. And live he did, diabolically. Excuses darted around the man like squirrels in Central Park; Callahan could have speared one anytime and kept it for himself, but he made no excuses. He lived with a mouthful of un-chewable admonitions, yet he offered no justifications. He apologized to no one for his mean-spirited humor, yet was (mostly) always willing to stop and be good listener or explain a meaning. There was nothing beautiful about this guy’s life. He never seemed likable and was branded a misogynist. He drew cartoons with one dead, twisted arm guiding the other, and the result looked like it. He died of complications from bedsores (imagine how unhurried and horrendous that must have been!). And despite being a guy who would tell you to your face that your question is DUMB, he poked more fun at himself than anyone else. He was a vulnerable example of genuine recovery from alcoholism, of rebounding with purpose and of living without pity, which he viciously despised above all else. <div><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/callahan4_gnhq.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-253" title="callahan4_gnhq" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/callahan4_gnhq.jpg" alt="" width="368" height="310" /></a></div> His fellow cripples, drunks, musicians, and comedians, both little-known and famous, fiercely defended John Callahan. The psychiatric community and scholars alike saw him as a necessary wickedness. Kara Germeroth, in a 1998 analysis published in the Howard Journal of Communications, considered whether Callahan’s “activist humor” could be a viable tool for changing society’s attitudes toward the disabled. The writing is so academic that it’s harder to read than Callahan’s cheeks, but the author must’ve won a prize for applying an obscure 1959 theory called “Perspective by Incongruity” to Callahan’s doodles. The disabled, at least the many who deeply cherished Callahan, would be more likely to join him in rejecting Germeroth’s somber examination of catheter humor. There’s a lot more out there on the guy; Callahan is easily researched and a number of obituaries have been written for and about him. For my part, I’ll leave it at this: rest in peace, John Callahan, run as fast as you can, use those legs and run right over to wherever Christopher Reeve is and annoy the hell out of him. <div><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/callahan3.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-252" title="callahan3" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/callahan3.jpg" alt="" width="376" height="295" /></a></div> 38 2010-07-30 17:29:46 2010-07-30 17:29:46 2010-07-30 17:29:46 2010-07-30 17:29:46 closed open hello-world-2 publish 0 0 post 0 Excuses Jophn Callahan misogynist the disabled _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:1;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706879057;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1343;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:293;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7321;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/what-did-you-do-in-the-war-daddy/ Tue, 03 Aug 2010 03:01:41 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=283 <strong>What if PFC Bradley Manning one day declares, “I did it to get famous?”</strong> <strong> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/alfred_yz7d.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-284" title="alfred_yz7d" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/alfred_yz7d.jpg" alt="" width="133" height="194" /></a> </strong> <h6><strong>Original story: <a href="http://bit.ly/aBM60A" target="_blank">The Christian Science Monitor</a> | Monday, August 2, 2010</strong></h6> It seems like damn near every month we’re forced to endure a new personality that ascends the national escalator to become a media focus. <!--more-->Mostly, this reflects the way we have allowed ourselves to be trained to crave recognition and commemoration. Such behavior doesn’t apply to everyone, but it affects us all. It’s America’s worst enemy, as I see it, because it comes from within and if we could blame the Taliban for the fact that we reward bad behavior with status and money, we would. Every day, it seems, there’s a new self-seeker to elicit groans, greed, and sour grapes. It might be a criminal-turned-celebrity or celebrity-turned-criminal; it might be a pervert, a politician, a plunderer, or all three. It might be parents who use a boat instead of balloon. It might be some nobody who says his Toyota tried to kill him, or a mother who is given a TV show because she has a criminal-celebrity daughter. Occasionally, if we’re lucky, it could be someone who ditches a plane in a river, saves everyone onboard, and goes home after the parade. As quoted in Chris Hedges’s superb <em>Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle</em>, essayist and critic William Deresiewicz suggests: “<em>The camera has created a culture of celebrity; the computer is creating a culture of connectivity. As the two technologies converge – broadband tipping the web from text to image; social networking sites spreading the mesh of interconnection ever wider – the two cultures betray a common impulse. Celebrity and connectivity are both ways of becoming known. This is what the contemporary self wants. It wants to be recognized, wants to be connected: it wants to be visible. If not to the millions, on Survivor or Oprah, then to the hundreds, on Twitter or Facebook. This is the quality that validates us; this is how we become real to ourselves – by being seen by others. The great contemporary terror is anonymity.</em>” Cut to: U.S. Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning faces up to 52 years in prison for transferring classified information from Army intelligence networks to his laptop – yes, the 90,000+ Secret Afghanistan documents guy. Allegedly, using the online name “Bradass87,” he sent the files to a “Gray Hat” – someone using hacking techniques for legitimate consulting purposes, such as providing vulnerability assessments to large companies. So with regard to the above-stated social trends and emerging values in this country, here’s what I’m wondering: What was Manning’s true motivation here? Supposedly he made that clear to the Gray Hat, to whom he explained via text message that the public needed to “see the truth” in order to make informed decisions regarding America’s military engagements. But setting aside arguments of how much control we, the people, truly have over our military incursions, and then setting aside for the time being whether or not he’s a “traitor,” is it possible that Manning just wanted to get famous? Why not? Fame is stronger than the dollar… Every U.S. military “strategic setting” is made of up people who make mistakes, and yeah, some of those people hide those mistakes. But is Manning’s quest to save us from this revelation driven by his training as a soldier, his social conscience as an American, or the low emotional IQ from which too many of us currently suffer? I know what it’s like to make a hell of a mistake and drag other people down the rabbit hole with you. I know what it’s like to sit in prison, ashamed yourself and wondering if you’ll ever have any self-esteem again. I wonder if Manning will do the same. Whatever instant gratification I thought I was achieving by committing my crimes, it was never worth the end result. It was never worth watching my father stand before a federal judge in that courtroom to take responsibility for his son’s actions solely because that’s what his father would’ve done. It was never worth the years I surrendered to the State of California. There’s something else, too: I know what it’s like to take an Army oath to defend the Constitution. And though I didn’t even take the Army seriously at the time, I did take my work assignment (MOS), which required both secret and classified clearances from the government, very seriously. My fellow soldiers called me a lousy 3rd Infantry Soldier, but good at my job. I called them inbreds and gimps, but an honor to work with. I would never have betrayed them, or they me. We shared duties and a specific reverence for those thousands of documents for which we were responsible. The point was: nobody else in my unit was allowed to use classified Army documents for personal gain, whether the motivation was money or ideology, and if they couldn’t do it, I couldn’t do it. Diverse as we were, we all bought into those rules, because in our own ways we all knew they formed the backbone of what we’d signed on to do. We respected an idea and upheld an ideal. Ultimately, it was less about the Army or even the Constitution; it was about each other and the things we shared – things we could do and things we couldn’t. And think about all the additional security hassles now slapped onto the routines of those Manning left behind – what a dick! So beyond an anxious concern for the collective decision-makers in our country, what – I have to ask – is Manning’s excuse? 283 2010-08-03 03:01:41 2010-08-03 03:01:41 2010-08-03 03:01:41 2010-08-03 03:01:41 closed open what-did-you-do-in-the-war-daddy publish 0 0 post 0 Bradley Manning Excuses Twitter _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703657534;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:319;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2374;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:331;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/the-ambulance-chaser-of-empathy/ Fri, 13 Aug 2010 03:07:56 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=289 <strong>Self-centered JetBlue crybaby Steven Slater is an embarrassment to us all</strong> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/crybabyfatbitch.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-290" title="crybabyfatbitch" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/crybabyfatbitch.jpg" alt="" width="358" height="277" /></a> <h6><strong><strong>Original stories: <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2010/08/12/jetblue-memo-rebukes-steven-slater-for-chute-riding-exit/" target="_blank">The Wall Street Journal</a> | <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2010/08/12/news/economy/initial_jobless_claims/index.htm" target="_blank">Money.CNN</a></strong></strong></h6> What has Steven Slater done that he deserves to be congratulated? He’s not a hero, and he’s not brave. <!--more-->His self-centered manipulation of JetBlue passengers for his own gain is a slap in the face to airline travelers and to people everywhere who choose restraint over childish impulse. Steven Slater is a reckless quitter who, if anything, should be made president of the Tantrum-throwers Union. Further, he doesn’t represent those who secretly hope to someday barbeque their office manager’s stuffed animal collection. Slater instead represents Americans’ snarling demand to be anointed by the media, to have our spastic fits rewarded with celebrity. But worse than demonstrating how easy it is to disrupt an entire airport by pulling a fire alarm (which is essentially what the rapid deployment of a giant yellow inflatable emergency escape ladder says); and worse than potentially giving some old fat guy a heart attack or raising a big middle finger to your fellow crewmembers; worse even than becoming the poster-boy for <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/08/12/eveningnews/main6767963.shtml?tag=cbsnewsTwoColUpperPromoArea" target="_blank">false accusations</a>; is an insult to all of the unemployed out there who desperately need the job that you so frivolously, narcissistically (drunkenly?) threw away. <strong>You self-admiring piece of work, you! That smug, satisfied look on your face as you were rushed away from the cameras following your release from custody is enough to make worms straighten. And what inspired it is worse still: your cheap-thrill success at mimicking someone who actually has been victimized. I can’t imagine the excuse. </strong> 289 2010-08-13 03:07:56 2010-08-13 03:07:56 2010-08-13 03:07:56 2010-08-13 03:07:56 closed open the-ambulance-chaser-of-empathy publish 0 0 post 0 ambulance chaser Excuses Idiots JetBlue Steven Slater _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1682928251;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:303;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:331;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:377;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8084;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:808;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10799;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/bitch-shouldnt-have-made-so-much-money/ Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:11:32 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=293 <strong>If it’s easy to label, it’s easy to excuse</strong> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/charlie.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-294" title="charlie" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/charlie.jpg" alt="" width="190" height="142" /></a> <strong></strong> <h6><strong>Original story: <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/08/16/129229205/men-who-make-less-more-likely-to-cheat" target="_blank">npr.org</a> | Monday, Aug. 16, 2010</strong></h6> Christin Munsch, a sociology PhD candidate at Cornell University, recently went before the American Sociological Association in Atlanta to explain the findings of her six-year study of married and cohabitating (straight) couples: that a woman making more money than her man can threaten <!--more-->his conventional breadwinner role, and that such emasculation may, in turn, drive him to cheat. I understand Munsch herself suspects that a number of additional factors are also at work in many cases of spousal cheating, but sadly most people don’t need additional reasons to concoct perfectly transparent excuses for their behavior. My view is that a guy who is going to cheat on his wife is going to cheat on his wife, regardless of the role she plays in the family finances. Apparently this view is endorsed by Kim Cattrall’s Sex and the City character, Samantha, who believes “men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls…because they can.” The guy’s got his reasons – and more often than not they have a lot more to do with him than with her. My point is, the sooner we guys can <em>truly</em> “man up” and take simple responsibility for that choice (and credit for <em>not</em>cheating), the sooner we’ll feel we have our balls back. (Um, to do with them what we will.) Wait, aren’t we smarter than this? I thought we tossed a lot of these worn out ‘ol shoes that decide for us who is threatened by what in which kind of relationship and what personality type is the most likely to concede/rule/falsify/transcend or otherwise hop on one foot while devouring grapefruits at Nordstrom. So c’mon already, this is ridiculous. This just wheezes stale breath into the carcass of outdated B.S. like: “I’m entitled to take action at the <em>thought </em>of having my ‘gender identity’ threatened.” Is that so? Anyone who abides by a study that says cheating is okay because someone feels sorry for him or herself will accept a ton of sorry explanations. And the culture that accepts multifaceted academic rationalizations like this one is made up of the same bunch of deciders who set the standard for what behaviors can be acceptably rationalized in the first place. Translation: we have to do better than <em>if it’s easy to label, it’s easy to excuse. </em> 293 2010-08-18 03:11:32 2010-08-18 03:11:32 2010-08-18 03:11:32 2010-08-18 03:11:32 closed open bitch-shouldnt-have-made-so-much-money publish 0 0 post 0 Excuses _edit_last 2 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1702915873;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2736;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:683;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4697;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor http://working-copy.local/excuses/roboscarab-the-little-grave-robber-that-could/ Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:15:52 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=298 <strong>Egyptian Pyramid Spelunked, Silly ‘ol Mystery Debunked: Welcome to another case of, <em>ju</em></strong><em><strong>st ‘cause we can, doesn’t mean we should.</strong></em> <em></em><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/pyramid.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-299" title="pyramid" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/pyramid.jpg" alt="" width="265" height="158" /></a> <h6><strong>Original story: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20013217-1.html" target="_blank">news.cnet.com</a></strong> <strong>| Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010</strong></h6> Not unlike the Large Hadron Collider and the hunt for the <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/02/18/the-god-particle-explained-in-two-minutes-by-the-man-who-discovered-it/" target="_blank">God Particle</a>, (short for “goddamn particle” because of the difficulty in proving its existence), isn’t elbowing our way into a pyramid the very essence of <em>disenchanting</em>?<!--more--> Do we really need to demystify every little thing? Have we become so entitled as to burst every bubble of ambiguity humans have ever known? We drain everything drainable. We paint everything paintable. We build on everything that’s flat or soon to become flat and carve into whatever’s left. We broadcast the earth’s address to unseen super beings; we spoil the tricks of magicians with our resolve to know what’s behind them. We hope to dig up Mars one day and capture every creature at every depth in the sea. With our limitless appetite for bad movie sequels and fried lard cubes, should a species such as ours be permitted to tend the universe? What’s to be gained by sending <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/vintagedept/3811178651/lightbox/" target="_blank">RoboScarab</a> into the Queen’s Secret Chambers of the Great Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt? One less ancient mystery? Check. One less source for all cultures to draw upon for legend, tradition, and learning? Check. One more place for a corporate flag to stand? Check. And we only “gain” more loss: loss of what makes a young boy pursue his Scout badges, loss of things spooky, and loss of what drives our evolution: curiosity. What, I ask, will be left for us to show that young boy so he learns that sometimes questions are more important than answers? Me, I’d rather not know if the “God Particle” of theoretical physics exists or what dusty thing is really inside the Great Pyramid. I didn’t need to find out that <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oleUvvjeOh4" target="_blank">Al Capone’s vault</a> was a big joke either. What a dreary, unclothed place we’re allowing this planet to become. And while some argue that journeys into the unknown raise further questions and uncover more puzzles, isn’t there something to be said for occasionally choosing preservation over exhumation? Exploration is one thing, but let’s stop making excuses for commercial snooping. If we go into the pyramids we’re going to sooner or later market what we find. (Silly, huh? Tell that to the indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest.) What a slap in the face this robot grave-robbing will be to the pyramid’s architects, as well as to the sense of wonder their imaginations have given us for thousands of years. 298 2010-08-24 03:15:52 2010-08-24 03:15:52 2014-04-16 17:32:35 2014-04-17 00:32:35 closed open roboscarab-the-little-grave-robber-that-could publish 0 0 post 0 Al Capone’s vault Excuses Great Pyramid of Khufu Large Hadron Collider _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1688481312;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2858;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2782;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1297;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1946;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4456;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:355;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/islamophobia-on-main-street/ Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:19:45 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=303 <strong>“Consider this a checkpoint!” – Oh, it’s a checkpoint all right: the point where we get handed the check.</strong> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/stormtrooper-enright.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-304" title="stormtrooper-enright" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/stormtrooper-enright.jpg" alt="" width="304" height="209" /></a> <h6><strong>Original story: <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703632304575452082357090808.html?mod=googlenews_wsj" target="_blank">online.wsj.com</a></strong> <strong>| Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010</strong></h6> How much does this murder attempt differ from the actions of a flight attendant who easily could have been shooting off a gun rather than his mouth? Oh wait a second, you mean little Mikey Enright the Cabbie Stabber doesn’t deserve a reality show? <!--more-->He doesn’t deserve a round of talk show appearances to set some asinine record straight? No backstage photo ops with Barry Manilow, like JetBlue’s bratty Steven Slater received? Well why not? Isn’t what he did just another public tantrum? I thought we loved our precious public tantrums! Is it really that incredible to infer that our collective capacity for reality has so mutated that we soon may not know who to reward and who to condemn? That someday we may not even be able to tell the difference between red carpet and blood on the sidewalk? Call me crazy, but I think not. As a nation, we’ve been so accrediting of bad behavior lately that somewhere in this 21 year-old filmmaker’s mind, overtly or subconsciously, something probably told him that slashing a Muslim cab driver in the mouth would be applauded. I’m not saying his motivation was praise – he was allegedly drunk (and don’t even get me started on the lameness of <em>that </em>excuse) – but let’s take a look at how feasible it is that Michael Enright would take for granted that an aggressive act toward a Muslim man would come to be appreciated, that he’d be praised by the anti-Muslim mob or at least by foes of the “Ground Zero mosque” proposal. According to <em><a href="http://smearcasting.com/" target="_blank">Smearcasting</a>: How Islamophobes spread fear, bigotry and misinformation</em>, brought to you by the folks at Fairness &amp; Accuracy In <a href="http://www.fair.org/" target="_blank">Reporting</a>, “the term ‘Islamophobia’ refers to hostility toward Islam and Muslims that tends to dehumanize an entire faith, portraying it as fundamentally alien and attributing to it an inherent, essential set of negative traits such as irrationality, intolerance and violence.” Uh, unless you’re watching news channels I don’t get, I’m pretty sure that this is a spot-on portrayal of the way an appalling number of vocal Americans now think and act. Combine this climate with the fact that, more and more, we confuse needs with demands. As a result, too many of us respond impetuously to daily work or social challenges. Who among us deals with frustration well anymore? We’re insanely passive–aggressive and we seem desperate to get in the last word. And almost as if we’ve surrendered power of attorney over our aptitude for foresight to anything or anyone who will sanction our point of view, we don’t listen and we ignore the bigger picture. Worst of all, we live in world where our insecurities are off the chart. Finally, all around Enright, people are gaining fame through participation in reality shows and public stunts, often shaming themselves in the process. Fame is the new Bling: the longer you can sustain it, the more time you have to stick around and repeat something. And since repetition is quickly supplanting fact in terms of our collective “truth,” whatever you say will sooner or later be regarded as the new real. So while I’m not judging the masses based on one Michael Enright, and I can only speculate about the contents of the kid’s brain, I am asking if there’s a connection between the two. Because if we as an economically depressed society are, by our behaviors and endorsements, incubating this kind of individual, we have no more excuse than they did in 1930s Germany. No, Michael Enright this isn’t a checkpoint; it’s a gut-check. <strong> </strong> 303 2010-08-27 03:19:45 2010-08-27 03:19:45 2010-08-27 03:19:45 2010-08-27 03:19:45 closed open islamophobia-on-main-street publish 0 0 post 0 Excuses Islamophobia passive–aggressive _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1688473033;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4828;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:460;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:312;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:316;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5616;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4415;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/the-public-face-of-booger-sugar-drug-cartels-to-sponsor-paris-hilton/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:32:15 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=309 <strong>Paris Hilton proposes Ground Zero NarcoCartel Memorial Statue to honor fallen heroes</strong> <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/hilton_brand_coke.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-310" title="hilton_brand_coke" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/hilton_brand_coke.jpg" alt="" width="259" height="230" /></a> </strong> <h6><strong>Original Story: latimes.com</strong> <strong>| Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010</strong></h6> Sound silly? Why? Shouldn’t Mexico’s drug cartels be sending Paris Hilton ‘Thank You’ bouquets and paying her legal fees right about now?<!--more--> Between Los Zetas, the Sinaloa Cartel, La Familia, and Cártel de Tijuana, it’s estimated that Mexico’s narco-traffickers profit to the tune of $13 billion a year by bringing drugs into the US. Imagine what would happen if they could agree on one person in the U.S. to formalize their image and deliver their message directly to customers? So let me be the first to nominate <em>the</em> ideal individual for this role. Hands down, Paris Hilton would make the best pitch-woman for drug trafficking operations — because she already is one! Of all the jet-setting, yacht-hopping, champagne-showering butterflies that successfully market pot and booger-sugar to young girls on behalf of Mexico’s narco-insurgency, isn’t a blonde honky-heiress to the Hilton Hotel chain a public relations orgasm? And so, she’s already the <em>unofficial</em> public face of the narcotics industry, the cartels would be stupid not to sponsor Hilton officially, right? She’s proven herself to be bubbly, bouncy, and brainless, and hello? Paris comes pre-immune to law! No matter what she gets busted for, it’s no biggie, and I bet her blink-of-an-eye punishments will help promote sales. Plus, with Paris Hilton’s American birthright to our forgiveness and love of comeback stories, she could desensitize us to the cartels’ image as corpse-raping, throat-slashing, police-mutilating, hospital-burning baby-killers. They could have a logo! They could have a Ground Zero Memorial statue! And what’s in it for her? Being backed by untouchable super-profiteers would mean that she could finally bitch-slap her grandfather’s poopy ‘ol hotel chain legacy right into oblivion. It could be Paris who will be remembered in that family, not the old coot! (Actually scratch that last one; she cast a shadow over Connie Hilton years ago.) And that’s what I’m sayin’: if Paris would just do herself the favor of abandoning the narrow, hum-drum world of wealth, fame, and international <a href="http://au.eonline.com/uberblog/b198352_paris_hilton_devastated_hiding_out_in.html" target="_blank">identity</a> and take her rightful place at the feet of the Juárez boys, she’d be free of judgment and criticism. She would, she really would! If she just would stop using, “Oh, that’s not my $3,000 handbag,” or, “I thought it was gum,” as excuses and flaunt her drug use instead, she would be as accepted in this county as apple pie. No, not everyone would like her, but not everyone likes apple pie. Some would still dismiss her as criminal scum, but they wouldn’t be able to accuse her of masquerading under a false image, would they? Nope! Her character and charming persona would be free to openly endorse any Schedule II substance she chooses. No doubt she’s quite the connoisseur. <strong> </strong> 309 2010-09-02 03:32:15 2010-09-02 03:32:15 2017-11-06 12:37:00 2017-11-06 19:37:00 closed open the-public-face-of-booger-sugar-drug-cartels-to-sponsor-paris-hilton publish 0 0 post 0 Cártel de Tijuana cocaine Excuses Hilton Hotels Idiots narco-traffickers _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1687734235;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:514;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9190;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8634;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:663;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4697;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:347;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/quran-burning-and-you/ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:34:28 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=312 <div> <strong>If you’re angry or disturbed over those myopic cabbage heads in Florida who plan to burn a Qur’an or two (hundred), maybe your counterpart exists in a country where <em>our</em></strong><strong> flag is burned.</strong> </div> <div><strong> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/23.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-313" title="23" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/23.jpg" alt="" width="298" height="223" /></a> </strong></div> <div> <h6><strong>Original story: <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39074573/ns/politics-white_house/" target="_blank">msnbc.com</a> | September 9th, 2010</strong></h6> Seriously, isn’t it possible that your kindred spirit in Iran, Somalia, or Pakistan is shaking his or her head over news reports of fellow countrymen desecrating the Stars and Stripes?<!--more--> My mom taught my brothers and I never to open our mouths until we’d imagined our feet in the other guy’s shoes. And so, as we learned this week of the widespread criticism aimed at David Koresh’s — ‘er, ‘scuse me, Terry Jones’s –on-again, off again plans to burn the Qur’an at his Dove “World Outreach” Center in Gainesville, I couldn’t help but wonder about our comrades in other countries. Are they watching American flags being torched in their streets and saying, “Look at how ignorant these idiots make us seem to the rest of the world”? I’m thinking yes. I believe that in every country there are people like you and me who are wrongly characterized by the shortsighted actions of those in feverish need of attention. Like anyone embarrassed for those fools who riot after their team wins the big game, or anyone affected by communities and societies that, by way of distraction and passivity, condone attention-whores and scandal-fluffers like, say, the Westboro Baptist loonies or Balloon Boy’s parents. ‘Ol Pastor Terry probably figures he’s just doing what he’s seen other Americans so often get away with lately: give dignity the finger and publicly shame themselves and their country for profit. Problem is, just as defiling national flags is an affront to diplomacy; Qur’an burning is hateful and brainless. It probably won’t end well for anyone. And some of us just don’t want to be associated with the lowest common denominator reaction no matter what country we happen to be taxed by. So where I can, I try to stay focused on the thought that some local fishermen dude off the coast of Kenya could be thinking (in Swahili), “What A-holes these pirates are! I’m tryin’ to feed my family here!” And because you and I and he might have more in common than any of us imagines, we shouldn’t allow those who stir up the media for personal gain to provoke us. Our differences are not an excuse to hate. </div> 312 2010-09-09 03:34:28 2010-09-09 03:34:28 2010-09-09 03:34:28 2010-09-09 03:34:28 closed open quran-burning-and-you publish 0 0 post 0 Balloon Boy Excuses Islamophobia Somali Pirates Westboro Baptist _edit_last 2 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1688468218;s:7:"payload";a:1:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:316;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/could-cnn-kill-us-all/ Wed, 15 Sep 2010 03:37:42 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=316 <strong>WaPo Columnist Gerson Scores Laser-guided Bullseye with Comments on would-be Qur’an Burner’s Canonization by Corporate-owned, Internet-dreading Journalists. But first: GIANT SCHMUCKS ARE PLANNING A MEGA-BUDGET, FEATURE-LENGTH VERSION OF <em>THE FALL GUY!</em></strong> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/cnn.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-317" title="cnn" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/cnn.jpg" alt="" width="272" height="218" /></a> Ok, wait: I urge you to read Michael Gerson’s <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/13/AR2010091305289.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions" target="_blank">column</a>, but in case you’re too busy or drunk, here are select quotes you can use the next time some fool in-law starts blathering about who should burn which King James edition of the Qur’an or where in Dubai Afghan President Hamid Karzai spends his U.S. taxpayer dollars.<!--more--> <div><em>[R]adicals have [long] talked of the “propaganda of the deed” — the use of dramatic, usually violent, acts to inspire the masses and topple the existing order. The method — targeting symbolic landmarks to create powerful images — is now familiar. The killing of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics. The first World Trade Center attack. The Oklahoma City bombing. And 9/11 itself. These events required murder and suicide to gain the global media stage. But the Rev. Terry Jones achieved something new, something that will be studied for generations: the propaganda of the idiotic gesture.</em></div> I love that, “the propaganda of the idiotic gesture.” And how much more idiotic is that the good Reverend’s gesture actually <em>caused</em> <a href="http://bit.ly/cribR8" target="_blank">violence and disorder</a> in Afghanistan? The things we do to cement ourselves in history these days… <div><em>In the Internet era, attention for stupidity is a democratic right, rewarded for audacity and timing alone….The old media enable this trend. A competitive news environment drives saturation coverage. Saturation coverage confers legitimacy — even as reporters themselves feel guilty in their complicity.</em></div> This is distressing in view of how much news conglomerates rely upon saturation coverage to drive ad sales. “If it bleeds, it leads” has never been more true. <div><em>A second enabling condition is the pressure on political figures to respond to the manias of the news cycle. In this case, coverage was being exploited by jihadists in Afghanistan. The U.S. commander on the ground clearly thought confronting this matter would be helpful. But a failure to respond also would have resulted in a judgment from the media itself: that the administration was flat-footed and behind the curve. And so an American president felt compelled to denounce the views of a single, pathetic, irrelevant citizen — a form of elevation nearly as effective as throwing Jones a state dinner.</em></div> <div><em> </em></div> This is just sad when you consider how few Americans view our President as “one of us” as it is. The guy <em>badly</em> needs a way to connect to everyday folks, and he could have turned this into an opportunity to do so; a little anger or even some name-calling on his part would have shown voters that he actually could pick a side and tell it like it is for once. But no. He had to go off on the constitutional rights around book burning (zzzz…) without even throwing in a “hate-mongering peckerwood” for good measure. Isn’t this the guy who called Kanye West a “jackass?” Oh, right…that was when he thought he wasn’t on camera. <div><em>The idea that an unbalanced pastor with an Internet connection and a poster can cause our nation’s highest military and civilian leaders to respond is an invitation to global crackpotocracy — rule by the most creative and outrageous lunatics…At some vanishing point of stature and influence, provocations need to be marginalized instead of confronted. We could begin here: If a pastor has fewer than 50 congregants, and his daughter says he “needs help,” perhaps he should be ignored.</em></div> <div><em> </em></div> Which brings me to ABC’s God-awful primetime turd, The Fall Guy, and the fact that industry skanks have been dropping George Clooney’s name as a candidate to reprise Lee Majors’s “Colt Seavers” in a movie reboot. What in hell does this have to do with Michael Gerson or the Reverend Peckerwood, you ask? Ah, saturation coverage, that’s what! The same thing that drives the dissemination of events by every news outlet and strident freak show: the mass media reaching critical mass. That is to say, at the same time that the media oversupplies us with the knowledge that we no longer accept each other for who we are, we’ve also reached a point where our societal lack of creativity and curiosity is too insidious to disregard. Plus we’re fat now, too, way fatter than we’ve ever been. And we’ve got fat kids and big fat health needs and heavy attitudes and enormously bloated senses of entitlement. Simple physics decrees that when material gets too big for a box, specific results will occur: the box will burst; the universe will regurgitate; our luck will run out. We’re gonna’ explode, people. We’re all getting a bit too crazy and pitiful. And we make more excuses for surrendering our and our children’s self-respect than all the pixels in cyberspace. Will it be the hate for each other that does us in, or one too many in a long string of unimaginative confections that will represent the tip of the needle that pops the balloon? Or will the media kill us? Will CNN declare the end of the world too soon, I wonder, like so many election night results, causing us to lose sight of everything but our worst? 316 2010-09-15 03:37:42 2010-09-15 03:37:42 2010-09-15 03:37:42 2010-09-15 03:37:42 closed open could-cnn-kill-us-all publish 0 0 post 0 1972 Munich Olympics Excuses Idiots Islamophobia King James edition Lee Majors _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1696147278;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:312;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3809;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7420;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2309;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9976;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3469;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/6-signs-your-kid-is-headed-for-cuffs/ Fri, 24 Sep 2010 03:40:26 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=319 <div> <strong>Forget <em>Sh*t My Dad Says</em>; if you’re a dad, start saying “Let’s talk.”</strong> </div> <div><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/non-parent_24lp.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-320" title="non-parent_24lp" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/non-parent_24lp.jpg" alt="" width="236" height="262" /></a> </strong></div> <div> <h3><strong> </strong><strong>Notes from a Non-Parent</strong><strong><em>™</em></strong> <strong> </strong></h3> <strong>1. Shoplifting –</strong> This may seem obvious, but it all begins with<!--more--> pocketknives: small, unexplained possessions that begin to appear among your child’s belongings. Even if you suspect that you’ve forgotten the origins of “stuff,” ask anyway. Don’t interrogate; it’s just a chat and chats can happen while laundry is being folded or the dog gets a bath. <strong>2. Tagging and graffiti  –</strong> Ok, for a lot of us graffiti is an accepted art form. But appreciation for the talent found in graffiti is very different from the terminology of the craft entering your child’s daily vocabulary. Art supplies are different from easily concealable “spider” cans of spray paint, pens designed to smear and stain, and markers made from shoe polish containers. Graffiti is still vandalism, and tagging, far more confrontational these days, often results in handcuffs. If your kid has designs on becoming the next Banksy, tell him to do what Banksy does: get permission. <strong>3. Adrenaline addiction – </strong>It’s up to you to be vigilant and set limits, even at the risk of being called “lame.” <em>Athletes</em> benefit from the rush of adrenalin and the discipline of sport, not children and teens that lack structure. Kids who are predisposed to chasing one adrenaline high after the next require extra attention because the behavior can turn into a need to stay wired. While a sense of adventure is healthy, kids can feel pressure from friends urging them to top the latest prank video clip. <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/hawthorne-effect" target="_blank">Hawthorne Effect</a> anyone? People act differently when a camera is pointed at them; the increased interest amps up motivation, especially in kids. If your kid pulls risky, questionably legal stunts merely to gain his friends’ respect, imagine him thinking he might be the next YouTube sensation. If the prank also winds up on a surveillance camera or police car dash-mount, he just might be a sensation for a jury. <strong>4. Bullying, Aggression and Assault – </strong>Verbal and physical aggression often creates more of the same, because problem-solving that centers on aggression normalizes hostility and sends the message that victims are small. For the victim, it is therefore immediately “normal” to increase his or her own size and stature by bullying someone else, so it’s a behavior that hardly ever corrects itself. Peer-to-peer aggression is a clear sign that somewhere along the line your child picked up a need to make others cower. Talk about this and work together to come up with other ways for your child to increase her self-esteem. <strong>5. Sudden Changes in Friendships and Companions  – </strong>Something to heed carefully are the reasons your child has for rejecting an established friend or friends and vice-versa. For teens, acquaintances come and go frequently, but there are adjustments, say, in clothing and music that accompany new classmates or cliques. When these “adjustments” are unsettling, drastic, or secretive, it may be a sign that new terms and conditions of some sort have been set. Forget being inquisitive at that point: it’s time to get nosy. <strong>6. Jailhouse ideation –</strong> There’s nothing sexy about jail, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at society at large. Almost daily, celebrities and those jockeying to be anointed as such bounce around the sidewalks of the bar scene and right into holding cells as if doing so were the only way to be taken seriously. Sadly, with America’s appetite for seeing damaging and criminal conduct rewarded with fame and reality television contracts, indeed a week in the county slammer provides a right to be heard and worse: it confers influence. To keep otherwise promising kids from making poor decisions, we need to help them identify (and face down) near-constant media bombardments about the omnipotence of celebrity, overt sexuality at too young an age, and the current climate of reward for truly dumb choices. Make this dialog a common one with your children. Drive home the adage, <em>“Get character, or become one.”</em> No need for lectures; just seek out ways to show your kids the consequences of not taking that into account. If this all seems a bit much for your young Jr. or Miss, it’ll be crystal clear when you get a load of his or her self-satisfied smile – in a mug shot. <div><em><strong>Bonus Round: How good families produce bad behavior…</strong></em><em><strong>Now, even with my 6 Signs in mind, good people can still produce offspring with rotten behavior. </strong>How? One example is a parent not digging in his or her heels to fully carry out a punishment or reprimand.  I’m here to tell you that kid being allowed to play one parent against the other can result in some seriously destructive behavior patterns – patterns that, in my case, progressed to character traits that I took with me into young adulthood. I was frequently able to escape consequence by “parent shopping” (appealing to the parent who was least affected by my behavior or the least angry with me), and that would often result in the one sending me to the other with the instruction, “Go see what your mother says,” or, “If your father agrees…” That little loophole was imminently exploitable.</em>&nbsp; <em>This was especially effective when I noticed that one parent hadn’t quite been paying attention to the event that led up to my needing punishment, or when it was clear to me that one parent didn’t fully agree with the severity of the other’s reaction to something I’d done. If neither of those mitigating circumstances were available to me, I’d go slightly more juvenile and simply harp on the most fed-up parent until he or she gave in to shut me up. If I felt that my goal was ultimately worth a yelling match, the ideal position into which to wrangle my parents was an argument with each other. An argument meant a distraction, and distraction usually meant I would get my way. If it meant being the first to raise my voice, so be it.</em> <em> </em> <em>Parents don’t want to be disliked by their children: double that if it means one parent is usually singled out as “the bad guy.” But by diminishing the opportunity for one’s child to experience the value of consequence and penalty, a parent robs that child of context. Above all, selective or inconsistent follow-through distorts the scale and balance of not just consequences themselves, but of the messages parents are trying to convey in the first place. </em><em><strong>That’s where a good kid can go wrong.</strong></em> </div> My own folks also did a lot of things well, which is likely part of the reason I have never re-offended. For instance, I recall a Head &amp; Shoulders shampoo commercial from my youth where those inside a crowded elevator back away from a man with dandruff as he gets on. The man returns later, having used the shampoo, and is then welcomed warmly by the others. My mom would ask my brother and I what we thought the commercial was telling us. “Buy Head &amp; Shoulders,” we’d apathetically answer. “No,” she’d insist. “It’s telling you that if you buy this product, you’ll suddenly have friends.” Well, needless to say, this kind of training led us to question everything, including my parents, but it wasn’t long before we were applying the same principle to the pressures and proposals of our peers. All in all, this is the sort of parental guidance we should have more of these days. So forget <em>Sh*t My Dad Says</em>, there’s no excuse for not talking to your children. Whatever comes out needn’t be trendy or perfect or stoic; it just needs to be from the heart and happen often. </div> 319 2010-09-24 03:40:26 2010-09-24 03:40:26 2010-09-24 03:40:26 2010-09-24 03:40:26 closed open 6-signs-your-kid-is-headed-for-cuffs publish 0 0 post 0 Banksy Excuses Self-Esteem Your Adorable Child _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1689977691;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:345;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5039;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11419;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:554;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2374;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10921;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/girls-gone-wild-is-not-empowerment/ Sat, 09 Oct 2010 03:45:19 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=325 <strong>Karen Owen uploaded a comparative list of her sexual conquests at Duke University, replete with names, pictures, transcripts, and explicit details. Let’s play Kick-the-Can with her excuse!</strong> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/2010.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-326" title="2010" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/2010.jpg" alt="" width="224" height="168" /></a> <h6><strong>Original story: <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/10/08/karen-owens-duke-powerpoint-horizontal-academics-goes-viral/" target="_blank">Wall Street Journal</a>| October 8th, 2010</strong></h6> Karen Owen’s opening rationalization for her behavior is of the, “But the boys did it first!” variety – in other words about as infantile as it gets.<!--more--> And I don’t know who’s going around telling <em>those </em>serial harassers that their behavior is cool, but I bet there are few who’d suggest it’s worth emulating to such a deranged extent, no matter how “horrified” you pretend to be when word gets around. Didn’t realize this needed to be said, but if you’re trying to stand up for womyn or “win one for the team,” it might not help your cause to give millions of people a reason to dismiss you as a gonorrhea-infected skank. Whatever your core issue is here, Karen, you guaranteed that it will remain unidentifiably adrift in a debate about double standards and a stampede of pigs eager get their fill at the digital trench (you know, your fans). Personally, I’m not interested in who did what to whom or in if it was a male or female that started this. I’m wondering about the location of your sense of dignity. Is it floating in the same toilet water as the self-respect of the jocks you’re pointing a finger at? C’mon Karen, you issued performance ratings with charts and graphs and gave measurements of your partners’ Jack Kerouwackers. It doesn’t matter that you described how drunk you were while spreading ‘em wide ‘n proud, or that you positioned your harassment as 42 pages of mock-academia, or that you thought no one would care about something written by little ol’ you (while secretly hoping they would by starting this chain in the first place). You’re really just a narcissist. And those standards by which you expect us to measure your female empowerment are lost in the lowest common denominator example you’ve set. Yes, we know that you intended to present yourself as clever, audacious, witty, sexually daring, capable even, but depravity isn’t female empowerment after all, is it? Finally, Karen-Karen-Karen! An 18-year-old violinist at Rutgers University was driven to suicide after two of his fellow students secretly filmed him having gay sex in his dorm room. How could you have ignored how such invasions of privacy can and do affect people before choosing to do so to 13 of your fellow students, jocks or not? Not to mention potentially humiliating their families in the process. Feel empowered? 325 2010-10-09 03:45:19 2010-10-09 03:45:19 2010-10-09 03:45:19 2010-10-09 03:45:19 closed open girls-gone-wild-is-not-empowerment publish 0 0 post 0 Duke University Excuses female empowerment Gonorrhea Idiots _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1689912603;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:293;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2374;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9442;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:377;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:319;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:331;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/one-million-prison-inmates-cant-be-wrong/ Wed, 27 Oct 2010 03:53:07 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=331 <strong>Charlie Sheen is a national hero! </strong> <a href="http://whereexcusesgotodiec.fatcow.com/blog3/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/BAD-Charlie.jpg"><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/BAD-Charlie.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-60" title="BAD-Charlie" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/BAD-Charlie-300x199.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199" /></a> </a> In June of this year <a href="http://foxnews.com/" target="_blank">FOXNews.com</a> journalist Johanna Piazza asked me <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/06/07/charlie-sheen-popular-prisons/" target="_blank">what I thought</a> might account for Charlie “Bad Lieutenant” Sheen’s – and by extension Two and a Half Men’s – soaring popularity among incarcerated men in America.<!--more--> In light of Sheen’s episode yesterday at The Plaza Hotel in Manhattan, I thought I’d expound a bit here on my answer, but let’s first consider some of the on-line hell and hallelujahs he’s caught as a result of his one-man riot. <a href="http://www.tmz.com/2010/10/26/charlie-sheen-rehab-new-york-city-hotel-hospital-two-and-a-half-men/2/#comments-anchor" target="_blank">TMZ</a> Commenter “Lisa” apparently believes that the actor is an “arrogant and dangerous sociopath,” adding that he “should be in jail.” Someone posting as “E” wrote, “How do I get this guy’s life?? Plenty money, hookers, cocaine and a hot ex wife. Where do I sign up….” “Lynn” over at <a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20436954,00.html" target="_blank">People.com</a> declared, “What a loser – lock him up somewhere…PLEASE.” And back at TMZ, a bright bulb posting as “Ha-HA!!!” wrote simply, “$$$$$Party on, Charlie, party on!!!$$$$$$$.” Funny thing is, all of these comments point to the same answer I gave Piazza: Of all the actors out there, Charlie Sheen – through good behavior and bad, in character and out of it – is the epitome of “one of us.” Inmates of all stripes have engaged in much of the same behavior as Sheen has, from the alcohol and drug abuse to the prostitutes and handcuffs, walks-of-shame, and second, third (and counting) chances. If regular folks tend to root for his character, double that for inmates, whose affection for him is no less than personal. Two and a Half Men’s writing team is highly regarded by both colleagues and television critics. The episodes contain fast-paced, snappy dialogue, which is often crude, insult-heavy, and almost always focused on another character’s shortcomings. Such banter is the envy of those who carry internal “wish-lists” of things they could’ve, would’ve, and should’ve said throughout their own trials and tribulations. Finally, while Sheen’s character Charlie is, in many ways, the pinnacle of the selfish, self-centered, narcissistic ass, he nevertheless takes care of his brother, loves his nephew, even loves his mom – just like every inmate in the audience wishes he could, would, or claims he does. There’s redemption in that, and along with a strong, collective opposition to child-abuse, it’s a fundamental value that brings all inmates together. So again, even anonymous comments like this one in the New York Post, suggesting we should “…throw the louse in jail…he thinks he’s about the law. He isn’t. He’s a coke addict/sex addict just like the homeless fellow standing outside the studio gates…” won’t dampen inmate enthusiasm for Charlie Sheen. What three-term parolee hasn’t been similarly dismissed? What convict hasn’t been verbally lashed this way by family members or other casualties of his or her bad behavior? What jailed junkie or drug offender hasn’t raised his or her drink or crack pipe to the music of every addict’s ears, “All these negative posters are just jealous – with their fat overweight, overeating, overbearing wives waiting at home…” Praise from men convicted of crimes similar to Sheen’s work-a-day antics should come as no surprise. To these guys, and obviously to a good portion of the posting public in this country, Sheen needs no excuse. I guess that’s why the one his publicist belatedly issued, that he was suffering from an “adverse reaction to medication,” was so flimsy. Who cares? Why should he change? He’s everything America validates. And yeah, Lisa, Lynn…that means “us” – <em>all</em> of us – whether you choose to admit it or not. 331 2010-10-27 03:53:07 2010-10-27 03:53:07 2010-10-27 03:53:07 2010-10-27 03:53:07 closed open one-million-prison-inmates-cant-be-wrong publish 0 0 post 0 Charlie Sheen cocaine Excuses The Plaza Hotel Two and a Half Men _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1688513913;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:503;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:370;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3965;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6759;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5383;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:663;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/ultraviolence-revisited/ Thu, 04 Nov 2010 04:59:04 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=334 <strong>“It’s funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.” – Alexander DeLarge</strong> <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Desensitization.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-68" title="Desensitization" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Desensitization.jpg" alt="" width="281" height="203" /></a> </strong> <h6><strong>Original Story: <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/11/03/2010-11-03_court_mulls_game_ban_sales_of_violent_titles_like_halo_barred_to_minors.html" target="_blank">nydailynews.com</a> </strong> <strong>| Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010</strong></h6> Does it really matter if AB 1179 – the California law criminalizing the sale and rental of certain video games to minors – is killed by the Supreme Court on First Amendment grounds?<!--more--> Well sure, the censorship argument is important, but it’s also slightly back burner because the law never went into effect anyway; it was promptly challenged by the gaming industry. What really matters is whether or not parents will be forced to face their fiercest foe: common sense. Because law or no law, it’s <em>your</em> job to guarantee your child’s moral upbringing – not a court’s. As Slate columnist Amanda Schaffer <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2164065/" target="_blank">pointed out</a>, there are studies that suggest video games increase players’ tendencies toward violence, and others that suggest some kids are simply more vulnerable to video-game influence than others. Both findings make sense to me, but in neither instance are parents free from responsibility. When I was growing up, we didn’t have the technology to show violence like we do today; the comparatively tame Atari was king, yet the most aggressive, least directed teen in my neighborhood still ended up shooting a high school adversary and getting 25-to-life. Because we now have such ready access, each of us has been at least somewhat desensitized to movie violence and graphic news footage whether we like it or not. And still, I submit that being a parent in previous decades provided the same challenges as today, so long as you adjust for extremes. Regardless of context, it comes down to making sure that your child knows the difference between committing an act of violence and participating in a video game – even a violent one. The thing is, your adorable child will at some point be exposed to a violent game or several, whether through a neighbor’s kid and his PlayStation or the increasingly graphic advertising and marketing methods used to sell these games via TV and the Internet. <em>You’re</em> the person who needs to define and enforce the word ‘no,” just as you’re the initial source of support for things like ensuring that your kid’s solutions aren’t worse than her problems. The real question isn’t whether violent video games make children violent, nor is it whether violent games attract already aggressive children; it’s how much effort parents are making in seeing that their children know the difference between what they see and do on a screen versus what they see and do in real life. In other words, it’s about how much time parents invest in dealing with the frustrations of their kids to make certain they don’t rely on the hostility they find in games as a solution to, say, their teenage angst. With billions of dollars on the table, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) – the top US game industry lobby – isn’t going anywhere. So at the end of the day, this really comes down to not making excuses for the life tools your children do or don’t possess. 334 2010-11-04 04:59:04 2010-11-04 04:59:04 2010-11-04 04:59:04 2010-11-04 04:59:04 closed open ultraviolence-revisited publish 0 0 post 0 AB 1179 Atari Excuses Your Adorable Child _edit_last 2 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1687752833;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10865;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11948;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5616;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11637;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4908;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9442;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/when-luxury-liners-attack/ Sat, 13 Nov 2010 05:05:43 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=336 <strong>Come aboard as guests; disembark as jabbering asylum patients.</strong> <strong><a href="http://whereexcusesgotodiec.fatcow.com/blog3/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/cruisebarf.jpg"><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/cruisebarf.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-65" title="cruisebarf" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/cruisebarf-300x183.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="183" /></a> </a></strong> <h6><strong>Original Story: </strong><strong><a href="http://www.sandiegotribune.com/news/2010/nov/11/carnival-splendor-pulling-san-diego/" target="_blank">sandiegotribune.com</a> <strong>| Thursday, Nov. 11, 2010</strong></strong></h6> With all the pity for (and jokes about) those stranded Carnival Cruise patrons going around, what better time to ditch make-believe politeness and just come out with it?<!--more--> <em>Cruise ships are gleaming castles of sedentary absurdism. </em>There. They are hyper-realized, cookie-cutter nanny states where everything is decided or done for you, leaving eventually stumbling back to your shame box your only genuine duty. They’re giant, floating supermarket checkout lines designed to accommodate power chairs and the Type 2 wreckage they ferry. Cruise ships are like movie theaters or amusement park rides: following prearranged “passages” one forced march exits just as another readies to enter. Turn-around is quick: cleaning happens; disinfectant is splashed around; kitchens are reloaded like revolvers; and five billion tiny crumbs are vacuumed up. Those things that cannot be cleaned –- the ghosts of passenger complaints — hang on just below the next group’s consciousness, occasionally tickling them with déjà vu. The same anti-bacterial, stain-resistant upholstery found in theaters is the fabric that literally holds the cruise industry together; if it weren’t for extreme textiles with their beiges, blues, and burgundies, companies with philosophies like Carnival, Royal Caribbean and Celebrity Cruises would go broke. (Then again maybe not, not with the cost of feeding a passenger for 7 days allegedly <a href="http://www.evancarmichael.com/Marketing/77/The-Carnival-Cruise-Line-Profit-Machine.html">$10 per person</a>.) Carpeting, too, is matinee-tough, with garish, non-denominational patterns and Hoof-Shield™ weaves. Every door has a kick plate to hide the wounds of countless shoes; feeding areas feature the handrails of a rollercoaster queue. Any surface that a human might touch, lean upon, or sneeze on is relentlessly polished, and crew members spring at regular intervals from the paneled woodwork to accost passengers with liquid hand sanitizer (while common area restrooms curiously lack hot water). And despite the spit-shine, so much of a ship’s décor can seem dingy, and in fact quite stained upon closer inspection. Keep looking and you’ll find frayed and lumpen chair arms or bits of broken teeth — who knows? Most cruise lines can’t keep up with the devastating power of ritualistic human mass-dormancy, and besides, they’re too busy trying to “up-sell” you from the “included” bladder-pumped orange juice to the fresh squeezed. Maybe you still think this sounds fine; you could overlook a little imperfection for the pleasure of relaxation and the chance to check out some interesting parts of the world (from the comfort of, essentially, a floating Reno hotel). But what if it was <em>just </em>you and the furnishings and the décor? No lights, no television, no chick-flick, family-friendly movies or modified casino games — nothing to distract you from watching, up close and personal, passengers actually dropping further into inactivity, this time with depression and anger? You’ve never had to pay so much attention to sagging purple and green bar couches. You’ve never realized how bad artwork can be until you’ve stared at it for six hours at a time. Everything looked happy when you left, but after three days of being dead in the water, it’s just you and thousands of other moaning, rotting <a href="http://www.internationalcruisevictims.org/">vegetable-people</a>. If everything in a casino is designed to keep you gaming, everything on a cruise ship is made to keep you consuming. If it all shuts down and you can’t escape, does that render all the social engineering ineffectual, or does the dry waterfall, the closed café, disco, and teen facility, the in-cabin dining, the artwork, the defunct hair-dryers and the unusable spa — the whole apparatus — become a funhouse of taunting, twisting mind-games? Does the expectation of relaxation in the face of its sudden impossibility turn pleasure into a hair-yanking monkey on your back? And what of the practical considerations like the batteries for all of those passenger power-scooters? Were they somehow recharged, or did they make 400 lb obstacles in corridors through the ship? The mind reels at the possibilities. 336 2010-11-13 05:05:43 2010-11-13 05:05:43 2015-01-10 19:31:48 2015-01-11 02:31:48 closed open when-luxury-liners-attack publish 0 0 post 0 cruise ship décor Excuses Idiots sedentary _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1689915017;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:764;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7795;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7165;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/theres-no-us-in-me/ Sun, 21 Nov 2010 05:12:35 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=339 <strong>You and your comfort zone can go to Hell if you want to get on this plane!</strong> <a href="http://whereexcusesgotodiec.fatcow.com/blog3/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/PLAY-X-RAY.jpg"><img title="PLAY X-RAY" src="http://whereexcusesgotodiec.fatcow.com/blog3/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/PLAY-X-RAY-300x215.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="215" /></a> <h6><strong>Source of Gag Reflex:<strong> <a href="http://www.optoutday.com/" target="_blank">http://www.optoutday.com/</a></strong><strong> <strong>| Friday, Nov. 19, 2010</strong></strong></strong></h6> If Michael Jackson were to rise from the dead tomorrow – no wait, if Osama bin Laden announced he intends to surrender, but only to Eddie Murphy – the news would burn up the Net less than the white-hot topic of airport security screening.<!--more--> It’s an issue that isn’t going away soon, and with my own holiday travel fast approaching, it’s one my big mouth and I will have to face head-on, hands held for fear of what the other might do or say. From websites to news outlets to blogs of all stripes, positively everyone is jumping on this. I was able to hold off only as long as it took to discover <a href="http://www.optoutday.com/" target="_blank">National Opt-Out Day</a> and this pure negligence near the top of the home page: “This day is needed because many people do not understand what they consent to when choosing to fly.” Now cover your ears kids…people who subscribe to BS like that can blow me! Talk about an excuse! Unless you’re a lazy jerk who hasn’t looked at a TV or computer since before 2001, nothing the TSA does should surprise to you. And if you’re confused about what they <em>might</em> do, look it up before you buy a ticket! Seriously, people, it’s the government, not a serial killer. No TSA drone’s gonna jump out at you with a pop cavity-search, though that may come as a secret disappointment to some. In large part, National Opt-Out Day is being sold to air travelers as civil disobedience, a chance to stand up for travelers’ rights and demand change. Never mind that your choice of the X-ray or the Rated-X <em>is</em> the change: we demand more change! Never mind that requesting the Grab ‘n Squeeze over the Body Imaging is no big deal. Never mind that the whole thing is about as disobedient as choosing Pepsi over Coke. With optoutday.com portraying the X-Ray Imaging Booths as “naked body scanner machines,” the use of fear and alarmism to sell its point becomes obvious. More than anything, it feels like a pretext to <a href="http://www.ourlittlechatterboxes.com/2010/11/tsa-sexual-assault.html" target="_blank">play victim,</a> to perpetuate hysteria, to bash lefties and fascists and insist on being heard above all the other knee-jerk behavior that accompanies a challenge to Americans’ sacred comfort zones. I bet it’ll soon be reduced to rich vs. poor like everything else. Don’t agree? With a Florida congressman already pushing private security contractors over the government’s TSA program, I’m personally getting ready for tiered security. I can hear the ad now: “The more you pay, the less we bray.” And if that future SNL sketch isn’t far from being realized, neither is the next reality show superstar. Yep, Mr. “If you touch my junk” himself, <a href="http://www.10news.com/news/25833201/detail.html" target="_blank">John Tyner</a>, quipped yesterday to a San Diego ABC News affiliate, “Well now I’ve arrived. They’ve mentioned me in the Senate.” Quite a feat there, John. Then there are deeper psychological – if not yet abundantly relevant – issues of why we as a society have decided that so-called “enhanced” pat downs performed by a member of our own sex are safer or less susceptible to assault. Will I now proceed through the security area wondering if that perfectly straight-looking TSA dude wasn’t actually <em>salivating</em> during that ickiness? Surely they could hire chimps to do this instead. Surely a monkey wouldn’t ask me to read his screenplay while he insinuates with his grope that I might be hiding something. (Have a nice flight Mr. Abrams, Ms. Bigelow.) And what’s this Internet <a href="http://texasgopvote.com/restore-families/security/napolitano-exempt-some-muslims-body-scans-defends-their-use-everyone-else-002132" target="_blank">cackle</a> about Muslim women being allowed to pat themselves down? Sounds like more cross-eyed <a href="http://www.greeleygazette.com/press/?p=6687" target="_blank">conjecture</a>. I don’t even want to think about the tantrums such a thing as <em>that</em> would cause! And what of this clown from <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/11/tsa-opt-out-day-now-with-a-superfantastic-new-twist/66545/" target="_blank">The Atlantic</a> who wants men to head through the screening area wearing Scottish kilts as way to show “low-paid federal government employees” just how low their station in life really is? Here’s the most stunning joke of National Opt-Out Day: Hi-ya, welcome to 2010; there are too few self-sacrificing Americans to pull it off! That’s right; Americans would first need to reclaim what it takes. Sound cynical? Sure, but no less true. Are you going to do it? Or you, Tweets? Or you, with “Princess” embroidered on your ass? Has any one of you seen an effective <em>Don’t-Buy-Gasoline-Day</em>? We’re all so ready to lash out at the first sign of inconvenience or interrupt someone trying to do their job in our daily lives, are we going to suddenly abandon our own righteous holiday schedules, throw a rock into the pond of our itineraries, and watch the ripple effect destroy our hopes for making the gate or satisfying whatever itch lies around the next corner? And are we gonna drag our spouses and kids through that, too? If we can’t handle a little nuisance or, God-help-us, a full-blown capitulation for the benefit of others, what in hell makes anyone think we’re going to drop our precious devices, plans, and appetites for a National Day of Action? It isn’t going to happen, and that, my friends, is the good/sad/indifferent news here. So fly – or not – for the holidays, and just know that if you’re wearing a kilt, no offense but I’m getting into a different line. 339 2010-11-21 05:12:35 2010-11-21 05:12:35 2017-11-06 12:37:00 2017-11-06 19:37:00 closed open theres-no-us-in-me publish 0 0 post 0 airport security screenings comfort zone Excuses TSA _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1696470760;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2898;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2751;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3245;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11377;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:880;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2782;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/x-ray-or-rated-x-either-way-youre-privileged/ Tue, 23 Nov 2010 05:14:44 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=341 <div> <h6><a href="http://whereexcusesgotodiec.fatcow.com/blog3/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/11.jpg"><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/1.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-52" title="1" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/1-298x300.jpg" alt="" width="298" height="300" /></a> </a></h6> <h6><strong>Original Story:</strong><strong> <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40318901/ns/travel-news/" target="_blank">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40318901/ns/travel-news/</a> <strong><strong><strong>| Monday, Nov. 22, 2010</strong></strong></strong></strong></h6> People upset at the promise of being potentially violated by would-be perverts seem to be forgetting that traveling by air for the holidays means you’re having a relatively nice Christmas.<!--more--> &nbsp; The fact is, too many Americans complain just to complain, and the character of such narcissistic malcontents is woven through this debate like a strand of burlap through fine silk. &nbsp; Consider, for example, the countless mouse-clicking busybodies who filled the Internet with chatter just this morning about the shirtless little boy being patted down by what they all decided was a salivating TSA pedophile. As it turns out, the father had taken the kid’s shirt off himself to speed the process and probably show the TSA there was nothing to pat. Settle down, band-wagoners; sometimes it’s best to get the facts before flying off half-cocked. Personally, I hope more of this counterfeit outrage thing will be revealed as little more than the namby-pamby foot stomping of powerless, passive–aggressive crybabies. &nbsp; In reality, the current psychotic frenzy of judgments and finger pointing prevents us from logically examining any real questions or concerns about the new screening process. Instead, we’re left to do what Americans do best: shout over one another; remember who’s number one; and consider only ourselves. &nbsp; And poor Bob! Poor, poor Bob! Who’s Bob, you ask? Why, <a href="http://blog.tsa.gov/" target="_blank">Blogger Bob</a> of the United States government! Blogger Bob is Team TSA! And he’s just trying to post his way though all of these divisive, thorny, perverty, conflict-ridden difficulties with the truth as the TSA tells him to see it. He doesn’t mean any harm, and guess what, you civil-disobedient combatants and scene-causers? Blogger Bob represents an employed American happy to have a job! That’s right: airport security screeners have bills to pay too, and what makes you think your balls are so golden that Joe Wage-earner wants to risk his livelihood to give you a happy ending? And geez! That spider web of stretch marks across those lumpy hips might be something <em>you</em> obsess about, but do you really think some stranger wants an extra eyeful? That’s like suspecting nursing home staff of getting off on bedsores. It’s bad enough that TSA employees are now stuck hanging out with you and your flatulence for an extra four minutes; they <em>don’t</em> want part of your wrinkled old nutsack, your 15-year-old’s cellulite-ridden muffin top, or your sister’s divorce settlement jumbo boobs. They’re regular people doing a job that frankly not many of us would want. Yet ya’ll expect Blogger Bob to help stop Shoe-bomber <em>who</em> while you’re talking long trash about his intentions with your kid brother? &nbsp; With all the media attention this topic has received, the one point I still haven’t heard anyone make is that those agonizing over the rubber glove versus cancer booth are doing so from a place of privilege. Mean ‘ol boss-man puttin’ you through Chicago O’Hare? Congrats, you’re employed. Traveling to Seattle to visit the folks? Hurray for you and your disposable income. Fleeing the snow for your second home in a warmer state? Just stop. &nbsp; How many of your friends and family members would jump at the chance to complain about a crotch brush or an x-ray while en route to <em>anywhere</em> else for the holidays? What about those less fortunate than your family? With so many Americans hoping to just pay their mortgages or buy a few gifts for their children, shit, a TSA pat-down is a sign of contemporary bling. </div> 341 2010-11-23 05:14:44 2010-11-23 05:14:44 2013-04-07 21:36:44 2013-04-07 21:36:44 closed open x-ray-or-rated-x-either-way-youre-privileged publish 0 0 post 0 Excuses _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1687737234;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4621;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8684;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:362;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:339;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3256;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6599;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/the-1st-annual-juggalo-toy-drive/ Thu, 02 Dec 2010 05:18:01 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=343 <strong>“The toys have gotta’ still be in the package!”</strong> <strong> </strong> <strong> </strong><strong> </strong> <h6><strong>Source: <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/the-1st-annual-juggalo-toy-drive" target="_blank">buzzfeed.com</a> <strong><strong>| Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010</strong></strong></strong></h6> Is this evidence that somewhere within the paint huffing, forearm cutting, stretch-marked Juggalo universe lies a successful segment producer?<!--more--> Or is a game of <em>eenie meenie miny mo</em> more likely? Did some dangling ICP tool simply get lucky in choosing an already successful segment producer for this, a-hem, Toy Drive? On both: no and no. Psychopathic Video, an arm of Psychopathic Records, founded by the Insane Clown Posse itself, produced this silliness. If the blonde in the clip is to be held to the Juggalo canon, then she reminds me of a major-market radio DJ trying just a little too hard to “get down” with the man on the street. She may be known to ICP fans, but the lack of Juggalo face paint and meth-skin emphasizes a yearning for exposure far beyond the poverty most associated with the Juggalo army.  And when it comes down to it, Psychopathic Records’s goal <em>is</em> likely a larger, more commercial Psychopathic Records, and toy drives are as old a PR play as a Hells Angels Santa Claus. Still, this video is asinine fun, and insolent laughs are laughs nonetheless. Even if, this time, rather than getting them at the expense of the Juggalos themselves, they’re being brought to this hypocrite <em>from</em> Juggalos. I smell an expansion of the brand. As easily dismissible as we might like to think the <a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Be-a-Juggalo" target="_blank">Juggalo phenomenon</a> is (with its communally defiant, messy fans and celebration of all things rape, feces, and kitchen nifes [sic]), the profit machine surrounding it sure isn’t. Psychopathic events, for example, are promoted as “truly underground,” boasting an absence of commercial sponsorship and thus nailing the G-spot of inebriated rebellion while essentially splitting the take with nobody and keeping the Juggalo joke an inside one. The Insane Clown Posse empire is unique in that it has little to challenge it commercially. And since it is argued that followers of the Juggalo lifestyle are fat, obnoxious, misfit dropouts, it’s likely that the creation of Psychopathic Video was a <a href="http://www.wmicentral.com/news/latest_news/article_f9424c24-f365-11df-8dd4-001cc4c002e0.html" target="_blank">pariah-grade</a> necessity. It matters little whether or not the public or mainstream production houses are afraid of ICP and its fans: what’s interesting is that this is a competent promotional tool that stays on message and true to form. Besides, who needs production value when shock value is so <em>right now!</em>? For starters, the clip smartly plays like an SNL parody – and one benefitting from a refreshing absence of Andy Samberg. It also exploits the meth addict lexicon and the emphatic shoulder-sways and elbow-to-wrist snaps of what I like to call “honkybonics.” Like the hand signals used with trained animals, this use of honkybonics effectively chaperones its devotees through an experimental endorsement of conventional philanthropy. This body language is a recruiting tool like no other. To an individual who pours Lysol into a shoe so that he can wear it like a gas mask, this interface will never betray. It will never grow in sophistication; lying politicians or cops or rich mutherfuckers will never use it. To employ it, well, you just can’t hire that out. Psychopathic Video is the definition of “in-house.” And bonus points: if it plays like an SNL skit, SNL skit watchers (i.e., white people with living rooms and televisions, really) will watch it and talk about it. Again, the expansion of the brand is afoot. In the interest of full disclosure, here’s what makes me a hypocrite: I’m personally not affected by petulant Juggalos or the <a href="http://juggaloholocaust.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Juggalo Holocaust</a>. It’s a largely Midwestern spectacle, a Michigan-Ohio novelty. I can laugh at Juggalos’ misconceptions of strength, leadership, and self-bearing because there are no ICP aficionados among my friends or family to offend. I don’t share my neighborhood with self-corralled paint wheezers. It’s easy for me to refer to ‘em as “them” and “those people.” I live in a coastal blue state; I squirm through SNL (because I can jump past the boring parts); and I can pick apart ICP videos. Moreover, a Juggalo Toy Drive appeals to my appreciation for a town idiot making good while drowning in two inches of water, so I also have the luxury of trying to decide if soliciting illiterate teen moms and penniless, bipolar crack-smokers to donate to “people who don’t got shit” is cruel or just plain predatory marketing at its finest. I’m thinking it’s the latter. 343 2010-12-02 05:18:01 2010-12-02 05:18:01 2017-11-06 12:37:00 2017-11-06 19:37:00 closed open the-1st-annual-juggalo-toy-drive publish 0 0 post 0 Excuses _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1689917214;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:869;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1589;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:265;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7321;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1442;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:503;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/snoap-standoffs-and-suckers/ Sun, 12 Dec 2010 05:24:24 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=345 <strong>Celebration, Florida: Taking the ‘people’ out of people.</strong> <strong><a href="http://whereexcusesgotodiec.fatcow.com/blog3/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/WELCOME-TO-CELEBRATION.jpg"><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/WELCOME-TO-CELEBRATION.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-122" title="WELCOME-TO-CELEBRATION" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/WELCOME-TO-CELEBRATION-300x149.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="149" /></a> </a></strong> <h6><strong>Original story: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1337026/Celebration-murder-suicide-wife-swapping-Disneys-dark-dream-town.html?ito=feeds-newsxml" target="_blank">The Daily Mail</a></strong></h6> <h4>Leaving malnourished Juggalos and their world of fetal alcohol syndrome behind, let’s turn to a fresh heap of cabbage seeking togetherness, understanding, and fistful of <a href="http://www.huxley.net/soma/somaquote.html" target="_blank">soma</a>.<!--more--></h4> <h4>“Celebrationists,” or residents of Celebration, Florida, are an tedious mix of ‘Merican and British dupes who purchased their homes back when openly inflated values corresponded with an equally inflated sense of entitlement to the American Dream.  And just not any old dream (play Find-the-Diversity with the town’s December 2010 newsletter if you don’t believe me), but a cozy, white, suburban 50’s dream in which a Disney-designed town just couldn’t yield to the normal rules or general ills of society: no ordinary human frustrations, crime, loneliness, panic, jealousy, or even a need for uniqueness here!  At least it was so in the beginning, when folks were hired to walk dogs around the town and autumn leaves were imported to simulate fall foliage, when Celebration was marketed as ”a place that takes you back to that time of innocence.”</h4> <h4>More than 16 years later, there’s still fake snow (that’d be “snoap”) at Christmas, but it seems you really <em>can’t</em> go home again. For a number of Celebration residents that’s literally true: The number of houses in foreclosure now equals the number available on opening day (around 500). And while town leaders may have anticipated issues of logistics and environment, they probably didn’t expect to wage campaigns against rumors – from tales of audio-animatronic nature (think chirping birds in the middle of a downpour) to a nuclear reactor hidden below the post office (probably because Disney presumably does have the <a href="http://www.mouseplanet.com/guide/2/Walt-Disney-World">right to build one</a> on their Florida property).</h4> <h4>Disney money may have built Celebration to resemble a small town that would propagate old timey virtues in a manner that the company saw fit, much like Henry Ford’s ill-fated experiment in the Amazonian jungle back in the early 1900s.  And commercial, educational, shopping, and community facilities<em> may </em>have developed as flawlessly as planned – had the town truly been able to keep out murder, graffiti, armed standoffs, and suicide.  But alas, “<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1337026/Celebration-murder-suicide-wife-swapping-Disneys-dark-dream-town.html?ito=feeds-newsxml" target="_blank">Celebration Separation</a>” has set in, and idyllic evenings enjoying neighborly lemonade behind uniformly white window shades have degenerated into wife swapping, alcoholism, and boredom. Must be the “new” people moving into the neighborhood.</h4> <h4>In 2004 Disney sold the town to unknown buyers who pledged to uphold the thick book of rules and ideals, though there’s some fun speculation out there that it was actually sold to Saudi royalty. Yes, friends: welcome to King Abdullah’s USA Town! (It’s only missing “Gunslinger” from 1973’s <em>Westworld</em>, the Terminator-esque humanoid played by Yul Brynner that malfunctions to deadly results in a futuristic, adults-only resort. Oh wait –  maybe in Florida after all, walking a dog.).  But no matter who owns Celebration, Dumbo is still the elephant in every room in town, and they’ll never shake off that much Mickey.</h4> <h4>In an artificial, hyper-American town where most businesses are positioned to capitalize on tourist overflow from Disney World, where houses are designed <a href="http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7EMA98/hogan/celebration/main.html" target="_blank">with porches and low fences, so that one can observe one’s neighbors,</a> where the dead plants on those porches are subject to citation, and where residents are encouraged to wait patiently in their vehicles should a tourist golf-cart stop in the middle of traffic for a photo, you’d think you’d find discerning, compliant, willing residents, right?  Wrong: You’ll find a bunch of suckers.  And <a href="http://www.celebrationinfo.com/CommunityCharter.pdf" target="_blank">lately</a> none too <a href="http://www.celebrationinfo.com/CommunityCharter.pdf" target="_blank">obedient</a>.</h4> <h4>But like the Juggalos, most Celebration residents still insist that their existence is neighborly, agreeable, and united. Among other party lines, Celebrationists praise the fact that their patrio-topia is safe and comfortable (<a href="http://www.celebrationinfo.com/CommunityCharter.pdf" target="_blank">as long as no more than four non-residents visit at once</a> without approval), and that the “people who live there have the same ideals and goals” as they do. One subculture is poor, high, fat, and illiterate.  The other is affluent, presumably not huffing spray-paint, and yet <em>still</em> delusional enough to believe that their town is a neo-traditional amusement park that can remain impervious to both recession and, well, outsiders.</h4> <h4>Neither group seems to think for themselves.  And both of ‘em seem just fine with that.</h4> 345 2010-12-12 05:24:24 2010-12-12 05:24:24 2017-11-06 12:37:25 2017-11-06 19:37:25 closed open snoap-standoffs-and-suckers publish 0 0 post 0 Celebration_Florida Disney Excuses Murder Saudis _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703533680;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2593;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4730;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4828;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/vintage-smear/ Mon, 20 Dec 2010 05:27:53 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=347 <em><strong>“Everybody reads it, but they say the cook brought it into the house.” -Humphrey Bogart</strong></em> <a href="http://whereexcusesgotodiec.fatcow.com/blog3/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/B.jpg"><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/B1.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-348" title="B" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/B1-300x194.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="194" /></a> </a> <strong>Original story: </strong>I have an abundance of vintage magazines that I’ve picked up over the years, though I’m hardly a collector, an authority, an expert, or even a profiteer. In fact, I prefer “light hobbyist” because it allows me to enjoy old-timey weirdness over fixation and miscellany over totality.<!--more--> Besides, research is half the fun, and the story behind Confidential magazine is my favorite. Happy Holidays. In the 1920’s, celebrated scandal rag <em>The New York Graphic </em>had cornered the tabloid market, and it was in the <em>Graphic</em>’s infamous newsrooms that Robert Harrison first met Walter Winchell. They had little occasion to work together, and their paths diverged again in the 30s and 40s when Winchell went on to become a popular entertainment columnist and radio personality, while Harrison became a rather run-of-the-mill girlie mag publisher. In December of 1952, aiming to get involved with something more substantive, Harrison launched <em>Confidential</em> magazine. He played up his association with Winchell, who by then had become the most widely read entertainment columnist in the world. In exchange for <em>Confidential</em>’s support in matters like Josephine Baker’s racial discrimination charge against New York’s Stork Club (Winchell sided with the club), Winchell sang the praises of <em>Confidential</em> to his readers, encouraging them to buy the new magazine. And buy they did. The rag itself was garish and lurid. <em>Newsweek</em>, in a March 14th, 1955 issue, concluded that <em>Confidential</em> promoted nothing but “<em>sin and sex with a seasoning of right wing politics.</em>” Humphrey Bogart dubbed Harrison, “The King of Leer.” With its sensational declaration that “The Lid Is Off!” <em>Confidential</em> promised raw and hidden thrills and produced loads of exposé. Its premiere issue featured a report on the mobsters and criminals that had made a home of Hot Springs, Arkansas, a photo exposé of homosexual dancers in Paris, and a piece linking a Brooklyn District Attorney to the killers-for-hire ring known as Murder, Inc. By 1956, Harrison’s lascivious invention had achieved a readership of over 4 million per issue. (And those aren’t mouse clicks, baby, those were 4 million people forking over cash at newsstands or stores.) Celebrities, politicians, foreign royalty, and high profile ‘hoods were frequent targets of <em>Confidential’</em>s “Uncensored and Off The Record” attacks. Headlines ranged from every conceivable communist threat to gambling, celebrity interracial scoops, Hollywood crime, and juicy divorce news. At first, major Hollywood studios embraced magazines like <em>Confidential</em>, feeding them tantalizing tidbits of gossip in exchange for publicity. But when <em>Confidential</em>’s investigators started nosing around big stars like Rock Hudson for real “behind closed doors” dirt, the studios changed tactics. To protect the reputations of their A-list celebs, studios like Universal-International sold out lesser actors to kill the original stories. (In Hudson’s case, it was Rory Calhoun – with the studio paying Harrison $10,000 and providing info on Calhoun’s prison stint.) Other actors went on their own counter-offensive. Ronald Reagan, at the time a Hollywood Blacklist informer, led a committee to uncloak the smear mag’s personnel. Frank Sinatra, no stranger to dirt himself, called in a few political markers to lead his own charge against the magazine. In 1955, after “a number of complaints,” Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield refused to allow mail delivery of <em>Confidential</em>’s November issue. While his decision was reversed by the U.S. District Court after testimony from both Harrison and the ACLU, the magazine’s troubles were mounting. In 1957, following a two year investigation by a California State Senate subcommittee known as the Kraft Commission,<em> Confidential’s</em> publishers were put on trial. Harrison was charged with “conspiracy to publish criminal libel.” The trial, an international spectacle featuring testimony by celebrities, detectives, police, and prostitutes, lasted two months. The prosecution’s star witness, a fence-sitter named Howard Rushmore who’d written for both the <em>Daily Worker</em> and Hearst’s right-wing <em>New York Journal-American </em>before joining <em>Confidential</em> as an editor, provided point blank testimony that he had “certainly” intended to injure the subjects of his <em>Confidential</em> stories. As a result, <em>Confidential</em>’s reign as king of sleaze began to unravel. In November of 1957, Harrison cut a deal with California attorney general Edmund G. “Pat” Brown and the major libel charges against him were dropped in exchange for his published promise to “eliminate exposé stories on the private lives of celebrities.” But while the pledge placated the Kraft Commission, the damage was done. Lawsuit after lawsuit was brought against the magazine as every slandered star that cared to sue did. Harrison was forced to sell <em>Confidential</em> to protect his personal assets. And yet the magazine itself managed to stay afloat. During the twenty-one years that followed its initial sale, <em>Confidential</em>’s quality fluctuated wildly under an assortment of owners. During the 60’s and 70’s, the magazine turned its attention to drugs, hippies, and the counterculture. But though it had managed to cover just about everyone and everything in the public consciousness during its long run, the financially strangled rag finally died in 1978. The legacy of <em>Confidential</em>, however, lives on, mainly through the passion of collectors. In addition, <em>Confidential</em> broke ground for many other scandal titles and paved the way for our modern tabloids as well. Here now, is a quick look at some of <em>Confidential’s </em>imitators: <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/A11.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-349" title="A1" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/A11.jpg" alt="" width="512" height="168" /></a> <ul> <li><em>Uncensored</em> was a favorite that ran a series of quarterly issues on vice and sex. In popularity it remained second only to its predecessor. Most smear mags folded in the 50’s, but <em>Uncensored</em> kept going strong until 1971.</li> <li><em>Exposed</em> also managed to last for a decent length of time, probably because it was strong on text and well illustrated. Eighteen issues of <em>Exposed</em> were published yearly, and it had a reputation as one of the more reliable magazines of its kind.</li> <li><em>Exclusive</em>, on the other hand, was a wild magazine of outright exploitation. It featured outrageous titles, storylines and shocking covers.</li> <li><em>Blast</em> was even sleazier. The low budget mag was infamous for its “take no prisoners” approach.</li> <li>To answer the charges leveled by some of these smear mags against “persecuted” stars, <em>Celebrities Answer to the Scandal Magazines</em> was introduced. But either the stars weren’t talking or the public wasn’t buying, because the mag only hobbled along for two issues in 1957.</li> <li>Magazines like <em>Hush Hush</em>, however, <em>did</em> make it. A stable yet mischievous exposé mag, it was another of the few to continue after the initial mid-fifties scandal boom subsided. Unlike the others that only rewrote the news, <em>Hush Hush</em> actually broke stories.</li> <li>The most flagrant of the “news recyclers” was <em>Inside</em>, which didn’t last long. In 1958 its publishers gave up on scandal altogether and turned it into a “Photos for Men” magazine.</li> <li><em>The Lowdown</em>, which ran for twelve years, had its own version of photos – doctored and racy.</li> <li>Slightly more accurate was <em>On The QT</em>, which featured real photos and well conceived front covers. Like its competitors, however, it specialized in “Stories the Newspapers Won’t Print!”</li> <li>There are many more titles, like <em>Naked Truth, RAVE, Private Affairs, Revealed</em>, and even <em>Side Street</em>. None lasted long, but each stayed afloat long enough to distinguish an era.</li> </ul> Today’s tabloids are no different from their predecessors. Their doctored photos are more advanced, but often still obviously altered and their cheap shots are often cheaper. Their targets remain the same: celebrities, politicians, royalty. Following its initial burst, anti-smear litigation was largely dormant until 1990, when Carol Burnett won a significant victory and the stars were reminded that they had a means of fighting back. They’ve not only done so routinely ever since, they became their own studio backchannels, tipping off paparazzi regarding their errands, coke habits and sex tapes. It’s all the same, but turned inward with a narcissistic rage. Still, sleazemongers like Robert Harrison are probably yawning in their graves. If anything, it is <em>we</em> who have changed, becoming increasingly desensitized and indifferent to low blow, hide-in-the-bushes journalism. Today’s tabloids produce “headlines” even men like Harrison wouldn’t have touched: “Celebrity Miscarriages,” “Paris Hilton smuggling coke and ecstasy in her hoo-ha” and “Exclusive (Nearly) Naked Photos” of aged stars. By today’s standards, the short-lived scandal mags of the 50’s are boring. But that’s just what makes them worth tracking down: nostalgia for naive sleaze. <h6>Sleaze historian<strong> </strong>John Wooley was the inspiration for this post.</h6> 347 2010-12-20 05:27:53 2010-12-20 05:27:53 2015-10-26 22:57:31 2015-10-27 05:57:31 closed open vintage-smear publish 0 0 post 0 Confidential Excuses sleaze vintage _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704630636;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1103;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11819;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10357;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/dear-president-obama/ Thu, 30 Dec 2010 05:33:22 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=351 <strong>You said ‘change,’ not ‘short-change.’</strong> <strong><a href="http://whereexcusesgotodiec.fatcow.com/blog3/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/0000000005.jpg"><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/00000000051.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-352" title="0000000005" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/00000000051.jpg" alt="" width="456" height="281" /></a> </a></strong> <h6><strong>Original Source: The Hill</strong></h6> Look, Chief, history has shown that the Oval Office can be a stepping-stone to more genuine service, so your low approval numbers, bipartisan blame-taking, and even fuzzy birthplace mattered little to a wait-and-see approach like mine.<!--more--> Today, though, and probably despite your best intentions, I’ve simply got to take offense. See, back when I was locked up, I clerked for Chuck Hildebrand, a civilian employee teacher who led a six-week pre-release course in the facility education building. Black and Hispanic attendees dominated each roster. Mr. H. was sorta dorky, but he had a huge heart and dedicated 110% of himself to passing on the critical social tools the guys needed to effectively reintegrate into their communities. Sometimes Mr. H. was shouted down with justifications or matters of race and equality. Often, free white dude or not, he’d challenge the guys right back, trying to demonstrate functional debating in the process. Occasionally, through the anger and illiteracy, he’d see an inmate’s point and simply shrug. Without co-signing the excuse, he’d agree that the parole and probation system – in principal – presupposed recidivism. I mention my experience with Mr. Hildebrand so that I can share my discontent with merit earned. When it comes to who is being released from prison and being given or deprived of a second chance, I have some experience. But you, Mr. President: you went and had some lace curtain at the White House get the owner of the Philadelphia Eagles on the phone so you could praise the franchise for signing Michael Vick, reportedly lamenting that too few former inmates get a fair second shake. Now to someone who’s been there, that was beyond tacky. Regardless of your intentions (and I’m still one to give you credit for good ones), you paved the way for your detractors to accuse you of being out-of-touch with the 1.7 million kids who have a parent in prison for the holidays. At least. Michael Vick did the crime and the time, fine. But he hardly represents the ex-offenders for whom the <a href="http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/BJA/grant/09SecondChanceResourceSol.pdf" target="_blank">Second Chance Act of 2009</a> (HR 623)<em> </em>was written. Vick is a millionaire product-endorser who runs touchdowns, not a man cycling through jails that custody has made harder to reach. Michael Vick is one ex-con who <em>doesn’t</em> need a leg up from the most successful offender reentry program ever created: a phone call from your desk. So you see, this comes off kinda’ bad, Mr. President, as if you’re using the predicament of genuinely at-risk parolees as a basis for hat-tipping between one shielded, privileged media personality and another. In the face of so many states, tribes, territories, local governments, service providers, nonprofit organizations, and corrections agencies working to improve prisoner reentry, your phone call to the NFL seems even more thoughtless. Why? Because HR 623 was written to help fight crime at the county, community, and church levels, for one, but also because truly successful reintegration actually requires the building of character, self-respect, and a strong work ethic. I’m having trouble seeing either Vick or the NFL in any of these characteristics. And without those, you essentially gave a nation of low-income teens and juvenile offenders a front row seat to celebrity pardon via the media. You could’ve telephoned a ‘nobody’ business owner to thank him or her for giving a former inmate a job. You could have sent a message of presidential gratitude to any number of non-profits out there working for improved prisoner reintegration. You wanna stick to Philly? No problem! Give the Philadelphia Mayor’s Office a call to thank Mike Nutter for his support of <a href="http://www.phila.gov/reentry/" target="_blank">PREP</a>, the Philadelphia Reentry Employment Program. There’s just no excuse for reaching out to a billionaire team owner rather than the head of a dry cleaning business or any other run-of-the-mill entrepreneur hiring those demonstrating a genuine desire to change. Still need some PR play outta’ the deal? Fine. You can’t go wrong giving a little Oval Office shout out to <a href="http://www.aolnews.com/2010/12/23/san-diego-man-gives-prisoners-a-second-chance/" target="_blank">Scott Silverman</a> of San Diego, especially considering that his non-profit is actually <em>named</em> Second Chance and was forged out of Silverman’s own turnaround. Vet the guy first for sure, but at least know that CNN gave him that Hero Award thing it’s always pushing. Plus he’s got a memoir entitled, “Tell Me No, I Dare You,” and how can <em>you</em> of all people not love that title? Mr. President, I voted for you at least in part because of Chuck Hildebrand’s fist-on-the-table belief that an African American would occupy the White House before the close of the ‘90s. He used every example he could think of to reach his students in asking them to imagine barriers being lifted – even for them. That’s the kind of person you should be reaching out to. For me, the only way you can right this is to speak to garden-variety inmates – those sincere about changing their lives and those who still dream of someday <em>being</em> sincere. Send ‘em a message; tell them you know they are more than district voting issues. Pull a Chuck Hildebrand (or a Jim Brown) and go teach a prison pre-release class. Hell, you’re the first black president: be the first <em>ever</em> president to visit a U.S. prison! Go be Johnny Cash for a day…it’s legacy-making. The world would marvel, and you would touch the spirit and future of a lot of American families. They might even turn around and support you for re-election. 351 2010-12-30 05:33:22 2010-12-30 05:33:22 2016-12-01 10:43:39 2016-12-01 17:43:39 closed open dear-president-obama publish 0 0 post 0 Excuses Michael_Vick parole prison_overcrowding Second_Chance _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703756560;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4035;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4084;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:549;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/exoneree-freedom-isnt-free/ Sat, 08 Jan 2011 05:39:52 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=355 <h4><strong>Cornelius Dupree Jr. served 30 years before DNA evidence overturned his conviction on Jan. 4th. In fact, the man </strong><em><strong>paroled</strong></em><strong> before the wheels of justice turned in his favor.</strong></h4> <h6><a href="http://whereexcusesgotodiec.fatcow.com/blog3/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/A04.jpg"></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/A04.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-146" title="A04" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/A04.jpg" alt="" width="305" height="199" /></a></h6> <h6><strong>Original Story:</strong> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/17/opinion/17mon3.html?_r=1" target="_blank">NYTimes.com</a></h6> Hearing men repeatedly proclaim their innocence in prison is one of the first endless streams of noise that you learn to drown out in order to get some sleep.<!--more--> Inmates can be as callus to one another’s judicial predicaments as any turnkey or Appellate Court intern. Each of us has our own thoughts to contend with after “Lights Out,” but the panic and despair can be especially acute for those who believe, with every fiber of their being, that “they” sent the wrong guy up the river. And it’s one thing to know the world at large doesn’t care; it’s even more deflating to learn that the quickest conversation stopper in custody is, “You want to see my transcripts?”?But the truth is, nearly every inmate except the <a href="http://www.sntp.net/drugs/thorazine.htm" target="_blank">Thorazombies</a> has a justification for his conviction, crime, or attitude. It’s sort of like accusations of abuse, neglect, and being railroaded – ho hum, just stir them in with your soup. After all, it’s for your own sanity that you avoid the appeal-happy and the note takers. For someone convinced of his innocence, prison can be especially isolating; being ostracized is a direct function of doing anything that will bring you extra attention. When I served my own sentence, I had ample opportunity to ponder the plight of men shuffling up and down the various corridors year after year carrying the same bundle of manila envelopes as evidence of their wrongful conviction. There were the excited ones and the sullen ones and the beaten ones and of course the dishonest ones. Some eventually stopped sharing their forms, applications, and correspondence with anyone who caught their eye, and on rare occasions one would be plucked from us without explanation, leaving only gossip behind. “Wouldn’t it be a thing,” we’d say, “if that screwball’d been right?” Still, to the best of my knowledge I was never in contact with someone who was genuinely innocent – and who proved it cold. When I clerked for a California Civil Addict Program (CAP) Director who oversaw parole board-style hearings to determine which junkie hit the gate and when, I found that most inmates are just ignorant about the law and so desperate for a distraction that they can’t refrain from putting their hopes into comically erroneous conspiracies. There’s money to be made off of those sorts, of course, but prison commerce is an entry for another day. The fork in the “innocence” road lies in the daily carriage of the person making the proclamation. Enduring the delayed gratification and forensic persistence required to keep track of so many legal breadcrumb trails is a herculean task. This means sustained focus and <em>not</em> hanging out on that big ugly street-corner known as a prison yard running your yap. A lot of guys claim they “don’t belong” behind bars: only a few guys define it. So for Cornelius Dupree Jr. to still be a reasonable soul – let alone able to form rational sentences – after 30 years of proclaiming his innocence to an audience of indifferent guards and self-protective fellow inmates…well, that’s just one of the truest products of faith and resolve I can imagine. Since movie award voters seemed to have ignored <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1244754/" target="_blank">“Conviction,” staring Hilary Swank/Sam Rockwell</a> and <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/2011/01/110113_outlook_betty_anne_waters.shtml" target="_blank">championing similar virtues and circumstances,</a> it’s unlikely that Dupree will ever see a film made of his journey. But something tells me he won’t care. 355 2011-01-08 05:39:52 2011-01-08 05:39:52 2017-11-06 12:37:00 2017-11-06 19:37:00 closed open exoneree-freedom-isnt-free publish 0 0 post 0 conviction Cornelius Dupree Excuses prison _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1686724905;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1896;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:932;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8912;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7479;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6772;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7896;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/the-fountain-lady-and-sidewalk-rage/ Sat, 22 Jan 2011 05:45:05 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=357 <strong>Americans get wimpier with each new victim classification.</strong> <a href="http://whereexcusesgotodiec.fatcow.com/blog3/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/DUMBASS.jpg"><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/DUMBASS.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-158" title="DUMBASS" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/DUMBASS-300x289.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="289" /></a> </a> <h6><strong>Original story:</strong> <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/21/tech/main7269518.shtml">CBSNews.com</a></h6> <h4>Thank you, <a href="http://www.examiner.com/technology-in-national/lawyer-for-youtube-fountain-lady-denies-fountain-fall-was-a-hoax" target="_blank">Fountain Lady</a>, for showing the world that America has hit bottom, you sniveling, self-aggrandizing, credit card stealing poseur.<!--more--></h4> <h4>Every day there’s a new way to play victim, to upgrade inconvenience and discomfort to martyrdom. Likewise, there’s always fresh casualty narcissism in the news and increasingly easier ways to collect from resulting lawsuits.</h4> <h4>Every time we turn around, someone else is blubbering, finger pointing, and stooping lower than the last “casualty” on the American Credibility Scale. Some say it began with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restaurants" target="_blank">the hot coffee lawsuit of 1994</a>, and I tend to agree, but somewhere between then and now the courage has drained out of us even further. We’ve become so needy, so desperate for uniqueness and special consideration that now the national dialogue has turned to “sidewalk rage.” Yes, we’ve finally gone and done it: bestowed a negative, litigious connotation to the simple act of traversing a crowded American sidewalk. I wish Rod Serling were here to see how we’ve created a world where you can actually be held accountable for someone else not watching where they’re walking. Isn’t it bad enough for a nation of fatties to associate taking a stroll with wasting precious effort?</h4> <h4><em>“While smart phones and other electronic devices changed popular culture by offering an ability to always stay connected, they have so swiftly turned into such a compelling need that a simple walk down the street is considered wasted time.”</em></h4> <h4>It’s sad that we’ve gotten to this point. Because forget apple pie, sidewalks are even more American – and far more important. Sidewalks are where toddlers can know, officially, that they’ve “arrived” in the world, where we learn to pick ourselves up, and where we our manners (should) take the stage. As a child, did you ever catch a beggar’s eye on the sidewalk and feel forever changed? For me, that lesson came at an early age, and I wouldn’t have traded the sense of growth in that moment for anything in the world. Sidewalks glue together our psychic geography, our civic pride, and demarcations of “home.” As of today, though, sidewalks will have to take the rap as the latest thing to fear, where your grabbing, seizing nine-year-old will get you sued, where cigarette smoke will be the new slip ‘n fall for litigious faultfinders. Sidewalks may have long stood symbolically for “the jungle out there,” but now <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/01/20/2011-01-20_woman_seen_in_video_falling_into_mall_water_fountain_may_sue.html" target="_blank">we ourselves are the real danger</a>. And apparently, we can no longer be trusted with the responsibility for navigating a sidewalk without an excuse hook on which to hang our failure.</h4> <h4>The problem with such a phantom “reason” for bad etiquette as “sidewalk rage” is that somebody, somewhere, today or tomorrow, will be prescribed an anti-anxiety medication to combat the stress that results from this latest phenomenon. And that will legitimize it further.</h4> <h4>So save it, Fountain Lady: your claim to victimhood is all wet. (Sorry, but I had to…)</h4> 357 2011-01-22 05:45:05 2011-01-22 05:45:05 2013-05-06 16:40:22 2013-05-06 16:40:22 closed open the-fountain-lady-and-sidewalk-rage publish 0 0 post 0 Excuses Fountain Lady Idiots rage Rod Serling _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1700252462;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1054;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8028;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10826;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/im-playing-the-race-card-on-this-one-you-should-too/ Sat, 29 Jan 2011 05:49:44 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=360 <h4><strong>Ohio mom, hours from her teaching credential, prosecuted for sneaking kids into better school.</strong></h4> <strong><a href="http://whereexcusesgotodiec.fatcow.com/blog3/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/KWB.jpg"></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/KWB.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-161" title="KWB" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/KWB.jpg" alt="" width="295" height="238" /></a> </strong> <h6><strong>Original story:</strong> Ohio.com and <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/ohio-mom-jailed-sending-kids-school-district/story?id=12763654" target="_blank">ABCNews</a></h6> You can’t throw a wadded $100 bill in this country without hitting a lavishly paid corporate pickpocket, and <em>who</em> is it that is getting cuffed and vilified these days?<!--more--> Folks like Kelley Williams-Bolar, an Ohio mother who falsified registration forms to send her kids to a better school. In official parlance, we’ve reached Level You’ve Got To Be Kidding. I’m not sure when we’re going to be able to turn around and <em>not</em> find another new low, but the more I learn about this story the more ethically underhanded it seems, from the jailing of a mom with a clean record for improperly enrolling her daughters in a school outside their tax zone to the wide-eyed, evangelical fervor of Prosecuting Attorney Michael Cody, shown in courtroom footage shouting at jurors, “Why oh why oh why would you believe a WORD she told you on the stand?” Now, a scant 12 curriculum hours away from earning her own teaching credential, Williams-Bolar faces three years probation and – you guessed it – the likely loss of her future teaching career as a result of her conviction…just when the President’s State of the Union address contained some of best discourse on education in years. “And so the question is whether all of us — as citizens, and as parents — are willing to do what’s necessary to give every child a chance to succeed. That responsibility begins not in our classrooms, but in our homes and communities. It’s family that first instills the love of learning in a child. Only parents can make sure the TV is turned off and homework gets done. We need to teach our kids that it’s not just the winner of the Super Bowl who deserves to be celebrated, but also the winner of the science fair.” Williams-Bolar, a single mother living in government housing in Akron Ohio, might define those very words. Yes fine, she broke the law, if that’s what you need to hold onto (and if it <em>is</em>, Monty Burns called: he wants his charisma back); “convicted felon” (happy?) Kelley Williams-Bolar used her father’s address to register her two daughters in the academically higher rated <a href="http://www.copley-fairlawn.org/copleyfairlawn/site/default.asp" target="_blank">Copley-Fairlawn</a> school district. And optimistically, in so doing, she was trying to “instill the love of learning” in her children by challenging them academically. She was <em>living</em> the willingness “to do what’s necessary to give every child a chance to succeed.” To make things better for her family, she got crafty. She did so because the neighborhood she can afford to live in sucks; because her and her daughter’s residence had been burglarized the year before; because Copley-Fairlawn’s <a href="http://policy.ctspublish.com/Copley-fairlawn-osba/lpext.dll/Infobase/heading%20200309.htm/heading%20300347.htm?f=templates&amp;fn=content_doc.htm&amp;2.0%23JD_JFCF" target="_blank">hazing and bullying policies </a>are the envy of other districts lacking the money to enact and enforce them. For solid, sensible reasons, Kelley Williams-Bolar pursued dual residency for her kids – and broke the law with that same sense of duty, making no excuses before the court. That’s what I like most about her: despite the consequences of her actions being more than they should be, she is owning, not denying, them. “Let’s also remember that after parents, the biggest impact on a child’s success comes from the man or woman at the front of the classroom. In South Korea, teachers are known as ‘nation builders.’ Here in America, it’s time we treated the people who educate our children with the same level of respect.” Hear hear! A boost for teachers in the appreciation department, and shouldn’t that extend to dedicated teacher-candidates too? Apparently not in Summit County, or maybe just not if you’re black and trying to sit in the white lunchroom there. The sentencing judge (a name I refuse to even type), after informing Williams-Bolar she would no longer be able to obtain her teaching credential in her home state, blithely told her, ”The court is taking into consideration that is also a punishment that you will have to serve.” Then she <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/ohio-mom-jailed-sending-kids-school-district/story?id=12763654&amp;page=2" target="_blank">said publicly</a>, before trying to deflect blame onto the prosecutor for refusing to drop the charges to a misdemeanor, “I felt that some punishment or deterrent was needed for other individuals who might think to defraud the various school districts.” <em>Some</em> punishment? Let me get this straight: you can snort blow, party it up, ruin some companies, and become the President, but sign the wrong paper the wrong way and your life is <em>over</em>? And if you think I’m exaggerating, not only did Williams-Bolar lose her job prospects, she was welcomed home this week from nine days in jail with a letter from the Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority informing her that she may be subject to fines and prosecution on their end, seeing as how there’s some question about where her daughters live. Now that’s justice. “In fact, to every young person listening tonight who’s contemplating their career choice: If you want to make a difference in the life of our nation; if you want to make a difference in the life of a child — become a teacher. Your country needs you.” Needs you for what, to help inflict the status quo?  Needs to you to help keep your people in line?  In this case, Williams-Bolar’s country needed her – not one of the 30 or 40 other Summit County parents involved in similar disputes with the district – to be the above-mentioned example, so the judge used official means to professionally hobble her and keep her low-income daughters <a href="http://drboycespeaks.blogspot.com/2011/01/mother-jailed-for-sending-kids-to-wrong.html" target="_blank">trapped in under-performing schools</a>. So like I said, I’m playing the race card on this one. For a judge as involved in prisoner re-entry programs as this one apparently is, the conspicuously harsh sentence reeks of, “We <em>want</em> you to reach for the brass ring…just not the one on <em>our</em> kids’ playground.” By the way, for those of you tempted to use the tired argument that the property taxes you pay for your expensive houses should be reserved for <em>your </em>kids, I have only one question: what about the childless folks in your neighborhood who pay the same property taxes – who gets <em>their</em> money? Oh, that should go to your kids too? That’s horseshit. There is a petition to Ohio Governor John Kasich on Williams-Bolar’s behalf, which is at least something that helps bring us back a step or two from complete moral ineptitude. But we have a long way to go before we eliminate the unfair distribution of limited educational resources and the unsafe conditions in too many of our public schools, not to mention what it will take to truly shed racial and judicial imbalance in America. That’s going to mean a lot more love for our neighbors – and not just the ones that look like us. 360 2011-01-29 05:49:44 2011-01-29 05:49:44 2017-11-06 12:37:01 2017-11-06 19:37:01 closed open im-playing-the-race-card-on-this-one-you-should-too publish 0 0 post 0 Excuses Kelley Williams-Bolar race card State of the Union _edit_last 2 custom_permalink ?p=360 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1688479084;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6118;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1502;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3615;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8227;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7935;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1233;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/dog-pile/ Mon, 31 Jan 2011 05:52:27 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=362 <strong>Forget the cop who faked gettin’ shot, how ‘bout those “eye witnesses”?</strong> <strong><a href="http://whereexcusesgotodiec.fatcow.com/blog3/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/21.jpg"><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/21.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-169" title="2" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/21.jpg" alt="" width="563" height="227" /></a> </a></strong> <h6>Original Story: 89.3 KPCC, Southern California Public Radio and <a href="http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&amp;id=7924785" target="_blank">Eyewitness News KABC-TV/abc7.com</a></h6> During the afternoon of January 19, unbridled zeal for this story poured forth from L.A.’s TV network affiliates: ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX-LA.<!--more--> A school police officer had reportedly been shot near the San Fernando Valley’s award-winning El Camino Real High School, and one of the largest local manhunts in years virtually consumed seven square miles of residential neighborhoods. Then, with so much HD footage of racing cop cars, motorcycles, command trucks, and armored SWAT units to be had, out came the stringers, independent cameramen with broadcast-quality gear, hoping to sell their video. Eight schools were put on lockdown and thousands of students were made to remain in their classrooms as the news principle “If It Bleeds, It Leads” pumped the community’s blood pressure cuff. The word “manhunt” was followed by “perimeter,” and soon Woodland Hills, California was being referred to as a “hot zone.” Predatory news-van reporters and stringers alike included the eager-to-be-helpful comments of bystanders in their live reports to studio newscasters. There was a Good Samaritan angle to exploit, plus angry parents; students in jeopardy; a wounded hero; 350 badges hunting for a long-haired perp; cops stopping motorists to search trunks; flashing lights – a circus with all its attendant witnesses and whatchamacallits! Then there are the students, some of whom called radio stations or television tipster lines to provide inside-the-lockdown perspectives like descriptions of police officers with dogs roaming the hallways and being forced to pee into trash cans.<em> </em>Excited kids will be kids, and their astonishment over being delayed for five hours (“Duuuude!”) was mostly entertaining. The most adorable of these junior plaintiffs were the ones rubbing their stomachs as they recounted the unconscionable span of time without food. And it turns out, though, the whole incident had been faked. If the LAUSD cop had been shot at all, he did it to himself. No longhaired aggressor attacking our common safety and threatening our American way of life; indeed no perp at all. Yet as I recall channel surfing the evening’s broadcast segments on the inconvenient siege, I remember thinking there seemed to be an implausible amount of “eye witness” information. For one, there was the detailed police sketch of the assailant that morphed with every subsequent qualifier like “meth head” and “pony tail”: it’s obvious the guy making up the story was going to provide a “description,” but who were these other yahoos adding “detail”? A few potato heads even claimed to have seen the guy running “over there” and climbing this fence or that. One guy said the shooter hopped his hedge. WTF? They <em>knew</em> they’d seen no such thing. As reporters fed these “observations” back to their anchors, I got the sense that some of these idiots had just come from watching similar reports inside and were now back on the street ­– recapping the man on TV for the other station’s reporter with added gusto. Is it an explicit or a subconscious need, I wonder, to play the victim/participant in order to obtain (or earn) ego-soothing attention? What drove that jackass to beg, “Wuh, I graduated from El Camino High School in ’98. Where’s <em>my</em> grief counselor?” <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/13.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-165" title="1" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/13.jpg" alt="" width="467" height="306" /></a> <h4>Sure, there’s a heightened sense of being a part of the story when the very same choppers hovering overhead are the ones just seen on Channel 4. But deliberately muddying the water under the guise of helping? And demanding attention as a result? What “special sauce” explains the grouchy parents who seized the opportunity to complain to reporters about being denied access to their children, despite the fact no end-of-school bell was set to ring for hours anyway? Is it the same entitlement mentality as when an impatient driver lays on the horn the very instant he thinks you don’t see that the light’s changed? “I wanna see my kid now because I’m eligible to demand it?</h4> <h4>On the one hand, emotionally needy individuals will always seek attention by making stuff up, and on the other this, too, can cross a line. Putting our own worthiness before purpose or even genuine support (esp. while making a show of waving its flag) speaks to a serious lack of character essentials. Are we so desperate for acknowledgment that we’re now completely controlled by external validation?</h4> <h4>It’s one thing to “See something; say something” (if you must) in an honest-to-God attempt to solve a common problem or catch an on-the-loose criminal. Sometimes a tipster can genuinely help crack a case. But <em>pretending</em> to be a tipster? Come on… there’s just no excuse for <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Narcissism-Epidemic-Living-Age-Entitlement/dp/1416575995/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b" target="_blank">that degree of narcissism</a>.</h4> 362 2011-01-31 05:52:27 2011-01-31 05:52:27 2013-04-15 20:52:16 2013-04-15 20:52:16 closed open dog-pile publish 0 0 post 0 entitlement Excuses LAPD narcissism _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1687548957;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1254;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:554;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3301;}}}} 2 Shadoodles shahram@valleycouriers.com 69.228.40.42 2011-02-03 04:50:08 2011-02-03 04:50:08 You have to know that the officer’s watch commander had to raise an eyebrow the minute the “shot” cop said “It was a white dude with a pony tail.” He must’ve pulled that “Filing a False Report” form and left it on his desk for that inevitable moment that the cop would come clean and admit that it was self-inflicted. I can hear his colleagues now…”Hey Frank, should we be on the lookout for your perp’sPrius?” and “Yeah, we got some leads…someone wearing socks and Tevas was seen jogging from the scene, towards Starbucks.” 1 comment 0 2 http://working-copy.local/excuses/colonel-kelso-heads-up-the-river/ Mon, 07 Feb 2011 05:56:48 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=364 <h4><strong>…and takes a boatload of your tax dollars with him.</strong></h4> <a href="http://whereexcusesgotodiec.fatcow.com/blog3/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Blog3.jpg"><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Blog3.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-188" title="Blog3" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Blog3.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="113" /></a> </a> <h6><strong>Original Story: </strong><a href="http://www.latimes.com/health/la-me-prisons-20110127,0,2548791.story" target="_blank">L.A. Times</a></h6> Remember the ”extreme prejudice” scene in <em>Apocalypse Now</em>? The one where Martin Sheen’s Captain Willard character is ordered to head north to find and kill the rogue Colonel Kurtz? <!--more-->Nothing comes more to mind when reading about the adventures of J. Clark Kelso, the court-appointed <a href="http://www.cphcs.ca.gov/docs/resources/factsheet.pdf" target="_blank">receiver, or overseer, for healthcare</a> in California’s state prisons. Kelso was sent up the river too, ordered to find and kill the cause of the prison healthcare crisis. In the movie, Captain Willard loses his marbles before he reaches the Colonel’s orgiastic blood camp, where he finds Lieutenant Colby, the Army assassin who’d preceded him with the very same execution orders. Colby has become so looney he can’t even say hello, thanks to the charming Colonel’s generosity with his opium, women, and tribalized chain of command. In fact, having found Colonel Kurtz a source of homicidal enlightenment, Colby switched sides. Willard tries to avoid the same fate with the muttered mantra, “never get out of the boat,” but he’s nonetheless tempted by the same turn-ons and dropouts. Has J. Clark Kelso gotten out of the boat? Did he learn along the way that, after years of neglect, prison healthcare simply <em>can’t</em> be restored to constitutional standards, and so switched sides? From the state legislators to the feds, from the construction consultants to the state Probation and Parole departments, and even to the Prison Reform movement, there are so many players and so much money involved in California’s prisons that Kelso could have been drawn in any number of directions since his appointment on January 23, 2008. <a href="http://www.latimes.com/health/la-me-prisons-20110127,0,2548791.story" target="_blank">Some are starting to wonder if he has been</a>. Furthering the parallel to the film, Kelso had a predecessor, too: one with the same marching orders who effectively pulled a Lieutenant Colby. Receiver number one, Robert Sillen, had been given extensive authority by U.S. District Court Judge Thelton Henderson to stop a prison system that earlier examinations concluded was killing one inmate a week through misconduct or negligence (“every six to seven days,” wrote Judge Henderson in his June 30, 2005, decision). <a href="http://totalcapitol.com/?people_id=2728" target="_blank">Awkward questions were later raised</a>, however, about Sillen’s travel claim reimbursements, as well as those claimed by employees and consultants. The offensive annual salaries of Sillen’s staffers became an issue as well, and the <em>Sacramento Bee</em> reported that Sillen paid himself $775,000 during the 15-month period of his appointment that began in 2006. When Henderson <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jan/24/local/me-prisons24" target="_blank">withdrew Sillen’s authority in 2008</a> for his lack of progress, his role was retroactively described as solely investigative and evaluative. The real cleanup crew was on its way in, insinuated the court, and Sillen faded into the jungle. Kelso’s <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2008/aug/14/local/me-prisons14" target="_blank">first big move</a> was to ask then Governor Schwarzenegger to invoke his emergency powers mid-budget crisis to immediately provide $7 billion for improved inmate healthcare. $7 billion! I can’t imagine how Kelso made this request. Did he run into the room, lock the door and throw his back against it, shouting, “Jeeesus H. Christ, Governor! You’ve got to get some money in there! The filthy animals need lots of it! No, you fool! Don’t open the door, they’re nine feet tall!” (Never mind <em>Apocalypse Now</em>, this sounds more like <em>Blazing Saddles</em>.) A month later, after Schwarzenegger turned him down and Kelso was suing for the money in federal court, the amount had become an even more jaw-dropping $8 billion. When a state Senator, already wrangling with the Governor’s office over a $15 billion plus state deficit, laughed at Kelso for his request, Kelso didn’t even blink. He fired back, citing a need to pay the guards who would supervise the patients the new and renovated inmate medical facilities would hold. Ah, the guards. The California Correctional Peace Officers Association had <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1679657/posts" target="_blank">been at odds with the Governor</a> since his taking office, or more accurately, since <em>candidate</em> Schwarzenegger surprised it by refusing the powerful union’s campaign contributions. Having given over $2 million to Gray Davis’s successful campaign in 1998 and $1 million+ to Governor Pete Wilson before that, the union criticized Arnold straightaway. It declared him a failure and paid for television attack ads. Schwarzenegger, in turn, denied overtime pay for guards during the budget impasse and refused to say he’d exempt CCPOA members from potential statewide pay reductions. He also hinted at concerns with renewing the prison guards’ contracts, later adding, “I will not get intimidated.” Meanwhile, the leading cause of inmate deaths at the time was, of all things, asthma. The union ultimately filed a petition to recall the Governor and the bitter feud continued. So when Kelso commenced to justify his $8 billion in expenses, could it have been because he’d become a CCPOA pawn? <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jan/18/local/me-guards18" target="_blank">He wouldn’t have been the first</a>. Thirty-five percent of the CCPOA’s $21.9 million annual union dues is devoted to funding the union’s political activities, including public relations; lobbying; <a href="http://www.crimevictimsunited.com/" target="_blank">funding affiliate groups</a>; contributing ‘soft money’ to political parties, political events, and debates; and giving direct contributions to political candidates. Just not Arnie. A common perception is that if ever there were a long shadow of persuasion and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/CaliforniaPrisonReformNOW" target="_blank">polymorphism</a> in California prison policy it would come from the prison guard’s union. But the CCPOA is only the beginning. Right behind it are the financiers of prison privatization, from whom the CCPOA has long protected its contract turf. And let’s not forget the California Prison Industry Authority, or any of the other trades that depend on lawmakers and the Department of Corrections to play ball. Squeaking like a mouse among these agendas is the Prison Reform Movement itself, traditionally sidelined as activist and “mushy-headed liberalism” (though that’s changing as <a href="http:///" target="_blank">conservatives get more and more involved</a> in the spending side of the issue). For now, Captain Willard’s self-protective motto aside, if we remember to “follow the money,” we won’t find many prison reformists <a href="http:///" target="_blank">where the river ends</a>. The point is, with so many claims on his time and attention, Receiver Kelso has apparently found it difficult so far to execute his orders: ensuring that the quality of inmate medical care gets raised to a standard that “no longer violates the U.S. Constitution.” Is he, like Captain Willard, actually becoming more and more like that which he was sent to change? One thing is certain: unless Kelso develops and sticks to an almost insect-like single-mindedness, it’s not likely he’ll be able to accomplish his mission. When frustrated state officials recently pointed out that they hadn’t seen much for the blank checks Kelso has been given to date, they wanted answers. Yet when questioned about his ambitious 2008 solutions that never materialized, Kelso made about as much sense as Lieutenant Colby. In fact, you’d have thought that either ‘ol wheeler-dealer Robert Sillen had come back from the jungle to speak <em>for</em> Kelso or that the river had claimed another man’s sanity. One way to reduce costs quickly, Kelso told legislators, would be to allow him to release the sickest patients. “You let me unload 1,500 inmates, and I’ll give you a 30% drop in costs,” he said. Uh, <em>that’s </em>the best you could do for millions upon millions of dollars? That tired old recommendation to put the problem back out onto the streets (and no less on the taxpayers)? You’d think we might have purchased a fresher answer for that much money; if this is all Kelso’s got, someone <em>definitely</em> got out of the boat. And at this rate of spending, there’s no excuse for California not to immediately replace him with an overseer who can <em>stay</em> in the boat<em>, </em>come up with innovative solutions, and stand up for us taxpayers. <strong> </strong> 364 2011-02-07 05:56:48 2011-02-07 05:56:48 2015-10-26 22:58:38 2015-10-27 05:58:38 closed open colonel-kelso-heads-up-the-river publish 0 0 post 0 CCPOA CDCR Colonel Kurtz Excuses healthcare J. Clark Kelso Prison prison costs _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705810685;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:372;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:634;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4415;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/the-cold-shouldered-carcass/ Tue, 15 Feb 2011 05:59:57 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=366 <div> <strong>An L.A. County worker lies dead, unnoticed in her cubicle, but let’s consider it through the eyes of the janitors we ignore everyday.</strong> <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Rebecca-Wells.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-197" title="Rebecca-Wells" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Rebecca-Wells.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="172" /></a> </strong> <h6><strong>Original story:</strong> KTLA News</h6> Is it really that surprising a dead woman went unnoticed or ignored at her desk when cleanup crews and janitors aren’t given any reason to bring attention to themselves? <!--more-->Given the risk of being called an illegal immigrant or of having past legal troubles put on display for all to see, wouldn’t you think twice before running down the hall to alert your supervisor about the dead white lady you just found? If I was a $9-an-hour janitor and came across a dead Rebecca Wells, I might find myself wondering why I should do anyone any favors, especially on a Friday. I’m just sayin’. I, too, might keep right on going, even at the risk of bumping her feet as I vacuumed around her. How many times have you thrown something away that you knew the person emptying the trashcan wouldn’t enjoy? Not to say that emptying trashcans for living is enjoyable, though some take pride in it; you know what I mean. You dump a foam container with leftovers spilling out of it into a basket intended for recycled paper or you splatter barbecue sauce on the wall as you wing your waste into garbage on your way out. It’s no big deal right? It’s not a sin or a hate crime and it’s not like you’re just leaving it out to rot, right? Ah, but it’s still the tip of an iceberg, an iceberg of indifference toward those we swear up and down are our equals but whom we shelve away with these thoughtless little actions. As far as the death of Rebecca Wells, it’s regretful that her grandchildren are left with the legacy of grandma’s cold-shouldered carcass. By all accounts the woman was a hard worker — though it’s silly to try to assign blame as the media stories seem to spur, maybe in the hope of impending lawsuits on which to report further. Wells was found, presumably more than once, in the unfortunate position of having died in her cubicle, a circumstance arguably as degrading as cleaning toilets or barbecue sauce from office kitchen walls in exchange for her dedication. And there’s really nothing to say to that but ouch. </div> 366 2011-02-15 05:59:57 2011-02-15 05:59:57 2014-12-21 10:07:15 2014-12-21 17:07:15 closed open the-cold-shouldered-carcass publish 0 0 post 0 cubicle Excuses janitor _edit_last 2 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1687068063;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1254;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11462;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:663;}}}} 3 Gina Olmeda eatglass@prodigy.net 69.228.40.42 2011-02-16 04:48:17 2011-02-16 04:48:17 I read your post on the Rebecca Wells story, and my co-workers and I truly enjoyed your writing style. Well, your comment was funny and touching at the same time, without taking a crazy turn in the middle, and it got us talking about our night clean up crew and how some of the office staff does exactly what you described. Thank you for being the voice of the people who have no voice. Your efforts and talent have not gone unnoticed. Have a great day! Gina 1 comment 0 2 http://working-copy.local/excuses/this-week-in-pretentious-lists/ Sat, 19 Feb 2011 06:02:44 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=368 <strong>For folks who missed the point the first time around…</strong> <h6><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/POB.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-195" title="POB" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/POB.jpg" alt="" width="307" height="405" /></a> Original Story: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/18/teen-angst-reads_n_825057.html#" target="_blank">The Huffington Post</a></strong></h6> It’s one thing to personally outgrow a book or its themes, like when you go through a Bukowski phase or when the national security threats of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Games">Tom Clancy novel </a>start to seem quaint. <!--more-->But books that fall flat because you’re no longer an uncomfortable, squirming teenager? I don’t think so. You can outgrow the need to relate to a story, if indeed that’s why you were captivated by a book in the first place (which would probably not explain the draw of, say, Nabokov). But unless we’re talking trendy trash like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, it’s pretty tough to argue that we’ve collectively outgrown the classic books on this list. The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand, hardly falls flat in 2011, the Year of our Horde. The fact that AOL is buying the Huffington Post is indicative of our <em>increasing</em> tendency toward homogenization as a culture. Architecture aside (though I have to wonder if this author has ever seen a McMansion), there are individual urges versus collective tendencies galore in that book. Flat? No way. But neither is Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, just because you yourself have become a superficial tool. And I’ll bet Tom Wolfe would agree: Why isn’t Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas among these titles? Readers discovering that book at age 15 or 16 didn’t usually come away desperate to prove their drug ingestion endurance, but instead emerged with a heightened ability for self-expression. The book showed young, aspiring writers that they could blaspheme publishing’s many rules, that they could articulate naughty and abominable visions and celebrate exaggeration. It’s hardly a scholarly marvel, but it was a grammatical roller coaster ride for young lovers of words, whose pursuit was otherwise (as in my case) filtered through bullying Catholic school nuns and their monochrome chalkboards. Sadly, it <em>does</em> fit into the category of falling flat as well; Thompson’s acuity suffered because of drugs and alcohol and because suicide undercut his writing’s subversive permanence. Either way, it’s certainly more deserving than most of the works on this list. P.S. I can’t help but wonder if any of these books would’ve been spared if they’d been autographed and worth a few bucks more to the snob claiming they’ve fallen “flat.” 368 2011-02-19 06:02:44 2011-02-19 06:02:44 2011-02-19 06:02:44 2011-02-19 06:02:44 closed open this-week-in-pretentious-lists publish 0 0 post 0 books Excuses Huffington Post teenager _edit_last 2 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1687745786;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1088;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4931;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7041;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2061;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8250;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5425;}}}} 4 C-Robot constanceqtm@yahoo.com 69.228.40.42 2011-03-01 05:13:18 2011-03-01 05:13:18 Year of our Horde. Hah! One quibble, tho: I think if Thompson’s work was undercut by anything, it’s not the fact that he decided when to check out… 1 comment 0 2 http://working-copy.local/uncategorized/charlie-sheen-oscar-host/ Mon, 28 Feb 2011 06:04:58 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=370 <!-- wp:image {"id":10525} --> <figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/BAD-CHARLIE-PICTURE.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-10525"/></figure> <!-- /wp:image --> <h4><strong>Academy bans ABC’s Sheen interview promo during Oscars ‘cause he’s one funny crackhead</strong></h4> <h6><strong>Original story:</strong> Hollywood Reporter</h6> <p>The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has über power over its Oscar broadcast and can veto any promos or ads it doesn’t like.<!--more--> Charlie Sheen jokes around just like a death row inmate. So the math here is simple: Hollywood’s most commanding officialdom secretly knows Sheen would have made a <em>way</em> better Oscar host than Anne Hathaway or James Franco (or their mothers – WTF?)</p> <p>If the Academy is going to actively participate in hiding the dark side of fame, it can’t claim the high road anyway. So why not exploit the jittery ramblings of a hard-core crack addict in front of nearly one billion worldwide viewers? What’s the difference? It’d be less hypocritical and far more in-touch with young people than precious princess Anne or fade-into-the-background Franco. Besides, even fresh from smoking seven-gram chunks of cocaine Sheen’s <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/charlie-sheen-not-bipolar-bi-winning-13017875?&amp;clipId=13017875&amp;cid=embedded" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">faster with the comebacks and zingers</a> then either of those pandering tools. What did they accomplish besides <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704615504576172700372001560.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ruining an audience growth streak?</a></p> <p>Watching “Tiger Blood” Sheen flail and twitch around the microphone like the Wizard of Oz scarecrow with those absolutely mad Charlie Sheen eyebrows would be all wrong <em>and</em> brilliant – <em>certainly </em>more entertaining than Hathaway’s saccharin cooing, gushing (and interrupting). Imagine the looks on those stodgy ‘ol Academy faces as Charlie-the-host started doing his impression of the “droopy-eyed armless children” he insists his own drug use makes Sinatra’s, Mick Jagger’s, and Keith Richard’s partying look like.</p> <p>Forget high-handed talk of sobriety or scruples or the Academy’s unwillingness to acknowledge the elephant in the room of Charlie Sheen dying before all of our eyes. If the Academy is willing to embarrass the crap out of post-stroke Kirk Douglas, it should get <em>this</em> wide-eyed crackhead to sign a hosting contract while Charlie can still form zany, mostly intelligible sentences.</p> <p>By the way, I can picture Anne Hathaway, especially, throwing a hissy fit over this morning’s post-mortem reviews. Sheen, on the other hand, would blow off any hint of failure, secure in the knowledge that he’s <a href="http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/41824830/ns/today-entertainment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">“a total frickin’ rock star from Mars.”</a> And if any show could use a little rock n’roll ethos, isn’t it the Oscars?</p> <p> </p> 370 2011-02-28 06:04:58 2011-02-28 06:04:58 2019-09-16 14:12:00 2019-09-16 21:12:00 closed open charlie-sheen-oscar-host publish 0 0 post 0 Anne Hathaway Charlie Sheen droopy-eyed armless children Oscars Uncategorized _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _yoast_wpseo_primary_category 1 _yoast_wpseo_content_score 30 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1700235648;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:331;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:503;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6759;}}}} 5 C-Robot constanceqtm@yahoo.com 69.228.40.42 2011-02-28 04:43:37 2011-02-28 04:43:37 Did you sense a previously-nonexistent ‘Jeff Goldblumness’…? Crap, he is pale. I think he is dying like you said, which is -uh, yeah – sad. But he still must conform to the suburban child-protection measure of a fence ’round the pool. Something about THAT is surreal. But, you see how nice he was to the coffee-gal? After having people kissing his hiney for as many years as he has been famous, he deserves to host the Oscars just for being that friendly to the help, imho. And I woulda watched it, whereas I skipped last night’s ceremony. So, I’m behind your call for him to host in 2012. “Tiger Blood” in 2012! 1 comment 0 2 6 C-Robot constanceqtm@yahoo.com 69.228.40.42 2011-03-03 09:46:02 2011-03-03 09:46:02 Your point about them “ruining an audience growth streak” is interesting because wasn’t his character on the show a person who was shady, partied, admitted to paid companionship, etc..? And that’s what the guy gets axed for? So, it is okay for prime-time, but not your off-time. Not that I would employ Sheen in my own business in hnis current state, but it IS interesting that the schlock they will sell to middle America can have so many of gutter elements in it as long as it appears “neutered” in some way by… what? The laugh track? 1 comment 0 2 http://working-copy.local/excuses/apocalypse-hoosegow-part-ii/ Tue, 08 Mar 2011 06:07:28 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=372 <h4><strong>Part II of a series wherein we follow Federal Receiver J. Clark Kelso “up the river” of prison health costs</strong></h4> <h5><a href="http://whereexcusesgotodiec.fatcow.com/blog3/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Blog3.jpg"><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Blog3.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-188" title="Blog3" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Blog3.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="113" /></a> </a></h5> The parting shot in <a href="http://whereexcusesgotodiec.fatcow.com/blog3/?p=358" target="_blank">our first installment</a> focused on the current rate of spending in California prisons and the fact that there’s no excuse for letting Federal Receiver J. Clark Kelso keep his job rather than hiring someone who <em>will</em> stand up for taxpayers.<!--more--> In his failure to redirect squandered resources from the <a href="http://www.ccpoa.org/" target="_blank">corrections officers’ labor union</a>, we saw how Kelso is yet another judicial forfeit; like his predecessor, it appears he has become one with CCPOA maneuvering and is as contented with the status quo as the overindulged <a href="http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/index.html" target="_blank">CDCR</a>. In fact, neither Kelso nor the Department of Corrections seem to love the attention they’ve been getting from Jack Dolan, an LA Times reporter following <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-prisons-20110302,0,5376090.story?page=1" target="_blank">this story</a>. But it <em>has</em> finally prodded Team Kelso forward. Dolan held Kelso’s feet to the fire by reporting on “medical parole” candidates like Edward Ortiz, a semi-paralyzed, 57-year old inmate on a ventilator ankle-chained to his off-site hospital bed. A prison guard is stationed there 24 hours a day, and another is posted at the door, says Dolan. For good measure, a sergeant is also on the scene around the clock to supervise. In asking questions of the CDCR and Receiver Kelso that no one else seems able to get answered, Dolan has spoken to restrained inmates on life-support (for seven years in one case) who “require” the costly supervision of riot-trained personnel; union-shielded Corrections Officers who supervise these veggies and are no doubt caught up on their Harry Potter novels; Corrections brass who know how tranquil such a plum assignment can be and thus dole out sickbay duties to favored senior staffers; as well as many others. Here’s what Dolan revealed last Wednesday. Despite a now 6-month-old California law aimed at sparing taxpayers the ludicrous costs of guarding incapacitated or comatose inmates, of the $50 million that will be required in 2011 for 25 inmates wheezing away on hospital life support, <em>$21 million</em> is earmarked for unionized Badges alone. Imagine, laid off teachers: twenty-one million to “guard” guys <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-prisons-20110303,0,5441627.story" target="_blank">even Kelso was forced to admit</a> are “going nowhere.” But here’s the real kicker: Kelso, in defending his own impotence regarding his budget slashing duties, has long been siding with the CDCR in crying bureaucracy as the explanation for why the bill sponsored by State Sen. Mark Leno and signed by the Governor’s office has stalled. In the words of prison spokesman Oscar Hidalgo, “We are not in the business of taking risks with public safety” (in case you missed it,<em> business </em>was the operative word there). As such, the CDCR is still unprepared to release inmates regardless of their incapacitation. Yet after six months of hand wringing and public wishing that the Department would move on the new legislation (thus saving the state millions), a newspaper report comes out and Kelso can suddenly get the attention – and acquiescence – of Corrections Department Secretary Matthew Cate? In just one day, Kelso got Cate to agree to schedule parole hearings for 10 catatonics so we can cut ‘em loose and start saving. Not that any hearings have been calendared yet, but so far all of the protocols and procedures that had been hindering progress were wiped away in a single morning’s meeting? Now that’s the power of journalism! Frankly, I’m curious about the mechanics here. Did Kelso use Dolan’s initial story to convince Cate to elbow the guard’s union into offering even this compromise? If so, go Jack Dolan! But good God, how absurdly Cate must have prostrated himself before the CCPOA Executive Council! Did he call president Mike Jimenez to fret over the articles and ask what he was supposed to tell all these shirt-tuggers? <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/CrimJust_Medical-Expen.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-217" title="CrimJust_Medical-Expen" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/CrimJust_Medical-Expen.jpg" alt="" width="355" height="303" /></a> And I’m sorry Mr. Kelso: you can’t have it both ways. You don’t get to stand on the corner with the man on the street and chime in on the obvious while having the power to make a phone call and change things. <a href="http://www.lao.ca.gov/analysis/2010/crim_justice/receiver/receiver_031610.aspx" target="_blank">I know you’ve</a> improved emergency medical response and classifications, somewhat diminished negligent care, reduced clinical nonchalance, and lowered the death rate in California prisons from 249 per 100,000 in 2008 to 216 in 2010. But aren’t you there to go beyond token achievements? You’re should be getting better, not more comfortable. And what’s with the $137 million the state has given you for medical IT infrastructure? For three years now your people can neither account for nor say how much of it went toward the 19 projects for which it was earmarked. What about the construction of prison health facilities, a pillar of your 2008 Turnaround Plan of Action? Given Team Kelso’s lack of headway, it doesn’t surprise me that one of your excuses implicates the state’s employee furlough program. Where have we heard <em>that</em> before? Oh right, the CCPOA. They haven’t stopped bellyaching (and launching gubernatorial recalls) about the furlough program since its inception. But the very worst excuse for why your costly projects have gone unfulfilled is – wait for it – prison overcrowding. REALLY? <em>That’s</em> what you’ve got? My heart shriveled a little to think our leaders are either this irrevocably in on the scheme or dumb as doornails. So I wonder, Mr. Kelso, when you leave your meetings at the state capitol, are you laughing at them, or are they laughing at you? ‘Cause the only thing I’m sure of is that us <em>taxpayers</em> aren’t laughing. 372 2011-03-08 06:07:28 2011-03-08 06:07:28 2011-03-08 06:07:28 2011-03-08 06:07:28 closed open apocalypse-hoosegow-part-ii publish 0 0 post 0 CCPOA CDCR Excuses J. Clark Kelso Jack Dolan Prison prison costs _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703811539;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:364;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:634;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1568;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/i-wanted-to-be-35-before-i-was-13/ Sat, 26 Mar 2011 06:15:15 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=377 <h4><strong>Used to be kids couldn’t wait to become adults. Why’d we throw that into reverse?</strong></h4> <strong></strong><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Mid-Life-Crisis.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-224" title="Mid-Life-Crisis" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Mid-Life-Crisis.jpg" width="378" height="278" /></a></strong> I’m scratching my head over the number of people in my age group who are acting out, suffering from debilitating self-doubt, or just consistently unable to face the consequences of their actions. Am I describing an ordinary midlife crisis?<!--more--> Maybe, but this is one of those rare times I’d argue that we <em>are </em>exceptional in terms of how ridiculously far we’ve managed to take this. Now in all fairness, I should disclose the fact that my own interpretation of a so-called midlife crisis comes from <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001175/" target="_blank">Blake Edwards’ movies</a>. Films such as <em>10, S.O.B</em>., and <em>Victor Victoria</em> are filled with characters confronting their karma, concerns, and selfish choices with bourbon, schemes, and snappy comebacks. John Ritter’s “Zach” from Edwards’s <em>Skin Deep</em> was a hero of mine for a while, as were other characters played by Jack Lemon, Dudley Moore, Richard Mulligan, Julie Andrews, Robert Preston, William Holden, Lesley Ann Warren, Marilu Henner, and many others in whom Edwards showed faith. (BTW, if none of these names seem familiar, I’m referring to a span of about 1978-91. But don’t sweat it: they’re just here to help us stayers find context and fire up dormant synapses.) Through this lens, a midlife crisis seemed exciting. And even when real life, predictably more mundane, taught me that crises of all sorts are usually more of a hassle than a thrill, I didn’t expect to find forward progress itself weirdly reversed. These days, far too many of my peers 35 and older act as if they can’t wait to be 13! And they’ve got society’s nod of approval for it, at least as far as media and entertainment are concerned. I mean sure, Edwards’s characters are boozy and denying, duplicitous and roguish, but they kept on living and learning, while so many of today’s 30- and 40-somethings can’t wipe their own asses, let alone resolve conflicts. How did we get this way, and how do we get back? Maybe it’s that today’s public discourse insists that educated people (“they”) think they’re better than “us,” that true empowerment comes from bitch-slaps and blow-ups. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/weekinreview/09aoscott.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=1" target="_blank">Movies teach us</a> that masculinity means being oafish, self-centered, and stoned (and they even manage to sell us on <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-louts-20110213,0,2024755.story" target="_blank">the idea that this is attractive to the opposite sex</a>). We watch each other run up debt while trying not to sweat about continuing to outrun it. We worry about where our lives are going, but we only <em>do</em> something about it to the guy who cut us off in traffic. If we remain so over-privileged and pathetic, self-doubt and unaccountability will continue to rule the day. Midlife means nothing when you’re always in crisis. 377 2011-03-26 06:15:15 2011-03-26 06:15:15 2013-03-25 21:03:31 2013-03-25 21:03:31 closed open i-wanted-to-be-35-before-i-was-13 publish 0 0 post 0 Blake Edwards Excuses midlife crisis _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703657755;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3083;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1315;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:364;}}}} 7 Steve Stilts stilts19@cox.net 69.228.40.42 2011-03-26 04:34:39 2011-03-26 04:34:39 I want to be 44 and still feel like a 19 year old. Oh wait, I already am 44 and I still feel like I’m 19… Nevermind then. 1 comment 0 2 8 HARMSWORTH eatglass@prodigy.net 69.228.40.42 2011-03-26 08:35:19 2011-03-26 08:35:19 Only if you bought it at a “Pathways to Power” self empowerment seminar after you dropped off your kid at his kindergarten tutor. 1 comment 0 2 http://working-copy.local/idiots/confusing-idiocy-with-accomplishment-and-privilege-with-appeal/ Sat, 09 Apr 2011 06:17:01 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=379 <h4><strong>Everyday examples of fame-for-stupidity send the message that kids and teens needn’t worry about genuine achievement.</strong></h4> <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/14.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-239" title="1" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/14.jpg" width="557" height="351" /></a> </strong> I know a mom who makes her four-year-old twins dance and sing along to PlayStation SingStar every day, seven days a week. She coaches and stands guard until their session is over; no one is allowed to leave or engage in another activity.Her latest husband is even worse, prodding the twins to explain why Willow Smith is their hero. Just glimpsing these kids being paraded around in wigs and heels is about all my brain can process without punching someone.<!--more--> Seeing them recently got me thinking about Snookie and Miley and Taylor Momson and whatever’s left of Tara Reid or Amy Winehouse — and about how bad behavior generally is playing a bigger and bigger role in American popular culture. <a href="http://www.usmagazine.com/healthylifestyle/news/teen-mom-2-star-jenelle-evans-wears-skimpy-bikini-201164" target="_blank">“Teen Mom 2? skank Jenelle Evans</a> is just the latest reality show also-ran to flash-fry a plate of Gimmie Attention with the juvenile equivalent of a sex tape: the artificial bikini photo. No big deal for a simpleton 19-year-old, especially one who began this paparazzi/promotional tit-for-tat as a pregnant teen chartered like a party bus by MTV. Like those before her who gained notoriety simply by doing something stupid, Evans didn’t turn herself around and grab at a fresh start. She’s far too busy giving self-awareness the finger by embracing empty narcissism, advancing herself through schemes and indiscretion rather than smarter decisions. Nineteen months into her kid’s life, still-teen mommy isn’t pursuing an education to support her baby: she’s making court appearances for assault charges. Then there’s New Jersey’s <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504784_162-20051811-10391705.html" target="_blank">“Governor for the Day” boy, Jesse Koczon</a>, who just “happened” to be videotaped shrieking and complaining about being too small to be the Governor of his great state. The clip features a David After Dentist-style <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txqiwrbYGrs">camera angle</a> and looks as if its subject is wearing eyeliner. Wailing and weeping about the unfairness of it all, Jesse lolls his eyes back ‘n forth like a severely anguished toddler while an adult voice fans the flames. It could have stopped here, with just the bit of questionable parenting that says tantrums are funny enough to encourage; that opts for the exploitation of trauma over its alleviation even when the traumatized is a child. But no: Governor Chris Christie promptly signed a proclamation to make little Jesse “Governor for the Day,” and brother Brandon was deemed honorary Lieutenant Governor (because who knows what shit-storm he would have caused had he not been recognized?) I’m sure lots of folks think this is simply adorable — after all, they’re just little kids. But let’s play this out into the future. With proud parents no doubt bragging to everyone about their little Governor, what sorts of messages do you think Jesse and Brandon are gonna spend a long time learning, that hard work is what gets you what you want? Of course not. These kids are going to be shown over and over again that outbursts got them famous, and that they have a right to be prideful glory hounds too. Suppose that’s gonna let them feel or act normal around their pre-teen peers? Be team players on the class science project? See the value in manual labor or those who perform it? All doubtful. Amanda, Britney, Chris Brown, Lindsay, Mel, Paris…How will those little twins I know be able to identify true success when they’re being conditioned to behave as unbalanced and thoughtless as <em>these</em> people? How long until they’re hanging around one of ‘em fawning and fetching and mimicking, or simply trying to become their own sensation via YouTube? (BTW, you can buy your David After Dentist t-shirts and stickers at his father’s webstore). Even 16 year-old dilettante sailor Abby Sunderland is currently promoting her memoir, “Unsinkable: A Young Woman’s Courageous Battle on the High Seas,” which details the reality show contract her pimp father wrangled before sending her out to sail around the world. (Oops! My mistake: it’s not about that at all. It’s <em>really </em>about the wonders of disposable income and how to skip out on an international rescue bill.) Now I’m not saying that Abby’s attempts to match her bother’s solo sailing success isn’t a viable ambition, but with self-aggrandizing lessons like the ones she’s learning will she, too, graduate to resisting arrest and unlawful entry? When dad is so busy manufacturing and managing his children’s ascent to fame, we can’t be surprised when those kids act like the entitled attention whores to whom our society gives its highest misguided props. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/22.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-243" title="2" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/22.jpg" width="520" height="384" /></a> 379 2011-04-09 06:17:01 2011-04-09 06:17:01 2016-12-01 10:43:39 2016-12-01 17:43:39 closed open confusing-idiocy-with-accomplishment-and-privilege-with-appeal publish 0 0 post 0 Idiots parents teens Your Adorable Child _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706766672;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:778;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1502;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:319;}}}} 9 Steve Stilts stilts19@cox.net 69.228.40.42 2011-04-09 02:36:01 2011-04-09 02:36:01 I see her T-shirt says that she”fucks for Satan”. Now, do you know if she also fucks for money? If so, do you know what corner she stands on? Major cross streets? Anything you can do to help would be greatly appreciated… BTW, all of these people you mention in your blog will one day end up in either: 1) Jail. 2) Dead. By suicide or overdose on prescription pills. Or 3) In A.A. and/or CoDA meetings, destitute. 1 comment 0 2 http://working-copy.local/excuses/the-conceit-of-guilt-trips/ Tue, 19 Apr 2011 06:20:42 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=381 <h4><strong>Actor Lane Garrison begins promotion of NBC drama ‘The Event’ by getting that vehicular manslaughter stuff </strong><strong>“absolutely, 100 percent” out of the way – on NBC.</strong></h4> <strong><a href="http://whereexcusesgotodiec.fatcow.com/blog3/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/11.jpg"><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/112.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-246" title="11" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/112.jpg" alt="" width="297" height="203" /></a> </a></strong> <h6><strong>Original story:</strong> <a href="http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/18/lane-garrison-talks-prison-bad-decisions/" target="_blank">CNN Entertainment</a></h6> Lane Garrison served a 22-month sentence for manslaughter resulting from the death of a passenger riding in a vehicle driven by the intoxicated actor.<!--more--> Billed as Garrison’s “first sit-down” interview since his April 2009 release, his appearance with Matt Lauer on NBC’s “Today” Show confirmed the actor’s return to the spotlight, starting with his small, recurring role on NBC’s own, “The Event.” <a href="http://www.hulu.com/watch/233243" target="_blank">If you watch the interview</a> you can see Garrison’s struggle to stay on message and remain focused. But so far, he isn’t making excuses for killing a 17 year-old boy, and that’s an encouraging start. Still, reactions to his contrite and apologetic appearance have been mixed – with some accusing Garrison of actually being just the opposite. It’s pretty likely, for example, that there was some strategizing and compromise regarding how much of Garrison’s guilt trip should precede straight-ahead promotion of NBC’s new primetime show. And surely Garrison knows he’s going to be asked at some point to drop the subject – or risk being dropped himself. For now, referring to his court appearance on the day he pled guilty, Garrison told Lauer, “That was the first time I really became a man, when I accepted responsibility.” Some of us know exactly what that feels like: the transformation through court, family humiliation, and incarceration from entitled, self-important brat to someone of higher principles and improved moral prospects. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/212.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-249" title="21" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/212.jpg" alt="" width="323" height="191" /></a> Though not all spines suddenly stiffen before a judge, the first time most young men rise before a court and plead guilty is a day their lives <em>are</em> changed: immediately for the worse, then for the better. But ideally, that falling gavel signifies just the beginning of answerability and consequence. Some folks wise up mid-stream, gaining character and ethical courage and composure during their incarceration. Almost like training wheels, more straightforward versions of fairness, punishment, and delayed gratification of the judicial kind can further the process of “becoming a man” (which I mean in the broadest sense as something that can also happen with female inmates). And when it dawns on you that your prison sentence is the first thing you’ve ever started that you will finish, empowerment happens. But it doesn’t – or shouldn’t – stop there. Unless you’re a worthless dumbass, the spectacle of this burning bush doesn’t go away easily, yet it does require constant upkeep once you’re out and the training wheels come off. Ignoring or viewing the process as something that can be relegated to the past (and eventually chalked as the result of “youthful indiscretion”), one’s newfound “manliness” can grow hollow and even become an excuse to blow off valid criticism or comments. So if Lane Garrison ‘s redemption pitch is authentic (and folks, this early that’s all it is; a pitch), his yearn to share his hard won lessons may rub wrong with the demands of celebrity, enticing him to, say, scale back his public remorse once it gets in the way of more positive promotional strategies. In other words, what makes a man out of Garrison may fiercely conflict with his Hollywood aspirations, like continuing to honor the life he took or recognizing the inmates he left behind who’ll never get the many opportunities he has seen. Again, it’s early. We don’t know if Garrison can deliver actual <em>craft</em>, and “celebrity” may be all he ever achieves. Either way, it will likely be the <em>real </em>test of Lane Garrison’s altruism – and of his fucking spine. 381 2011-04-19 06:20:42 2011-04-19 06:20:42 2013-04-15 20:57:11 2013-04-15 20:57:11 closed open the-conceit-of-guilt-trips publish 0 0 post 0 Excuses NBC Prison The Event vehicular manslaughter _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1701190000;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:417;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8227;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11905;}}}} 13 Steve Stilts stilts19@cox.net 69.228.40.42 2011-04-21 06:10:19 2011-04-21 06:10:19 I’m not sure either if this guy is for real. I’m sure some of the remorse is real. Does he really “say a prayer for that family every night”. I’m not too sure. I love the way that he said that he only had two drinks and two shots but he managed to drive into a tree with a blood alcohol level twice the legal amount. Methinks that’s disingenuous. 1 comment 0 2 http://working-copy.local/idiots/notes-from-a-non-parent/ Tue, 15 Mar 2011 04:18:29 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=412 <strong>Notes from a Non-Parent™ </strong> <strong>Teaching Respect By Example: Avoid Bigoted Outbursts While Driving with Children or you might end up with an Alexandra Wallace</strong> <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/NOTES2.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-235" title="NOTES2" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/NOTES2.jpg" alt="" width="378" height="192" /></a> </strong> <strong>Original Story: <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/trending/archive/2011/03/15/alexandra-wallace-youtube-rant-asians-in-the-library-causes-uproar-video.aspx" target="_blank">Slate</a></strong> With its repulsive insensitivity for Japan’s tragedy and its ignorant, racist views, Sheen goddess lookalike and privileged UCLA princess Alexandra Wallace’s <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/video/index.html?eCode=1haDJ5Ohij8jJOnRkV5qeTMgTSGL7luj&amp;dCode=93bWliMjqyS1TPxosEjqK2_GUSTQXOhq" target="_blank">YouTube mimicry</a> of Asian students has resulted in condemnation, editorial skewering and death threats. Considering the young poly-sci student is now saying she doesn’t even know why she did it, parents take note…A Daily Bruin opinion piece sums up Wallace’s immediate future: <strong><em>When this ordeal is over, Wallace is almost certainly more likely to remember the death threats and personal attacks than feel any real empathy for – or have any real understanding of – people with different social identities. The violent and abusive reactions will simply make her scared, defensive, and even more unwilling to engage in dialogue with the people she offended.</em></strong> This isn’t just Alexandra’s future, it’s ours too if we can’t teach our children acceptance rather than mere tolerance. Tolerance is a droopy word, too routinely thrown around. Tolerance has become the consolation prize of a politically correct “multiculturalism.” Acceptance, on the other hand, forces us to leave our comfort zones, and that builds character.  It’s what we should strive for. But since lecturing isn’t my strong suit – I prefer skinning a carcass ‘til its guts pour out on your shoes – let me give a personal example of where an otherwise good parent can go a little off the rails here. When I was growing up, my friends and I parroted opinions and remarks we picked up from our folks in the car. That particular crucible was where Asians turned into “boat people” (mainly Vietnamese refugees back then) and homeless people were “bums” or “bag ladies.” There were others, but you get the point. And I doubt much has changed; certainly driving isn’t <em>less </em>hectic these days. Most people behind the wheel lose it occasionally, even usually mellow people: situations over which we have little control don’t typically bring out the best in us. My own dad was no powerlifting steroid abuser, but I sure am thankful You Tube and cell phone cameras didn’t exist during family vacations. Or trips to the store. Or to and from school, grandma’s house, baseball practice, or church. (At least you wouldn’t have heard racist crap from my Mexican-American household, though I do recall something about, “the last thing that woman drove was a goddamned ox.”) I’m not sayin’ we should all drink chamomile tea and listen to soothing whale sounds when we drive; I’m not even advocating limiting comments when kids are in the car. I am suggesting parents think before spouting off, perhaps freely carping about the idiocy of running a stop sign instead of focusing on the ethnicity of the offending driver. And if they do let their own, er, true feelings out in the heat of the moment, later opportunities should be sought to talk about that with Susie Big Ears in the back. Not doing so sends a message – and it ain’t one of acceptance. Given that what many parents either impose on or allow their kids to have eventually becomes an undesirable adult trait, such as entitlement or being overly managed to the point of a you-name-it anxiety disorder, <em>not</em> using these moments to teach children to effectively manage their stress is a bad idea, as Alexandra Wallace demonstrates. (Now please humor me while I repeat this with a special patois for my fellow aging punk rock friends who are parents: This shit evolves! Don’t let ‘em sidestep punishments because you’re afraid to be seen as the bad guy! Don’t be a chickenshit and slack off when it comes to consequences! Follow through on penalties <em>and</em> praise or you’ll just generate another asshole like the one you work with who doesn’t think rules apply to him or her.) Maybe Alexandra grew up hearing “University of Caucasians Lost among Asians,” which I first heard back in high school (during the later ‘90s the amusingly opposing, “Ugly Caucasians, Lovely Asians” became popular, though I still love “Under Construction Like Always”). She was certainly blindsided by the negative publicity her “manners” lesson garnered, which suggests that the belief racial slurs are okay as long as they’re “all in good fun” was also learned at home. Or in the car. Railing against gabby Asians in the library isn’t all that different from angrily reacting to being cut off in traffic; <em>the cause-response mechanism is the same</em>. And just look where it can lead: <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/DASH5.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-220" title="DASH5" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/DASH5.jpg" alt="" width="261" height="248" /></a> P.S. And kids? DUH! Aren’t you supposed to be the tech-savvy generation? Don’t you know there’s always a camera waiting to put your dumbest acts on the Internet? Guess what, Madison and Dexter…tattooing your foreheads with “Tsunami’s Rock” will get you farther in life. ‘Cause sometimes, fame just shows you’re a lame. &nbsp; 412 2011-03-15 04:18:29 2011-03-15 04:18:29 2017-11-06 12:37:01 2017-11-06 19:37:01 closed open notes-from-a-non-parent publish 0 0 post 0 Alexandra Wallace goddess Idiots Notes from a Non-parent parenting Your Adorable Child _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703729127;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1816;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:922;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1030;}}}} 10 Steve Stilts stilts19@cox.net 69.228.40.42 2011-03-17 12:42:01 2011-03-17 12:42:01 Like, omg, these Orientals are all like, “Ling long ting tang bing bong” on their phones. I’m like, omg, wtf, lol, ttyl, rotflmao… I mean. like, if you you’re going to find out that 3 generations of your family have just been wiped off the face of the planet by an earthquake, tsunami, and radioactive fallout could you, like, take it outside like a good American would do? You kind Sir, nailed it! Her mama done raised her wrong. Her “tolerance” is intolerable. I think her ignorance is unacceptable. USC “Fight On” 1 comment 0 2 11 Buster Friendly carey.reisz@gmail.com 69.228.40.42 2011-03-22 04:37:58 2011-03-22 04:37:58 Did she say “lie-berry” ? 1 comment 0 2 12 Gladis gladis@yahoo.com 76.168.51.86 2011-04-29 20:33:28 2011-04-29 20:33:28 But come on, orientals do talk like that. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/excuses/the-guilt-ploitation-of-celebrity-self-criticism/ Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:33:52 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=417 <h4><strong>Lohan copies Garrison’s guilt trip, receives ovation for <em>Tonight Show</em> remorse</strong></h4> <h6><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/LENOLOHAN.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-418" title="LENOLOHAN" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/LENOLOHAN.jpg" alt="" width="389" height="250" /> <span style="color: #444444; font-weight: normal;"><strong> </strong></span></a></strong></h6> <h6><strong><span style="color: #444444; font-weight: normal;"><strong>Original Story: </strong></span>The Hollywood Reporter </strong></h6> <strong> </strong> Well, we could'a set our watches by this one, but who sets watches anymore? For what’s being called a "surprise" appearance on the <em>Tonight Show</em>, Team Lohan scrambled and cat-clawed to get the troubled media figure on the air somewhere, <em>anywhere,</em> to prime the pump for a coming Lohan Turn-around.<!--more--> At the expense of a previously scheduled guest, now there’s actual footage of Lindsay’s regurgitated, halfhearted contrition. Apparently, actor Lane Garrison's public assumption of responsibility for killing a kid while driving drunk has set a new "Own Your Mistakes" standard for troubled young celebrities looking to turn their careers – I mean themselves – around. The jury’s still out on whether this is genuine or more of the, “We don’t have to actually BE sincere as long as we appear to be” huckster code of a floundering media figure; as I’ve said, it’s still early. In terms of the Lohan PR team, after all the zingers and swipes had been tabulated the <em>Tonight Show</em> turned out to have been least cruel to the defiant, tantrum-throwing ethics casualty (which I’m betting is more a testament to Leno's following in Carson's classier footsteps than deference to the cult of celebrity). And still, Lohan failed to come off as remorseful and somber as Garrison did in his interview with Matt Lauer. She did imply that her troublemaking days are over by referring to herself as older and wiser, as if somewhere she’d been handed some sort of adult-world placement certificate. Using phrases like, “a position that I was in,” as if placed there by someone else, doesn’t exactly declare, “Hey, that was me: I own that!” Nor does it say, “I’m in the clear now.” But like Garrison, only time will tell if this shtick will stick. 417 2011-04-26 16:33:52 2011-04-26 16:33:52 2017-11-06 12:37:01 2017-11-06 19:37:01 closed open the-guilt-ploitation-of-celebrity-self-criticism publish 0 0 post 0 Celebrity Excuses guilt trip Lindsay Lohan _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1684171066;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:265;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3878;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:381;}}}} 14 stilts 19 stilts19@gmail.com 72.208.113.176 2011-04-26 20:51:47 2011-04-26 20:51:47 This broad is a train wreck crashing headlong into a train wreck caused by a tsunami that was caused by an earthquake of Biblical proportions... Can't we lock her up with a vicious, predatory lesbian cellmate? Maybe that will get her to finally join the rest of us in this place we call "reality"... Nothing else seems to penetrate that cocoon of entitlement that she surrounds and immerses herself in... At the very least you could sell the DVDs of the hi-jinx between her and "Ron", her vicious, predatory lesbian cellmate... but that's just me... 1 comment 0 0 15 Carey dagnabbit11@yahoo.com 76.168.51.86 2011-04-29 09:05:48 2011-04-29 09:05:48 Need to know take-away = Lohan on Leno. Douche on douche action. Get it while it's lukewarm. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/uncategorized/victory-in-real-time/ Mon, 02 May 2011 22:03:58 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=460 <strong>No matter what your opinion of President Obama, his<em> Bin Laden </em>announcement represented what Americans and much of the rest of the world longs for: a sense of U.S. accomplishment.</strong> <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Obama.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-461" title="Obama" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Obama-300x201.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="201" /></a></strong> <h5><span style="color: #000000;">Original story:</span> <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/02/bin.laden.announcement/index.html">CNN</a></h5> No matter where you look, or from which country you're looking, Americans have become accustomed to bad news while simultaneously more ‘n’ more distrustful of each other.<!--more--> Politicians act like pigs at a trough shoving each other out of the way in greed.  Everywhere we find trouble there’s a corporate entity to accuse of lobbying conspiracies and gross negligence. Americans are left wondering if their government is even interested in changing the national <em>Us vs. Them</em> perception.  Far too many children care more for their cell phone contracts than they do their grades, and way too many parents are preoccupied with the imagery and materialism of parenting than they are the character they're instilling. Healthcare, gasoline prices, partisan politics, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, China, the deficit, bad movie remakes, climate change, family values, whew!  But this morning I woke up thinking<em>, Well, good morning, President Bad Ass</em>… Me, I'm a sucker for World War II history. I love it all, from the Allied liberation of Cherbourg and the Pacific theater, to the WASPs, the U-Boat war, the Tuskegee Airmen, La Résistance Française and the Moroccan Goumiers…all of it.  I love the rousing oratory too, from Churchill’s “Never was so much owed by so many to so few,” to “Somewhere in England” when Patton thundered, "All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters, either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don't ever let up. Don't ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.” Yes, I know that there was remorseless propaganda then too, but I often wish that we were as tough as the Yanks and the Allies who are portrayed to be in those movies. Last night, watching the president declaring that U.S. Special Forces had gone in and rammed a copy of Call of Duty right up Bin Laden's ass, might be about as close as I am ever going to get to the victory rhetoric of the summer of 1945, but at least I saw victory in real time. The little bit of a lump that I got in my throat conflicted directly with how distrustful I've become. It got me thinking, not everybody that waves a flag is a blind nationalist, and not everyone who overthinks things, is a stuck-up intellectual (okay, besides me). It took a few minutes, but as Obama made his remarks I was able to push aside my resentments for the things that some Americans do that make me cringe, like say, subscribe to Islamophobia. Incidentally, if you <em>do</em> believe that Islam exists only to destroy Western culture, perhaps I could point out that Bin Laden and al-Qaeda hijacked Islam and targeted the West. See, now you can turn that negative into a positive! You know, like when people boast, “We saved the French from the Nazis!" Go ahead and update it with, “…and we saved them Muslims from Sammy Bin-Lammy!” Just a thought. The skeptic in me goes crazy at times like this, but today my appreciation for the United States doing something it said it was going to do, <em>exactly in the way that it said it was going to do it</em>, exceeded my misgivings, I mean, expectations. &nbsp; <strong> </strong> &nbsp; 460 2011-05-02 22:03:58 2011-05-02 22:03:58 2011-05-02 22:03:58 2011-05-02 22:03:58 closed open victory-in-real-time publish 0 0 post 0 Bin Laden Islamophobia Uncategorized World War II _edit_last 2 _aioseop_title Victory in Real Time _aioseop_description Obama announces Bin Laden dead _aioseop_keywords Bin Laden _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703638708;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:339;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:764;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7620;}}}} 16 J.Poule pouletputain@gmail.com 64.17.249.226 2011-05-02 22:29:41 2011-05-02 22:29:41 The beauty of your rhetoric is this: no matter what anyone felt about Obama or the US govt or how the situation was being handled before the death of Sammy-Bin (as you so eloquently offered us his name Westernized), there is NO ONE that can dispute your concluding paragraph. Well said mon ami, well said... I drink a glass of my finest vin rouge in your honor and for the living truth, it has more meaning than drinking in honor of a dead man. 1 comment 0 0 17 Shahram shahram357@gmail.com 64.81.89.31 2011-05-02 23:18:15 2011-05-02 23:18:15 Consider this, Mr. Nelson--our great grandparents were much like our generation. Read Mencken's criticisms of that era's Americans. Their self-aggrandizing, vain, avaricious and materialistic ways led to the Great Depression, which bore the toughest of men, that Great Generation who kept fascism at bay. Perhaps our own Great Depression is the gift we will give our own children, and with it a cautionary tale. Maybe they will be tough like their great-grandparents, as we turned out vain and faint-hearted like ours. One can only hope. 1 comment 0 0 18 stilts19 stilts19@gmail.com 72.208.113.176 2011-05-02 23:31:27 2011-05-02 23:31:27 President Bad Ass??? I'm not so sure he won't be known as President Bus Bombers after the attacks that are certain to come. The US will start to look like Tel Aviv on a bad day. Great job getting OBL... 1 comment 0 0 19 Buster Friendly and his Friendly Friends hogsnorton@gmail.com 70.36.187.69 2011-05-03 03:00:58 2011-05-03 03:00:58 This just goes to show that if you take a job with the Company and then fuck them, even long after your contract period has ended, the Company still has the right to exercise it's "retirement" option. Accomplishment? Yes. Though I do detect a slight whiff of hubris in the air, even here in small town U.S.A. I think a little Root Cause Analysis can be helpful at times like this, sure, we can keep hacking at branches, but all you end up with is a bush. (no pun intended) 1 comment 0 0 20 Klaus Kerschoen mrnagle07@gmail.com 69.237.182.86 2011-05-03 06:33:18 2011-05-03 06:33:18 As an over-thinking stuck-up intellectual, there is something approaching relief with the news of OBL's assassination. Not because he's dead, but because we succeeded. As you pointed out, our times are fraught with bad news about bad people doing bad things, and so much of it originates from right here in Americabad. We needed something - anything - positive, even if it was the vapid satisfaction of vengeance. I've willingly bitten into that apple and, if only for a day or two, it tastes good simply because America's follow-through is a flavor I had forgotten existed. 1 comment 0 0 21 Klaus Kerschoen mrnagle07@gmail.com 69.237.182.86 2011-05-03 06:42:56 2011-05-03 06:42:56 I can't help but read this comment in James Lipton's voice. 1 comment 17 0 http://working-copy.local/uncategorized/in-admiration-of-vivian-maier-1926-2009/ Fri, 06 May 2011 05:23:41 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=474 <h4><strong>Humbled by a feminist pot of gold at the end of a corner rainbow.</strong></h4> <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Vivian-Maier1.jpg1_1.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-499" title="Vivian Maier.jpg1" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Vivian-Maier1.jpg1_1.jpg" width="597" height="599" /></a> </strong><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 12px; color: #000000;"><strong>Inspired by</strong>: vivianmaier.com</span> <h6></h6> Vivian Maier’s photography was discovered in 2007 when 29-year-old John Maloof attended an antique auction and paid $400 for box of negatives. The box belonged to a woman who had failed to maintain payments on the storage locker that held 20-30,000 of her undeveloped photos. <!--more-->As a result -- or perhaps due to an earlier resolve -- the woman never studied the layers of street life she’d captured as an amateur photographer, and hundreds of rolls of her undeveloped film became property of Maloof. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Vivian-Maier.jpg19.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-500" title="Vivian Maier.jpg19" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Vivian-Maier.jpg19.jpg" width="623" height="622" /></a> For Maloof, the mystery of the unseen pictures and the power of the ones he held in his hands compelled him to mimic Maier’s efforts with a similar Rolleiflex twin-lens camera. He also began asking around, starting with shops that may have sold Vivian her film. Maloof writes in his <a href="http://vivianmaier.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Vivian Maier blog</a>, "They say she was a very ‘keep your distance from me’ type of person, but was also outspoken. She loved foreign films and didn't care much for American films." <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Vivian-Maier.jpg3_.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-496" title="Vivian Maier.jpg3" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Vivian-Maier.jpg3_.jpg" width="622" height="623" /></a> Maier was born in New York in 1926, but was raised in France. In 1956 after a short time back in New York, she moved to Chicago, where she worked for almost 40 years as a suburban nanny. When not tending to her charges, she roamed the streets with her cameras. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Vivian-Maier.jpg13.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-495" title="Vivian Maier.jpg13" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Vivian-Maier.jpg13.jpg" width="621" height="623" /></a> I’m no photography expert, critic or discerner of skill, but Maier’s strengths might be compared to those of Art Kane and Dorothea Lange, perhaps Gary Leonard or either of the Alfreds: <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/stgp/hd_stgp.htm" target="_blank">Stieglitz</a> and <a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/181526/Alfred-Eisenstaedt" target="_blank">Eisenstaedt</a>. A pre-Hollywood Kubrick even took a crack at Chicago but, talented as he was, Kubrick couldn’t have reached the levels of sensitivity that Vivian Maier captured – and he would’ve gotten mugged. Of them all, only Dorothea Lange can really compare, and she’s best known for what, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm_Security_Administration">government work</a>? (Okay, that was low.) <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Vivian-Maier.jpg17.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-494" title="Vivian Maier.jpg17" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Vivian-Maier.jpg17.jpg" width="617" height="621" /></a> Vivian Maier was a self-guided, professional monastic who sought no paycheck or acclaim, an independent, opinionated woman who wandered with her chin held high. Little else is known about her or about why she kept her gold hidden -- even from herself. Maybe she was nuts. But crazy people usually don’t keep such coherent temperaments for 40-year stretches. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Vivian-Maier3.jpg223.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-492" title="Vivian Maier.jpg22" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Vivian-Maier3.jpg223.jpg" width="622" height="620" /></a> There are no celebrated masters of 20^th century photography or photojournalism that will ever match, picture-for-picture, what Maier was able to realize on the streets of New York and Chicago. And if there <em>were</em> a reasonably similar vigilance, it probably wouldn’t be a buried treasure. &nbsp; <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Vivian-Maier.jpg21.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-501" title="Vivian Maier.jpg21" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Vivian-Maier.jpg21.jpg" width="624" height="624" /></a> <h4>So sit back in your chair, fire up your iTunes, and enjoy Vivian Maier’s portfolio without my unqualified praise. She did this for you, now, today, this moment. And remember, you’re learning of her work before you see her pictures being used to sell calendars and State Farm. (No offense, John Maloof.)</h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Vivian-Maier.jpg8_.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-493" title="Vivian Maier.jpg8" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Vivian-Maier.jpg8_.jpg" width="622" height="622" /></a> For more of my take on Vivian, check out my other VM blog entries, <a href="http://working-copy.local/culture/update-the-vivian-maier-phenomenon-continues/" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://working-copy.local/culture/enter-the-vivian-maier-crowd-2/" target="_blank">here</a> – and <a href="http://working-copy.local/culture/overheard-at-the-art-gallery-2/" target="_blank">right here</a>. &nbsp; 474 2011-05-06 05:23:41 2011-05-06 05:23:41 2017-04-24 12:16:12 2017-04-24 19:16:12 closed open in-admiration-of-vivian-maier-1926-2009 publish 0 0 post 0 photography Uncategorized Vivian Maier _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704420164;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1163;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1103;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6520;}}}} 22 modi frank modi@modivationfilms.com http://www.modivationfilms.com 72.177.48.222 2011-05-06 16:26:08 2011-05-06 16:26:08 Yeah, I saw this woman's photos. UNREAL. And great story BTW - thanks John! 1 comment 0 0 23 Stilts Stilts19@gmail.com 166.205.11.211 2011-05-06 17:13:07 2011-05-06 17:13:07 Great story idea John. Beautiful pictures as well. Some people just have an inate feel for composition. Thanks for turning us on to this woman's story. 1 comment 0 0 24 Buster Friendly and his Friendly Friends hogsnorton@gmail.com 70.36.187.69 2011-05-12 02:14:56 2011-05-12 02:14:56 Completely mesmerizing. Thanks for that! 1 comment 0 0 25 Michelle Marra.michelle@gmail.com 71.234.229.135 2012-09-16 00:21:14 2012-09-16 00:21:14 Love your story on Vivian. Thank you. 1 comment 0 0 26 J. Nelson eatglass@prodigy.net 76.206.10.87 2012-09-16 15:36:43 2012-09-16 15:36:43 No, thank <em>you</em> for taking the time to let me know you like it. It's very appreciated. Did you happen to see that it had four installments culminating in her first gallery exhibition here in L.A.? If you'd like to read more, just pop "Vivian" into my search bar for the list. Goes from the bottom up I think. J. 1 comment 25 2 http://working-copy.local/uncategorized/ashton-kutcher-instant-fail/ Fri, 13 May 2011 20:18:16 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=503 <h4><strong>Misfortune + Time = Comedy, and Boy Toy replacement is no Charlie Sheen.</strong></h4> <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/BAD-CHARLIE-.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-504" title="BAD CHARLIE" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/BAD-CHARLIE-.jpg" alt="" width="207" height="279" /></a></strong> <h6><strong>Original Story: <a href="http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/05/13/idINIndia-57005820110513" target="_blank">Reuters</a></strong></h6> In the big scheme of things, Two And A Half Men will never offer the world much beyond the glance given a turd before its flushed. I mean, do <em>you</em> care if a few super-rich TV producers fail in repeating their precious formula? I don't. Yet the replacement of Charlie Sheen with Ashton Kutcher bears examination, if for no other reason than it’s a symptom of something bigger than the show itself. <!--more--> Casting Kutcher in place of Sheen is a great example of the axiom – made ultra-popular by several recent US politicians – <em>the more you say it, the more it becomes the truth</em>. It’s the lazy way out, a lowering of the bar that allows producer <a href="http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/05/13/official-ashton-kutcher-joins-two-and-a-half-men/">Chuck Lorre</a> to turn his own admission that Kutcher is actually “joyful” into a public posture that Kutcher is somehow perfect for the part of a washed-up, burned-out rebel. No need to find a <em>real </em>rebel: Kutcher can simply be made into one by the power of positive reinforcement + he has 6.8 million Twitter followers. In fact, Ashton Kutcher is a can of hairspray, a pampered stand-in who’ll be packaged ‘n promoted in a way that Sheen never needed to be: as subversive. It’s a transparent grab for the demographic to which the Kutcher brand is marketed – never mind the letdown when fans are pulled from the story and reminded of Kutcher’s hard knowledge-gap with every line of dialog. The show's writers are superb, but they can only do so much. “Charlie Harper” is an elderly adolescent, a self-deluding, womanizing, smart-ass. He swims in alcohol and struggles with deceit, integrity, and reliability. What Sheen brings to the table (aside from a sharp tongue and smoker’s face) is his own human duration, his hard-won knowledge of loss and difficult lessons learned. When Sheen-as-Harper is remorseful or fleetingly reflective, the audience isn’t in doubt, it’s engaged. When the character faces the consequences of his self-seeking actions, it’s the actor who supplies the humanity and humor. Even if we remove from the picture Sheen’s sensationalized personal background, at least the guy is age-appropriate to play a character with foreseeable liver cancer and smokestacks of guilt. Yes-yes, it’s silly for audiences to <em>believe</em> that what they’re seeing is actually plausible: it’s a sitcom, for cryin’ out loud. But it’s not silly to give an audience a reason to play along – at least don’t rob them of the chance with poor casting. The point is, audiences still need to relate to an actor’s interpretation. So let’s look at a sizeable subsection of Two And A Half Men’s audience, guys for whom the show has had real value as a provider of relatable laughter. Prison inmates. As I’ve said elsewhere, in an <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/06/07/charlie-sheen-popular-prisons/">interview for FoxNews.com</a>, the appeal of the show is it’s: <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #993300;"><em>…fast-paced, snappy dialogue, which is often crude, insult-heavy, and almost always focused on another character’s shortcomings. Such banter is the envy of those who carry internal “wish-lists” of things they could’ve, would’ve, and should’ve said throughout their own trials and tribulations. What three-term parolee hasn’t been similarly dismissed? What convict hasn’t been verbally lashed this way by family members or other casualties of his or her bad behavior?</em></span></p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #993300;"><em> </em></span></p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #993300;"><em>…while Sheen’s character Charlie is, in many ways, the pinnacle of the selfish, self-centered, narcissistic ass, he nevertheless takes care of his brother, loves his nephew, even loves his mom – just like every inmate in the audience wishes he could, would, or claims he does. There’s redemption in that, and along with a strong, collective opposition to child-abuse, it’s a fundamental value that brings all inmates together.</em></span></p> In the civilian world, even if Charlie Sheen 2011 were as fruitfully reeducated and well dressed as Robert Downey, Jr., like Downey he’d still have uncertainties, regrets, and substance struggles to pull from and transfer to his Two And A Half Men character – or any other. What self-inflicted degradation has Kutcher withstood (save for his marriage to modern-day Norma Desmond)? What has he deciphered about life beyond a Hollywood hustle? What stretches of career stagnation has he endured? How friggen’ despondent do you think Wonder Boy has <em>ever been?</em> We’re increasingly expected to be okay with buying what we’re told to buy and believing what is repeated often enough. The entertainment industry feeds us crappy remakes and serial sequels and leaves us to assume that inventiveness is something to celebrate in <em>other</em> eras of movie and TV history. Two And A Half Men’s producers are banking on this, trusting that audiences will grumble a little and keep right on watching. And why not? It’s what we do with our careers, our diets, our government, and with America’s ever-lowing standards and principles. So while it’s a tiny crumb on the food for thought scale, the producers’ choice to replace Sheen with Kutcher just might symbolize a larger picture of what's happening in our culture every day: the acceptance of default. <strong> </strong> 503 2011-05-13 20:18:16 2011-05-13 20:18:16 2015-10-26 23:00:07 2015-10-27 06:00:07 closed open ashton-kutcher-instant-fail publish 0 0 post 0 Ashton Kutcher default Two and a Half Men Uncategorized _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:1370;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703760935;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:331;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:370;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6759;}}}} 27 carey dagnabbit11@yahoo.com 76.168.51.86 2011-05-14 03:12:14 2011-05-14 03:12:14 "modern-day Norma Desmond" - haaaaaaaaaaa! Ashton Kucher reprising the role that Hanna Barbera animators invented some 25 years ago - Scrappy Doo, also revisited by Poochie on The Simpsons, and a whole host of others. I guess Hugh Grant had the good sense to avoid this disaster in the making. I hope it goes over like a lead balloon. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/excuses/upgrading-your-soul-is-the-goal/ Sat, 21 May 2011 20:20:51 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=514 <h4><strong>“I love Africa…South Africa and West Africa are both great countries.” -- Paris Hilton, soul-challenged.</strong></h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/A31.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-516" title="A3" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/A31.jpg" alt="" width="435" height="230" /></a> <h6><strong>Inspired by:</strong> ifitweremyhome.com and <a href="http://www.countryreports.org/" target="_blank">countryreports.org</a></h6> When my brothers and I were growing up, my mom grabbed pretty much every chance she found or invented to drive home the importance of travelling abroad.<!--more--> Our family trips involved a lot of miles and rented or borrowed recreational vehicles, but we always went <em>somewhere</em>, and my folks would tell us stories of their own adventures in the wider world. Their anecdotes weren't bragging rights; they weren’t even really about the destinations themselves (though we especially loved their tales of treks through Yucatan jungles). Often, they ended with my mom’s ultra-critical reminder to get out into the world to learn how others perceive your country and the people in it. By drilling this idea into us as kids, she effectively pickpocketed from us any excuse we may have come up with not to make travel a full-size and continuing objective. Now maybe you can’t afford to travel abroad. Or maybe you’d just rather have that new Hybrid you’ve been eyeing instead. No worries! These days, to some extent anyway, the <a href="http://www.countryreports.org/">outside world can come to you</a>. Check out, for example, IfItWereMyHome.com, one fun website that puts the BP oil spill in your living room and Mozambique under your mouse. Scroll down to find practical reading recommendations by country or learn how depressed you’d be if you lived in Belgium versus, say, Malta. Use the handy Country by Comparison feature for regular reminders of either how lucky you are to live where you live, or how much less electricity you’d use if you lived in Ecuador (wow! 91.44% less!). Don’t give two shits about the environment? No problemo, if you lived in Ecuador you’d also spend 94.36% less on healthcare and have a 15.05% greater of chance of being employed than in you do in the U.S. You could blow all that extra cash on increasing your carbon footprint with <em>several hybrids</em>! Or what if you didn’t live in Ecuador at all? If the Cayman Islands were your home instead you’d have a 66.54% lower chance of dying in infancy! You’d also live 5+ years longer and you’d have 49 friggen’ percent greater chance of getting a job, you Mestizo bum. That’s 51% less of a chance your friends will have to stake your broke-ass to a meal and seven beers the next time you go out! But maybe you don’t own a computer. (Sure, bub. You’re reading this post somewhere, aren’t you?) Fine: you don’t even have to “waste” your time surfing the web. If you live and work on the west side of your city, head east for a change. Take a bus instead of your soundproof cocoon (that looks like a half-used bar of soap on wheels). Visit an urban park and absorb the languages and cultures you find there. In other words, just<em> get out of your comfort zone</em> and learn some things about the world. Like my mom says, “travel doesn’t make you better than other people: travel is an addition to your soul.” “The object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.”  -- G.K. Chesterton &nbsp; &nbsp; 514 2011-05-21 20:20:51 2011-05-21 20:20:51 2017-11-06 12:37:01 2017-11-06 19:37:01 closed open upgrading-your-soul-is-the-goal publish 0 0 post 0 character Comfort Zone Excuses Paris Hilton travel _edit_last 2 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1683189319;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:309;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9190;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:347;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:663;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9010;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3083;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/l-a-county-sheriffs-vengeance-university/ Fri, 27 May 2011 00:34:32 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=521 <h4><strong>The most gruesome prison movie couldn’t depict daily life in L.A.’s Men’s Central Jail, where I was lost for months.</strong></h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Central-Jail.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-527" title="Central Jail" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Central-Jail.jpg" alt="" width="554" height="368" /></a> <h6><strong>Kickoff article:</strong> <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/2011-05-26/news/men-s-county-jail-visitor-viciously-beaten-by-guards/">L.A. Weekly</a></h6> Everything about the L.A. Men’s Central Jail – and I mean <em>everything</em>, from the hand-picked Catholic chaplains pressured to keep quiet, infirmary services, kitchens, visiting policies, and all conditions<!--more--> upon which reviews or investigations of any sort may be conducted, all of it – upholds the most valuable media position the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department has: <em><a href="http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2010/05/la_county_jail_medieval.php">We've looked into it; it's not true; prisoners lie.</a></em> Now when I say I was “lost” in that jail, I mean I was <em>literally</em> lost on a prisoner roster of thousands. My name was rarely called; I was never asked who I was, what I was doing there, or when my next court appearance had been calendared. I was adrift in a sea of bodies. My family’s inquiries were ignored. Twice, when my full name was broadcast over the P.A. system, it turned out to be an agonizing coincidence: someone else entirely – with my full name. Every single one of my attempts to alert the Sheriff's Deputies to my housing misplacement failed. Deputies who work the jails don't like it when prisoners “think they're special,” and trying to talk to them is special. The reasons why are too numerous to comment on here, but they’re all a variation on, “because I was supposed to be in a goddamned patrol car already!” When I <em>was</em> lucky enough to get a Deputy to stand still for a minute so I could explain my situation, a mere shift change would wipe the progress gone, or apathy would prevail, or just,  <em>fuck you, criminal.</em> I got so desperate I took to writing a few simple details and my prisoner booking number on scraps of yellow legal paper and folding ‘em up. I’d carry several with me when called out of my assigned housing module (3400 y’all!), then step out of line during meal marches. I placed them in corridor control booth trays, suggestion boxes, and the Chaplin's mail slot. I stuck ‘em on intra-office announcements and passageway signs and eventually just threw ‘em at the indifferent bastards themselves. Nothing worked. Not even when my father waited for hours to see me, while I was being escorted and in-processed for his visit, would anyone care to double check my status or my insistence that a Federal judge had ordered my transfer to U.S. Marshal custody. So I was left adrift in the County jail system for roughly nine months, mostly at Bauchet, in the dungeon itself. On behalf of the L.A. Weekly, journalist Chris Vogel did a great job. His research is solid and his article is 100% accurate, hell yes. His coverage includes a variety of key players, from current L.A. Sheriff’s media spokesman Steve Whitmore to the ACLU’s Peter Eliasberg and the usual list of poor fools that have gotten their heads kicked in inside – and now out of – MCJ. The day-to-day action in the jail <em>is</em> beyond anyone’s imagination. But what of the free-for-all in Housing Block 9000, or life on “The Freeway” (a stop-gap housing measure) in the cell modules? Depictions of those are only as accurate as the Sheriff's Department will allow ‘em to be, and that’s where the Department’s tradition of conspiratorial secrecy should be taken into account. I've survived the 9000 Block and The Freeway. They were ferocious, bleak and gory. Three deputies held my arms and legs to a laundry room wall while a fourth beat me limp for three straight minutes. Then they all stomped on me for a minute or so more, but these days I think, <em>So what? It was boot camp.</em> It strengthened me for the four years of State prison that lay ahead of me. And yet, compared to the custody of the L.A. Sheriff's Department, it was a vile joke to discover how much more peaceful old Folsom Prison’s Level 4 Yard turned out to be, not to mention all of the other maximum security California prisons to which I was eventually transferred. As for Gabriel Carrillo, the principal victim around whom The Weekly’s exposé is constructed, there’s only one thing I <em>can</em> say: <em>You knew where you were. You knew the rules. Not the ones about cell phone possession or visiting, the ones concerning the Deputies. It's tough you got beat on, but you got cocky. You're the one who put the quarter in the machine and if I was sayin’ this to you in one of MCJ’s modules, no one there would disagree with me. I think you know that too.</em> But in case you don’t, I’ve written about what went down during those nine months at Men’s Central and much, much more in <em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em>, the manuscript I'm pushing to get published today and for which this blog serves as a web destination. 521 2011-05-27 00:34:32 2011-05-27 00:34:32 2011-05-27 00:34:32 2011-05-27 00:34:32 closed open l-a-county-sheriffs-vengeance-university publish 0 0 post 0 Excuses L.A. County Jail Prison _edit_last 2 custom_permalink %3Fp%3D521 sfw_comment_form_password fNxdt3ACYr1L _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703563592;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:274;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1180;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3929;}}}} http://working-copy.local/prison-2/prison-sex-change-controversy-as-argued-by-bert-and-ernie/ Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:24:19 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=549 <h6><strong>The Kicker: </strong><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/06/07/2011-06-07_virginia_inmate_ophelia_delonta_files_federal_lawsuit_after_botched_castration_a.html?r=news/national" target="_blank">New York Daily News</a></h6> <img title="BE1" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/BE1.jpg" alt="" width="201" height="188" /> Ernie: Hi Bert! Say, what's your take on state-funded sex change surgery? You know, like for guys in prison who want to become women? Bert: Wait, what the hell did you just say to me? <!--more--> Ernie: Oh right. I guess you do have to get past whether or not <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002495/" target="_blank">gender identity disorder</a> is real first, huh? Well anyway, it's like this: an inmate filed suit against the state of Virginia because “she” hasn't been given proper medical care for “her” disorder. He – or she, or whatever – apparently can’t stand one more day of being a man trapped in a woman’s –– Bert: You and your sick, liberal agendas! Ernie: But I’m being serious! This guy – er, woman – tried to cut off her, you know… Bert: Stop! If those innocent kids out there knew the vile soul that lies beneath your foam and fleece, I bet –– Ernie: I swear! It was his third or fourth attempt at performing the operation on himself. I mean, herself. Bert: Hmph! Those people aren’t even supposed to have access to knives. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/BE2.jpg"><img class="alignright" title="BE2" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/BE2.jpg" alt="" width="354" height="224" /></a> Ernie: Well I think she removed the blades from disposable razors and just started sawing. It didn't go too well. She  just <em>really</em> wanted to get rid of the “thing” that made her male. Bert: Sounds like a tantrum to me. A lurid tantrum from someone who isn’t getting their way. Ernie: The thing is, though, does that matter? Does that make a person's situation less desperate? Bert: No, it makes it less credible. When you flip out, you provide ammunition to the other side. That ammo doesn't even need to be fired, let alone fired accurately. Whoever maintains an impression of the most unspent ammo wins. Ernie: Good to know, Dick Cheney. But here’s my question: Does a sex change operation fall under medical care – in this case, prison medical care funded by Virginia taxpayers? Bert: Oh please! Let me guess, the lawsuit was filed because, like all these other “special needs” groups, this wacko’s demanding equality, right? Wants to be treated by the courts the same way someone with cancer would be treated? Ernie: Well yes, but the issue is whether or not a <a href="http://www.surgeryencyclopedia.com/Pa-St/Sex-Reassignment-Surgery.html" target="_blank">gender reassignment procedure</a> is medically necessary. This person was caught trying to mutilate herself, and it could be argued that that is a psychological flat tire. She’s said that if she doesn’t win the lawsuit she’ll keep trying the procedure herself, even though she might bleed to death as a result. Bert: Okay you wishy-washy welfarist, it's medical then. Ernie: She sued previously for the right to be moved to a woman's prison but was turned down. Then she sued for the right to take female growth hormones and won. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/BE3.jpg"><img class="alignleft" title="BE3" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/BE3.jpg" alt="" width="125" height="295" /></a> Bert: So then it’s <em>not</em> medical. This person obviously needs psychological help, but it sounds like he created this whole thing with one lawsuit after the next; now that he’s hit a wall, he can’t handle the fact that he’s being told no.  The only way to get his way now is by demanding special treatment, which is vain. And vanity isn’t special. Ernie: It is if the help you need can be successfully argued to <em>be</em>special. Bert: Fine. Give help without giving special treatment. Ernie: As far as this person is concerned, it <em>isn’t</em> special. Its just treatment. Bert: But it’s not a life-saving procedure! It's a quality of life procedure, and that makes it elective. Ernie: I see what you mean there, Bert, but from the state's point of view if she bleeds to death and that’s proven in court to be negligence, the state could be out even more taxpayer dollars. Bert: More taxpayer –– I’m sorry, does anyone care that this person is BEHIND BARS!? Ernie: Of course! She’s serving 70 years for armed robbery. Bert: Oh, for the love of Jim…pay attention, Ernie! When they put you in prison you are disqualified from the game, just the same as any of those kids out there who get caught cheating. When you're disqualified from society, you have to wait until you're free again to actively participate in all its perks. Ernie: So you agree that the state of Virginia needs to resolve the immediate problem of this inmate’s self-mutilation in order to save taxpayer money, but you’d continue to deny her the procedure –– Bert: It’s not a procedure; it’s a floodgate. Ernie: There<em> </em>have only <em>been</em> five or six similar suits. All defeated. Bert: Hell-oh! Earth to watery-eyed saps! Watch what happens when just one of these martyrs wins! One crybaby scumbag criminal sues because he was born with a little friend he doesn’t want – or decided he doesn’t want – and now I have to pay for it? I don’t think so! Ernie: That’s exactly what I thought you’d say. Bert: Well WHY THE HELL DID YOU ASK ME THEN!? Ernie: Because like me, you don’t have a little friend down there. I mean, what do you care, right? This inmate’s feelings are as far away from your experience as anyone out there who isn’t serving a prison sentence. I just wanted to hear your perspective. Thanks for the conversation, Bert! 549 2011-06-09 17:24:19 2011-06-09 17:24:19 2011-06-09 17:24:19 2011-06-09 17:24:19 closed open prison-sex-change-controversy-as-argued-by-bert-and-ernie publish 0 0 post 0 Bert and Ernie Prison prison costs sex change _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1689909627;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7132;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:634;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9274;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4415;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6175;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4755;}}}} 28 Shahram shahram357@gmail.com 64.81.89.31 2011-06-09 20:37:31 2011-06-09 20:37:31 I await, with bated breath, the coming Cease and Desist Order from Disney lawyers. 1 comment 0 0 29 Klaus Kerschoen mrnagle07@gmail.com 69.228.38.45 2011-06-10 03:42:58 2011-06-10 03:42:58 Maybe if that dumbass/assette had gone around touching kids the State would have gladly castrated shim. But noooo instead s/he had to go and rob a bitch. It does make one ponder deeply, though: if Bert and Erine went transgender, what would they be called? Gerta and Ernestine? Betty and Fernie? Bambi and Erica? 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/your-adorable-child/but-i-shot-a-man-in-reno/ Fri, 10 Jun 2011 23:40:11 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=554 <h4><strong>Go ahead and try to not watch this clip all the way to the end. I dare you.</strong></h4> <object width="425" height="349"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oDbAxhV2ofM?version=3&amp;hl=en_US" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oDbAxhV2ofM?version=3&amp;hl=en_US" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object> If you were one of the millions of American kids who grew up playing some variation of “cops and robbers,” ten to one no one expected you to always want to be a cop. For a nation as likely to mythologize its anti-heroes as much as its heroes, no wonder both sides have their appeal. <!--more-->In a similar vein, we're a country that also embraces the culture of confinement – of "custody themed entertainment," as I like to call it – and the machismo of incarceration. Check out this awesome kid, Wesley Hartman, for example, singin’ his little heart out on what’s been ingrained in our collective consciousness as one of Johnny Cash's best songs. <h4>Yet we don't want to talk about prison, not really. We don't want to fix it so that if our children ever <em>do</em> wind up in trouble, we can count on 'em coming home in one piece, perhaps even wiser – as opposed to only meaner.</h4> There's no real lesson here, just food for thought around the spectacle of this child, who will likely know more about the cache of prison humor, heroes, and horrors than he ever will about restitution or rehabilitation, let alone what it means for us all when those matter less than the fairytale of prison-chic. <h6><span style="color: #800000;">Tip 'o the hat to Wesley's dad, Rob Hampton </span><span style="color: #800000;">of Seattle's Heartwood Guitar Instruction. </span></h6> 554 2011-06-10 23:40:11 2011-06-10 23:40:11 2011-06-10 23:40:11 2011-06-10 23:40:11 closed open but-i-shot-a-man-in-reno publish 0 0 post 0 Prison Your Adorable Child _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1688483359;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11187;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10865;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:309;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:460;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4828;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4562;}}}} http://working-copy.local/idiots/ryan-dunn-agreed-to-all-that-follows/ Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:50:50 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=593 <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Ryan-DunnDUMBASS1.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-595 alignleft" title="Ryan DunnDUMBASS" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Ryan-DunnDUMBASS1-287x300.jpg" alt="" width="287" height="300" /></a> When <em>Jackass</em> celebrity Ryan Dunn drove his Porsche <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/22/ryan-dunn-drunk-during-crash_n_882422.html">at speeds above 132 mph</a>, as a public figure he left himself and his actions open to the interpretations of others - millions of others: famous others, fringe others, and others in the news. Everybody. So while few are surprised that Dunn's toxicology report confirms he was driving while shit-faced, we should also take it as a given that celebrity<span style="color: #444444;"> </span>man-children will throw their tantrums over comments made about Dunn's accountability (or lack thereof).<!--more--> Of course, it will still be little more than another boring tantrum thrown by a pampered crybaby, which happens every 14 seconds. Nothing said will change the single unfortunate and highly idiotic thing that will forever mar Ryan Dunn's memory. Considering how young he was, the financial security he enjoyed, the number of people he influenced, and all of Dunn's potential for future good works or giving back to the community or just lending his celebrity status to the good works of others...all of it is wasted. Wasted on a drunken joyride that no famous friend's support or derision for commentators can reverse. Ryan Dunn will now be known for waste. That's it. And nothing anyone says or screams or writes will ever change that. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bianca_Halstead" target="_blank">RIP Bianca Halstead (May 5, 1965 – December 15, 2001)</a> 593 2011-06-21 23:50:50 2011-06-21 23:50:50 2014-12-21 10:07:15 2014-12-21 17:07:15 closed open ryan-dunn-agreed-to-all-that-follows publish 0 0 post 0 Bianca Halstead Celebrity Idiots Ryan Dunn _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705260641;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11777;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:869;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10082;}}}} 30 stilts 19 stilts19@gmail.com 72.208.113.176 2011-06-22 02:02:55 2011-06-22 02:02:55 The thing that most people overlook is the fact that his actions killed an innocent person, his passenger. Everyone seems to he forgetting how he affected the family of this unknown passenger. It is such a waste... Only knowing him from Jackass, he seemed like a fun loving dude. Too bad he chose to act like a jackass and drive reckless, and possibly drunk. What a waste.... 1 comment 0 0 31 Mars Lasso marslasso@gmail.com 67.49.57.214 2011-06-22 03:41:28 2011-06-22 03:41:28 Judging by his picture, perhaps he was in the throes of a fast food hoggy onslaught - one of which, in the closed confines of his euro-cockpit, went horribly awry when the pedal cluster got jammed inoperable by a half dozen empty Biggie Fry holders and a torn and crushed KFC Family Bucket. We are, after all, what we eat. 1 comment 0 0 32 Carey dagnabbit11@yahoo.com 76.168.51.218 2011-06-22 05:37:40 2011-06-22 05:37:40 Spectacular Jackassery. 1 comment 0 0 33 Klaus Kerschoenn mrnagle07@gmail.com 38.98.61.114 2011-06-22 18:59:06 2011-06-22 18:59:06 What were our expectations of this young man? Was he an entertainer-savant or merely a harbinger of our cultural shift to the banal? Has our change from 15 minutes of fame to 140 characters of fame underscored how low our standards have fallen when it comes to talent and substance? Are we to be shocked at the death of a man-boy who once belonged to the CKY Crew? ("Camp Kill Yourself")? Don't answer these questions. They are puffed-up rhetoric. He was in over his head in life and nowhere was this clearer than dying in a $103K, Porche 911 GT3 at 130 MPH. On fire. 1 comment 0 0 34 Buster Friendly and his Friendly Friends hogsnorton@gmail.com 70.36.187.69 2011-06-23 01:35:34 2011-06-23 01:35:34 Ryan Who? 1 comment 0 0 35 stilts 19 stilts19@gmail.com 72.208.113.176 2011-07-03 21:58:25 2011-07-03 21:58:25 Pretty cliché really. Wasting the money you get for some fleeting fame on useless, material garbage. My '07 Toyota Corolla can do 100 mph pretty easily and it only cost my $18,000. With all the money I saved on NOT buying a car priced at $100K I could donate some money to charity. Or go on an awesome vacation. Or put the difference into my two kids' college fund. Or help a friend who is struggling with the bills. In fact I could use the extra money on just about ANYTHING else other than a fast car that can never be driven to it's potential on US roads. Unless you choose to try and get away with driving it at 130 mph on a rural road, then fail to negotiate the gently sweeping right hand turn onto a highway on-ramp and crash into the guard rail before smashing into a small forest of trees, bursting into flames and killing an innocent passenger... I suppose you COULD do that but I think that would be kind of a jackass move. 1 comment 0 0 36 Anonymous Spelling Bee Also-ran anthonyj0316@yahoo.com 74.197.92.149 2012-05-04 02:29:28 2012-05-04 02:29:28 You need to be quite! He was a great man, everyone makes bad decisions and everyone makes mistakes!! He was a loving, kind, and nice man!!! You don't need to be calling him a dumb a**. What if you were to die and I talk all this crap on you!! How would you like it huh... Huh. Yeah that's right you wouldn't like it you douche bag. Go suck one you fag 1 comment 0 0 37 J. Nelson eatglass@prodigy.net 76.206.10.87 2012-05-04 05:13:49 2012-05-04 05:13:49 Your your comment is appreciated and you're entitled to rant your displeased head off if you wish. But because you chose to slash at my views on the DUI death of a Jackass using the oldest, dullest knife you could find, I took the liberty of changing your real name. You deserve to be heard and you deserve a chance to learn and take a higher road with better debating skills. Go forth and fight, man. Offend and reoffend. Grow up and come back, improved and better armed, and tell me why I'm wrong. You can do better than "Go suck one you fag." 1 comment 36 2 38 James totallycashbro@hotmail.com 50.53.66.135 2012-05-05 18:56:03 2012-05-05 18:56:03 Actually, he used to give to Charities, he owned several different labs, he loved Science. The man who was killed was also drunk, and stupid enough to get into a car with another drunk person. He knew what he was getting himself into, so it's as much his fault as it was Dunns. Dunn was a nice person, he was put himself in danger for everyone's entertainment, and he gave back to the Community. I'll agree he was moronic to get in the car and drive drunk, but the passenger was also moronic for letting him do so. 1 comment 37 0 39 Shawn sroe78@hotmail.com 98.15.209.139 2012-07-08 01:04:13 2012-07-08 01:04:13 Damn straight fuck you all who judge a legendary man yeah he was drunk i dont agree of drunk driving but that doesnt affect what a great man he was his family and friends arent calling him a dumbass cuz hes not he just made a dumbass move i didnt judge him cuz of that it doesnt give you the right to either jerkoffs millions of people were crying shut your fat fucking mouth 1 comment 36 0 36936 Jeff jramusic98@gmail.com 66.11.96.221 2013-09-24 19:05:43 2013-09-25 02:05:43 To all you people who are talking crap about Dunn should shut the hell up because he is dead if he was alive that would be different no matter how someone died for example texting and driving dunk driving or drugs you shouldn't talk shit about someone who can't differ them selves and he was a bad ass. 1 comment 0 0 36940 Jeff jramusic98@gmail.com 66.11.96.221 2013-09-24 19:07:12 2013-09-25 02:07:12 Defend * 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/excuses/when-i-say-i-hate-the-beatles-heres-what-i-mean/ Tue, 12 Jul 2011 23:18:58 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=627 <h4><strong>Ad nauseam homage won’t move us forward, but it might leave us behind.</strong></h4> <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/AA21.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-628" title="AA21" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/AA21.jpg" alt="" width="352" height="298" /></a></strong> So I'm at a party the other night and someone says, “I can't stand Pink Floyd anymore,” which results in everything from gasps and pointed fingers to good old-fashioned vinyl junkie indignation. But <em>I</em> instantly agreed, listing other bands whose songs no longer hold any meaning for me. The Beatles, The Doors, Zeppelin, early Van Halen: I kill the car radio when any of these come on the air and groan when I find myself somewhere where this crap is being fed to the public.<!--more--> Timeless my ass. Listen to any song 300,000 times in 20 (or 40) years and you’ll agree. There’s no excuse for commercial radio’s being so monotonous, but despite the digital world kicking it out the door it truly is. (Though what’s an iPod if not customized classic rock radio?) A few days after the party I came across this very same argument presented far better at <a href="http://my-retrospace.blogspot.com/2011/06/top-25-songs-ruined-by-classic-rock.html">Retrospace</a> and I’m now convinced that everyone hates Aerosmith’s "Sweet Emotion" as much as I do. But <em>nothing</em> moves my hand to the dial faster than the first two chords of that<em> </em>re-used condom, “Light My Fire.” Ugh! Except for The Clash (and even they don’t get a completely free pass thanks to “Rock the Casbah”), really any song from the ‘80s makes me wanna hit the gas and steer the car towards a gas pump. This is the point in the discussion where the justifying usually starts: “Well sure! They only play three or four of the same songs from these bands, so who wouldn’t be sick of ‘em?” Right. But it’s more than “sick of.” The way your hand violently harpoons the radio when "Baba O'Reilly" comes on looks a lot more like <em>hate</em>. It also feels like hate, and it’s just as swift and prejudicial as hate too. You still shush others when they suggest you find a Beatles record to discover unfamiliar songs. So let’s be clear here: this is hate. I <em>hate</em> the Beatles, as I now know many people do, <a href="http://www.elijahwald.com/beatlespop.html">some even at the academic level</a>. The problem is, it isn’t just music. We’re culturally constipated. Wretchedly little imagination is slipping past the blockage. Of the inspired artists that do, too many are crafty mimics, borrowing from eras or creations not their own. None of this is news to anyone in 2011. Thankfully, it’s now being asked if nostalgia is stopping our culture's ability to surge forward. Or are we nostalgic precisely because the culture has <em>stopped</em> moving forward? One fairly informative cross-examination of this idea is Simon Reynolds, author of, <em>Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984, </em>and <em>Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture</em>. With his latest effort, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Retromania-Pop-Cultures-Addiction-Past/dp/0865479941" target="_blank">Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past</a>, he reports on what I like to call America’s re-make sickness, as well as the likelihood that demographic dynamos like Brazil, China, and India, will likely replace the Western world as our future source of entertainment and cultural inspiration. And seeing as I don’t mean dabbling in Ravi Shankar around some ingested acid, you Beatle-huffers and Boomers out there might want to think about that for a second. Every one of us slothful eaters of media dog food just may need such a shock. 627 2011-07-12 23:18:58 2011-07-12 23:18:58 2011-07-12 23:18:58 2011-07-12 23:18:58 closed open when-i-say-i-hate-the-beatles-heres-what-i-mean publish 0 0 post 0 Comfort Zone Culture Excuses music Simon Reynolds The Beatles _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1700180199;s:7:"payload";a:1:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3044;}}}} 42 modi frank modi@modivationfilms.com http://www.modivationfilms.com 99.71.66.54 2011-07-12 23:58:40 2011-07-12 23:58:40 "We’re culturally constipated." only John could come up with that! 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/prison-2/apocalypse-hoosegow-part-iv-prison-doctor-purgatory/ Fri, 15 Jul 2011 01:09:27 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=634 <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Prison-Doctors-Edition.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-635" title="Prison Doctors Edition" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Prison-Doctors-Edition.jpg" alt="" width="520" height="231" /></a>Oh, there are so many fun ways we can go here. The first might be to address the teeming mass of Americans who believe increasing prison healthcare spending will mean that inmates can expect better medical services than the rest of us. <!--more-->Failure to scrutinize the source of such claims, stories, and diatribes – and yes, I meant “source,” singularly – has resulted in widespread but misapplied taxpayer indignation. Like most of you, though, I’ve learned that those who rely on only one or two sources for <em>any</em> public discourse are usually the same ill-informed faultfinders who are really only seeking confirmation of their own beliefs. This is and will continue to be the cradle of all <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/james-verone-medical-motive-bank-robbery/story?id=13895584">narrow-minded tantrum throwers.</a> Another way to go would be to speak to those who assert, quite literally, that physician neglect and <a href="http://health.howstuffworks.com/medicine/healthcare-providers/5-things-about-being-a-prison-doctor.htm">medical incompetence in our prisons no longer exist</a>. Today’s entry would end <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/13/local/la-me-prison-doctor-20110713">right here</a> if I chose to go that route. Given that California prisons are such a hotbed of ineptitude and “surprises,” we could always go after our <a href="../colonel-kelso-heads-up-the-river/">old friend J. Clark Kelso</a> and the shell game he and the <a href="http://www.ccpoa.org/">prison guard’s union</a> have made of the federal receivership designed to eliminate California’s constitutional insufficiencies. But <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/apocalypse-hoosegow-part-ii/" target="_blank">we’ve been there and done that</a>. I could also urge you to consider the word of someone who has experienced prison medical care first hand, someone who can share stories of bumbling, lying, and boozing medical cast-offs in action. That would be your family parolee, or your buddy’s friend who did time. That would be any number of people with whom you’re familiar who have experienced the criminal court system. And don’t give me any of this, elitist, <em>who me?,</em> holier-than-thou business either, because incarceration in America is no longer about “those people.” It’s about <em>every</em> race and <em>every</em> socio-economic destiny. It’s about <em>us </em>people. Me? I’m happy it was revealed that the highest-paid California employee in 2010 was a prison surgeon with a history of mental illness, incompetence, and censure from treatment because medical supervisors don't trust his clinical skills. It means the curtain has finally been pulled back in a way the state of California has never seen. Taxpayers can see where their money is going, and as we round the corner to another election the people promising reform are going to have to start delivering for a change. 634 2011-07-15 01:09:27 2011-07-15 01:09:27 2017-11-06 12:37:01 2017-11-06 19:37:01 closed open apocalypse-hoosegow-part-iv-prison-doctor-purgatory publish 0 0 post 0 CCPOA CDCR J. Clark Kelso Prison prison costs _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704444472;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7896;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6759;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7321;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/goodbye-space-shuttle-my-best-trespassing-stories-all-involve-you/ Fri, 22 Jul 2011 22:03:26 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=647 <h2><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Rocketdyne-Archives_J2Test.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8185" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Rocketdyne-Archives_J2Test.jpg" alt="Rocketdyne Archives_J2Test" width="514" height="385" /></a></strong></h2> <h2 class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;">I’d like my ashes scattered over the contaminated hills beneath Rocketdyne. It’s both where I grew up and where I learned to love the bomb.</span></h2> <h5 style="text-align: right;">Photos courtesy of Rocketdyne Archives</h5> In the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Fernando_Valley" target="_blank">San Fernando Valley</a> of the 1970’s, neither the bustling aerospace industry, the Cold War, or anything related to rocket engines could be avoided. The fathers of my friends and schoolmates were either in aerodynamics or Hollywood, and the Hughes Missile Group, North American Aviation’s Atomics International, Raytheon Missile Systems, and SSFL Rocketdyne seemed to all have fence lines circling our neighborhoods. Miles and miles of chain-link, bearing too many “No Trespassing” signs to count, guided our walks home from school and hikes though the hills. Essentially, we grew up in the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, 2558 rocky acres of testing ground, 451 of which are government owned. Convoys of unmarked military cars, vans, and sometimes NASA tractor-trailers would rumble through our neighborhoods, instigating one conspiracy theory after the next and providing dozens of ideas for adventures we might have on the properties themselves. We weren’t afraid of getting caught ‘cause we figured, “Caught at <em>what</em>, throwing rocks at that giant metal thing?” Little did we know. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Rocketdyne-Archives_Delta-Test-Area.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8186" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Rocketdyne-Archives_Delta-Test-Area.jpg" alt="Rocketdyne Archives_Delta Test Area" width="460" height="337" /></a>Spielberg movies like <a href="http://www.filmsite.org/clos.html" target="_blank">Close Encounters of the Third Kind</a> and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083866/" target="_blank">E.T.</a> perfectly captured the way we saw frazzled but dutiful engineer nerd-men, gate guards, laboratory workers, Army guys, and men in suits wearing mirrored sunglasses. They spoke indirectly, had shifty eyes, and were clearly hiding superhuman mutants and radioactive bionic assassins, maybe even UFOs. They needed to be dealt with head on, and the only way to do that was to hop the fences and throw our rocks at the giant metal things. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Rocketdyne41.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-652" title="Rocketdyne4" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Rocketdyne41.jpg" alt="" width="404" height="314" /></a> We lived to “hike” among the sandstone formations of the Hughes Missile Systems site, which locals called “the Bunker” and where nuclear missile research took place around the clock. Rocketdyne, where all sorts of payload and heavy-lift rocket engines were tested (including the liquid-fuel biggies known as SSMEs, or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_main_engine" target="_blank">Space Shuttle Main Engines</a>), became known as “Meltdown Mountain” once the 1979 story broke about its <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRdC5I0Yn2k" target="_blank">“worst in history” Sodium Reactor Experiment (SRE) accident 20 years prior</a>. Also found throughout those hills, though we’ll probably never know as much about them as we otherwise might have, are the Chumash Indian caves of the area’s native inhabitants. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Rocketdyne5.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-653" title="Rocketdyne5" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Rocketdyne5-300x181.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="181" /></a> When NASA’s Space Shuttle program was in full swing (years before the first Shuttle launch), you couldn’t swing a cat without hitting those favorite villains of ours, laboratory personnel and field-test employees. It was impossible to go to the supermarket without seeing the men and women of the Apollo program, the Shuttle program, and sites that developed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_(rocket_family)" target="_blank">Thor rockets</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_(rocket_family)">Saturn rockets</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_2000">Delta 2000s</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_(rocket_family)">Atlas rockets</a>, and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_(rocket_family)">Jupiter rockets</a> that put chimps into orbit. Even some of our teachers were rocket groupies. The best field trip I ever took was a class expedition up Woolsey Canyon, where the bus stopped just short of Rocketdyne’s gate (think NORAD). Absurdly, we 30 or so 4^th and 5^th graders were directed out of the bus and onto the shoulder of the road. Our chaperones were giddy with excitement and wanted us to hurry. We were told to settle down and find rocks to sit on, but most of the girls at least stayed close to the curb to avoid the steep drop into snake-infested brush below. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Rocketdyne3.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-654" title="Rocketdyne3" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Rocketdyne3.jpg" alt="" width="346" height="519" /></a> “Keep and eye on the tower,” our teachers kept saying, and we did. Of course, we did! Massive nighttime fireballs and smoke the devil couldn’t darken frequently shot up from that mountain, and here we were, as far as civilians could go. Workers – likely the boyfriends and gear-head brothers of our tipped-off guardians – waved as they drove through the gate, yelling, “Cover those ears!” and “Only twelve more minutes!” I remember some kids initially not wanting to go on that trip; descriptions of what exactly we’d be doing were vague in a way only schools in the ‘70s could be. When they told us part of <a href="http://www.starwars.com/movies/episode-iv/">Star Wars</a> had been filmed there, though, not a single kid missed that bus. It was an extraordinary time in an extraordinary place, akin only to <a href="http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/reference/mcc/index.html">Mission Control</a> in Huston and the <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/home/index.html">Kennedy Space Center</a> in Orlando. Notwithstanding the secrecy and allusions to war and nuclear dread that came with Rocketdyne, those boosters they built were taking us to Mars. And the men in those trucks were our fathers, our friends, and our neighbors – a vibe that made it a field trip for the ages. Again, such an insanely liability-incurring excursion could only have occurred before Americans turned as litigious and finger pointy as they are today, before parents morphed into uppity, self-congratulating micromanagers. Today’s Brave New World of lawsuit-happy informants actually makes me miss the Red Scare, though to be fair <em>someone </em>should probably have given a thought to <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/2009-03-05/news/san-fernando-valley-39-s-galaxy-of-chemical-goo/" target="_blank">what we might’ve been exposed to</a> up there, since <a href="http://www.ph.ucla.edu/erg/final_epi_report.pdf" target="_blank">the incidence of disease being linked to contamination from Rocketdyne</a> is off the charts (think Love Canal x10). <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Rocketdyne2.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-655 alignleft" title="Rocketdyne2" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Rocketdyne2.jpg" alt="" width="463" height="304" /></a> Think we cared? Bolted to the bottom of the largest of eight test stands on that mountain was what would become the world’s first reusable rocket engine. A forerunner to the SSME and at the time the most powerful liquid oxygen/hydrogen booster in existence, the thing was capable of producing 400,000 pounds of thrust at sea level. Maybe our teachers were nuts (or drunk), but everyone in the Valley looked forward to stuff like this. When the engine went off we were closer than any Launch-watcher or VIP would <em>ever</em> get at the Kennedy Space Center. The blast burned for 320 seconds; the flame was like the sun if the sun could spread-eagle. For us on that trip and during aerospace’s hey-day, it was Southern California that was extraordinary. Chatsworth, Canoga Park, West Hills, and Simi Valley all enjoyed a special place in the industry, and these will surely be some of the nation’s communities that will miss the Shuttle most. As for those trespassing stories? Hmm…maybe once I stop going up there… 647 2011-07-22 22:03:26 2011-07-22 22:03:26 2017-04-24 12:16:12 2017-04-24 19:16:12 closed open goodbye-space-shuttle-my-best-trespassing-stories-all-involve-you publish 0 0 post 0 Culture Rocketdyne San Fernando Valley Santa Susana Space Shuttle _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706780838;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2593;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2757;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6798;}}}} 43 Arianne arianne.s@gmail.com 99.59.23.183 2012-10-03 06:23:44 2012-10-03 06:23:44 Hi, My grandfather (Bill Cecka) was manager of test operations at SSFL from 1963-68. He worked there beginning in about 1958(?) and I always enjoy reading anecdotes and articles about that time in history. Thanks for posting! 1 comment 0 0 44 J. Nelson eatglass@prodigy.net 76.206.10.87 2012-10-03 14:10:27 2012-10-03 14:10:27 Well, that's certainly nice of you to say, thanks. Here's to Bill. (He must've been there for the partial reactor meltdown, yikes!) 1 comment 43 2 http://working-copy.local/celebrity/why-its-not-too-soon-to-mock-amy-winehouse/ Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:52:14 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=663 <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Winehouse.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-664" title="Winehouse" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Winehouse.jpg" alt="" width="282" height="376" /></a><strong>1. Because it gets people talking about character, codependency and cowardice: </strong>By the end of this week everyone will be tired of talking about Amy Winehouse’s death. But until then, get ready for a week of Wino, because dead rock ‘n rollers are sexier than stalemates in Washington and Norwegian gunman. Besides, how can Wino not make us feel better about our own lives?<strong></strong> I'm sure making fun of Wino will piss off the moaners and crybabies something fierce. Good! That’ll get the discourse rolling. For every person who questions her legacy a dozen more defend it, citing the singer’s talent, style, rebelliousness, and online footage of her better performances. When all else fails, out comes the lack-of-compassion card.<!--more--> I say, bring on the debate! Regale us with horror stories about Wino’s "demons," otherwise known as run-of-the-mill "recovery issues.” Remind us of the bipolar medication she rejected on the grounds that it would stifle her creativity, so we can ponder how well that worked out for her <em>productivity</em>. Sobriety has a chance when careless abandon backfires on your lazy ass and you’ve got to fight to outlive your vices gone wild. Wino wouldn’t even put up her fists to fight for her own life. When alcoholics or addicts of any stripe make a determined effort to clean up, successful or not; on the first, second, or sometimes third attempts an altered awareness of one’s own discontent and troubles enters the equation and positive change can begin. Call it a user-friendly version of the anxieties said addict was trying to anesthetize. Wino failed to give her best shot at achieving Demons 2.0. And don’t give me any of this “<em>but she was in and out of rehab</em>” baloney either, because “in-and-out” doesn’t cut it when someone’s as far down the drain as she was. <p style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #000000;"><em>Q: What's the difference between Amy Winehouse and Michael Jackson? A: Nothing, now. </em></span></p> <strong>2. Because Wino got her “too soon” card yanked years ago: </strong>If we make fun of Charlie Sheen, Courtney Love, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, or Amy Winehouse and one of ‘em drops dead from the effects of megalomania-powered self-abuse, does "too soon" really even come into play? I say no. We’ve already been hammering at ‘em for years. If a defiant celeb publicity whore can walk around with a heartbeat and sanction webpages of pre-mortem humor dedicated to their undignified behaviors, certainly <em>post</em>-mortem humor can't be ruled inappropriate. Sure there’s “a time and place” for certain things, but to me the dominion of “improper” here begins graveside and ends at the grieving parent's face. Otherwise all bets are off. So no, I wouldn't go up to Mitch Winehouse at the funeral to tell him his daughter ranks two steps down from Sid Vicious, but that’s about the only occasion where I won't call this dead duck a dead duck. <p style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #000000;"><em>Q: What's the difference between February and Amy Winehouse? A: February makes it to 28! </em></span></p> <strong>3. Because, "get character or become one," that’s why: </strong>Once we start to resist life’s temptations, avoid immediate gratification and self-pitying isolation, once we surmount obstacles or prevail over the consequences of our actions, that's when we build character. When did Wino let herself experience any of those triumphs? Now I’m not pushing abstinence, celibacy, monasticism, or any other such thing, but I am saying that extreme excess 24/7 “because you can” (or because you’re “rock n’ roll”) doesn’t get you very far. So when I claim Amy Winehouse was all style and talent but no character, I mean that literally. Not only was she a terrible example to addicts on the fence about getting clean, she never truly sought an achievement deeper than a microphone and a crowd. Sure it’s scary to perform in front of thousands, but it’s a lot more frightening to do it sober and it’s the kind of challenge that could have sparked a little interest in life beyond the next high. Wino never gave herself the opportunity to face life on life’s terms. She never gave herself a chance to build character, so she became one.<strong></strong> BTW, that’d be “Wino” we’re talking about here, the “character” being made fun of. Not the little girl from the 90s who sang her heart out: the doofus whose last professional undertaking was to grab her fans’ money (penniless Serbs no less!) and hit the stage too loaded to perform. Talk about a cheap shot! Wino was cheating herself <em>and</em> her fans by then; I bet more than one person left a breadline to attend that show. So my point is, there’s nothing wrong with making fun of <em>that</em> Wino at all. What <em>is </em>too bad is it’s the only Amy Winehouse we ever got to see. <p style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #000000;"><em>Q: What’s the difference between Amy Winehouse and Amy Winehouse jokes? A: The jokes will get old. </em></span></p> 663 2011-07-26 19:52:14 2011-07-26 19:52:14 2011-07-26 19:52:14 2011-07-26 19:52:14 closed open why-its-not-too-soon-to-mock-amy-winehouse publish 0 0 post 0 Addiction Amy Winehouse Celebrity Character Culture _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703755623;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7097;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:379;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7795;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/8-year-old-designated-driver-epic-win/ Tue, 02 Aug 2011 02:28:29 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=672 <h4><strong>What? It's not like you have to pay 'em, right?</strong></h4> <span style="color: #000000; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/TEAM-DUH.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-679" title="TEAM DUH" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/TEAM-DUH.jpg" alt="" width="287" height="288" /></a>Source:</strong> KATC Lafayette News</span> If I had an eight-year-old son to use as a designated driver, whether for making it home before the wife does or for a balls-out run across state lines, I'd at <em>least</em> give the kid a fake mustache, a funny hat, or even an eyepatch to wear. If the police are gonna find <em>me</em> passed out drunk in the front seat with my child at the wheel, I'd sure rather get a wake-up jab from a cop trying not to laugh than by a trooper so angry he tazes me in the ear. I mean, I'd even try writing something like, "Proud Son of a Probation Dad" on the kid's forehead. <em>Anything's</em> better than letting a mug shot like this one do all the talking.<img title="More..." src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/img/trans.gif" alt="" /><!--more--> Here's what I'm thinking: using your eight-year-old as your designated driver makes you a genu-wine gaww-damned idiot, no? That's exactly how folks are reading our Livingston Parish, Louisiana friend here, and probably rightly so. So if you're taking it to that level, why not first outfit little Jimmy in a <a href="http://www.buycostumes.com/Gorilla-Child-Costume/801441/ProductDetail.aspx" target="_blank">Gorilla costume</a>? At least the media will have a little more to work with than plain ol' child endangerment and an ever narrower perception of the Hicksville region in which you reside. Throw 'em off; twist things up a little; learn them little ones some Klingon! The idea is to leave 'em guessin'! Force those local news reporters into making you a <em>real</em> flash in the pan. The media's ready to do it, too, so if you're determined to go out like there's a horse turd where your brain's supposed to be, why not make it a big, silly horse turd? In fact, hold a press conference (by text of course) the next time you need Junior to take the wheel and get <em>ahead</em> of everyone's unfair judgement of your smooth 'n solid parenting skills. You could even do it for charity! Just pledge 31¢/mile toward <a href="http://www.projectnightnight.org/" target="_blank">Project Night Night</a> for every mile your kid can travel before people start screamin' bloody baby murder into their cellphones about the mini gorilla careening through Livingston, and a child who's <em>not</em> your own might actually see her dreams come true. Just a few notes from a non-parent. <h4><strong> </strong></h4> 672 2011-08-02 02:28:29 2011-08-02 02:28:29 2014-12-21 10:07:16 2014-12-21 17:07:16 closed open 8-year-old-designated-driver-epic-win publish 0 0 post 0 DUI Excuses Idiots Louisiana media parenting Your Adorable Child _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1696146842;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:278;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3301;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8404;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2172;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5716;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5056;}}}} http://working-copy.local/prison-2/holding-cells-arent-sexy/ Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:16:17 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=683 <strong>With ABC’s new <em>Take the Money and Run</em>, Americans can cozy up to custody, interrogation, and being informed on by family and friends.</strong> [caption id="attachment_685" align="alignleft" width="295" caption="Screenshots courtesy of ABC"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/1a.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-685 " title="1a" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/1a.jpg" alt="" width="295" height="159" /></a>[/caption] Maybe it’s my PTSD talking, but is this really the best time for people to be asking themselves if they can withstand a police interrogation? Sure, if you’re a television producer the answer is (spit-take) <em>hell </em>yes, but what about the rest of us? If you haven’t seen ABC’s primetime show, <em>Take the Money and Run, </em>its proposition is simple: you and a partner hide $100,000 somewhere <!--more-->within a pre-chosen urban district while current and former cops come at you with their best information gathering techniques and tricks.  If the money is discovered, or if your partner turns on you because he or she can’t take sitting in a soundstage prison cell <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-687" title="1" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/11-300x168.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="168" /></a>for the duration of a TV production day, the detectives – also your opponents – win the cash (allegedly contained in a suitcase handed off at the beginning of the show). First off, there are a lot of desperate Americans these days; aren’t we already seeing each other’s breaking points on the news? Dressing the mind-bending pressures of pre-trial custody in the blinky lights of <em>The Price Is Right</em> is just cruel. Second, who <em>are</em> these people who take this dare, only to learn they’re quivering bowls of Jell-O in the face of a custody <em>simulation?</em> Ouch. The show’s losers forever relinquish their daydreams of participating in a heist and coolly walking away with the loot. Your suspension of disbelief is <em style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; font-style: italic; border: initial none initial;">done</em><em style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; font-style: italic; border: initial none initial;">!</em><em style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; font-style: italic; border: initial none initial;"> </em>I mean, if you just allowed yourself to be revealed as the blubbering weak link, (on national television, no less), how could you ever again appreciate a good crime flick knowing your role is that of the squealer! <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/33.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-694" title="3" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/33-300x165.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="165" /></a>What of actual folks with “priors” watching the show, like yours truly? We’re left out of make-believe custody land because of the mind games, deceptions, and postures we experienced for real. If the producers were <em>really </em>aiming for accuracy, as soon as one or both of the “criminal” partners got placed in their “cell” for an extended period between interrogations, somebody would walk in and punch ‘em in the head. What, too much? People might as well know that for a real criminal suspect, county detention is where much pre-trial time is spent, and unacquainted jail inmates get usually beat on. Often, this’ll do the detectives’ or investigators’ work for them. They need only to drop you in with the Crips, Bloods, Vatos and Peckerwoods until you sing like a bird a week later to get plucked back out. Pretrial confinement can be so otherworldly and tormenting that suspects will wail and beg for their next interrogation and promptly forget to ask for a lawyer before making their deal. So the show would be more accurate if someone got punched in the head, is all I’m sayin.’ <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/22.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-696" title="2" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/22-300x168.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="168" /></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/21.jpg"></a> As for <em>Take the Money’s</em> police investigators coercing confessions and attempting to flip their “suspects,” I wonder if these cops are struggling to maintain game show etiquette and avoid embedded ethnic resentments or career bitterness. I thought I might've seen snippets of both in the premiere episode. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/41.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-698" title="4" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/41-300x168.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="168" /></a> Criminal custody has been satirized in literature, movies, and television for years with some success, from <em>Mad Magazine</em>, to <em>SNL</em>, to 1987's <em>The Running Man</em>, where Schwarzenegger gets all blah-blah-blah, exploding heads, whatever. But this isn’t satire. <em>Take the Money and Run</em> is more like America’s prison fetish meets good old-fashioned one-party reeducation. To desensitize viewers to interrogation, snitching, and custody, “criminal contestants” are pitted against actual law-enforcement investigators and subjected to mock versions of all <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/5.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-699" title="5" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/5-213x300.jpg" alt="" width="213" height="300" /></a>three. And to mollify the economic insecurity of contestants and viewers alike, it’s done in the name of grabbing all the cash one can. I can’t say I won’t watch <em>Take the Money and Run</em> – I already DVR’d the next episode (or three). Neither can I predict that this formula will fail in the ratings; if it’s a measure of anything the show already has 31,000 Facebook “likes.” And with its Monday morning quarterbacking appeal, it reminds me of watching <em>Cops</em> in a Folsom day room, listening to inmates call play-by-plays and describe what they would've done differently. I decided to call a friend who I figured would see past the bait and through the hype. “Damn straight I saw that show,” he said. “Talk about easy! Those burn-out cops weren’t interrogating anyone! It was more they were asking for directions! I wanna’ get on there before the producers figure out that they’re losing a hundred-grand a week. It’s free money!” C’mon, ABC, at least <em>consider</em> adding the head punching… [caption id="attachment_712" align="alignleft" width="282" caption="Today&#39;s post is dedicated to Virgil Starkwell"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/VS4.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-712" title="VS" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/VS4.jpg" alt="" width="282" height="213" /></a>[/caption] &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 683 2011-08-09 17:16:17 2011-08-09 17:16:17 2011-08-09 17:16:17 2011-08-09 17:16:17 closed open holding-cells-arent-sexy publish 0 0 post 0 ABC Character Culture custody interrogation Prison Take the Money and Run Virgil Starkwell _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1698714265;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10046;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6563;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10346;}}}} http://working-copy.local/idiots/i-left-my-heart-in-folsom-prison/ Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:55:37 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=716 <h4><strong>To the parolee caught trying sneak back into Folsom Prison: Next time just try the souvenir shop.</strong></h4> <h6><strong>Original Story:</strong> MSNBC</h6> [caption id="attachment_722" align="alignleft" width="372" caption="Hand-built by inmates and Chinese railroad workers, this view of the granite wall that surrounds Folsom&#39;s old yard is from the main access road"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/000021.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-722" title="00002" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/000021.jpg" alt="" width="372" height="259" /></a>[/caption] The so-called "old Yard" was one of the facilities to which I was assigned as a temporary "consumer of Corrections services." Years after my release, while driving with my then-girlfriend to Lake Tahoe for a wedding, I turned onto the prison road. I wanted to see that giant wall as an outsider, a perspectiv­e I didn't have in my previous experience on the property. <!--more-->My decision to visit perplexed my girlfriend, who reminded me that it was a former life and a former me who'd been there before. We drove in silence until I saw the wall and my heart sank. Many bad and important memories resurfaced­. Folsom Prison was a Level IV facility then, housing only long and life-term inmates. (My own transfer there had been a mistake, so my stay lasted only a month. <em>Still</em> too long.) In the cell next to mine was a 21-year-old who'd just begun his fourth year of an 18-years-to-life + life sentence; he'd been convicted of two heinous gang murders. But say what you will about scumbags who deserve the death penalty: my own daily interactions with this kid made me want stop, get my bearings, and find something to hold onto. The guy's guilt mattered little compared to the toll the weight of such a sentence takes on a human soul. You couldn't ever get this kid to laugh or tell a story, and yet he was there next to me, alive but non-resonant. It was him I was thinking of as I stared out the car window at that foreboding granite wall, knowing he was still behind it. The quiet in the car was replaced with the voice of every lifer I'd spoken with, but I couldn’t remember his. I grew overwhelme­d with appreciation for not winding up a repeat offender. And then, because I <em>am </em>often a repeat-idiot, I got out of the car and went to the gift shop, where I bought a mug -- a stupid, nine-dolla­r Folsom souvenir mug. You should'a seen the look on my girlfriend's face, especially after I got chatty with the inmate trustee who sold it to me. It was his expression that finally woke me the hell up. He was offended that I'd returned to apparently rub my freedom in his face. I was ashamed. I got back in the car and went on about my life. I mention all of this because none of us can begin to guess why Marvin Lane Ussery tried to sneak back into Folsom. If his action did involve drugs or cell phones, my guess is that he was under extreme duress due to some criminal debt that left him no choice. Trust me: only a real dumb-ass would go back because he misses the place - or thinks for a minute  he might. 716 2011-08-12 19:55:37 2011-08-12 19:55:37 2016-12-01 10:39:55 2016-12-01 17:39:55 closed open i-left-my-heart-in-folsom-prison publish 0 0 post 0 CDCR Folsom Prison Idiots Marvin Lane Ussery Prison _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1687755307;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8684;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6842;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6264;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8250;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8281;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8424;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/kids-for-cash-judge-vs-parents/ Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:37:48 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=733 <h4><strong>Hurt parents’ barbs and bitch-outs cut much deeper than their backhands. So let’s send the judge who got rich sentencing juveniles to his friends' privately-owned jails into a “hostility cage” with victims’ families. </strong></h4> <strong> </strong> <strong> </strong> <strong> </strong> <strong> </strong> <strong> </strong> <strong> </strong> <strong> </strong> <strong> </strong> <strong> </strong> <h6> [caption id="attachment_748" align="alignleft" width="635" caption="Michael J. Mullen / Associated Press"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/FONZO.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-748" title="FONZO" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/FONZO.jpg" alt="" width="635" height="358" /></a>[/caption]</h6> <h6><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="http://youtu.be/QLqjZq9uh5E">CNN</a></h6> <strong> </strong> The <a href="http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f69_1298309160&amp;p=1">unedited footage</a> of Sandy Fonzo screaming at former Luzerne County judge Mark Ciavarella is powerful. My own fists were clenched by the end of it: I can only imagine the fury that 370 similarly outraged mothers and fathers would produce. Sandy Fonzo is a woman both desperate to be heard and desperately angry. Though I do not know her, I root for her. Her son's suicide may have ultimately been his responsibility, but it stemmed from an inability to recover from what happened to him in custody. I’ve seen that trauma up close and the behavioral issues that often follow. Had that been my kid, I don’t think I’d have been satisfied with a verbal confrontation.<!--more--> I found the footage overwhelming yet so representative of how a lot of us feel about our leaders these days. In considering what sort of punishment might fit essentially the sale of teen lives for personal gain, a desire for retaliation took my imagination hostage and I came up with the double-sided verbal abuse enclosure I like to call a hostility cage. [caption id="attachment_751" align="alignleft" width="373" caption="Corrupt judge goes in one side; parents go in other. Cages are positioned to maximize visual exposure for parents and minimize concealment by addressee."]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/25.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-751" title="2" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/25.jpg" alt="" width="373" height="159" /></a>[/caption] Simply drop the judge on one side and the families of his victims on the other! Let the parents of the estimated 4-to-5,000 children Ciavarella railroaded into for-profit detention centers wear themselves out at the expense of his emotional stability. If, for three hours a day, every day, immediate family members affected by his greed were given an opportunity to scream themselves sick, the former judge could be driven insane within five weeks. And the sessions could continue. (Damn straight! You know how much money you could make charging admission? Funding for pre-K-12 education anyone?) <strong> </strong> <strong>The Courtroom as Pirate Ship</strong> Ciavarella and another judge, Michael Conahan, were convicted of accepting $2.8 million in payoffs from <a href="http://www.midatlanticyouth.com/index.shtml">Mid-Atlantic Youth Services Corporation</a>, owner of two <a href="http://www.midatlanticyouth.com/facilities/luzerne.shtml">privately run juvenile detention facilities</a> to which the judges issued sentences like 2 years for the 12-year-old who scratched his mom’s car joy-riding. And that’s after they pushed to close down the county's own juvenile detention center, which would’ve stood in the way as competition. The "Kids for Cash" scandal has been in the news since 2008 and was featured in Michael Moore’s 2009 documentary <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1232207/">Capitalism: A Love Story</a>, but Ciavarella’s appeal of his 28-year sentence has forced it back into the spotlight. And re-rubbed it all in Sandy Fonzo’s face. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/34.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-738" title="3" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/34.jpg" alt="" width="229" height="166" /></a> No, not all of the kids whose sentence was ordered vacated were first-time shoplifters or joy riders, but so what? If the wall we bounce wrongdoers heads against isn't sturdy, how can we expect ‘em to discover the immobility of consequences? Rehabilitation cannot exist as “a way out” when the system charged with providing a means to assimilation is no more promising than a drinking buddy’s “sure thing” at a racetrack. But as I’ve said before and I’ll say again, this is only the beginning. If you think jail is only for criminals and “those people,” boy have you got another think coming! This case is not only evidence of how little you need to screw up to have the key thrown away, it points out where our criminal justice system has become a free-for-all. What happens in a free-for-all? Ask Russia, Mexico, Colombia, and Venezuela. Ask Sandy Fonzo. Ask <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130833741" target="_blank">Arizona,</a> where the Corrections Corporation of America, the country’s largest private prison corp., essentially wrote the state’s infamous immigration bill SB 1070. It’s all about the money. Lucky you if you’ve got a lot of it. 733 2011-08-23 00:37:48 2011-08-23 00:37:48 2016-12-01 10:43:39 2016-12-01 17:43:39 closed open kids-for-cash-judge-vs-parents publish 0 0 post 0 "Kids-for-Cash" Character Excuses Idiots judge Luzerne County Mark Ciavarella Sandy Fonzo _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705813729;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:360;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10799;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5056;}}}} http://working-copy.local/idiots/theres-no-excuse-for-wasting-that-hour/ Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:28:07 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=753 <strong>But I don't care. I can't look at this mug shot without laughing. I saw it and my imagination kicked in immediately. I'm no poet, but it was worth the last hour to try.</strong> <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Little-Pinky1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-758" title="Little Pinky" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Little-Pinky1.jpg" alt="" width="1176" height="482" /></a> </strong> &nbsp; 753 2011-08-23 18:28:07 2011-08-23 18:28:07 2011-08-23 18:28:07 2011-08-23 18:28:07 closed open theres-no-excuse-for-wasting-that-hour publish 0 0 post 0 Idiots Pinky _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704869309;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2782;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6551;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3013;}}}} http://working-copy.local/food/welcome-to-the-swelling/ Wed, 31 Aug 2011 03:12:21 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=764 <h4><strong>Why will half of Americans be obese by 2030? You don’t need a doctor to know it’s ‘cause we’re injured.</strong></h4> <h6><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/A.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-765" title="A" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/A.jpg" alt="" width="172" height="203" /></a>Source: </strong>The Lancet, <a href="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue/vol378no9793/PIIS0140-6736(11)X6035-X">Volume 378, Issue 9793</a><strong> </strong></h6> Professor Boyd Swinburn of The International Obesity Task Force points out that obesity is “just a normal physiological response to an abnormal environment,” but a quick review of the causes of obesity shows just how ho-hum “abnormal” has become. Here are a few personal favorites: <strong>Sedentary Lifestyle</strong>: Ye olde lack of exercise and physical activity: Opt for stairs over elevator? Ha! Park farther from work so I can walk more? Oh, sure! But be careful, sitting on your ass during the digital revolution means that when the <em>real</em> revolution happens, <!--more-->you’ll probably be sent to work camp.<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/A11.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-766" title="A1" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/A11.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="237" /></a> <strong>Death by Junk Food: </strong>In America in 2011, the easier it is to obtain, prepare, and eat, the worse it is for you. Heavily processed food diets create neurochemical imbalances that <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary-science-of-junk-food.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0">trigger unhealthy food cravings for more crap food</a>. (And follow the $$ there.) <strong>Anxiety, Pressure, and Stress: </strong>American anxiety isn’t just about the lousy job and housing markets: it’s also about unfulfilled expectations and the fear that we’re not a) obtaining what we’re “owed,” b) providing for our families appropriately (i.e. servicing their increasing expectations), and c) treating others well when we know how internally corrosive treating them like shit can be. It’s also about levels of daily information consumption so high we’ve digitized character-building community contact. In terms of evolutionary psychology, which arrived first, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/24/social-networking-site-changing-childrens-brains">social networks or the need for them</a>? <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/A2.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-767" title="A2" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/A2.jpg" alt="" width="153" height="164" /></a>Fatties Marrying Fatties: </strong>If obese men seek out obese women for companionship and obesity has genetic factors — there will likely be still more obese people in the next generation. (This one’s for those who over-rationalize or hide behind heredity.) <strong>Chickenshit Fatigue: </strong>Personal responsibility improves relationships, but we avoid it like the plague. We’ll do just about anything to alleviate pressure: in the workplace, in our family lives, and with friends. We can’t deal with uncomfortable emotions any better than Americans could in the ‘50s when potentially “embarrassing” issues were ignored or hidden. With technology and the pace of life today providing so many more distractions and vindications, it’s even easier – and more detrimental – to cop out. Because it’s all so <em>taxing</em>.<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/A3.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-768" title="A3" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/A3.jpg" alt="" width="276" height="182" /></a> <strong>Air Conditioning: </strong>Did you know that when your environment is too hot or too cold your body burns more calories in order to deal with it? Yet we act like someone spit on our shoes when we can’t have our temperature-controlled cars, homes, and offices. I’m not saying overweight people are lazy, nor am I saying lazy fatsos aren’t crowding up the place. What I <em>am</em> saying is that we Americans communicate more but <em>say</em> less; our bad examples of leadership outnumber the good ones, yet it seems all we want are more scandals, gossip, cheating, and reality show ethics to use as a measuring stick. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/A4.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-769" title="A4" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/A4.jpg" alt="" width="269" height="190" /></a>Too many of us have become angry little pigs obsessed with getting more, more, more no matter what it is or what it’s made of. We work harder and harder for smaller and smaller rewards, and far too many of those “prizes” keep us stuck in temperature-controlled rooms with nothing more than beer and pie. Too many of us watch Dancing with the Stars but haven’t been on a dance floor in years. We love to catch a “perp walk” and we vote for expensive, harsh sentencing laws, but we assure ourselves that consequences are for “those people,” not us. Pharmaceuticals, the pervasiveness of motorized scooter-chairs and handicapped parking fraud, red-state-blue-state-blah-blah-blah, delusional women who dress themselves like high-schoolers, and men who allow TV [caption id="attachment_770" align="alignright" width="300" caption="&quot;Network&quot; is one of my favorite all-time movies for a reason"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/A5.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-770 " title="A5" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/A5-300x164.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="164" /></a>[/caption] commercials to convince them their dicks don’t work…I could go on ‘n on listing ways Americans are collectively injured: psychologically, physiologically, and spiritually. But I think I’ve listed enough to just repeat my question: What do injuries do, if not swell? Half of all Americans will be fatsos by 2030. Welcome to the Swelling. 764 2011-08-31 03:12:21 2011-08-31 03:12:21 2013-03-18 21:23:23 2013-03-18 21:23:23 closed open welcome-to-the-swelling publish 0 0 post 0 Boyd Swinburn Comfort Zone Culture Food obesity Self-Esteem social media _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1683033421;s:7:"payload";a:2:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1502;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1030;}}}} http://working-copy.local/food/poverty-pushing-commerce/ Tue, 06 Sep 2011 07:23:27 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=778 <h4><strong style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; font-weight: bold;">These days, restaurants and retail outlets vie for food stamp business. Remember <em style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; font-style: italic; border: initial none initial;">No Shoes, No Shirt - No Service</em>? Just pack that silly ‘ol sentiment away with the antique Coca Cola and WHITES ONLY signs!</strong></h4> <strong style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/333333333.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-806" title="333333333" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/333333333.jpg" alt="" width="197" height="147" /></a></strong><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><strong><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/usaedition/2011-09-06-food-stamps_st_u.htm?csp=obnetwork">USA Today</a></strong></span> <span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><strong><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/usaedition/2011-09-06-food-stamps_st_u.htm?csp=obnetwork"></a></strong></span>So it’s like that, huh? There are enough poor and low-income people to serve the economy, but not enough economy to serve poor and low-income people. It’s nothing new, really, but even ideas you thought you were used to can stop you in your tracks sometimes. Case in point: fast food corporations are taking advantage of a U.S. Department of Agriculture/FDA loophole that allows disabled, elderly, and homeless people (who lack ability or resources to prepare food) to use Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits at their restaurants. With more than 45 million Americans walking around with SNAP electronic benefits transfer (EBT) cards, it’s all the excuse the corporate owners of McDonald’s, Pizza Hut, KFC, Subway, and Taco Bell need to turn SNAP into an almost direct federal subsidy <!--more--> of their businesses. In Michigan, Arizona, and California (soon Kentucky as well), food stamps can already be exchanged for junk food, and poverty pushing commerce in this way is exactly what’s happening. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/2.jpg"></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/EAT-HOMELESS.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-782" title="EAT HOMELESS" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/EAT-HOMELESS-300x261.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="261" /></a> Battles over the sale of junk food in public schools and arguments over food <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/10/05/health/main6929399.shtml">packaging and strategies</a> routinely make headlines, and the fast food industry <a href="http://cal-access.ss.ca.gov/Lobbying/Employers/Detail.aspx?id=1146228&amp;session=2007&amp;view=activity">spends lavishly each year</a> on lobbying to expand public policy loopholes and further the reach of their merchandising. Specifically, there are fewer and fewer regulations regarding how and to whom the industry can most heavily advertise, and its no secret that they typically favor less educated and lower income demographics even without carte blanche on the food stamp issue. For example, as reported by <a href="http://fastfoodmarketing.org/" target="_blank">fastfoodmarketing.org</a>: <ul> <li><span style="color: #800000;">Taco Bell aims its TV and radio advertising at teens. Dairy Queen, Sonic, and Dominos also reached disproportionately more teens with ads for their desserts and snacks, and Burger King advertised teen-targeted promotions.</span></li> </ul> <ul> <li><span style="color: #800000;">Hispanic preschoolers saw 290 Spanish-language fast food TV ads in 2009, and McDonald's was responsible for one-quarter of young people's exposure to Spanish-language fast food advertising. </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li><span style="color: #800000;">African American children and teens saw at least 50% more fast food ads on TV in 2009 than their white peers. That translated into twice the number of fast food calories viewed daily compared to white children. </span></li> </ul> <ul> <li><span style="color: #800000;">McDonald's and KFC specifically targeted African American youth with TV advertising, websites, and banner ads.</span></li> </ul> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/3-EAT-FRESH.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-783" title="3 EAT FRESH" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/3-EAT-FRESH-274x300.jpg" alt="" width="274" height="300" /></a> No, the fast food lobby doesn’t force teens and poor people to chow down on their junk, but they are well aware of the fact that in low-income communities folks eat as cheaply as they can, so the extra push of targeted advertising is that much more effective. Consider those lobbying and advertising tactics and toss in roughly 45 million SNAP card carriers, the progressively terrible economy, and the nutrition-oblivious (young, old, low-income, or otherwise), and you’ve got a Category Five forest fire where we Americans are the trees. Maybe it’s not such a good plan to always “have it your way.” &nbsp; 778 2011-09-06 07:23:27 2011-09-06 07:23:27 2011-09-06 07:23:27 2011-09-06 07:23:27 closed open poverty-pushing-commerce publish 0 0 post 0 Burger King Culture EBT fast food Food food stamps McDonald's poverty SNAP _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706116936;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1030;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3782;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4994;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:764;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:808;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8371;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/a-word-to-the-wide/ Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:27:52 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=808 <h4><strong>We can fail repeatedly, but we aren’t failures until we blame someone else.</strong></h4> <h6><strong>Source: Chicago Sun Times </strong></h6> <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/3.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-809" title="3" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/3.jpg" alt="" width="264" height="182" /></a></strong>By Martin Kessman’s own admission, the 290-pounder refuses to enter his favorite fast food feeder, White Castle, requiring his wife to retrieve his preferred meals for him. An embarrassed Kessman wouldn’t set foot in the restaurant after his repeated attempts to wrestle himself into booth-style seating succeeded only in entertaining and disturbing other diners. <!--more-->His wife’s visits, by the way, were for rounds of free burgers in response to a letter-writing campaign wherein Kessman complained that the restaurant’s booths were too small. Now, because it's what fast food companies do, White Castle responded with free food coupons and, according to Kessman’s recently filed lawsuit, assurances that the seating would be up-sized. Kessman told the New York Post that he “just wants to sit down like a normal person.” Claiming victimhood after banging his knee during one botched seating attempt, he cites the Americans with Disabilities Act to support his contention – while continuing to eat burgers made by the restaurant he’s blaming. By describing himself as an outcast (due to his wife’s trips to White Castle on his behalf) Kessman obviously <em>believes</em> he’s a victim merely invoking the protection of law. It’s up to the U.S. District Court in Manhattan to decide whether or not his rights have actually been violated, and if this is or isn’t <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vexatious_litigation">vexatious litigation</a>. <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/21.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-810" title="2" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/21.jpg" alt="" width="202" height="144" /></a></strong> In the meantime, it’s up us to decide: Do we mock Kessman’s claim of victimhood, or do we agree that his refusal to enter the restaurant is tantamount to being “cast out?” Incidentally, if you <em>do</em> agree that White Castle’s negligence is the reason Kessman can’t “sit like a normal person,” you probably should stop reading this blog. If you’re still with me, you’ll concur that if Kessman went on a diet or even stopped stuffing that kitchen appliance he calls a mouth with so many double cheeseburgers, his girth would be somewhat reduced and his chances of fitting into a booth improved. Ah, but there are <em>millions</em> of Americans who’ve lost sight of personal responsibility and self-discipline, and Kessman is in good company. For the record, I dislike that this thuds like a lecture, but better it come off like a lecture than a threat, ‘cause I could see myself slapping the burger right outta this fraudulent 64 year-old crybaby’s face. Would Kessman find it more or less embarrassing to show up to at an Overeaters Anonymous meeting? If it’s humiliating to sit among those who’ve admitted their weight has negatively affected them, how could fighting his asinine battle in public be less so? (Self-sabotage issues, there, Kessy?) <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/12.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-812" title="1" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/12.jpg" alt="" width="177" height="312" /></a> And don’t go jumping on me about depression, fat stereotypes, and metabolic conditions like hypothyroidism. These aren’t cheap shots meant for your sister; they’re meant for the finger-pointing schmuck who’d rather sue than try. This is about the justifications Kessman is trying to sell the public and the fact that he’s clogging up our judicial system as if it were his own arteries. Where’s the common sense here? The man refuses to enter a restaurant because he’s embarrassed for problems directly relating to personal choice. Am I just being inflammatory? I think not. In whatever capacity young people approach Kessman’s wallowing waistline, the message he’s sending is mind-bendingly destructive and lazy. And there’s just no excuse for being so poor a role model. <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/11.jpg"> </a> </strong> 808 2011-09-14 00:27:52 2011-09-14 00:27:52 2016-12-01 10:43:40 2016-12-01 17:43:40 closed open a-word-to-the-wide publish 0 0 post 0 Culture Excuses fast food Food Idiots Martin Kessman Self-Esteem White Castle _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1696049779;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:778;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4994;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3782;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9833;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11484;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1030;}}}} http://working-copy.local/idiots/coming-soon-facebook-murders/ Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:53:50 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=829 <h4><strong>Any day now, someone’s gonna beat a murder rap with a groan-inducing, precedent-setting “Facebook defense.”</strong></h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/FF.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-830" title="FF" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/FF.jpg" alt="" width="182" height="183" /></a> How long until someone founds <em>Facebook Anonymous</em>, where folks 12-step their way to freedom from Facebook – anonymously? I can see it now: FA, a program dedicated to anonymously relieving you of your inability to live unidentified. Of course Step 1 is admitting you’re powerless over Facebook, that you’d rather spend 127 hours hacking at your own arm with a dull blade than disconnect from feeling “a part of…” Bet on it. It’s a joke now, but it won’t be for long.<!--more--> This week Facebook and Zuckerberg can be found in every digit of the digital revolution. It seems that no media outlet can allow the world’s desperate struggle to adapt to Facebook’s new features to go unacknowledged. Everywhere people are reacting to Facebook’s changes as though they’d <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/olivia-rose/new-facebook-a-minefield-_b_975344.html?ref=mostpopular" target="_blank">lost control</a> of a relationship. I’m not going to get into how fuckin’ pathetic this is, but in the spirit of Voltaire’s assertion that “it is hard to free fools from the chains they revere,” I’ll simply speculate that we haven’t yet scratched the <em>Facefool</em> surface. Let’s be clear – my Dad, with his grandson pictures isn’t a Facefool, and neither is my Facebook-loving cousin who doesn’t get out much. I bet your family and friends are similar: everyone knows someone who spends too much time with social media. It's annoying in the same way booze, food, and tanning salons can be – too much is obvious to everyone but the susceptible one in the center. Sometimes our dads and cousins say or do stuff that makes us cringe (with some cringes lasting decades), but they’re hopefully not dumber than a box of hair. No, a Facefool would be, say, someone who uses Facebook to solicit a murder, like the woman who <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/facebook-mystery-man-killed-girlfriend-posts-ad-assassin/story?id=14318350" target="_blank">allegedly offered</a> a “stack” ($1,000) on Facebook for someone to kill her baby-daddy. I’d say that posting pictures of yourself smokin’ weed or groping that ass would prove you’re an IQ point above a carrot, but again those are merely cringe-worthy and largely un-prosecutable. Directing threats towards co-workers or classmates via Facebook, on the other hand, <em>is</em> prosecutable and <em>is</em> what Facefools do. The idiots who hinted at their bank heist plans and then <a href="http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/4-arrested-in-Houston-bank-heist-after-boasts-on-1691864.php" target="_blank">bragged about their haul afterwards</a> certainly qualify, as does anyone who gets caught cheating on their spouse through Facebook (although now we’re getting into special needs dummies with self-sabotaging narcissism issues, and I’ll tap these keys all day if I go down <em>that</em> road). While we appreciate that gullibility and susceptibility do not make us foolish and accept that the culprit is often pre-existing personal emptiness and anxiety, we also must recognize the shadows Facebook’s pervasiveness cast. Facebook's inescapabilty is a sign that things are getting a little haywire in the public's consciousness and character. For now, the above examples of Facefoolishness<em> </em>are still a far cry from what I predict is on the horizon: someone actually claiming “Facebook made me kill.” Simply put, it’s the direction in which we’re headed. Once we get there, Facebook Anonymous is sure to soon follow, with some A-hole insisting that Facebook “cravings” constitute a disease. Imagine it: Facebook Anonymous, where you shed your identity so you can identify as a participant through the common “disease” of Facebook dependence. Where you un-ass your brain from impulsively and continuously removing all mystery about yourself to others – 200+ others, the Facebook “friends” you display proudly and who you imagine will be riveted by your wall posts about your kid’s shoes, unable to wait until your next status update. It’s crazy. Facebook bitch-slaps that previously timeless axiom, “You can’t get out of a friendship what you don’t put into it.” Apparently you can. &nbsp; 829 2011-09-23 22:53:50 2011-09-23 22:53:50 2016-12-01 10:39:56 2016-12-01 17:39:56 closed open coming-soon-facebook-murders publish 0 0 post 0 12-step Character Culture Facebook Idiots Murder Self-Esteem social media _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705456575;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2444;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2128;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3143;}}}} http://working-copy.local/celebrity/from-beat-downs-to-bear-hugs/ Sun, 09 Oct 2011 00:59:55 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=841 <h4><strong>My Journey from L.A. County Custody to Sheriff Lee Baca’s Wild World of Wheelin’ and Dealin’</strong></h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/A0.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-896 size-medium" title="A0" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/A0-232x300.jpg" alt="'03 Gold Star Awards" width="232" height="300" /></a>In 2003 I was hired to write a teleplay for the <em>2^nd Annual California Gold Star Awards: Dedicated to Homeland Security</em> – a Donald Sterling, black-tie, $25,000 per-table fundraiser for the Orange County Reserve Deputy Sheriff’s Association held at the Disneyland Hotel. L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca was representing, and security for the luminary-laden event was, according to the <a href="http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20030403005655/en/Homeland-Security-VIPs-Honored-Governor-Washington-Officials" target="_blank">official press release</a>, listed as “war mode.” Now for those of you somehow unfamiliar with the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, the event’s principal underwriter, Donald Sterling, is one of Southern California’s largest real estate moguls. He’s also routinely accused of flagrant racism, not least of all by the U.S. Department of Justice for his attempts to exclude blacks, Latinos and prospective tenants with children from renting apartments in properties he owns. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/02/us/los-angeles-naacp-sterling-controversy/" target="_blank">Even when it appears as though others are honoring him</a>, words like “<a href="http://www.laweekly.com/2008-08-21/news/donald-t-sterling-fakes-his-philanthropy-in-a-new-los-angeles-times-ad/" target="_blank">fake</a>,” “<a href="http://www.quixo.com/donald_t_sterling_graphic_design_foundation.html">ugly</a>,” and “<a href="http://www.laweekly.com/2008-03-20/news/donald-t-sterling-8217-s-skid-row-mirage/">mirage</a>” have been used to describe Sterling’s garish “philanthropy,” while he himself enjoys a widespread reputation for being miserly, <a href="http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2008/08/donald_t_sterlings_cattle_call.php">sexist</a>, and self-aggrandizing. (UPDATE: 8/6/14 Well, I guess there's no question now what the world thinks of the man now, eh?) <!--more--> [caption id="attachment_843" align="alignright" width="236"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Donald.jpg"><img class="wp-image-843 size-full" title="Donald" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Donald.jpg" alt="Clippers" width="236" height="170" /></a> Donald Sterling[/caption] So it’s no surprise that Sterling’s 2003 <em>Gold Star Awards</em> wound up a salute to scheming police officials, usual-suspect politicians, and cop-groupies coating themselves in the shellac of syrupy righteousness – even if it <em>did</em> take several years for the veneer of “honor” and “heroism” to wear off for many of the evening’s celebrants. These days, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-honor-recruit-20111007,0,2856002.story" target="_blank">the long string of fallen dominos looks like its heading the way of wheeler-dealer Lee Baca</a>, as the FBI and <a href="http://www.aclu.org/prisoners-rights/aclu-report-documents-eyewitness-accounts-brutality-against-los-angeles-county-jail">ACLU</a> climb into bed together to investigate the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department. [caption id="attachment_844" align="alignleft" width="300"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Jaramillo.jpg"><img class="wp-image-844 size-medium" title="Jaramillo" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Jaramillo-300x222.jpg" alt="Fallen from grace" width="300" height="222" /></a> George Jaramillo and Mike Carona[/caption] Back on that chilly April night in 2003, it was my job as “Show Writer” to be responsive to every conceit the producers chose to throw at the podium, no matter how vomitus. My duties even included “Voice of the Theater” lines, such as: <em>And now, ladies and gentlemen, we’re pleased to introduce tonight’s Event Chair and Master of Ceremonies, Mr. Arthur Kassel.</em> I halfheartedly wish I’d known Art before his wife, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tichi_Wilkerson_Kassel" target="_blank">Tichi</a>, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s. Meeting her allowed me to confirm that Kassel had been a kinder and much less agitated dude once upon a time. But I'd gotten the later version: Baca buddy, founder of the <a href="http://eagleandbadgefoundation.com/" target="_blank">Eagle and Badge Foundation</a>, driver of Ford Crown Vic Police Interceptors, and bear of a gun nut who didn’t go three feet without a Glock 17 holstered to his hip. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/A2.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-895 size-medium" title="A2" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/A2-227x300.jpg" alt="Crook love" width="227" height="300" /></a> In person, Kassel is the spitting image of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broderick_Crawford" target="_blank">Broderick Crawford’s <em>Harry Brock</em> from the 1950 film adaptation of <em>Born Yesterday</em></a>. Everything about him says cop groupie, and he brings out the police courtesy in people regardless of the fact that <em>his</em> badge reads “Reserve” and is mainly a product of his friendship with Lee Baca. In ’03, his police vehicle had come courtesy of former Gov. Pete Wilson, who’d appointed Kassel to CA’s Department of Mental Health as some sort of <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/26/local/la-me-state-waste-20110826">celebrity/security/anti-stigma liaison</a>. (Shame he had to quit recently due a state audit that says he did jack shit for his salary). L.A. Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Whitmore described Art to the <em>L.A. Times</em> as “an unpaid part of the Sheriff's kitchen cabinet” and a member of the “<a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/30/local/la-me-05-01-baca-gifts-20110501">loose-knit group of friends the Sheriff sometimes consults</a>." <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Cabinet.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-846 size-medium" title="Cabinet" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Cabinet-300x197.jpg" alt="Lee Baca's &quot;cabinet&quot;" width="300" height="197" /></a> After several years of working together and having perfected the art of high-profile charity chintz, Donald Sterling and Art Kassel trumped up this particular fundraiser from pieces and players willing or bidding to return (plus maybe a handful who were convinced by the promise of reciprocity). Production staff meetings were held at either Art’s Beverly Hills home or at Trader Vic’s: at both, one got the feeling of being a potentially useful source of plasma that Kassel would forget about before he put his fork down. Yet somehow the whole experience was worth feeling like the gum on the bottom of Art’s shoe. Even if the writing credit felt, well, <em>awkward</em>, you knew you were being allowed an exclusive peek behind the curtain of a powerful tit for tat choreography. During one meeting, for instance, Art put his pal Lee Baca on speaker phone so we all could hear his half-joking demand, “When am I going to get my fuckin’ helicopter?” [caption id="attachment_847" align="alignright" width="237"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Baca.jpg"><img class="wp-image-847 size-medium" title="Baca" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Baca-237x300.jpg" alt="Baca" width="237" height="300" /></a> L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca[/caption] <em>Good God, </em>I wondered, <em>is it really that simple?</em> Kassel didn’t skip a beat. “Relax! You’ll get your chopper; it’s being handled.” He muted the phone and said to the room, “He’s pissed the boys have only one air unit.” Then he clicked back to Baca and countered, “Can you green light the silent auction ride or not?” He was referring to a proposed airborne ride-along in the unit the department <em>did</em> have at the time; I don’t recall if the ride actually made it into the event’s auction, but <a href="http://spreadsheets.latimes.com/baca-gifts/">apparently it really <em>is</em> that simple</a>. Now, if you’re aware that this blog also serves as an information point for <a href="http://working-copy.local/who-is-this-guy/" target="_blank">Where Excuses Go to Die</a>, my chronicle of the four years I spent in the California prison system, you’re probably wondering how I got to this point. During that helicopter exchange and others like it, I wondered the same damn thing. See, when I was a pre-trial inmate in L.A. County custody, I was sent to the notorious 3^rd floor modules of Men’s Central Jail and left to fend for myself for a while. For many months, I wasn't asked who I was, what I was doing there, or when my next scheduled court appearance would be. My efforts to alert the Deputies went ignored, because most jail-duty Deputies hate prisoners who “think they’re special.” Trying to speak to them is special. [caption id="attachment_848" align="alignleft" width="300"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Town-Brawl.jpg"><img class="wp-image-848 size-medium" title="Town Brawl" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Town-Brawl-300x195.jpg" alt="Men's Central Jail" width="300" height="195" /></a> Sheriff Lee Baca's Town Hall Meeting[/caption] My dad’s inquiries went ignored as well, and MCJ became the place where I survived my first fights, the barbarity of the “9000 Block,” and the stopgap housing known as the "3-thousand Floor"cell modules. I also got my ass kicked by several Deputies for alerting them to a body I found in a cell. But through it all I discovered a voice within me that seemed worth protecting, which is basically what <em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em> is about. So in those moments in Art Kassel’s house – one containing easily a thousand or more framed photos of him and every tough-on-crime VIP out there – with him sitting next to me wearing that gun, with his twin Crown Vics outside, and with current L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca suddenly asking what I’d written for him, I felt electrified, duplicitous, and grateful. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/NEARLY-FINISHED8.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-842 size-full" title="NEARLY FINISHED8" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/NEARLY-FINISHED8.jpg" alt="LASD" width="206" height="135" /></a>All these years later, <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/25/local/la-me-fbi-jails-20110925">as the FBI demonstrates to the world that Baca’s jail and the Deputies who run it are everything they have been accused of being for decades</a>; as the Sheriff is <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-1002-baca-jail-tour-20111002,0,5504938.story?track=rss">forced to hold televised Town Hall Q&amp;As with inmates inside the dungeon itself,</a> Baca has got to be asking himself the same thing I was back then: How the hell did I get here? <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Corona-Baca.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-849 size-full" title="Corona-Baca" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Corona-Baca.jpg" alt="'03 Gold Star Awards" width="242" height="275" /></a> But on the night of the <em>Gold Star Awards</em> ceremony, a red carpet entrance let hired photographers play like hungry paparazzi. Celebrity presenters, recipients, and seat-fillers included Honorary Event Chairs Gena &amp; Chuck Norris, and Ketel One hosted a popular vodka ice bar. Dueling silent and live auctions filled the coffers of the OC Reserves. Shaq showed up wearing his newly issued L.A. Port Authority uniform, and the ballroom was decorated so patrio-tastically you’d have thought the Japanese had just surrendered. Holier-than-thou super-honkies and their weird-boned, carved-face wives paraded around with so much glowing orange skin you were tempted to hold out a sack for candy and ask, <em>trick or treat</em>? [caption id="attachment_850" align="alignleft" width="318"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Shaq.jpg"><img class="wp-image-850 size-full" title="Shaq" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Shaq.jpg" alt="'03 Gold Star Awards" width="318" height="346" /></a> (from back left) Art Kassel, Bernard Kerik, Shaquille O'Neal, Lee Baca[/caption] The best part was watching an almost giddy Lee Baca come back down the stage ramp after his presentation, shaking hands and chatting. When he got to me, he squinted at my laminate, then wrapped me in a giant bear hug. <em>Holy shit! </em>I thought. <em>I wonder what he’d do if he knew who he was hugging! </em>I almost thanked him for his Department’s “hospitality” but decided to enjoy the professional accomplishment instead. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/A1.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-897 size-medium" title="A1" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/A1-223x300.jpg" alt="'03 Gold Star Awards" width="223" height="300" /></a> As for that question of how I got to this point, the short answer is that someone thought I was worth a shot at the work. So she rewarded me by feeding me to Arthur Kassel. That April ’03 gala was actually the third gold-plated show I’d written for Kassel and Sterling and even former Sheriff Lee Baca. Talk about surreal. What's even more surreal is that, in the years since, I’ve had numerous occasions to marvel at just how similar cops and criminals can be. &nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>Want more?</strong> Here's a virtual salad of links and deeper reading recommendations on the post-show fates of presenters, recipients, and sponsors of the 2nd Annual California Gold Star Awards: [caption id="attachment_852" align="alignleft" width="207"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Hateful-Haidl.jpg"><img class="wp-image-852 size-medium" title="Hateful Haidl" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Hateful-Haidl-207x300.jpg" alt="'03 Gold Star Awards" width="207" height="300" /></a> Former Assistant Sheriff Don Haidl[/caption] <ul> <li><strong><span style="color: #000000;">O.C. Sheriff &amp; Gold Star Host Mike Corona: </span></strong>from “America’s Sheriff” and White House homeland security advisor to a 66-month conviction on federal corruption charges in 2009</li> <li><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Assistant Sheriff &amp; Gold Star Honoree Don Haidl:</span></strong> <a href="http://www.scpr.org/news/2010/03/15/13011/oc-haidl-sentence-03152010/" target="_blank">from high school dropout to Newport Beach millionaire </a>to Reserve Division coordinator and member of Corona’s “Team Forever” until he cut a plea deal by ensnaring his boss, Haidl is easily the most unrepentant repeat-offender on this list. With <em>decades</em> of misbehavior under his belt, it’s no surprise <a href="http://www.ocweekly.com/2006-03-16/news/bad-dads/">Don sired Greg Haidl, a sex offender and convicted gang rapist</a> despite dad’s attempts to strong-arm the O.C. District Attorney’s office into trying his son as a juvenile. Having hired a dozen high-priced lawyers, a former CA Supreme Court justice, four private detective firms, a professional publicist, a full-time audiovisual expert, and O.J. Simpson’s jury consultant, Haidl was not too happy when he couldn’t buy his preferred version of “justice” this time around.</li> <li><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Assistant Sheriff George Jaramillo: </strong></span><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2008/dec/19/local/me-carona19" target="_blank">a key aide and O.C. Sheriff’s Department lackey in the rape case against Don Haidl’s son</a>, Jaramillo was the third leg of “Team Forever” until he was fired by Corona in 2004. He pled out at 27 months for fraud a year later.</li> <li><strong>New York City Police Commissioner and Gold Star Honoree Bernie Kerik:</strong> once under consideration as Secretary of Homeland Security, he began a four-year sentence for multiple felony counts -- including lying to federal investigators – in 2010.</li> <li><strong>Event Chair &amp; Executive Producer Art Kassel:</strong> from special assistant to Gold Star Honoree Stephen Mayberg, Director of the CA Department of Mental Health, to a 2011 state auditor’s investigation of wasted funds and<a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/aug/26/local/la-me-state-waste-20110826"> questionable ties as “special advisor” to L.A. Sheriff Lee Baca</a>.</li> <li><strong>Event Sponsor &amp; Gold Star Honoree Lou Perez:</strong> the founder of employment giant CheckMate Staffing, this O.C. millionaire’s company <a href="http://www.ocweekly.com/2004-02-19/features/the-man-who-would-be-bling/3/">declared bankruptcy and changed leadership after law enforcement officers and investigators raided 22 offices for evidence of massive work-comp fraud just seven months after accepting his award</a>. Update: Perez was exonerated of the worker’s compensation fraud charges brought against Perez’s enterprise, Checkmate Staffing, Inc. The District Attorney dropped all charges with prejudice after a thorough investigation was completed. It was determined that Checkmate Staffing in fact did not misrepresent itself to insurance carriers in an alleged attempt to qualify for lower premiums. [<a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Eileen-Koch-Company-Client-iw-1223116033.html" target="_blank">MarketWatch</a>]</li> <li><strong>Honorary Event Chairman &amp; LA Clippers Owner Donald Sterling: </strong><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/6435/donald-sterling-one-creepy-story-after-another">Where to start?</a> <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/01/sports/la-sp-plaschke-20110302">Sterling just can’t stay out of the spotlight, even when he’s trying to “help” underprivileged kids.</a></li> </ul> 841 2011-10-08 17:59:55 2011-10-09 00:59:55 2017-11-06 12:37:02 2017-11-06 19:37:02 closed open from-beat-downs-to-bear-hugs publish 0 0 post 0 ACLU Bernie Kerik Broderick Crawford Celebrity Checkmate Staffing Clippers Don Haidl Donald Sterling Eagle and Badge George Jaramillo Gold Star Awards L.A. County Jail L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca Los Angeles County Sheriff Lou Perez Men's Central Jail Mike Carona O.C. Sheriff Shaquille O'Neal Steve Whitmore _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:1;s:8:"facebook";i:1;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _yoast_wpseo_focuskw Lee Baca _yoast_wpseo_title From Beat-downs to Bear Hugs - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc It was a patrio-tastic black-tie, $25,000 per-table fundraiser, the third gold-plated cop-groupie show I’d written for Donald Sterling and Sheriff Lee Baca _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 75 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw_text_input Lee Baca _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706463958;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3469;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2309;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5926;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/to-live-and-drive-in-l-a/ Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:40:15 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=869 <span style="color: #000000; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Drive.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-870" title="Drive" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Drive.jpg" alt="" width="372" height="280" /></a>Source: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/oct/10/woman-sues-drive-trailer">The Guardian</a></strong></span> At first I relished debating the merits and missteps of the indie film <em>Drive</em> far more than I enjoyed the film itself. But thanks to Sarah Deming, the Michigan woman who filed a lawsuit alleging that <a href="http://youtu.be/CWX34ShfcsE"><em>Drive’s</em> trailer</a> is misleading and the movie’s content anti-Semitic, I now welcome the flick to the crime/car chase genre. <!--more--> Mind you, I couldn’t care less about the merits of Deming’s assertions. On the surface they’re an excuse for attention getting; to drill down further we’ll need to <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">ridicule</span> consider Sarah’s more delicate motives. (For the record, though, the suit’s allegations of “extreme gratuitous defamatory dehumanizing racism directed against members of the Jewish faith” is not only a stretch, it’s an affront to anyone of the Jewish faith involved in the film who surely paid attention to the project when they signed on.) Unlike Deming, the more I’ve considered what I liked and didn’t like about <em>Drive</em> the more it’s grown on me. I’ve gone from feeling like I got ripped off to being reminded of how glad I was in 1985 when William Friedkin’s<em> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Live_and_Die_in_L.A._(film)">To Live and Die in L.A.</a></em> antagonized the generation of car chase movie fans before <em>me</em>. In the same way, today’s younger audiences are connecting with <em>Drive</em> because it’s not made from “old timey” formulas. Sure, the film is dripping with the goo of 1985 – but as reimagined and repurposed by a Danish director Americanization-free enough to play with the genre and get away with it. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/LIVEDIE.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-876" title="LIVEDIE" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/LIVEDIE.jpg" alt="" width="495" height="278" /></a>Back in the real ‘85, my orange hair and I waited in line to see <em>To Live and Die in L.A</em>.’s much talked-about downtown chase; to me it still stands as one the decade’s coolest. But I remember my uncle griping about every element of the film outside of that sequence. He didn’t like the "neo-noir," angle, the quasi-poly-sexual undertones, he absolutely <em>hated</em> the Wang Chung title track, and he spat fire over what he decided was “artsy” in general. Even<em> I</em> remember thinking William Petersen’s whole “Conan the Carnal Cop” shtick was too posturing and virile, but I wasn’t worldly enough to be able to apply an allegation like “butch.” For my uncle, though, something smelled like “fag” throughout the movie, and the more he pointed it out the more I enjoyed the fact that he was being robbed of his expectations. Now don’t get me wrong, <em>To Live and Die in L.A</em>. isn’t the best action movie ever made, and it certainly didn’t rescue us from <em>bad</em> car chase movies: when you take the good with the bad – pairing ‘70s lens flares with 70’s horsepower, for example – there <em>were</em> no bad car chase movies then. Hippies or no, I couldn’t have rebuffed <em>Two-Lane Blacktop, Vanishing Point, </em>or<em> Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry </em>if I wanted to<em>.</em> And even if East Coast expressions had been overplayed by then, 1973’s <em>The Seven-Ups</em> could <em>only</em> have been filmed in Manhattan with New Yorkers diving for their lives: it would never have been as exhilarating otherwise. (When you see those cars flyin’ though those wide bends or zooming up those tight Manhattan corridors, you get a sense that real lives are in danger…because they are! Just watch the suspension sway as those stunt drivers corner those 4400 lb. beasts…) Going further back, Spielberg’s <em>Duel</em> was subtle, scary driving drama that blew my 10-year-old ass right through the roof of my imagination, and who <em>didn’t</em> love the balls-to-the-wall chase scenes in <em>Bullitt, </em>any given <em>007</em> movie, and <em>It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World</em>? But <em>To Live and Die in L.A</em>. gave us something different. It felt new and important and it introduced jacked up cops with weird, sinewy crooks like no other pursuit flick before. And even though some parts have aged better than others, it put a lot of butts in a lot of seats – a primary goal for filmmakers no matter what their generation. <em>Gone in 60 Seconds, Eat my Dust, The Junkman</em>, <em>Death Race 2000</em>, and other wholly irresponsible movies that parents hated came next, along with quasi-existential chase movies like <em>The Driver</em> and <em>The Road Warrior</em>. As a genre film, <em>Drive</em> offers today’s younger audiences a chance to interpret pursuit exploits on their own terms and in what <em>they</em> perceive as an innovative departure from Detroit sheet metal formulas. The<em> Fast and Furious</em> franchise to which Sarah Deming so inaccurately compares to <em>Drive</em> did the same, and if <em>Fast/Furious</em> can have its import tuner world free of ethnic and economic prejudices, surely <em>Drive</em> can have its 80s influence and screwy love affair-to-fireball ratio. Besides, independent production or not, Ryan Gosling = gold.  For my money the actor has a ways to go, but for now it’s a lucky producer who can convince him his talents are best used with their script. The theater I went to was <em>so</em> packed with Date Night Wreckage I checked to make sure I wasn’t accidentally seated for a Melissa McCarthy pic. Then I watched for others’ reactions. Admittedly, had there been more excitement in the film, I wouldn’t have been so inclined to try to distinguish the car chase people from the Gosling people. It’s true the film was promoted as a thrill-a-minute demolition derby with explosions, guns, gore, and Christina Hendricks, while in reality it seemed to offer much more to the female side of the couples in attendance. No one seemed to contemplate litigation afterwards, but there were some audible WTF’s. Still, to place all of a film’s value, as Sarah Deming has, on whether or not it delivers the pavement pounding, Nitro burning, rubber screeching drag race meth-hit its ad campaigns imply is to miss out on an awful lot. Considering that <em>Drive</em> is an adaptation of a novel written by a 68-year-old crime author, there's a lot of nuance and expression between the book, the movie, and the audience’s reaction. As Deming shakes a copy of her lawsuit in our faces, she succeeds only in reinforcing to young people that it’s safer to think in clichés. She’s suing to make her opinion important (or <em>relevant)</em>: she obviously feels she’s not getting enough credit from life as it is. Maybe she wouldn’t be so upset if movie trailers didn’t reveal most of the films they market, but who made her the standard-bearer of what defines a car chase movie anyway? The times they are a-changin' Sarah, and so are chase movies. Research the films you’re interested in seeing ahead of time, and stop using your need for attention as an excuse to play victim. &nbsp; 869 2011-10-17 00:40:15 2011-10-17 00:40:15 2011-10-17 00:40:15 2011-10-17 00:40:15 closed open to-live-and-drive-in-l-a publish 0 0 post 0 car chase Celebrity Character Culture Drive Excuses movies Ryan Gosling Sarah Deming To Live and Die in L.A. _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"19c87ba396d8458b65b7eaa6f1cb265f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1693869498;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2401;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2309;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:521;}}}} http://working-copy.local/comfort-zone-2/raging-bull/ Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:47:17 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=880 <h4><strong>Mother unapologetic after shooting toddler-chomping pit bull, but no one gets sued and devil dog lives </strong></h4> <span style="color: #000000; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Original Story: </span><span style="color: #3366ff;">Yuba City Appeal Democrat</span></strong></span> <span style="color: #000000; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"></span></strong></span><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/1-PITBULL-ARMOR.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-881" title="1 PITBULL ARMOR" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/1-PITBULL-ARMOR.jpg" alt="" width="334" height="243" /></a>A neighbor’s dog wandering into your backyard and biting your child means Drag Race Day. The green light hits and you go: no hesitation and no time for tact. Your foot nails the gas pedal and you point the horsepower at the end of the asphalt. Whatever gets in your way sounds like a melon hitting a barrel, then like a dinner salad falling to the floor. Or so went <em>my</em> reaction upon reading this story. ‘Course, I don’t have kids or guns or drag race cars because any one of those things would get me into trouble.<!--more--> But this homeowner simply went into her house, got a gun, and shot the dog in the face. It makes so much sense you’d think it was 1940, especially since the dog didn’t wander into her yard at all: it snarled and muscled its way through a fence. And did I mention it was a pit bull? As far as canine profiling goes, everything that happened after the dog chewed the child is everything that <em>should</em> have happened (Steinbeck would be proud). Lucky for the dog, it didn’t die. It’ll have a mask of horror where its snout used to be for the rest of its undeserving life, but Mama Magnum won’t be charged with animal cruelty or excessive Clint Eastwood. Now, I’m not exactly an <em>eye-for-an-eye</em> guy or an expert on Call of Duty awesomeness. I just think many of us can relate to this parent’s course of action. We might even wish we had her sense of focus during an experience fairly described as terrifying. This woman had the confidence and composure enough to discharge a firearm in a manner appropriate to the situation without killing anything or accidentally putting a round through Mrs. Jenkins’s thigh. She turned a hostile dog that should never have been allowed to slip away into a walking bummer, a deformed monster. When it emerges from mandatory quarantine, this Quasimodo will forever be confined to the role of a creature too hideous to look at -- one people won’t go near. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/2-DEVIL-DOG.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-882" title="2 DEVIL DOG" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/2-DEVIL-DOG.jpg" alt="" width="481" height="283" /></a> Too much? Too insensitive? Too bad. I wish <em>my</em> mom were Snake Plisskin! My gut reaction is supportive here because the woman didn’t immediately jump into lawsuit mode, making sure that everyone within earshot knew she was a victim while forgetting she wasn’t actually doing any bleeding.  But the<em> problem</em> with my reaction is that the message mom’s gunslinging may have sent her daughter and friends is one that may very well come back to – sorry for this – <em>bite her in the ass</em>. When these little girls grow up to be jilted teenagers, the last thing we want is for them to remember that problems can be solved – and respect regained – by pulling a gun. To be fair, it’s not likely this was the daughter’s only take-away, but it will still take some effort on her mother’s part to make sure of that. And <em>that’s</em> assuming that elsewhere in this particular parent’s lifestyle and psychological makeup there aren’t booby-traps or broken bits (especially since the news coverage, at least, makes no mention of dad). Back when my brothers and I were younger (no, it wasn’t 1940 then either), if we or our friends were bitten by a dog the adults around us – even the guy that owned a liquor store on the corner – focused on the injury itself and the psychological state of the kid in question. People weren’t so quick to act as if reality-show hysterics were owed to them, trumpeting their trauma for all to hear. They took <em>a little bit</em> more responsibility for their reactions to disturbing events or challenges to their comfort zones, and they made room for neighborhood kooks, problem pets, and even loud parent humping. In fact, I’m not even sure this story would have made the news back then. If I’m proud of anything that makes me look old, there it is. So kudos to the lady with the gun and the wherewithal to use it without cry-assing her way into a courtroom. Given the rising tide of entitlement eroding our culture, a few extra lessons for her daughter isn’t a bad price to pay. <strong> </strong> 880 2011-10-25 22:47:17 2011-10-25 22:47:17 2014-12-21 10:07:16 2014-12-21 17:07:16 closed open raging-bull publish 0 0 post 0 Comfort Zone Culture dog attack pit bull _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1696470434;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10346;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7620;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:362;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8863;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2593;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2944;}}}} http://working-copy.local/your-adorable-child/notes-from-a-non-parent-3/ Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:11:33 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=922 <h4><strong>Mom Offers Inferior Excuse for Parental Neglect</strong></h4> <h6><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Notes-from-a-Non-Parent.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-923" title="Notes from a Non-Parent" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Notes-from-a-Non-Parent.jpg" alt="" width="224" height="256" /></a></strong><strong>Source Story: <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20128876-504083/pregnant-hawaii-mom-arrested-for-stealing-$2-sandwiches-state-briefly-takes-daughter-away/" target="_blank">CBS News Crimesider</a></strong></h6> Nicole Leszczynski left a supermarket without paying for a sandwich she’d eaten because she says she was suffering a “Mommy-brained moment.” In the process, she needlessly exposed her 2-year-old to removal by state Child Welfare Services. So is she absent-minded, full of it, or both? And why are so many “customer service” employees bored and petty little Napoleons? Allegedly, this incident sparked a “nationwide outrage,” but then 60 of those happen every week. Plus it happened in Honolulu, Hawaii. If it got past you, too, here’s the deal:<!--more--> While at the supermarket, mom, dad, and baby Zofia get hungry and wolf down a couple of sandwiches while strolling the grocery aisles. Mom saves the wrappers for the cashier, but she forgets to include them while checking out. The family is nailed at the exit and detained by the store’s manager and his grocery bagger goons, who question the trio for <em>four hours</em> before calling the police. When the cops show up, they’re accompanied by Honolulu’s Child Welfare Services, who remove little Zofia before mommy and daddy get cuffed and carted off. The parental deviants are charged with theft, post their bail, and retrieve their daughter. They are traumatized and shaken. Presumably so is Zofia, having never been away from her parents before, let alone without her stuffed animal. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Safeway.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-924" title="Safeway" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Safeway.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="219" /></a> Safeway the <em>corporation</em> later accepted Nicole’s assertion that she’d simply forgotten about the wrappers. The supermarket chain decided not to press charges and is currently reviewing its “employee shoplifting training procedures.” The Northern California Operations President even called the family to apologize and released a statement conceding that the company “may not have handled this matter in the best possible way.” (Where <em>does</em> Safeway recruit its grocery baggers, Mad Max Island?) Ms. Leszczynski, meanwhile, continued to call her oversight an honest mistake and added that shopping itself is an anxiety-inducing chore (a problematic gripe coming from a former Air Force Sergeant). She said the episode escalated because no one stepped in to question whether or not it was all too much. And this is where I start to get, um, not <em>skeptical</em> per say, but apprehensive. Why? Because once the quarter is dropped into the machine, all the related people, places, and policies are set in motion to play a part: from the security guard to the store employees, from the police to Child Welfare, from the jailer to the defense lawyer to the court stenographer with her aspiring screenwriter boyfriend. And where in that bureaucratic mix do we find a pay grade for someone to monitor the machine’s empathy output? We don’t, because it isn’t there. Take Safeway spokeswoman Susan Houghton’s Associated Press statement, wherein she states that “store management followed routine shoplifting procedure by contacting police, but Safeway regrets not foreseeing how doing so would cause a child to be separated from her parents.” Get out! <em>Really?</em> What did Safeway “expect” the police to do with a two-year-old, give her to the produce guy who squeezes fruits and melons for a living? So if the company’s <em>spokesperson</em> is that openly clueless, Nicole’s feigned surprise at the machine’s inability to function otherwise is a little disingenuous. The Air Force didn’t lobotomize her, which means she’s probably not the feeble idiot she’s pretending to be. Furthermore, her stated rationalization was that she was experiencing a “Mommy-brained moment.” But then she claimed she didn't know that eating un-purchased food in a supermarket “was such a taboo thing,” stating that in the small town where she grew up “it's not seen as stealing for sure.” So which is it, Nicole, a “Mommy-brained moment,” or “no big deal where I come from?” But though I smell B.S. all the way from Honolulu, this is hardly overt, criminal deceit even if the Leszczynskis <em>did</em> intentionally avoid including the sandwiches with their other items. They aren’t a couple of parolees with sawed-offs and a Corvette: they’re just new to Hawaii, “famished” (especially 8-month-pregnant Nicole), and negligent for exposing their daughter to the machine. In other words, the Leszczynskis’ biggest crime was permitting their relatively non-criminal actions to be interpreted by store employees, then by cops, then by Child Welfare. The store goons – no surprise – proved to be powerless, passive-aggressive A-holes. The cops behaved as expected, and even the kid-cops had their own agenda. Through it all, the biggest loser was the little girl that everyone will claim they were trying to protect. Nicole could’ve purchased her sandwich and stepped outside for a little people watching with her daughter, and then returned and traded places with her husband. Instead, both “Mommy-brained moment” and “no biggie in my hometown” demonstrate a lack of willingness to accept responsibility for a pretty lame alternate solution. 922 2011-11-03 22:11:33 2011-11-03 22:11:33 2014-06-08 22:56:42 2014-06-09 05:56:42 closed open notes-from-a-non-parent-3 publish 0 0 post 0 Comfort Zone Culture Honolulu Mommy-brained Nicole Leszczynski Notes from a Non-parent Safeway Your Adorable Child _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1700256402;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1816;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:412;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8306;}}}} http://working-copy.local/idiots/at-least-inmates-dont-protect-child-molesters/ Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:20:20 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=932 <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>FILE UNDER: Duh! </strong></span> <strong> </strong> <strong> </strong> <strong> </strong> <strong> </strong> <strong> </strong> <strong> </strong> <strong> [caption id="attachment_934" align="alignleft" width="161" caption="Yeah? Well, you try ‘n find pictures for this post! Give it a shot. Every related word or phrase I entered to search for corresponding images grossed me out. "]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Untitled1.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-934" title="Untitled1" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Untitled1.png" alt="" width="161" height="156" /></a>[/caption] </strong> <strong> </strong> <strong> </strong> <strong> </strong> <strong> </strong> <strong> </strong> <strong> </strong><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><strong> </strong>Ironic, isn’t it? Out here in the real world, kid-touchers are shielded by priests, <a href="http://articles.sfgate.com/2006-11-17/bay-area/17322472_1_federal-investigators-law-enforcement-officer-donald-rene-ramirez" target="_blank">police departments</a>, and now football coaches. Behind bars, where society’s worst are sent, shielding, hiding or defraying a child rapist's fate is unthinkable. And this doesn’t just hold true for your older criminals: about a month ago, two teen burglars discovered that CDs they’d stolen were laden with child porn. Even they agreed it was worth risking a B&amp;E conviction to notify the Sheriff's Department and the smug P.O.S. they stole from – who had the gall to report his missing property to the police – was arrested.<!--more--> Now, there are some – like <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/top-10-dumbest-things-students-are-saying-about-jo">the idiot kids who rioted over his firing</a> – who say that Penn State football coach <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Paterno" target="_blank">Joe Paterno</a> did what was required of him when he alerted his superior to Jerry Sandusky’s sexual abuse of children. And that it was "good enough." Uh, pretty much the rest of planet Earth doesn’t agree. Paterno failed morally in not going further, like say, by reporting his observations to someone who could get away with shooting Sandusky in the face. To me, Paterno’s statement that he “wished [he’d] done more” borders on antagonism; it’s like saying to your neighbor about a beloved lost dog, “yeah, I saw it,” with the clear implication that you then left the animal to fend for itself. [caption id="attachment_935" align="alignright" width="162" caption="No really, I’m serious. What pictures could I use? Paterno’s face is everywhere, so that’d be kinda boring. I couldn’t just use mug shots of random pedophiles – talk about ewwww! "]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Untitled2.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-935" title="Untitled2" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Untitled2.png" alt="" width="162" height="151" /></a>[/caption] We won’t get into Paterno's excuses about failing stop the act of kiddie rape he claims he saw in progress, nor his failure to scream Sandusky's crimes from the highest rooftops on campus. The collective media will be examining the reasoning and deeper issues here for a long time to come.  I merely want to point out the irony of how <em>deadly</em> serious an accusation of child abuse is taken in a world where deception, chaos, violence, and other predatory acts are the norm – prison. Countless men and women who commit crimes and are sentenced to prison were abused physically or sexually in their youth. The trauma, the bitterness, anger, and rage against child abuse in your average cellblock is so thick you can paint the walls with it. In fact, I can’t think of a scarier event in <em>life</em> than a prison witch-hunt, because you can’t hide behind the guarantee that it isn’t you, truth be damned. Especially if such a rumor originated from the same place where paperwork, official procedure, and proof originate, like with a prison guard, a facility administrator, or even a snooping inmate clerk with the right access or incentive. (Don't piss off the wrong person in other words.) [caption id="attachment_936" align="alignleft" width="180" caption="Anyway, WTF!? Who wants to spend the afternoon even trying to find pictures for a post about kid rapists? Not me!"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Untitled3.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-936" title="Untitled3" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Untitled3.png" alt="" width="180" height="141" /></a>[/caption] When rumors surface that a Chester has mistakenly (or intentionally) been deposited into the general prison population, tension skyrockets just like in the minutes preceding a gang fight. Fingers start pointing. It might be your cellmate. It might be the guy in the kitchen that scrubs pots with you. Until the rumor dies or its object is either revealed or exonerated, you even look twice at the faces you encounter in the chapel. Inmates <em>so</em> do not want to be associated with harboring someone like this that they’ll start accusing others just to be among the accusers. I’ve never experienced a faster moving, all consuming wave of dread and fear than a wildfire rumor of a child molester racing through one or more Maximum Security housing units. Of course, I’m not holding the principles of convicted criminals over those of everyday people who manage to live within the law. And I don’t have a profound observation here, just an ironic moral comparison based on an experience I once had. But let me leave you with this thought, since guys in prison love to get all biblical: those privileged A-hole students who rioted are tools, pampered tools of a $3 billion college football industry and they'd better thank their maker they’re not throwing their tantrums on a prison yard. Even a sneeze in defense of Joe Paterno's half-assed effort would call forth a hell they couldn't imagine. &nbsp; 932 2011-11-11 22:20:20 2011-11-11 22:20:20 2015-10-26 22:58:55 2015-10-27 05:58:55 closed open at-least-inmates-dont-protect-child-molesters publish 0 0 post 0 Character Chester Cowardice Idiots Joe Paterno Prison riots Sandusky _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703732243;s:7:"payload";a:1:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1589;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/get-ready-for-occupy-wall-street-the-incessant-reminder/ Wed, 16 Nov 2011 03:18:34 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=973 <h4><strong>If you groan when certain Baby-boomers pat themselves on the back for being at Woodstock and act as though rolling around in mud and feces on LSD actually helped this country, just wait for #OCCUPY, the Broadway musical! </strong></h4> <strong> </strong> [caption id="attachment_974" align="alignleft" width="474" caption="All pictures by me (except this one)."]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-974 " title="1" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/1.jpg" alt="" width="474" height="356" /></a>[/caption] &nbsp; On a recent visit to the pre-dismantled Zuccotti Park squat-in, I took lots of pictures of volunteers and protesters and hangers on. I pointed my camera at people’s faces in the hopes of cataloging future authors, artists, and politicians who will no doubt go on to trumpet their swashbuckling involvement. No, this isn’t an anti-civil disobedience, or anti-OWS rant, so don’t mistake my opinions for, “<em>Back in ‘Nam</em> <em>I ate a Viet Cong heart, Hippie, so don’t you tell me!</em>” It ain’t like that, trust me: I’m trying to <em>avoid</em> turning into my dad. <!--more--> This week the Internet is marinating in cell phone pictures captured during the surprise take-down of the Zuccotti encampment. Studying them I found myself disappointed at first, then angry because it took me having to serve a prison sentence to discover that I had a voice – and that it was worth protecting. So when I see a voice –damn near any voice– snuffed out as if it were a cigarette butt I’m saddened and pissed off (in that order). We all know that Occupy Wall Street needs/needed cohesion, foresight, and an articulate way to express its goals, but it was/is still the collective actions of exasperated Americans.  And if you refuse to see that the majority of them are indeed patriotic, that many are kids who believe America can do better by its working class –cops included– then I hope they zero in on your front lawn. <div class="mceTemp" style="text-align: left;"><dl id="attachment_975" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 372px;"> <dt class="wp-caption-dt"><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/2.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-975" title="2" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/2.jpg" alt="" width="362" height="484" /></a></dt> <dd class="wp-caption-dd">An enormous bearded guy was walking around with this Sparkletts bottle his shoulder. I have no idea what the turd-brown liquid inside of it was, but the very active foam on top was horrifying. As it teetered on the guy’s shoulder right above a CBS cameraman with a $90,000 rig, I couldn’t look and backed away. At some point I noticed he’d just left the Big Jug 'O Hazmat on the sidewalk and split. </dd> </dl></div> But boy, do I feel sorry for their children and grandkids! Every chance they get we’re all going to hear about the singing, the salads and carrot cake, the unity and the meaning of it all. We'll hear about which babies were conceived in which shanty-shelter and who <em>really </em>wrote the OWS Good Neighbor Pledge. Every year their stories will get better, but less factual; longer, but less charming. From here on out that precious voice I hold so sacred isn't ever gonna’ shut up! Every year, the media will trot out the news footage and the <em>as-it-happened</em> interviews and every year they'll be more romanticized and virtuous. There will be God-awful anniversary candlelight ceremonies, shaky cam documentaries and bad art, oh, the commemorative art! Hello, gag reflex! Like the Rose Parade or Lincoln’s birthday, here comes the march of the jabbering OWS veterans! (Ang Lee, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1127896/">are you listening</a>?) Now, not all Baby-boomers have gone on to claim their asinine Woodstock merit badges or insist that their counterculture saved us all from Nixon, but 97% of those who do, contributed to neither. We can only hope that the same shit-smear of self-admiration doesn’t befall the OWS veterans, but hope of that kind is a bit silly because there will always be posers – and the voice of mediocrity is one I can do without. <div class="mceTemp mceIEcenter"><dl id="attachment_976" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 1012px;"> <dt class="wp-caption-dt"><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/3.jpg">&nbsp; </a><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/3.jpg"></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/3.jpg"></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/3.jpg"></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/3.jpg"></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/3.jpg"></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/3.jpg"></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/3.jpg"></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/3.jpg"></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/3.jpg"></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/3.jpg"></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/3.jpg"></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/3.jpg"></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/3.jpg"></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/3.jpg"></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/3.jpg"></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/3.jpg"></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/3.jpg"></a> <img class="size-full wp-image-976" title="3" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/3.jpg" alt="" width="1002" height="563" /> <span style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 17px; font-weight: normal;">George Lucas files lawsuit against "OWS empire" - filmmaker said to be “bleeding from his eyes in fury.”</span> </dt> </dl></div> Update:  Thank you Samantha Bee and the Daily Show for so brilliantly illustrating why –bless its heart– OWS will likey effectuate that very same mediocrity. <div style="background-color: #000000; width: 520px;"> <div style="padding: 4px;"><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="512" height="288" src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:402475" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" base="."></embed>&nbsp; <p style="text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff; padding: 4px; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><strong><a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-november-16-2011/occupy-wall-street-divided">The Daily Show with Jon Stewart</a></strong> Get More: <a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/">Daily Show Full Episodes</a>,<a href="http://www.indecisionforever.com/">Political Humor &amp; Satire Blog</a>,<a href="http://www.facebook.com/thedailyshow">The Daily Show on Facebook</a></p> </div> </div> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 973 2011-11-16 03:18:34 2011-11-16 03:18:34 2011-11-16 03:18:34 2011-11-16 03:18:34 closed open get-ready-for-occupy-wall-street-the-incessant-reminder publish 0 0 post 0 baby boomers Culture Occupy Wall Street OWS protesters Zuccotti Park _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1701876031;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3044;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1103;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7097;}}}} http://working-copy.local/food/notes-from-a-non-parent-4/ Tue, 22 Nov 2011 23:14:13 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1030 <h4><strong>Skip the Excuses: If You Waste Food You’re an Asshole</strong></h4> <h4><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Non-parent.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1041" title="Non-parent" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Non-parent.jpg" alt="" width="213" height="242" /></a>Q: How many Americans can legitimately claim they’ve never been told not to waste food?   </strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 16px;"><strong>A: You don’t know any.</strong></span></h4> When I was a kid, being told I wouldn’t be excused from the table ‘til my plate was clean was a “cold rule.” Though sometimes lacking context, cold rules were made clear through enforcement, repetition, and amplification: “Don’t touch the stove,” for example, is an easy one. “Don’t insult the skeletal West African baby I want you to envision by leaving food on your plate” was a little harder to get behind. Yet some variation on the admonishment, “Do you know how many children are starving in this world?” was overheard in the home of every playmate and acquaintance I knew. We <em>all</em> sat there squirming until we resentfully swallowed enough disgusting and now-cold whatever-it-was to set us free.<!--more--> So where does a child take these experiences? Out on the food, of course. I took them out on my mom’s quiche when I threw it away behind her back; I complained about runny eggs and mushy peas. I resented the crap out of spinach, liver, and broccoli and was spitefully jealous of Tommy Allison, whose parents allowed Wonderbread into their home. On the other hand, Stephen Goldman, who was forced to eat those hideous lumps of soaking wet Matzo, hated wet bread as much as I do. The fact is, though, every last one of our parents warned us not to waste food – and for good reason. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1031" title="1" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/11.jpg" alt="" width="473" height="329" /></a>Today “<a href="http://www.culinate.com/articles/features/wasted_food" target="_blank">the ‘clean your plate’ ethic has evolved into ‘eat what you like.</a>’” Culinate.com cites the obesity epidemic, increased portions, and a diminished valuation of food as key to this disturbing cultural shift, but having just come from the mall where I lamented the stick-thin target market for menswear I’d add a national obsession with thinness as well. Where will this lead and <a href="http://news.consumerreports.org/money/2011/11/tips-for-reducing-your-food-waste-this-holiday-season.html" target="_blank">what can we do about it</a>? Do we reengage the cycle of cold rules and imaginary starving baby friends from Uganda? Or is there <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/unilever-food-solutions-world-menu-report-shows-restaurant-food-waste-a-global-concern-among-diners-explores-environmentally-friendly-solutions-133898343.html" target="_blank">another way of comprehending the scope of this problem</a>? For most of us, frames of reference have to be relevant to be meaningful. So discourse on the energy and resources used to produce the food that we Americans only wind up throwing away works best if its couched in terms like those used at NewScientist.com: “<a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727712.700-us-food-waste-worth-more-than-offshore-drilling.html" target="_blank">more energy is wasted in the perfectly edible food discarded by people in the U.S. each year than is extracted annually from the oil and gas reserves off the nation's coastlines.</a>” Righto. If that doesn’t set the context for food waste, especially given all the resources deployed to clean the 2010 Gulf BP spill, I don’t know what will. From processing, transportation, food sales, and storage, Americans use a <em>lot</em> of energy to create and cook food we don't even eat. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/22.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1033" title="2" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/22.jpg" alt="" width="433" height="298" /></a><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/03/theres-more-energy-i.html" target="_blank">Maggie Koerth-Baker</a> recently reviewed studies claiming that Americans consume, on average, 3774 calories every single day. But she found that, according to environmental scientist Gidon Eshel, “we really only eat about 2800 calories per day. That whopping 3774 includes both what we eat—and what we waste.” That works out to about a pound of food every day for every American, says the <em><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/weekinreview/18martin.html">New York Times</a></em>. If coercing your children into cutting waste by imagining starving babies makes sense to you, do it. It’s lazy, but you’re probably parentally lazy elsewhere, too, so don’t sweat it. Just remember that you may be doing little more than perpetuating a failed cycle, thereby squandering the lessons you (thought you) learned as a kid. Instead, I present for your consideration Anti-Waste Campaign Version 2.0. Take advantage of the fact that everyone and their mother goes on and on these days about reducing energy consumption, conserving electricity, and taking “small, individual steps” to save the planet. Your children are gettin’ it at school anyway, as well as in the media and from gabby celebrity do-gooders. So let <em>them</em> do most of the work! All you have to do is start reinforcing the “<em>don’t waste energy” </em>schtick. Chances are your household budget already has you doing some of that, but now you can apply it to food as well. It’s simple. And if you prefer a nationalistic bent for authenticity, just implore your kids not to contribute to America’s looking like a giant food court full of grunting, careless hogs. The point is, starting by promoting energy efficiency is less demanding than beginning food-centric conversations because your children are already learning the language. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/31.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1034" title="3" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/31.jpg" alt="" width="426" height="333" /></a>I’m not suggesting that using poverty-stricken countries and starving babies isn’t effective –those are cherished memories of childhood family dinners. But rote methods and cold rules are no longer enough. And no matter what it takes to stem this giant tide of excess, we really have no excuse not to start living differently. Let’s all stop acting like no one ever told us not to throw food away. <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/SwGHlUAj078" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0"></iframe> 1030 2011-11-22 23:14:13 2011-11-22 23:14:13 2014-06-08 22:55:49 2014-06-09 05:55:49 closed open notes-from-a-non-parent-4 publish 0 0 post 0 Americans Comfort Zone consumption Culture Food food Notes from a Non-parent waste _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1688654174;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:764;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:922;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:778;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:412;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1816;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:808;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/sidewalk-etiquette-excuse-me-or-excuse-you/ Mon, 28 Nov 2011 06:30:15 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1054 <h4><strong>What’s <em>your</em> response when some self-absorbed Facebook profile marches into you because she’s looking at a phone?</strong></h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/GROVE-1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1055" title="GROVE 1" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/GROVE-1.jpg" alt="" width="263" height="397" /></a>As a general rule, I (very clearly) say, “excuse you.” The same goes for when I’m blatantly cut off or elbowed. And especially at holiday time, my amusement grows in direct proportion to the indignation of the offender. Today, on a sidewalk between Barnes &amp; Noble and Banana Republic, a woman and I collided when her UGGs continued to trudge as she texted. Her eyes were still on the screen when she heard "excuse you" as I stepped around and away from her. Inside B&amp;N not four minutes later, I heard behind me an indignant voice saying, “…and this asshole son-of-a-bitch said, ‘<em>excuse you</em>,’ to me – shuh!” Having angrily brushed past me with the phone now at her ear, she’d pulled a U-turn outside and followed me into the store. Now she stopped and awaited the reaction to which evidentially felt entitled. She was suddenly a victim and was hissing the details of her ordeal to a friend – if there <em>was </em>anyone on the other end of her phone.<!--more--> I met the emotional gimp’s glare head on and matter-of-factly said, “Yes I did. That's exactly what I did,” and stepped away. That’s when she shouted for all to hear, “Well then you're a fucking dick!” Heads turned, I smiled, and the passive-agressive case study just boiled all the more. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Grove-2.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1056" title="Grove 2" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Grove-2.jpg" alt="" width="248" height="412" /></a>She couldn’t be bothered to watch where she was going and now she’d short-circuited like a bad toaster. Did it somehow infuriate her that I would dare call her on the lapse of sidewalk manners in under four syllables? Did she find exhibiting courtesy equal to a kind of conformity that she believed herself to be above? Was she angry over my getting in a last word for common sense? Judgmental on my part? Gleefully yes. But this isn’t sidewalk rage. I’m not Mel Gibson and I didn’t call her sugar-tits, so I know I’m not a bully. Male or female, bigger than me or not, I’ve been challenging people’s lack of regard with “excuse you” for as long as I can remember. When applied appropriately and timed well, it can stop someone in his tracks. It gets under people's skin like you wouldn't believe. If it happens to inspire a millisecond of reflection on how we affect those around us, all the better. But who am I, you ask, to so condemningly say “excuse you” instead of “excuse me?” Eh, just a guy who got bumped into when you weren’t paying attention, and a guy who’s still laughing at how upset you got when I called you on it. Have fun in the stores this season. I do. 1054 2011-11-28 06:30:15 2011-11-28 06:30:15 2015-10-26 22:59:05 2015-10-27 05:59:05 closed open sidewalk-etiquette-excuse-me-or-excuse-you publish 0 0 post 0 Character Comfort Zone Culture Excuses Facebook holiday Idiots shopping _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1689977435;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10346;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:357;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9010;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9750;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11905;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8028;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/to-cain-and-conrad-get-character-or-become-one/ Thu, 01 Dec 2011 04:14:37 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1064 <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/A13.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1065" title="A13" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/A13.jpg" alt="" width="212" height="310" /></a>Yesterday I participated in a call-in radio interview with station 1290 AM in North Texas called <em>Real Life Talk</em>, hosted by author David Sabine, Ph.D. The man is an accomplished clinical psychologist who, as you might expect, has a soothing tenor and is easy to speak with, plus you couldn’t pay the guy to interrupt you. I was invited twice previously to Sabine’s show to discuss personal responsibility, excuses, and the mental cases/ethical shape shifters we Americans are quickly becoming. First we usually bat around the ball of my background and the story behind my forthcoming book, Where Excuses Go to Die, and from there we get down to business. Today that meant Dr. Conrad Murray and Mr. Herman Cain.<!--more--> The show will air in Texas on Dec. 3, but if you’re interested in more of what we said, the interview will find its way into <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/media/" target="_blank">the media section here</a> as soon as it becomes available for download. The short version is this: With his inability to accept fault or show any remorse (what the court referred to as a “failure of character”), Murray has <em>become</em> a character, stuck forever in our minds as the cartoonishly creepy man who killed Michael Jackson. We’ll always recognize the footage of him sitting through his trial with no expression whatsoever, or defending himself on the witness stand. He’ll forever be seen as the jerkoff who chose celebrity, cash, and stature over the life of a patient he swore an oath to protect. As anyone who watched courtroom footage could see in his eyes, Conrad Murray will be known as a small man who left behind a big, disreputable, public imprint. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/B14.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1066" title="B14" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/B14.jpg" alt="" width="281" height="297" /></a>Herman Cain, on the other hand, wants Americans to believe he’s a <em>big</em> man: big in business, principle, stature, and vision. On his campaign website he’s called “the epitome of the American Spirit,” which certainly sounds big, but given his unwillingness to acknowledge that he might have done something questionable, let alone wrong, pizza guy’s public imprint will be small in the end. In contrast to Ginger White, the woman alleging a 13-year-long affair with Cain who has publicly apologized for her part in the scandal and for hurting Cain’s family, Cain himself remains defiant. Just yesterday he <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57334370-503544/herman-cain-it-aint-over-yet/">vowed to continue</a> his fight, claiming he’s <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/30/politics/cain-accusation-affair/index.html" target="_blank">a victim of “character assassination.”</a> So I believe we’ll wind up remembering <em>not</em> the “100% honest” Herman Cain, but Cain the cliché, the self-important, breast grabbing, philandering GOP also-ran. My point is (and was on the show in a longer-winded version) that both Murray and Cain failed to “get” character when they needed it most, and as a result they’ve “become” characters in history – jokey pop culture references to shitty moral values. And neither man has anyone to blame but himself. <h6>Thanks, David, for the discussion and the opportunity to share my perspective.</h6> <h3><strong>Cain Update:  Friday, December 2^nd 2011</strong></h3> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://video.foxnews.com/v/embed.js?id=1305317712001&amp;w=466&amp;h=263"></script> <noscript>Watch the latest video at &lt;a href="http://video.foxnews.com"&gt;video.foxnews.com&lt;/a&gt;</noscript>Herman, to me and countless other Americans whose bullshit detectors aren’t turned off, Pharma fuzzy or bought ‘n paid for, when you talk you, you become a case study in pathology. The media is out to get you? Somebody's paying off your accusers to smear your character? Your attorney is workin’ on reestablishing your character, you say? As previously stated: Get character or become one. You sir, are a genuine idiot. You’re ego is so big you haven’t a clue as to your role in history. &nbsp; 1064 2011-12-01 04:14:37 2011-12-01 04:14:37 2014-12-21 10:07:16 2014-12-21 17:07:16 closed open to-cain-and-conrad-get-character-or-become-one publish 0 0 post 0 Character Conrad Murray Culture Dr. David Sabine Excuses GOP Herman Cain Michael Jackson _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1688475844;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4456;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3066;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9702;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4439;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8331;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4866;}}}} http://working-copy.local/self-esteem/beauty-is-an-attitude/ Wed, 07 Dec 2011 05:10:02 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1080 <h4><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1081" title="1" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/1.jpg" alt="" width="373" height="291" /></a>Estée Lauder Introduces European-Specific Skincare Line, Reminding Us of Our War Against American Women</strong></h4> Personally, I believe most cosmetic facial creams and moisturizers do nothing for women’s skin besides hydrate it, and I think the cosmetics industry sells mostly ageism, vitamin A, and water. I also firmly believe in what Estée Lauder must have when she began selling the facial crèmes she invented with the help of her chemist uncle: that "there are no ugly women, only women who don't care or who don't believe they're attractive."<!--more--> Unfortunately, today’s multinational cosmetics firms profit mightily from predatory marketing designed to strategically divide and conquer women as though they were enemies on a battlefield. In the U.S. in particular, the cosmetics industry seems to thrive on a premise of negativity: that there’s automatically something wrong with you that you simply <em>must</em> fix. From makeup to cosmetic surgery to the final handoff to Big Pharma, American women are the baton in a pretty nasty relay race. [caption id="attachment_1082" align="alignright" width="463" caption="Co-founder of Healthy is the New Skinny Katie Halchishick, in the November 2011 issue of O (Oprah Magazine). Dotted lines, like those made by cosmetic surgeons (or photo editors) cover Katie, indicating what would have to be cut away in order for her to have Barbie’s body."]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/2-Katie-Halchishik.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1082 " title="2 Katie Halchishik" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/2-Katie-Halchishik.jpg" alt="" width="463" height="294" /></a>[/caption] In keeping with this trend, Estée Lauder the <em>brand</em> will soon launch its Revitalizing Supreme Global Anti-Aging Crème, a gimmick purportedly aimed at European women but which will no doubt sell well among their American counterparts, regardless of the carnival-science behind it. In fact, by claiming that it designed its cream around studies involving European women, Estée Lauder will reinforce a belief that European women are more sophisticated, sensible, and discriminating than Americans when it comes to skin care. This pseudo-conventional wisdom keeps the two markets separate but unified just enough to make you wonder which female demographic is <em>really</em> being targeted. In the end, it’s whichever one buys more, hence Estée Lauder’s interest in preserving illusions of superiority vs. inferiority, perceptiveness vs. naivety, and European vs. American. If you want to see a <em>real</em> difference between average American and European women, ride a subway in Germany, England, Spain, or France and look around. Women there live with far less of an expectation of being viewed than American women do, and that fact is exploited by multinational cosmetics (and fashion) companies. Does this expectancy of appraisal leave American women with less resistance to marketing tricks (i.e. does it make ‘em suckers)? I think it makes them less fortunate, less left to themselves to be who they are. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/3.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1083" title="3" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/3.jpg" alt="" width="252" height="200" /></a>From the time they’re practically children, American men are sold pick-up trucks and beer. American women are sold lifespans of subordination, rivalry, and stupefying physical standards. Sound imbalanced? How many whole floors of your average department store are committed to women's apparel and cosmetics versus the often half or single floor for men? How many more products is that to be tempted by, especially when each of them has been designed to remind you of your unlimited “flaws?” European women aren’t smarter or more pragmatic: they’re luckier in the sense that many have not yet been utterly shamed to near psychosis with self-improvement advertising. Apparently images of women who have turned themselves into cosmetic surgery monsters don’t only make <em>me</em> grimace; as Estée Lauder conducted its surveys and research, with some exception <a href="http://www.savvyskin.com/celebrities-with-bad-plastic-surgery" target="_blank">they found out real fast what European women did <em>not</em> want</a>. And there are other socio-cultural differences as well of course, some of which actually <em>do</em> point to a need for self-improvement or at least restraint. Most European refrigerators are rather small, with room for essentials and the day’s meals. Americans, on the other hand, seem to equate quality-of-life with the ability to up-size. We aspire to <a href="http://www.subzero-wolf.com/" target="_blank">Sub-Zero kitchen barge refrigerators</a> and don’t think twice about the proliferation of commercials for <a href="http://www.mysnuggiestore.com/">Snuggies</a> and <a href="http://www.foreverlazy.com/" target="_blank">Forever Lazys</a> and <a href="http://www.hoveround.com/">Hoverrounds</a>, regardless of how all of this conflicts with the media’s insistence that American women reshape their 50-year-old bodies into those of bouncy 10th-graders in order be sold their wardrobes. On top of that (or perhaps because of it) women size each other up like no one’s business, so in my opinion no race on earth is more divided and conquered than American women, at least not so insidiously. For now – and my money’s on this unfortunately changing – European women have a little bit more luxury to believe that beauty is an attitude, which ironically is another Estée Lauder (the woman) truth. &nbsp; 1080 2011-12-07 05:10:02 2011-12-07 05:10:02 2013-03-18 21:12:24 2013-03-18 21:12:24 closed open beauty-is-an-attitude publish 0 0 post 0 Character cosmetic surgery cosmetics Culture Estée Lauder Healthy is the New Skinny Katie Halchishick Self-Esteem _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705644803;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6233;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5088;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9916;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/a-grateful-haiti-welcomes-kim-kardashian/ Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:35:40 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1088 <h4><strong>The celebrated prostitute risks cholera and ridicule for beachside photo ops with fans that live on $1.71 per day. Her bodyguards will eat enough to feed 300 of the children who might otherwise touch the reality television star without warning.</strong></h4> <h4></h4> [caption id="attachment_1101" align="alignleft" width="585" caption="Kim Kardashian&#39;s visit to Haiti is expected to empower the Haitian people to buy Kardashian Glamour Tan and Kardashian Beach Bunny SwimWear"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/a3.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1101" title="a" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/a3.jpg" alt="" width="585" height="385" /></a>[/caption] <h4><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: #444444;">I know, I know – why start a conversation about Kim Kardashian at all? Hey, I go where the B.S. takes me. </span></h4> <h4><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: #444444;">Kardashian is a myopically self-obsessed individual with a grossly deformed ego and a missing moral compass, and in fact there is currently no better example of a person who’s <em>become</em> a character at the expense of actually earning any.</span></h4> <!--more-->But don’t tell your daughter that. Instead, ask her if she’s ever seen Kim – or any Kardashian – read a book, or if she thinks Kim likes photography or politics or whale watching. Not opening the exchange pigheadedly – as adults tend to do when they’re opposed to the attentions of the young – is a good way to inconspicuously point out the lack of dimension or substance. And who knows? You might just plant a seed. I remember appreciating and later admiring teachers and peer-parents who gave me the opportunity to <em>sell</em> the merits of my various cultural fixations rather than defend them, as I was forced to do at home. Doing so caused me to place my idols, infatuations, and causes under my <em>own</em> microscope, which nine times out of ten hastened their shelf life. The biggest adolescent debt of gratitude I owe is to those adults who helped me outgrow something faster. Too bad so little of that strategy is being used to deter teen celebrants (and adult propagators) of Kardashian &amp; Co. Kim Kardashian is a one-woman Holocaust whose television show would more aptly be titled <em>Planet of the Rapes</em> for all the damage it inflicts on the expectations and the self-image of young girls. Don’t get me wrong: it’s not like this keeps me up at night <a href="http://boycottkim.com/#Boycott-Kim-Kardashian" target="_blank">as it does some others</a>; I think Kim Kardashian is little more than a moronic marionette, dancing and groping for whatever its greedy owner wants. But that doesn’t make her influence any more worthwhile, and it’s still no excuse for perpetuating her standards and principles without question. As for Haiti, Kardashian’s visit to the impoverished Republic is such a grotesque falsification of empathy that you’d think it was a reality show plot...God help us. 1088 2011-12-11 23:35:40 2011-12-11 23:35:40 2011-12-11 23:35:40 2011-12-11 23:35:40 closed open a-grateful-haiti-welcomes-kim-kardashian publish 0 0 post 0 Celebrity Character Culture Excuses Haiti Kim Kardashian _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1688529012;s:7:"payload";a:2:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:293;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1589;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/update-the-vivian-maier-phenomenon-continues/ Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:16:38 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1103 <h4><strong>Still humbled by John Maloof's incredible discovery.</strong></h4> [caption id="attachment_1110" align="alignleft" width="391"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/New-Vivian-Maier15.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-1110 " title="New Vivian Maier1" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/New-Vivian-Maier15.jpg" width="391" height="392" /></a> So much happening, so little to go on. The absence of color allows the viewer's imagination to go wild.[/caption] <strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Inspired by: Vivian Maier and <a href="http://www.vivianmaier.com/research/vivian-maier/">vivianmaier.com</a></span></strong> Swearing off all usage of the phrase "shock and awe" almost as soon as I heard it helped me deny its imprint, so now it can land where it wants, such as with street photographer Vivian Maier’s recently discovered body of work. I am in <em>shock</em> that Maier could hide the outcome of a life's passion from the world so effectively, and I’m in <em>awe</em> of the work itself. I'm also in shock that someone unknowingly found thousands of Maier's photos and undeveloped rolls of film, and I'm in awe of that person's willingness to rise to the occasion and share them. <!--more--> [caption id="attachment_1111" align="alignleft" width="466"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/New-Vivian-Maier4.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-1111 " title="New Vivian Maier4" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/New-Vivian-Maier4.jpg" width="466" height="466" /></a> The kid with the bucket all the way down on his head is friggin' priceless: somehow I just can't stop looking at this picture.[/caption] <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;">In contrast to the toxic levels of instant access we live with every day, Vivian Maier was a monument to the notion of creating and maintaining a relationship with <em>delayed</em> gratification. </span> [caption id="attachment_1112" align="alignleft" width="434"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/New-Vivian-Maier5.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-1112 " title="New Vivian Maier5" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/New-Vivian-Maier5.jpg" width="434" height="434" /></a> I have pictures of my grandfather from the 1940s in which he might've been about this woman's age. I also lost his camera somewhere on those very steps. I still feel terrible about it; this picture doesn't help.[/caption] The short version of Vivian’s story can be told in 3.3 seconds courtesy of A&amp;E's “Storage Wars,” but since posting <em><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/in-admiration-of-vivian-maier-1926-2009/" target="_blank">In Admiration of Vivian Maier, 1926-2009</a></em>, in May of this year, I’ve spoken with a number of people who agree that Maier and her work deserve much more. I’m confident you will too. The idea is to get you to dive in, use the Internet for its absolutely positively 100% guaranteed best purpose. <a href="http://vivianmaier.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-05-14T09:30:00-05:00&amp;max-results=50" target="_blank">Click around and learn about Vivian Maier’s life</a> on the streets of New York, Chicago, and elsewhere. [caption id="attachment_1113" align="alignleft" width="380"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/New-Vivian-Maier7.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-1113 " title="New Vivian Maier7" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/New-Vivian-Maier7.jpg" width="380" height="379" /></a>  That sandwich doesn't look so good, but Christ, neither does that hand![/caption] With little exception, <a href="http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/January-2011/Vivian-Maier-Street-Photographer/Photos-Vivian-Maiers-Street-Photography/" target="_blank">those who've discovered Vivian Maier</a> and taken a closer look at (what little there is to know of) her life have all have gone on to become <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWEDOnBfDUI" target="_blank">ardent fans of her and her liberator/protector, John Maloof</a>. It’s been about a year since Maloof began letting the world in on his accidental discovery and its wonderful secrets, something Maier herself had chosen not to do. [caption id="attachment_1114" align="alignleft" width="466"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/New-Vivian-Maier6.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-1114 " title="New Vivian Maier6" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/New-Vivian-Maier6.jpg" width="466" height="464" /></a> Which one of these little soldiers is the most in need of that wall? I'm bettin' on Jr. toward the far left there, the one with the glare of a Ringside cut-man at the end of the 10th round.[/caption] If you’re not into photography, you may wonder what the big deal is. I’m only an amateur enthusiast with a few cameras: some vintage, one Polaroid, and an iPhone4. I don’t usually know why I like the pictures I do, but with Maier’s work I can’t help but imagine what it was that humored or saddened her and where she might next have turned her lens. Her photos are just plain compelling. Beginning today in New York, the public will be able to judge Maier's work up close and meet those who have been touched by her self-taught sidewalk brilliance. The exhibit is being hosted by the <a href="http://www.howardgreenberg.com/#home">Howard Greenberg Gallery</a> on 57th Street and another, starting January 7^th in L.A., will be held at the Merry Karnowsky Gallery. I've already marked my calendar. 1103 2011-12-16 04:16:38 2011-12-16 04:16:38 2017-04-24 12:16:12 2017-04-24 19:16:12 closed open update-the-vivian-maier-phenomenon-continues publish 0 0 post 0 Character Culture Inspirational John Maloof photography Street Photography Vivian Maier _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704015963;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6520;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:474;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1163;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/new-years-resolutions-talk/ Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:55:10 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1125 <h4><strong>2012: The War on Big Talk</strong></h4> <h4><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Quitter.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1130" title="Quitter" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Quitter.jpg" alt="" width="391" height="293" /></a>By not following through on things, I've caused more damage to my self-image and confidence than all of the frustrations or bad luck the world has ever thrown at me. </strong></h4> The older I get, the harder the could’ves and should’ves tend to bite. On the other hand, when I start something and I finish it, I feel like I have a full tank of gas and a wallet full of cash. The feeling is like body armor against the bullet points on lists of others’ accomplishments: <!--more-->the world’s overachievers are far less intimidating when I know that I'm putting one foot in front of the other toward a goal. And no, I don’t mean daily living goals like paying bills or showing up on time, which I often hear being used as excuses. I mean deeper and scarier ones. I mean being my own Army drill sergeant and shoving myself toward the completion of something, toward self-discovery. Take Cuba, for example. I really need to experience a piece of the world where America’s corporatized authority isn’t jumping out at me from around every corner, where I don’t feel safeguarded by convenience and an ability to sue someone. I <em>talk</em> about gettin’ down there before Castro kicks the bucket and the place is turned into a WalMart, but I’m not doing a damn thing to get there. When the topic comes up among friends less informed about the political ramifications or legalities, I'm always the first to spout, “Meh, it's easy. You just fly outta’ Mexico or Canada or the UK. No problem!” What an asshole. I don't know the first thing about what it takes to get to Cuba in spite of the American embargo. And have I saved any money to go? Psh! Of course not! But there are countless books on my shelves related to Castro and the Revolution and Cuban history and its people. (For those of you sickened by the idea of traveling to Cuba against the wishes of the U.S. State – or actually Treasury – Department, go chew on an old shoe: I’m not visualizing a cause or a party doctrine here, I’m talking about the mother of all time machines.) The point is, I have to change that; save for it; make it happen -- or shut the hell up. I go to ridiculous lengths to make sure I'm not the blabbering poser in the room, so I can’t allow this to stick out like a sore thumb anymore. Ah, but then there’re those bookshelves I want to build, the already purchased materials for which are still stacked in the garage untouched. There’s also the stuff I should list on eBay and the short film I wanna make, plus all the other things that really boil down to self expression. (If following through on something and feeling great about it upon completion isn't the truest and most productive form of self expression, I don't know what is.) In that regard, I don’t need money to feel big; I need only to strive for the means to express myself in this way. And no, Facebook doesn’t effin’ count. I find more longing, emptiness, and unfulfilled promises on Facebook than I ever did in prison, and <em>that's</em> sayin’ something. No, I mean something that encourages delayed gratification and that requires me to push myself. (And if there's anything that <em>doesn’t</em> urge me to push myself, it's Facebook). So in the name of being less of a talker and more of a doer, I find only one thing worth considering in the coming year: Who gives a shit who's first? The only thing that really matters is who crosses the finish line. Happy Holidays, and whether or not the Mayans are right, may you kick-ass in 2012. <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/eaIvk1cSyG8" frameborder="0" width="560" height="315"></iframe> 1125 2011-12-23 00:55:10 2011-12-23 00:55:10 2017-11-06 12:37:02 2017-11-06 19:37:02 closed open new-years-resolutions-talk publish 0 0 post 0 2012 Character Comfort Zone Cuba Culture Excuses Facebook New Year's resolutions _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706868622;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5800;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7779;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10346;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9750;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9702;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10082;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/happy-new-year-from-the-hollywood-arsonist/ Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:00:15 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1134 <h4><strong>Harry "</strong><strong>The Hollywood Arsonist" </strong><strong>Burkhart was apprehended, but not before giving me a personal view of the lives affected by his über-tantrum.</strong></h4> <h6><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Hollywood-Arsonist1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1135" title="Hollywood Arsonist1" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Hollywood-Arsonist1.jpg" alt="" width="367" height="491" /></a>Monday, January 2, 2012</strong></h6> At 2:30 a.m. on Monday, having been jolted from sleep by sirens aplenty, I saw for myself the fear, loss, and abrupt gratitude on the faces of an apartment building full of people watching their cars and property burn. Living in Los Angeles, you get to know the difference between a burning hillside and 3000 lbs. of plastic car, so when I looked out our kitchen window and saw a huge column of thick tire smoke mushroom-clouding over the house, I knew two things: that the response by police and fire had been nearly instantaneous (bravo!) and that this unhinged piece of shit had made his way into our neighborhood. <!--more--> At the scene, a mere 275 yards or so from my driveway, I found the same people I'd been watching in TV news footage all weekend: arson victims milling about, not quite sure what to do with themselves yet completely aware of their immediate predicament: <h5 align="center"><em><strong><span style="color: #800000;">How will I get to work this week? How will the kids get to school? Sure, we could be an ashtray full of smoldering cigarette butts right now – and I’m thankful we’re not – but are we covered for all this?</span></strong></em></h5> These were my neighbors, a group of families suddenly six to eight automobiles lighter, perhaps some of them suddenly shoved below the official poverty line (because even if their insurance <em>is</em> paid up, with all the countless WTF loopholes given to corporations these days, the likelihood of full value replacement is pretty slim.)<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Hollywood-Arsonist2.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1136" title="Hollywood Arsonist2" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Hollywood-Arsonist2.jpg" alt="" width="409" height="306" /></a> Burkhart, the demented dingdong now considered most likely to have set all 53+ fires apparently blurted to his arresting officers that he hates America because his Mommy could be facing deportation. To Germany, that is…that poverty-stricken, judicial hellhole anyone would rather get shipped to Guatemala to avoid. Although authorities won’t yet confirm that this is Burkhart's motivation, the dough-faced dumbass is supposedly bitter about not getting something to which he feels entitled, so he goes and burns people out of their homes, literally lighting fires under people’s beds. So yes, friends, I smell a forthcoming courtroom excuse that would choke a holding cell full of shoplifters and junkies, and you can bet you’ll find future commentary on that right here. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Hollywood-Arsonist3.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1137" title="Hollywood Arsonist3" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Hollywood-Arsonist3.jpg" alt="" width="408" height="306" /></a>Until now, I had nothing to say about what this individual may or may not have been doing with the incendiary devices in Burkhart's minivan. Until now, I could only hope for the perpetrator’s quick apprehension, because what does one say about someone as destitute of sensibility as a man-eater arsonist? It wasn’t ‘til I was standing in front of a bathrobe-swaddled neighbor, watching firemen hose down her car, that my own desensitization to stupid human tricks was stripped bare. The look on her face and the faces of her fellow tenants was a mix of disbelief and “<em>What am I going to do now?”</em> She told me she’d allowed her son and visiting nephew to stay up late at the controls of his PlayStation: when the two boys heard a loud <em>POP!</em> at the back of the building where the carport is, they ran to the window, saw the flames, and started hollering. None of this could have occurred more than 12 minutes before she and I spoke, and already 5 trucks-worth of firemen were saving the remaining cars in the structure. (Over the past four days, we Angelenos have been marveling at what might as well be L.A. firefighter drive-bys. These guys were working their asses off, running all over town playing arsonist Whack-a-Mole alongside site-investigators and police detectives. On Monday they were as tight as a rock band at the end of a 48-city tour.)<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Hollywood-Arsonist4.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1138" title="Hollywood Arsonist4" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Hollywood-Arsonist4.jpg" alt="" width="381" height="510" /></a> So we stood there, a couple dozen children and parents and folks watching the firefighters go nuts with the most badass, gas-powered metal cutting circular saw you’ve ever seen. Sparks were flying everywhere off the hood of my neighbor’s now torched Single Mom Mobile, and I could see on her face the struggle with what might have been. She had fallen asleep. Her son could have kept right on playing <em>Call of Duty</em>. Now she was standing there trying to be strong for him, when most likely the totality of the situation hadn’t even hit her yet. I realized then that this crackpot was hurting people who could least afford it, all over the city. This lady and her fellow tenants, as well as many of his other victims, are struggling to keep their bills paid, struggling to maintain a sense of dignity while the working class settles generally for less and less. The best excuses imaginable are gonna back away from Burkhart before his assigned public defender even shakes his fat, clammy hand. An on-scene LAPD detective I spoke with said it best: “If Karma exists, it can’t get much worse for this guy.” <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Hollywood-Arsonist5.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1139" title="Hollywood Arsonist5" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Hollywood-Arsonist5.jpg" alt="" width="479" height="358" /></a>Having been born in Germany myself, living there in my 20s, and having lots of German friends that my wife and I try to visit every other year, I’m not looking forward to the impending references to the clichéd methodical approach to tormenting innocent people, nor the assignment of German megalomania to a single crybaby twisted fuck. Me, I’ll find humor in the fact that Harry Burkhart is the spittin’ image of the Comic Book Guy character from <em>The Simpsons</em>.<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Hollywood-Arsonist-.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1140" title="Hollywood Arsonist" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Hollywood-Arsonist-.jpg" alt="" width="355" height="194" /></a> But sarcasm aside, no one knows what's yet in store for this dumb bastard. I, on the other hand, now have a better understanding of how his actions affected the community – and certainly a better one than he ever will. To be continued… 1134 2012-01-03 03:00:15 2012-01-03 03:00:15 2012-01-03 03:00:15 2012-01-03 03:00:15 closed open happy-new-year-from-the-hollywood-arsonist publish 0 0 post 0 Cowardice Excuses firefighters Happy New Year Harry Burkhart Hollywood arsonist Idiots _edit_last 2 custom_permalink no-happy-new-year-for-the-hollywood-arsonist/ _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1701182307;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:258;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1343;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11777;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/enter-the-vivian-maier-crowd-2/ Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:53:13 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1163 <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Viviam-Maier-A-life-Discovered1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1164" title="Viviam Maier A life Discovered" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Viviam-Maier-A-life-Discovered1.jpg" alt="" width="462" height="483" /></a>There was once a woman who worked as a nanny, who wandered the streets in her off hours photographing pedestrians, policemen, and passersby. Thousands upon thousands of pictures she took, tossing countless rolls of undeveloped film into drawers and boxes without an apparent need for approval or accolade. Tonight in Los Angeles, Vivian Maier's legacy of fascinating self-direction and independence will be given the art gallery treatment with a reception at Merry Karnowsky Gallery on La Brea Avenue. From what we know of Maier, courtesy of <a href="http://vivianmaier.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">John Maloof</a>, discoverer of all of those lonely rolls of film and the imagined stories behind them, she did not seek fame or fortune. She wasn't competitive nor driven by a need for attention or even very much company. For such a rare and precious discovery, I'm both excited and afraid for my expectations of whom her work will attract. Will the "look-at-me" L.A. crowd be up for her self-contained legacy? Stay tuned. 1163 2012-01-08 01:53:13 2012-01-08 01:53:13 2012-01-08 01:53:13 2012-01-08 01:53:13 closed open enter-the-vivian-maier-crowd-2 publish 0 0 post 0 Culture John Maloof Merry Karnowsky photography Vivian Maier _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1683068729;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1103;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1173;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:474;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6520;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4219;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3665;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/overheard-at-the-art-gallery-2/ Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:17:33 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1173 <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Merry-Karnowsky-Gallery1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1174" title="Merry Karnowsky Gallery1" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Merry-Karnowsky-Gallery1.jpg" alt="" width="403" height="301" /></a><em>"Los Angeles beckons teenagers to come to her on buses,"</em> sings the band Soul Coughing in a song called “Screenwriter's Blues.” Besides being literally true, the same lack of imagination applies to anyone who looks for the reactions of others before rendering an opinion: the copycats and the skittish; the birdbrains and the sheep; the neophytes and the misfits, all of whom seem to be drawn to my otherwise great city.<!--more--> It's partly why the gallery circuit in L.A. is both easy to make fun of and highly entertaining. The New York scene, despite its pseudo-blasé exclusivity, demands slightly more preparation from its patrons, peddlers, and poseurs, but in the end the two just aren’t that different. Like anything else these days, if you want substance, you gotta hunt for it. Arriving at the Merry Karnowsky gallery last Saturday night for "Vivian Maier: A Life Discovered," we found event host Tim Roth walking the line of people waiting out on the sidewalk. "It's amazing," he marveled at the turnout, recording us with his iPhone. The crowd <em>was</em> surprisingly large, and reminding myself not to be annoyed by that was critical as I watched Maier’s legacy collide with the Circus Circus buffet crowd. <em>This is a good thing</em>, I told myself, knowing we’d be spending more than an hour inching toward the gallery door for even less freedom of movement and breathable air once we got in: <em>these people are here to pay tribute</em>. It’s even okay that the young woman behind us is explaining this fortuitous find to her friends with an uninformed, “she didn’t get too famous while she was alive, but she died recently and now everyone wants to see her work.” And it’s a <em>really </em>good thing I fought off the urge to whip around and unleash the fury of my long-perfected “Psh!” 'Cause what’s my excuse? How many openings have <em>I</em> attended for the sole purpose of getting drunk for free?<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Merry-Karnowsky-Gallery2.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1175" title="Merry Karnowsky Gallery2" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Merry-Karnowsky-Gallery2.jpg" alt="" width="397" height="317" /></a> <em>Exactly. </em>Inside the gallery, garish self-promoters mingled with trophy creatures of every stripe, and there was enough beard hair to signify an end to the facial fur holocaust. And still none of this surprised or especially disappointed until my own iPhone pics confirmed something I found truly cringe-worthy: that precious few of these “art-lovers”– even those I’d pegged as true Maier fans outside – were actually looking at the woman’s work. Almost everyone in attendance had his or her back to the walls, and the chatter that filled the gallery was stupefyingly inane. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Merry-Karnowsky-Gallery3.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1176" title="Merry Karnowsky Gallery3" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Merry-Karnowsky-Gallery3.jpg" alt="" width="446" height="331" /></a>Admittedly, to have expected otherwise was kinda naïve on my part, and for the moment it was nice to let the presence of Vivian Maier’s intimate passion rob me of at least a little of my cynicism. But having watched this become a lesser phenomenon than it deserves to be over the past year, I know I have to hand Maier off to the world of Axe Body Spray and $1000 baby strollers. So I’ll bid the now commercial version of her work farewell and walk away smugly satisfied that I’ve never referred to Maier by only her first name as though we were old friends – something I heard so frequently amid the me-me-me clamor it was what finally drove me out of the gallery. And what of John Maloof, discoverer of Maier’s work and the reason we have it to celebrate in the first place? <em>I</em> couldn’t identify him, and I know what he looks like. The gallery made no mention of how he found the photos, nary a word on the work that went into bringing this as-yet-unknown gem into the public sphere was said. To that girl behind me in line – and to countless others who understood what they were there to see even less than she did – Maloof was simply another byline, one more “from the collection of…” asshole. You wanna know the details? Shell out $40 for a book. Me, I’ll take my love of Vivian Maier’s story and photos to someone it can benefit most: a receptive young person capable of truly valuing a fascinating and rare example of self-determining womanhood. For now, though, the hunt for such substance goes on. 1173 2012-01-10 06:17:33 2012-01-10 06:17:33 2012-01-10 06:17:33 2012-01-10 06:17:33 closed open overheard-at-the-art-gallery-2 publish 0 0 post 0 Culture John Maloof Merry Karnowsky photography Vivian Maier _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703818911;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1163;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1103;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6520;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/apocalypse-hoosegow-4-of-heroin-burritos-and-dings-at-l-a-s-mens-central-jail/ Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:43:32 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1180 <h4><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/1ONE.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1181" title="1ONE" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/1ONE.jpg" alt="" width="477" height="357" /></a>I've seen the mentally ill scurry from beatings under bunks, behind trashcans, and between walls and toilets. I've also witnessed Sheriff’s Deputies chasing these “Dings” down to hogtie ‘em and leave ‘em that way until their wrists and feet turned so purple I wanted to scream in anger. It’s all coming back now – but this time, finally, it’s coming back publically. </strong></h4> First of all, “Ding” is a jail term for prisoners suffering from obvious mental health issues. Jabbering crazy dudes are <em>everywhere</em> in jail, and most of ‘em like to hide – in corridors, showers, laundry areas, etc. They also jump out at you, yell at you, grab your food while you’re eating, and keep you up at all hours. So naturally, Dings get the shit beaten out of ‘em night and friggen’ day.<!--more--> More than any other prisoners, Dings suffer vicious deprivations akin to those you see in movies; for the most part they live like starving, beaten dogs. In Sheriff Lee Baca’s custody, they’re little more than punching bags for amped-up jocks and tormenters on both sides of the bars. This week, though, Dings are sharing headlines with the “heroin burrito” as the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors wonders why <em>anyone</em> whose erratic behavior can so easily be misinterpreted would be housed with the general population in facilities like Men’s Central Jail (MCJ). To anyone who’s ever been in custody at MCJ, heroin burritos and yowling Dings are not just old news: their distress is one of the details most of us repeatedly try to forget. But Ding beatings <em>are</em> apparently new to some County Supervisors, who are just now learning about yet another component of the horrendous conditions inside L.A.’s jails from a behind-the-8-ball Sherriff’s Department. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/2TWO.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1182" title="2TWO" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/2TWO.jpg" alt="" width="499" height="331" /></a>Now why, you might wonder, would this be coming from the Department itself if Sheriff’s Deputies are part of the problem? Well, money, for one: Baca is suddenly – belatedly – requesting suitably trained staff in order to curtail the number of Ding-assaults by MCJ staff. And apparently his people must’ve decided that the “facts” here had better come from the Department’s own representatives before they’re exposed by the ACLU or the FBI, which is currently investigating everything from the usual rounds of excessive force allegations to <a href="http://www.scpr.org/news/2012/01/11/30762/civil-rights-attorney-alleges-la-county-sheriffs-d/" target="_blank">destroying evidence and filing phony police reports</a>, wrongful incarcerations, and now the smuggling of <a href="http://working-copy.local/who-is-this-guy/">heroin burritos</a>. The Supervisors must be woozy at this point, having just watched taxpayers absorb the horror of the LA Weekly’s December 2011 cover story, “<a href="http://www.laweekly.com/2011-12-08/news/wheelchair-hell-in-men-s-central-jail/">Wheelchair Hell in Men's Central Jail</a>,” and the recent news that more than $157,000 in surveillance camera technology long scheduled to be installed in MCJ has been sitting in boxes for over a year. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/3THREE.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1183" title="3THREE" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/3THREE.jpg" alt="" width="436" height="293" /></a>The first time I personally saw a Ding getting his ass kicked by more than one pair of Deputy boots I didn't sleep for days, but then that might've been because I was housed on “the Freeway” in the 3000 Block. (Until you get used to <em>that</em> Hell, you just don't close your eyes.) So I can only imagine how the Board of Supervisors – let alone activists, lawmakers, and the rest of the world – would react to a year’s worth of HD camera footage taken inside Men’s Central. And still, it’s hard for me to believe that what’s always gone on that place is finally coming to light. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/4FOUR.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1184" title="4FOUR" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/4FOUR.jpg" alt="" width="477" height="322" /></a>So as the Board of Supervisors grows ever more exasperated with the glacial pace of Sheriff Baca’s efforts to reign in his out-of-control Department, I’m guessing the last thing it wants to read is an L.A.S.D. request for additional funds that <em>admits</em> jail-assigned Deputies are more likely to use excessive force on the mentally ill. Cops on the street frequently arrest the mentally ill and the homeless to give them a place to sleep and a decent meal; such “mercy bookings” are as old as Los Angeles itself. But most homeless people will tell you this is one favor they can do without – at least until the Sheriff’s Department finally installs those cameras. Thanks to the FBI and Peter Eliasberg of the ACLU, more and more photographs are surfacing from inside MCJ, some from Housing Units where I was "lost" for several months, and others from cell modules where I witnessed instances of inhuman neglect and flat out torture. (<em>Shout-out to the 9000 block ya’ll!</em>)  Some of the pictures are hard to look at, though not just from bad memories. I'm in disbelief at their having been made public at all. That the dumbest and cruelest secrets of the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department are being exposed seems weird and almost difficult to accept. [caption id="attachment_1191" align="alignleft" width="638" caption="This is a 9000 unit. It&#39;s a way station that inmates are sent to before they&#39;re given a cell module assignment. This room alone contains just about every reason you can possibly imagine for staying out of jail."]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/9000.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1191" title="9000" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/9000.jpg" alt="" width="638" height="426" /></a>[/caption] &nbsp; 1180 2012-01-12 21:43:32 2012-01-12 21:43:32 2017-11-06 12:37:02 2017-11-06 19:37:02 closed open apocalypse-hoosegow-4-of-heroin-burritos-and-dings-at-l-a-s-mens-central-jail publish 0 0 post 0 ACLU Ding Excuses FBI heroin burrito L.A. County Board of Supervisors L.A. County Jail L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca mentally ill Prison Sheriff's Department _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703630087;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2309;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2523;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:521;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/do-the-molestation-math/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:57:44 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1233 <h4><strong>A 3^rd grade teacher is given $1 million bail for each of his 23 felony counts of lewd acts on a child. Taxpayers will spend $47,421 a year to imprison this teacher for the rest of his life. What is the total cost of throwing the teacher into a shark tank? </strong></h4> <h6><strong><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/AA1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1252" title="AA1" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/AA1.jpg" alt="" width="463" height="324" /></a>Source:</strong>  <a href="http://www.newser.com/story/164336/lewd-tasting-game-claims-cost-la-district-30m.html">Washington Post</a></strong></h6> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; color: #444444;">Why-oh-why did the Los Angeles Unified School District keep a lid on having removed Mark Berndt from Miramonte Elementary School after the bad photos were found? Granted, investigators were trying to build a better case, but doing so likely prevented other children’s parents from asking what <em style="color: #444444;">their</em> kids may have been exposed to in that classroom and encouraging them to come forward.</span> <!--more-->So which of the children yet to be identified in the photos confiscated by authorities will fail to receive the counseling they need because of the secrecy? And are we okay with potentially perpetuating the cycle of molestation? Studies show that sexually abused children often exhibit familiarity or interest in sexual acts inappropriate to their age; where does that leave unaware parents if and when those traits start to show? To blame themselves or other family members? To rely on guesswork? What of a parent’s own struggle with denial or flat out revulsion? What <em>is</em> it with people not jumping up and down and shouting, “SATAN!!” when it comes to child molestation? First there are the A-holes who protect priests (I had to go outside and spit on the ground before I could continue typing here…); in more recent news there’s Mike McQueary, witnessing a sex act perpetrated by Jerry Sandusky. Why didn’t McQueary just take a mop handle to that mutherf_cker right then ‘n there? I’m not saying L.A.U.S.D. acted to protect Berndt, not at all. But there’s no excuse for going along with the secrecy of an investigation when it results in a failure to stand up for a child – or children – in need. 1233 2012-02-02 03:57:44 2012-02-02 03:57:44 2013-03-18 21:10:32 2013-03-18 21:10:32 closed open do-the-molestation-math publish 0 0 post 0 Character child molestation Excuses Los Angeles Unified School District Mark Berndt Miramonte Elementary School _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1700381335;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1254;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3301;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5616;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/not-dead-enough/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:45:58 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1254 <h4><strong>News reports covering the arrest of pervert-teacher #1 prompted alleged victims of Miramonte Elementary pervert-teacher #2 to come forward. We’re gonna need a bigger shark tank. </strong></h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Thanks.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-1255" title="Thanks" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Thanks.jpg" alt="" width="351" height="432" /></a>Here’s another math problem: Carmen needs to earn enough money to buy a "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Enough-Silver-Military-Survival-Knife/dp/B00BMVUZR4" target="_blank">Not Dead Enough" edition A-6 survival knife</a> to protect herself from pervert-teachers. The knife costs $42.99 + $7.00 for shipping.  She has $18.52. How much money does Carmen need to charge her fellow students for protection to pay off a loan for the A-6? But seriously folks… Regardless of whether or not cops and school administrators take low income and immigrant families seriously – highly debatable in communities where Spanish is predominantly spoken – it was media-driven public awareness that caused the arrest of Mr. Martin Springer, Miramonte pervert-teacher #2, suspected of fondling two little girls.<!--more--> The fact that it was pervert-teacher #1’s arrest that prompted the girls to come forward <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/do-the-molestation-math/" target="_blank">underscores my preceding argument</a> for full disclosure on the part of the school district. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Pervert-Teachers.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1256" title="Pervert-Teachers" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Pervert-Teachers.jpg" alt="" width="302" height="187" /></a>Over his 32 years at Miramonte, Mark Brendt (#1) was considered a fun teacher who dressed like Micky Mouse for Halloween (!) played music in the classroom, and gave out candy (!!!). He took the children on field trips and made an effort to communicate with parents in Spanish, which goes a long way among Latino familes. So (at the start of the police investigation) a well-liked teacher suddenly disappears and parents aren’t told why. A teacher who occasionally augments the school’s free lunch program with his own money goes missing and nobody says a word. A year later, the guy makes international headlines for acting out scenes from bondage DVDs with his students. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Cockroach-Teacher-and-a-friend.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1257" title="Cockroach Teacher and a friend" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Cockroach-Teacher-and-a-friend.jpg" alt="" width="275" height="396" /></a>Berndt took advantage of the fact that the school’s parents were predominantly undereducated immigrants – factory workers and gardeners – not looking to attract attention. L.A. Unified took it for granted that those same parents would go along with its secretive guidelines regarding police investigations of teachers. And how much, I wonder, is this really about the district staying in step with law enforcement policies vs. institutional hesitancy regarding disastrous PR? As I wrote in my previous post, I’m disturbed by the fact that there are still a number of unidentified children in the pornographic photos found in Berndt’s possession. Latino or not, immigrant or not, <em>legal</em> or not, these are children. That it took delayed public disclosure and outrage over Brendt’s actions to bring Springer’s into focus proves that parents are more aware of this fact than the school district itself. It also means that no amount of public scrutiny is too much to bear if it means giving kids a shot at recovery and<a href="http://www.trueswords.com/special-barbarian-spike-club-p-437.html?osCsid=feac2a0d05763bf14bed1b75f913ecf2"> justice</a>. 1254 2012-02-06 03:45:58 2012-02-06 03:45:58 2015-10-26 22:59:52 2015-10-27 05:59:52 closed open not-dead-enough publish 0 0 post 0 Character child molestation Excuses Los Angeles Unified School District Mark Berndt Martin Springer _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1688489448;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:283;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9010;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2809;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8404;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3256;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6354;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/welcome-to-a-worn-out-military/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:47:01 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1262 <strong>U.S. Marines, unaware that the Waffen-SS insignia epitomizes savagery and malice? Horseshit. The Corps has no excuse for refusing to discipline every soldier here, including the photographer.</strong> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Vacation.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1280" title="Vacation" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Vacation.jpg" alt="" width="442" height="260" /></a>Now before you start jumping up ‘n down about how I’m condemning our glorious holy troops, remember that the American Armed Forces are made up of individual young men and women. <!--more-->And <em>some</em> of them – lest we forget – don’t want to be there; suffer from PTSD, alcoholism, or addiction; or maybe are just in it for the citizenship or tuition money. The point is, there is an assortment of motivations, ethics, psychological profiles and personalities: a melting pot of potential misdeeds and mistakes. We’re only human, and we’ve been at war for 10+ years. We’re going to make mistakes, yes. But not this one, no sir. There’s no way you’re going to convince me that every Marine in this picture was unaware of the ferocity behind the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel" target="_blank">The Waffen SS and the SS-Totenkopfverbande (SS Deaths Head Organization)</a>. By that idiotic logic, the flag with which they’re posing might just as easily have displayed a toaster. So yes, a court-martial is necessary here. And again, before you reject the idea of persecuting our fine young heroes, remember that #1, posing with an SS emblem isn’t heroic, and #2, the term “court-martial” is often mistaken for penalty and punishment. In reality, it’s merely a review of the circumstances surrounding a loss of discipline, proper conduct, military property, or the rule of the <a href="http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/ucmj.htm" target="_blank">Uniform Code of Military Justice</a>. A court-martial does not always result in punishment, but it <em>will</em> always produce facts. Policies and future training will depend upon scrutinizing the participation of every Marine involved and making their explanations part of the official record. If the Marine Corps chooses not to punish these soldiers, fine. But make that decision <em>after</em> a thorough court-martial review. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Untitled3.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1266" title="Untitled3" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Untitled3.png" alt="" width="108" height="102" /></a>Besides, you’d think the Marine Corps would have enough decency to at least go through the motions on behalf of enduring death camp survivors, still-living WWII vets, and even your average Jew on the street. Call it a show trial or a nod to general principle – just don't call it “naïve” and move on. That flat-out lie is sickening and gives this photo all that much more power. Yeah – <em>power</em>. Ask yourself who might benefit from that power: those who accuse Americans of drifting into fascism perhaps? And wouldn’t an entire branch of the U.S. military writing Third Reich symbols off as “naïve” lend such criticism arguable credibility? <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/SS8.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1288" title="SS8" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/SS8-216x300.jpg" alt="" width="216" height="300" /></a>“Support the troops” includes basic education. NAZIS ARE BASIC EDUCATION! </strong> “Support the troops” doesn't mean shouting down anyone who questions American foreign policy. “Support the troops” isn't just a bumper sticker. With a looming Afghan theater drawdown, American Armed Forces will soon face the reality of recovering from a <em>really</em> long time at war (if we don’t jump into another one in the meantime). <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/SS3.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-1268" title="SS3" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/SS3.jpg" alt="" width="364" height="299" /></a>U.S. Marine snipers may not know that Heinrich Himmler was the principal engineer of the Final Solution or that the <a href="http://www.feldgrau.com/ss.html">Waffen-SS</a> was his personal link to Satan, but with this incident or that of the Marines urinating on three dead Taliban, it’s clear that fury and ignorance come with war. Just look at the accusations leveled at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Wheeler/Wallowa">Operation Wheeler</a> or the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Force">Tiger Force</a> incidents of Vietnam; look at the massacre at Son Thang, often called the "Marine Corps' My Lai." When I first saw this picture I wrote it off as the part of the ignorance and atrocity that exist in any theater of war. But it’s another thing entirely for deplorable behavior by the U.S. military to be dismissed (i.e. excused) as “naïve.” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called the urinating-on-dead-Taliban episode “absolutely inconsistent with American values and the standards we expect from our military personnel,” adding that anyone involved “must be held fully accountable.” For this new incident, the Marines should hold their soldiers fully accountable. No U.S. personnel trained to fire a weapon should be able to use naïveté as an excuse for giving renewed purpose to symbols associated with the Third Reich. “Support our troops” means give ‘em what they need so they won’t embarrass us, too.<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/SS4.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1285" title="SS4" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/SS4.jpg" alt="" width="274" height="220" /></a> Back when I was a prison inmate, countless Caucasian arms bearing those stupid double lighting bolts passed salt and pepper my way at each meal. In California prisons at least, each bolt signified the stabbing of a black inmate, and of course you were supposed to earn ‘em. Some guys had ‘em tattooed on anyway, just to prove an alliance. So maybe I have a special reason to detest the SS insignia. But if that makes me a Taliban-lover or guilty of having a wimpy, liberal attitude, let me just say that as a member of the 1st Battalion, 30th Infantry stationed in Schweinfurt, Germany during the Cold War I knew of no soldier who needed instruction of any kind on this matter. We shouldn’t ask less of today’s military just because the lessons of the Third Reich have been eclipsed by our desperation to exhibit every self-congratulatory image we can pose for. [caption id="attachment_1286" align="aligncenter" width="433" caption="Semper Fool? How dare the Marine Corps say its soldiers are this dumb!"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/SS7.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1286" title="SS7" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/SS7.jpg" alt="" width="433" height="228" /></a>[/caption] <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/uK-kWRAVmRU" frameborder="0" width="420" height="315"></iframe> 1262 2012-02-11 01:47:01 2012-02-11 01:47:01 2015-10-27 12:38:17 2015-10-27 19:38:17 closed open welcome-to-a-worn-out-military publish 0 0 post 0 Character court martial Excuses Marine Corps Nazis scout sniper SS insignia _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703626188;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11737;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4475;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9702;}}}} 45 hilary h_shooz@hotmail.com 67.127.31.170 2012-02-22 19:08:54 2012-02-22 19:08:54 errr, where can I get that flag with the toaster? 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/culture/a-teachable-moment-for-the-n-word/ Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:04:44 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1297 <h4><strong>When Lincoln Brown, a white Illinois teacher, found the N-word in a note passed during his majority African-American sixth grade class, he paused to discuss the slur in detail, even explaining why it hurt him to say it. Midway through the lesson, the school’s principal walked in and Brown wound up suspended without pay. </strong></h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/1.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-1298" title="1" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/1.jpg" alt="" width="492" height="314" /></a>First of all, isn’t a child <em>learning</em> about the N-word better than him or her simply picking it up from some dummy? I say yes, but I’m not sure we need Teacher Brown’s Federal lawsuit against Principal Gregory Mason and Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to get us there. Brown is claiming a violation of his First and Fifth Amendment rights, alleging that his 5-day suspension is both unjust and based on an inaccurate depiction of the episode submitted by Principal Mason.<!--more--> In a “Notice of Pre-disciplinary Hearing,” Mason cited Brown for “using verbally abusive language to or in front of students” and “cruel, immoral, negligent or criminal conduct or communication to a student, that causes psychological or physical harm” in violation of the Chicago Public Schools policy. It’s admittedly pretty heavy language – as if Brown had been caught dancing around a fat kid singing, “Nigga- nigga- nigga- nigga!” (By all accounts this is NOT what happened.) Mason’s somewhat contradictory full report states that Brown criticized the media’s portrayal of blacks, spoke of Twain's N-word use in <em>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,</em> and allowed students to chime in. He even quotes Brown voicing distress that the N-word is still so prevalent in society today and saying it “hurt” him to utter it at all. Then Mason recounts how he left Brown’s classroom for 15 minutes and returned to find that the teacher still hadn’t gone back to his regularly scheduled curriculum. Though Mason stayed in the room at that point, Brown was allowed to continue without interruption. So, perhaps under the impression that his principal was supportive of what he calls a “teachable moment,” Brown upped the ante and started questioning his kids about the treatment of black vs. white characters in movies, later citing a Southern Poverty Law Center project called “Teaching Tolerance” as his inspiration.<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/2.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1299" title="2" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/2-300x186.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="186" /></a> None of this sounds all that terrible. In fact you might wonder – as I did – how deep up Principal Mason’s butt that stick really goes for him to have taken issue with such a reportedly engaging and obviously relevant lesson. After the fact, no less. Ah, and there’s the rub. What Mason has up his butt is Chicago Public Schools. Even if he was personally uncomfortable with a white teacher repeatedly using the N-word to explain it to a black classroom, it's unlikely he found the discussion all that unhealthy. It’s far <em>more </em>likely that the lack of notification and ability to help shape the lesson was the issue, especially since Brown veered off the reservation arguably more widely than necessary to make a point to sixth graders. If, upon confiscating the note, Brown had halted the day's lesson long enough for a momentary, heartfelt talk on the hurtful nature of the N-word instead of winging a full-blown tough-love lecture, Mason may never have filed a disciplinary report. If the teacher had pulled the two hip-hop lyricists responsible for the note aside at the end of class and given his talk then, a federal case – literally – might not have been made of all of this. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/3.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1300" title="3" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/3.jpg" alt="" width="326" height="135" /></a>But Mason is the school’s principal. He’s top-of-the-pyramid accountable for protecting the psychological and physical health of every student at his school, and he decided in the end that Brown’s lesson went too far. CPS backed him up, rejecting Brown’s appeal and concluding that he had indeed “engaged in inappropriate discussions with sixth-grade students during instructional time.” But perhaps in deference to the reality of the world our sixth graders are growing up in (or maybe because <em>for the most part</em> the administrators agreed that Brown’s impromptu lesson was a decent one), Brown’s “punishment” was minimal. That could have – and should have – been the end of the story for everyone involved. Each side had a point, but in the end the principal and the school system opted for the most cautious route, which is ultimately their charge as administrators. And still, nothing in their imposed consequences prohibited Brown from returning to his classroom and resuming his role as the quality teacher he’s known by many to be. <strong>But this only the beginning of the story:</strong> Brown has filed his lawsuits and is claiming it would be all but impossible to go back to his job at Murray Language Academy. It’s not the end of the story, in other words, not because of the N-word itself or because racial tensions have flared, but because someone’s sense of entitlement hasn’t been met. According to Brown, his family has a long history of support for civil rights. His father, Dean of the Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago, met Dr. Martin Luther King and his parents named him after Abraham Lincoln. Brown himself grew up as one of only a handful of white students at Kenwood High School. After becoming an educator himself, Brown chose to teach in schools serving predominantly black children near that “woman's world of fatherless households,” the infamous Robert Taylor projects. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/4.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1301" title="4" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/4.jpg" alt="" width="291" height="127" /></a><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/17/lincoln-brown-chicago-tea_n_1285750.html">During a recent press conference</a>, Brown got choked up and said this incident "cannot be part" of who people think he is. I get that: you’ve worked hard to prove who you are. But it seems a stretch to claim that a slap on the wrist in the name of caution could wipe clean your otherwise excellent track record. To me it smacks of, “I’m suing because a school principal’s final word on sixth-grade-appropriate lesson plans trumped my and my family’s righteousness.” So come on, Brown, take your otherwise inconsequential administrative lumps and get back to your classroom. You know you’re needed there, and you know you do good work. A lot of your students and their parents are on your side – you just need to work a little more closely with your administrators. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/5.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1302" title="5" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/5.jpg" alt="" width="255" height="260" /></a>By the way, had you confiscated that note and brought it to the attention of Principal Mason, you could have requested <em>up front</em> an hour-long block of instruction on the origins and the insensitivity of the N-word. Not only would you have been more likely to obtain authorization (or been given reasons for why the idea wasn’t such a good one), you also would have had time to prepare a cohesive and age-appropriate lesson and could have avoided falling back on what you yourself admitted was a nontraditional teaching guide. You’ve clearly got a lot to recommend you, but getting preachy in the classroom and playing victim when reprimanded isn’t on the list. <object id="otvPlayer" width="400" height="268" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowNetworking" value="all" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="src" value="http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/static/flash/embeddedPlayer/swf/otvEmLoader.swf?version=&amp;station=wls&amp;section=&amp;mediaId=8548518&amp;cdnRoot=http://cdn.abclocal.go.com&amp;webRoot=http://abclocal.go.com&amp;configPath=/util/&amp;site=" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allownetworking" value="all" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><embed id="otvPlayer" width="400" height="268" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/static/flash/embeddedPlayer/swf/otvEmLoader.swf?version=&amp;station=wls&amp;section=&amp;mediaId=8548518&amp;cdnRoot=http://cdn.abclocal.go.com&amp;webRoot=http://abclocal.go.com&amp;configPath=/util/&amp;site=" allowScriptAccess="always" allowNetworking="all" allowFullScreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="all" allowfullscreen="true" /></object> 1297 2012-02-20 22:04:44 2012-02-20 22:04:44 2017-04-24 12:16:12 2017-04-24 19:16:12 closed open a-teachable-moment-for-the-n-word publish 0 0 post 0 Character Chicago Public Schools Culture Lincoln Brown N-word Principal Gregory Mason _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1687756269;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6264;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9105;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8404;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7041;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6563;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1254;}}}} http://working-copy.local/uncategorized/the-racist-tree/ Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:42:31 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1309 <h4><strong>As I began reading I thought,<em> this is a little on the lame side, but let's see where it goes</em>. And it went – even so far as to reflect my opinion of the Oscar nominated film, "The Help," of which I'm not fan (though that's another matter). Enjoy.</strong></h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/RT.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1312" title="RT" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/RT.jpg" alt="" width="848" height="553" /></a> 1309 2012-02-24 14:42:31 2012-02-24 14:42:31 2012-02-24 14:42:31 2012-02-24 14:42:31 closed open the-racist-tree publish 0 0 post 0 Uncategorized _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1701510400;s:7:"payload";a:0:{}}} 46 stilts19 stilts19@gmail.com 72.201.174.73 2012-02-24 16:39:03 2012-02-24 16:39:03 So the moral of the story is that the white kids were mean to the tree? I feel bad for the tree, being ostracized like that :(... Sounds like the tree is being coerced into thinking and behaving a certain way just to avoid being marginalized. Is that right? . . . . . Before you start inundating this post with hate mail, relax. I'm NOT taking this seriously. It's a silly, sarcastic comment made out of utter complacency. I'm just sitting, sipping my coffee and listening to Chuck D and P.E.. It's too early in the a.m. to get too serious about politics and morality.... 1 comment 0 0 47 Tony in San Diego ccstronger@yahoo.com 66.75.228.15 2012-02-27 04:18:36 2012-02-27 04:18:36 So the moral of the story is that peer pressure and name-calling is the antidote to racism? 1 comment 0 0 48 J. Nelson eatglass@prodigy.net 76.206.10.87 2012-02-27 05:54:11 2012-02-27 05:54:11 The insinuation I found was that fear of exclusion and/or disapproval by whites incentivizes many folks to denounce racism. 1 comment 47 2 49 Iamin president@whitehouse.gov 69.140.36.39 2012-06-21 18:09:46 2012-06-21 18:09:46 Why's it gotta be a tree? Why not a grapevine? Or a strawberry plant? This kind of rampant plantism destroys societies. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/your-adorable-child/there-will-be-cursing/ Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:11:15 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1315 <h4><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/FIRST-IMAGE.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-1317" title="FIRST IMAGE" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/FIRST-IMAGE.jpg" alt="" width="446" height="244" /></a>There’s never been a better time for a feature-length documentary giving viewers an intimate look at how bullying affects kids and families. So why isn’t the MPAA on board?</strong></h4> Though it’s already won multiple awards for accuracy, effectiveness, and candor, “The Bully Project” (set to be released March 30 by The Weinstein Company) has just received a final R rating by the Motion Picture Association of America, <a href="http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/02/23/bully-mpaa-rating-weinstein/">effectively blocking its screening in schools across the country because<em> </em>of “some language.”</a> Really?? <em>Language</em>? Do the voting members of the MPAA even <em>know</em> any teenagers? As the death toll from Northeast Ohio’s <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/29/us/victim-in-ohio-school-shooting-declared-brain-dead.html">Chardon High School shooting</a> rises to three, as here in Los Angeles 10-year-old Joanna Ramos is mourned after succumbing to blunt force head-trauma at the hands of a schoolmate, this is a seriously bad time for the MPAA to demonstrate its disconnection from the young moviegoers it aims to protect. It isn't as if the film is simply capitalizing on alarmism or fear-based, reality show-style hype. No throbbing music leads to a nine-year-old flipping her classmates the bird; no Junior Tarantino action stars run around with shotguns intended for ravage and rape. There's nothing about any of the movie’s advertising that suggests the audience will have a good time with bad words. This is about fragile faces and hurt hearts learning that “the power of hearing one voice in solidarity with you can be transformative.” <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/SECOND-IMAGE.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1319" title="SECOND IMAGE" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/SECOND-IMAGE.jpg" alt="" width="420" height="378" /></a>“<a href="http://thebullyproject.com/">The Bully Project</a>” is a marketing tool, sure, but it’s more of an awareness campaign with a documentary film used to highlight its central theme. It’s encouraging, not selling. “The Bully Project” exists – all by its lonesome – to advocate for <em>everyone’s</em> involvement, to re-imagine education as an instrument of “social and emotional learning” where empathy and responsiveness are “built-in” to the classroom. It is guaranteed to provoke strong emotional reactions from its audiences regardless of whether or not it contains foul language. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/THIRD-IMAGE.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1318" title="THIRD IMAGE" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/THIRD-IMAGE.jpg" alt="" width="310" height="316" /></a>Bullying is a crisis that is choking the life out of more young people than most of us realize, and the film’s point is to prompt us to <em>start</em> realizing it before it’s too late. So listen up, MPAA: Telling teenagers they’re too dumb to differentiate between language and a need to be heard makes you part of the problem, <em>not</em> part of the solution. &nbsp; <strong>For more information, check out these links and the Bully trailer. </strong> <ul> <li>Change.org’s petition to the MPAA to change “Bully’s” rating to PG-13</li> <li>National Association of School Psychologists' <a href="https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-bullying" target="_blank">Bullying: Facts for Schools and Parents</a></li> </ul> <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Z3MTOjKmLXw" frameborder="0" width="560" height="315"></iframe> 1315 2012-02-29 01:11:15 2012-02-29 01:11:15 2017-11-06 12:37:02 2017-11-06 19:37:02 closed open there-will-be-cursing publish 0 0 post 0 Bully Chardon High School Culture MPAA The Weinstein Company Your Adorable Child _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703956760;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1054;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11637;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:778;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2401;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1297;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8250;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/sarah-barnes-no-excuses-hero-of-the-week/ Tue, 06 Mar 2012 06:00:32 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1326 <h4><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/a.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1327" title="a" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/a.jpg" alt="" width="448" height="272" /></a>26-year-old model and meth-mouth Sarah Barnes couldn’t see what she was doing while smokin’ the Biker Coffee inside the fifth-oldest tree on earth, so she lit an internal portion of the huge tree on fire for better light. Oops. Barnes offered no excuse upon her arrest, instead admitting to burning down the Longwood, Florida tourist attraction known as “The Senator,” and for this we call Sarah Barnes our No Excuses Hero of the Week.<!--more--></strong></h4> <object id="flashObj" width="486" height="412" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="flashVars" value="videoId=1480050878001&amp;playerID=102195605001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAABvaL8JE~,ufBHq_I6Fnyou4pHiM9gbgVQA16tDSWm&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true" /><param name="base" value="http://admin.brightcove.com" /><param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="swLiveConnect" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1" /><param name="flashvars" value="videoId=1480050878001&amp;playerID=102195605001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAABvaL8JE~,ufBHq_I6Fnyou4pHiM9gbgVQA16tDSWm&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="swliveconnect" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" /><embed id="flashObj" width="486" height="412" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1" flashVars="videoId=1480050878001&amp;playerID=102195605001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAABvaL8JE~,ufBHq_I6Fnyou4pHiM9gbgVQA16tDSWm&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" seamlesstabbing="false" allowFullScreen="true" swLiveConnect="true" allowScriptAccess="always" flashvars="videoId=1480050878001&amp;playerID=102195605001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAABvaL8JE~,ufBHq_I6Fnyou4pHiM9gbgVQA16tDSWm&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true" allowfullscreen="true" swliveconnect="true" allowscriptaccess="always" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" /></object> Meanwhile… <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/b.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1328" title="b" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/b.jpg" alt="" width="141" height="197" /></a>Facing public backlash, Fatso Junkie Rush Limbaugh apologized this week for calling Georgetown student Sandra Fluke a “prostitute” and a “slut” over her stance on insurance coverage for birth control. <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/03/03/a_statement_from_rush" target="_blank">It wasn’t a “personal attack,” Limbaugh assured</a> his <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">fleeing sponsors</span> listeners; it was an “absurdity,” a bad “analogy.” Sure Rush, and <em>your</em> insurance didn’t cover your <a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/rush-limbaugh-plea-deal-fails" target="_blank">Oxycontin addiction</a> either. In the last month, Arizona Sheriff, Fox News pundit, and once-rising GOP congressional hopeful Paul Babeu has publicly acknowledged he’s gay, dealt <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/c.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1329" title="c" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/c-291x300.jpg" alt="" width="291" height="300" /></a>with fallout from posting nearly nude photos of himself on a gay website, and rebuffed claims that he covered up threats to deport his ex-employee/boyfriend if the Mexican national exposed their relationship. Coming to light <em>this</em> week is his questionable <em>live-in</em> relationship with a 17 year-old student from a problem-plagued boarding school in Massachusetts that Babeu oversaw as “Headmaster” – without a license. Sheriff Babeu always seems to have a ready denial, and each of them goes something like this: <em>A spokesman for Paul Babeu said the Sheriff has not, to date, been ‘the target of any investigation or lawsuit.</em>’ <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/d.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1330" title="d" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/d.jpg" alt="" width="319" height="172" /></a>Next we have the tedium of <a href="http://jezebel.com/5890429/christina-hendricks-denies-her-bountiful-bare-breasts-are-internet-stars?tag=dirt-bag">two television personalities cheerfully denying that nude photos</a> of them leaked to the internet this weekend was due to hackers, smartphone picture thieves, and apparent body-doubling saboteurs. And to think that becoming and staying famous these days essentially means being able to set your watch by what comes next. But not for our hero…Amid this heap of alibis, facial ticks, apologies, and squirmy put-offs, Sarah Barnes, plucky killer of Mighty Confederate Trees and Emperor Palpatine look-alike, even shared about her exploits online. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/e.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-1331" title="e" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/e.jpg" alt="" width="214" height="188" /></a>After setting the tree on fire the way a heavy-eyed drunk slowly ignites his own mattress with a menthol, she actually took pictures of the smoldering ‘ol Senator and downloaded them to her computer for easy dissemination. And this was all before her arrest, because of course the 3,500 year old monster took more than a week to burn from the inside out. When Florida police finally did knock on her door she<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/f.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-1332" title="f" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/f-267x300.jpg" alt="" width="214" height="240" /></a> went quietly, posing no excuse and admitting her guilt. Yet her full blown photochemical and lighter fluid euphoria <em>did </em>leave us with the phrase, "I can't believe I burned down a tree older then Jesus!” And <em>that</em> makes Sarah Barnes our No Excuses Hero of the Week. <strong> </strong> 1326 2012-03-06 06:00:32 2012-03-06 06:00:32 2015-04-06 07:09:42 2015-04-06 14:09:42 closed open sarah-barnes-no-excuses-hero-of-the-week publish 0 0 post 0 Character Excuses Paul Babeu Rush Limbaugh Sarah Barnes _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704441702;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1054;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:869;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8514;}}}} http://working-copy.local/celebrity/clint-eastwood-is-going-to-die-soon/ Mon, 12 Mar 2012 06:25:03 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1343 <h2>Good, bad, ugly, and the empty chair too, I love arguing Eastwood</h2> <h4><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Grrrrrrr.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6042" alt="Grrrrrrr" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Grrrrrrr-222x300.jpg" width="155" height="210" /></a>Every few days this realization makes me pause, as if I’d been struck with Déjà vu or forgotten my keys somewhere. As a lifelong Eastwood enthusiast (having winced my way through some of his ‘80s choices only to beam with pride when he came to his senses), I dread his absence – and also his last laugh at leaving us to ourselves. </strong></h4> <strong></strong>Will I know what to do with myself when that day comes? Yeah. But I've never lived in a world without with Clint Eastwood – have you? Every now and then some Eastwood reminder will come my way or I’ll exit my house past  a huge <em>The Good, The Bad and The Ugly</em> poster that hangs by our front door. Not enough space here to list all the reasons I admire the man, but the three that most frequently come to mind are his elderly grace, professionalism, and class. You see, I love ‘im for what he is now because it makes what he was then so much cooler. <!--more--> <h3>Reader note: GUILTY PLEASURES - I’ll be recapping familiar biographical tidbits here as well as geekin' out on Dirty Harry, so if you dislike Eastwood or don’t care for the re-run, know your limitations.</h3> <h5><span style="color: #800000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/A02.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1425" title="A02" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/A02.jpg" width="608" height="254" /></a></span></h5> I was 10 years old in ‘77, when Eastwood starred in <em>The Gauntlet</em>. I remember trying to talk one of my uncles into taking me to see it, waving around the newspaper ad and promising that an entire city bus would get filled with lead by and a thousand cops. I overheard sticks-in-the-mud dismiss it as trash, declaring that it had no plot, filthy language, and “guns for no reason.” Can you imagine? Guns for no reason? Only adults think like that. Guns <em>are</em> the reason! I even swore to my uncles there’d be no disappointment because it wasn’t a Dirty Harry movie, knowing that all you had to do was pretend Harry Callahan had moved to Arizona. I’ve been picking apart that curse-strewn bullet-fest ever since, and I need to see it right now. <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Clint105.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1363" title="Clint105" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Clint105.jpg" width="533" height="251" /></a></p> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Clint107.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1368" title="Clint107" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Clint107-300x171.jpg" width="300" height="171" /></a>1978’s <em>Every Which Way but Loose</em> finally stopped me from trying to stretch every Eastwood movie over Harry Callahan’s form. A lot of people hated that movie, but I was young and enamored enough with Eastwood to enjoy every minute of it. (Face punching for no reason? Face punching <em>is</em> the reason!) Besides, I’m sure Inspector Callahan would’ve have dragged that Orangutan around for as long as it continued to piss off Lt. Briggs. <em><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Clint109.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-1371" title="Clint109" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Clint109-300x170.jpg" width="270" height="153" /></a>Escape from Alcatraz</em> didn’t have shootouts, but it had Eastwood’s indignant gloominess <em>and</em> more face punching. Just before it came out my dad and I were unloading a cart at the grocery store when I caught the man’s glower among the tabloids (he was on the cover of the July ’79 issue of <em>LOOK </em>magazine). My father’s refusal to let me place it on the hallowed conveyor forced me to read quickly. As of that issue’s publication, read the article’s subtitle, Clint Eastwood was 49 years old and the age-watch had begun. For me, everything Eastwood became that much more important, especially repeating his snappy lines in the right voice and finding something to love in every single movie he made. First stop: <em>subtlety</em>, which <em>Escape from Alcatraz</em> had a lot of compared with, say, collapsing an entire house with only bullets. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Clint102.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1417" title="Clint102" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Clint102.jpg" width="212" height="292" /></a>John Wayne died a week after that movie’s release, and I recall arguments galore over who was better, Wayne or Eastwood. Thirty-two years later I don’t hear anyone comparing Eastwood to today’s movie tough-guys or leading men – as if you could actually <em>make</em> such a comparison with a straight face – but back then it was people griping about “these kids today” and insisting the world was a better place when John Wayne and Elvis ruled it. In contrast to their public personas, nailed as they were to the patriotic white establishment, Eastwood stuck around by adapting his character choices to his age. It’s a smart lesson. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Clint10014.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1407" title="Clint1001" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Clint10014-300x204.jpg" width="300" height="204" /></a>Besides, I can’t imagine Josey Wales forfeiting the time or brainpower to badmouth teens who don’t know better. I’m sure Dirty Harry would, but only if the kids were carrying bazookas. And Walt Kowalski definitely would, but his myopia was also the vehicle used to teach his audience the lessons of <em>Gran Torino</em>. The point is, Clint Eastwood (the actor) infused his characters with a strong suspicion for the establishment and the reasoning behind its customs, beliefs, and hypocrisies. To be fair, more than a few of John Wayne’s characters also possessed those qualities, but they were unambiguous men – very Old Testament. By the end of his career he was as stiff as the bronze sculptures of him that now stand in (a-hem) Beverly Hills and Orange County. If the Duke had his moments, he also had his baggage. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Ultimate-Harry.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1353" title="Ultimate Harry" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Ultimate-Harry-199x300.jpg" width="199" height="300" /></a>At first, while Eastwood’s career was taking off, he too was lumped in with the establishment: cowboy hats and tumbleweeds were the very definition of mainstream regardless of whether Sergio Leone was simultaneously redefining the western genre. Soon after becoming a bigger star than even <em>Rawhide</em> had made him, various <a href="http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19710101/REVIEWS/101010307/1023">critics</a> and counterculture types went so far as to declare Eastwood’s Dirty Harry character a right-wing symbol of tyranny and hippie-bashing. I say they didn’t get it. There was something different – or perhaps <em>indifferent – </em>about Dirty Harry. Sure he was a cop, but he was a cop who talked like a beatnik, loathed the officeholders who made the rules, and essentially questioned the establishment’s order. His disregard for safety and procedure was impossibly flagrant. Dirty Harry was the kind of the cop who would’ve regarded <em>Adam-12</em>, the most popular TV show of the era, as conformist horseshit. As Eastwood allowed his subsequent characters to straddle the line between awful and anti-hero, his audiences were free to seek out the good in them (or argue about it later). At the very least, Clint Eastwood’s younger audiences knew they wouldn’t be as blatantly patronized by his characters as they were by others of the era, which went a long way in the 1970s. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/A022.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1436" title="A02" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/A022-300x125.jpg" width="300" height="125" /></a>It sure went a long way with me! By the time <em>Escape from Alcatraz</em> came out my friend Chuck and I had memorized all the best Callahan-isms, from “You gotta ask yourself, do I feel lucky?” to “When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross." I was sent home from school when I repeated that last one to a nun, but fortunately Eastwood was juuuust “establishment” enough not to get sent out of our house as well. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Clint122.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1378" title="Clint122" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Clint122-225x300.jpg" width="225" height="300" /></a> As the ‘80s progressed it became interesting to watch how the Eastwood “filter” somehow scrubbed off part of the lameness of traditional Hollywood tropes. Don't get me wrong, there's never been anything independent or alternative about Clint Eastwood “the brand;” he’s always been part of the easy-culture mainstream machine. Yet there's that slight distortion he brings to his characters that somehow makes even his campy choices more interesting. Obviously most of the movies he made during that decade couldn’t hold a candle to <em>Thunderbolt and Lightfoot</em>, <em>The Gauntlet,</em> or <em>The Eiger Sanction</em>: we got <em>Firefox, </em><em>City Heat </em>and the unsatisfying end of Inspector Callahan in <em>The Dead Pool</em> (that is, if you fail to pretend that Gran Torino's Walt Kowalski is actually Dirty Harry at the end of his life). But even duds like <em>Pink Cadillac</em> were made forgivable by <em>Unforgiven</em>, arguably the best western ever made. I’ve got similar praise for his 2003 screen adaptation of the psychologically complex <em>Mystic River. </em> With the release of <em>Million Dollar Baby</em> in 2004 Eastwood again gave us face punching, but for a very good reason: to examine the subject of euthanasia. For that the National Spinal Cord Injury Association and other advocacy orgs claimed he had a "vendetta" against the disabled. Eastwood went from “trash” and “filthy” and “guns for no reason” to “<a href="http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2005/02/million_dollar_1.php" target="_blank">misleading</a>“ and “pitch-dark substance.” I just loved that he continued to be Clint Eastwood, always a click or two off the beaten path and using his voice to challenge conventional comfort zones. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Clint125.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1381" title="Clint125" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Clint125-300x206.jpg" width="300" height="206" /></a>By 2006 Eastwood was <em>still "</em>mainstream uppity." The manner in which he directed his WWII meat grinder, <em>Flags of our Fathers</em>, placed the deepest skepticisms of a soldier’s purpose and duty not on the shoulders of a courageous hero like John Wayne but on a shamelessly exploited Native American – a hope-to-die alcoholic (Adam Beach). And if that wasn't enough, in the same year he used an adaptation of <em>Red Sun, Black Sand,</em> to co-produce and direct a companion film, <em>Letters from Iwo Jima,</em> to depict the same battle from the perspective of the Japanese enemy. If you enjoy all things Eastwood as much as I do, these biographical tidbits are nothing new. So gettin’ back to a World Without Eastwood: who’s got balls enough to make a movie about the Battle of Falluja from the perspective of the Taliban? Pitt? Gosling? McG? I think not. Eastwood’s “controversial” 2012 Super Bowl halftime Chrysler ad got me wondering who <em>could</em> possibly replace the man. Who’s gonna keep it together ‘til the very end as he has and still go out droppin’ the raspy voiced one-liners that only he can deliver? <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/OLDER-HARRY.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1350" title="OLDER HARRY" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/OLDER-HARRY-300x200.jpg" width="300" height="200" /></a> “Get off my lawn…” “I'll kick you so hard, you'll be wearing your ass for a hat.” “It’s Halftime in America…” and so on… <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Clint126.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-1382" title="Clint126" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Clint126-226x300.jpg" width="101" height="134" /></a>Clint Eastwood is gonna die soon. And I guess it doesn’t matter who winds up being compared to his legacy in the future, so long as they’re smart enough to evolve and smart enough not to smoke their way into cancer-ridden lungs. Whoever it is will have to take age-appropriate roles, not take the media seriously, and remember that <em>you can't become your own country unless you play with the politics</em>. And, finally, he’ll have to be smart enough not to make excuses for trying to be all things to all people. Career longevity and class don't allow it. Much appreciation to <a href="http://clinteastwoodpunk.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">Eff Yeah Clint Eastwood</a> &nbsp; <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/T1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-1421" title="T" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/T1.jpg" width="310" height="234" /></a></p> 1343 2012-03-12 06:25:03 2012-03-12 06:25:03 2017-11-06 12:37:02 2017-11-06 19:37:02 closed open clint-eastwood-is-going-to-die-soon publish 0 0 post 0 Celebrity Clint Eastwood Culture GUILTY PLEASURES _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 83 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw clint eastwood _yoast_wpseo_title Clint Eastwood Is Going to Die Soon _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Will I know what to do with myself when that day comes? Yeah. But I've never lived in a world without with Clint Eastwood – have you? _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703729551;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:880;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3083;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7475;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/on-juden-pond/ Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:31:30 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1442 <h4><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Nash-Telegraph-2012.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-6716" alt="Nash Telegraph 2012" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Nash-Telegraph-2012-300x227.jpg" width="300" height="227" /></a> <strong>Somewhere around 1920, a minor fungus reserve in Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, made U.S. Geological Survey maps as “Jew Pond,” by which bigoted assholes then referred to it. I hope that long after the votes have been counted and a new name decided upon, the story of Jew Pond won’t disappear with the creepy old-timers who refuse to recognize it by any other name. ‘Cause we can always use a lesson in Yankee narrow-mindedness.</strong> </strong></h4> <h6>Original Story <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-jew-pond-20120314,0,4117318.story">LA Times</a></h6> The festering, if serene, hole formerly known as “Jew Pond” is an 80 year-old artificial lake made for the nearby Grand Hotel and its golf course, where people “of Hebrew descent” were decidedly unwelcome. When the automobile came along and carried away the hotel's intended patrons, its owners were forced to sell the place to the only people who wanted it – Jewish lawyers (<em>gasp!</em>) who catered to previously banned clientele. <!--more--><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/JewPond2.jpeg"><img class="alignright wp-image-1444" title="JewPond2" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/JewPond2.jpeg" width="336" height="240" /></a> It's a small story from a small town, but one with many perspectives, beginning with a civil engineer who found the pond’s name on a government map in the course of assessing its algae levels. Next were those who saw “Jew Pond” in bold newsprint when a local reporter interviewed the engineer about his year-long effort to follow official <a href="http://www.usgs.gov/" target="_blank">USGS</a> name-change protocol. Email and gossip started to circulate more widely, culminating in a gathering of 200+ local residents in the Mont Vernon Schoolhouse gymnasium for a vote that garnered national attention in March of this year. The most interesting viewpoints are those of Mont Vernon’s youth, one of whom was so fascinated by the perspectives of town elders that she convinced a few of 'em to sit for her video camera. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/The_Grand_Hotel_Mont_Vernon_NH.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-1445" title="The_Grand_Hotel,_Mont_Vernon,_NH" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/The_Grand_Hotel_Mont_Vernon_NH.jpg" width="356" height="221" /></a> As a child, Katelyn Dobbs says she lost herself in the glamour and romance of the Grand Hotel as depicted in the historic quilt that hangs in the Mont Vernon school. She imagined the grandeur of history as it applied to Mont Vernon's oldest citizens, its village footpaths, and the countless coats of paint that cover its buildings. The hotel itself had burned to the ground in the middle of the night long before, but it wasn't 'til she learned its deeper history that Kate’s feelings about both the landmark and her hometown changed considerably. Up to then, she hadn’t known that those of Jewish faith or lineage weren’t allowed in the hotel she’d daydreamed about. (That’s not surprising, really: it's kindly old people –not Nazis– who are known for their quilts.) As a senior at the University of New Hampshire, seeing the name “Jew Pond” in print spurred Dobbs into action. With her 13-minute mini-documentary, “The Story Behind Jew Pond,” she’s off to an earnest start as filmmaker. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/The-Jew-Pond-Stallion.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1463" title="The Jew Pond Stallion" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/The-Jew-Pond-Stallion.jpg" width="160" height="144" /></a> The film’s opening lines of poetry don’t work for me; only a girl still in love with her collection of plastic horsies would jump off with such saccharine voiceover. But I can’t wait for a sequel. Though it’s a slightly bumpy 13 minutes, Dobbs’s documentary debut shows heart and promise. It also show a few folks for who they really are, although as you'll see, it's more about mummified, dumb-ass perspectives than blame. It's no <em>Birth of a Nation</em>, but “The Story Behind Jew Pond” offers unnerving, if humorous, insight into Mont Vernon’s long-ago Jew hatin’ elders. For instance, there’s the thousand N-word stare of the Grandmother from Hell, Roberta Wilkins, that you wouldn’t trust with a pile of white sheets. (Speaking of nice old ladies makin’ quilts, this eerily serene witch is straight out of “The Shining.”) Though she admits –with a smile– that the name “was probably meant as an insult,” she’s not in favor of changing "history." (Apparently she's in favor of avoiding it, instead. I'm guessing she's good at sidestepping uncomfortable topics.) <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Spring-Pond.jpg"><img class="alignleft" title="Spring Pond" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Spring-Pond-300x169.jpg" width="300" height="169" /></a>Then there’s the good ‘ol boy nephew of the man who donated the pond to the town. He defends the preservation of the name “Jew Pond” ‘cause he’s “an old timer” who also claims to believe in history, no doubt his own. Never mind that the thing was also once called “Lake Serene,” “Spring Pond,” and “Carleton Pond” after his very own (bigoted) uncle: Pops is settin’ an example for the kids. Dobbs offers more rib-tickling in the form of a Brooklyn bowling alley fugitive circa 1959: Jack Esposito, the town’s Selectman. Esposito begins with the logic that nuthin’ ever came of nuthin’ ‘til it hit the newspaper. He’s no anti-Semite, but the guy <em>is</em> barley able to get the word “Jew” past his upper lip. I can't watch Esposito's segment without being reminded of the shady Amity Island bureaucrats in "Jaws." <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/KKK.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1470" title="KKK" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/KKK.jpg" width="310" height="198" /></a> “Nobody ever complained about the name,” he shrugs, “not one citizen. And I’m sure there are Jewish families. I know our town clerk is a, is a – is a Jewish woman and she never complained! We’d never offend anybody intentionally, and since nobody was offended we just didn’t do anything about it.” Obviously Jack just wants everyone to get along on a count’a people should speak up if they got a beef. At any rate, the good leaders of Mont Vernon conducted what they considered to be due diligence on the topic. According to the <a href="http://www.montvernonnh.us/index.php/selectmen-minutes-2012/437-board-of-selectmen-02132012">Selectmen’s Meeting Minutes, dated February 13, 2012</a>, an “informal survey” (of who, their friends?) indicated that an “overwhelming majority of responders wanted the name to remain.” Oddly this “majority” was ignored a month later, when 104 Mont Vernon residents (of pop. 2400) voted by secret ballot <em>for</em> the name change and just 33 voted against it. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Mont-Vernon.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1472" title="Mont Vernon" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Mont-Vernon.jpg" width="421" height="118" /></a> Dobbs’ documentary also introduces us to the town’s Health Officer, the muckraking civil engineer himself who started this whole name change business. Problem is, the guy just can’t stand still. Something weird and chicken-like is going on there – maybe he’s inhaled too much pond scum. Still, Rick Masters saved the town from those who would excuse idiotic inferences like “Jew lawyer” and “Jew politician.” Bravo, Mr. Masters, you put Mont Vernon on the map <em>and</em> made it less cringe-worthy. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Christians-Only.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1449" title="Christians Only" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Christians-Only.jpg" width="300" height="291" /></a> Interviewed toward the end of the film is a <a href="http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/obituaries/"><em>Nashua Telegraph</em></a> journalist, presumably the town crier who brought all that attention to the issue. Even <em>he</em> has trouble calling “Jew Pond” what it is: flat-out derogatory. “It’s unusual,” he says of the name, “compared to what things are named these days.” So much so that “it strikes people as odd.” (Is that it? <em>Odd?</em>) He adds that if it had “a real strong <em>reason</em>” for being called “Jew Pond” there’d probably be more support for keeping the name, which is easy guesswork for a guy whose descendants were likely allowed to vacation at the Grand Hotel. Now maybe it's just me not diggin’ this guy's total lack of eye contact, or maybe I don't trust <em>any</em> of these fence-sitters, but at this point in the film I’m hoping someone will just get it over with and insist that some of their best friends are Jewish. In the end, after a psychotic pause, the little rodent-man makes a partial case for keeping the name: “The only reason to keep that name is because it’s <em>been</em> that name for a long time.” Jeeze, stick Selectmen Esposito back in front of the camera already! At least he’ll make us laugh, try and sell us a car, and accidentally prove he’s a person worth taking the time to enlighten (slowly). Besides, in the Feb. 13 Meeting Minutes he's quoted as expressing the hope that finding a better name “wouldn’t take up the whole evening.” Can't you just see the Cohen Brother's having a ball in this town? <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Pond1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1479" title="Pond1" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Pond1-300x200.jpg" width="300" height="200" /></a> Before I leave you with “The Story Behind Jew Pond,” allow me to throw in my 2¢ about the vote itself. Some wave it off as overboard political correctness; others have pledged not to allow their town to be associated with this “indignity.” Coming from a bunch of isolated white people, that in itself sounds suspicious. But I’ve generalized about these <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stepford_Wives">Stepford weirdos</a> enough. Personally, I couldn't care less if they change the name of a swamp on the outskirts of a colonial township once rooted in anti-Semitism, because until all those town mummies are dead and pushing up racist daisies, the real problem isn’t going anywhere. Let ‘em argue, change, fight, or deny: the true wake-up call to Mont Vernon’s citizens will best be served as cold as the Jewish skeletons they’ll probably find at the bottom of that fake-ass fishing hole once it’s drained. [caption id="attachment_2980" align="alignright" width="202"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_The-Gestapo_New-England-Style.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2980" title="Where Excuses Go to Die_The Gestapo_New England Style" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_The-Gestapo_New-England-Style-202x300.jpg" width="202" height="300" /></a> Is it just me, or do these dudes look like humorless assholes?[/caption] Yet there’s no excuse for the <a href="http://www.sau39.org/Domain/11" target="_blank">Mont Vernon Village School</a> not to follow the example of Kate Dobbs, clearly one their brightest graduates, by etching this episode of town history into its basic curriculum. After all, these kids are coming from a long history of questionable entitlements. 'Ol Rick Piwowarski of nearby Nashua recalls fishing when there was "a Greek Hole, a Polock Hole, and a French Hole for the French kids. My mother marked out the names on a map that I have.” And we can't leave out <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;q=Squaw+Cove,+New+Hampshire&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=0x4cb369dee6d86c07:0x63c3172f25fc9df6,Squaw+Cove&amp;gl=us&amp;ei=aT9mT7TuDevciAKUp9mjDw&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=geocode_result&amp;ct=title&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CCAQ8gEwAA">Squaw Cove</a>! If the school fails to take advantage of a "teachable moment" that took up most of 2012, may the whole place get sucked into the glowing ghost hole that ate the house at the end of <em>Poltergeist</em>. <strong>For now, here's Kate Dobbs and “The Story Behind Jew Pond.”</strong> <h6><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/s99ooTs-j0U" height="315" width="560" frameborder="0"></iframe></h6> P.S. Let’s see a show of hands for who wants to call Google and <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;q=Mont+Vernon+New+hampshire&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=0x89e3ccbec43b3bf1:0xa8d0bd5f3ffcb069,Mont+Vernon,+NH&amp;gl=us&amp;ei=kNpjT8rYC4fJiQLIrKiiDw&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=geocode_result&amp;ct=image&amp;resnum=2&amp;ved=0CD4Q8gEwAQ">ask ‘em to yank “Jew Pond” from its maps page</a>… <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/GooglePondJew2.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1485" title="GooglePondJew" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/GooglePondJew2.jpg" width="419" height="275" /></a> &nbsp; 1442 2012-03-18 20:31:30 2012-03-18 20:31:30 2014-04-16 17:44:45 2014-04-17 00:44:45 closed open on-juden-pond publish 0 0 post 0 Character Culture Jew Pond Mont Vernon _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704374465;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2944;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4305;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1262;}}}} http://working-copy.local/uncategorized/1495/ Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:12:07 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1495 <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/PUSH1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1496" title="PUSH1" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/PUSH1.jpg" alt="" width="632" height="362" /></a> 1495 2012-03-21 14:12:07 2012-03-21 14:12:07 2012-03-21 14:12:07 2012-03-21 14:12:07 closed open 1495 publish 0 0 post 0 Uncategorized _edit_last 2 sfw_comment_form_password zDPRoRThJ7aw _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1684846227;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1539;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10966;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1134;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/find-something-to-stand-on-fat-dummies-are-everywhere/ Mon, 26 Mar 2012 06:18:59 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1502 <h4><strong>Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Council on Foreign Relations-sponsored task force have issued a report that calls America’s fat dummies a national security threat. That’s us folks, <em>we’re</em> the Freedom Haters, our own terrorist jihad against the U.S.A. If you’re acquainted with Def-Con 1, stand by for Def-Con Loved-One. </strong></h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/A0221.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-1503" title="A022" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/A0221.jpg" alt="" width="414" height="271" /></a>The U.S. public education system is <em>so</em> failing to do its job of cultivating learners and educating our children that America’s long-term security is at risk. Because of a lack of a high school diploma, obesity, or criminal record, 75% of American youth don't qualify for the U.S. armed forces. Among those who do, 30% can't pass the military's aptitude test. It’s a test I did well on (some years ago), but I was amazed that some of the guys around me were able to pass it at all. I’m not saying our armed forces are dumb, but as an Army PFC I didn’t like being bossed around by borderline morons. Kids who fail that test today make my ‘ol redneck sergeant look like a researcher at Acta Mathematica.<!--more--> The U.S. Education Reform and National Security Independent Task Force Report was written by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&amp;sort=relevancerank&amp;search-alias=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;field-author=Joel%20I.%20Klein">Joel I. Klein</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_2?_encoding=UTF8&amp;sort=relevancerank&amp;search-alias=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;field-author=Condoleezza%20Rice" target="_blank">Condoleezza Rice</a>, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_3?_encoding=UTF8&amp;sort=relevancerank&amp;search-alias=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;field-author=Julia%20C.%20Levy" target="_blank">Julia C. Levy</a>, and <a href="http://www.cfr.org/united-states/us-education-reform-national-security/p27618">can be downloaded for free here</a>. In it you’ll learn about “human capital,” which is what America is running out of quicker than you can say “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nickel-Dimed-Not-Getting-America/dp/0805063897" target="_blank">The Real Housewives of Poverty-level Workers</a>.” <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/A044.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1504" title="A044" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/A044.jpg" alt="" width="256" height="353" /></a>I know, I know, wrapping your head around how America’s human capital deficit affects our economic competitiveness, and, ultimately, our physical safety isn’t nearly as much fun as your yappy little dog or watching DVR’d <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Food_reality_television_series">culinary tantrum porn</a>. But if you want to know and understand your enemy, there’s no excuse for ignoring the weaknesses they’ll exploit. Maybe that’s a bit much, but it doesn’t mean I’m not worried. Nor does it mean you should go back to comparing hybrid cars and telling everyone you’re “helping.” Remember, watching an online video about African warlords doesn’t actually solve the problem any more than owning the latest smart phone makes you smart. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Ignorance.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1505" title="Ignorance" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Ignorance-300x132.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="132" /></a><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20118481-17/91-percent-of-kids-are-gamers-research-says/">Studies show</a> that about 64 million (or 91%) American kids between 2 and 17 play video games regularly, and the cost-benefit research on the result of that is mixed. Though there is periodic concern expressed for kids’ waning attention spans, I more often come across university studies and academic polls showing how toddlers, children, and teens with an advanced aptitude for gaming are better suited to an as-yet-realized digital future. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/NOTES-.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1507" title="NOTES" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/NOTES-.jpg" alt="" width="292" height="309" /></a>And maybe they <em>will</em> be better prepared for a future we’ve not yet envisioned – but not if they wander into the street and get hit by a bus first. So maybe, just maybe, it’s a good idea to start with the basics. Learning to read, feed yourself appropriately, and stay out of trouble may seem “behind the times,” but the health and safety of our nation – literally – depends on it. For a similar message on the state of public education in America, (but without all that boring reading) check out Oscar winner Davis Guggenheim's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKTfaro96dg" target="_blank">"Waiting For<em> "Superman</em></a><em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKTfaro96dg" target="_blank">."</a> It's</em> about the state of our public school systems told through the eyes of five  students. Each is eager to get an education, but in a system riddled with ineffective teachers, staggering dropout rates and schools that are literally falling apart, the odds are more than stacked against them. Also, learn what people are doing locally through the Waiting for Superman movement, to give kids a better chance than they're getting from our public schools. &nbsp; &nbsp; 1502 2012-03-26 06:18:59 2012-03-26 06:18:59 2017-11-06 12:37:03 2017-11-06 19:37:03 closed open find-something-to-stand-on-fat-dummies-are-everywhere publish 0 0 post 0 Condoleezza Rice Council on Foreign Relations education Excuses Your Adorable Child _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703535826;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6952;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4775;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3738;}}}} 50 Stilts19 stilts19@gmail.com 72.201.174.73 2012-03-27 03:18:32 2012-03-27 03:18:32 We're entering a renaissance of the feudal system, with the illiterate serfdom made up of block-headed high school dropouts. The nobility, or Landed gentry, are Wall Street pickpockets and used car salesmen turned politicians. Megachurches, run by evangelical nut-jobs are instituting a neo-Inquisition that will drive out any reasonable voice or science. Our new "Crusade" will be the defense of the Holy Land, this time it WON'T be to establish Christianity in Jeruslaem, but to defend Israel for – what I don't really know. The new "Colonialism" is the collusion with, and manipulation of, various oil producing countries in the Middle East. The populous won't even notice this happening because, A) let's face it, they're uneducated sloths, and B) they'll be too busy punching a clock at WalMart or Sam's Club. That's also why Fox News is so popular; it's dumbed-down for the "new" erudite American citizen. The Dark Ages return to douse the flame of Enlightenment –unless– naw, never mind, we're doomed. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/excuses/theres-no-excuse-for-this/ Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:43:41 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1524 <h4><strong>POPE OR PYTHON!?</strong></h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Reuters.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1527" title="Reuters" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Reuters-300x198.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="198" /></a>That poor man!  You'd think Vatikan PR Shocktroops would've clubbed anyone coming near the guy with that thing, let alone allow it be placed on his head!  Unbelievable! Also, considering this guy's membership in an organization known for ethnic nationalism, one might agree that moments of cutesy pandering that involve the cultural kitsch of the countries where your recruiting drives bring you – is in bad taste.<!--more--> [caption id="attachment_1529" align="alignright" width="269" caption="Tim Hornyak/CNET"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/PAW.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1529" title="PAW" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/PAW.jpg" alt="" width="269" height="162" /></a>[/caption] Last month <a href="http://mashable.com/2011/06/28/pope-tweet-ipad/">they stuck an iPad in his lap</a> and got him to paw at it a little with his cold, zombie claws, and now this! There's no excuse for settin' up that kindly 'ol Nazi Whoremaster to look as if he has the dignity of an organ grinder chimp. I'll tell 'ya, someone over there in Rome needs to be demoted or at least surrender a few bars of that Vatikan/Swiss Hitler Gold. <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/xi-UbuZ6U70" frameborder="0" width="560" height="315"></iframe> 1524 2012-03-26 20:43:41 2012-03-26 20:43:41 2013-04-24 04:10:59 2013-04-24 04:10:59 closed open theres-no-excuse-for-this publish 0 0 post 0 Celebrity Culture Excuses Pope Benedict Sombrero Pope Vatican _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1685642682;s:7:"payload";a:2:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5616;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1589;}}}} 51 Chris Lewis christlewis@yahoo.com 99.6.252.197 2012-03-27 04:37:30 2012-03-27 04:37:30 Having been raised in the milquetoast world of the Presbyterian Church (think Lutheran, but not as jazzy), I used to cast an envious eye across the devotional "aisle" at the Catholics...what with all their rites and rituals, pomp and circumstance, crusades and kick ass football teams. Now, I regard "Sombrero Pope" and his minions with the same sort ambiguity (equal parts jaundice and amusement) that I use to comprehend that uncle I was told to respect as a child, but as an adult I realize is just an over-educated, lush of a racist. Quite frankly, I'm surprised and a little disappointed that they didn't put the Infallible One in a Senor Frogs t-shirt. 1 comment 0 0 52 Whirbog whirbog2001@hotmail.com 173.197.67.87 2012-03-27 19:19:38 2012-03-27 19:19:38 You obviously are just some pissed off, recovering Catholic. You should work on your attitude. 1 comment 0 0 53 J. Nelson eatglass@prodigy.net 76.206.10.87 2012-03-29 18:45:45 2012-03-29 18:45:45 What in God's name is a Whirbog!? 1 comment 52 2 http://working-copy.local/excuses/now-what-2/ Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:36:56 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1539 <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/A0133.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1540" title="A0133" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/A0133.jpg" alt="" width="616" height="242" /></a> 1539 2012-03-28 16:36:56 2012-03-28 16:36:56 2012-03-28 16:36:56 2012-03-28 16:36:56 closed open now-what-2 publish 0 0 post 0 Excuses Now What? _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1679068731;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2128;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1134;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9833;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11777;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5716;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4503;}}}} http://working-copy.local/prison-2/the-shawshank-exemption/ Mon, 02 Apr 2012 05:57:18 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1568 <h4><strong>Americans don’t want to talk about prisons. But “ooh, ‘Lock-up America’ is on – let’s watch!” </strong></h4> [caption id="attachment_1572" align="aligncenter" width="951" caption="American History X is the dumbest movie ever. No dedicated, red-hot, curb-stomping, career White Supremacist is gonna suddenly see the light, repent, and boo-hoo for redemption as a result of being sodomized over a laundry cart. "]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/70RR06.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1572" title="70RR06" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/70RR06.jpg" alt="" width="951" height="251" /></a>[/caption] U.S. incarceration rates are staggering: we now house 760 inmates for every 100,000 people; 7.1 million Americans are currently under lock and key. For too many years we’ve tried to win the War on Drugs by incarcerating our way out of it, and now here in California there are 300 parolees for every 1000 residents. And <em>still</em> the only way Californians (or anyone else, for that matter) seem able to digest America’s prison problem is by watching the same old clichés onscreen – what I call the “three Rs” of rape, riots, and rotten food. <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/oz4.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1575" title="oz4" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/oz4-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a>While this is hopefully changing, given the magnitude of the problem, discussions about prison reform, parolee success stories, and effective overcrowding solutions still require dramatization to be heard. Even <em>with</em> the three Rs, something salacious like a guy sticking something up his butt would have to be there to actually hold an audience. I call <em>this</em> “The Shawshank Exemption:” if reform isn’t glamorized by Hollywood it won’t draw national attention. Now I know state budgets aren’t sexy, but the fiscal insanity of California spending $9.6 billion on prisons versus $5.7 billion on higher education in 2011 only to see its prison system still under the rule of a federally appointed receiver ‘cause an inmate a week was dying from negligence…well there’s your drama right there. <em><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/money_down_toilet-2.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1576" title="money_down_toilet-2" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/money_down_toilet-2.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300" /></a>The Shawshank Redemption</em> is a good movie, don’t get me wrong. The Shawshank Exemption simply notes that people would rather watch a film about prison than talk about how to fix one: after all, it’s more exciting to see “those people” digging under a fence or gettin’ stabbed. But first of all, at the rate we’re going, inmates are no longer “those people:” they’re your neighbors, friends, and dumb cousins. Secondly, my own home state and the one to which I paid my debt to society, California, shells out $8,667 per student every year but $50,000 per inmate. How’s that for exciting? There are some incredibly stupid examples of <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/02/local/la-me-prisons-20110302" target="_blank">where that money goes</a>, too: it ain’t to medical care that keeps inmates from spreading a worsened problem throughout the system. If we inmates had seen that level of taxpayer funding I wouldn’t have watched a man die of spinal meningitis right before my eyes. <p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/05/23/136579580/california-is-ordered-to-cut-its-prison-population" target="_blank">U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy</a>, in finding against the state of California, wrote that "Just as a prisoner may starve if not fed, he or she may suffer or die if not provided adequate medical care.” A prison system that fails to provide care is "incompatible with the concept of human dignity and has no place in a civilized society." Now isn’t that dramatic enough, considering we all at least <em>know</em> someone who knows someone in prison?</p> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1578" title="1" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1-300x252.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="252" /></a>Well, no, because readers and viewers have been trained to tune out reality in favor of “hyper-reality” (made more “real” by cable TV content providers and filmmakers) and they’re fed custody themed entertainment via standard issue delivery vehicles only. On any given night I can find 8-13 “behind bars” or incarceration-themed shows on at once, and each has hundreds of thousands of viewers. Fox hopes “Alcatraz” will generate the same following as “Prison Break,” while Mazda and Audi use prison to advertise their automotive advances. Millions of Americans DVR “Lockup,” “Lockdown,” “Hard Time,” and “Gangland” – there’s even an annual RedBull-sponsored basketball competition on Alcatraz itself. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/70RR09.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1580" title="70RR09" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/70RR09-300x97.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="97" /></a>The point of everything I write about prison here and in my book, Where Excuses Go to Die, is to defy the three R’s <em>and</em> The Shawshank Exemption both. I aim to provide something different, yet entertaining enough to capture attention to refocus it on the problem at hand. Besides, there’s so much to work with here! With things like attorneys calling CA’s solitary confinement practices “torture” and asking the U.N. to intervene on behalf of inmates, there’s material galore. Let’s start making it work for us. <a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2011/09/13/slideshow-top-california-state-salaries.html?s=image_gallery">Oh, one last thing: anyone care to guess what the Top 10 California state salaries might be?</a> 1568 2012-04-02 05:57:18 2012-04-02 05:57:18 2012-04-02 05:57:18 2012-04-02 05:57:18 closed open the-shawshank-exemption publish 0 0 post 0 California prisons incarceration Incarceration Nation Prison prison movies _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704796674;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4931;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6759;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7740;}}}} 54 William Stewart william.stewart8@yahoo.com 71.108.32.149 2012-04-02 21:00:52 2012-04-02 21:00:52 Maybe I could do a crime that would only net <em>me</em> 4 years and while incarcerated, I could get my RN license? No? Certified welder? Better healthcare? Ooh–wait, how 'bout just healthcare? 1 comment 0 0 55 Sean Noble seannoble@comcast.net 98.238.198.197 2012-04-04 17:46:37 2012-04-04 17:46:37 I have been really enjoying reading your blog! 1 comment 0 0 56 J. Nelson eatglass@prodigy.net 76.206.10.87 2012-04-05 03:09:51 2012-04-05 03:09:51 Much appreciated Sean. Really means a lot. 1 comment 55 2 http://working-copy.local/uncategorized/the-year-i-drove-around-with-fucker-carved-into-my-door/ Mon, 09 Apr 2012 05:00:58 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1589 <strong>A whole year! Couldn’t go anywhere without catching people’s double-takes and obliging demands for backstory. This is what my “get character or become one” philosophy  is made of. I didn’t have the character to resist cheating on my girlfriend, so I became – for about a year – the jerk with “FUCKER!” carved into the door of his Jeep Cherokee.</strong> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/WHOLE-YEAR2.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1591" title="WHOLE YEAR2" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/WHOLE-YEAR2.jpg" alt="" width="520" height="392" /></a> At the time I had no idea what any of it meant, other than that I’d been caught and my girlfriend’s response was excessive and crazy. It took a while for me to get a clue. But from that year behind the wheel my biggest takeaway turned out to be a giveaway – and you’re reading it.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/WHOLE-YEAR3.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1593" title="WHOLE YEAR3" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/WHOLE-YEAR3-300x167.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="167" /></a>Cheating is one of  those dummy-moves that convinces you it’s not a mistake: if you’re getting away with it, you’re good at it! Cheating is practically its own trophy and I had myself convinced I was smooth despite having no say whatsoever in luck or timing or chance. I believed I always had the right answer and left a clean communications trail. Also, I could account for my finances and work hours and had a ready menu of traffic-related alibis. The reality was I lacked the emotional intelligence, simple ethics, and courage to disclose my desire to leave the relationship. I dealt with it in the lamest way possible: making room for the other woman – for 15 months. Neither was aware of the other. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/WHOLE-YEAR61.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1597" title="WHOLE YEAR6" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/WHOLE-YEAR61-300x142.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="142" /></a>When it all came crashing down I didn’t see it as my fault, especially since it wasn’t the result of anything I’d forgotten or failed to prepare for. I'd been wronged by a meddling former roommate who had decided to rat me out for my own good, but all I saw were his actions, not mine. In fact my “sorrow” was so devoid of any internal examination that it took me a year of humiliation and explaining “FUCKER!” for any of it to form a reflection. In that likeness I saw everything, just not all at once and not in one place. It was spread way out and spared no amount of awkwardness. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/WHOLE-YEAR5.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1594" title="WHOLE YEAR5" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/WHOLE-YEAR5-300x194.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="194" /></a>So there, beneath my window, was a well deserved caption left to the interpretation of anyone reading it. Pedestrians, parking attendants, panhandlers, all three Pep Boys, and dudes delivering pizzas; bicyclists, blondes and beggars; my neighbors, my friends, my mechanic, my family, and my boss; car-wash guys, cops, contractors, garage-sale crowds, students, hipsters, the girlfriends of my buddies, and anyone at fast-food windows #1 or #2 – every damn day for a year. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/WHOLE-YEAR14.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1600" title="WHOLE YEAR14" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/WHOLE-YEAR14.jpg" alt="" width="61" height="322" /></a>She used a Wusthof boning knife, so her mark wasn't going anywhere. Because she’d carved so deeply into the sheet metal, the managers at One Day Paint &amp; Body and Maaco Collision Repair laughed out loud, rounding up other employees to come look at the trench I foolishly hoped coats of paint would fill and conceal. And when I say laugh out loud, I mean they were crying and wailing with pleasure. Getting caught cheating cost me a lot more than just my girlfriend and the companionship of the woman with whom I was having the affair. I was forced to be alone, which remained uncomfortable until it wasn’t; at which time I vowed never to put myself through such disillusionment, guilt, and castigation again. If I never cheated on another woman as long as I lived, I decided, it would be because I deserved to feel better about myself. Any future girlfriend would benefit from that, but my self-respect would come first. I didn't want to cheat or be a cheater: It was official – I deserved better than that title. But as far as dealing with the car door, toward the end I became a real pro: <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/WHOLE-YEAR1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1590" title="WHOLE YEAR1" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/WHOLE-YEAR1-300x180.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="180" /></a>I was called to the Mondrian Hotel in West Hollywood for example, for a small writing job. Mid-day parking on Sunset is worse than pus oozing from an infected hole on your arm, so I’m happy that I’d been encouraged by the project’s producer to use the Fancy-Schmancy valet. I roll up, and up walks the debonair attendant to decorate my otherwise presentable Jeep with a $35 valet ticket I don’t have to pay for. Score! <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/WHOLE-YEAR16.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1601" title="WHOLE YEAR16" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/WHOLE-YEAR16-300x119.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="119" /></a>I have stuff to carry, so when he opens the door for me I’m genuinely appreciative, but the look on his face is a mix of embarrassment and disbelief. He even points as if perhaps I’m unaware that my car says, “FUCKER!” “Oh-yeah, <em>that</em>,” I say, reaching for my phone and sunglasses. “Don’t cheat on your girlfriend.” <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/WHOLE-YEAR17.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1602" title="WHOLE YEAR17" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/WHOLE-YEAR17-300x134.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="134" /></a>His eyes got wide and he covered his mouth. Me, I kept going. The story behind the “engraving” had become a matter-of-fact measure with a daily role to play in my life. I had learned to own it so it would stop owning me. In so doing I gained even more than character: I earned back the respect of the girl who carved the word into my door. She loves this story, by the way. Her name is Jill, and she and I are better friends today than we ever were lovers or partners. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/WHOLE-YEAR12.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1599" title="WHOLE YEAR12" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/WHOLE-YEAR12-300x257.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="257" /></a>As for my Jeep, the last time I told this story with my hand on its door was the day I traded it + some cash for a fixer upper classic muscle car. The buyer didn’t seem to care and was impressed with Jill’s work. "Look at how big it is!" he marveled. "She took her time!" "Don't cheat on your girlfriend." I don’t want to come off all sanctimonious (not that I could with <em>my</em> track record), but I’m pleased to say I’ve never cheated on another woman. The lesson I learned remains applicable elsewhere in life too (except if I ever catch that snooping, pip-squeak, tattletale-snitch who thought he’d teach me something -- I might be tempted to knock his teeth down his throat and leave ‘im in the gutter choking on spit and blood). 1589 2012-04-09 05:00:58 2012-04-09 05:00:58 2012-04-09 05:00:58 2012-04-09 05:00:58 closed open the-year-i-drove-around-with-fucker-carved-into-my-door publish 0 0 post 0 Character cheating Excuses infidelity relationships Uncategorized _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:10;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706436070;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:293;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6044;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8404;}}}} 57 Stilts19 stilts19@gmail.com 72.211.160.203 2012-04-10 00:16:21 2012-04-10 00:16:21 You put yourself into a position to earn that lesson a few times, so who was it that "taught" you the lesson on <em>this</em> occasion? I'm glad that you learned form it all. You're a better person for it. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/excuses/u-s-secret-service-strictly-a-class-move/ Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:50:01 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1610 <h4><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/drert.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1615" title="drert" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/drert-300x263.jpg" width="300" height="263" /></a></strong></h4> <h5><span style="color: #993300;">–Broken links reinserted– </span></h5> <h4><strong>Those <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/14/world/americas/colombia-summit-secret-service/">beer dicks in the Secret Service</a> could and <em>should</em> have avoided the international embarrassment of  “forced diplomatic intervention” that at least one Columbian pimp resorted to when denied payment. Who cares that prostitution is legal in Columbia, you puffed-up jocks: you hire a hooker, you still have to <em>pay</em> the hooker. </strong></h4> Forget about integrity or honor, good behavior, credibility, or even <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57414811/secret-service-revokes-security-clearances-of-11-accused-of-misconduct/">operational security</a> or diplomatic bearing. Just be a decent human being and pay the person who gave you the <em>Wet Monkey Wrench</em> of your life. Not many of ‘em are in this for fun, after all.<!--more--><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/01.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1611" title="01" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/01-293x300.jpg" width="293" height="300" /></a> Now, if you’re in Columbia and you default on your blowjob “balance due,”  you’d best hope you can find that kindly official at the U.S. Embassy who will release State Department petty cash funds to keep your ass out of trouble. Oh, yeah, back in ’98 some Marines beat up a prostitute for objecting to non-payment for services rendered, and she went to the Embassy to ask for medical reimbursement for her injuries and loss of work. Why not, right? Under Columbian law in some places her job is seen as equal to that of  a waitress or a mechanic. At any rate, according to The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, the Embassy official offered to pay the woman off to keep her quiet about the whole thing. <strong>(UPDATE: The preceding dead-link was a UPI item dated, 20 January, 1998 – what a surprise that the page would vanish in the wake of these events.</strong>) <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/016.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1616" title="016" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/016-300x210.jpg" width="300" height="210" /></a> In the current case, members of a Secret Service “Advance Team” providing presidential protection for the <a href="http://www.summit-americas.org/default_en.htm">Summit of the Americas</a> allegedly refused to pay an employee for prostitutes sent to their room at Cartagena’s Hotel Caribe, and that’s as far as it got. (<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304818404577346260235734298.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">At least down there...</a>) It'll be interesting to learn what these Team America <a href="http://www.afhub.com/hot-toys-us-secret-service-emergency-response-team-ert-with-g36c/" target="_blank">action heros’</a> might use as an excuse for thier obnoxious misconduct. Isn’t it enough that – due largely to <em>our</em> cocaine habit – we spent the last decades engaged in a paternalistic and dismissive relationship with Colombia, helping to underwrite their destructive narco-war? And now that we feel “safe” in Colombia again (unlike in much of <em>Mexico</em>), our South America neighbor can be exploited as a pleasure paradise instead? Why, it’s a regular pre-Castro Cuba! To hell with their culture and rules, this is <em>our</em> backyard. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/011.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1629" title="01" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/011.jpg" width="242" height="184" /></a>So grab your self-justifications and c’mon down: the weather’s fine and there’s lovin’ for cheap. Especially if, one way or another, Uncle Sam picks up the tab. P.S. It depresses me that ultimately a Colombian hotel pimp will have brought down a dozen Secret Service guys (<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2130285/Rep-Darrell-Issa-says-Secret-Service-prostitution-scandal-sign-wider-corruption-agency.html?ITO=1490">or more</a>) by the time this mess leaves its news cycle. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ALL.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1618" title="ALL" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ALL.jpg" width="575" height="314" /></a> 1610 2012-04-16 04:50:01 2012-04-16 04:50:01 2016-12-01 10:43:40 2016-12-01 17:43:40 closed open u-s-secret-service-strictly-a-class-move publish 0 0 post 0 Advance Team Cowardice Excuses prostitution U.S. Secret Service _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1684177467;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11948;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:778;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8028;}}}} http://working-copy.local/self-esteem/patricia-krentcil-please-just-go-to-hell/ Wed, 02 May 2012 20:43:19 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1707 <h4><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/B1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1724" title="B1" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/B1-300x239.jpg" width="300" height="239" /></a>Patricia Krentcil is not only a laughably easy target for this blog, she’s as disoriented as a Kansas pig with farm fever. So we're not gonna slam her <em>too</em> much, but we <em>are</em> gonna ask: a</strong><strong>re these really our values? <strong></strong><strong>Is Krentcil's nutso body image and clearly low self-esteem just about being batshit crazy, or is it more and more typical of Americans constantly subject to predatory marketing? </strong>And just how ugly do we think we are if <em>this</em> is seen as an improvement? </strong><strong></strong><strong></strong></h4> Police say Pat Krentcil was arrested and charged with child endangerment after she allegedly snuck her daughter into the tanning booth she uses to make herself look like a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freaks">carnival freak circa 1928</a>.<!--more--> [caption id="attachment_1708" align="alignleft" width="300"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Patricia-Krentcil.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1708" title="Patricia Krentcil" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Patricia-Krentcil-300x219.jpg" width="300" height="219" /></a> Clown Photos courtesy ABC News[/caption] <em>ABC News</em> reports that Krentcil hasn't denied allowing her fair-skinned, redheaded five-year-old to accompany her to the tanning salon, but she does describe the incident as "a misunderstanding," calling the girl's burn and rash a regular sunburn. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Patricia-Krentcil2.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1712" title="Patricia Krentcil2" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Patricia-Krentcil2.jpg" width="190" height="281" /></a>It's hard enough to look at this woman, but listening to her distinguish between a tanning booth and actual solar activity is too much. Her daughter told an alarmed school nurse that she'd gone into the tanning booth with her <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">Oompa Loompa</span> mother, and I'm going with <em>her</em> word over that of Carrots the Birthday Clown. Salon employees told the cops they saw nothing, which reminds me of the those Penn State football A-holes who failed to notify authorities of child abuse so they could protect their own interests. Again, I can't help but wonder where our societal values are. And what's with Krentcil's own grossly unhealthy self-perception? Has she convinced herself that turning UV orange is somehow empowering? If so, what's stopping her from imparting more of this "wisdom" to her impressionable young daughter? Little girls are known to respond to the magic-wand-will-turn-me-into-a-princess shtick. (At least there's no Disney princess the color of a traffic cone with which she can further identify.) With enough positive reinforcement from mom at so precarious an age, this kid can grow up seeing the tanning booth as a good way to improve her <em>own</em> self-image and social standing among her peers, thus advancing a comically misguided practice to piss-poor emotional problem solving! (Yeesh. I'm no psychologist, but my Conjecture Kung Fu is all over the map on this one.) [caption id="attachment_1717" align="alignleft" width="300"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Patricia-Krentcil4.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1717" title="Patricia Krentcil4" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Patricia-Krentcil4.jpg" width="300" height="225" /></a> CBS 2 New York[/caption] What's gonna happen when little Anna Krentcil gains a few pre-teen pounds? We'll need a new magic wand for that one! Will mom then have to sneak her into a back-alley liposuction clinic set up in a Serbian goat-meat factory, only to claim later her child's weight loss was the result of an intestinal condition? But here's the real question: are we just as culpable, guilty, or stupid by looking the other way, say, to the television where idiots like Patricia Krentcil thrive and become famous? Sure we make fun of burnt sausage-colored kooks like Krentcil and we feel better about our own lives as a result, but by parading 'em up and down the reality show pantheon of normalcy aren't we actually reinforcing such moronically impulsive and self indulgent life skills? Will we find out tomorrow that, like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon_boy_hoax">Balloon Boy's parents</a> or the "Human Barbie" mom who gave her daughter the $11,000 liposuction gift card, that Patricia Kentcil burned her daughter in a tanning booth <em>just for the attention and notoriety?? </em> Scary shit, people. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Burnt-Sausage.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1730" title="Burnt Sausage" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Burnt-Sausage.jpg" width="315" height="270" /></a> Patricia Krentcil: Please Just Go to Hell 1707 2012-05-02 20:43:19 2012-05-02 20:43:19 2015-04-06 07:09:43 2015-04-06 14:09:43 closed open patricia-krentcil-please-just-go-to-hell publish 0 0 post 0 Character Culture parenting Patricia Krentcil Self-Esteem tanning booth _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:1;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _yoast_wpseo_focuskw patricia krentcil _yoast_wpseo_title Patricia Krentcil: Please Just Go to Hell. - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Patricia Krentcil: Please Just Go to Hell _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 87 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1696150053;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:829;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:808;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3066;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4562;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1080;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2703;}}}} 60 Buster hogsnorton@gmail.com 70.36.182.251 2012-05-06 18:44:09 2012-05-06 18:44:09 I definitely needed to adjust my medication for this one. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/culture/hey-i-got-your-avengers-right-here/ Tue, 08 May 2012 21:45:56 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1742 [caption id="attachment_1765" align="alignleft" width="332"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Supervillains.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-1765 " title="Supervillains" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Supervillains.jpg" alt="" width="332" height="340" /></a> Only if these two were hiding WMDs and the Avengers were sent to stop 'em would I pay $15 to see a movie about it.[/caption] <strong>Cinema attendance surges in times of economic insecurity and moral ambivalence, and with storm-troops of superheroes out to crush absurdly irrelevant bad guys, movie escapism isn’t so much offered as detonated. But I can’t help wondering, if the Avengers are so great, why can’t they stop the powdered baby pill smugglers?</strong> I mean, wouldn’t <em>you</em> enjoy watching a superhero tackle just one goddamned oil spill? Ooh, or how about a flying goody-goody facing his or her <em>own</em> demons? Where’s our $200 million movie about a fight to the death with power-sapping civil litigation, or sneak-attacks from the evil Captain Vicodin?<!--more--><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Captain-Vike2.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1790" title="Captain Vike" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Captain-Vike2.jpg" alt="" width="184" height="272" /></a> Aren’t <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2140702/South-Korea-customs-officials-thousands-pills-filled-powdered-human-baby-flesh.html" target="_blank">evildoers who grind up and microwave dead babies and make ‘em into pills</a> just about the most repulsive super villains you ever heard of? Where’s the movie where guys like <em>that</em> are plucked from their newborn-grinding factory by some caped buffoon named Launch Code and thrown into a volcano? <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Bruce-and-Evel2.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1788" title="Bruce and Evel" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Bruce-and-Evel2.jpg" alt="" width="133" height="182" /></a>When I was a kid my heroes were so real they were pitiful. I loved Bruce Lee and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/us/01knievel.html?n=Top%2FReference%2FTimes%20Topics%2FPeople%2FK%2FKnievel%2C%20Evel&amp;_r=0" target="_blank">Evel Knievel</a>. Poor Bruce Lee’s brain exploded and Evel Knievel attacked a studio executive with a baseball bat and was never taken seriously again. I don’t remember being in awe of any jingoistic crusader, masked hero, or costumed vigilante who could see through walls. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/BL.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1782" title="BL" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/BL.jpg" alt="" width="214" height="311" /></a>I also don’t remember a life without cynicism, but that’s another issue. Point is, I’d like to see a bit more of a “morally compromising” superhero that’s, say, 50% <a href="http://thehungergames.wikia.com/wiki/Katniss_Everdeen">Katniss</a> and 50% <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMiyel4oo_k">Keitel ­from Bad  Lieutenant</a>. (And also he could see through walls and dropkick bulldozers into space.) With all the emo-quirk sentimentality being square pegged into the round holes of today’s movie franchise superheroes, couldn’t we just pit someone named Explosion Man against Somali pirates, human traffickers, or vile Catholic Archbishops who protect pedophile priests? Why must we always get Transmutators from a crystalized space cloud who feel compelled to annihilate America’s most attractive steel and glass structures?  There’s so much <em>actual</em> evil and so many <em>true-life</em> A-holes to chose from! <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/CE.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1784" title="CE" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/CE-290x300.jpg" alt="" width="290" height="300" /></a>Couldn’t we see an Avenger born of some nondescript tyrant’s chemical gas attack who somehow lives and vows revenge on bio-weapon users and stockpilers? We could call him ChemiKill or Gasso or even Windbag. The first studio to take on such a people’s conqueror would save millions on costly computer animation: action sequences could merely feature actors and background extras choking and gagging and dropping to the sidewalk with bleeding eyes. No planetary fireballs, tsunamis, or earth cracking open in the middle of Manhattan needed! <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/S.I.G..jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1791" title="S.I.G." src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/S.I.G..jpg" alt="" width="339" height="417" /></a>How ‘bout a mega-budget superhero named S.I.G. who can shape-shift into any special interest group poster boy he wishes to support the cause that needs him most? (Bipolar, NRA, La Cosa Nostra, Cerebral Palsy, the Energy Lobby, Teamsters, Arsonists Anonymous, GLAAD, the Stonecutters -- you name it!)  At the moment S.I.G. might want to chill with the royally eff’d-over <a href="http://blog.al.com/live/2012/05/dispersant_and_crude_oil_chemi.html">Gulf Coast fishermen</a> or supporters of the <a href="http://studentdebtcrisis.org/" target="_blank">Student Loan Forgiveness Act.</a> He could magically strip bare the agendas of those who’d marginalize, dismiss, or obstruct for the “other team.” Audiences would get either a guy wiggling around in a Mackerel costume who spits crude oil pudding or a screechy 21 year-old Occupy lesbian with a voice box made of indestructible composite materials. White men in $1800 suits would cover their ears and run for their lives! Oh, not escapist enough? Too close to home? <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/HAWKMAN.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1794" title="HAWKMAN" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/HAWKMAN.jpg" alt="" width="269" height="161" /></a>How ‘bout a Stephen Hawking Avenger with an even crazier voice-command module who could bestow brainpower to random citizens – or better yet, mobs of total idiots! Imagine Florida being ignored by campaigning politicians because overnight it got wise! What, leave red-state blue-state out of it you say? Fine. It sounds like a job for S.I.G. anyway. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/GLASS.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1795" title="GLASS" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/GLASS.jpg" alt="" width="254" height="174" /></a>The point is, any one of us with our own filmmaker favorites could list five directors <em>more</em> than capable of making a superhero story that’s random, wild, thoughtful, and delightfully ordinary in its proportions. And in the right hands, the outcome would be anything <em>but</em> ordinary. Hell, M. Night Shyamalan pulled it off with his brilliant and deceptive <em>Unbreakable: </em>Wasn’t that cool as hell? Topping my list of directors would be <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0027572/">Wes Anderson</a>, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005436/">John Singleton</a>, and <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000709/">Robert Zemeckis</a>. At the bottom – ‘er excuse me, that's a different list altogether. There isn't a bottom for this one, just a list of those who’d never make the first list. Starting with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0923736/">Joss Whedon</a>. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/A2.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1796" title="A2" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/A2.jpg" alt="" width="288" height="185" /></a>Just give me an Avenger who does whatever his or her asinine crime-fighter shtick calls for, but off-hours hovers above holier-than-thou Prius drivers looking for the right ones to punch in the face after he stuffs their mouths with cat hair and splinters. (Oh, gonna vote me off the island for that one too? C’mon!) <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/B7er.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1797" title="B7er" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/B7er.jpg" alt="" width="191" height="194" /></a>Surely no one can deny a superhero who banishes TV ad execs to the dark side of the moon for green-lighting commercials with talking infants and animals, right? While doing time there, said executives could be forced to experience how their talking toddlers affect us by having to memorize the unpronounceable last names of third world Olympians and watching footage of Burning Man attendees gushing to the camera. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Pencil.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-1744" title="Pencil" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Pencil.jpg" alt="" width="114" height="240" /></a>And while a movie about an Avenger dude dressed as a pencil who goes around inspiring kids to study sounds boring as hell to me, I’d watch it twice if Pencil complained about being gnawed on or rolled from one school to the next erasing fat and re-drawing it onto bullies. In the end, Pencil could fall in love with a cute little orange Crayola – but not before delivering the story’s message: smart + you = sexy. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Ledger.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-1763" title="Ledger" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Ledger.jpg" alt="" width="189" height="189" /></a>The Ledger/Nolan Joker is the best interpretation of a comic book villain ever, likewise the Nolan reboot.  So I’m just asking: couldn’t we be treated to correspondingly authentic superheroes? Or does absolutely everything that must be "avenged" also have to be so spiritlessly loud, lumbering, lame, and long? 1742 2012-05-08 21:45:56 2012-05-08 21:45:56 2016-12-01 10:39:55 2016-12-01 17:39:55 closed open hey-i-got-your-avengers-right-here publish 0 0 post 0 Avengers Culture Movies powdered human baby flesh superhero _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703785339;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6295;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1343;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2243;}}}} http://working-copy.local/your-adorable-child/notes-from-a-non-parent-5-the-parent-fetish-trap/ Tue, 15 May 2012 06:29:15 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1816 <strong><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/F12.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1853" title="F12" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/F12.jpg" alt="" width="274" height="248" /></a>Q: Are we, who admit to being too selfish for childrearing, freer to enjoy the company of others' children? </span></span></strong> <strong><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="color: #000000;">A: Damn right we are, especially with so much predatory marketing keeping parents' envious eyes on each other. As moms and dads everywhere condemn the current wave of weirdo parenting</span></span></strong><strong style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="color: #000000;"> while trading assurances that their <em>own</em> kids are free of transmissible dysfunction</span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="color: #000000;">, it's only gotten that much more entertaining.</span></span></strong> I don't really care about last week's Time magazine cover of a confused oaf takin' a pull off his ma's tap. I don't care about extended breast feeding's quasi-cat lady proponents <em>or</em> this beyond tragicomic "pre-mastication" trend. Yet it's all fodder for the current national yakkety-yak and it's overtaken my parent-friends' usual election year/Facebook/reading list talking points. I listen in, but all <em>I</em> seem to hear is how superior they feel for not going to extremes themselves (while their kids kick shit over and scream "shut up!" when someone interrupts their iPhone game). My wife and I laugh about how parenting can be as extreme as energy pills made from dehydrated placenta. We see the decision to spawn as extreme to begin with, and no cultural child-worship (or pressure from my wife's mom) is gonna convince us otherwise.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/F4.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1847" title="F4" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/F4.jpg" alt="" width="229" height="303" /></a>The argument we hear most is how special those moments are when you gaze upon your child, this perfect creation, beaming with pride, and you're filled with love and a magic fairy has erased your concerns and birds on your shoulder whisper secrets into your ear. Never mind that this is a direct contradiction of what we <em>see</em> in these folks' homes, we hear this all the time. We're adamant about wanting no part of it, so of course we attract friends who want us to drink the Kool-aid. And while we're grateful we're thought worth the effort, we like our position as temps. This way we can mock others as they try to baby-proof their lives, raise children, still go surfing, pay their mortgages, and keep their houses and transportation "green" and their minds stable. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/F5.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1849" title="F5" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/F5.jpg" alt="" width="145" height="171" /></a>Our  neighbors assure us we "just don't understand" while they compare $300, $700, and $1300 baby strollers with mommy-rivals across the street. They tell us how "uniquely you" your children will be as they stretch little Ramones t-shirts over their kids' tiny arms. Nearly all their baby gear and feeding utensils look designed in either Cupertino or Turin. Even if their kid budget gets blown mostly at Target, it's hard to tell a baby bottle from an ashtray in their house thanks to this godless curvature trend in retail design. I can't imagine the anxiety of keeping track of so many additional bits and pieces, blankets and socks, hats, toys, bags, diapers, wipes, snacks, and plastic bullshit made to bounce twelve times before you can catch it and stop that damn noise. (I won't even <em>go</em> there with control over your own soundscape.) <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/F8.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1850" title="F8" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/F8.jpg" alt="" width="192" height="168" /></a>My guy friends tell me I don't know what I'm missing, that everything changes once the baby comes. "You really start to understand what it's all about, bro, the first time you look at your child." Over 'n over again it's these same sentiments. They never change and they're never improved upon. And without exception, they're accompanied by the 'ol, "'Course you have to take the good with the bad..." backpedal. I stopped arguing or even catching those contradictions when I realized that getting the last word in here isn't good for friendships. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/F13.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1860" title="F1" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/F13.jpg" alt="" width="196" height="302" /></a>We wish our friends well, but this is a struggle we can do without. We've got enough stress without worrying over which toys contain Chinese lead or what the kid's supposed to bring with him to school tomorrow. It's hard enough keeping our cars full of gas, our credit rating semi-attractive, and our taxes, pay-per-view, and parking tickets paid. Our friends have taken on whole new worlds of duties, tasks, chores, and stress. I think <em>that's</em> what changes 'em, not the breeding. My wife and I appreciate the joy of a full family dinner table and watching children discover everything from soapy bubbles to tide pools and Koi ponds and Halloween and ouchies. But we've also watched our parent friends mutate into unrecognizable creatures who pump stress from the earth like Gulf Coast oil platforms, night and day. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/NOTES-283x3001.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1854" title="NOTES--283x300" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/NOTES-283x3001.jpg" alt="" width="283" height="300" /></a>We've seen our parent friends go through bouts of stress and worry like someone running as mayor of a small town. Kindergarten, play-dates, college tuition, maternity recovery and couple's issues, organic you-names-its, the swear jar, milestone pressure, milestone envy, helicopter moms, daycare costs, disabilities, self-reliance, homework, meddling grandparents, fatso pre-teens, parent-teacher conferences, eco-babies, and my two  favorites: failed expectations and narcissistic parents! Sometimes there's yelling. (Hey, adults throw toys too!) Occasionally, we even glimpse the intersection of Child Street and Daddy's Prescription Addiction Boulevard, and we know it'll be an ugly surprise once junior's juvenile traits become adult habits. Free of your character defects, you insist? Yeah, wrong. So we're supportive, but we're happy our back seat has no baby bucket strapped to it: it's a real sense of relief. Sure being childless at 40 sets us apart, but our privacy, personal time, and disposable income (what little there is) outweigh the reward of "understanding what life's all about." And when it starts to sound more like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C4uTEEOJlM">"One of us! One of us,"</a> we ain't havin' it. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/F15.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1857" title="F15" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/F15.jpg" alt="" width="494" height="349" /></a> 1816 2012-05-15 06:29:15 2012-05-15 06:29:15 2014-06-08 22:55:04 2014-06-09 05:55:04 closed open notes-from-a-non-parent-5-the-parent-fetish-trap publish 0 0 post 0 Comfort Zone Culture Notes from a Non-parent parenting Your Adorable Child _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:1;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706744149;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:412;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7064;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:672;}}}} 61 Tina Katz tlkatz@hotmail.com http://www.tootzypop.com 76.175.160.161 2012-05-15 07:35:42 2012-05-15 07:35:42 Having squeezed out two of my own spawn, I'd definitely agree that it's not for everyone! 1 comment 0 0 62 J. Nelson eatglass@prodigy.net 76.206.10.87 2012-05-15 13:25:32 2012-05-15 13:25:32 And, of course, "squeezed out" just makes it seem even more appealing. (What do things "squeezed" into being actually do once they're "out"? They lay there which is what babies do. Unfortunately, owners must wait too long for 'em to take form to the degree that they can wash cars and fix stuff. Thanks for the input... 1 comment 61 2 63 craig cscutright@gmail.com 174.61.185.13 2012-05-15 15:47:15 2012-05-15 15:47:15 ahahhahahahhahaahahahaah fuck you crack me up.... 1 comment 0 0 64 Jill K. kleinmutt@yahoo.com 63.206.47.126 2012-06-01 23:30:30 2012-06-01 23:30:30 "[C]onfused oaf takin' a pull of his ma's tap" - - hahaaaaha-haaaaaaa. Can I make a tee-shirt out of that? Six months in with 17-month old and I still don't know what "helicopter parenting" is. (No, really, what is it?) I suggest not getting 'em fresh out of the oven, adopt 'em after they've had some time to ferment, er . . . ripen. It'll spare you some gray hairs (or lost hairs as the case may be). 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/prison-2/brian-banks-brian-banks-brian-banks/ Mon, 28 May 2012 00:23:54 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1896 <h4><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/C2.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-1900" title="C2" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/C2.jpg" width="371" height="232" /></a>Get used to the name, ‘cause you'll be hearing it often. And may it be for touchdowns and commencement addresses rather than gimmicks or Kardashians, because among other things Brain Banks just may be our answer to Michael Vick. Yet how many men with Banks' spirit and character are deteriorating <em>right now</em> in American prisons?</strong></h4> <h4><span style="color: #800000;">At 17, Long Beach Polytechnic High School football star Brian Banks was convicted of kidnapping and raping a female classmate. He did just over 5 years in state prison. When his accuser confessed that she <em>wasn't</em> raped by Banks, a judge exonerated him. Now 27, the athlete once pursued by USC is hopeful he'll be given a shot in the NFL, allowing him to fund a documentary about his journey.</span></h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/C6.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-1916" title="C6" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/C6.jpg" width="320" height="289" /></a>Prison is like living in a parking structure overseen by the Department of Motor Vehicles and filled with beggars from New Delhi, except these askers don't want money. They want you to believe they're innocent. And life behind bars means gettin' used to these claims: what I call the<em> white noise of innocence</em>. It's not hard, really, 'cause you tune it out almost immediately. You have to. Before you even hit a real prison yard you’ve heard <em>so</em> many stories of wrongful prosecution you know the idiots from the potentially sincere, the mistaken from the mealy-mouthed. When it comes to inmates’ comprehension of how the court system works and the law in general, you've found a bottomless pit of delusion, denial, and distortion. <!--more--> Looked at optimistically, however, you could take this cheerlessness as sign of your adaptability and improved chances of survival. You're sharpening an important skill – who to trust – and doing so with minimal effort. The bullshit comes to you! <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/KING-OF-THE-DUMP-TRUCKS.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1937" title="KING OF THE DUMP-TRUCKS" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/KING-OF-THE-DUMP-TRUCKS.jpg" width="361" height="267" /></a>For instance, you're bound to catch some fool at breakfast blathering on about how he's “down” for stabbing his 89 year-old neighbor to death because of an eyewitness who lied on the stand. He’ll say he's innocent and that his “dump-truck” (lousy lawyer/public defender) is about to get him a retrial. You'll know to ignore him ‘cause the week before he’ll have said he was convicted of assault once at the Sanger Courthouse in Fresno County. And since your cellmate’s cousin <em>lives</em> in Fresno and swears Sanger is but a lowly traffic court, you’re already aware that Blabbermouth just wants to start his day off with some attention. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/C13.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-1915" title="C13" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/C13.jpg" width="415" height="214" /></a>See, in the early days, shuffling between pre-trial court appearances and the jail, what else is there to do but read guys’ files, court transcripts, and sentencing dispositions? You sure don't want to be in your <em>own</em> head, right? So before you know it, the legalese has become easy to decipher and you've started crosschecking details from pre-trail probation reports in the background of your own misery. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/C7.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-1909" title="C7" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/C7.jpg" width="316" height="182" /></a>Once you've received your sentence and been shipped up-state to a penitentiary, you'll see how many apples like Blabbermouth have been shaken from the tree. You'll marvel at how someone like him, once so convinced of his innocence that he commanded small day room audiences, now just plays dominoes with the fellas all day and hordes sugary treats. Oh, rest assured: the system <em>did</em> screw Blabbermouth, but by now you know it was likely in several smaller ways, such as when his dump-truck advised him to plead guilty instead of facing a jury of FOX News viewers, or failed to bargain on his behalf for a prison assignment closer to his family. Or, for that matter, an assignment in a state facility vs. a private one that <a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/04/11/wells_fargos_prison_cash_cow/" target="_blank">Bank of America or Wells Fargo might own</a>. The injustices in Blabbermouth’s case are there, but they’re ones that can be found in nearly every inmate’s Central File. Not all of ‘em are due to negligence, incompetence, treachery, or racism. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/C14.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-1917" title="C14" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/C14.jpg" width="405" height="214" /></a>But there's another level of innocent convict: the guy who petitions for time in the law library to review the fine print of his sentencing disposition. He <em>knows</em> he can prove ineptitude: he can point out several areas where the courts failed him and is actively pursuing their resolution. He's a lot more literate and much less noisy. Spend some time with <em>this</em> guy and your ability to credibly differentiate between willful misconception and prosecutorial negligence will soar. (Warning: he's also on low level psych meds, so don't bring up his childhood.) <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/C15.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1918" title="C15" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/C15.jpg" width="247" height="247" /></a>Inside, there are so many guys with personal property lockers or cells stuffed with case-related documentation  –details they swear by–  it gets dizzying. Yes, your tolerance for conversations filled with legal terms, judicial Catch-22's, and complex defense arguments will grow by leaps and bounds but beware: this is only a phase. It’ll get depressing quickly. Of course these men are right to keep fighting, but two years later they’re still around, still furiously expectant of justice (and still in need of your listening skills). There are many like 'em on the yard. Besides, not all the Blabbermouth apples will have fallen to the ground – lotta them still in the mix too. Don't be surprised if you find yourself saying, “So fuckin’ what?” to the most hopeful eyes you've ever seen, those of some newcomer you’ve just met. Gotta keep <em>that</em> in check or you’ll start to live and breathe with distrust and anger for the system. And those things -- I promise you -- are the roots of institutionalization. <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/C16.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-1919" title="C16" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/C16-300x227.jpg" width="192" height="146" /></a>“Whatever your truth is, you have to stick with it.” – Cornelius Dupree, after a Texas judge exonerated him of a 1979 crime on the basis of DNA evidence kept in long-term county jail storage.</strong> Finally there's the <a href="http://brianbanks.org/" target="_blank">Brian Banks</a> type  –  the anti-Blabbermouth. In the cell house or on the yard, it’s doubtful you'll even <em>know</em> he believes he was falsely accused. Many innocent men in prison learn who’s worth revisiting the specifics with, and it usually ain’t the fellas in the day room. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/C3.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1920" title="C3" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/C3-300x168.jpg" width="300" height="168" /></a>That’s ‘cause guys like Banks get blown off early on by every character they meet, starting with (in his case) LA County Sheriff’s deputies, their gang task force administrators, Blabbermouths of every stripe, correctional officers, state prison case counselors, old convicts, and jailhouse lawyers, liars, and losers. So they learn to save their breath, to be doers, not talkers. Only their closest allies know what their situation is, and because these friends are only as “like-minded” as you can find behind bars, the Brian Banks type likely doesn’t get much outta’ them. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/C5000000.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1924" title="C5000000" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/C5000000.jpg" width="299" height="199" /></a>Besides, either a man is guilty or he's not. Your opinion has nothing to do with it, so why would a Banks type share shit with you? The cell bars don't matter, and neither do the gangs or the tattoos or the rules of engagement. A man like Brian Banks knows that to become your own country you have to play with the politics, so to a degree he goes along to get along. He doesn't broadcast his worries, and he's mostly personable. At the same time, he stands his ground when it comes to principles and personal conduct. He's neither a predator nor a pushover. I've known inmates like Banks. I probably would’ve enjoyed his commentary and trusted his words during any prison chow hall breakfast. There's a big difference between Banks and Blabbermouth -- trust me on this. [caption id="attachment_1926" align="alignleft" width="363"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/transparency.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-1926" title="transparency" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/transparency-1024x614.jpg" width="363" height="217" /></a> Click to ENLARGE[/caption] Every state in this country imprisons too many men like this, some wrongly prosecuted thanks to dishonest informants, false confessions, dump-trucks, careless district attorneys, errant court clerks, or -- most shameful of all -- your average criminal jury's inclination to racially profile defendants. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics Prison Statistics: <ul> <li>1 in every 100 Americans is in jail or prison</li> <li>1 in every 45 White Americans is on parole or probation</li> <li>1 in every 27 Hispanic American adults is in jail or prison</li> <li>1 in every 11 Black American adults is in jail or prison</li> </ul> Since I was <em>correctly</em> prosecuted, I can’t really speak for guys like Banks: I can only describe ‘em as I saw ‘em during my time in the system. But I can urge anyone reading this blog to learn more for one reason: for the sake of not writing people off en masse. Getting it out of our collective consciousness that prison is for "those people" is really the only way we can foster desperately needed reform in this country. It's also one of the only ways we can reverse the groupthink that represents America's attempt to incarcerate its way out of crime. I have high hopes for Brian Banks and for the awareness he’s now building. Please remember that there are other men behind bars to have high hopes for – and no, they sure as hell aren’t all innocent. The Innocence Project <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/exoneree-freedom-isn%E2%80%99t-free/">(Exoneree) Freedom Isn’t Free</a> <a href="https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/surviving-justice-americas-wrongfully-convicted-and-exonerated">McSweeney's</a> <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2012/0430/Colorado-DNA-program-s-first-success-convicted-murderer-exonerated">DNA testing exonerates Robert Dewey, convicted in 1996 for the rape and murder.</a> BTW, if you believe prison reform and DNA exoneration projects are for crybaby liberals who want to free murderers and give guns to “the queers,” please consider the conservative case for prison reform at Right on Crime (which I like to call, <em>“Right on! Crime!”</em>). 1896 2012-05-28 00:23:54 2012-05-28 00:23:54 2017-11-06 12:37:03 2017-11-06 19:37:03 closed open brian-banks-brian-banks-brian-banks publish 0 0 post 0 Brian Banks Character exonerations Prison the Innocence Project wrongful prosecution _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1700171195;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8227;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4775;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4697;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/shouldnt-undercooked-homeless-man-cash-in-too/ Mon, 04 Jun 2012 01:41:02 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1946 [caption id="attachment_1983" align="alignright" width="231" caption="Nicholas Carlesi captured what is thought to be the last last photo of Ronald Poppo before 75% of his face was chewed off."]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Z2.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-1983" title="Z2" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Z2-231x300.jpg" alt="" width="231" height="300" /></a>[/caption] <strong>Last week, nearly all the major media outlets and countless web destinations profited from leaked photos of Ronald Poppo's eaten up face and the 9-1-1 calls reporting his attack. It's bad enough that the rest of his miserable life is gonna be spent in pain and beef jerky jokes, there's no excuse for Ronnie not gettin' a slice...uh, a cut, a chunk – some money!</strong> I mean, we don't look homeless people in the eye or give 'em the time of day. We can't stop to unfold a buck or two and we'll cross the street if it means avoiding one. But let a bum get his face chewed off and we become wide-eyed pigeons, pecking at the ground -- or in this case clicking though channels and websites -- for salacious crumbs. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Chicken-Enchiladas-de-Mole.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1955" title="Chicken Enchiladas de Mole" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Chicken-Enchiladas-de-Mole-300x247.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="247" /></a>As quickly as the photos were leaked, only to go viral, is as quickly as I decided against lookin' at 'em. I assure you it isn't because I'm "mature" 'n what not, and practically nothing grosses me out. What bothers me is the idea of celebrating sensationalism. Number one, I already knew the gruesome images would resemble a plate of chicken mole enchiladas, and number two, what's the message? It sure as hell isn't "homeless people deserve respect."<!--more--> Yes, it's likely we do stuff like this as a protective measure, to distance ourselves from the victim, from ugliness, pain, and trauma so we're not reminded of the monsters we can be or the depths to which we more and more frequently sink. It used to be that tragedy + time = comedy, but with instant gratification in every facet of our lives we no longer need to wait to traffic in images and make light of abhorrent behavior. So those images and stories spread like wildfire, almost immediately becoming impossible to escape. You can't go to work or to a barbecue without hearing about 'em. To cope, then, we need to get to the humor sooner. We mock to create distance, relying on distance to protect and defend our sensitive, daisy fresh world view. And we're the ones who voluntarily sought out trauma and ugliness in the first place! <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Complexities-Abound.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1965" title="Complexities Abound" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Complexities-Abound-300x260.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="260" /></a>Does this strike anyone as counterfeit or hypocritical? No? How about weakening or debilitating, rather than "enlightening" or "empowering," as the information superhighway was supposed to be? Consider that the next time you hear of a study claiming children raised with digital media are better prepared for the future. Too many kids are being taught to expect a psychological comfort zone even for problems to which they themselves contribute. [caption id="attachment_1984" align="alignright" width="280" caption="Buyers for Urban Outfitters do have their moments. This ain&#39;t one of &#39;em."]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/WRONG-BOX.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-1984" title="WRONG BOX" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/WRONG-BOX.jpg" alt="" width="280" height="203" /></a>[/caption] Sorry, is that <em>not</em> funny? Did I get too serious? Well, let me rush right back to that protective hilarity. Friday, I'm in Burbank, standing just inside the entrance to Urban Outfitters. I hardly fit into any of the insufferable clothes sold there 'cause I’m no longer shaped like I was at 22  -- ailing thin --  and also because what’s hyped as a Large at Urban is actually a Medium, and so forth. Out on the sidewalk, however, a jacket in the window catches my eye (it's none of <a href="http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/category.jsp?id=M_OUTERWEAR" target="_blank">this lameness</a>). Miracle of miracles, there's one XL in the stack, and I know it'll shrink to perfection with repeated washing and high-heat dryer cycles. While trying it on (and forcing on a Large too, just in case) a scruffy lookin’ man burst through the doorway and dropped to the floor, screaming in holy-bloody pain. He was holding his face and rocking his head back and forth, shouting, “AAAAGHHHH! Oh my God! No-no!” He was followed in by a bigger man I’d seen bummin’ change outside. It looked like they were fighting. All the Urban shoppers froze or turned and ran. I froze too, 'til I saw that the taller dude had a big ‘ol smile on his face. They were a couple of homeless guys and the one rolling around on the ground was yelling, “He chewed my face off! He chewed my face off!” <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Courtesy-My-Hidden-Pony.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1972" title="Courtesy My Hidden Pony" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Courtesy-My-Hidden-Pony-300x199.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199" /></a>Now THAT’S funny! No money, no power, maybe no place to sleep that night, and they <em>still</em> got the last laugh on everyone's afternoon. They'd gotten all the background they needed, too -- not from a $300 smartphone tethered to the Internet, but by looking through the yellowed Plexiglass of a newspaper dispenser. It was brilliant. They couldn’t breathe, they were laughing so hard. And all at our expense, those of us who trade in images of homeless men permanently disfigured by random sneak assault. I was glad. With all the media outlets and advertisers that have profited from Poppo's torn-up face, it sickens and angers me that he went from being ignored by us to having his injuries <em>celebrated</em> by us for our own sanctimonious, sniveling reasons. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Z9.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1973" title="Z9" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Z9-300x224.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="224" /></a><em>No</em> I didn't suddenly turn around and do something altruistic like chase the guys down and offer them my jacket money. I liked the damn thing and I bought it. But the resturant-heavy "downtown" Burbank area is struggling lately with swells in its count of wandering homeless (call it <em>Third Street Promenade East</em>), and <a href="http://www.burbankleader.com/news/tn-blr-1211-burbank-cops-take-aim-at-homelessness,0,691305.story" target="_blank">before the cops are sent in to hassle 'em</a>, shoo 'em away, <a href="http://laist.com/2012/06/01/cop_who_beat_kelly_thomas_attacked.php" target="_blank">or beat 'em to death</a> I hope they mix it up with lunch-breaking locals and keep using 'em as straight men. Why not? Neither they nor Ronald Poppo will ever see any residuals <a href="http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Gloria-Allred-to-represent-Man-Eaters-Girlfriend--156777515.html" target="_blank">for their exploitation</a>, so they might as well have some fun at our expense. <h5><strong>Check out: </strong></h5> <a href="http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/">NATIONAL FACTS ON HOMELESSNESS</a> <a href="http://www.endhomelessness.org/" target="_blank">The National Alliance to End Homelessness</a> <a href="http://www.usvetsinc.org/" target="_blank">United States Veterans Initiative/U.S. VETS</a> 1946 2012-06-04 01:41:02 2012-06-04 01:41:02 2013-03-10 00:16:31 2013-03-10 00:16:31 closed open shouldnt-undercooked-homeless-man-cash-in-too publish 0 0 post 0 911 Character chewed-off face Comfort Zone Excuses homeless Ronald Poppo _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1683049300;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10163;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7097;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7420;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:880;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7896;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2910;}}}} 65 Al lioninla@yahoo.com 75.41.99.254 2012-06-04 15:21:12 2012-06-04 15:21:12 Good stuff, but never again ordering chicken mole enchiladas.....ew! 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/excuses/home-is-where-the-abuse-is/ Mon, 11 Jun 2012 22:43:51 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=1986 <strong>In the video clip he posted to YouTube, Oscar Lopez can be heard asking neighbor Anthony Sanchez, "Why don't you come over here and teach ME!?" Lopez, you see, had just captured footage of Sanchez lashing his stepson with a belt for failing to catch a baseball. </strong> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Sanchez-Needs-Headpunch.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-1988" title="Sanchez Needs Headpunch" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Sanchez-Needs-Headpunch.jpg" alt="" width="371" height="234" /></a>Sanchez turned himself in on Friday, after the clip went viral. On Saturday, he resigned his post as director of California’s Imperial Irrigation District. He’s now being held on $100,000 bail for suspicion of felony child abuse, yet another elected official implicated for yet another failure of character.<strong></strong> Now I realize that many adults over a certain age had the crap kicked out of them as children, and I also know that serious child abuse is often a cycle. Sanchez, age 34, probably knows these things too. What he doesn’t seem to realize, however, is that there’s no excuse for wailing on a kid either way. And what <em>was</em> Stepfather of the Year's excuse?  In the footage he can be heard responding to Lopez, "The boy suffers from ADHD! Do you know how he <em>acts</em>?" Well okay then, Sanchez, by that standard you need a head-punch and 2 face-slaps.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Photo-courtesy-©-Lucasfilm-Ltd.-TM.-All-Rights-Reserved.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1994" title="Photo courtesy © Lucasfilm Ltd. &amp; TM. All Rights Reserved" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Photo-courtesy-©-Lucasfilm-Ltd.-TM.-All-Rights-Reserved.jpg" alt="" width="493" height="209" /></a>My father I and fought and yelled at each other a lot, but I’m grateful that as far as we know, neither my brothers nor I come from a familial chain of kiddie beatings. My dad didn’t “teach us lessons” first taught to him through viciousness. Sure, he’d take off his belt on occasion and snap its folded lengths together, but it looked cooler that it did threatening. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/OH-SNAP.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2005" title="OH SNAP!" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/OH-SNAP.jpg" alt="" width="116" height="207" /></a>On one occasion, in fact, his skill at wielding the thing became more interesting than our conflict and he wound up giving me a try! It then became a years-long contest to see who could snap it louder. It wasn't ‘til I was 13 or so, and telling him to go fuck himself that the punching started. And back then<em> our</em> neighbors wouldn't have pointed cameras at my parent's yard: they would’a charged admission and passed out scorecards. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/St.-Bernardine-School-1976-77.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1995" title="St. Bernardine School 1976-77" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/St.-Bernardine-School-1976-77-300x279.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="279" /></a>But those are stories for another day. Despite being a child of the 70’s, when many adults felt that taking a belt to your kid while smoking two packs a day was the way of the world, there isn’t much that makes me angrier than child abuse. Just because I <em>personally</em> didn’t worry about whether or not a whipping was waiting for me when I got home from school, some of my classmates and friends weren’t so lucky. Only as we grew older did I learn just how many lived with that fear. Some of those kids maintain to this day that it toughened ‘em up, though I suspect they long ago built durable psychological defense mechanisms as a result of some terrible memories. But a lot of today’s 40-somethings  – especially those with kids of their own – remember socially sanctioned spankings with some nostalgia. It was on our watch that society turned big corners with regards to child abuse, cigarettes, AIDS, recycling, and so forth, and I’m sure there are times when all of us pine for the “simpler” days of old (whether or not those days actually existed). <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/God-Bless-Camerica.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-1999" title="God Bless Camerica" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/God-Bless-Camerica.jpg" alt="" width="313" height="246" /></a>Maybe that’s why I’ve heard and overheard some people respond to this story with comments that miss the point. This morning an older man ahead of me in the grocery line said that if Sanchez had merely taken the kid inside and not been caught on a neighbor’s camera, all would’ve been well. Sanchez wouldn’t have been arrested, jailed, and forced to resign his elected post. “It just goes to show you,” the cashier agreed. “Cameras are everywhere. You can’t do nuthin’ you don’t want on YouTube anymore.” <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/What-About-him.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-2001" title="What About him?" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/What-About-him.jpg" alt="" width="439" height="243" /></a>Cameras!? What about about the boy on the receiving end of Sanchez’s belt? This was a game of <em>catch</em>, folks; the boy got whipped with a belt for failing to catch a <em>baseball</em>. And it’s probably not the first time this sort of thing has happened, ‘cause if you watch closely you can see that he actually talks back to his stepfather in protest. He had to learn that. He had to get himself to the point where he could at least mount <em>that</em> much of a defense. How many beatings did he take before he worked up the courage up to respond at all? So yeah: <em>Why don't you come over here and teach me?</em> Exactly. Good for you, Oscar. I would've demanded the same thing of Sanchez, though probably with more cursing as I climbed over his fence to ask him to his face. &nbsp; <strong> </strong> 1986 2012-06-11 22:43:51 2012-06-11 22:43:51 2014-12-21 10:07:17 2014-12-21 17:07:17 closed open home-is-where-the-abuse-is publish 0 0 post 0 Anthony Sanchez caught on camera Character child abuse Cowardice Excuses fathers and sons _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703535394;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:932;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11484;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3301;}}}} http://working-copy.local/food/journey-to-the-center-of-a-sandwich-an-excerpt/ Mon, 18 Jun 2012 06:14:01 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2015 <h4 style="text-align: left;"><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/No-Strings-Attached-My-Ass.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2024" title="No Strings Attached - My Ass" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/No-Strings-Attached-My-Ass.jpg" alt="" width="102" height="100" /></a>This week's post is an excised chapter of <em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em>, the forthcoming book for which this blog serves as a pre-publishing playground. Like many of the book’s chapters, <em>Sandwich</em> began life as a prison journal entry before being performed as a spoken word piece.  Since it got pulled from the book, I thought you might enjoy it here.</strong></h4> <h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF A SANDWICH</span></strong></h2> <h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>California Rehabilitation Center (CRC) - Norco, Level II </strong></h4> <h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>5th Street &amp; Western Norco, CA 92860</strong></h4> The first bite tasted fine – for a prison sandwich. I’d already given the thing a cellblock once-over, scanning for obvious stuff like bugs, matches, dirt, and pieces of human. I’d also reexamined it as I made improvements: contraband mustard, nips of onion, a razor-cut tomato. In custody, firm, fresh tomatoes are more expensive than chocolate but they’re worth it. A good tomato can make or break a sandwich anywhere, anytime. While <em>doing</em> time, their value triples.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Prison-Bologna-and-You.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-2022" title="Prison Bologna and You" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Prison-Bologna-and-You.jpg" alt="" width="364" height="242" /></a>Less valuable is the meat. Your average prison sandwich contains one compressed meat flap, known in the civilized world as a "slice." The problem with the flap isn’t the condition of the plant where it’s processed: inmates already <em>assume</em> that to be fourth-rate; after all, it's a factory where pork discards and chopping dregs are blended into batter and pressure-pumped into molds. No, the problem is separating your recollection of what pristine slices of Oscar Meyer look like in comparison, mainly 'cause prison slices start out the same color grocery store bologna turns <em>after </em>it’s been in the sun: scab mahogany. Besides, Oscar Meyer products aren’t oval. They don’t have air bubbles, stretch marks, or the random knots of a pine plank. Their thickness is uniform. Oscar Meyer isn’t for everyone, but everyone knows it when they see it. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Expensive-Tomato.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2026" title="Expensive Tomato" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Expensive-Tomato.jpg" alt="" width="170" height="164" /></a>Be that as it may, on the way to my clerical work assignment that morning, the onion, the cheese, tomato, pickle and eight additional meat slices only cost me half a book of stamps, so I was feeling pretty fortunate. After I’d whittled the tomato to chef’s perfection with a disposable Gillette blade, my lunch had gone from lousy to outstanding. Considering the circumstances, that first bite was downright delicious. It was the <em>second</em> bite that made me jump out of my chair. Since I usually read while I eat, I doubt I would’ve caught anything peculiar before my teeth sank in. Besides, a guy gets used to those hard little kernels that lodge themselves in the gums; they’re not unlike the peppercorns found in some commercial lunchmeats. Only they don’t look like peppercorns. No one knows exactly <em>what </em>they are, but they don’t make anyone sick. That we know of. In any case, after so many of these sandwiches, you get so you hardly even notice ‘em. Until now. The instant I bit down I felt something wedge itself behind my lower front teeth. No biggie; my eyes didn’t even leave the newspaper when I pulled the sandwich away to pry it out. When the sandwich tugged <em>back</em> I almost choked. I looked down my nose to see a white string leading from the sandwich to my face. It was more than a foot long. I slammed the sandwich down, my face still lassoed to it, then reached up and tried to free my teeth. No dice. I yanked. The damn thing was stubborn! When it finally did come loose, I saw how it had managed to wedge itself between two teeth that offered no gap: the "string" was pliable, like a rubber band. "What the hell?" I growled at the ripcord jutting eleven inches from the middle of my meal. At first I thought it might be some far-out piece of cow innard, but how could it still be intact after the trimming, the grinding, and the liquefying? I know intestines are naturally strong, but what explained its paper whiteness? Besides, nothing organic would be so resilient. How had I missed it when assembling my sandwich? To make matters worse, the thing was actually starting to look familiar. What the hell was it, a joke by the kitchen clerk who’d sold me the meat? <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/BAD-SANDWICH.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2027" title="BAD SANDWICH" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/BAD-SANDWICH.jpg" alt="" width="251" height="192" /></a>I lifted the top piece of bread. All seemed normal. I removed the tomato and onion and set them aside. The second flap looked fine too. Ditto the mustard. I carefully separated and set aside the first two ovals, studying the tops of each. I inspected the tomato just as closely. Again, normal. As if dismantling a bomb, I excavated down to the last piece of meat. Still nothing. I eyeballed each crumble of bread and onion – even the butcher paper the sandwich had been wrapped in. But when I turned one of the flaps over and found more of the white string embedded in its underside, a wave of nausea hit me. The string was coiled, molded into the slice. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Inmate-Mouse-Circus.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2030" title="Inmate Mouse Circus" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Inmate-Mouse-Circus.jpg" alt="" width="256" height="154" /></a>It takes a lot to get disgusted when you’re locked up with men obsessed with rodents or ailing dope fiends, cutters, influenza spitters, dirt-eaters, spastics, the cankered, and the walking wounded, but I was ready to scream. Instead I grabbed the string and pulled. The flap followed across my desk. I pulled again and it lifted and dangled, so I seized it and twisted the string free, still questioning its vague familiarity. As it came out of the meat, it left a swirled impression. "Fuck ME!" I said, flinging the flap away. I ran my tongue along the back of my bottom teeth, then the top ones, then the bottom again. I felt like I’d been reading small print in a moving car. When it clicked I froze. Afraid to look, I pulled my belt forward and sucked in my belly. Jerking my underwear up to the light gave me my answer. “No way. No. NO!” I shouted to the empty room. It was one of the eight rubber strings that made up the elastic waistband of prison-issue boxers. Ha! It meant we’d been entirely wrong. Our sandwich "meats" weren't made in some vaguely unsanitary off-site factory, they were made by creepy fellow inmates. The same people who made our goddamn underwear. And some disease-ridden lunatic’s frayed shorts had obviously gotten <em>way</em> too close to the mixing vats! <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/PRISON-ISSUE-SKIVVIES.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2028" title="PRISON ISSUE SKIVVIES" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/PRISON-ISSUE-SKIVVIES.jpg" alt="" width="165" height="145" /></a>Someone had to pay, but who? What twisted hunchback deviant son-of-a-bitch would throw a filthy piece of his underwear into what was to become <em>my</em> lunch? And – holy shit! Only minutes before buying this meat I’d been having a conversation with a guy I <em>knew</em> hadn’t changed his underwear in months! I looked to where I’d thrown the flap, shuddering at the greasy trail leading from the light switch to where it lay at the baseboard, slumped against the wall. For a second I debated. Then I shrugged, took aim at it with the rubber string, reassembled my sandwich, and chowed. &nbsp; 2015 2012-06-18 06:14:01 2012-06-18 06:14:01 2012-06-18 06:14:01 2012-06-18 06:14:01 closed open journey-to-the-center-of-a-sandwich-an-excerpt publish 0 0 post 0 CDCR Food Prison prison food sandwich _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706160738;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8250;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7132;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1568;}}}} 66 Dana loveshackforfun@yahoo.com http://loveshackparties.com 71.108.32.149 2012-06-18 19:22:49 2012-06-18 19:22:49 That is flipping nasty! 1 comment 0 0 67 Al Lyons Lioninla@yahoo.com 208.54.39.198 2012-06-18 23:51:13 2012-06-18 23:51:13 How could this not have been entitled ” Eat My Shorts” ? 1 comment 0 0 68 J. Nelson eatglass@prodigy.net 76.206.10.87 2012-06-19 02:27:04 2012-06-19 02:27:04 Because I over-think everything so much I too often don't see how simple things can be. Brilliant alternative title, and DAMN GOOD QUESTION! 1 comment 67 2 http://working-copy.local/excuses/theres-no-excuse-for-not-using-sony-cameras/ Thu, 21 Jun 2012 23:51:23 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2035 <h4><strong>Such picture quality! How can those contrasts be so precise? I've never <em>seen</em> bugged-out eyes so huge and clear. You can almost taste the crack resin on his breath from the burning chunk of Brillo-pad he used as a screen in his pipe -- wow! I'm telling 'ya there's a reason Sony’s XDCAM 422 is the industry standard. </strong></h4> <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jRSH--pRkQU" frameborder="0" width="560" height="315"></iframe> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/PIXY-AND-LAME.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2040" title="PIXY AND LAME" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/PIXY-AND-LAME-300x189.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="189" /></a>For extended nighttime high speed chases with freakish tongue wagging and multi-collision wrap-ups you just can't beat Sony. Check out the difference between the lesser quality, undercarriage-mounted heli-cam and the handheld 422 on the ground. You <em>know</em> they're not strappin' Sony money to the skids on that bird, so no surprise the air footage is pixy and lame. But that <em>all-up-in-your-sorry-grill</em> XD422 captures details your <em>dreams</em> won't forget.<!--more--><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Mother-in-law.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2041" title="Mother-in-law" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Mother-in-law.jpg" alt="" width="402" height="274" /></a> The facial expression on the California Highway Patrol officer in the background says, "I don't want to spend another Saturday at her mother's house." And why's that so apparent? 50 megabits-per-second recording speeds, that's why! And with the Fujinon lens on that baby those Badges can't <em>blink</em> without us knowing the color of their boxer briefs. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/prosthetic-limb-colored-sport-coat.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2042" title="prosthetic limb colored sport-coat" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/prosthetic-limb-colored-sport-coat.jpg" alt="" width="336" height="179" /></a>When your scene's awash in flashing reds and Kid Rock concert blues, shooting in anything <em>but</em> Sony hi-def is epic FAIL. And ask roving reporter Ed Laskos if you can shove any ol' camera jockey into a gang of pumped up goons who're stompin' perps and cuffin' crackheads. No way. You gotta send the best into harm's way, and the best are shouldering Sonys. This allows Laskos to go live in prosthetic limb colored sport-coats and leave the spectral technicalities to his human battering ram - er, camera guy. Finally, for local TV news producers "If it bleeds - it leads," but when there are ultimately no fatalities suicides or flying body parts  –as was the case <a href="http://laist.com/2012/06/16/driver_in_high-speed_chase_blames_g.php" target="_blank">here</a>–  the studio can rest assured it'll be gettin' its money's worth after the footage goes viral. <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>“Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.” </strong> <strong>? Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing</strong><em></em></p> [caption id="attachment_2047" align="aligncenter" width="569" caption="Asked why he didn&#39;t stop, the man replied: &quot;Stop? Why stop? Why stop when I&#39;m an artist?&quot;"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/If-it-bleeds-it-leads.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-2047" title="If it bleeds-it leads" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/If-it-bleeds-it-leads.jpg" alt="" width="569" height="312" /></a>[/caption] 2035 2012-06-21 23:51:23 2012-06-21 23:51:23 2012-06-21 23:51:23 2012-06-21 23:51:23 closed open theres-no-excuse-for-not-using-sony-cameras publish 0 0 post 0 California Highway Patrol Culture Ed Laskos Excuses high-speed pursuit Sony XDCAM 422 _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1696470779;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8012;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8772;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4994;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3408;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3245;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:362;}}}} 69 Tina Katz tlkatz@hotmail.com http://www.tootzypop.com 76.175.160.161 2012-06-22 01:44:05 2012-06-22 01:44:05 Wow! That IS exceptionally clear! 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/prison-2/time-off-for-book-behavior/ Thu, 28 Jun 2012 06:05:24 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2061 <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Books.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2062" title="Books" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Books.jpg" alt="" width="269" height="320" /></a>Four days less for every book Brazil's inmates read, says their Governo Federal. Inmates earn up to 48 days off each year for reading 12 classics or 12 works of philosophy, science, even humor. It's an effective, creative approach that need not produce voter-ready results to be successful. And why not? 'Cause we already know that <span style="color: #800000;">reading is the most basic of human skills,</span> and just being able to understand those seven words could have a Butterfly Effect. </strong> A Butterfly Effect is where a small change at one place in a complex system can have a large effect elsewhere. Though it also happens to <em>work</em>, teaching prison inmates to read is a truly humanitarian gesture requiring no quantifiable numbers or lowered crime stats as a proof that it does: the very act of spreading literacy is like giving sight to the blind. Unfortunately, here in the U.S. our lawmakers can't sell each other on the promise of a good deed anymore than you or I can poop gold. But so what? That's no excuse for not helping someone help themselves, or for not helping 'em reach through the razor wire to interpret the world anew. <!--more--><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/OLD-MAN.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2070" title="OLD MAN" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/OLD-MAN-224x300.jpg" alt="" width="134" height="180" /></a>First of all, a lot of folks have to get past the issue of whether men and women behind bars deserve their good deed. And they have to be willing to do so without expecting a thank you. Finally, they might have to change their definition of a "good deed," especially since they'll have no idea who's gonna be turning the pages of their treasured old books. Some people just can't get around that. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Stacks-of-Paperbacks.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2072" title="Stacks of Paperbacks" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Stacks-of-Paperbacks.jpg" alt="" width="329" height="247" /></a>A guy I know has a garage full of paperbacks, floor-to-ceiling adventure and science fiction. He doesn't like the idea of dragging 'em down the driveway for a garage sale and he's failed to make good on his daughter's requests to remove the Old Testament fire hazard. He's spoken a few times about having Goodwill come and get 'em but he never makes the call. When I approached him with the idea of contacting a books-to-prisoners program, he got all "<em>Get-off-my-lawn"</em>. That's okay, he may not know what it's like to turn someone onto Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea," so I'll keep pestering. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Ayn-RAND.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2074" title="Ayn RAND" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Ayn-RAND-211x300.jpg" alt="" width="211" height="300" /></a>But I <em>can</em> understand why he's wary: when I was locked up one of my cell neighbors, the most voracious reader I'd ever met, burned through James Michener and Ayn Rand like they were <em>Rolling Stone</em>. He also burned his business partners and put a bullet in his wife's head, so given his evident personal anguish the ravenous escapism was understandable, if not entirely productive. In other words, he was a hell of a Scrabble player but not someone for whom you'd do a solid, especially if it meant dragging box after box outta your garage in the summer heat. So yeah, it can be difficult to convince people to donate books to inmates. Halting deliberations at simply "doing a good deed" is encouraged, though there <em>are</em> plenty of inmates with brighter futures than my former tier acquaintance, and these are people who would benefit tremendously from, say, owning a dictionary. I'm no miracle of penal rehabilitation, but I was one of 'em. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Inmate-Reading.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2075" title="Inmate Reading" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Inmate-Reading.jpg" alt="" width="116" height="114" /></a>I think Brazil is onto something, that "<a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2012/0626/In-Brazil-s-prisons-inmates-shorten-sentences-by-reading">Redemption Through Reading</a>" proposes genuine rehabilitative programming at virtually no cost. And I think it'll see results, too. Call it goodwill or call it something else: <em>literacy reduces recidivism</em>. Nothing is more important for successful reintegration than this simplest of human skills. Got books? Here're a few links to check out - my favorite is <a href="http://sureshotbooks.com/index.html" target="_blank">SureShot Books.</a> They make it possible for families and friends of inmates to send them multilingual books, magazines, newspapers from all over the country, and even greeting cards. <a href="http://www.bookstoprisoners.net/" target="_blank">Books To Prisoners</a> (BTP) is a Seattle-based, all-volunteer, nonprofit organization that sends books to prisoners in the United States. Prisoners' Reading  Encouragement Project  (PREP) is a not-for-profit organization, incorporated in November 2000, to serve as a support organization to prison libraries and educational programs. <a href="http://www.prisonbookprogram.org/" target="_blank">Prison Book Program</a> is a grassroots organization that exists for one purpose - to send free books to prisoners. <strong>Need more convincing?</strong> <a href="http://cltl.umassd.edu/home-html.cfm/" target="_blank">Changing Lives Through Literature</a> is a book-based alternative sentencing program based out of U. Mass Dartmouth boasting a recidivism rate of less than 20%. &nbsp; 2061 2012-06-28 06:05:24 2012-06-28 06:05:24 2016-12-01 10:39:55 2016-12-01 17:39:55 closed open time-off-for-book-behavior publish 0 0 post 0 "Redemption through Reading" Brazil Culture Prison recidivism _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704459743;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4415;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10046;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11377;}}}} 70 Chris Lewis christlewis@yahoo.com 99.6.252.197 2012-06-28 14:49:00 2012-06-28 14:49:00 Thanks, John. I think I know what I'm doing this week-end. My abode is lousy with books I'll probably never re-read. And who knows, maybe there's an inmate out there –right now– who dosen't realize that a biography of Adlai Stevenson is about to change his life, or Kahil Gibran's The Phropet (it's a good read, but why do people keep giving me this book? I must have four copies. Do people look at me and think, "Now there's a guy who could use a little Lebanese philosophy?") Oops...The Prophet, not "The Phropet." The Phropet is that Dr. Seuss book no one seemed to like. He really shouldn't have tried to go "blue". No one likes porn that rhymes. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/prison-2/of-prisoners-and-payouts/ Thu, 05 Jul 2012 04:55:22 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2089 <h4><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/ATTGEORGE-ORWELL-MEMORIAL-PRISON-TOWER.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-2095" title="AT&amp;T:GEORGE ORWELL MEMORIAL PRISON TOWER" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/ATTGEORGE-ORWELL-MEMORIAL-PRISON-TOWER.jpg" alt="" width="316" height="441" /></a>When I was doing time here in California, inmates used to joke about prisoners in other states unlucky enough to be plucked from their general populations to serve as private prison guinea pigs. Though we heard some volunteered, it was said most were too doped up to argue or had requested an out-of-state transfer without knowing where they’d be going or how their receiving facilities were being run. Suckers.</strong></h4> They were doomed and we were fortunate that California hosted no privately operated prisons at the time: some southern states had several up and running. But with <a href="https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/22734_displayArticle.aspx" target="_blank">Bank of America</a> investing hugely in the <a href="http://www.cca.com/" target="_blank">Corrections Corporation of America (CCA)</a>, followed by Wells Fargo and others, for-profit prisons were about to explode. <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Top-Tier-Profiteers.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2097" title="Top Tier Profiteers" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Top-Tier-Profiteers-300x163.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="163" /></a><a href="http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2012/05/locking-people-up-as-business-model-for.html" target="_blank">The private prison industry has grown by more than 350% over the past 15 years</a>. But with so little to go on back then, our mockery was based less on precedent than on imagining what it would be like if the facility in which we were housed was suddenly taken over by a corporation. Our unionized guards had us fired up too, with stories of gross mismanagement, bargain-priced thugs-for-hire, and cheapskate corporate Wardens serving inmates dog food. “If something kicks off in there, no way are they’re gonna tell the whole story,” said one. Anything that might generate bad PR – bribe-hungry guards, brutal conditions, amped-up violence – would get buried. <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/44874053" target="_blank">And every word came true.</a> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/CDCR-Cell-Extraction-Action-Man.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2116" title="CDCR Cell Extraction Action Man" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/CDCR-Cell-Extraction-Action-Man-131x300.jpg" alt="" width="131" height="300" /></a>With reduced regulation and profit-driven considerations setting standards for healthcare and prisoner’s rights, I came away from these conversations grateful as hell. I was serving <em>my </em>sentence in a nice, cozy, notoriously overcrowded state-run California prison. An inmate I knew had dropped dead of spinal meningitis while crying in pain and banging on the medical office door. <em>Whew!</em> Thank God it’s something for which the Department of Corrections was made to answer (after years of bureaucratic hoo haw). <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/ocp.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2100" title="ocp" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/ocp-300x300.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300" /></a>We'd already been hearing stories about the relatively new, high-tech Pelican Bay State Prison, where some housing resembled the nuclear energy symbol – three triangular cells with a circular shower at the hub that rotated to slide open for each cell. Learning of this and probable future surveillance technology, my go-to reference became Omni Consumer Products, the fictional mega-corporation from RoboCop. It seems quaint by today's standards, but back then Hollywood and science fiction offered apt comparisons. Private prison contractors, our keepers warned, were impersonal and highly automated. As contradictory as that may seem from an unapproachable cop-groupie, the future of detention sounded like a remote control, fiber optic hell. A related joke making the rounds concerned our standard inmate complaint “Form 602.” You submit one and it’s read first by your Unit Officer, and then by a Sergeant, the Lieutenant if necessary, and finally the Watch Captain. A common linguistic shortcut employed to describe this trail was, “I'm gonna 602 the Sergeant!” That, of course, became the hilarious, “What those guinea pigs fools gon' do when they breakfast don’t come? 602 a robot!? Whhaaa-ha-ha-ha-haaa!” (Little did we realize how real such a joke would <a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57331618-1/dont-try-bribing-these-robot-prison-guards/" target="_blank">become</a>.) <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/HOW-CONSIDERATE.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2114" title="HOW CONSIDERATE" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/HOW-CONSIDERATE-300x23.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="23" /></a> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/LAUGH-TOUGH-GUY-LAUGH.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2104" title="LAUGH TOUGH GUY LAUGH" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/LAUGH-TOUGH-GUY-LAUGH.jpg" alt="" width="135" height="283" /></a>Most California prison guards, in contrast, are clock-watchers like the rest of us. They’re human. Inmates who find a sliver of common ground can even make ‘em laugh sometimes, which makes everyone’s lives easier. (Here's a secret: the tougher they look the louder they laugh.) Besides, between facility age and overcrowding in California’s prisons, staff’s toilets back up as often as inmates’ do, fostering a sense that everyone’s in this together, at least to some degree. I can’t really see employees of corporate prisons feeling the same. Even seen as cellblock enemies they don't represent "the system," they represent the parasitic virus attacking it. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/CCA.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2107" title="CCA" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/CCA.jpg" alt="" width="325" height="163" /></a>A recent Prison Legal News piece ends simply with, "Some things you don't privatize." I couldn't agree more. I know that states these days cough up $55-to-$70 a day to house their inmates while contractors like CCA do it for $60 or less; I get why financially strapped states, particularly so-called “right-to-work states” in which unions are prevented from meddling, see privatization as solution. Yet a) much more can and should be done to lower the costs of incarceration generally (failed drug laws and three strikes policies are good places to start), and b) it’s sort of important to consider where these cost savings are coming from, such as: <p style="text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #800000;">“…reducing staffing levels to the bare minimum, paying less, and keeping training costs low. The cost savings is elusive, however, because like all private prison contractors, CCA cherry-picks its population – the medium- and minimum-security prisoners who are cheaper to supervise. The expensive cases – security threats, violent offenders, escape risks, death row inmates, females, and anyone with a physical or mental ailment – typically gets assigned to a state-run institution.”</span></p> Taxpayers, get out your wallets and get in line behind shareholders and CEO compensation! <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/THE-BIG-3.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2109" title="THE BIG 3" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/THE-BIG-3.jpg" alt="" width="264" height="206" /></a>Meanwhile, on the inside, there’s a staff turnover rate four times greater than in public prisons. And that leads us to the question – and potential cost – of ultimate responsibility. What happens when a private prison fails? Do shareholders who’ve profited assume responsibility for the inmate population? Oh no, the company declares bankruptcy, the board chalks it up to lessons learned, and everyone walks away. Except the inmates, of course. The state’s left holding that costly bag, possibly made more costly by a lack of adequate supervision, ‘cause as a society<em> we still hold <span style="text-decoration: underline;">government</span> responsible for providing a functional penal system.</em> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Michael-J.-Mullen-Associated-Press.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2110" title="Michael J. Mullen : Associated Press" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Michael-J.-Mullen-Associated-Press-300x168.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="168" /></a>Years later, I'm still stopped cold by the most frightening aspect of all. No increase in lobbying dollars for expanded political influence, no amount of in-custody negligence, no PTSD-ridden former mercenary-turned-prison-guard, and no gross lack of oversight could better illustrate the very worst the private prison industry has to offer than <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/“kids-for-cash”-judge-vs-parents/" target="_blank">the story of the Pennsylvania judge who got rich sentencing juveniles to his friends’ privately-owned jails.</a> Of all of the creepy, dystopian future probabilities, this is the most alarming because it most closely resembles the regular course of how we do business in this country. If this were an SAT question, the answer would look something like: <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #800000;">BIG PHARMA: DOCTORS     –      PRIVATE PRISON INDUSTRY: JUDGES</span></p> Think about it: what if the judge sentencing you for a DUI also happens to play golf with executives from a local private prison? If he receives a percentage of the fees the company charges for each inmate remanded to its custody – or even if he receives nothing more than a free golf game and a nice lunch – there’s a good chance you'll serve your sentence at a facility that writes it own rules. I’d rather take my chances in a Mexican prison. <strong>For more on private probation companies and for-profit prisons, check out these links, but for an even faster briefing watch the short clip below. It's a bit heavy on the Right Wing Conspiracy assertions, but it's well made and well substantiated. </strong>(Right or Left is irrelevant to me when comes to, A. excuses, and B. the corporate rape of American taxpayers who paid for me to have a second chance.) <ul> <li><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/special-reports/2008/07/prison" target="_blank">Slammed: The Coming Prison Meltdown</a> (investigative reporting on a variety of prison topics from <em>Mother Jones</em>)</li> <li><a href="http://www.cca.com/" target="_blank">The CCA’s own website</a> (Yeesh!)</li> <li><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZYa0C-I-ZTQ/T6IG-ZlFa7I/AAAAAAAAZYE/v_YcNMPwY8E/s1600/ccalobby.jpg">CCA Lobbying Expenditures</a> graphic</li> <li>The <a href="http://whyihatecca.blogspot.com/2012_03_01_archive.html" target="_blank">Why I Hate the CCA</a> blog</li> <li><a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/cash-4-prisons_corrections_corporation_of_america.php">Cash-4-Prisons</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/07/why-texas-still-holds-em">Why Texas Still Holds ‘Em</a> (a report on the trend and profitability of using private prisons to detain illegal immigrants)</li> <li><a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/04/11/wells_fargos_prison_cash_cow/">Wells Fargo’s Prison Cash Cow</a> (from <em>Salon</em>)</li> </ul> <strong> </strong><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/vuGE1VxVsYo" frameborder="0" width="560" height="315"></iframe> 2089 2012-07-05 04:55:22 2012-07-05 04:55:22 2015-04-06 07:09:44 2015-04-06 14:09:44 closed open of-prisoners-and-payouts publish 0 0 post 0 A.L.E.C. Corrections Corporation of America Incarceration Nation Prison Prison Guards Private Prisons _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704735449;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7740;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6759;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4415;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4931;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7321;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10996;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/where-excuses-go-to-die-is-now-on-facebook/ Thu, 12 Jul 2012 23:31:02 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2128 <h4><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Facebook-Excuses1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2136" title="Facebook Excuses" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Facebook-Excuses1.jpg" alt="" width="651" height="166" /></a><strong>And the creation of its page coincides with the <strong>crumbling of the </strong>walls around that secret society of thugs known as the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. With its members turning on each other and the Men's Central Jail in downtown L.A. finally being exposed for the Academy of Excessive Force it's always been, I figured it was</strong><strong> time to share what it's been like to bring this story to market.<!--more--></strong></h4> [caption id="attachment_2142" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="In a jail system currently housing 18,000 inmates, 2nd &amp; 3rd floor cell modules like this one, &quot;#3300&quot; are the very last places you want to wind up after your DUI arrest."]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/3300-Module.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2142" title="3300 Module" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/3300-Module-300x199.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199" /></a>[/caption] But what do the two have to do with each other? Everything. The Tuesday, July 3, 2012 agenda for one of several special meetings of the L.A. County Board of Supervisors lists "Allegations regarding civil rights violations in the County jails – significant exposure to litigation" as a pressing topic for discussion. <span style="color: #800000;"><span style="color: #800000;">Here's a loosely chronological nutshell of that whole story:</span> <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sheriff-badges-20120711,0,7628614.story" target="_blank">Sheriff's badges given to local politicians;</a> <span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/07/local/la-me-jails-20120707" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000000;">“<em>Not in the face;</em>”</span></a> </span><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/27/local/la-me-fbi-jails-20110927" target="_blank">FBI agents infiltrate Men's Central Jail</a>; <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-conceal-evidence-20120711,0,5701676.story" target="_blank">Deputy misconduct and abuse cover-ups</a>, <a href="http://blogs.laweekly.com/squidink/2012/06/the_heroin_burrito_files_forme.php" target="_blank">Heroin Burritos</a>, <a href="http://www.scpr.org/news/2012/04/10/31979/new-report-says-lock-fewer-people-close-notorious-/" target="_blank">Dungeon of Death</a>. <span style="color: #000000;">The list could go on, but let's <em>move</em> on instead. </span></span> The County Supervisors have been getting an earful for some time now. And this resonates with me, having lived through much of what's being exposed. Watching the spotlight get thrown on the deputies who run that jail is surreal, especially with regard to the 2nd and 3rd floors and the Sheriff's "gangs" who hide the inhumane conditions and misconduct. <h4><strong>Book Teaser:</strong> <em>Some old Asian dude gets beat down for whatever reason and decides to curl up directly under the bowl of the only open toilet for 80 men. Every single one of us has to step over this unconscious person in order to squat or aim, and he's laying in a pudding of sickness to begin with. Some guys are simply pissing on him, fuck it. Thinking someone might wanna yank the dude outta the way, I mention it to a  3000 Block Deputy who's flirting with a female civilian assistant jailer. "Yeah-yeah," he says, and goes back to makin' time.  Middle of the night comes, four Deputies roust everyone, find me, and shove me into a laundry room, where they hold me against a wall and take turns with the punching and kicking. The lead A-hole, a gap-toothed dickhead, keeps repeating, "Don't ever interupt me when I'm talking to a female!" Sure pal, I'm your problem. </em></h4> [caption id="attachment_2145" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="The numbers obtained by Robert Faturechi for the L.A. Times are laughably low, in the opinion of someone who spent 8 months on/off the 2nd &amp; 3rd floors of MCJ."]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/TRUNCATED.jpg"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-2145" title="TRUNCATED" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/TRUNCATED-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>[/caption] <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/who-is-this-guy/" target="_blank">Where Excuses Go to Die</a> will be available in print and in all device formats January 2013.</strong></p> Meanwhile, a Where Excuses Go to Die Facebook page will best allow me to share what it's been like trying to get this story told; from the disappointed expressions I find when I claim to have better hooks than rape, riots, and rotten food, to rejection letters and<em> go-for-its </em>I've received along the way. There've been loonies I've attracted in the process, there's always smoke being blown up my ass and the dread of asking others to read pages (what a whole separate pathology <em>that is</em>! It's like borrowing or lending money). Then there's being along for the ride as the publishing world makes an ass of itself, all while trying not to go out the the record industry. And finally there's dealing with those who assume I'm a profit-hungry martyr. All of it. It's all a completely separate journey from having paid my debt to society for robbing, um, bookstores. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/LITERARY-AGENTS.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2157" title="LITERARY AGENTS" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/LITERARY-AGENTS-229x300.jpg" alt="" width="229" height="300" /></a>Writing a book about a prison sentence -- wherein the absurdities witnessed might as well have happened on Pluto: The Forgotten Planet -- and then trying to get it published is, yes, in itself a story. I've spent years feeling like a guy on a freeway offramp, rattling his foam cup and swearing people will like what they read. This January I'm finally gonna sink or swim. 'Til then, I've learned a lot of lessons, good 'n bad, and somebody somewhere might appreciate a few tips and warnings. For instance I discovered that a stack of rejection letters is good not only for achieving an ideal ergonomic monitor height, it also mean you're <span style="text-decoration: underline;">doing</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">something</span> – unlike any number of talkers out there. And just as I applied it to every word of <em>Excuses </em>as well as to this blog, I plan to apply to my WEGTD Facebook page one of the most important things I've ever learned about the craft of writing: "<em>Just because it happened to you, doesn't make it interesting. You have to make it interesting</em>." <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die/463895010289953">So check out this parallel world of proposals, publishing, patience – right here.</a> 2128 2012-07-12 23:31:02 2012-07-12 23:31:02 2014-04-16 17:55:36 2014-04-17 00:55:36 closed open where-excuses-go-to-die-is-now-on-facebook publish 0 0 post 0 CDCR Character Excuses L.A. County Jail L.A. County Sheriff Prison Where Excuses Go to Die _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1689916369;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2309;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3469;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:274;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5926;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2523;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:521;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/the-worst-feeling-in-the-world/ Thu, 19 Jul 2012 21:25:25 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2172 <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/H1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2175" title="Hit 'n Run" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/H1.jpg" alt="" width="398" height="340" /></a>What could gnaw at you more than knowing you hit a pedestrian and raced away? What if the person was dead – and all over the news? Knowing a little something of what the guy who hit <em>me</em> endured, I can't help but wonder about the fugitives from a recent string of hit 'n run fatalities in L.A. </strong> In 2003 I was hit by a rather tightly wound individual (read: dickhead) driving a brand new Jaguar S-Type who left me for dead in the middle of the intersection at Lincoln Blvd &amp; Rose Ct. in Venice, CA. Bystanders tended to me while good Samaritans yelled to each other about the direction in which the Jaguar had fled. I awoke in the middle of the commotion, looking up at the June sky and feeling freezing cold. My head was being held very still above a pool of blood. I was beginning to hyperventilate, which made some lady above me cry. A man ran up and yelled, “Here! Here! I have his address! I followed him to some condos up that way!” I heard a stampede of boots and feet running for cars, then several peel outs. By then several cops had arrived, seeking a culprit to question or cuff and being unleashed like that is what Badges live for. <!--more--> [caption id="attachment_2176" align="alignright" width="329" caption="And I thought the front of this car was lame beforehand!"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/2003-Jaguar-S-Type.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-2176" title="2003 Jaguar S-Type" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/2003-Jaguar-S-Type.jpg" alt="" width="329" height="273" /></a>[/caption] The name of the guy who hit me – or, for that matter, the ensuing six-year journey of multiple surgeries, recovery, physical rehab, and civil litigation – will never leave my memory, though I’m gonna do him a favor and not reveal it here. “Preston” (and believe me, he was <em>such</em> a Preston) had driven straight home, taken a shower, and jumped into some sweats. He'd flipped on his TV and begun watching the news – I can only hope he was secretly scared shitless, watching to see if he’d put me in a Forever Box and someone had captured it on video. Turns out Preston – doughy-white and suit-wearing, with a penchant for “incidents” relating to his temper – was a military avionics engineer for a big defense contractor. So yes, the <em>Falling Down</em> references were impossible to avoid, especially since all Preston wanted was to "go home." <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/William-D-Fens-Foster.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2189" title="William 'D-Fens' Foster" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/William-D-Fens-Foster.jpg" alt="" width="242" height="136" /></a>You see he'd intended to make a yellow light and had raced up the center median to do so. He’d simply had it with waiting his turn. When I went up ‘n over the hood and the roof of his Jag, he was doing 25-35, so witness statements indicate. (Sure felt like it.) Four miles later: After parking the Jag in his allocated underground space, he kissed the wife and headed off to shower, at least outwardly confident that there’d been some “unpleasantness” but that everything had worked out. He was, after all, home, and that’s all he’d wanted. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Erin-Galligan.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2179" title="Erin Galligan" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Erin-Galligan.jpg" alt="" width="157" height="180" /></a>It was weird to learn of these things during the course of our civil suit, but at least my family would have had all this context on hand had I not survived. Erin Galligan's family’s got nothing but a description of the white truck that killed her as she bicycled home from her waitressing job on July 11. News outlets have covered her death in print and on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lFYsCW8FK4" target="_blank">television</a>, but police have so little to go on it’s not likely the family will find the closure they seek. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/2000-Chevrolet-Silverado.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2180" title="2000 Chevrolet Silverado" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/2000-Chevrolet-Silverado.jpg" alt="" width="296" height="145" /></a>Is the person who killed Erin somehow happy they got away with it, or are they beside themselves with guilt and fear? I’d imagine having such a large monkey on your back and such a loud clock ticking in your ear would pretty well suck the life outta you, so how can this person's family or friends not notice anything odd? And where <em>is </em>the white Chevy Silverado with the smashed grill? Didn’t anyone who knows this person wonder what the hell happened? Or did someone offer assistance with the cover-up? Are the partners in crime screaming at each other right this minute? Waiting for the other shoe to drop can have a terrible emotional ripple effect. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Alex-Patrick-Silva.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2181" title="Alex Patrick Silva" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Alex-Patrick-Silva.jpg" alt="" width="244" height="207" /></a>The same questions apply to the driver of the red Corvette that struck and killed Alex Silva the very next day. What’s this person’s excuse for not stopping? Do they not believe it's only a matter of time? And how do you hide a red Corvette, let alone one that's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neGBdxMScK8" target="_blank">been described in the news as</a> having a smashed front windshield and severely damaged bumper and hood? I can't imagine killing a human being and bailing, only to go through every single day after that knowing I was the truest definition of "Chickenshit." Wow. Who’s <em>this</em> asshole going to take his or her stress out on? When Preston Chickenshit was charged with Assault With a Deadly Weapon and Felony Hit and Run, his delusions of righteousness were invalidated and his life <em>was</em> changed, at least for a while. He hadn’t exactly been an angel before he “ran into” me, but his previous anger issues and documented altercations – exposed during the civil case – had never before forced him to refinance his home to pay his attorney fees. At the time, my family and I hoped that consequence would lead him to divorce, financial ruin, and funny looks from his coworkers. He’d earned it. But while we still fantasize about knockin' Preston’s teeth down his throat, I know from personal experience how important second chances are, so I try ‘n let it go. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Claire-Rose-Facebook-Profile-Picture.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2183" title="Claire Rose Facebook Profile Picture" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Claire-Rose-Facebook-Profile-Picture.jpg" alt="" width="192" height="212" /></a>Claire Rose’s family may not get the opportunity to make that choice, thanks to the driver of a dark gray Toyota that <a href="http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2012/07/claire_rose_santa_monica_killed_hit-and-run_birthday.php" target="_blank">killed her in a Santa Monica crosswalk</a>. I wonder if that driver is thinking that because it happened in the dark at 12:15 a.m. it’ll be easier to forget. What else might his or her head be whispering? Is this person banking on our assumption that birthday-girl Claire was an irresponsible party animal? If they’re ever caught, will such a denunciation of her character play a part in their defense? [caption id="attachment_2184" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Insurance Companies: &quot;Weak-ass bitches don&#39;t get paid!&quot;"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Insurance-Companies-Weak-ass-bitches-dont-get-paid.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2184" title="Insurance Companies: Weak-ass bitches don't get paid!" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Insurance-Companies-Weak-ass-bitches-dont-get-paid-300x238.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="238" /></a>[/caption] Why not? Preston's attorneys brought up my criminal past to discredit my recollection of the incident; they accused me of being “in it” for the payday. In fact, my old mug shots were stapled to opposing counsels’ folders, which they opened in front of me every chance they got. Cashiers and witnesses present during robberies I’d committed 14 years prior were hunted down and deposed. They set up video gear to record my reactions as transcripts of these reconstructions were read aloud. It was awful; I wondered if this was about punishing me more for a past life than holding Preston accountable for his actions in this one. In reality, it was a low blow delivered for no other reason than to make me quit and settle. “Shaking weak apples from the tree is the #1 business of insurance attorneys,” I was told. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/YOU-CANT-HANDLE-THE-TRUTH.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2185" title="YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/YOU-CANT-HANDLE-THE-TRUTH-300x253.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="202" /></a>That’s one thing for the families of these victims to keep in mind: the price of closure is often high, and you will <em>never</em> be fully compensated for your loss. Even if you do manage to bring the fugitive in, the loopholes, maneuvers, excuses, and delays of your search for “justice” within a complex court system can be soul crushing. You might feel as though the car had struck you as well. But to the people responsible for the deaths of these three people – and others – I ask, is that guilt you're living with the worst feeling in the world? A lot of us truly hope so. <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>May it never leave you a moment's peace while you're on the run.</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Monkey-Your-Back1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2194" title="Monkey Your Back" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Monkey-Your-Back1.jpg" alt="" width="170" height="236" /></a></p> 2172 2012-07-19 21:25:25 2012-07-19 21:25:25 2017-11-06 12:37:03 2017-11-06 19:37:03 closed open the-worst-feeling-in-the-world publish 0 0 post 0 Alex Silva Character Claire Rose Cowardice Erin Galligan Excuses hit and run hit and run fatalities _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1701562908;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2035;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3665;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:663;}}}} 71 Me yerdun@hotmail.com 24.171.142.247 2012-07-20 17:18:16 2012-07-20 17:18:16 Pride, and lots of it. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/your-adorable-child/because-warnings-are-ineffective/ Fri, 27 Jul 2012 05:03:32 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2198 <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Buckyball1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2199" title="Buckyball Death Toy" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Buckyball1.jpg" alt="" width="207" height="291" /></a>If you're not familiar with 'em, Buckyballs are magnetized BBs packaged with instructions and shape-making challenges. They're weirdly hypnotic, s0 we leave ours on the bar to see who makes what during idle chatter 'round the kitchen; t<strong>hey're a hit with</strong> friends and guests. This week the Federal government issued a stop-sale order for Buckyballs 'cause too many parents fail to pay attention to what their kids put in their mouths and too few know the difference between kiddie toys and adult brain teasers.</strong> The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) called Buckyballs a serious "ingestion hazard" and convinced 10 retailers, including Amazon.com, to stop selling them (the manufacturer has refused to voluntarily withdraw the product from the market). I say, kudos to <a href="http://www.getbuckyballs.com/" target="_blank">manufacturer Maxfield &amp; Oberton</a>: idiot parenting's the <em>real</em> hazard here. Yet we're left with a panel of stiffs in Washington again protecting us from ourselves. Why have Americans been surrendering their sense of personal responsibility at such a disturbing rate? Soon we'll all end up a bunch of trained seals with our heads tilted back, lolling from side to side and waitin' for someone to drop a fish into our mouths.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Buckyballs6.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2214" title="Buckyballs6" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Buckyballs6.jpg" alt="" width="221" height="262" /></a>In an AP interview, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2179029/Popular-magnetic-desk-toys-Buckyballs-banned-dozens-children-swallow-toddler-ingested-37.html">Betty Lopez</a> said her daughter used a schoolmate's Buckyballs to mimic tongue piercings by positioning the magnets atop and under her tongue. According to Lopez, the daughter was twisting her tongue with the balls in her mouth when she accidentally swallowed 'em. Lopez rushed her daughter to an urgent care center, where X-rays showed she'd swallowed four magnets. She had emergency surgery and spent six days in the hospital. "It's extremely frightening," Lopez said. “She could have died." <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Pinecone.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2212" title="Pinecone" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Pinecone.jpg" alt="" width="58" height="87" /></a>No Betty,  you pinecone. Y<em>ou're</em> what's frightening. You might as well've given your daughter a steak knife with which to pry out the magnets. How 'bout discussing age-appropriate body modifications? Did <em>that</em> ever cross your mind? <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Buckyballs-Moron.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2213" title="Buckyballs Moron" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Buckyballs-Moron.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="158" /></a>If you're a fan of <em>this</em> Mommy-winner's blog, you were either too busy Tweeting to notice or you think seven-year-olds mimicking piercings are cute and creative. Whether the kid was indeed being clever with her sugar-based imitation, you can bet the combo of mom's inattention and obvious admiration for trendy crap isn't gonna bode too well. (The comments her post received are about what you'd expect -- from Toddlers and Tiaras watchers.) While camouflaging the entry as a question of <em>how young is too young</em> for body piercing, Mommy 2 manages to do little more than parade her own self-absorption. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Sharp-Edges-This-Sign-Has.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2215" title="Sharp Edges This Sign Has" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Sharp-Edges-This-Sign-Has.jpg" alt="" width="248" height="249" /></a>She also represents an asinine parental expectation that lawmakers should do the parenting for them – and help litigate when things don't work out. Disagree? She's offhanded and flippant about her inattention to her daughter, but now that the Feds have stepped in, if that daughter ever chokes on Buckyballs as a <em>result</em> of her inattention she'll expect to sue <a href="http://www.getbuckyballs.com/" target="_blank">their manufacturer</a> and any number of retailers who may defy the order – possibly even retroactively. What might such escalation require? Probably only a class-action hit-team. [caption id="attachment_2217" align="alignright" width="300" caption="&quot;Warnings can blow me!&quot; declares Uncle Sam!"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/US-GOV-SAYS-Because-Warnings-are-Ineffective.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2217" title="US GOV SAYS Because Warnings are Ineffective" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/US-GOV-SAYS-Because-Warnings-are-Ineffective-300x143.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="143" /></a>[/caption] Why not? The government just made it feasible with the CPSC's contention that the product's "<a href="http://healthland.time.com/2012/07/25/u-s-files-suit-against-buckyballs-maker-to-stop-sales/">warnings are ineffective because the magnets are not typically put back into their packaging once they’re removed</a>." Wait, you mean the big  <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>**KEEP AWAY FROM CHILDREN** </strong></span>label is worth a legal liability turd? Ostensibly so. Well, enough pickin' on future Darwin Award recipients and self-absorbed dumbbell parents who are failing to prepare their dimwitted children for life, because this middle finger to common sense brings us to the bigger issue at hand, which is where this paternalistic public policy is taking us: <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Utah-Hates-Water-Vapors.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2218" title="Utah Hates Water Vapors" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Utah-Hates-Water-Vapors.jpg" alt="" width="158" height="115" /></a>Utah's Senate recently voted 24-3 to <a href="http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/53674989-90/hookahs-ban-cigarettes-utah.html.csp">approve widening the state's Indoor Clean Air Act</a> to include smokeless, tobacco-free "e-cigarettes." Why? 'Cause they <em>look</em> like cigarettes? Because they promote the idea of smoking? Then shouldn't Utah classify them as a thought crime? How 'bout asthma inhalers or nicotine gum? <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/DOUBLE-DOWN.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2219" title="DOUBLE DOWN" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/DOUBLE-DOWN.jpg" alt="" width="124" height="129" /></a>Elsewhere, restricting sodas to 16-ounces is just as preposterous: 16+16=32, cabbage-heads! And hello? Aren’t consumers charged more for two 16-ounce drinks than for one 32-ouncer? But go ahead and double the beverage industry’s profits. While we’re busy arguing over portion size, its powerful lobby can <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505123_162-44041244/how-the-beverage-lobby-killed-the-soda-tax-at-least-for-now/">pursue more legislative influence</a>. Talk about suckers! <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/united-states-of-prison-bars.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2220" title="united states of prison bars" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/united-states-of-prison-bars-300x234.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="234" /></a>Perhaps most catastrophically, America's failure to incarcerate it's way out of recidivism is an additional, if comparatively immense, example. But it's no less applicable for taxpayers stuck with the bill: according to both <a href="http://DrugWarFacts.org/">DrugWarFacts.org</a> and Fareed Zakaria's <a href="http://fareedzakaria.com/2012/03/25/incarceration-nation/">Incarceration Nation</a>, the $1 trillion War on Drugs failed to effectively curtail supply <em>or</em> consumption and has created a vast prisoner under­class. In 2009, 4 out of 5 (of the 1.66 million) Americans arrested on drug charges were arrested only for possession. As a result, in 2011, California spent $9.6 billion on prisons vs. $5.7 billion on the UC system <em>and</em> state colleges. Since 1980, California has built one college campus and 21 prisons. A college student costs the state $8,667 per year; a prisoner costs it $45,006 a year. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/ASSHOLES.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2221" title="ASSHOLES" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/ASSHOLES-300x194.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="194" /></a>For years I've been joking about flexible LED illumination panel technology, television screens that can (and will) be stitched into the fabric of jackets worn by professional wanderers paid to walk around with a digi-video loop of advertisements. Being right around the corner, it’s anything<em> but</em> science fiction. So what regulatory body will be created to protect us from Royal Caribbean ads in churches and chemotherapy sessions? How much money, I wonder, will taxpayers spend on creating and enforcing more laws? The question of electronic overload comes to mind, but as I tap these keys my head is spinning enough already. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Lazy-Pinecone.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2222" title="Lazy Pinecone" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Lazy-Pinecone.jpg" alt="" width="54" height="90" /></a>Maybe I should go back to mocking lazy, imbecile parents who made purchasing a brick of Buckyballs harder for the rest of us. Schmucks. 2198 2012-07-27 05:03:32 2012-07-27 05:03:32 2014-12-25 09:17:13 2014-12-25 16:17:13 closed open because-warnings-are-ineffective publish 0 0 post 0 Buckyballs Consumer Product Safety Commission Culture magnets Maxfield &amp; Oberton Prison warning labels Your Adorable Child _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704672859;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2309;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11697;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8424;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/tomorrows-question/ Sun, 29 Jul 2012 19:51:15 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2229 <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Tomorrows-Question.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2230" title="Tomorrow's Question" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Tomorrows-Question-223x300.jpg" alt="" width="223" height="300" /></a> 2229 2012-07-29 19:51:15 2012-07-29 19:51:15 2012-07-29 19:51:15 2012-07-29 19:51:15 closed open tomorrows-question publish 0 0 post 0 American Heros Baby Mama Cowardice Excuses Idiots OMG _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1690070524;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8614;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10880;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:269;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1610;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9141;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:309;}}}} http://working-copy.local/celebrity/awed-portrayal-rip-gore-vidal-1925-2012/ Wed, 01 Aug 2012 14:48:34 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2233 [caption id="attachment_2234" align="alignleft" width="204" caption="Gore Vidal - Associated Press"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Gore-Vidal-Associated-Press.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2234" title="Gore Vidal - Associated Press" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Gore-Vidal-Associated-Press-204x300.jpg" alt="" width="204" height="300" /></a>[/caption] <strong>"Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60" – Gore Vidal</strong> Few writers wrote more conversationally (or were meaner) than Gore Vidal. Of the obituaries I've read so far, <a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/08/01/157696354/gore-vidal-american-writer-and-cultural-critic-dies" target="_blank">this one is the most compelling</a>. Reading it, you realize that with the disappearance of delayed gratification, men like this will not be made; prolificacy and achievement at this level isn't possible. Vidal was of an era when big-name writers fought each other literally with their fists, often repeatedly and on camera. Oh, what I would give to sprinkle the media with his kind today. 2233 2012-08-01 14:48:34 2012-08-01 14:48:34 2013-03-10 00:12:48 2013-03-10 00:12:48 closed open awed-portrayal-rip-gore-vidal-1925-2012 publish 0 0 post 0 Celebrity Character Gore Vidal History Man of letters Norman Mailer _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1696009434;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2572;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11869;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3083;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:869;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1589;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5039;}}}} http://working-copy.local/food/chick-fil-a-childs-play/ Fri, 03 Aug 2012 23:12:28 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2243 <h4></h4> <h4><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Chick-fil-A-Gone-Astray.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-2245" title="Chick-fil-A Gone Astray" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Chick-fil-A-Gone-Astray.jpg" alt="" width="407" height="228" /></a></strong><strong>Since there’s apparently no escaping the current Chick-fil-A controversy, I’ve gotta ask: Are anti-Chick-fil-A activists actually promoting the tolerance they demand, or are they teaching kids to loudly and publicly demonize those who disagree with them? Despite having another means of redress – i.e. a choice not to give the restaurant chain their money – many Chick-fil-A activists seem to be celebrating their martyrdom instead.</strong></h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Chick-fil-A-Tolerance.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2251" title="Chick-fil-A Tolerance" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Chick-fil-A-Tolerance.jpg" alt="" width="160" height="146" /></a>The carnival-like atmosphere captured by news cameras shows singing and dancing, face-painting, colorful costumes, banners, and laughter-loving friends lining sidewalks and holding hands. Problem is, most of those cheery signs are emblazoned with the word, "HATE," so I'm left wondering what the impressions of a six-year-old watching this spectacle might be.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Chick-fil-A-guy.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2254" title="Chick-fil-A guy" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Chick-fil-A-guy.jpg" alt="" width="174" height="228" /></a>Don't get me wrong, I'm sure America's parents are taking time between smartphone Facebook updates to explain these subtleties to their children, but what about those kids holding a TV remote (or any networked digital device) whose parents aren't even in the room? And here's another interesting complication: many of the folks these activists seem to be targeting with their "Hate"-laden messages (against hate) are wearing clothes decorated with the icons of patriotism.  So...if the "bad" guys are wearing American flags... Do you see what I'm gettin' at? You and I may know the difference, but is Junior getting the message? The <em>right</em> message, that is? Mind you, any group claiming "more patriotism" than another group makes me sick, especially those who insist that patriotism and moral judgment go hand-in-hand.  Poseurs and bandwagoners aren’t any better, but those who just need the attention -- like our tagger up top -- are the most annoying of all. Hopefully parents can teach their kids that this idiot's actions did little more than hurt the local owner of that particular Chick-fil-A.  Rather than furthering any cause -- and in fact probably turning potential supporters off instead -- this is the excuse of validation-hungry A-hole. Said cabbage-head has ex Vante, Inc. CFO Adam Smith to keep him company: Smith seems to think that brow-beating remarkably professional minimum wage drive-thru workers is a good thing. Was Smith the victim of a Chick-fil-A employee hate crime, you ask? Nope! He just felt the need to be a part of the problem -- and he probably thinks he did it in the name of being part of the solution. Talk about mixed messages for kids! Let me be clear on something here: I'm not questioning the rationale of the activists or boycotters: they're entitled to their beliefs. Neither am I questioning Chick-fil-A franchise owner Dan Cathy for saying he and his profits support the “biblical definition of the family unit.” Not my cup of tea, but goody for him: that's what free speech and free enterprise entitle him to do. <em>I'm</em> questioning the message this uproar is sending, and not because it's controversial or threatening to either "traditional" marriage or gay rights.<em> My</em> concern is the average parent's ability to distill such messages for their kids and keep the dialog from narrowing to pointlessness. Issues are issues: these days, nothing is scarier than parents' inability (or unwillingness) to prepare a generation of children to reasonably address them. 2243 2012-08-03 23:12:28 2012-08-03 23:12:28 2017-11-06 12:37:04 2017-11-06 19:37:04 closed open chick-fil-a-childs-play publish 0 0 post 0 "Tastes like hate" Chick-fil-A Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day Culture Dan Cathy Food _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1696147166;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:336;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8012;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1180;}}}} 72 P.P. McPoop avo_barmakian_jr@armenianlover.com 24.43.12.44 2012-08-04 00:53:54 2012-08-04 00:53:54 "....But what about those kids holding a TV remote (or any networked digital device) whose parents aren’t even in the room?" Little children, in a room with no parents, holding a remote that they are able to operate, will quickly be changing the channel to Cartoon Network or NickToons (or PBS Sprout, if your kid is some kind of fucking oversensitive pussy-bitch, not that there's anything wrong with that). So unless Chick-Fil-A detractors and supporters start wielding robotic metal balls that, once thrown at each other, turn into Japanese mythological dragons or cyborg demons that shoot fire tornados or supersonic lighting bolts out of a bodily orifice, kids will go on doing as they have always done...giving not one fuck. No, no, Mr. Nelson, this is a problem for much larger, much dumber children. 1 comment 0 0 73 Stilts19 stilts19@gmail.com 68.98.26.214 2012-08-04 05:19:43 2012-08-04 05:19:43 Great blog. I can't stand this self-righteous hullabaloo from these gay activists! GET OVER IT!!! The founder of this company has a right to believe what he believes, whether it's right or wrong. If you don't agree with his stance on gay marriage, DON'T EAT AT ANY CHIK-FIL-A restaurants!!!! You make a great point about the "hate" speak directed at the supposed "haters" at Chik-Fil-A.You know who I hate? Idiots like these protesters that turn a marginal story into a week-long brew-ha-ha. I AGREE with same-sex marriage, but not everyone is going to agree. Get a life! 1 comment 0 0 74 bodasmellycat bobcat7575@yahoo.com 66.27.116.122 2012-09-08 14:35:45 2012-09-08 14:35:45 Read th Bible it says ADAM abd EVE not adam and steve ! If you have a problem with this TAKE IT UP WITH GOD! 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/excuses/sandusky-the-football/ Mon, 13 Aug 2012 21:48:56 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2266 <h4><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Sandusky-The-Football.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2298" title="Sandusky The Football" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Sandusky-The-Football-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200" /></a>Jerry Sandusky is by far the most notorious pedophile of modern times. Though </strong><strong>we're only now learning that he may have used the U.S. Postal Service to seduce his victims with gifts and travel, </strong><strong>t</strong><strong>he capacity and scope of such emerging details isn't surprising. Likewise, r</strong><strong>eactions to an ongoing investigation into whether Sandusky shared child porn via the Internet range from revulsion to indifference. Some call it flogging a dead horse, especially now that Sandusky has been convicted and incarcerated. Others, myself included, believe this will be the most important development of all: the opportunity <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2187748/Penn-State-sex-abuse-scandal-Witness-says-saw-Sandusky-donor-abuse-boys.html">to expose his (newly alleged) accomplices and their reach</a>. </strong></h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Sandusky-Private-Pervert-Plane.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-2289" title="Sandusky Private Pervert Plane" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Sandusky-Private-Pervert-Plane.jpg" alt="" width="162" height="43" /></a>If the NCAA, the athletic association that punished Pennsylvania State University for what it called "an unprecedented failure of institutional integrity," can affirm that the school held the esteem of its football program higher than "the values of human decency," the government has no excuse not to <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-08-10/sports/chi-possible-sandusky-child-porn-ring-probed-20120810_1_jerry-sandusky-penn-state-assistant-coach-sandusky-child" target="_blank">follow every conceivable evidentiary offshoot</a> and kill what it finds. <strong><!--more--></strong> [caption id="attachment_2292" align="alignleft" width="216" caption="&quot;Jerry Sandusky meets the General Population&quot;"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Jerry-meets-the-General-Population.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-2292 " title="Artist PAUL RUMSEY" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Jerry-meets-the-General-Population-300x255.jpg" alt="" width="216" height="184" /></a>[/caption] In the meantime, master pedophile Sandusky's got his own comeuppance lined up like private planes on a runway. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/at-least-inmates-don’t-protect-child-molesters/" target="_blank">As I've written before</a>, say what you will about prison inmates, at least they don't protect pedophiles or their enablers. So right about now, Sandusky's discovering that his life is in the hands of frontline custody staff at Pittsburgh's Centre County Jail. And they -- whether or not they liked Penn State's football program or feel the sanctions against the school are too harsh -- must openly and routinely display hatred towards him for their own personal safety. [caption id="attachment_2293" align="alignright" width="141" caption="Corrections Officer Mike &quot;Hard On&quot; Smith hates Jerry Sandusky for obvious reasons"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Officer-Hard-On.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-2293 " title="Officer Hard On" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Officer-Hard-On.jpg" alt="" width="141" height="209" /></a>[/caption] How so? Imagine a football-loving prison guard who openly criticizes the NCAA's sanctions. To folks on the outside, he's simply griping about the recruiting hit the Nittany Lions have been forced to take as a result of the actions of a single sicko.  But if the wrong inmate overheard that griping and could twist the guard's words into a conveyance of sympathy for Sandusky-the-Kiddie-Rapist...well, you get the idea. And not all scenarios are quite so subtle. Some have the potential to send the staff <span style="text-decoration: underline;">and</span> inmate rumor mills into overdrive, like an opinion I recently read that asked after the point of "wasting time" investigating this further when we could simply "stop the witch hunt" and move on. On a prison Yard, where crimes against women and children are not tolerated, that would be read as a call to abandon the pedophile's victims. And the result of <em>that</em> could be deadly. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Such-nice-young-men-really.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2296" title="Such nice young men really" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Such-nice-young-men-really-300x167.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="167" /></a>This strict adherence to a code of behavior vis a vis molesters may seem strange to those on the outside, but I can assure you it's alive and well among our nation's incarcerated. If it is ever discovered, for instance, that a member of the general inmate population crossed paths with an otherwise isolated Sandusky but failed to attack him – or even kick at him despite leg restraints – that inmate's fate <em>will</em> be at risk. Accounts of such failings are easily and commonly leaked back to the Yard through medical staff, civilian employees, guards, and even administrators: it takes only a grudge, a debt, or the wrong smart-ass remark. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Prison-Inmates-Behaviors-.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2297" title="Prison Inmates Behaviors" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Prison-Inmates-Behaviors--300x167.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="167" /></a>Such is life behind bars: inmates (and by arguable extension staff) don't hate pedophiles just because they've hurt children or because they themselves were victims at one point. They hate pedophiles in prison because of the behavioral cues, disruption, and potential threat their presence brings – segregated or not. There isn't a penology expert or corrections official alive who wouldn't at least privately agree. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Sandusky-Goes-to-Hell.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2267" title="Sandusky Goes to Hell" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Sandusky-Goes-to-Hell-300x244.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="195" /></a>So it's pretty ironic that Sandusky's very presence will now make him a proverbial football, albeit one nobody wants to carry. As for continuing to hunt down his cyber-perv connections and patterns of victim recruitment, that "witch hunt" is <em>nothing</em> like the one he's gonna find himself facing once ol' Jer gets transferred from a county court jail to "a real Yard." &nbsp; 2266 2012-08-13 21:48:56 2012-08-13 21:48:56 2015-10-27 12:39:58 2015-10-27 19:39:58 closed open sandusky-the-football publish 0 0 post 0 Character Excuses Jerry Sandusky NCAA Nittany Lions pedophile Penn State Prison _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1695295405;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2572;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:932;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1233;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/apocalypse-hoosegow-5-l-a-deputy-sheriffs-face-palm-edition/ Mon, 20 Aug 2012 00:15:00 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2309 <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Apocalypse-Hoosegow-5.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2311" title="Apocalypse Hoosegow 5" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Apocalypse-Hoosegow-5-300x227.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="227" /></a>The Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs (ALADS) says reforms designed to address violence in county jails have worsened morale, calling recent reports of abuse “exaggerated.” L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca, who on the one hand claims to have implemented those reforms, now says his beleaguered Deputies can't do their jobs ‘cause they're being picked on. The “Teflon Sheriff” blames jail inmates for increasing violence instead, saying they've grown “significantly more hostile toward Deputies and resistant to their directives.” </strong> <h4 style="text-align: center;"><em>"At some point in time, if the inmates feel empowered, they will riot. They will try to take it over," said Floyd Hayhurst, president of the Assn. for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs. "You can feel it in the building when the morale is down. The inmates sense that too."<!--more--></em></h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/CORRECTIONS-OFFICER-OBSOLETE.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2312" title="CORRECTIONS OFFICER (OBSOLETE)" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/CORRECTIONS-OFFICER-OBSOLETE.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="102" /></a>Um…lemme get this straight: the L.A. County Board of Supervisors – through its <a href="http://portal.lacounty.gov/wps/portal/compub?querytext=*&amp;department=Citz_Comm_JV&amp;agendas=on&amp;minutes=on&amp;date-from=01/01/2011&amp;date-to=01/01/2013&amp;Go=Commission+Publications"><em>Citizens’ Commission on Jail Violence</em></a> –<em> </em>the <a href="http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&amp;id=8368868">FBI</a>, <em>and</em> the ACLU jointly <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinionla/la-ed-sheriff-20110929,0,7491861.story">call the Sheriff’s Department out</a> on its indifference, brutality, and misconduct, and suddenly the Deputies’ union claims the resulting reforms are undermining morale? Ha! The jails have never been a place of adequate custodial supervision – they’re more like a <a href="http://www.scpr.org/news/2012/08/03/33655/experts-say-la-sheriff-should-relinquish-control-j/">slow turtle that's been flipped onto its back</a>, wriggling helplessly in the sun. Deputy after Deputy has been brought before various criminal courts for felonies ranging from <a href="http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&amp;id=8637539">sex crimes</a> to smuggling cell phones into the jails, but efforts to bring the Department into line represent a danger to – Departmental personnel?? Top brass are<a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/10/local/la-me-jails-20120710"> accused of protecting abusive Deputies</a> and <a href="http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2011/07/la_sheriffs_deputies_insurance_fraud.php">fraud is now pervasive among the rank and file. </a> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/CUSTODY-ASSISTANT-SHOULDER-PATCH.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2313" title="CUSTODY ASSISTANT SHOULDER PATCH" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/CUSTODY-ASSISTANT-SHOULDER-PATCH.jpg" alt="" width="202" height="173" /></a>In fact, it’s hard to keep up with all the trouble, the bad PR, and the “incidents” that plague Baca. From <a href="http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2012/04/la_sheriffs_gang_jump_out_boys.php">Sheriff's gangs</a> to the Deputy on his way to work in the jail who fired multiple rounds at a motorist ‘cause his car got bumped at McDonald’s; from smuggled <span style="text-decoration: underline;">heroin burritos</span> to donor “thank-yous” that include giving official-looking identification cards and badges to people with no law enforcement training (<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/from-beat-downs-to-bear-hugs/">one of whom I worked for</a>) – the Department isn’t looking too credible right now.  Roughly 200 of the aforementioned credentials were recalled after the U.S. Attorney's office released a <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sheriff-badges-20120711,0,7628614.story">photo of a firearm-waving bimbo</a> wearing the “badge” issued to a bribe-hungry – <a href="http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Cudahy-Case-Recalls-Bell-Corruption-Scandal-160127265.html">now disgraced – Councilman.</a> [caption id="attachment_2315" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Fully Articulated 1/6 Scale Collectible Los Angeles County Sheriff Action figure  – comes complete with 1 &quot;Vikings&quot; tattoo, 2 excessive force allegations and 1 heroin burrito"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/REAL-DOLL.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2315" title="REAL DOLL" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/REAL-DOLL-300x222.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="222" /></a>[/caption] <strong>Yet the Department’s own logic says:</strong> shut down the party and break our tradition of secrecy; expose criminal activities within the jails and the Sheriff's own bone-fide cliques; shine a light on the perjury and the concealment of evidence…and nothing at all will happen except that our Deputies will face greater risk of attack by jail inmates. Therefore, the Department <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-jail-commission-20120804,0,357635.story" target="_blank">can't perform its duties</a> if the imposed reforms are allowed to continue. A recent L.A. Times editorial declared that the Department's benchmark for success shouldn't be whether or not Deputy morale is waning. But you've gotta admit it's one heck of an excuse. &nbsp; 2309 2012-08-20 00:15:00 2012-08-20 00:15:00 2017-11-06 12:37:04 2017-11-06 19:37:04 closed open apocalypse-hoosegow-5-l-a-deputy-sheriffs-face-palm-edition publish 0 0 post 0 Citizens’ Commission on Jail Violence Excuses L.A. County Jail L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca Los Angeles County Sheriff Men's Central Jail Men's Central Jail _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"e5c6e9c4ff9c5c9f834cbd717c695da3";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706801984;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5926;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3469;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8731;}}}} http://working-copy.local/cowardice/fine-ill-say-it-those-two-new-york-cops-took-the-easy-route/ Sun, 26 Aug 2012 17:35:22 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2330 [caption id="attachment_2344" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="If prison tower guards pool their $$ for each other&#39;s mandatory post-shooting psych leave, why not street cops?"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/SHOOTING-POOLS-EXIST.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2344" title="SHOOTING POOLS EXIST" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/SHOOTING-POOLS-EXIST-300x199.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="199" /></a>[/caption] <strong>Two dead, nine wounded? <em>Hell no</em> do I think those cops </strong><strong>had to open fire. It was two against one. Plus they were behind Jeffrey Johnson; they could've tackled him and kicked his ass. The iPhone footage from <em>that</em> would've allowed them to surf street cred for the rest of their careers. Even the worst case scenario along those lines is better than what really went down.</strong> So Johnson might've gotten a round off and shot one of 'em while they wrestled for his weapon: it happens. But the public never swore to take a bullet for a cop -- cops swear oaths to protect the public. Relax – nobody's blaming Officers Craig Matthews and Robert Sinishtaj for doing their jobs, and I'm not saying Johnson wasn't a public safety threat. But like it 'er not, these two safety-conscious, veteran street officers will always have an asterisk next to the Empire State Building takedown.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Jesse-Oldshein.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-2341" title="Jesse Oldshein" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Jesse-Oldshein.jpg" alt="" width="203" height="257" /></a>Why, you ask? 'Cause they sprayed the street with lead and then reloaded like they were playing Call of Duty. Because they were lousy shots. Because they didn't zig or zag or rush the dude. Because they <em>sentenced</em> nine or more whole families to years of squaring off with medical insurance adjusters whose primary objective is to make folks give up in frustration. Because it was overkill. For once, I'd like to hear of a cop who handled an escalation of force apprehension with his boxing skills – and no, I don't mean six baton-wielding, taser-jock goons beating a 157-lb homeless schizophrenic to death. When I was a kid, a schoolmate's policeman father told us about the day he grabbed the gun from a nut who'd just shot his neighbor and was pointing it at anyone who came near. My friend's dad knocked him out. Done. Where are those guys today? Does police training now encourage cadets to simply empty their service magazines at the first hint of threat? <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Not-all-but-some.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2343" title="Not all but some" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Not-all-but-some.jpg" alt="" width="116" height="179" /></a>Yeah-yeah, I realize we live in a different world now, but you know what? That's horse shit. And it's far too easily used as an excuse these days. The Empire State Building takedown could've happened in any year, in any part of the county, on any day – New York and 9/11 or not. In the end, Craig Matthews and Robert Sinishtaj did their jobs with their triggers, not their balls. I'd hate to think that "we live in a different world now" has neutered the rest of the NYPD too. &nbsp; 2330 2012-08-26 17:35:22 2012-08-26 17:35:22 2012-08-26 17:35:22 2012-08-26 17:35:22 closed open fine-ill-say-it-those-two-new-york-cops-took-the-easy-route publish 0 0 post 0 Call of Duty Character Cowardice Craig Matthews Culture Empire State shooting Jeffrey Johnson NYPD Robert Sinishtaj _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1688646867;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9010;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5582;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:683;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:922;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11948;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1589;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/home-depots-excuse-for-data-mining-a-labor-day-special/ Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:55:34 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2348 <h4 style="text-align: left;"></h4> <h4><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/LISTENING-STATION-CYBORGS.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2365" title="LISTENING STATION CYBORGS" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/LISTENING-STATION-CYBORGS.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="265" /></a>Home Depot’s profits are on the rise, after the company fired up its low-wage turnover meat to come out of hiding and help those intent on spending money. On the surface, it's a new day and a new fiscal quarter for the home improvement giant. But the company's government-like “Customers First Initiative,” the sensitivity training at the center of a renewed interest in customer satisfaction, is a both a clever exploitation of all things superhighway and a shotgun wedding for employees and customers. </strong></h4> Having coddled the big spenders and contractors of a bygone building boom, <a href="http://www.homedepot.com/" target="_blank">Home Depot</a> has now begun to capitalize on the socioeconomic similarities between its employees and its more typical patrons. Its new <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/la-fi-home-improvement-20120815,0,6870012,full.story" target="_blank">Customers First Initiative</a> is a product of regime change at the company and includes action items like “Power Hours,” where employees drop what they're doing and seek out wanderers who may need help. <!--more--> [caption id="attachment_2360" align="alignright" width="100" caption="&quot;You have those old style window locks at home, do &#39;ya?&quot;"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/WEARING-A-WIRE-LIKE-AN-FBI-INFORMANT.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-2360" title="WEARING A WIRE LIKE AN FBI INFORMANT" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/WEARING-A-WIRE-LIKE-AN-FBI-INFORMANT.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="293" /></a>[/caption] What it’s ok to drop in favor of customer service isn’t clear – nor is it clear what HD is doing to better <em>prepare</em> its employees to help – but the point of Customers First seems to be less, “Clean up on Aisle 9” and more, “What can I help you find?” Employees <em>have</em> been newly trained to eyeball the contents of shopping carts, looking for missing items or something they might suggest to complete a project. Sounds good, eh? More listening, less vanishing; more trooper, less stupor. Many people, myself included, enter a big box store like Home Depot only to discover the limits of their engineering or design skills. For a company seeking to improve customer satisfaction and retention against competitors like <a href="http://www.acehardware.com/home/index.jsp" target="_blank">Ace Hardware</a> – already known for its attentive employees – any improvement is a good one. But therein lies the rub. What’s been presented as a way to provide better service to customers masks the reality that the customers <em>themselves</em> are providing a service to Home Depot – and for free. [caption id="attachment_2361" align="alignleft" width="257" caption="This isn&#39;t a shopping cart – it&#39;s a microphone."]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/HOME-DEPOT-MICROPHONE.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-2361" title="HOME DEPOT MICROPHONE" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/HOME-DEPOT-MICROPHONE.jpg" alt="" width="257" height="160" /></a>[/caption] Customers by the millions practically rush the doors of Home Depot each morning with do-it-yourself ideas, some more realized than others. Each has an explanation to convey in pursuit of nuts, bolts, and fiberglass, and the communication of those needs can provide free on-the-job training for HD employees. So it turns out the Customers First Initiative’s big hook is a funny twist on Home Depot's DIY roots: patrons’ projects and ideas have <em>become</em> the corporate payoff, and newly “helpful” employees a well-positioned army of company spies. [caption id="attachment_2362" align="alignright" width="203" caption="Official Customers First Initiative employee issue &quot;Alpha Team&quot; tactical gear"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Customers-First-Tactical-Gear.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-2362" title="Customers First Tactical Gear" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Customers-First-Tactical-Gear.jpg" alt="" width="203" height="203" /></a>[/caption] It used to be you'd go to Home Depot and maybe catch a carpentry lesson; now you’re giving the lessons. And should you falter in your explanation of why you need self-closing baffle hinges, the newly installed free Home Depot WiFi will fill in the details for your orange-aproned mentee. By the time he or she passes your civil engineering lecture, you’ll not only have created a friendly rapport, you’ll have become more valuable than the products you came in to buy. Home Depot corporate has just data-mined you. And who decided to let them do that? I’m just saying it wasn’t you, the customer. <h4><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>"The plural of anecdote is data."   </strong><strong>– Ben J. Wattenberg </strong></span></h4> 2348 2012-08-30 16:55:34 2012-08-30 16:55:34 2012-08-30 16:55:34 2012-08-30 16:55:34 closed open home-depots-excuse-for-data-mining-a-labor-day-special publish 0 0 post 0 Corporate Culture customer service data mining DIY Excuses Home Depot Labor Day _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704514118;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6354;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3448;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11484;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/whos-at-fault-when-insensitivity-is-learned-behavior/ Thu, 06 Sep 2012 19:52:12 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2374 <h4><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Fatsos-Also-Grieve.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2381" title="Fatsos Also Grieve" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Fatsos-Also-Grieve-300x178.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="178" /></a>Last week, Annie Karni </strong><strong><a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/it_play_ground_zero_now_qAzM19XpnqwuoAbdwOmC9J">reported for the New York Post</a> </strong><strong>that victims’ families feel tourists treat Manhattan's 9/11 Memorial disrespectfully. It's being leaned against and climbed on; kids are being perched atop its inscriptions by careless, camera-wielding parents; and gabby sightseers are posing for pictures while spilling their Starbucks. Anyone adding to the boisterous atmosphere is on the shit list. Given that far more respectful behavior can be found</strong><strong>, for instance, </strong><strong>at Pearl Harbor's USS Arizona Memorial, first responders and victims’ families may be onto something.</strong></h4> <h4><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Self-Aggrandizement-Society.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2382" title="Self Aggrandizement Society" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Self-Aggrandizement-Society-300x226.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="226" /></a>On the other hand, might not <em>some</em> of these complaints be an excuse for extending one’s grief or reaffirming one’s precious victimhood? Besides, when society encourages digital aggrandizement of one menial personal experience after the next – and thus contempt for everything outside of ourselves – who's to blame when insensitivity becomes just another a learned behavior? </strong></h4> I’m just saying, 9/11 Memorial site or not, the presence of loud, sloppy people who can't distinguish between hallowed ground and Disney’s California Adventure shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, not even World Trade Center families.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Garage-Sale-Goddammit.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-2383" title="Garage Sale Goddammit!" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Garage-Sale-Goddammit-300x231.jpg" alt="" width="126" height="97" /></a>When I was a kid, my dad would plan garage sales like they were the invasion of Normandy. We'd all get up before dawn to dial things in, excited about haggling with our neighbors and pocketing a few bucks. If our wares weren't displayed to Dad’s liking when shoppers arrived, however, his blood pressure jumped. And if anyone had the nerve to cross the property line before he was ready, it somehow meant he'd failed and his exasperation increased. The last time my folks had a garage sale, my dad ended up in the ER. (Turns out garage sales didn't make Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.) I mention the 'ol man's ticker ‘cause <em>unreasonable expectations</em> were the culprit, just as they may be at the 9/11 Memorial. Once you open something to the public, it's the public's interpretation and use of it that sets the tone. And yeah, this includes commemorative fountains. They can’t <em>all</em> be as pleasant an experience as an unventilated Catholic confessional. Some of ‘em might manage to also represent a celebration of the <em>life</em> that was left behind. [caption id="attachment_2385" align="alignleft" width="115" caption="Cigarettes and Pepsi,   a winning combination"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Weight-isnt-bad_Smokes-and-Sodas-are.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-2385 " title="Cigarettes and Pepsi a winning combination" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Weight-isnt-bad_Smokes-and-Sodas-are.jpg" alt="" width="115" height="209" /></a>[/caption] But no, I'm not advocating letting kids drool on the names of the people that died on September 11. Nor do I think it’s fine to drip coffee on the plaques after you pry your fat, sweaty ass off of what you mistook for a restin’ perch. I'm just asking if it isn't a tad unreasonable to go finger pointing or declare further victimization just ‘cause the number of clueless monkeys-with-car-keys in our society increases tenfold every second Wednesday. If victims’ families are this incensed, I suggest they lead by example, rather than complaining or comparing which memorials are shown more respect. Go down there and donate your time like World War II vets and Holocaust survivors do. Organize, introduce yourselves, tell stories, and explain to us dummies <em>why</em> we should conduct ourselves circumspectly and show restraint of voice and temperament. What else have you got, anyway, litigation? You gonna sue ill-bred tourists who don't behave according to your standards? <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Brass-Tacks.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-2387" title="Brass Tacks" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Brass-Tacks.jpg" alt="" width="224" height="108" /></a>If you ask me and my pocket full of brass tacks, I say, go live your life. ‘Cause at least you have one, and that’s more than you can say for your NYPD niece or paramedic parent. Besides, they'd probably wonder what it is you're wasting your time on just like I do. For the record, though, I'm glad that no one <em>has</em> asked me for my advice on this: I have no business telling anyone how to grieve.  All I <em>do</em> know is what resentments look like when they spring from unreasonable expectations. <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>"People who suffer a lot often times do so because they are cognitively wrong about what they think they have a right to expect."                                      </em>- Abraham H. Maslow</strong></p> 2374 2012-09-06 19:52:12 2012-09-06 19:52:12 2017-11-06 12:37:04 2017-11-06 19:37:04 closed open whos-at-fault-when-insensitivity-is-learned-behavior publish 0 0 post 0 9/11 Memorial Comfort Zone Culture Excuses World Trade Center _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704658949;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4828;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2266;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:319;}}}} 76 Al lioninla@yahoo.com 75.41.99.254 2012-09-07 15:15:28 2012-09-07 15:15:28 Lazy parenting, lazy adult supervision of children. Regardless of our expectations, a frightening percentage of the current generation of parents, and adults in general, take every opportunity possible to shirk their responsibilities to teach kids right from wrong and respect of others' property, feelings, etc. I think it's sad that we're going to use "realistic" expectations as an excuse to get on the victim's families here. How about the supervising parents having a freaking clue about teaching kids to have respect. As for the adults who themselves are obviously clueless about showing respect, throw 'em in the Hudson – it's too late for them! 1 comment 0 0 77 J. Nelson eatglass@prodigy.net 76.206.10.87 2012-09-07 16:44:57 2012-09-07 16:44:57 I agree, but please know that my intention wasn't to "get on" 9/11 victims' families, but to question whether or not some might feel entitled to a level if courtesy and respect society is increasingly incapable of delivering. 1 comment 76 2 78 Antoinette akuritz@strategiespr.com 76.93.182.122 2012-09-11 18:32:34 2012-09-11 18:32:34 There is a time and place to ignore bad behavior, and a time and place to censure it. That censure can be as subtle as a raised eyebrow, as simple as a gently voiced suggestion, as definitive as signs posted. I am tired of not calling the person at the table next to me on their voluable phone conversation; the parent whose sticky-fingered child is running around my table instead of theirs. I am tired of the drivers who don't use signals and change lanes as though the rest of us don't exist; the folks who cut ahead in lines because they are 'in a hurry'; and I imagine I would be appalled by the folks smoking, eating, and having their cherubs climb on the 9/11 monument. Manners, and the sensitivity to others that they infer, are the lubrication of society. And actions like these lead to the grinding of the gears of the machinery that keeps society running. Might the 9/11 family members be sensitive. Of course. But telling them to move on is like telling someone that they should not feel pain in the area where their leg once broke; the sensitivity will always be there. And the rest of us should care enough about these folks and their losses to understand and act with respect at a memorial to their loved ones and take our playing kids and food and cigarettes somewhere else. 1 comment 0 0 79 J. Nelson eatglass@prodigy.net 76.206.10.87 2012-09-11 19:13:12 2012-09-11 19:13:12 I agree. I too am tired of all of those things that you listed, but even more so with the excuses that people make for each. The woman who recently decided to put her twin daughters into their respective potty training seats in the middle of a full restaurant, I'm sure would defend herself vehemently – or have a whopper of an excuse. The people in the restaurant were up in arms as well they should have been, but if these are the kinds of manners and self-centeredness we've resign ourselves to, well, if I'm guilty of anything, Antoinette, it's not of telling 9/11 victims' families to move on, but to give up. 1 comment 78 2 http://working-copy.local/celebrity/robin-hood-drives-a-volvo/ Wed, 12 Sep 2012 23:12:59 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2401 <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ROBIN-HOOD-DRIVES-A-VOLVO3.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-2437" title="ROBIN HOOD DRIVES A VOLVO" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/ROBIN-HOOD-DRIVES-A-VOLVO3.jpg" width="455" height="254" /></a>When all else fails, try populism! </strong> <strong>It isn't official, but <strong>given that the Feds love assigning perp nicknames,</strong> authorities could dub four alleged L.A. area bank robbers "the Robin Hood Bandits" <strong>any minute now</strong>. Everyone else has! Having tossed <strong>at least a dozen </strong>handfuls of money from their getaway car during a pursuit through South Los Angeles, the designation may stick, too, despite speculation that the tactic was more diversionary than charitable. Video clips show people jumping off sidewalks to grab wafting bills, inevitably blocking police vehicles. If I were to guess, I'd say the bandits knew they were sunk and opted to go out with a good PR move.</strong> <strong></strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/The-Robin-Hood-Bandits.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2415" title="LA Bank Heist Robin Hood Bandits" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/The-Robin-Hood-Bandits-300x164.jpg" width="300" height="164" /></a>Maybe they were returning to their childhood neighborhoods as they circled block after block, money and police trailing behind them. On the other hand, it doesn't look like they took into account the safety of the people upon whom they were bestowing this grand gesture, and at the end of the pursuit a repeat of <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/29/opinion/la-oe-newton-police-failure-at-riots-20120429" target="_blank">Florence and Normandie</a> circa 1992 looked about to erupt – unnerving footage for Anglenos here during the King riots. Will these suspects be charged with additional counts of, say, Mayhem or Disturbing the Peace for starting something that could have turned quite ugly? Or will money out the window endear them to the public -- and by extension, to a jury? The pursuit footage has already begun to work its anti-hero magic.<!--more--> <h5><span style="color: #800000;">From the LATimes:</span></h5> <h5><span style="color: #800000;"><em><a href="http://www.lapdonline.org/central_bureau/comm_bio_view/7669" target="_blank">LAPD Cmdr. Andy Smith </a>said he suspects the alleged robbers were trying to get rid of evidence and block traffic by throwing money out the window. “This shows the worst side of human nature," Smith said. "It’s stolen property, and receiving stolen property is a felony. It’s a sad day to see people scrambling in the street for it.”</em></span></h5> <h5><span style="color: #800000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Commander-Andrew-Smith.jpg"><span style="color: #800000;"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2418" title="Commander Andrew Smith" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Commander-Andrew-Smith-150x150.jpg" width="105" height="105" /></span></a>Sad day? C'mon Andy, you were on the scene during the riots, and you're better than to criminalize whole crowds of South L.A. black folks. It's superior and pious remarks like this that make it harder for your officers to connect with the public.</span></h5> <h5><span style="color: #800000;">(Yes, we know it's not the public's money that was tossed from the Volvo, but  you're an accomplished Media Relations Officer. Don't make us ask if that would've been your condemnation had the air unit's footage showed <em>Beverly Hills</em> <em>residents</em> picking up a few bucks...)</span></h5> <h5><span style="color: #800000;">Sorry, end of digression. <span style="color: #000000;">Back to the alleged anti-heros...</span></span></h5> In due course, FBI agents will probably include some sort of <em>Robin Hood</em> moniker in their statement, press release or federal booking. And it will be interesting to follow this story of these alleged Rollin’ 40s Crips gang members  in the media to see where it goes. At a time when your average American Joe is so financially beleaguered, it's likely the Robin Hood gesture and the celebratory dancing that went on in the street at the site of the suspect's apprehension will be remembered long after the robbery itself has been forgotten. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/AM-640-KFI.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-2422" title="AM 640 KFI" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/AM-640-KFI.jpg" width="158" height="120" /></a>Elsewhere – an on-air guest of AM 640 KFI's "John and Ken" show described a Spanish language radio station that had encouraged it's listeners to run outside during the high speed chase to grab whatever airborne loot they could while they had a chance. Though John And Ken were protective of the source of the on-air comments during their afternoon broadcast, I wonder if that Spanish language station will have its license suspended if Commander Andy hears about it? Oh, the Americana that surrounds these events when they're thrust into the spotlight on a hot day! &nbsp; <div></div> 2401 2012-09-12 23:12:59 2012-09-12 23:12:59 2017-11-06 12:37:24 2017-11-06 19:37:24 closed open robin-hood-drives-a-volvo publish 0 0 post 0 Bank Robbery Celebrity Culture FBI Los Angeles Robbin Hood Bandits _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704501387;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2172;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11869;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1134;}}}} 80 German ger_landeros@yahoo.com 72.1.174.250 2012-09-14 17:22:55 2012-09-14 17:22:55 I was surprised to learn it was a robbery. Initially I thought it was part of Obama's campaign strategy. 1 comment 0 0 81 J. Nelson eatglass@prodigy.net 76.206.10.87 2012-09-14 18:21:08 2012-09-14 18:21:08 It is. You see, that money wasn't actually stolen. Those were actors hired to portray armed robbery suspects and lead police on a prearranged pursuit using federally insured funds. This tactic comes directly from the Obama reelection campaign, wherein, this "time-delayed community-based distraction" sets up a class-warfare reference for the incumbent in the upcoming debates. The African-American and "Occupy" vote is the goal: If Obama makes a single, solitary reference to these so-called "Robin Hood bandits," black and liberal voters will immediately associate it with something they enjoyed watching on television, or identified with in some way. It's pure genius. Romney can't capitalize on it because he's not of African American descent, but a well-written, sly remark about it from the President – well, that's an advantage. (Yeah, I'm talking outta' my dirt-eye, but it was irresistible.) 1 comment 80 2 http://working-copy.local/excuses/check-out-where-excuses-go-to-die-on-facebook/ Sat, 15 Sep 2012 18:32:52 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2444 <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Facebooks.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2445" title="Facebooks" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Facebooks.jpg" alt="" width="646" height="168" /></a> <strong><em><a href="http://working-copy.local/who-is-this-guy/" target="_blank">Where Excuses Go to Die</a></em> will be available in print and in all device formats January 2013.</strong> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Unknown.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2446" title="Unknown" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Unknown.jpg" alt="" width="317" height="418" /></a>Meanwhile, a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die/463895010289953" target="_blank">Where Excuses Go to Die Facebook page</a> lets me share what it's like trying to get this story told; from the disappointed looks I get when I claim to have better hooks than rape, riots, and rotten food to rejection letters and<em> go-for-its </em>I've received along the way. There've been loonies attracted in the process, constant smoke being blown up my ass, and the dread of asking others to read pages. What a whole separate pathology <em>that is</em>! (Worse than issuing or accepting a personal loan.) And such fun, dealing with those who assume I'm a profit-hungry offender out for a payoff! Finally, there's being along for the ride as the publishing world makes an ass of itself as it tries not to go out like the record industry. It's all a completely separate journey from having paid my debt to society for robbing, um, bookstores.<!--more--> Writing a book about a prison sentence -- wherein the absurdities witnessed might as well have happened on Pluto -- and trying to get it published is a story in itself. I've spent years feeling like the freeway offramp guy, rattling a foam cup and swearing people will like what they read. This January, I'm finally gonna sink or swim. 'Til then, I've learned a lot of lessons, good 'n bad, and somebody, somewhere might appreciate a few of the tips and warnings. I've also discovered that a stack of rejection letters is good for achieving ideal ergonomic monitor height <em>and</em> it's proof you're doing something – unlike any number of talkers out there. And just as I applied it to every word of <em>Excuses </em>itself, as well as to this blog, the WEGTD Facebook page takes into account one of the most important things I've learned about the craft of writing: "<em>Just 'cause it happened to you, doesn't make it interesting</em>." I strive to <em>make</em> it interesting instead. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die/463895010289953" target="_blank">So give this parallel world of proposals, publishing, and patience – your stamp of Like.</a> 2444 2012-09-15 18:32:52 2012-09-15 18:32:52 2014-04-16 17:55:36 2014-04-17 00:55:36 closed open check-out-where-excuses-go-to-die-on-facebook publish 0 0 post 0 Culture Excuses Facebook social media _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1686946590;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3143;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2128;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4346;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7779;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9883;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4503;}}}} http://working-copy.local/self-esteem/which-will-be-worse-iphone-5-anxiety-or-presidential-attack-ads/ Wed, 19 Sep 2012 05:29:58 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2453 <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/iPhone-War.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2457" title="iPhone War" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/iPhone-War-300x209.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="209" /></a>Last week, Apple took orders for 2 million iPhone 5s in less than 24 hours. Ha! </strong><strong>In the coming weeks, I'm not sure which I'll want to throat-punch first, the iPhone 5 or presidential campaign spots. </strong> <strong>With those twin tsunamis crashing atop us all, which will bring out the worst in us? Will an unflattering video or photo taken on an iPhone 5 determine the outcome of the election? Will the next mass maiming happen at an Apple Store? In the back-and-forth about whether iPhone 5 will save the economy or fail in the marketplace, which candidate will take credit for its success, and which will blame the other for its failure? I can just feel it, too: at <em>some</em> point on November 6, one of my friends will have an excuse for not voting that will somehow be iPhone 5 related. </strong> While this anxiety may seem silly in many parts of the U.S., these questions <em>are</em> pieces of conversations I've been a part of or have overheard around town. In L.A. – a city where people pretend $4.20 a gallon doesn't hurt and where keeping up with the Joneses or staying with the pack is a quality of life issue – this noise means something. Hence my prediction that some folks will be too caught up in the chatter to remember their right to vote, or too overloaded to care. <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/BIG-PHARMA.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2461" title="BIG PHARMA" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/BIG-PHARMA.jpg" alt="" width="279" height="216" /></a>Believe me, when I first heard the term “Generalized Anxiety Disorder,” it was (literally) framed in the context of a television commercial and bookended by more of Big Pharma’s “side effects may include...” language. So I laughed. I mean, Generalized Anxiety Disorder? C'mon, they're just selling more pills. Yet with all that <em>does</em> flip us out – whether adopted or circumstantial – it’s no wonder so many of us are herded up, unable to deal with the world and its pressures on a rational basis. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/2010-Toyota-Corolla.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2462" title="2010 Toyota Corolla" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/2010-Toyota-Corolla-300x112.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="112" /></a>Take me, for example. Here I am, driving around a zippy little 2010 Toyota that came my way via an irresistible lease offer. Well, I scratched it – and then I dented it. So I'm disappointed in myself, and I start thinking other drivers are looking down on me because I can't manage a simple parking space. I know they are, in fact, since that’s exactly what <em>I</em> do to others. If I see a dangling mirror or a nasty sideswipe, I naturally think, “Haw-haw! You botched a traffic cheat!” <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/LOSER.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2464" title="LOSER!" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/LOSER.jpg" alt="" width="124" height="127" /></a>Just about the same time as my judgment of others is heightening thoughts of what my own car's imperfections say about me, I get a mailer from the dealership with a <em>new</em> irresistible lease offer. Boom! I'm softened up for the kill. And the dealership is offering me a new iPad if I qualify for a lease buyout! Now I'm not only imagining how nice it would be to be driving around a 2012 Toyota with no scratches, I'm playin’ music on my new iPad! A newer car, no judgment, and a return to good-driver anonymity…all for just a few bucks more a month. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/I-loathe-CAR-DEALERS-.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-2465" title="I loathe CAR DEALERS" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/I-loathe-CAR-DEALERS--266x300.jpg" alt="" width="213" height="240" /></a>But somehow even that isn’t good enough, so I begin my research to find an even better offer. I start taking my Toyota to body shops to see how much I’d have to pay to repair the scratch and the dent so I can increase my negotiating power. I’m also mentally puttin’ my back against the wall to guard against the dealer's tricks  (bastards). And it’s all unnecessary stress, which I’m adding to my <em>own</em> life in order to drive a car that’s practically identical to the one in my driveway. First comes <em>cognitive distortion </em>(my asinine thoughts), then <em>emotional reasoning </em>(where I mistake feeling for fact). Making a mountain out of a molehill, or <em>catastrophizing</em>, is next (believing something is worse than it is), followed by <em>overgeneralization</em> (basing my entire reality on one small thing). [caption id="attachment_2466" align="alignleft" width="286" caption="Bickle Cycle of Adversity"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Bickle-Cycle-of-Anxiety.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-2466" title="Bickle Cycle of Anxiety" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Bickle-Cycle-of-Anxiety.jpg" alt="" width="286" height="267" /></a>[/caption] I needlessly increase my own anxiety, and, in this case, I didn't even get a free iPad. I <em>did</em> wind up spending four hours at a dealership and driving away with a lease for a new (scratch-less) 2012 Toyota. It's completely idiotic, and, frankly, privileged: I spent a good chunk of my time and ratcheted up my life’s tension almost entirely based on a perception of what others think – strangers I pass on the highway, no less! Yet more and more, we're <em>all </em>being trained to adopt this way of thinking. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/BRAVE-NEW-WORLD.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2467" title="BRAVE NEW WORLD" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/BRAVE-NEW-WORLD.jpg" alt="" width="119" height="297" /></a>So, is Generalized Anxiety Disorder really all that mockable? Not for some. Especially since Big Pharma came up with the name years ago, and we merely allowed ourselves to fulfill its commercial purpose.  (Yes, Aldos Huxley is probably turning over in his grave.) My point is, I <em>really</em> want an iPhone 5. My iPhone 4 is cool and all, and it’s in perfect condition. But an iPhone <em>5</em> would put me above those who might think less of me ‘cause I don't have an iPhone 5. Whenever people get 'em, that is. And there’s an app for that! Smartphone anxiety can be a thing of the past, now that Harvard University researchers have begun work on an anti-stress app aimed at reducing the symptoms of anxiety. Awesome! Call it “Therapy-by-Phone,” or how 'bout “Angry Herds”? But what does any of this have to do with the coming U.S. presidential election? Wait, there’s an election? &nbsp; 2453 2012-09-19 05:29:58 2012-09-19 05:29:58 2014-12-21 10:07:17 2014-12-21 17:07:17 closed open which-will-be-worse-iphone-5-anxiety-or-presidential-attack-ads publish 0 0 post 0 Apple Attack ads Brave New World Corporate Culture Generalized Anxiety Disorder iPhone 5 Presidential Campaign Self-Esteem _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703066482;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7605;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9233;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:269;}}}} 82 Klaus Kerrschoen mrnagle07@gmail.com 69.237.3.235 2012-09-19 06:18:47 2012-09-19 06:18:47 First World problems, all of 'em. First World problems.... 1 comment 0 0 83 Denise Wilkerson originalbin@gmail.com 69.237.3.235 2012-09-19 06:27:18 2012-09-19 06:27:18 I was gonna comment but am afraid of what you all will think 1 comment 0 0 84 J. Nelson eatglass@prodigy.net 76.206.10.87 2012-09-19 14:25:15 2012-09-19 14:25:15 Better than off-world, I guess. In space, no one can hear you scream. 1 comment 82 2 85 J. Nelson eatglass@prodigy.net 76.206.10.87 2012-09-19 14:26:25 2012-09-19 14:26:25 For others I cannot speak, but me I think you need a period at the end of your sentence. 1 comment 83 2 86 Al lioninla@yahoo.com 75.41.99.254 2012-09-20 15:15:16 2012-09-20 15:15:16 So what you're really saying , on both fronts, is that there's a communication breakdown, and they're always the same, and they're causing you to have a nervous breakdown, and they'll drive you insane........cause that's really all you had to say. 1 comment 0 0 87 J. Nelson eatglass@prodigy.net 76.206.10.87 2012-09-20 15:42:42 2012-09-20 15:42:42 Right. Led Zeppelin Lyrics. Well, from that era I'd have to go with Bobby Womack's 1971 single, "Communication." Just a little communication Just a little communication If you see your brother fallin' down Give him a chance to make him come around http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP1b0KxLojM 1 comment 86 2 http://working-copy.local/excuses/f-scott-fitzgeralds-worry-list/ Thu, 20 Sep 2012 23:49:41 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2478 <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/F.-Scott-Fitzgerald.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2479" title="F. Scott Fitzgerald" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/F.-Scott-Fitzgerald-300x198.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="198" /></a>From one of my favorites, Shaun Usher and his site, </strong><a href="http://www.listsofnote.com/2012/01/things-to-worry-about.html" target="_blank">Lists of Note</a> <p style="text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;"><strong>In 1933,  author F. Scott Fitzgerald ended a letter to his 11-year-old daughter, Scottie, with a list of things to worry about, not worry about, and simply think about. It read as follows.</strong></p> <h4>Things to worry about:</h4> <h4>Worry about courage Worry about cleanliness Worry about efficiency Worry about horsemanship</h4> <h4>Things not to worry about:</h4> <h4>Don't worry about popular opinion Don't worry about dolls Don't worry about the past Don't worry about the future Don't worry about growing up Don't worry about anybody getting ahead of you Don't worry about triumph Don't worry about failure unless it comes through your own fault Don't worry about mosquitoes Don't worry about flies Don't worry about insects in general Don't worry about parents Don't worry about boys Don't worry about disappointments Don't worry about pleasures Don't worry about satisfactions</h4> <h4>What am I really aiming at? How good am I really in comparison to my contemporaries in regard to:</h4> (a) Scholarship (b) Do I really understand about people and am I able to get along with them? (c) Am I trying to make my body a useful instrument or am I neglecting it? With dearest love, Daddy 2478 2012-09-20 23:49:41 2012-09-20 23:49:41 2013-03-18 21:26:05 2013-03-18 21:26:05 closed open f-scott-fitzgeralds-worry-list publish 0 0 post 0 Character Courage Cowardice Daughters Excuses F. Scott Fitzgerald Generalized Anxiety Disorder Your Adorable Child _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703549669;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6233;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2757;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:377;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1986;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5502;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8084;}}}} 99332 Not Disadvantaged abermot@web.de 216.155.131.76 2014-05-15 11:14:36 2014-05-15 18:14:36 I've shared this with my family and several friends. This is powerful and well written. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/your-adorable-child/whitney-kropp-is-no-carrie/ Wed, 26 Sep 2012 01:32:12 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2485 [caption id="attachment_2486" align="alignleft" width="186"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Dale-G.-Young-The-Detroit-News.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-2486 " title="Dale G. Young/Detroit News" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Dale-G.-Young-The-Detroit-News-207x300.jpg" width="186" height="270" /></a> Whitney Kropp - Photo credit, Dale G. Young/Detroit News[/caption] So who <em>is</em> this Whitney Kropp person, and why do we care? Well, the Michigan sophomore was elected to Homecoming Court by her winner schoolmates in an effort to humiliate her -- no doubt for something egregious like failing to buy the latest handbag or iPhone. Until recently, Whitney wasn't too popular. She apparently keeps to herself, wears a lot of black, colors her hair, and has Kropp for a last name. So her being ridiculed by catty princesses and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung">Brownshirts</a> on the football team isn't too surprising. But what these  products of idiot parenting didn't realize is that putting a spotlight on an underdog in the hopes of embarrassing her only really results in spotlighting the underdog. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Missing-Link.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2518" title="Missing Link" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Missing-Link-300x104.jpg" width="300" height="104" /></a>So when the West Branch dust settled, these "cool" kids found they'd actually succeeded in making an unpopular girl the most popular one in town.  Simply put, there's no excuse not to love how this is turning out.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Cyber-bullying-Fails-Without-Followers.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2503" title="Cyber-bullying Fails Without Followers" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Cyber-bullying-Fails-Without-Followers.jpg" width="135" height="118" /></a>Whitney, who's described by her mother as "guileless," went home the day the Homecoming announcements were made somewhat excited. She was skeptical, she later said, but was unaware that this was a prank and so enjoyed the moment. She was at least willing to take a chance on being lucky. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Belittling-gossip-mongering-Cyber-Bullies-.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-2502" title="Belittling gossip-mongering Cyber Bullies" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Belittling-gossip-mongering-Cyber-Bullies--300x291.jpg" width="126" height="122" /></a>After posting the news to Facebook, however, one belittling gossip-monger hinted that the football jock who'd been co-nominated had withdrawn when he learned of Whitney's involvement.  Whitney played it off, but later that day was found by her mom in tears, kicking herself for taking the bait. [caption id="attachment_2504" align="alignleft" width="108"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Ogemaw-Heights-High-School-Football.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-2504 " title="Ogemaw Heights High School Football Team" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Ogemaw-Heights-High-School-Football-150x150.jpg" width="108" height="108" /></a> Brown Shirts - told 'ya...[/caption] So while I'm <em>sure </em>Touchdown had his reasons, his immediate instinct to scamper away from a chance to lead by example renews all <em>I</em> remember about high school jock-dicks too: that they're big-talkin' patio furniture who can't stand up for anything a mob didn't start. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Carrie.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-2505" title="Carrie" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Carrie-300x229.jpg" width="210" height="160" /></a>For those who don't know (or maybe blocked the memory), the Homecoming Court is introduced at a halftime show during a school's homecoming game. Ill-fitting formalwear and big smiles are what the inevitably cheesy photographer tends to capture for posterity pics, but we all know that popularity is the real name of the game. In this sense, what was building at Ogemaw Heights High School eerily mirrored the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074285/" target="_blank">1976 Stephen King classic, <em>Carrie</em></a>, where an aloof girl with crazy mind-control powers turns Prom into a biblical fireball after being -- Ha ha! -- coated in pig's blood. While Whitney Kropp has no mind-ray as far as anyone knows, things weren't exactly going in her favor when this Homecoming business first started. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/GRAPH-OF-FALSE-FRIENDS.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2506" title="GRAPH OF FALSE FRIENDS" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/GRAPH-OF-FALSE-FRIENDS-300x253.jpg" width="300" height="253" /></a>She was laughed at in hallways and classrooms and constantly reminded of her outsider status. She felt like a joke, she said later. In her school's social hierarchy, she was at the bottom when the bottom was pulled out from under her. But then a few kids took her side and spoke supportively of her predicament. A small backlash against the abuse began to simmer. Word around the school became that Whitney should be encouraged rather than demeaned. Instead of looking (or scampering) the other way, classmate after classmate began asking Whitney to accept the nomination and attend the dance in full view of the self-absorbed sphincters who'd intended to break her down (as a way to build themselves up). In other words, the emerging collective called <em>bullshit </em>on that. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Whitney-Kropp-on-TV.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2507" title="Whitney Kropp on TV" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Whitney-Kropp-on-TV.jpg" width="227" height="152" /></a>Whitney Kropp knew they were right, but true to character she kept her head down. The passive–aggressive nature of these contests had been the furthest thing from her mind until she'd been thrown into the mix; and besides, the girl had grown accustomed to being alone and made fun of. The unwanted attention was difficult enough as it was. But then, on Whitney's Facebook page, came the post, "<em>Going to homecoming to show them I'm not a joke. I'm a beautiful person and you shouldn't mess with me!</em>" The word-of-mouth backlash had raced through the 800-student school and then through the town like a trained tiger through a hoop. Whitney's family was stunned at how far in the opposite direction things went once that collective voice grew. Kids and alumni and random strangers got vocal about aligning with Whitney for all who are bullied. Local businesses began offering donations for everything a 16-year old might need to have the best Homecoming ever. A <a href="http://www.facebook.com/SupportWhitneyKropp">Facebook support page</a> was set up by a former OHHS graduate, and messages started pouring in. The number of 'Likes' will soon push 100,000. Team Whitney t-shirts are on the way. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/God-of-Jocks.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2508" title="God of Dumb Jocks" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/God-of-Jocks.jpg" width="142" height="144" /></a>True to his nature -- and a future of not thinking for himself -- the Sport-o elected with Whitney decided to attend after all once he heard all the commotion.  So wow...a football player looking toward the cheers meant for someone else...what a surprise. [caption id="attachment_2512" align="alignright" width="157"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Support-Whitney-Kropp2.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-2512" title="Support Whitney Kropp" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Support-Whitney-Kropp2.jpg" width="157" height="157" /></a> She didn't ask for a last laugh, but she's gettin' one. Good for her.[/caption] In the end, it looks like no one's gonna get burned alive in a gymnasium and that the geniuses responsible for this prank did Whitney Kropp a tremendous service in the life-lesson department. True to <em>their</em> natures –and a probable future of boob jobs, resentment, Botox, divorce, fear, and envy– the girls involved will no doubt be trying to take credit for this. May their parents be proud of their accidental achievements, and may they recognize such dubious honors as a product of their shit-for-brains parenting. <h1></h1> &nbsp; 2485 2012-09-26 01:32:12 2012-09-26 01:32:12 2016-12-01 10:43:40 2016-12-01 17:43:40 closed open whitney-kropp-is-no-carrie publish 0 0 post 0 Bullying Carrie Character Facebook homecoming Stephen King Whitney Kropp Your Adorable Child _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:1;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706440366;s:7:"payload";a:1:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1589;}}}} 88 Bodasmellycat bobcat7575@yahoo.com 66.27.116.122 2012-09-26 12:33:09 2012-09-26 12:33:09 ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ 1 comment 0 0 89 Al lioninla@yahoo.com 75.41.99.254 2012-09-26 15:52:56 2012-09-26 15:52:56 Favorite Blog EVAH !!!! Love the topic, loved the recent "Bully" documentary, love that there are people out there, both young and old, who have the stuff to stand up for what's right, and think for themselves......more than I can say for myself at that age. My own kid taught me, during her high school years, that it was actually ok to be yourself and not follow the mindless masses. Good Stuff !!! P.S. Romney woulda pinned her down and cut her hair off.....just sayin' !! 1 comment 0 0 90 karen karengraci@gmail.com 76.91.182.11 2012-09-26 17:15:45 2012-09-26 17:15:45 Great article. Good for her! Loved the "big talkin' patio furniture." 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/excuses/i-told-you-so-level-8/ Tue, 02 Oct 2012 01:04:54 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2523 <h4><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/LA-County-Sheriffs-CLAYMORE-MINE.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2537" title="LA County Sheriff's CLAYMORE MINE" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/LA-County-Sheriffs-CLAYMORE-MINE.jpg" width="351" height="263" /></a>On September 28, 2012, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors’ <em><a href="http://ccjv.lacounty.gov/" target="_blank">Citizens’ Commission on Jail Violence</a></em> released its official <a href="http://ccjv.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/CCJV-Executive-Summary.pdf" target="_blank">report</a> on what the L.A. Times called, "a lack of meaningful oversight" within the County jail system, as well as "an institutional culture of arrogance and impunity" with regards to the L.A. Sheriff's Department.</strong></h4> <h4></h4> 'Course, when you’re one of the “bad guys,” you think twice about mentioning crappy accommodations and the uppity desk clerk. In part, that’s how things in L.A. <a href="http://www.aclu.org/prisoners-rights/annual-report-conditions-inside-mens-central-jail-los-angeles-2008-2009" target="_blank">got so bad</a> – some people needed to forget, others questioned their right to say anything, and most doubted the likelihood of their being listened to.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/LEVEL-RED.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2540" title="LEVEL RED" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/LEVEL-RED.jpg" width="289" height="190" /></a>I've written <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/l-a-county-sheriffs-vengeance-university/" target="_blank">previously</a> about what these official findings mean to me personally, but validation isn't the reward I expected. And I never predicted it would be accompanied by <em>growth</em>. Don’t get me wrong, I'm ready to jump up 'n down, pointing my finger at Men's Central Jail and yelling, "See? Told 'ya! I wasn't makin' it up!" And it’ll be tough not to make a crack about it around Sheriff's Deputies or Reserves. The problem is that I inevitably remember it was <a href="http://working-copy.local/who-is-this-guy/" target="_blank"><em>my</em> actions</a> that brought me to that jail in the first place. Then a little voice says, <em>You're a ex-felon, so those grudges and scars don’t count. Besides, who told you to stick your hand in the tiger’s mouth? </em>(Never mind that someone dosed the tiger’s food with bath salts and PCP.) <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/You-are-DISQUALIFIED.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2542" title="You are DISQUALIFIED" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/You-are-DISQUALIFIED.jpg" width="186" height="132" /></a>Self-reproach kept me quiet and made me feel inconsequential back when I was in custody, and guilt lingers now. It keeps me from gloating too much over the Sheriff’s failures, but it also affects my sense of purpose. Fortunately, it’s all relative. Back then I was curled up in the dark with my hands over my ears, trying to keep out the sounds of a guy gettin' raped in the cell next door. So today, having an occasionally shaken sense of duty is actually a luxury! <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/VOICE-GRAPH.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2543" title="VOICE GRAPH" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/VOICE-GRAPH-300x275.jpg" width="300" height="275" /></a>But what <em>is</em> this sense of duty? Why dwell on a prison sentence I completed –intact– nearly 17 years ago? Well, where once my mission was to keep my mouth shut and pass the time productively, today I’m driven to get the story of my experience out there. Fear not: it isn’t a clichéd and privileged story of someone grousing over his treatment behind bars or harping on how treacherously cowardly and cruel Sheriff’s Deputy Jailers can be. It’s the story of someone discovering he has a voice worth fighting for and something to offer rather than glorify. It’s about working past feeling like the bad guy to become the <em>former</em> bad guy with something useful to say. (And I went on to <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/from-beat-downs-to-bear-hugs/" target="_blank">write presentation speeches</a> for Sheriff Lee Baca -- Bwa haa! No shit!) <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Heroin-Burritos.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2544" title="Heroin Burritos" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Heroin-Burritos-300x273.jpg" width="270" height="246" /></a>I started on that mission long before <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/squidink/2012/06/26/the-heroin-burrito-files-former-sheriffs-deputy-sentenced-to-two-years" target="_blank">heroin burritos</a> hit the news along with cover-ups inside the jails, before the Board of Supervisors created a Blue-ribbon panel to investigate Sheriff Lee Baca’s unelectable incompetence and his Department’s slide into <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/19/news/lasd5" target="_blank">pervasive fraud</a> and <a href="http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&amp;id=8629452" target="_blank">gang-banger mentality</a>. Before the scandal broke over Deputies beating jail inmates, even. Elements of my personal account will have been noticeably substantiated and studied by the time <em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em> is released in January. And while it’s impossible for that not to mean something to me, it’s even <em>more </em>important in terms of progress for rehabilitation and renewal. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/PRISON-WARS.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2546" title="PRISON WARS" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/PRISON-WARS-300x178.jpg" width="300" height="178" /></a>I look at it  –and the publication of my book–  this way: With Blue-ribbon commissions helping to illuminate our system’s shortcomings, it’s increasingly important to show that the folks being affected are not just “those people.” And in the decade and a half since I’ve been out that hasn’t really been done. Prison-themed entertainment and jail memoirs are falling ‘outta trees these days, but they’re still relying on old models of “us versus them,” or what I call the “three Rs” of rape, riots, and rotten food. WEGTD stands in defiance of ho-hum portrayals of the criminal spirit. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Stylish-but-still-cliché.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-2547" title="Stylish but still cliche" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Stylish-but-still-cliché.jpg" width="167" height="119" /></a>Criminals, by definition, are people who have done something wrong. But they’re not always irretrievably lost or broken. Many times, they look like you (and me). With a penal system that doesn’t work <em>against</em> them, they even may still have a shot at a productive life. It's easy to think that none of this applies to us. It's even funny – 'til it isn't. We forget that our next-door neighbor, our co-worker, or even our straight-arrow sister might get popped, which is all the more reason not to allow Deputies to go around beatin' folks <a href="http://www.nbclosangeles.com/video/#!/on-air/as-seen-on/Investigation-After-Arrest-Caught-on-Video/162731056" target="_blank">on the street</a> before they even get to court. <h4 style="padding-left: 30px;">(Check out the <a href="http://ccjv.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/CCJV-Report.pdf" target="_blank">Commission's findings</a> on how many cases of excessive force were reported versus those that weren't, for example. You can officially let your imagination run wild regarding why someone may choose not to speak up!)</h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/County-Jail-Edition.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2548" title="County Jail Edition" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/County-Jail-Edition-300x129.jpg" width="300" height="129" /></a>I learned from my own experience with the system that I have a voice worth fighting for. And it’s up to me to use it, ‘cause countless others either can’t or won't. So I wrote a book. This coming January, I'll be looking forward to your comments. &nbsp; 2523 2012-10-02 01:04:54 2012-10-02 01:04:54 2017-11-06 12:37:24 2017-11-06 19:37:24 closed open i-told-you-so-level-8 publish 0 0 post 0 Character Citizens’ Commission on Jail Violence excessive force Excuses L.A. County Jail L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca Los Angeles County Sheriff Men's Central Jail Sheriff's Department _edit_last 1 _wp_old_slug 2523 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706043032;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2309;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3469;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3929;}}}} http://working-copy.local/winner-excuse-of-the-year/2012-excuses-of-the-year-awards/ Wed, 10 Oct 2012 01:41:29 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2572 <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/THE-GOLDEN-EXCUSE.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2580" title="THE GOLDEN EXCUSE" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/THE-GOLDEN-EXCUSE-296x300.jpg" alt="" width="296" height="300" /></a>Welcome to the inaugural 2012 <em>Excuses of the Year Awards</em>, in recognition of the San Andreas Fault lines running through the justifications of our favorite national newsmakers! </strong> <strong>What better time to launch a contest with special emphasis on whose bullshit is the most moist than in an election year? We know already that two of our "Shame Candidates" will get extra attention in the coming weeks -- as will, apparently, some of their supporters. Even late-comers like Al Gore, with his high-flying, high-brow, and just plain <em>high</em> "altitude defense" of Obama's limp dick showing at the Denver presidential debate last week, makes the cut here -- no excuse goes unconsidered. So stay tuned for these other nominees while I go ahead and bypass the whole contest by giving top honors to... </strong> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2579" title="Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="144" height="94" /></a>Of <em>course</em> our first champ is former Penn State assistant football coach <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/sandusky-the-football/" target="_blank">Jerry Sandusky</a>, convicted of sexually abusing 10 boys over a 15-year period! Yesterday Sandusky was officially banned from spending eternity in Hell by the Devil himself when he accused his judge of rushing his trial, his victims of conspiring against him, and the rest of the planet of making money off of his being a monster in time for Halloween. You read that right, folks: the day before Sandusky was sentenced to 30-60 years in prison for luring small boys into a game of "Tickle the Old Man's Penis," his lawyer actually released an audio statement from his jail cell wherein <em>he</em> claims to be the victim. He's confident, Sandusky says, that "we" will continue to protest his innocence, and in a particularly glaring sign of soft-headed delusion (plus a fascinating window into inhuman levels of denial), he refers to the very crimes <em>for which he was convicted</em> as "disgusting acts." Now THAT's the mark of a winner. Our winner! I can't imagine anyone topping this one between now and the end of the year, but I'll be on the look out. By the way, Sandusky’s lawyers said they'd appeal his case because they weren't given enough time to prepare his defense. Ha! That this P.O.S. <em>himself</em> would wind up at the mercy of an excuse is funny and fitting. <object id="ep" width="416" height="374" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="src" value="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&amp;videoId=crime/2012/10/09/bts-carroll-sandusky-sentence.cnn" /><embed id="ep" width="416" height="374" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&amp;videoId=crime/2012/10/09/bts-carroll-sandusky-sentence.cnn" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="transparent" bgcolor="#000000" /></object> 2572 2012-10-10 01:41:29 2012-10-10 01:41:29 2016-12-15 20:44:47 2016-12-16 03:44:47 closed open 2012-excuses-of-the-year-awards publish 0 0 post 0 Al Gore Excuses of the Year Awards Jerry Sandusky Obama Winner: EXCUSE OF THE YEAR _edit_last 1 _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _yoast_wpseo_content_score 30 _yoast_wpseo_primary_category 1776 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1696470118;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4439;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10346;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1524;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9010;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1326;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1054;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/making-room-for-goosebumps/ Sat, 13 Oct 2012 18:35:35 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2593 <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Following its goodbye aerial tour of the Southland we gathered to watch a Space Shuttle fight LA traffic. </strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <h4><strong>My nominal cynicism was extinguished when friends started callin' with reports of a Space Shuttle on the 405. For months, we've known about Endeavour being hauled from LAX to the California Science Center, but it wasn't 'til it jumped into the mosh pit of Los Angeles and became "one of us" that my heart started racing. Forgive us, but we don't have a football team and we're too busy acting all <em>been there, done that</em> to feel "a part of" something very often. So when Angelenos do come together, particularly <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/goodbye-space-shuttle-my-best-trespassing-stories-all-involve-you/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in celebration of a worthy contribution</a> to the world, I get happy for my hometown. </strong></h4> <p><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Where-Shuttles-Go-to-Rest.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2594" title="L.A. Times " src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Where-Shuttles-Go-to-Rest.jpg" alt="" width="939" height="570" /></a></p> <p>I wish Americans had more reasons to look at each other with goosebumps on our arms and say, "Damn! That's fuckin' COOL!" But for everyone right now braving the schlep, the crowds, the cops, and the unfamiliar neighbors, that's just what's happening: folks are sharing the sidewalk and making room for goosebumps. For what it's worth (and cursing aside), God bless the parents who're bringing their kids. They may not understand it now, but later they'll feel lucky and proud that their parents made the effort to share in something bigger. Right there is where excuses go to die: at the point of getting over your reasons for not trying.</p> <p>If there's one thing our country doesn't need, it's people claiming to be more patriotic than the next guy, and that's so abundant now it can be difficult to stomach having "USA! USA!" screamed into my ear. This event is opposite of that. This is for those us who are proud of where country can go when it wants to, not in how much we're entitled to get.</p> <p> <iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/51621640?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p> [caption id="attachment_2596" align="aligncenter" width="640"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Making-Room-for-Goosebumps-.jpg"><img class="size-large wp-image-2596" title="Making Room for Goosebumps" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Making-Room-for-Goosebumps--1024x665.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="415" /></a> Associated Press | Photo By Mark J. Terrill[/caption] <p> </p> 2593 2012-10-13 18:35:35 2012-10-13 18:35:35 2022-02-28 10:33:25 2022-02-28 17:33:25 closed open making-room-for-goosebumps publish 0 0 post 0 California Science Center Culture Excuses History Shuttle in L.A. Space shuttle Endeavour Toyota Tundra _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1697081866;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:647;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6798;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11737;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor http://working-copy.local/culture/my-town-hall-debate-questions-for-romney-and-obama/ Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:10:49 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2603 <p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/2012-Presidential-Debate.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-2610" title="2012 Presidential Debate" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/2012-Presidential-Debate.jpg" alt="" width="494" height="238" /></a></p> <strong>Debate #2 of the 2012 election: Obama and Romney answer town hall style questions from undecided voters. Personally, I think I have better chance of convincing Aretha Franklin to give singing lessons to Lana Del Rey than I do of having even <span style="text-decoration: underline;">one</span> of my questions answered, but here they are anyway. </strong> <strong>Oh, and if style, body language, and poise are intended to trump substance, don't worry – I've got that covered too. </strong> <strong>Question #1 - Mr. Obama -  </strong>Reuters is reporting today that a CIA captive and Guantanamo prisoner wrote a note criticizing NBA star LeBron James's 2010 decision to leave the Cleveland Cavs for the Miami Heat. The note was treated as a top national secret for two months. If these are the kinds of headlines the Guantanamo Bay detention camp generates at this point, don't you regret your failed pledge to close the camp within your first 100 days in office?<!--more--> <strong>Question #2 - Both men - <strong>Yes or no: </strong> </strong>According to <em>Foreign Policy</em> magazine, in 2010 the top 1% of Americans captured 93% of our national income gains in the first year of recovery. Does this suggest to you <span style="text-decoration: underline;">at all</span> that there is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_United_States" target="_blank">ever widening economic divide</a> in America? <strong>Question #3 - Both men - Two minute answer from each, eyes closed, and please refrain from continuing if you open your eyes: </strong>You two knuckleheads have only yourselves to blame for having to try so hard to prove you're not "detached" or "out-of-touch." What do you think would happen if you decided to appear like the <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/09/the-regular-guy-route-135126.html" target="_blank">regular guy</a> we all know you must be instead of trying to be so presidential? Time starts now. <strong>Question #4 - Both men - Yes or no:  </strong>When you ascend to a certain rank in Washington politics, are you intrinsically beholden to big banks? Is there some <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smoking_Man" target="_blank">X-files cigarette-smoking man</a> waiting to tap you on the shoulder when you start to do or say something <a href="http://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/derivatives/bank_exposure.html" target="_blank">not in the service of the financial industry</a>? Never mind, you're lying; next question. <strong>Question #5 - Both men - One word answer:<strong>  </strong></strong>Since 1980, California has built 1 college campus and 21 prisons. <a href="http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_Proposition_36,_Changes_in_the_%22Three_Strikes%22_Law_(2012)" target="_blank">Proposition 36</a> would change the state's three strikes law to impose 25 years-to-life sentences only when a third conviction is serious or violent. How would you vote – for or against this? <strong>Question #6 -  This question has no right or wrong answer; we're just interested in the dance. <strong>Two minutes from the President, and two from the candidate: </strong></strong>This is the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/50th-anniversary-for-the-cuban-missile-crisis/2012/10/15/04f2a056-16d1-11e2-a346-f24efc680b8d_video.html" target="_blank">50th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis</a>, 13 days in October that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. We now know that Russian missiles were moved to Cuba at least partially as a reaction against a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion" target="_blank">United States sponsored invasion of Cuba by CIA-trained Cuban exiles</a>. Please explain how the scenario with Iran and American-backed Israel <strong>will end differently</strong>. <strong>Question #7 - <strong>Both men - </strong>Yes or no:  </strong>When you ascend to a certain rank in Washington politics, are you intrinsically beholden to big oil? Is there some creepy Wall Street speculator overlord whispering energy policies into your ear as you eat? Never mind, you're lying; next question. <span style="color: #000000;"><strong><strong>Question #8 - <strong>Two minutes from President Obama and two from Candidate Romney:  </strong></strong></strong></span><span style="color: #000000;">Define "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism" target="_blank">American Exceptionalism</a>." We only want your opinion or personal belief.  Time starts now.</span> These questions are strictly subjective and represent only my personal interest in watching both men squirm. I like the wildcard idea of having at least one or two questions answered with eyes closed – just to crash their equilibrium. Think about it: two minutes with your eyes closed, answering a tough policy question before 60 million people. Man, that would really screw somebody up! All that strategy and practice, all those hours of rote training –all gone– and just long enough for us to catch a glimpse of the real man. I can't help but wonder if such pressure would strip a man of his excuses or allow him one. 2603 2012-10-17 00:10:49 2012-10-17 00:10:49 2017-11-06 12:37:24 2017-11-06 19:37:24 closed open my-town-hall-debate-questions-for-romney-and-obama publish 0 0 post 0 Character Culture Obama Presidential Campaign Romney Town Hall debate _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706191493;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2572;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4775;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3905;}}}} 91 Helen hcs@helenstringer.net 108.91.173.1 2012-10-17 00:38:22 2012-10-17 00:38:22 <b>Question #9. Both men: </b>With American politics becoming less about compromise and more partisan, it is also becoming more like the British Parliamentary system, but without the functionality. Have you considered asking the Queen for help? (She's well brought up and I'm sure would be willing to forget that unpleasantness back in the 18th century.) At least that way, there wouldn't be any more stupid debates, we'd just have an election and the party with the most representatives elected would select one of them as president. Job done. 1 comment 0 0 92 Stilts19 stilts19@gmail.com 184.177.119.135 2012-10-17 17:19:29 2012-10-17 17:19:29 Question #10. Both men: Are you prepared to stand there with a straight face and tell us you're not shills for big corporations? (Please, stop laughing! This is a serious question...) 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/prison-2/summed-up-in-60-seconds/ Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:04:39 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2635 <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/HOUSE-I-LIVE-IN.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2636" title="HOUSE I LIVE IN" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/HOUSE-I-LIVE-IN-201x300.jpg" alt="" width="201" height="300" /></a>Eugene Jarecki's deconstruction of the War on Drugs in his documentary, <em>The House I Live In</em>, initially pissed off the white, dreadlocked pothead sitting in front of me at the theater. I think he and his friends expected to pump their fists with other persecuted weed smokers (a.k.a. privileged Caucasian stoners who got suspended from school once), so he was less than stoked to be hit with a message of personal responsibility instead.</strong> It wasn’t long, though, before <em>The House I Live In</em> turned his grumbling to rapt attention: the movie was thoroughly compelling. And I DON'T LIKE PRISON GUARDS, 'ya feel me? Yet I fell in love with the turnkey at the center of this story. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/BARCODE-OF-MASS-INCARCERATION.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2642" title="BARCODE OF MASS INCARCERATION" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/BARCODE-OF-MASS-INCARCERATION.jpg" alt="" width="220" height="140" /></a>Racial hierarchies and the economics of incarceration are the two strongest arguments for seeing the film – and for recommending it to others. From fantastical sentencing to deplorable healthcare and the prison-for-proft lobby, we can no longer rely on local or state governments to know what to do with us if we break the law. At the same time, we live in an age where our laws are like tuna nets. Decisions about our criminal courts are driven by the needs of our jails, and our jails are being built to accommodate increasing desperation in our economy. Recidivism, it turns out, is highly profitable, and thus essential to the incarceration industry. <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Samuel-CullmanAbramorama.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2643" title="Samuel Cullman:Abramorama" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Samuel-CullmanAbramorama-300x180.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="180" /></a>Jarecki’s POV in <em>The House I Live In </em>is intelligent and clear-eyed, if not dispassionate. The audience learns right away <a href="http://www.thehouseilivein.org/get-involved/drug-war-history/" target="_blank">where the War on Drugs began</a>, and that the filmmaker’s childhood caregiver, an African-American woman who lost her son and others to drug abuse and incarceration, fueled his desire to understand things through a lens other than his own. “Nannie’s” pride and viewpoints on Barack Obama's ascendancy to the White House were what made Jarecki start asking questions; her answers formed the basis for the tour on which the audience embarks. It turns out, the price for a more punitive society is more than America can afford. The film points out that poor Blacks have been paying for decades, and other disenfranchised groups are now shouldering an increasing share of that burden as well. <h4 style="padding-left: 30px;">[I heard White Dreadlocks and company chuckle uncomfortably at one point; I think it was when they realized they weren’t actually hearing funny black person sitcom sarcasm.]</h4> <em><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Source-Yes-Magazine-May-2011.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2644" title="Source: Yes! Magazine (May 2011)" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Source-Yes-Magazine-May-2011-252x300.jpg" alt="" width="252" height="300" /></a>The House I Live In</em> is a powerful, enlightening viewing experience that shouldn’t<em> </em>be dismissed as a biased bitch-fest. The cost to America of having 1 adult in every 31 under some form of correctional supervision is a fiscal three-alarm fire that no one should ignore. I found the film personally humbling as well: I’m ashamed at how little I've done with my life despite so many advantages and so few genuine obstacles (those familiar with this blog know the obstacles I’ve overcome have definitely been optional). But that’s me. <em>Everyone</em> in this country has a duty to understand the drastic nature of the changes taking place in society. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/INDIFFERENT.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-2645" title="INDIFFERENT" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/INDIFFERENT.jpg" alt="" width="166" height="136" /></a>And no, those changes aren’t all bad, not even in the narrowed context of Jarecki’s film. And for what it’s worth, <em>The House I Live In</em> ends on a positive note, though the three older ladies who bailed early missed that. Perhaps they held the same perspective as the one being questioned regarding the judicial obstacles faced by certain cultures and races. One of ‘em did pause at the door, but she was practically pulled out by her companions a minute later. What one thinks about Jarecki’s journey or his film is beside the point, really: what matters is that you get into a dialogue with a young person about not getting arrested for anything, no matter what, ever. From there, if you wish, maybe you work your way into the judicial and circumstantial realities of cultures other than your own. It's a start. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/House-I-Live-in-Ride-Along.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2648" title="House I Live in Ride Along" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/House-I-Live-in-Ride-Along-300x165.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="165" /></a>I think<em> The House I Live In</em> is a brilliant way to break the ice. Although the film’s most dire warnings are almost a byproduct, (message of personal responsibility) they're glaringly obvious nonetheless. Luckily for parents, the documentary rejects the tired “Scared Straight” approach by conducting interviews during drug deal ride-alongs, for example, instead of after the fact and behind bars. This takes viewers in directions they may not see coming and holds their attention like handcuffs. There’s a clear message, too: for a hell of a lot of people, being out on the street justifying a hustle isn’t much better than being an inmate. We’re shown – not just told – that the life of a dealer isn’t glamorous; it’s just slightly more fluid. That, in turn, can mean more liquid grief in which to marinate and little else. <h4 style="padding-left: 30px;">[Last I saw White Dreadlocks, he was in heavy discussion with his friends. They were a changed group from the carefree jokers I first sat behind: now they were better armed and better informed.]</h4> But don’t go see <em>The House I Live In</em> for the moralities or the lessons: go for that prison guard. His ability to sum up America's failed drug policies in less than 60 seconds shows astonishing insight for an admitted “hired thug.” It alone is worth the film’s running time. <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/a0atL1HSwi8" frameborder="0" width="560" height="315"></iframe> 2635 2012-10-22 06:04:39 2012-10-22 06:04:39 2012-10-22 06:04:39 2012-10-22 06:04:39 closed open summed-up-in-60-seconds publish 0 0 post 0 Culture Eugene Jarecki mass incarceration Movies Prison Private Prisons The House I Live In The New Jim Crow War on Drugs _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1701635568;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1568;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4697;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4755;}}}} http://working-copy.local/cowardice/politics-aside-2/ Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:57:43 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2667 <h4><strong>Special Olympics "Global Messenger" John Stephens' response to <strong>Ann Coulter's Obama “retard” tweet </strong>is one that I'd love to see her<strong> fans brush aside. Forget Coulter's literary conveyor belt, where is this guy's book deal!?</strong></strong></h4> &nbsp; <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/ALWAYS-CLASSY-COULTER.jpg"><img title="ALWAYS CLASSY COULTER" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/ALWAYS-CLASSY-COULTER.jpg" alt="" width="465" height="158" /></a> &nbsp; Dear Ann Coulter, Come on Ms. Coulter, you aren’t dumb and you aren’t shallow. So why are you continually using a word like the R-word as an insult? I’m a 30 year old man with Down syndrome who has struggled with the public’s perception that an intellectual disability means that I am dumb and shallow. I am not either of those things, but I do process information more slowly than the rest of you. In fact it has taken me all day to figure out how to respond to your use of the R-word last night. I thought first of asking whether you meant to describe the President as someone who was bullied as a child by people like you, but rose above it to find a way to succeed in life as many of my fellow Special Olympians have. Then I wondered if you meant to describe him as someone who has to struggle to be thoughtful about everything he says, as everyone else races from one snarkey sound bite to the next. Finally, I wondered if you meant to degrade him as someone who is likely to receive bad health care, live in low grade housing with very little income and still manages to see life as a wonderful gift. Because, Ms. Coulter, that is who we are – and much, much more. After I saw your tweet, I realized you just wanted to belittle the President by linking him to people like me. You assumed that people would understand and accept that being linked to someone like me is an insult and you assumed you could get away with it and still appear on TV. I have to wonder if you considered other hateful words but recoiled from the backlash. Well, Ms. Coulter, you, and society, need to learn that being compared to people like me should be considered a badge of honor. No one overcomes more than we do and still loves life so much. Come join us someday at Special Olympics. See if you can walk away with your heart unchanged. <p id="anonymous_element_2">A friend you haven’t made yet, John Franklin Stephens Global Messenger Special Olympics Virginia</p> 2667 2012-10-24 23:57:43 2012-10-24 23:57:43 2012-10-24 23:57:43 2012-10-24 23:57:43 closed open politics-aside-2 publish 0 0 post 0 Ann Coulter Ann Coulter's “retard” tweet Bullying Character Cowardice John Franklin Stephens RETARD Self-Esteem _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1689912975;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9557;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2809;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7041;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3408;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:377;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6952;}}}} 93 Stilts19 stilts19@gmail.com 24.251.134.31 2012-10-26 21:54:11 2012-10-26 21:54:11 This guy was WAY too nice to this walking abortion of a person... Oh wait, that's actually an insult to the aborted. Sorry... 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/excuses/sunday-afternoon-cocaine-hangover/ Sun, 28 Oct 2012 21:12:18 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2674 <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Ruth-Fowler-on-a-Good-Day.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2678" title="Ruth Fowler on a Good Day" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Ruth-Fowler-on-a-Good-Day.jpg" alt="" width="398" height="319" /></a>Each weekend, Gawker contributing editor Kiese Laymon posts an essay from readers. I usually enjoy 'em, but this week's, not so much. Now I'm no Hunter Thompson, but I do feel qualified to comment on writer Ruth Fowler's treatment of <strong>French </strong>cocaine and dirt-sex since they relate to personal responsibility, the consequences of one's actions, and, of course, justifications and excuses -- my daily obsessions. </strong> I can't post Gawker's content, so I'll just have to hope you return to see how I weigh in.<strong> </strong> <h1>Ruth Is Heartless, But the World Breaks Everyone</h1> &nbsp; <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Nothing-like-quality-blow1.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2681" title="Nothing like quality blow" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Nothing-like-quality-blow1.jpg" alt="" width="368" height="369" /></a>Fowler may disagree, but I don't see much on consequence here. Sure, readers learn she was seen as a (presumably infantile and catty) toxic piece of shit, but there's little mention of a struggle to own that, which says a lot about the whole miserable picture -- including the writer's expectations and entitlements. It's not that Fowler, or any writer, is obligated to tack on the groveling, the self discovery, or the 12-step empowerment, but such balance can often make or break a "coming in from the coke" confessional. If Fowler <em>has</em> no regrets, that's cool too, but front-loading the essay with the kind of category-5 drug antics that most people wish they could undo suggests otherwise. The material is strong in parts, but it's pretty grueling. For such a paltry pay-off, I also think it asks too much of its readers. Lyricized episodes aren't storytelling, they're tattoos. Has Fowler's years-long jihad of self-gratification compromised her ability to narrate more than she realizes? <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Campaign-Trail-72.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2684" title="Campaign Trail 72" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Campaign-Trail-72.jpg" alt="" width="172" height="254" /></a>I didn't like the bait 'n switch. I thought I'd be treated to some inventive insight on the long list of literary self-soliers implied in the opening paragraph. I thought Fowler would get around to admitting she'd gotten it all wrong – that deadlines don't like drunks no matter how much they're romanticized. I was even hoping she'd make me feel a little better about Hunter Thompson's sad ending. You know, being reminded that –like all of us– Hunter and the others were only human. After all, I was similarly inspired by the man. Instead, Fowler gives us a nail only halfway hammered in – with her hat hung on it. I dunno, it felt manipulative. (I'm tempted to get all crazy on the coke-whore humor and James Frey references here, but we're movin' on.) Point is, readers are smarter than this. People see through self-serving narratives -- just read the Gawker comments! I sorta' feel bad for Fowler, but no one asked her to put her head in the guillotine with this particular effort. <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Ruth-Fowler_-Just-in-time-for-Halloween.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2694" title="Ruth Fowler_ Just in time for Halloween" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Ruth-Fowler_-Just-in-time-for-Halloween.jpg" alt="" width="261" height="152" /></a>UPDATE:</strong><span style="color: #800000;">  I'm at a loss for words over the war of words erupting between this disoriented, vengeful writer-woman and Gawker readers. Having chomped on the bait set by a hundred fishermen, she posted declamatory "Dear Haters" defense, only to see these monsters swarm on it with libelous scorn, insults and challenges. For this, she writes, "patriarchy" is at fault, (not her fanning the flames). Boy, I hope next Sunday's essay produces this much literary blood in the water. </span> 2674 2012-10-28 21:12:18 2012-10-28 21:12:18 2016-12-01 10:39:56 2016-12-01 17:39:56 closed open sunday-afternoon-cocaine-hangover publish 0 0 post 0 Character Cowardice Excuses Gawker Hunter Thompson Ruth Fowler _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703755902;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6491;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4621;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:331;}}}} 94 Klaus Kerrschoen mrnagle07@gmail.com 69.231.9.191 2012-10-29 01:26:28 2012-10-29 01:26:28 Yeah I read it over at Gawker, but I'm responding here. First, let's get something straight: if self-destruction were a major in college, I'd have a Ph.D; if it were a viable entrepreneurial model, I'd be sitting in a chair on a stage with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, answering questions. I shouldn't be alive times 8 to tenth power. That's all you need to know. So I weigh in with a volume of experience that looks and feels like Fowler and about TEN THOUSAND other Los Angeles idiots in search of self. Thanks for posting this. I agree with so many of your points, (the "front-loading," the "jihad of self-gratification," Thompson's sad ending, and Fowler's manipulations, etc.) For me it ultimately comes down to this: Fowler (from here) appears to be an undiagnosed bipolar or even Borderline Personality Disorder. And instead of addressing what's most likely a serious mental issue, she flaunts her long chain of terrible choices like a drunken sailor in a topless bar. I've been privy to far too many "interesting" situations, but I'm not putting tassels on my life-story and doing the helicopter. I just want to make sure I learn as much about self as possible. Fowler, you aren't interesting just because your more well behaved friends said so. They'll tell you to your face they wish they had the balls to live your crazy life, but when you're not around, they thank the universe that they're nothing like you. Give us the lessons and the growth, not the blood and the shame. If you can't provide the enlightenment offered by bad decisions, what's your excuse? Oh, and take Burroughs off your fucking list. He was nothing more than a trust-fund junkie that could slither in and out of the street life (while plagiarizing REAL suffering) with the safety net of his family's hard work under him. Klaus. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/excuses/the-voting-booth-also-where-excuses-go-to-die/ Sat, 03 Nov 2012 05:49:51 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2703 <h4><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Voted.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2704" title="Voted" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Voted.jpg" alt="" width="199" height="108" /></a>I don't hear excuses at polling places, do you? (Visit one to find out!) People tend to be nice to one another and there's a sense of pride in the air. Maybe it's just me, but standing in line at, say, a movie theater I overhear all sorts of moaning and groaning, griping and complaining, excuses and bullshit. Not so at</strong><strong> polling places. Could it be because they quite literally host groups of people looking to follow through on a civic duty? Does that participatory feeling  – our basic right to vote –  somehow reduce a person's desire to hear themselves rationalize and bitch? </strong></h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Cheremoya-Avenue-Elementary.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2710" title="Cheremoya Avenue Elementary" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Cheremoya-Avenue-Elementary-300x189.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="189" /></a>I enjoy walking to my elementary school polling place with neighbors of many years, getting all those sour grapes out of our system as we go. We clam up at the door, each of us growing reverent and and willing to follow instructions. There are usually about six of us; it's a tradition and a community I cherish. <!--more--> Despite the many years we've spent together, someone in the group will inevitably ask me (again) about my being an ex-felon and allowed to vote. I'm always happy to explain that, having paid my debt to society, the right was returned to me: that we made a deal, California and I. It hobbles along; I pay my taxes; we both try to protect it with my vote. Sounds corny – I know – but sitting in a prison cell, feeling disqualified from things of consequence, will do that to you. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Chocolate-Chip-cookies.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2718" title="Chocolate Chip cookies" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Chocolate-Chip-cookies-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="180" /></a>So I'm extra sensitive to phony-baloney justifications for why someone couldn't get to their polling station on time, or worse, people who behave as though voting matters less these days. If you think interacting with people from your community, accepting a cookie from an old lady volunteer, being courteous in the face of your neighbor's stupid opinions, and watching 'em all treat an<em> idea</em> with such respect is lame, <em>you're</em> the irrelevant one. [caption id="attachment_2724" align="alignright" width="300"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/The-New-Face-of-Voter-Fatigue-.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-2724" title="The New Face of Voter Fatigue" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/The-New-Face-of-Voter-Fatigue--300x237.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="237" /></a> Coming soon to Bravo: "Abby Knows Best"[/caption] The <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-npr-apologizes-abigael-evans-bronco-bama-girl-20121101,0,2300268.story" target="_blank">Colorado opportunist mom who posted a clip of her 4-year-old blubbering</a> over relentless election coverage is particularly galling. Mother and daughter, see, spend a lot of time with their car radio <em>and</em> they live in a swing state. So the clip features Abigael Evans being prompted to recount her sob-riddled complaint that she just can't handle any more campaigning. Thanks to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon_boy_hoax" target="_blank">Balloon Boy</a>, for all we know this might be take #7. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Abigail-Evans.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2726" title="Abigail Evans" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Abigail-Evans-300x212.jpg" alt="15 minutes of fame before age ten? Way to peak early kid. " width="240" height="170" /></a>Yet the clip's gone viral, and Abby's being hailed as the picture of American campaign fatigue. *#@! really? A crying little girl is the measure of our resilience in the face of an <em>election</em>? What she's really a picture of is how many Americans are woefully misinformed. Consider the source of Abby's information: isn't she likely parroting mommy's driver's seat protests? And how many adults will follow her lead? How many disheveled, beleaguered, campaigned-upon Americans will allow this snot-nosed kid to be the straw that broke their camel's back, the one that stops 'em from gettin' off their butts and going to the voting booth? Kudos to you and<em> </em>your mom, Abby: if you represent anything, it's failure. Which brings me back to excuses. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2720" title="Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-300x154.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="154" /></a>Indulging a description about the traffic that prevented someone from reaching the polling place two days after election day versus hearing a similar story from someone standing in line to vote elicits a very different response from yours truly. One gets either a derisive snort or a polite nod, whereas the other gets my full attention. I simply relate more to the person who made it through that door. For the rest of the week, I'll enjoy artfully angling that "I Voted" lapel sticker to elicit maximum resentment from the unpunctual, the unregistered, and the uninformed. <p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: center;"><strong>Rise people! Rise up and be counted. Who cares what your opinions are? Just VOTE!</strong></p> 2703 2012-11-03 05:49:51 2012-11-03 05:49:51 2012-11-03 05:49:51 2012-11-03 05:49:51 closed open the-voting-booth-also-where-excuses-go-to-die publish 0 0 post 0 Abigael Evans Character Culture Election day Excuses November 6 Polling place Voting _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706219192;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3507;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6175;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9702;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/vote-like-the-mayans-were-right/ Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:12:19 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2736 <p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/THE-MAYAS-WERE-RIGHT.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-2739" title="THE MAYAS WERE RIGHT" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/THE-MAYAS-WERE-RIGHT.jpg" alt="" width="503" height="377" /></a></p> <strong>Voting is what you make of it, just like anything else. For a quick and easy way to understand the ballot propositions in your state, spend a few minutes with <a href="http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page" target="_blank">Ballotpedia</a>. Check out its Regional Ballot Measure Breakdown and replace campaign noise for "actionable intelligence." Find out who is endorsing what and why. Learn for yourself who stands to gain with each ballot proposition.</strong> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Ballotpedia.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2737" title="Ballotpedia" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Ballotpedia-300x42.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="42" /></a> <p style="text-align: center;">Californians – follow the money to see <a href="http://www.kcet.org/news/ballotbrief/ballot-measures/california-propositions-guide-2012-cheat-sheet.html" target="_blank">who's funding both sides</a> of each ballot proposition.</p> <h2 style="text-align: center;"> Look, whatever direction you think is best for the United States, if the Mayan calendar's right, this is America's last election! Go vote just to spite those little turds.</h2> <h2 style="text-align: center;"><strong>Vote</strong> - because <em>they</em> couldn't!</h2> &nbsp; 2736 2012-11-05 00:12:19 2012-11-05 00:12:19 2012-11-05 00:12:19 2012-11-05 00:12:19 closed open vote-like-the-mayans-were-right publish 0 0 post 0 Culture Election Politics _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1683245633;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3507;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9105;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1442;}}}} http://working-copy.local/comfort-zone-2/just-to-say-you-did/ Tue, 06 Nov 2012 06:20:04 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2751 <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/WHERE-EXCUSES-GO-TO-DIE.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2752" title="WHERE EXCUSES GO TO DIE" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/WHERE-EXCUSES-GO-TO-DIE.jpg" alt="" width="434" height="447" /></a> 2751 2012-11-06 06:20:04 2012-11-06 06:20:04 2012-11-06 06:20:04 2012-11-06 06:20:04 closed open just-to-say-you-did publish 0 0 post 0 Comfort Zone Culture Where Excuses Go to Die _edit_last 2 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1687756990;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3245;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7779;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4035;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8331;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4503;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1054;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/bad-winners-bad-losers-theres-no-excuse-for-either/ Fri, 09 Nov 2012 06:29:06 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2757 <h4><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Sanford-and-Son.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2778" title="Sanford and Son" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Sanford-and-Son.jpg" alt="" width="315" height="238" /></a>I admit it crossed my mind to worry over what we might do with America's sudden realization that white dominance is no longer the rule in our "united" states. </strong><strong>I got a little nervous that some bad winners might try to remind the wrong people that they were just given a wake-up call ('cause they were). </strong></h4> <h4><strong>And w</strong><strong>ho <em>are</em> the wrong people? </strong><strong>Let me put it this way: most of the time it's not gonna be your colleague or neighbor who leans in another political direction or who happens to be white. If you're not pointing your finger directly at a pundit, podium, or politician, you're just surfing an excuse. </strong></h4> <h4><!--more--></h4> <h4><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/DEFCON-JUAN.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2771" title="DEFCON JUAN" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/DEFCON-JUAN-213x300.jpg" alt="" width="213" height="300" /></a>'Course, I also worried about bad losers. </strong></h4> Don't tell me it's the end of the world that Barack Obama won a second term. Gays, women and Latinos aren't out to get you. The economy will improve. Don't bellyache 'cause all the king's money and all the king's men couldn't put a white guy back in charge again. Anyone who bullies the results of an American election with alarmism and fear is just plain selfish, especially since alarmism and fear are so engrained now that it seems like everything must run their gauntlet. Besides, don't worry <a href="http://whitepeoplemourningromney.tumblr.com/">honkies</a>: Black Friday's comin' to your rescue. Everybody still wants a new truck, a new tablet computer, new curtains, a purse, a power saw, and a home loan. You shouldn't fear the coming waves of mud races. Your "more diverse" employees aren't going feed your passive-agressive Cracker ass to transgender Chicano potheads; they really just want your company to sell 'em a cell phone plan they can afford. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Frito-Bandito.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2774" title="Frito Bandito" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Frito-Bandito.jpg" alt="" width="194" height="267" /></a>Besides, we all knew this was coming (everyone but a few dummy campaign strategists and their lackeys). Red staters of many stripes -- poor, smart, fat, nice, short, disabled, rich, honest, full-of-it, and deaf -- are aware that America's Hispanic population has soared by birth and immigration. They're actually okay with Census data showing that blacks are relocating from cities to suburbs, increasing integration and making African-American youth culture more mainstream than ever. Problem is, those weren't the Republicans being listened to (until very recently -- hello!). So when it comes to making generalizations about how the white man has had it coming, let's remember to direct that upwards, toward a podium or media outlet. I admit it makes me smile to know that some folks are reinforcing the locks on their gates or clutching their BMW keys a little tighter, but I'm not gonna get hateful about it. I'm going to let it take its course. We ALL just got better informed -- about each other and about this country. If we don't waste that empowerment arguing racial bullshit <em>we</em> win, not the corporate dickheads who <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/“kids-for-cash”-judge-vs-parents/" target="_blank">buy judges</a> and keep our government corrupt, bloated, and inept. In other words, welcome the wake-up call, but keep the blame where it belongs: no not with everyday suckers – at the feet of narrow-minded power brokers. Even then we should take a higher road so that they and others can find theirs. <h4><strong>Who am I to post this crap? </strong></h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Chico-and-the-Man.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2776" title="Chico and the Man" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Chico-and-the-Man.jpg" alt="" width="248" height="188" /></a>My brothers and I learned about racist attitudes and subtle ethic resentments at an early age. As I describe my parents in <a href="http://working-copy.local/who-is-this-guy/" target="_blank">Where Excuses Go to Die</a> (my book that will be going to the printer before the end of this month), my dad is the whitest thing Van Nuys California ever produced and my mom is a Category-5 Mexican American Princess. My love for them both is as deep as the ocean, and my appreciation for their emphasizing diversity is impossible to describe. It's like describing how your spinal fluid feels. My dad's side of the family was all baseball, apple pie, God, country, and the Fourth of July when I was growing up. My mom's side was a pack of sarcastic San Fernando Valley Mexicans, righteous and oppressed if comparatively privileged. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanford_and_Son" target="_blank">Sanford and Son</a> was very popular in our home, as were, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chico_and_the_Man" target="_blank">Chico and the Man</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_in_the_Family" target="_blank">All in the Family</a>.) I consider myself not only extremely lucky for this, but also qualified to suggest we not use asinine generalizations about race and politics and power as an excuse for anything. It keeps us all down when we do. 2757 2012-11-09 06:29:06 2012-11-09 06:29:06 2014-04-16 17:55:37 2014-04-17 00:55:37 closed open bad-winners-bad-losers-theres-no-excuse-for-either publish 0 0 post 0 Barak Obama Culture Election Politics Excuses losers Republicans winners _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1687757703;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5616;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9702;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1524;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2985;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1054;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:331;}}}} http://working-copy.local/comfort-zone-2/the-new-zero-hour/ Sun, 11 Nov 2012 03:09:41 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2782 <h4><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/The-AK-47-Bandit.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2799" title="The AK-47 Bandit" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/The-AK-47-Bandit.jpg" alt="" width="310" height="211" /></a>A lit road flare in your hand is less recognizable than the shape of an AK-47 rifle. As a kid I once heard an adult describing U.S. Army soldiers in Vietnam who'd pulled AK-47s from the mud, shouldered or ditched their M-16s, and fought back with the superior rifle. It's an impression that's outlasted all subsequent glorification.</strong></h4> Take the AK-47 off the battlefield and into in Idaho strip mall, as the serial bank robber known as the <a href="http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/55243273-78/fbi-credit-idaho-information.html.csp">AK-47 Bandit</a> did earlier this week, and everyone will know just how much business you mean. Snap in a 75-round capacity drum magazine and the police will know it too. With <a href="http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/02/29/gunman-sought-after-chino-police-officer-shot-in-botched-robbery/" target="_blank">one of their own recently having caught a round</a> in Chino from the very rifle in question, there's no forgetting. <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/AK-47-Bandit-.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2800" title="AK-47 Bandit" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/AK-47-Bandit--300x203.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="203" /></a>People like this only head in one direction: toward Zero Hour. It's a <a href="http://www.smashinglists.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/tony.jpg" target="_blank">Scarface ending</a> where, afterward, the mistakes, bold moves, and bullet holes are tallied, the clock is reset to zero, and everyone waits for the next one. For some in Lancaster, such a clock was just reset. The AK-47 Bandit is also suspected of robberies in Vacaville, Sacramento, and North Bend, Washington. On Wednesday, at the East Idaho Credit Union, the man the Salt Lake City FBI believes is the same suspect entered a bank wearing a ballistic vest, gloves, a ski mask, and carrying what is most likely an <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gICeZJ4TaY&amp;feature=relmfu" target="_blank">SGL21-61</a> model. Witnesses have described him as being highly professional and issuing orders with a command presence to match that of his chosen firearm. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/SGL-21-61-AK-47.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2802" title="SGL 21-61 AK 47" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/SGL-21-61-AK-47.jpg" alt="" width="209" height="95" /></a>Judging by the Feds' surveillance footage, yes, this bank robber is as tactical and aware as possible, whether by training or movie mimicry. This, as they say, <em>ain't gonna' end well</em>. <h4><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Happy-Veterans-Slay.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2807" title="Happy Veterans Slay" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Happy-Veterans-Slay.jpg" alt="" width="116" height="73" /></a>(Ak-47s in strip malls, huh? What are we lookin' at here, a tripped out Afghan combat vet visiting Anytown, USA – with a vengeance? Don't get me started on the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-outcome-of-the-afghan-war-rests-on-unpaid-donkey-contractors-2012-11" target="_blank">Catch 22-isms</a> of American forces in Afghanistan, or what some soldiers <a href="http://bangordailynews.com/2011/11/20/news/state/farmington-police-say-man-shot-dead-confronted-officer-with-a-knife/?ref=relatedSidebar" target="_blank">are bringing home</a>.)</h4> If the AK-47 Bandit were to open fire during one of his robberies, particularly in a rural bank lacking the fortification of thick plexiglass, bullet-catchers wouldn't have a chance. Particle-board teller windows and copy machines aren't made to withstand the impact of high velocity 7.62 rounds. Any small arms fire traveling at 2329 feet-per-second would shred whatever it hits like it was dropped into a blender, which is why the AK has long been considered a weapon of mass destruction. <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/_G6hUPg2y4c" frameborder="0" width="560" height="315"></iframe> If the AK-47 Bandit brings it, one only needs to consider the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVeb_zZdliw&amp;feature=related" target="_blank">North Hollywood Shootout</a> to imagine what it'll look like. Zero Hour. <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/P2gqSnv9jhM" frameborder="0" width="420" height="315"></iframe> 2782 2012-11-11 03:09:41 2012-11-11 03:09:41 2017-11-06 12:37:24 2017-11-06 19:37:24 closed open the-new-zero-hour publish 0 0 post 0 AK-47 Bandit Comfort Zone firearms North Hollywood Shootout Small Arms _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706122279;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8193;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7378;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8012;}}}} 35446 titspussy foot1995@gmail.com 72.174.98.162 2013-09-05 20:47:54 2013-09-06 03:47:54 lol i think its funny that u put that video as a "full auto ak 74" that is actually a semi auto ak 74 that is being bump fired. u can do that with almost any semi auto weapon. 1 comment 0 0 35511 John Nelson john@whereexcusesgotodie.com 76.206.8.168 2013-09-07 10:28:40 2013-09-07 17:28:40 Yeah, I've done it with an SKS. You know, I just couldn't decide on that perfect clip of AK full-auto fire, so I just picked that one and moved on. The idea was show the ferocity of the rate-of-fire and caliber. Sort of a <em>now imagine THIS in a bank kinda'a thing</em>. Thanks for your comment. J. 1 comment 35446 1 http://working-copy.local/idiots/what-did-elmo-know/ Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:51:58 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2809 <h4><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/ELMO-is-Where-Excuses-go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2901" title="ELMO is Where Excuses go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/ELMO-is-Where-Excuses-go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="221" height="181" /></a><strong>Did Kevin Clash, the voice of Elmo, have  a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old boy? Apparently unaware that it's still gross, Clash claimed things started only after the boy turned 18. What, did he wait for the kid's "special" birthday? And WAS ELMO THERE? Sesame Street Workshop execs have known about the situation since June. Did Elmo protect the man who operated the puppet for more than 27 years? Will our furry red friend go out like Paterno, disgraced and weakened, or will he persist, forever a symbol of parental awkwardness?  </strong></h4> And who's going explain Elmo's sudden, if slight, voice change?<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/ELMO-PATERNO1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2823" title="ELMO PATERNO" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/ELMO-PATERNO1.jpg" alt="" width="133" height="106" /></a>PART I: The (now) "consenting adult" in question, Sheldon Stephens, insists the relationship happened when he was 16 and Clash was 45. Clash denies this, telling media outlets his accuser is "trying to make it into something it's not." Smooth dummy. Makin' yourself out to be a victim here is gonna' work for your defense like Sandusky's denial worked for him. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Al-Qaeda-Elmo.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-2824" title="Al Qaeda Elmo" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Al-Qaeda-Elmo.jpg" alt="" width="99" height="117" /></a>Messages made available to the media were indeed sent to the young man after he turned 18, but they read as a full-blown courtship (“I’m here to protect you and make sure your dreams come true"), and that's unlikely to have happened overnight. Either way, a 45 year-old puppeteer begging for forgiveness for a barrage of emails “talking about sex” to a young person flat out begins and ends with creepy. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/To-Catch-A-Predator-with-Chris-Hansen.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2825" title="To Catch A Predator with Chris Hansen" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/To-Catch-A-Predator-with-Chris-Hansen.jpg" alt="" width="50" height="142" /></a>Is this Sheldon kid an opportunist who, reputation be damned, is trying to hustle himself a payday by carelessly discrediting a former lover and ruining his livelihood in exchange for notoriety? Who can say? So let's set him aside and get back to the curiously stupid voice of Elmo. Clash's career relies upon the sanctity of children's happiness and well being, yet he sought out a situation in which his judgment could be questioned. His breaking the law isn't even the (immediate) issue. By allowing himself to start a relationship with a newly minted adult, Clash invited his principles –and excuses– to be publicly scrutinized. (He also made himself eligible for pariah-level consequences, which is where that breaking the law part comes into play.) By setting himself up to become the butt of inevitable late night jokes, he stands as a shining example of someone who failed to <em>have</em> enough character to avoid <em>becoming</em> one. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Elmo-hung-himself.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2839" title="Elmo hung himself" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Elmo-hung-himself.jpg" alt="" width="133" height="208" /></a>And what will become of Elmo? From this day forward, people will talk trash out the sides of their mouths so the kids won't hear. Clueless friends and family will continue to show up to holiday parties with Elmo toys, only to be mocked for their ignorance. Eventually, this'll all probably blow over, as Elmo is a commercial entity like no other, but the conveyor belt of pervert jokes has been turned on. Personally, I can't rid my head of the image of Elmo sitting in a room, desperate to blow the whistle on his master of 27 years, but terrified the beatings will resume. Poor little Elmo, stuck saying those two terrible words --"Tickle me"-- over and over again. <h3><strong>UPDATE #1: Less than 48 hours later, the unidentified man who accused the Emmy winning puppeteer of teenage pervy stuff now says it was consensual.</strong></h3> [caption id="attachment_2845" align="alignright" width="193"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Poor-Elmo.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-2845" title="Poor Elmo" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Poor-Elmo.jpg" alt="" width="193" height="206" /></a> Haaa-ha! You thought you were free!? NEVER! Now get back in your box, you travel pillow! Ha-ha-ha![/caption] In a <a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20647847,00.html" target="_blank">statement</a> made through his representative, Clash vowed, "I will not discuss it further. I am relieved that this painful allegation has been put to rest." <p style="padding-left: 30px;">Uh, yes, you will, and no, it hasn't.</p> The fact that the young man Clash hounded with sex talk is running hot 'n cold (as 18 year-olds can) actually presents yet another area where Clash's self-gratification may backfire; it adds further insight into the level of maturity, emotional intelligence, and potential trauma associated with his creepy pursuit. But all creepiness aside, I'm jumpin' off this dead horse and over to the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/14/us/petraeus-allen-investigation/index.html" target="_blank">Petraeus bunch</a>. No one's bailing 'outta <em>that</em> burning plane any time soon! <h2><strong><span style="color: #800000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Prostitute-Sheldon-Stephens-.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2849" title="Prostitute Sheldon Stephens" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Prostitute-Sheldon-Stephens-.jpg" alt="" width="169" height="207" /></a>UPDATE #2  -  Puppeteer vs. Prostitute </span></strong></h2> <strong>No doubt Sesame Street Workshop will strive to put some  distance between Elmo and these two idiots.</strong> <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/elmo-accuser-story-article-1.1204375" target="_blank">At this point</a>, it's ridiculous to think that puppeteer Clash's accuser, Sheldon "If Camels were Transgender" Stephens, is anything less than a straight up street skank. The potential was there, we knew all along. It felt close to the surface because it was. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Sheldon-Stephens-Junior-Pimp.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2851" title="Sheldon Stephens Junior Pimp" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Sheldon-Stephens-Junior-Pimp.jpg" alt="" width="117" height="136" /></a>Last week, Sheldon claimed Kevin Clash and Elmo buggered him when he was 16, only to recant his accusation when his alleged rapist paid him $125,000. Clash obviously paid a little too quickly, 'cause now <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=Joe+Camel&amp;num=100&amp;hl=en&amp;safe=off&amp;client=safari&amp;tbo=d&amp;rls=en&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=wHiqUIuJKobkqgGbtoHACw&amp;ved=0CAcQ_AUoAA&amp;biw=1132&amp;bih=805" target="_blank">Joe Camel</a> wants to give the money back. He's expected to renew his accusations that the two had a sexual relationship while was he underage. Stephens's character speaks for itself. He took a molester's pay-off, retracted his statement, and either realized for the sake of his integrity he'd made a mistake (yeah, sure) or saw how much more he could get via future litigation. But hustler's don't get do-overs. <strong>...and Elmo?</strong> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Hostage-taker-Elmo.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6743" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Hostage-taker-Elmo.jpg" alt="Hostage-taker Elmo" width="247" height="330" /></a>Our little red friend has been left hollowed out by fear, bad liars, private parts, and hush money. If he's laughing now, it's thin and nervous and high-pitched. <strong>Also, my ruling stands.</strong> Poor judgment on the part of Kevin Clash landed him in the gravitational pull of a gouging, self-serving Jr. Pimp. Whatever happens between two consenting adults is no business of ours, but writing apology notes for relentless sexualizing should've been a wake-up call. What possible excuse could Clash offer for not seeking counseling or help of some kind? Something tells me we're going to find out. Clash exposed an otherwise long and successful career to lightning fast public dismissal. He allowed his private life and preferences to be exploited for profit. He put himself on the child predator chopping block. His legacy will now be seen as a arguable betrayal of children and parents. The rest, as previously stated, is left to late night comedy hosts and Saturday Night Live. <h2><strong>UPDATE #3 Downpour of Dumb <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/ELMO-is-Where-Excuses-go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-2901" title="ELMO is Where Excuses go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/ELMO-is-Where-Excuses-go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="177" height="145" /></a></strong></h2> <h4><strong>A young man named Cecil Singleton has emerged with similar accusations – and Singleton isn't alone. A third unnamed accuser stands with him, waiting for his turn at the Elmo ATM. No doubt this third guy (along with any others) will have to "frame" the details of his encounter to a salivating attorney's liking, but a pigeon's reward will be his nonetheless. </strong></h4> This subject has become wormy. There're flies buzzing around it. We filed it under <em>where there's smoke there's fire</em> from the start, but those of us who don't practice law can't be certain if crimes have been committed or how much weight these accusations may carry in a courtroom. So instead, this story is just another end-game reckoning for a career entertainer. An epitaph for a life out of balance. Kevin Clash allowed his preferences and lifestyle to be called into question by straddling the creepy-crawly border of child molestation, so for him things won't change. He got what he wanted, regardless of the questions his self gratification raised. As a result, his young castoffs –be they genuine victims or ho-bitch backstabbers– are his legacy. <strong>Final Judgment:</strong> I miss Jim Henson. 2809 2012-11-13 16:51:58 2012-11-13 16:51:58 2014-04-21 08:43:41 2014-04-21 15:43:41 closed open what-did-elmo-know publish 0 0 post 0 Character Culture Elmo Idiots Kevin Clash Sesame Street Sheldon Stephens voice of Elmo Your Adorable Child _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706817986;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5039;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11737;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:973;}}}} http://working-copy.local/idiots/some-came-running/ Sun, 25 Nov 2012 02:11:24 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2858 <h4><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Pokertox-Snake-Oil1.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2881" title="Pokertox Snake Oil" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Pokertox-Snake-Oil1.jpg" alt="" width="178" height="111" /></a>"Aesthetic medicine" practitioner Dr. Jack Berdy has figured out a way to beat the game of poker by selling Botox injections to mid- and high-stakes card sharks to eliminate their "tells." He calls this "Pokertox," and while it's really just a gimmicky repurposing and promotion of a ho-hum cosmetic, what it says about Berdy's clientele is fascinating.</strong></h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Pokertox-Treatment.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-2874" title="Pokertox Treatment" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Pokertox-Treatment.jpg" alt="" width="221" height="216" /></a>As Berdy <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/botox_poker_face_v1eJQbfpbzWhE0KHV80aLM" target="_blank">deadens his patients' faces</a> to prevent nervous ticks, twitches, jumpy eyebrows, frowns, trembling lips, and other obvious signs of relief, annoyance, elation, or fear, he essentially removes all traces of the life they've lived from their expressions. On the one hand, if he's successful and the other players are unable to read that face, Berdy will have replaced his client's actual "character" with the character of a "winner." He or she will, after all, have "won," right? Since these days a receipt for that win is all that matters, whoever's counting the pot at the end of the game is the clear victor here. It's just funny that we're talkin' about adding or removing character with a syringe to triumph in a game traditionally viewed as a test of one's mettle.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Lumbergh.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2868" style="display: none !important; visibility: hidden !important; opacity: 0 !important; background-position: 300px 250px;" title="Lumbergh" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Lumbergh-300x250.jpg" alt="" width="0" height="0" /></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Lumbergh2.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2871" style="display: none !important; visibility: hidden !important; opacity: 0 !important; background-position: 0px 0px;" title="Lumbergh" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Lumbergh2-300x250.jpg" alt="" width="0" height="0" /></a> <p class="mceTemp" style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Lumbergh4.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2883" title="Lumbergh" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Lumbergh4.jpg" alt="" width="243" height="203" /></a>It's kind of like how your boss is an incompetent, hollow fucking shell, but because he or she holds a certain position the assumption of skill, experience, and proficiency is made. Never mind that their last held title is what got 'em the gig or that their "tells" are mental laziness and a penchant for shortcuts or blame: the shell looks too good to fail. For today's poker players, all that matters are the bragging rights, regardless of the route. Never mind how fun it must be to play cards with a bunch of expressionless rubber masks. Probably as good as getting roped into said boss's baby shower or bachelor party.</p> <p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Typical-Pokertox-Client.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-2877" title="Typical Pokertox Client" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Typical-Pokertox-Client.jpg" alt="" width="146" height="146" /></a>Ask Berdy about his customers and he'll probably say, "<a href="http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article.html?isPreview=&amp;id=455913%7C18779&amp;name=Some-Came-Running" target="_blank">Some came running</a>." Why? Because the world is full of suckers, that's why. And if you ask me, most poker players top the Great Pyramid of Chumps. (Gambling finds the bettor, not the other way around.) So Berdy might as well be taking candy from a baby: can we blame him for carving out a profitable little niche market for himself in the process?</p> I'm no tournament pro, but as it pertains to Berdy's clients, who make their faces as limp as their dicks, here's something I've seen, survived, and swear by: weakness and desperation <em>always</em> find another way to surface. Again, it comes down to <em>get character or become one:</em> these players reduce themselves to mere characters, weirdos with blank faces who leave behind a trail of face-transplant jokes and cheater rumors. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/James-Jones-Some-Came-Running.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2887" title="James Jones Some Came Running" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/James-Jones-Some-Came-Running.jpg" alt="" width="144" height="188" /></a>Poker hinges on the character and life experience of its players in that you don't win by sheer will. You win with patience, strategy, time, luck, and the ability to size another guy up. None of those things can be purchased or simulated. Mostly, though, you win by making it difficult to<em> be</em> sized up in the first place -- and that's entirely psychological and spiritual. If you can't own your own or transcend your mistakes (and your "tell") what good are you? The best poker players in the world are painfully honest with themselves. The rest -- no matter how many times they visit Dr. Berdy -- are read and tossed aside like yesterday's newspaper. <p style="padding-left: 30px;">But some suckers <em>do</em> come running.</p> <h4><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Some-Came-Running-2.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-2888 aligncenter" title="Some Came Running 2" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Some-Came-Running-2.jpg" alt="" width="495" height="212" /></a></h4> 2858 2012-11-25 02:11:24 2012-11-25 02:11:24 2012-11-25 02:11:24 2012-11-25 02:11:24 closed open some-came-running publish 0 0 post 0 Botox Character Culture Dr. Jack Berdy Idiots poker Pokertox Some Came Running _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706500545;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4562;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2485;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10163;}}}} http://working-copy.local/comfort-zone-2/mahatma-gandhi-is-highly-quotable/ Tue, 27 Nov 2012 06:25:31 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2898 <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Mahatma-Gandhi.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2899" title="Mahatma Gandhi" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Mahatma-Gandhi.jpg" alt="" width="470" height="712" /></a> 2898 2012-11-27 06:25:31 2012-11-27 06:25:31 2012-11-27 06:25:31 2012-11-27 06:25:31 closed open mahatma-gandhi-is-highly-quotable publish 0 0 post 0 Character Comfort Zone _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1696470376;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2751;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2782;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3245;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5716;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:514;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5582;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/how-many-fingers-am-i-holding-up/ Sun, 02 Dec 2012 23:37:41 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2910 <h4><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-Middle-Finger.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2913" title="Where Excuses Go to Die - Middle Finger" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-Middle-Finger.jpg" width="114" height="170" /></a>I flip people off when I shouldn't. I flip people off in traffic, when I've been wronged. I flip off friends and vice versa, or when it's the only way to get the last word in. In public, it's dorky and potentially risky, since Dirty Harry Hyundai could shoot my face off, but I even frequently use both hands – double barrel. </strong><strong>Whenever I flip someone off, I claim to feel justified. But I confess I don't have to: it's fun. I'll flip off Lana Del Rey eventually.  </strong></h4> <h4><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Bowfinger-and-Doc-Martens.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2942" title="Bowfinger and Doc Martens" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Bowfinger-and-Doc-Martens-300x216.jpg" width="300" height="216" /></a>I've been flipping people off my entire life, and I doubt I'll ever stop. I've tried the proper palm-back British "V" or "Bowfinger," but in L.A. traffic? Meh. It's awkward. Plus, xenophobes might not comprehend the affront. And although I admire the French, I love that the Bowfinger's origins are said to lie in taunting them in battle. Probably to counter <a href="http://youtu.be/FWBUl7oT9sA" target="_blank">having farts blown in their general direction</a>. </strong></h4> I'm saving my last great series of one-finger salutes for when I'm in a rest home, provided I make it that far. The downside is that I'm criticized for this unapologetic bird abuse – but mostly by hypocrites to whom all of the above applies. You see, everyone likes to fly their middle fingers once in a while, and I think repressing it is as silly as holding in a turd longer than you have to. <h4><strong><!--more--></strong></h4> Don't dismiss those of us who express ourselves this way. We're not bad people, and we don't intend to do it at your grandmother's funeral. In other areas of our lives, we're perfectly well-mannered and tactful. Give us a break. Haven't you ever raised your middle finger, but stopped yourself? Ever marveled at how that finger just wanted to rocket right up there, usually above your dashboard? It's as if you were born to remind that arrogant cabbage-head in the BMW that his $75,000 bodyguard is no match for your little bird. <em>Sure you're wealthy, you yellowing dickskin, but </em>I<em> don't hide from the homeless in a fancy cocoon.</em> See what I mean? So would you really have us surrender one of the last subversive, reactionary, rock 'n roll acts of petulance that we have? In trade for what, a backed up colon? I don't think so. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-Brain-Function-Chart.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-2927" title="Where Excuses Go to Die Brain Function Chart" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-Brain-Function-Chart.jpg" width="346" height="334" /></a>Giving the finger is a very special learned behavior, 'cause it's as close to being congenital as any social conditioning can get. Middle finger use is like crying: we'd die without the ability to cry. Who's with me? If women's monthly cycles were voluntary there'd be an even <em>larger</em> industry built up around them. We'd probably have a <em>Secretary of Menstrual Luck </em>and by now have endured a reality show called "The Flow Chart" or some such nonsense. Point is, you think women requested that shit? Of course not. And the middle finger is exactly the same. Except that menstruation isn't knee-jerk. But look, it's neuroscience, okay? Trust me. Instinctive reflex vs. learned reflex and so forth. Either way, don't you point your boney gluten-free <em>index</em> finger at us in judgment! I make <span style="text-decoration: underline;">no</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">excuses</span> for my middle fingers. I own them. I own whatever consequences my actions bring. True, returning or sending a bird isn't exactly a "wise" use of these important digits,  but I've learned to take responsibility for how I choose to express my frustration. One thing's for sure: I'm not gonna <em>cry at you</em> when you speed up to prevent me from merging at the sight of my turn signal. Going into holiday parking lots and Post Offices, this is self-awareness can only be a good thing. For I am nothing without the ability to choose a higher road. Like farting in their general direction, instead. 2910 2012-12-02 23:37:41 2012-12-02 23:37:41 2013-03-27 01:04:46 2013-03-27 01:04:46 closed open how-many-fingers-am-i-holding-up publish 0 0 post 0 Culture Excuses Flipping the Bird Middle Finger Self-Esteem the finger _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:652;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706469910;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10863;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:683;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6430;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/on-juden-pond-revisted/ Sat, 08 Dec 2012 22:58:08 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2944 <h4><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_In-With-the-New.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2963" title="Where Excuses Go to Die_In With the New" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_In-With-the-New.jpg" alt="" width="348" height="546" /></a>Back <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/on-juden-pond/" target="_blank">in March, I posted a story</a> about a nothing pond in rural New Hampshire nicknamed "Jew Pond" after Jewish businessmen purchased it in 1920. It's a smelly, man-made hole, really, but the nickname stuck despite the failure of the new owners to realize their vision of creating a vacation spot for previously verboten guests. This past</strong><strong> September, the US Board of Geographic Names approved a vote by local residents to rename the pond after one of Mont Vernon's founding families (more on the Carletons later).</strong></h4> My attempts to reach a town Selectman and a local journalist were met with unreturned messages. And the disembodied voices of suspicious old white ladies with whom I did speak hardened at the mere mention of Carleton Pond. This mosquito pit, you may know, received national and international attention throughout 2012, so it's not surprising that certain residents (especially the geezers) are wary of being mocked again. As few would, they like don't outsiders coming in –electronically or on ye 'ol horseback– trying to change things. But I didn't want to close out the year without checking in on Mont Vernon to see how things went. And the answer is: just fine, as long as you don't bring up that goddamned piss pool. Shortly after the townspeople approved the name change and went off to make it official on government maps, Richard Masters, the town's health officer, and local student filmmaker Kate Dobbs were honored by the New Hampshire Jewish Federation for their work in helping restore Mont Vernon's dignity. Eight months later, Rich Masters is still playing with local mold. Dobbs had been hired by the local newspaper but then "let go," an old Colonial hag told me yesterday a little too cheerfully. May Dobbs have moved on to a higher purpose, to achieve great things for openminded people elsewhere to enjoy. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/on-juden-pond/" target="_blank">You can read more about Kate Dobbs's and Rich Masters's efforts to get to the bottom of Jew Pond and pull it's plug HERE.</a> 2944 2012-12-08 22:58:08 2012-12-08 22:58:08 2012-12-08 22:58:08 2012-12-08 22:58:08 closed open on-juden-pond-revisted publish 0 0 post 0 Carleton Pond Character Culture Jew Pond Mont Vernon _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1696146391;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1442;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:339;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1262;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6599;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9557;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11310;}}}} http://working-copy.local/celebrity/shooter-is-now-a-job-description/ Thu, 13 Dec 2012 03:48:34 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=2985 <h4><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Mall-Shootings.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-2997" title="Where Excuses Go to Die_Mall Shootings" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Mall-Shootings.jpg" alt="" width="277" height="216" /></a>"I am the shooter!" Oregon mall gunman Jacob Tyler Roberts reportedly shouted as he opened fire. He did so as if he'd just reached the top level of an Xbox game. Roberts wasn't playing a game, though: his actions were a Schizoid's demand for attention. But Xbox or no, in his mind, he won.</strong></h4> <h4><strong>I figure that at the rate America is crankin' out these sick, dumb animals, it won't be long before "Shooter" becomes even more aspirational. Of course, nobody aspires from <em>childhood</em> to kill themselves after spraying a Banana Republic with bullets, nor has any job application yet been written for a Highway Sniper. Yet Roberts wanted us to know he was in charge, if only briefly. Per his announcement, he'd achieved his "be all you can be" moment.</strong></h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_AR-15.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2999" title="Where Excuses Go to Die_AR-15" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_AR-15.jpg" alt="" width="283" height="89" /></a>Welcome to the <em>real</em> Tomorrowland, where basic job application categories may soon collide horrifically with the mental distortion of dumbed down America. This is where "shooter" can substitute for "teacher," "bus driver," or "dentist," because gaining notoriety -- in this case for shooting up a food court -- has essentially become a viable version of the American Dream. <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_REALITY.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3001" title="Where Excuses Go to Die_REALITY" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_REALITY.jpg" alt="" width="304" height="254" /></a>Take a look at how we entertain ourselves, or perhaps look back to how short our attention spans and memories have become. We're dumbed down in the future, and disoriented too. A good example of how we reached Tomorrowland is the reality TV to which, week in, week out, we surrender. We give ourselves to programs where rivalries are created from staged and edited social situations, where the losers are snubbed and winners lavished with prizes and recognition. We're told it's real, and we believe it. <em>I've</em> believed it. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Cant-Take-It-Anymore.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3004" title="Where Excuses Go to Die_Can't Take It Anymore" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Cant-Take-It-Anymore-300x201.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="201" /></a>Most Americans have an opinion on these shows and their characters, and many secretly wish for the chance to avenge their lesser favorites, confront these silly marionettes, or collect the paydays that they see. But in barely noticed, incremental ways, we take these standards and values out into the world. We judge others and measure our own happiness by them; in effect we live by them, or rather under them. The problems these issues make for employers and educators is mind-bending. In fact, if one squints hard at the horizon, it's possible to see a total social breakdown looming. In Tomorrowland, health professionals can't keep up with the mass mental distortion emanating from the basement level standards typified by politicians or our Lohans, Biebers, and Honey Boo Boos. We hide in the disconnection of Facebook and relish Attention Deficit Dependency. We've ultimately become so afflicted with vicious narcissism that, at least in Jacob Tyler Roberts's case, the "next level" is death. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Insecure.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3003" title="Where Excuses Go to Die_Insecure" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Insecure.jpg" alt="" width="274" height="181" /></a>This desperate need for recognition, the expectation of media attention, and a national obsession with rewarding Jackass-style stupid human tricks conspire to funnel society toward choices we're clearly not equipped to confront. But when low or unchallenged emotional intelligence and nonexistent coping skills co-mingle in the pressure cooker environment of economic meltdown, the resulting sense of "nothing to lose" is something to fear far more than an America in which global warming turns us into cannibals or Christians. [caption id="attachment_3002" align="alignright" width="178"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Cobra-Kai.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-3002 " title="Where Excuses Go to Die_Cobra Kai" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Cobra-Kai-296x300.jpg" alt="" width="178" height="180" /></a> Why do I think of this guy whenever I hear of another mass shooting?[/caption] We know today that Jacob Tyler Roberts could have taken things a lot farther. He'd been carrying multiple magazines of ammo and knew how to un-jam his stolen rifle. Perhaps, though, after killing two people and critically wounding a third -- after emptying one or more magazines at anyone in his line of fire -- he was done. He'd arrived. His cry of "I'm the shooter!" was simply his way of ensuring we'd know he won (the contest of his own understanding). It's depressing that Roberts and his kind are now coming at us in waves. They're also the "hordes" of which Americans should be most afraid. 2985 2012-12-13 03:48:34 2012-12-13 03:48:34 2012-12-13 03:48:34 2012-12-13 03:48:34 closed open shooter-is-now-a-job-description publish 0 0 post 0 Celebrity Character Clackamas Culture Jacob Tyler Roberts Oregon mall shooter Shooter _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1701778229;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8193;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3615;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:362;}}}} http://working-copy.local/your-adorable-child/next-stop-citizen-suicide-bombs/ Mon, 17 Dec 2012 02:29:58 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=3013 <h4><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Barbie-Suicide-Vest.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3014" title="Where Excuses Go to Die_Barbie Suicide Vest" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Barbie-Suicide-Vest-190x300.jpg" alt="" width="190" height="300" /></a><strong>What were people in fundamentalist Islamic regions of the Middle East doing to each other just before they took up explosive vests? Were mass shootings the last stop before suicide bombings? Are ever-worsening mass shootings an evolutionary phenomenon of a disintegrating society? How long before irate Earth Firsters or right wing <strong>American</strong> zealots start blowing themselves up in crowded restaurants?</strong></h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_CAUTION.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3032" title="Where Excuses Go to Die_CAUTION" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_CAUTION-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>With regards to my Oregon shooting-related comments on <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/shooter-is-now-a-job-description/" target="_blank">homicidal infamy and the American Dream</a>, posted the day before the incident in Connecticut, sick, dumb animals are out there right now paying close attention to the degree to which Adam Lanza's killing spree has broken America's heart - and wondering what it'll take to top it.<strong> </strong> <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_DUMB-PIG.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3025" title="Where Excuses Go to Die_DUMB PIG" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_DUMB-PIG-282x300.jpg" alt="" width="282" height="300" /></a>Somewhere out there, a feverish, delusional pig is jealous of Adam Lanza and the mind bending national grief for which he's responsible. Lanza gave us another 9/11, another Columbine, an unthinkable act of violence that sets the clock back to <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/the-new-zero-hour/" target="_blank">Zero Hour</a>. Yesterday I overheard someone broadly scolding those of us ignorant of the Syrian children executed by forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad's regime, not to mention those dying every hour of every day in Syrian refugee camps. She asked us, "How long will Americans be able to say, 'I can't believe this could happen here'? Yet their sheltered children's lives will always be of more value than the rest of the world's." I understood where she was coming from –that the face of the Syrian child-refugee on her iPad was remarkably similar to many in Newtown– but I also found her approach to be self-defeating. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Syrian-Children.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3028" title="Where Excuses Go to Die_Syrian Children" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Syrian-Children-300x204.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="163" /></a>Still, the woman's anger made me realize that Adam Lanza also gave us –as if we needed one– another excuse to hate each other. 'Cause to weigh the value of <em>any</em> children's lives over others can only invite distrust and disunity. No one asked Lanzapig to inspire sheltered families in Connecticut to learn about the world's suffering: if people don't investigate that sort of thing on their own, the discoveries aren't worth much. I think, though, that the woman's spite is just one example of how deep the moral rummaging will go, because unlike September 11th 2001, there's no Infidel Holy War to finger. We can't blame Muslims or look suspiciously at religions or cultures other than our own. We can't call bullshit and lay out the conspiracies, and we can't (so far) launch another drone. <a href="http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/go/state-ranking" target="_blank"><em>We</em> are the problem.</a> [caption id="attachment_3029" align="alignright" width="300"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_MOM-AND-DAD-ARE-FIRED.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-3029" title="Where Excuses Go to Die_MOM AND DAD ARE FIRED" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_MOM-AND-DAD-ARE-FIRED-300x176.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="176" /></a> It's not hip, cool, funny, <em>or</em> patriotic. It's stupid. In fact, it'd be better if these were highball glasses full of Old Grandad than toys from Daddy No Dick's arsenal.[/caption] Yep, there's only one place to look, and that's within, at the mirror. This is a genuine three-alarm public health concern. There's no excuse for not examining the root causes of <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/in-horrifying-statement-chicago-mayor-blames-city-s-soaring-murder-toll-on/19578-in-horrifying-statement-chicago-mayor-blames-city-s-soaring-murder-toll-on" target="_blank">Chicago's soaring murder rate</a>, <a href="http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/15/15931758-gunman-killed-police-officer-and-2-others-wounded-in-shootout-at-alabama-hospital?lite" target="_blank">shootouts in Alabama's hospitals</a>, weapons discharges in California's parking lots, and twenty dead six-, seven- and eight-year olds in Connecticut. By sitting around, arguing over the Second Amendment, we do a disservice not only to ourselves, but also to the authors of the Bill of Rights who, by the way, defined the right to bear arms as fundamental, second only to freedom of speech. If those guys were around to witness the standards of public health used by those arguing for that right <em>today</em>, they'd shit their colonial britches and hide their draft writings, debates, and resolutions right along with every other secret of the Masons. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Suicide-Vest.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3030" title="Where Excuses Go to Die_Suicide Vest" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Suicide-Vest-300x209.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="167" /></a>Then they'd run for cover, wondering whether they'll be next to get picked off by a math whiz and how long it will be before the room-to-room killing of twenty kids and six adults just isn't fast enough, making explosives the only option for the next defective loner in a long black trench coat. This isn't a call for gun control. I'm merely suggesting that we'd better come together soon to start working toward better national mental health, or hyperbole like the Fiscal Cliff will be the least of our problems. In fact, we'd better do that now. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Chicks-with-Guns1.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-3035 alignleft" title="Where Excuses Go to Die_Chicks with Guns" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Chicks-with-Guns1.jpg" alt="" width="201" height="133" /></a> &nbsp; 3013 2012-12-17 02:29:58 2012-12-17 02:29:58 2017-11-06 12:37:24 2017-11-06 19:37:24 closed open next-stop-citizen-suicide-bombs publish 0 0 post 0 Adam Lanza Columbine Connecticut Culture mass shooting Murder Newtown Sandy Hook school shooting Your Adorable Child _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704574296;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9019;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2985;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:274;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/admit-it-part-of-you-hoped-to-see-the-world-end/ Sat, 22 Dec 2012 06:12:57 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=3044 <h4><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Mayan-End-of-the-World.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3045" title="Where Excuses Go to Die_Mayan End of the World" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Mayan-End-of-the-World-300x228.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="228" /></a>Had the world ended in a cataclysmic inferno, chances are we'd all have been flipped off like a light switch, and frankly that seems boring. The children of earth have seen too much suffering, so we don't need anymore of that, but there <em>are</em> some things to which I would've enjoyed wishing good riddance – possibly in the form of a meteor impact. I would've been okay with sacrificing <em>some</em> comfort, WiFi, and possible second-degree burns so I could shout, "<em>So long!"</em> to: <!--more--></strong></h4> <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Joe-Pesci-Scary-Face.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-3047" title="Where Excuses Go to Die_Joe Pesci Scary Face" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Joe-Pesci-Scary-Face-300x227.jpg" alt="" width="180" height="136" /></a>Ink pens that flow irregularly or appear to be manufactured better than they are.</strong> If it's not a Uniball, I'd rather write in my own blood. <strong>Emails and Facebook posts that end with, <em>"Share this with 10 people and angels from heaven will blah blah blah." </em></strong>These only succeed in triggering my intense desire to become Joe Pesci from either <em>Casino</em> or <em>Goodfellas</em>. <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_GO-BACK-TO-YOUR-HOME-STATES-PLEASE.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3058" title="Where Excuses Go to Die_GO BACK TO YOUR HOME STATES PLEASE" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_GO-BACK-TO-YOUR-HOME-STATES-PLEASE-300x202.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="162" /></a>The complaint,<em> "Californians can't drive,"</em> chirpped from <strong>non-native to</strong> non-native.</strong> Have you ever <em>met</em> a native Californian? No, you haven't, so shut your face. We're absurdly outnumbered by people who've moved here from places where it rains cars and appliances picked up from a block away. Shouldn't these people be far more competent behind the wheel? I'll go toe-to-toe with <em>anyone</em> over U.S. Census Bureau interstate migration statistics as related to traffic violation data – any day, any time. <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Baby-Boomers.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3059" title="Where Excuses Go to Die_Baby Boomers" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Baby-Boomers.jpg" alt="" width="183" height="132" /></a>Classic rock (or any commercial <strong>musical </strong>genre represented by a rotation or overuse of the same 23 songs). </strong>The baby boomer bludgeoning makes me groan when I hear Kiss, Steve Miller, or Aerosmith. I can't listen to Floyd anymore, nor The Doors or Van Halen. I've grown to hate <em>everything</em> about the Beatles and Paul McCartney (with that face like an old lady's bingo wing). Way too many creative and talented musicians who pushed boundaries and did some really cool stuff in their day have been made about as rote and compliant as an hour of Catholic Mass. How can fans ever be inspired to dig deeper into the catalogs and solo stuff when their music is being used to sell car insurance, shoes, and potato chips? <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Apocalypse-MAYO-.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-3049" title="Where Excuses Go to Die_Apocalypse MAYO" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Apocalypse-MAYO--300x201.jpg" alt="" width="210" height="141" /></a>Lard.</strong> I cannot put into words how repulsive spreads, custards, and whipped creams are to me. If it's white and creamy, whether I'm a guest in your home or not, sometimes it takes all of my strength not to run out of the room. My nightmares are made of mayonnaise. If and when the end of the earth <em>does</em> arrive, I'll take satisfaction in knowing that meringue is going with it, and so are plastic containers of yogurt, hollandaise, and anything on the planet with the consistency or look of sun-warmed ranch dressing. <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Suspension-Hook.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3060" title="Where Excuses Go to Die_Suspension Hook" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Suspension-Hook.jpg" alt="" width="91" height="74" /></a>People who hang from their self-inflicted puncture holes. </strong>You'll always be condescended to by those outside your worldview, and those within it will always be too driven by their own insecurities to do anything more than tell you what you want to hear. Spiritual Suspension Journey my ass: you're right in there with the extreme <a href="http://www.wiccantogether.com/group/thesolitarywitch?groupUrl=thesolitarywitch&amp;xg_source=activity&amp;id=1070680%3AGroup%3A165424&amp;page=2" target="_blank">Outer Court teachings of Neo-Wicca</a> and the <a href="http://mindhacks.com/2011/12/04/skull-modifications-for-fun-and-profit/" target="_blank">cranial deformation idiots</a>. <strong>Businesses that thrive on <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-hated-companies-in-america-2012-6?op=1" target="_blank">selling only the illusion of quality</a> (a.k.a. never mind your satisfaction; we made a sale). </strong>Also falling into this category are people who <em>want</em> a job more than they want to <em>do</em> that job. For these folks, preposterous heights of narcissism have replaced all awareness of how one's actions affect those around them. <strong>Hiccups. </strong>Seriously, what's the point there? If you're wondering about the countless other items I could've listed here, don't. Apparently there's time! Besides, I could go on and on about the things that would stop annoying us if the world ended, but I'd rather call attention to one item that's not on my list: excuses. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_No-Excuses.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-3061" title="Where Excuses Go to Die_No Excuses" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_No-Excuses.jpg" alt="" width="276" height="261" /></a>Excuses, as annoying as they are, are needed. Without them, we can't teach young people why they do us all such a disservice. Excuses are our best friend and our worst enemy. They're great learning tools because we can't see why we need to stop making 'em 'til we've made a few. And since the world is still here (along with classic rock, hiccups, and sickening, creamy substances that give life to the word "slather"), we're gonna need every tool we have to make some improvements. So happy holidays folks; for now, our globe continues to spin. 3044 2012-12-22 06:12:57 2012-12-22 06:12:57 2017-04-24 12:16:12 2017-04-24 19:16:12 closed open admit-it-part-of-you-hoped-to-see-the-world-end publish 0 0 post 0 baby boomers Classic Rock Culture End of the world Excuses Facebook Uniball _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704854508;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1524;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1986;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2330;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/happy-holidays-theyre-on-you/ Tue, 25 Dec 2012 08:12:58 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=3066 <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Happy-Holidays.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3067" title="Where Excuses Go to Die_Happy Holidays" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Happy-Holidays.jpg" alt="" width="498" height="499" /></a> 3066 2012-12-25 08:12:58 2012-12-25 08:12:58 2012-12-25 08:12:58 2012-12-25 08:12:58 closed open happy-holidays-theyre-on-you publish 0 0 post 0 Character entitlement Excuses expectations Self-Esteem self-image _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1689912774;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4562;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1088;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2674;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1125;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5088;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8084;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/peckinpah-would-approve/ Sun, 30 Dec 2012 06:57:08 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=3083 <h4><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Unchained.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-3099" title="Unchained" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Unchained.jpg" alt="" width="195" height="859" /></a>When I first heard about <em>Django Unchained</em>, I was overjoyed at Tarantino’s taboo choice of a slavery/revenge storyline ‘cause I remember what adults used to say about the movies that inspired it back when they were “new”. Those days – without the Internet – things didn't move as quickly and movies stayed fresher longer, so “new” would be roughly the equivalent of 2008's <em>Iron Man</em> or Clint Eastwood’s <em>Gran Torino. </em>Catching a <em>Shaft</em> marathon five years after the release of <em>Shaft in Africa</em> was seeing <em>Shaft</em> when <em>Shaft</em> was “new.” </strong></h4> <strong></strong>In addition to the usual back 'n forth about Tarantino movies’ racism, violence, denigration of women, and dialog-heavy scenes, <em>Django </em>has <a href="http://gawker.com/5971346/the-django-moment-or-when-should-white-people-laugh-in-django-unchained" target="_blank">inspired talk</a> of whether or not it’s okay for whites to laugh at certain jokes (Djokes?) or revel in a fictional, slavery-themed film. And people should hear themselves talk! The fact that they could be taking a Tarantino movie seriously enough to assign blame, find fault, claim victimhood, and make false conclusions is asinine. Some of these cabbage heads are actually saying they enjoyed <em>Django</em> while walking out of the theater in protest against it. So while that’s all very pious, <em>Django Unchained</em> made <em>me</em> want to give my mom a big hug. On Saturdays, my mom would announce to my brother, me, and any other neighbor kid within earshot that we were all going to the movies. Every child that could fit in her car was headed for the Holiday Cinema, which we knew as the “The 49¢ Theater”<strong> </strong>because the top of the marquee read, “ANY SEAT 49¢.” If you got into the car, you knew you weren’t coming home until that evening. “It isn't <em>so</em> terrible,” our parents must’ve been thinking. The place was only blocks away; it was cheap as hell and supervised; and it was located in what then passed for a respectable shopping center -- if you looked at it through a bad hangover. Some of our parents qualified, so the <em>Holiday</em> was aptly nicknamed.<!--more--> To call the 49¢ Theater a dump is no exaggeration: the place was a wayward jungle gym that changed exterior colors often enough to suggest upkeep. Yet the decision to drop us off or drive away was solely dependent upon what was on the marquee, and I remember my mom turning the car around only once. [caption id="attachment_3101" align="alignright" width="382"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Grimehouse-Cinema.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-3101 " title="Grimehouse Cinema" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Grimehouse-Cinema.jpg" alt="" width="382" height="304" /></a> Circa 1984 - long after we split for the high class theaters up the boulevard[/caption] Inside the single screen moviehouse, concession stand candy was stale enough to cut glass.  The “young adult” behind the counter was always asleep, but in a way we knew was wrong. Every single one of the display counters surrounding his junkie-ass was cracked. The seats were either sticky or beaten into a permanent recliner position, and only the women’s restroom could be relied upon for functionality. The sinks were always flooded with inhuman-colored God knows what. Strange men we hadn't even seen in the dark would come to – and light a cigarette. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/LASERBLAST.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3103" title="LASERBLAST" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/LASERBLAST-198x300.jpg" alt="" width="139" height="210" /></a>We used to play Ding Dong Ditch on the projectionist’s door; years later we discovered that, had we not run off, he would’ve sold us drugs. Sometimes older kids showed up in groups – and most of them <em>didn’t</em> run from that door. It was bad for us if they were bullies, but it was okay if they were the older brothers and sisters of the kids already in attendance. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Hard-Ride-.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-3115" title="Hard Ride" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Hard-Ride--191x300.jpg" alt="" width="153" height="240" /></a>On a typical Saturday we’d see as many as four screenings. And because attention wasn't always paid to what those films were or to how accurate the marquee was to begin with, we often saw movies we never should have seen and loved every minute of them. <em>Marathon Man, Taxi Driver, I Spit on Your Grave</em>: second and third run showings with months and years-old stuff playing beforehand, like <em>Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry</em>, <em>Up in Smoke, Midnight Express</em>, <em>Uptown Saturday Night</em>, <em>The Texas Chainsaw Massacre</em>, <em>Laserblast</em>, <em>Penitentiary,</em> <em>Dawn of the Dead</em>, <em>Maniac</em>, and so forth. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Orca-The-Killer-Whale.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3104" title="Orca - The Killer Whale" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Orca-The-Killer-Whale-300x224.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="224" /></a>Two months after <a href="http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/8200000/Orca-The-Killer-Whale-1977-horror-movies-8268468-418-640.jpg" target="_blank"><em>Orca: The Killer Whale</em></a> was released, the Holiday screened it roughly fifty times. Tommy Allison and I saw <em>at least</em> half of those. To us, it's the greatest motion picture ever made for its accurate portrayal of vindictive ocean monsters. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/American-International-Pictures.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-3129" title="American International Pictures" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/American-International-Pictures.jpg" alt="" width="149" height="54" /></a>Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby’s <em>A Piece of the Action</em> followed <em>Orca’s</em> long run; I liked that one because I enjoyed anything in which adults yelled at one another – who cares about what. (I’d go on to become a fan of Blake Edwards’ films as well, starting with <em>S.O.B., </em>because those adults had problems I wanted.) <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Savage-Sisters-1974.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-3111" title="Savage Sisters 1974" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Savage-Sisters-1974.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="163" /></a>The only information any of us ever volunteered about the 49¢ Theater to our parents was when its admission jumped to 99¢. That was a sad day, but we bravely carried on for another year ‘til it became an unmanageable $1.49 and the neighborhood youth was collectively insulted. Then, with VCRs and VHS tapes flooding the market, nobody cared, and soon the theater was on its way out. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Savagely-Talented-Sisters.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3112" title="Savagely Talented Sisters" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Savagely-Talented-Sisters-196x300.jpg" alt="" width="196" height="300" /></a>The early video tape years were slim pickings, but we were amateurs with a lot of ground to cover. As more titles became available, no drug-dealing projectionist could've warped our minds faster: it was in our parents' living rooms where we met the unholy <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Waters_(filmmaker)" target="_blank">John Waters</a>, the unfuckwithable <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam_Grier" target="_blank">Pam Grier</a>, and the wholly uncorrectable <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilsa,_She_Wolf_of_the_SS" target="_blank">Dyanne Thorne, aka <em>Ilsa - She Wolf of the SS</em>.</a>  We freshly-minted teenagers knew of no cultural or racial strings attached to anything suggestive of or tending toward moral looseness. We made no excuses. It was a pause, rewind, and fast forward-free-for-all. The 49¢ Theater closed and then opened under new ownership later, but it didn't last long. Those reclining seats were remembered all too well for the sex that was had on them, so families didn’t flock there even after the seats were removed and “nice” films started being shown. Next came only Spanish-language movies, and then it finally closed for good. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Truck-Turner.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3108" title="Truck Turner" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Truck-Turner-300x236.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="236" /></a>I was lucky that my mom’s brothers were only 10 years older than I and that we liked the same movies. We dug <em>Shaft, The Exterminator, </em><em>Superfly</em> and <em>Dirty Harry; </em>they worshiped George Romero so I did too. In the 70s, flesh-eating zombie flicks were dismissed as trash, and it’s with great joy that I embrace today's zombie gore. After the demise of the 49¢ Theater, one of my uncles snuck me into a first-run American screening of <em><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080057/">Zombie, </a></em><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080057/">Lucio Fulci's nudity-filled, splatter-fest masterpiece</a>. No <em>way</em> my mom knew we were going to see that movie, but that was how I saw a lot of what are now referred to as “grind house” films. We just called 'em gore-movies, plot be damned. If there were karate dudes busting each other’s heads in or limbs gettin’ lopped off with hand tools, my uncles, and Tommy Allison, and I were accounted for. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Coffy-1973.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3134" title="Coffy 1973" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Coffy-1973-235x300.jpg" alt="" width="212" height="270" /></a>That era of filmmaking – and the <a href="http://www.trashpalace.com/collectorsmovies/spaghettiwesterns.htm" target="_blank">trash cinema</a> that inspired Tarantino – made us feel like we were getting away with something. <em>Django</em> brings that feeling back for much of its target demographic. I’d like to see <em>Django</em> again, actually, but with my mom. She’s the one who turned us onto <em>The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. </em>Of course, when she got out of the car <em>with</em> us to head into the theater it was always a cleaner one, which tells me she knew damn good 'n well how gross it was in the 49¢. At least she knew what to expect going in -- <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/spike-lee-outraged-django-unchained-article-1.1226762" target="_blank">unlike <em>some</em> moviegoers</a>. &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/The-Wild-Bunch.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3118" title="The Wild Bunch" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/The-Wild-Bunch.jpg" alt="" width="559" height="321" /></a> &nbsp; &nbsp; 3083 2012-12-30 06:57:08 2012-12-30 06:57:08 2017-11-06 12:37:24 2017-11-06 19:37:24 closed open peckinpah-would-approve publish 0 0 post 0 Christoph Waltz Culture Django Unchained Grindhouse Movies History Movies Quentin Tarantino Sam Peckinpah Trash Cinema _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1700158249;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:869;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3665;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:377;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/a-twitter-pill-to-swallow/ Sat, 05 Jan 2013 04:02:41 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=3143 <h4><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/A-Twitter-Pill_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3151" title="A Twitter Pill_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/A-Twitter-Pill_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="265" height="104" /></a><strong>The social networking functionality of this blog is horrendous, I know, especially on the cusp of a book launch. But that's about to change. The new whereexcusesgotodie.com will launch at the end of this month, incorporating everything from Feedburner to Facebook connectivity. And the publicist with whom we're working recently informed me that my head-in-the-sand days are over. "It's time to open that Twitter account you've been avoiding," she stated.</strong></h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Rubiks-Cube-Conquered-Us-All.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-3146" title="Rubiks Cube Conquered Us All" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Rubiks-Cube-Conquered-Us-All-294x300.jpg" alt="" width="206" height="210" /></a>She's right, I know. My excuse has been that a person's journey, abilities, and goals should matter more than following trends. Besides, whether published by a major or self-publishing, the whole experience feels like standing at the bottom of a freeway off ramp rattling a foam cup at cars: Twitter and the like will only exacerbate that. But the real question is, do I want the public to decide the value of <em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em> (the book), or do I want to wind up bitter 'cause I was too good to play the game – or failed to do everything I could to tell the world what it has to offer? <!--more-->Exactly. So the time has come to go multichannel and create a <em>real</em> Internet platform. It's time <em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em> is kicked off of my hard drive and into people's hands. No stone can be left un-thrown. Hoo-rah and so forth. In the meantime, words related to the publishing and promotion <em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em> can be found on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/E80604?ref=hl" target="_blank">WEGTD Facebook page</a>. Its description reads: "Writing irreverently about a prison sentence and trying to get it published is, in itself, a story." But why do you care? Well, as novelist Joe Konrath urges... <h4 style="text-align: center; padding-left: 30px;">"One hand should always be reaching up for your next goal. The other should be reaching down to help others get where you're at. We're all in the same boat. Start passing out oars."</h4> In other words, I may be just one voice in this march on the old guard, and a new convert at that, but if you're curious about the self-publishing revolution or about what you can do with your own writing, the WEGTD Facebook page is worth a <em>Like</em>. If there's any value to be found there – be it a laugh at my expense <a href="http://www.thepassivevoice.com/" target="_blank">or a helpful link</a> –  that's just me, handing out oars. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/WEGTD-Facebook-Page.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3145" title="WEGTD Facebook Page" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/WEGTD-Facebook-Page.jpg" alt="" width="643" height="166" /></a> &nbsp; 3143 2013-01-05 04:02:41 2013-01-05 04:02:41 2013-01-05 04:02:41 2013-01-05 04:02:41 closed open a-twitter-pill-to-swallow publish 0 0 post 0 Excuses Facebook helping others Joe Konrath self publishing Twitter _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1696009822;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10509;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:283;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:829;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7935;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2444;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2572;}}}} http://working-copy.local/food/reusable-irony/ Sat, 12 Jan 2013 07:48:20 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=3173 <h4><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Starbucks.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-3187" title="Where Excuses Go to Die_Starbucks" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Starbucks.jpg" alt="" width="213" height="268" /></a>For just a dollar, Starbucks patrons can now wait in line with newly purchased, reusable coffee cups. Never mind that the plastic lids and cups are identical in appearance to their disposable predecessors: buyers will be able to <em>personalize </em>them, so a related micro-industry of </strong><strong>reusable coffee cup </strong><strong>ornamentation will no doubt arise before you're done reading this.</strong></h4> But because this <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/starbucks-introduces-reusable-cup-sells-buck.html" target="_blank">reusable Starbucks tumbler</a> is a visual match to a highly recognizable symbol of the downtrodden  –an over-the-counter coffee cup–  I'm looking forward to watching it make its way from the hands of the homeless and into the hands of the privileged. I'm talkin' about skinny-pants and cool moms, coming in off the street and waving their empty cups at strangers, just like those they ignore on the sidewalk. The irony is cruel, exquisite, and reusable. <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Angry-Coffee.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-3189" title="Angry Coffee" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Angry-Coffee-300x300.jpg" alt="" width="192" height="192" /></a>Standing in food service feeding lines can make some for good people watching, but it’s also a deeply distressing proposition. At places like Starbucks, people shuffle in with all sorts of attitudes, entitlements, and jealousies that percolate under the surface of their barely-patient postures. Guess who else stands in line with personalized plastic cups, waiting for their “issue” of coffee? Dudes in prison! (There's always <em>something</em> to remind me of that disregarded little microcosm, isn’t there?) You’d think waiting for an Americano at a Starbucks would put me as far away from a cell block as could be. Yet memories of Chicano art and the only cups most California prison inmates are authorized to possess – plastic, multi-use ones – will soon invade my every Starbucks experience. Go figure. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Prison-Coffee.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3188" title="Where Excuses Go to Die_Prison Coffee" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Prison-Coffee.jpg" alt="" width="228" height="152" /></a>In many cell houses, a communal coffee maker is maintained by someone unlucky enough to be fingered as “the coffee guy.” Each morning, before the fellas head off to their work assignments, they glare at each other and mutter under their breath as they inch toward their <em>turn at the urn</em>. Here too, all manner of resentments are present and accounted for, but unlike at Starbucks, there's more head-punching. Still, empty cups in hand, the envy is palpable among those who arrive too late to receive the freshest servings; it doubles when an inmate is complemented on how he has chosen to personalize his cup. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Penitentiary-Martyrdom.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3190" title="Where Excuses Go to Die_Penitentiary Martyrdom" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Penitentiary-Martyrdom-300x127.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="127" /></a>In prison, the fellas use safety pins to prick the sides of their plastic tumbler cups, making clichéd patterns of guard towers, Our Lady of Guadalupe, wolves, Aztec imagery, and so forth. Ashes are then rubbed into the etching to make the art visually pop. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Chicano-Prison-Inmate-Art.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3191" title="Chicano Prison Inmate Art" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Chicano-Prison-Inmate-Art-239x300.jpg" alt="" width="167" height="210" /></a>Often, a dot-to-dot house artist will render this iconography for a price to talk up his tattoo services in the process. (Naturally, the resulting cups look like most prison ink work emphasizing penitentiary martyrdom, skulls, and Gandalf.)  Some guys bore holes around the tops of their cups through which scraps of electrical wiring can be threaded: the accessorizing is endless. No doubt the Starbucks version will be also, though far more sanitary. <h5>For the record, after I purchase<em> any</em> coffee to-go, <em>gourmet café</em> whatever-the-hell, I remove the cup's lid between sips. 'Cause drinking through a slurp-slot, I cannot do: there's something about those little legs of coffee crawling down the sides of the cup that bother me.</h5> <h5>It's one thing if the drippings result from repeated removal and reapplication of the lid, but if the splatter's due to someone's undignified less-than-surgical slurp-slot maneuvering, it's just gross.</h5> I digress... Back East, the new cups are selling well. When they're everywhere, I'll be shaking my head at this new thing coffee-slurping Range Rover drivers, prison inmates, and panhandlers will have in common. 3173 2013-01-12 07:48:20 2013-01-12 07:48:20 2014-12-21 10:07:17 2014-12-21 17:07:17 closed open reusable-irony publish 0 0 post 0 CDCR Chicano Prison Inmate Art coffee Comfort Zone Food Prison Starbucks _edit_last 2 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705223593;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8772;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10865;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7321;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/livestrong-somwhere-else-asshole/ Wed, 16 Jan 2013 05:28:10 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=3204 <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_CLOWNSTRONG.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3220" title="Where Excuses Go to Die_CLOWNSTRONG" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_CLOWNSTRONG.jpg" alt="" width="283" height="497" /></a>Everyone deserves a second chance, Lance, but you don't get to have yours so soon. Right now, you just need to shut the hell up. </strong><strong>You're a clown. Compared to how much you've diminished our expectations of those we look up to, you've accomplished little. Thanks. </strong> <strong></strong>And what's with the sudden need to half-admit your wrongs anyway? Are you gonna <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/15/sports/cycling/lance-armstrong-admits-doping-and-says-he-will-testify-against-cycling-officials.html?_r=0" target="_blank">compete again</a>? Ha! Anywhere you race in the future, the media will follow, robbing legitimate athletes of acknowledgment they deserve. Your presence will render competition pointless, you selfish, <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-07-02/opinion-split-over-calf-blood-injection-benefits/2491314" target="_blank">cow-blood injecting weirdo</a>! We've read about your angry denials; we've watched you dare others to courtroom challenges. Over ten years, you've either bullied or sued your accusers and railed against anyone who fingered you as a cheat. So it's a safe bet your prime time contrition is as phony as your denials. Your so-called "intense" confession to Oprah Winfrey is an egotistical joke, you no testicle-having weasel. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/tv-column/post/oprah-extends-lance-armstrong-interview-to-two-nights/2013/01/15/5062354a-5f2b-11e2-b05a-605528f6b712_blog.html" target="_blank">And why <em>Oprah</em>?</a> Her soft-hearted fans can't save you. Your sympathy-for-the-asshole schtick smacks of ex-Illinois Governor, Rod Blagojevich, another guy who couldn't live without media attention. For you, for years, the name "Lance Armstrong" will be synonymous with fraud and cowardice. There's your legacy, you sport-tarnishing, cancer foundation-destroying drug dealer. <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Blagojevich-and-Armstrong.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3216" title="Where Excuses Go to Die_Blagojevich and Armstrong" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Blagojevich-and-Armstrong-300x165.jpg" alt="" width="180" height="99" /></a>Despite all this, you think a little public writhing will make it all better. It didn't work for Blago, so he turned to reality television. What's next for you, Lance? On which crappy show will you raise the narcissism bar? Will you call <em>that</em> absolution? <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_MONKEYSTRONG.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3222" title="Where Excuses Go to Die_MONKEYSTRONG" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_MONKEYSTRONG-199x300.jpg" alt="" width="199" height="300" /></a>Why don't you disappear for a while, say seven to ten years? Gérard Depardieu's got it all figured out: why not join him in Russia? You could pick up a little performer monkey named ?????????? and do bicycle tricks for the children. At night you could eat from a cracked wooden bowl and weep quietly. You could confess to ?????????? and find forgiveness in his eyes. You might even return triumphantly to find they've made a musical about you, followed by a movie. Or a movie, <em>then</em> a musical. No sportswear or breakfast cereals for you, though: you'll never see another box of Wheaties. The point is, with the U.S. government joining a class action lawsuit against you, and "Lance Armstrong" becoming just another wacky character for the web and <em>Saturday Night Live</em>, it'll be a while before you regain the public's trust. And I wouldn't bet on doing it at all. You threatened and intimidated people. I hope you don't teach ?????????? those same tricks! <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_FUTURESTRONG.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3225" title="Where Excuses Go to Die_FUTURESTRONG" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_FUTURESTRONG-300x252.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="252" /></a>LIVESTRONG you say? Persevere? Drive forward? Don't look back? Sell it someplace else, Charlie. Your ability to appear resolute and determined will only work against you. Now we know it's delusional and pathetic. Go find the monkey and the wooden bowl. Better people than you have done more with less on humility's path. This is going to take more than any makeover Oprah's fans can give you. See ya in 2019, maybe. &nbsp; 3204 2013-01-16 05:28:10 2013-01-16 05:28:10 2013-01-16 05:28:10 2013-01-16 05:28:10 closed open livestrong-somwhere-else-asshole publish 0 0 post 0 Character Cowardice Culture Excuses Lance Armstrong LIVESTRONG Oprah Tour de France U.S. Anti-Doping Agency _edit_last 2 custom_permalink livestrong-somewhere-else-asshole/ _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1683038549;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3256;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3929;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6599;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1896;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8084;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:336;}}}} http://working-copy.local/comfort-zone-2/where-theres-a-will-theres-a-paraguay/ Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:55:40 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=3245 <strong>If you care to be reminded how cringe-worthy our privileged bitching and moaning can be, watch this trailer for <a href="https://www.facebook.com/landfillharmonicmovie" target="_blank">Landfill Harmonic</a>,  a documentary about Paraguay's </strong><strong>Recycled Orchestra, </strong><strong>where the young musicians play instruments made from landfill debris.</strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_First-World-Problems1.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-3250" title="Where Excuses Go to Die_First World Problems" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_First-World-Problems1-300x220.jpg" width="240" height="176" /></a> As it was explained to me, "These kids have trash in their hands and <em>look what they do with it!</em>" <h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>This folks, is one of the places where excuses go to die.</strong></h4> <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fXynrsrTKbI" height="315" width="560" frameborder="0"></iframe> 3245 2013-01-17 18:55:40 2013-01-17 18:55:40 2013-03-25 22:08:08 2013-03-25 22:08:08 closed open where-theres-a-will-theres-a-paraguay publish 0 0 post 0 Comfort Zone Culture Inspirational inspirational Landfill Harmonic Paraguay story Recycled Orchestra _edit_last 1 _thumbnail_id 3314 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1683251338;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4946;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11484;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:366;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6473;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4346;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7795;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/the-patron-saint-of-pedophilia/ Thu, 24 Jan 2013 04:14:41 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=3256 Retired Archbishop of Los Angeles, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, represents everything I despise about having been raised Catholic: the lies, the hypocrisy, the rhetorical and dogmatic absurdities, the intimidating ideology of compliance as a measure of success and happiness – all of it. <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Cardinal-Roger.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3262" title="Cardinal Roger" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Cardinal-Roger-231x300.jpg" width="231" height="300" /></a>Granted, these are the characteristics of a church and its minions known to those who experienced so-called "old-school" nuns and priests, but here we are in 2013, and Mahony -- a man <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/22/us/files-show-cardinal-roger-mahony-covered-up-sex-abuse.html?ref=rogermmahony" target="_blank">who protected and made excuses for child molesters</a> for many years -- is only <em>now</em> getting that metaphorical boot in the ass, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0201-mahony-curry-20130201,0,3889565.story" target="_blank">as he's kicked into oblivion</a>.<!--more--> <h4 style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>STATEMENT FROM CARDINAL ROGER M. MAHONY REGARDING SEXUAL ABUSE OF MINORS BY CLERGY</strong></span></h4> <h4 style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Cardinal Roger M. Mahony Archbishop Emeritus of Los Angeles January 21, 2013</strong></span></h4> <h4 style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>With the upcoming release of priests’ personnel files in the Archdiocese’s long struggle with the sexual abuse of minors by Catholic clergy, my thoughts and prayers turn toward the victims of this sinful abuse. </strong></span></h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Alien-vs.-Predator.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-3269" title="Alien vs. Predator" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Alien-vs.-Predator.jpg" width="376" height="264" /></a>What good are your thoughts and prayers? What good are your words? You willfully sheltered pedophile priests from virtually guaranteed prosecution. In so doing, you caused further damage to those victimized by your pervert clergy. How are you only <em>now</em> suddenly able to connect with the feelings of these victims? 'Cause your confidential archdiocese records were made public, exposing your deceit? Your thoughts and prayers mean about as much as smeared feces in a madhouse toilet.<!--more--> <p style="text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Cardinal Roger M. Mahony <a href="http://documents.latimes.com/cardinal-roger-m-mahony-statement/" target="_blank">statement</a> continued</span>...</p> <h4 style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Various steps toward safeguarding all children in the Church began here in 1987 and progressed year by year as we learned more about those who abused and the ineffectiveness of so-called “treatments” at the time. Nonetheless, even as we began to confront the problem, I remained naïve myself about the full and lasting impact these horrible acts would have on the lives of those who were abused by men who were supposed to be their spiritual guides. That fuller awareness came for me when I began visiting personally with victims. During 2006, 2007 and 2008, I held personal visits with some 90 such victims.</strong></h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/THROAT-PUNCH.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3270" title="THROAT PUNCH" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/THROAT-PUNCH.jpg" width="168" height="161" /></a>"Fuller awareness"my foot. It's inconceivable to me that any man, let alone a man in a position of spiritual or religious leadership, could marginalize his responsibilities in this way -- as if the word <em>naive</em> carried the power of absolution to de-stigmatize your Paterno status. Actually, I take that back. It's not inconceivable, it's goddamned <em>evil</em> – literally. Tell me something, Roger, how does one stay naive while employing such legal and public relations strategies as whisking away pedophile subordinates to a child molestation treatment facility? It's something that would've made the rest of us gag, but you somehow "remained" dewey-eyed and uninformed through it all. Ha! If I'd been one of those 90, your guards would've been forced to pry my hands from your throat. <h4 style="text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Those visits were heart-wrenching experiences for me as I listened to the victims describe how they had their childhood and innocence stolen from them by clergy and by the Church. At times we cried together, we prayed together, we spent quiet moments in remembrance of their dreadful experience; at times the victims vented their pent up anger and frustration against me and the Church.</strong></h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/OLD-SCHOOL-GITMO.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-3271" title="OLD SCHOOL GITMO" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/OLD-SCHOOL-GITMO.jpg" width="317" height="211" /></a>Come on now! I know how these Catholic geezers think: they imagine they're being conciliatory or compassionate when they're actually condescending. "Heart-wrenching" = time consuming. And that last line about some victims' anger: quite the<em> </em>swipe at those who doubt or show ill-will toward the church, even after something like this. You might as well have hung quotations over the word "victim." Why even <em>say</em> "pent up"? Why go <em>near</em> the word "vent"? And "against" you? I think you mean people that are angry <em>with</em> you. But it's telling that you chose "against". <h4 style="text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;"><strong>Toward the end of our visits I would offer the victims my personal apology—and took full responsibility—for my own failure to protect fully the children and youth entrusted into my care. I apologized for all of us in the Church for the years when ignorance, bad decisions and moral failings resulted in the unintended consequences of more being done to protect the Church—and even the clergy perpetrators—than was done to protect our children.</strong></h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Mahony-baloney.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3273" title="Mahony-baloney" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Mahony-baloney.jpg" width="158" height="159" /></a>You offered your personal apology right before you had 'em shown the door, right? Or are we to take you at your word that you sat there, squirming in contrition through each visit? I call baloney, your Lordship. I think the public should witness that for themselves. Why? 'Cause you protected the church over children, yet you'll never see a jail cell. The expression on your face should be a stand-in for that absence of justice for the remainder of your years. It should represent the victims with whom you spoke <em>and</em> the ones you turned away. (Sure! Who'd you decline to sit with, I wonder? And who had to sign a wavier before getting an audience with you?) <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Predator-Priest.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3274" title="Predator Priest" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Predator-Priest-300x179.jpg" width="300" height="179" /></a>Look, Cardinal Baloney, you have no excuse for hiding child molesters from the law. The public should be allowed the  memory of your discomfort and inconvenience, if not your sentencing. You <em>deserve to </em>grovel --though I'm sure you'll be doing that soon enough. How's that ticker? <h4 style="text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;"><strong>I have a 3 x 5 card for every victim I met with on the altar of my small chapel. I pray for them every single day. As I thumb through those cards I often pause as I am reminded of each personal story and the anguish that accompanies that life story. The cards contain the name of each victim since each one is precious in God’s eyes and deserving of my own prayer and sacrifices for them. But I also list in parenthesis the name of the clergy perpetrator lest I forget that real priests created this appalling harm in the lives of innocent young people.</strong></h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Mahony-Hit-list.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3277" title="Mahony Hit-list" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Mahony-Hit-list.jpg" width="349" height="216" /></a>I'll <em>bet</em> you thumb through those cards: they're not only precious in God's eyes, eh? You know who <em>else</em> keeps 3 x 5 cards? Out-of-touch, Type-A bullies. Nixon and McCarthy had a few. Nazis too! Dick Cheney keeps his in an undisclosed super-bunker. Lance Armstrong denies having any, but... Come to think of it, the head nun at my Catholic grade-school had a lockbox full of 'em! They're just dossiers to you people!! It's kinda gross you depict <em>yours</em> as being so memento<em>-</em>like. And your detail makes me shudder. Knowing that your special 3 x 5s note the "anguish" assigned to each of the lives you've helped damage or destroy -- as well as the name of the guy who pulled his thing on a kid -- WTF? These sound like friggin' trading cards, dude! Where's your editor? <em>Someone</em> should've given a bit more thought to how your words might come across. <h4 style="text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;"><strong>It remains my daily and fervent prayer that God’s grace will flood the heart and soul of each victim, and that their life-journey continues forward with ever greater healing.</strong></h4> There you go again! Shouldn't you be praying for your <em>own</em> heart and soul? It's as if you're telling us you pray for the victims to meet you halfway -- for <em>them</em> to do the understanding and emotional heavy-lifting. <h4 style="text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;"><strong>I am sorry</strong></h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Sorry-Im-Sorry.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3279" title="Sorry I'm Sorry" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Sorry-Im-Sorry-300x200.jpg" width="300" height="200" /></a>No you're not. And I was advised once never to say I was sorry. It isn't some tough guy code: it's because "sorry" is an excuse. To specifically ask for someone's <em>forgiveness</em> is an accounting of errors and a humbling act, the power of which doesn't hit home 'til the asker is struck selfless. <em>You</em> sound anything but, pal. Besides, saying you're sorry is what you do when you've been caught. But hey, at least you're alive to watch your legacy be spat on, right? Thank God. <iframe src="http://widget.newsinc.com/single.html?WID=1&amp;VID=24299044&amp;freewheel=69016&amp;sitesection=ktla&amp;w=581&amp;h=326" height="326" width="581" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no"></iframe> &nbsp; <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Kooky-Catholics1.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-3282 alignright" title="Kooky Catholics" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Kooky-Catholics1.jpg" width="499" height="640" /></a> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Retired Archbishop of Los Angeles, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, represents everything I despise about having been raised Catholic: the lies, the hypocrisy, the rhetorical and dogmatic absurdities, the intimidating ideology of compliance as a measure of success and happiness – all of it. 3256 2013-01-24 04:14:41 2013-01-24 04:14:41 2013-02-07 00:04:27 2013-02-07 00:04:27 closed open the-patron-saint-of-pedophilia publish 0 0 post 0 Cardinal Roger Mahony Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles Character child molesters Cowardice Excuses pedophile priests _edit_last 1 _thumbnail_id 3309 ppw http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Cardinal-Roger-231x300.jpg _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:4;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706282139;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:932;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1233;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2266;}}}} http://working-copy.local/your-adorable-child/the-standards-of-a-stand-up-guy/ Mon, 04 Feb 2013 05:13:11 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/blog/?p=3301 <strong>Richard McCarthy's 4-year-old son received oral sex on numerous occasions from a 5-year-old female classmate at First Lutheran Church of Carson School. McCarthy's son wasn't the only one, and it didn't just happen on the playground.</strong> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/First-Lutheran-Church-of-Carson-School2.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-3313" title="First Lutheran Church of Carson School2" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/First-Lutheran-Church-of-Carson-School2.jpg" width="295" height="198" /></a> <h4><strong>The school was cited for a lack of classroom supervision and an inappropriate teacher-to-student ratio. The given reason for the school's sudden closure is being called a lie, and parents are beside themselves with anger. The Department of Child Protective Services is all over the situation, a lawsuit is about to be launched, blah, blah, blah. That's the stuff we can set our watches by. </strong></h4> <h4><strong>And McCarthy's a man we can set our admiration on. <!--more--></strong></h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/First-Lutheran-Church-of-Carson-Schools.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3314" title="First Lutheran Church of Carson Schools" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/First-Lutheran-Church-of-Carson-Schools.jpg" width="393" height="221" /></a>Look, there's facing facts and confronting possibilities, and then there's dealing with truly horrifying circumstances head on–and publicly–as an example to others of the strength of character that can really be achieved. McCarthy, at a level of disillusionment and despondency few of us can fathom, exhibited astonishing human capital. On camera, to a local news reporter, he shared that his son had described what the girl did to him and another boy. He added that, though neither child could process the feelings the girl had introduced them to, they both knew they wanted more.<!--more--> Fighting back tears, McCarthy said of the boys, "They're still looking for it and trying to make it happen." <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Richard-McCarthy_Stand-Up-Guy.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-3316" title="Richard McCarthy_Stand Up Guy" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Richard-McCarthy_Stand-Up-Guy.jpg" width="436" height="243" /></a>Can you imagine the Herculean strength it took for this father to essentially tell the viewing audience that he's witnessing the cycle of child molestation in real time, in his own young son? And yet his concern is wholeheartedly with the public, with the safety of other little boys and girls. "There's no way I can just take him to another school," confesses the father, "and be that parent who lets a predator loose." Holy crap! In a single sentence the guy raises and <em>accepts</em> the possibility that his son might be a potential predator, and acknowledges that he can't risk sending him into a new school. "How else do you explain it?" he replies, when the reporter asks if he really thinks of his son this way. Man, that's heavy. And damn, that dude's brave! <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Arrogant-Parent.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3319" title="Arrogant Parent" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Arrogant-Parent.jpg" width="80" height="80" /></a>Perhaps because he's completely depleted of energy and emotionally gutted, McCarthy doesn't ever shake his fists or yell. Absent is the <em>my-son-could-never-do-that </em>indignation, and the sense of entitlement that often discredits parents when they act as if their "property" has been damaged. Maybe it's just that the man is one of those rare, emotionally intelligent people, capable of processing difficult feelings despite having neither answers nor control. How many of us, if put in this position, would immediately demand payback? Fearful of appearing to lack a sense of duty, how many of us would shout a claim of vengeance to anyone willing to listen, let alone jabber about to it an indifferent reporter? <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/THE-WORLD-IS-AN-ISOLATION-CHAMBER.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3320" title="THE WORLD IS AN ISOLATION CHAMBER" alt="" src="http://working-copy.local/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/THE-WORLD-IS-AN-ISOLATION-CHAMBER.jpg" width="250" height="239" /></a>It's obvious McCarthy is heartbroken and that he loves his boy–describing at one point how he assured his son that he wasn't in trouble for what we could suspect are <a href="http://voices.yahoo.com/sexual-abuse-toddlers-six-behavioral-signs-look-1503739.html?cat=25" target="_blank">early behavioral indicators of sexual abuse</a>. But he admits he doesn't know what to do. It seems to me, by McCarthy's refusal to condemn the parents of the girl or talk up the impending lawsuit, that he's focusing on the problem at hand and leaving the rest to  lawyers and other parents. His selflessness–even his <em>willingness</em> to face the possibility that his son might turn and inflict the same damage elsewhere–is remarkable. McCarthy is a real example of someone taking a responsible and pragmatic approach to an emotionally apocalyptic event. It would be easy to suggest that he's playing up the victim role in order to cash in on the lawsuit, but I prefer to see this as a personal bar to reach for, rather than something to point fingers at and be suspicious of. For days now, I've been affected by the character this demonstrates, especially <a href="http://working-copy.local/blog/the-patron-saint-of-pedophilia/#more-3256" target="_blank">compared to what's being demonstrated by others</a>. Thanks to Richard McCarthy, his son has a good shot at recovery. He also is likely to live a life less dominated by confusion and personal excuses than by the standards of a stand-up guy. <object id="otvPlayer" width="400" height="268" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowNetworking" value="all" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="src" value="http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/static/flash/embeddedPlayer/swf/otvEmLoader.swf?version=fw1000&amp;station=kabc&amp;section=&amp;mediaId=8977972&amp;parentId=8977970&amp;cdnRoot=http://cdn.abclocal.go.com&amp;webRoot=http://abclocal.go.com&amp;configPath=/util/&amp;site=" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allownetworking" value="all" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><embed id="otvPlayer" width="400" height="268" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/static/flash/embeddedPlayer/swf/otvEmLoader.swf?version=fw1000&amp;station=kabc&amp;section=&amp;mediaId=8977972&amp;parentId=8977970&amp;cdnRoot=http://cdn.abclocal.go.com&amp;webRoot=http://abclocal.go.com&amp;configPath=/util/&amp;site=" allowScriptAccess="always" allowNetworking="all" allowFullScreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="all" allowfullscreen="true" /></object> 3301 2013-02-04 05:13:11 2013-02-04 05:13:11 2017-11-06 12:37:24 2017-11-06 19:37:24 closed open the-standards-of-a-stand-up-guy publish 0 0 post 0 Character Child Protective Services First Lutheran Church of Carson School Richard McCarthy Your Adorable Child _edit_last 1 _thumbnail_id 3307 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706166160;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8306;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:764;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:683;}}}} 96 D.West becareful-with-that@hotmail.com 76.206.8.168 2013-02-16 01:51:12 2013-02-16 01:51:12 I have a wait and see policy with stuff like this, but I appreciate your approach. D. 1 comment 0 0 197 Al Lyons lioninla@yahoo.com 75.41.99.254 2013-02-21 16:09:59 2013-02-21 16:09:59 Amazing Dad and person. Can't wait to see the "Law And Order-SVU" version of this story. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/culture/theres-no-excuse-for-die-hard-5/ Sat, 16 Feb 2013 00:16:53 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=3408 <h4 style="text-align: left;"></h4> <h4 style="text-align: left;"><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/A-GOOD-DAY-TO-COPOUT.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-3413" alt="A GOOD DAY TO COPOUT" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/A-GOOD-DAY-TO-COPOUT.jpg" width="396" height="227" /></a>Way too many things in this world feel like approximations of authenticity, </strong><strong>and this one’s no exception.</strong></h4> It’s remarkable how often mimicry and repetition stand in for faithfulness these days, with fewer and fewer of us even bothering to learn the subtle skills it takes to know the difference (maybe ignorance is bliss?). The original <i>Die Hard</i> movie is an example of how much things have changed: its creators <a href="http://graymalkin.com/58-minutes-basis-for-the-film-die-hard-2/" target="_blank">were enormously faithful</a> to the novel on which it was based—late author Roderick Thorp’s <i>Nothing Lasts Forever</i>. But four films later, what do the makers of <i>A Good Day to Die Hard</i> have to be faithful to? Apparently, only the franchise.  Where once the <i>Die Hard</i> series <i>drove</i> pop cultural references, the current film’s creators seem content to simply regurgitate and impersonate the franchise’s signature words and deeds.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Hans-Gruber.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3422" alt="Hans Gruber" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Hans-Gruber.jpg" width="169" height="176" /></a>The first film was praised for its nuance and was generally seen as genre-defying and intelligent.  It was more credible than competing action movie fare. <i>Die Hard</i> wasn’t a dumb movie after all, despite its body count, explosions, and shootouts. <p style="text-align: left;">By rehashing those signatures and catchphrases, however, by replacing nuance with inhuman plots and bigger, louder bombs and super-trucks, <i>A Good Day to Die Hard</i> replaces authenticity and faithfulness with corporate obedience—ironically something John McLane used to mock (it’s one of the reasons we liked him). What’s he mocking now, the<i> </i>Russians?<i> </i>Lame! Unlike every other 80s action flick, one of the original’s charms was its <i>avoidance</i> of Russians-as-bad guys. The era's forgettable antagonists compelled us to embrace Alan Rickman's <em>Hans Gruber</em> character to begin with.</p> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Deputy-Chief-Dwayne-T.-Robinson.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-3425" alt="Deputy Chief Dwayne T. Robinson" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Deputy-Chief-Dwayne-T.-Robinson.jpg" width="311" height="174" /></a>So yes, I <i>am</i> saying we’ve managed to dumb down even our dumb movies. But I’m also asking why.  Why do we accept the excuse of, “Who cares what the critics say?” as we watch something we knew to be genuine, innovative, and defiant get pissed on for more and more money? What’s next, the <i>Die Hard</i> series takes a cue from the airlines and merges with <i>The Fast and the Furious</i> franchise? How much longer will we be able to tell the difference between something that genuinely represents quality, and something that impersonates it? And how long before that distinction disappears completely? 3408 2013-02-16 00:16:53 2013-02-16 00:16:53 2013-03-18 21:34:19 2013-03-18 21:34:19 closed open theres-no-excuse-for-die-hard-5 publish 0 0 post 0 A Good Day to Die Hard Bruce Willis Corporate Culture Die Hard Roderick Thorp _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703491260;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4035;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9883;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3143;}}}} 98 Helen hcs@helenstringer.net 142.129.19.162 2013-02-16 03:32:07 2013-02-16 10:32:07 Exactly! One of the charms of the original was that McLane was a reluctant hero, terrified and acting on instinct. It was the fear that made his character interesting. He wasn't some generic action hero - he was an ordinary guy in extraordinary circumstances. He was us. And, of course, the first movie had Alan Rickman who is fantastic. No one can do superior, over-confident bad guy like Rickman. He was one of the few good things in that Tom Selleck Australia-set Western that I can't remember the name of right now: "Get him out of here, he's bleeding on the rug." Said quietly, as if someone had forgotten to put their drink on a coaster. It does underscore the fact that both filmmakers and writers should think very carefully before killing off brilliant villains. I bet Doyle regretted offing Moriarty. If Rickman was still in the films, I'd go see them. Mind you, I'd pay money to hear him read his shopping list. Enterprises like Die Hard 295 just underscore the film and TV industries' laziness and contempt for their audiences. 1 comment 0 0 195 Al Lyons lioninla@yahoo.com 75.41.99.254 2013-02-21 16:05:04 2013-02-21 16:05:04 Saw it.....enjoyable mindless action flick. But now ...."It's An Excellent Day For This Franchise To Die", please. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/prison-2/touchdown-or-lockdown/ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:08:39 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=3448 <h4><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/GEO-Group-Inc.-Stadium.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3450" alt="GEO Group Inc. Stadium" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/GEO-Group-Inc.-Stadium-300x202.jpg" width="300" height="202" /></a>Hey, what the heck is prison doing in your living room? </strong></h4> Florida Atlantic University recently accepted $5-6 million from the “charitable” arm of GEO Group, a controversial private prison administrator operating in several states. Despite the long-sought windfall, things don’t bode well for FAU: just minutes after news of the deal reached the NY Times, a company spokesperson was caught altering the firm's Wikipedia entry, attempting to hide the history of human rights abuses that took place in several GEO-run facilities. Let’s be honest: the buying and selling of naming rights for buildings and sports stadiums has become a ho-hum fact of life. But a university <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/sports/ncaafootball/a-company-that-runs-prisons-will-have-its-name-on-a-stadium.html?_r=0">selling those rights to the private prison industry</a> feels like an exasperating defeat. Given the country’s incarceration trends, some of the same young men competing under that banner will <a href="http://whyihatecca.blogspot.com/2011/04/jd-alexander-loves-his-corporate-sugar.html">likely live under it someday as prison inmates</a> (and cheap labor). <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/The-GEO-Group-Presents-ROLLERBALL.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-3452" alt="The GEO Group Presents ROLLERBALL" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/The-GEO-Group-Presents-ROLLERBALL-208x300.jpg" width="125" height="180" /></a>This is a savvy, if scary, move on the part of GEO Group, the nation’s second largest private prison administrator and a company that <a href="http://yahoo.brand.edgar-online.com/displayfilinginfo.aspx?filingid=7767347&amp;tabindex=2&amp;type=html">cites crime reduction and marijuana decriminalization</a> as threats. Becoming the largest and <i>most</i> profitable firm of its ilk will require deeper and more diversified investment, and what better place to start than by linking your name to a beloved American pastime? The general public may not yet comprehend how much of a prison nation we've become, but this sure is a smart, preemptive way to get ‘em comfy with the GEO brand, isn’t it? Welcome to Rollerball. But let’s dig a little deeper into our benevolent new sports fans. Under GEO Group guard towers, the unhealthy are weeded out (in some cases, through death-by-denial-of-medication), while <a href="http://www.newjimcrow.com/">the rest are divided up into groups based on age, mental acuity, obedience and yes, ethnicity</a> to serve as worker bees. For whom? Why, for companies to whom GEO Group has contracted this labor (for a profit) and for sister firms owned by the same group of investors – who of course are looking, above all, to make a profit. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/GEO-logo.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3453" alt="GEO logo" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/GEO-logo.jpg" width="172" height="59" /></a>This characteristic of the private prison world is already very much a reality in America, though for many it’s a fact that has stayed buried in the social subconscious. Until now, we had yet to see the industry take a step so boldly into our living rooms, our televisions, our <i>sports</i>. Talk about supporting the contention that <a href="http://working-copy.local/prison-2/summed-up-in-60-seconds/">prison is no longer for “those” (read: other) people</a>! Think about how often, during televised football games, the name of the company that owns the rights to the stadium is mentioned – such positive advertising! Even better, law-abiding, tuition-paying parents, FAU athletes, and students will bear the name of their corporate sponsor with pride, now that it’s been conflated with allegiance to the school itself. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/FOLLOW-THE-MONEY.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-3456" alt="FOLLOW THE MONEY" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/FOLLOW-THE-MONEY.jpg" width="212" height="132" /></a>Let’s reverse this trend of money first, justice maybe. Send a message to GEO Group that they can’t use schools and athletes to get you more comfortable with the idea of labor camps replacing successful re-entry programs, and tycoons replacing wardens. Sign the petition, <a href="http://working-copy.local/links/">keep up with the latest developments</a>, and for God’s sake, stay out of the sort of trouble that might get you locked up – especially in a corporate prison. Uh, <a href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/kids-for-cash-judge-vs-parents/" target="_blank">Kids for Cash</a> anyone? &nbsp; 3448 2013-02-22 18:08:39 2013-02-22 18:08:39 2015-04-06 07:09:44 2015-04-06 14:09:44 closed open touchdown-or-lockdown publish 0 0 post 0 Culture FAU Florida Atlantic University GEO Group GEO Group Stadium Incarceration Nation Prison Private Prisons _edit_last 1 _thumbnail_id 3450 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:5;s:7:"twitter";i:1;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1701138414;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4931;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6175;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2089;}}}} 257 Helen hcs@helenstringer.net 108.91.173.1 2013-02-22 19:41:26 2013-02-23 02:41:26 The lack of concern about the welfare of people in prisons is very depressing. Back in the 19th century there was much discussion about prisons and what punishment was best suited to various crimes. Was the punishment the denial of freedom? If so, was it therefore unjust to also demand free labor from prisoners? Leading writers of the day campaigned with great effect - public hangings were abolished largely as a result of the efforts of writers such as Thackeray and Dickens. Dickens wrote extensively about the new style of prisons he was shown on his trips to the US and was horrified by the treatment of prisoners (http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/pva/pva344.html). Yet now, in the supposedly more informed, better educated 21st century, the majority of people don't give it a second thought, or claim that "they deserve it," and that prisoners are not worth two seconds of their concern. There is no dialogue, and no concern. The "good people" go their own way, distracting themselves with reality television and talent shows, while the proportion of their fellow citizens who are incarcerated grows by the day. Genuine compassion is a stranger. So depressing. 1 comment 0 0 272 DDDDD fuelfilter@sbcglobal.net 69.228.32.211 2013-02-23 08:31:50 2013-02-23 08:31:50 Hang 'em all...more humane. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/los-angeles-county-sheriff/making-excuses-for-incompetence-l-a-county-sheriffs-edition/ Fri, 01 Mar 2013 07:30:54 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=3469 <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/APOCALYPSE-HOOSEGOW-71.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-3473" alt="APOCALYPSE HOOSEGOW 7" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/APOCALYPSE-HOOSEGOW-71.jpg" width="433" height="158" /></a> Not six months ago, the L.A. County supervisors’ <a href="http://ccjv.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/CCJV-Report.pdf" target="_blank">Commission on Jail Violence</a> concluded that Sheriff <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/16/local/la-me-1016-lopez-baca-20111016">Lee Baca would have been fired for incompetence</a> if he’d been employed in the private sector. For everything from favoring campaign contributors and <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-baca-nephew-20130209,0,616172.story">“Friends of the Sheriff”</a> to allegations of <a href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/i-told-you-so-level-8/">deputy cruelty and inhumane conditions</a> in the jails, from <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/23/local/la-me-deputies-fired-20110323">deputies forming their own gangs and factions</a> (only to attack each other) to <a href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/apocalypse-hoosegow-4-of-heroin-burritos-and-dings-at-l-a-s-mens-central-jail/">heroin burritos</a> and <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/25/local/la-me-fbi-jails-20110925" target="_blank">FBI-smuggled cellphones</a> (for real-time corroboration from jailed informants), one might be tempted to believe Baca might finally be held accountable for his misdeeds. The bad news is that a sheriff, an elected official, isn’t subject to the authority of a Board of Supervisors, so Baca can’t be fired for the negligence, mismanagement, or lack of accountability and transparency cited in the Commission’s findings. But the good news is, he probably won’t be running unopposed in the next election, as he had in 2010.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/LEE-BACA-IS-TIRED-OF-GETTING-HASSLED.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3477" alt="LEE BACA IS TIRED OF GETTING HASSLED" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/LEE-BACA-IS-TIRED-OF-GETTING-HASSLED-300x211.jpg" width="300" height="211" /></a><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2013/feb/27/opinion/la-ed-sheriff-baca-20130227" target="_blank">For a guy who answered a blue ribbon panel’s question about fixing his department’s problems with a petulant, “Don’t elect me,” </a>the 2014 election won’t be as kind to ol’ Leroy as the city’s <a href="http://peoplesworld.org/better-know-an-owner-clippers-outrageous-donald-sterling/" target="_blank">real estate moguls</a> have been. His opponents will probably have to form a line: out-of-work actors and comedians on the left, and on the right, former-law-enforcement-from-under-every-rock-from-here-to-Newark. Separate lines might form for newly sober ambulance chasers, for bee-keepers, for paralegals – you name it. Baca has <i>so</i> lowered our expectations of who’s qualified to do his job that, shit, why not even a felon like me? Until then, though, Angelenos will have to endure facepalm after facepalm as Baca’s tycoon buddies (who loved their Sherriff’s reservist badges) work to prop up his legacy. It started this week, in fact, with <a href="http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&amp;id=9008497">the National Sheriffs' Association declaring him "Sheriff of the Year."</a> Having <i>witnessed</i> much of what’s been investigated in L.A.’s jails, at first I felt insulted by the award (but not surprised). Now it’s just the excuses made for Baca’s incompetence that bother me, like when Sheriff's excuse-proxy extraordinaire Steve Whitmore called this Baca’s best year yet, ‘cause “people do their best when they face their biggest challenges.” Wait – did he just invent the <i>vindication accolade</i>? <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/MCJ-FREEWAY.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3479" alt="MCJ FREEWAY" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/MCJ-FREEWAY-300x156.jpg" width="300" height="156" /></a>In announcing the award, the National Sheriffs' Association trotted out the tired point that Baca operates the largest jail system in the U.S., a contention used <i>defensively </i>by Whitmore and the sheriff more times than they’ve been comp’d meals. The association also noted the educational opportunities Baca has provided to jail inmates, which <i>would</i> be great if his deputies didn’t restrict access to favorites, hold them over the heads of would-be-informants, and otherwise exploit their value. Association spokesman Fred Wilson told the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> that the judges were former award recipients themselves, plus corporate sponsors (who are <i>they</i>?). He also said Baca was being recognized because of <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-baca-20130226,0,3767487.story">“what the sheriff has done to advance the office of sheriff nationally.”</a> Oh right, we want to <i>replicate</i> the L.A. jail system. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/X169.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3487" alt="L.A. County Sheriff's Edition" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/X169-150x150.jpg" width="120" height="120" /></a>Based on the <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/oct/14/local/la-me-kassel-20121014">pseudo-philanthropic cop-groupie powerbrokers</a> Baca attracts, I’m sure those bestowing this award don’t believe in it any more than you or I do, no matter who they are. These kinds of convenient, parlay-able honors are arranged well in advance, and someone presenting one “do-gooder” with a plaque will often receive one just like it later in the ceremony (frequently from very the person to whom they just presented).  Somebody has to<i> write</i> these God-awful ceremonies: what the presenters say, the remarks made by recipients, and so forth. Oddly enough, criminal background or no, <a href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/from-beat-downs-to-bear-hugs/">I’ve been that guy</a>. Wanna know more? Check out <i><a href="http://working-copy.local/buy-the-book/">Where Excuses Go to Die</a></i>, available for presale later this month. Wanna read the Report of the Citizens’ Commission on Jail Violence? Here's the <a href="http://ccjv.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/CCJV-Report.pdf" target="_blank">PDF</a> <object id="otvPlayer" width="400" height="268" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowNetworking" value="all" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="src" value="http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/static/flash/embeddedPlayer/swf/otvEmLoader.swf?version=fw1000&amp;station=kabc&amp;section=&amp;mediaId=9008572&amp;parentId=9008497&amp;cdnRoot=http://cdn.abclocal.go.com&amp;webRoot=http://abclocal.go.com&amp;configPath=/util/&amp;site=" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allownetworking" value="all" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><embed id="otvPlayer" width="400" height="268" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/static/flash/embeddedPlayer/swf/otvEmLoader.swf?version=fw1000&amp;station=kabc&amp;section=&amp;mediaId=9008572&amp;parentId=9008497&amp;cdnRoot=http://cdn.abclocal.go.com&amp;webRoot=http://abclocal.go.com&amp;configPath=/util/&amp;site=" allowScriptAccess="always" allowNetworking="all" allowFullScreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" allownetworking="all" allowfullscreen="true" /></object> 3469 2013-03-01 07:30:54 2013-03-01 07:30:54 2017-11-06 12:37:25 2017-11-06 19:37:25 closed open making-excuses-for-incompetence-l-a-county-sheriffs-edition publish 0 0 post 0 LA County Jail Los Angeles County Sheriff Men's Central Jail National Sheriffs' Association Sheriff Lee Baca Sheriff Of The Year _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 62 _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw lee baca _yoast_wpseo_title Making Excuses for Incompetence: L.A. County Sheriff's Edition - Where Excuses Go to Die _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:1;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1688486613;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2309;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5926;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2523;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8731;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:841;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11224;}}}} http://working-copy.local/election-politics/nobody-votes-in-l-a-2/ Fri, 08 Mar 2013 04:25:58 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=3507 <h3 style="text-align: left;"></h3> <h3><strong>There are many excuses not to vote. These are mine.</strong></h3> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-DO-NOTHING-1.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3513" alt="Where Excuses Go to Die DO NOTHING" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-DO-NOTHING-1.jpg" width="168" height="164" /></a>The City of Los Angeles saw absurdly low voter turnout on Tuesday -- they say it was somewhere in the neighborhood of 16%-to-20% of those registered. It's the same sad song we always hear, but about which I'm finally free to ask: If the Mayans were wrong with <em>their</em> obnoxious predictions, how are we to trust iffy polls that tell us we're doomed if we don't vote? Aren't we all still walking around, microwaving the earth the Mayans left us? <h4><strong>In addition to that (perfectly reasonable) rationalization, here are some of the excuses that went through my head on voting day:</strong></h4> <ol> <li>You have to be some kind of ballot language specialist to understand the propositions, which are written so that only people living in Opposite World will get what voting 'Yes' or 'No' means. That's just cruel.</li> <li>I don’t know what a city controller does.</li> <li>My friends don’t want to go.</li> <li>When asked, <em>"Shall the City of Los Angeles enact a one-half cent transactions and use (generally referred to as sales) tax, with required independent audits, public review of expenditures, and all funds used locally,”</em> I need to pull out my trusty <b>?????</b> guide in order to answer. I’ll be right back never.</li> <li><em>Law and Order</em> already started. They're just going to raise taxes anyway.</li> <li>Polling places remind me of things I don’t want to touch, like decomposing, school district wood and volunteers.</li> <li>I already took my shoes off; you know the rule.</li> <li>Standing in line for a ballot's like being at the DMV, 'cept the people behind the counter are smarter than you are, and they <em>know</em> you last read a book when Bush was still president.</li> <li>Never mind the sticker, shouldn’t we be issued some sort of code when we vote, so when we encounter grocery store petition weirdos we can pronounce it and walk off guilt free, like one of the good people? Do that and I'll vote in<em> every</em> election.</li> <li>I can’t break away from what I’m doing just 'cause it’s time to vote. Voting needs to be rolled into my other errands, so I can manufacture the illusion of profit <em>and</em> check something off my to-do list.</li> <li>There was an election this week, and there's another one in two months. See what I’m saying? This is impossible.</li> <li>All I've heard is that both frontrunners have funded Muslim kitten burning operations and that they’d sell their souls to the devil if they knew the devil could be litigated against. It'll take a candidate who<em> deserves</em> my vote for me to just all of a sudden –snap!– log out of <em>Call of Duty</em>.</li> <li>Psh!</li> </ol> And yet...I <em>did</em> log out, put my shoes back on, and turn away from the <em>Law and Order</em> rerun. I found out what a city controller does. I took a very nice evening stroll with a good friend up to the neighborhood elementary school, where we found more volunteers than voters. "Been like this all day," one told us. But we figured, at least we're not talkers. See, we love Los Angeles, warts 'n all. Not the champagne and spray-tan bullshit, I mean the people and places. L.A. natives often hear how much we have in common with hard-bitten New Yorkers and I dig that. I relate to the cynicism, but also to the abundant civic pride. And really, how different is this from folks in the heartland who love their hometowns too? I fight my excuses because voting means it's time for me give something to my city, <em>'cause my city is better than the people running it.</em> 3507 2013-03-08 04:25:58 2013-03-08 04:25:58 2013-03-08 16:28:02 2013-03-08 16:28:02 closed open nobody-votes-in-l-a-2 publish 0 0 post 0 Election Politics elections Los Angeles Voting _edit_last 1 _wp_old_slug nobody-votes-in-l-a _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:15;s:7:"twitter";i:3;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1693967334;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2736;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6175;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2703;}}}} 2452 Christopher Lewis cflewis1969@gmail.com 107.210.29.38 2013-03-08 07:29:57 2013-03-08 07:29:57 As a former...and perhaps future...pollworker (I even made it to precinct captain one year), Rule #6 engenders feelings I thought I had sufficiently suppressed. Whether we're stationed in Dade County...King County...or Los Angeles County...pollworkers just want to be touched. 1 comment 0 0 2504 Dave dwinnert@gmail.com 108.185.198.196 2013-03-08 16:36:46 2013-03-08 16:36:46 I think the Republicans disenfranchised me. Our polling place, the one that I have been going to for over 15 years and listed on my ballet booklet, was not there anymore. No one in my neighborhood knew where it went ether. So I got a couple bottles of Thunderbird, some Kool 100's and watched reruns of FOX and Friends. 1 comment 0 0 2527 Debbie tlkatz@hotmail.com 76.175.160.161 2013-03-08 20:02:43 2013-03-08 20:02:43 Love this post! Maybe we natives feel differently than transplants when it comes to voting, but I'm so lazy, I just absentee vote! 1 comment 0 0 3484 M.Lasso marslasso@gmail.com 67.49.59.174 2013-03-12 04:09:07 2013-03-12 04:09:07 My last polling location was in a dingy, going out of business hardwood flooring store. I went in the evening, after work. Only one fluorescent lightbulb, out of a dozen hanging from the ceiling. was on. The extremely old volunteer lady, who appeared creepy and mummified due to the bad lighting, actually pointed to my curtained voting pod with the beam of a flashlight. Once inside, I became so frustrated trying to read with such minimal light, that within sixty seconds I gave up and began randomly stabbing at anything that could make an imprint on the card. When I exited the booth, nearly tripping on a stack of floor samples, Ol' Mummychops was glaring at me like she just swallowed Rosemary's Baby whole. Not a good experience, but least I gave it the ol' college try. God bless us all. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/culture/a-prison-bitch-by-another-name/ Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:29:08 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=3561 <h3><strong>Who says jail tormentors must have dicks to be scary?</strong></h3> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Kate-del-Castillo.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-3570" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Kate-del-Castillo.jpg" alt="Kate del Castillo" width="350" height="187" /></a>A long-haired blond was shoved onto the 9000 block of L.A.’s infamous Men’s Central Jail, a surfer-boy among the Latino gang veteranos, the gringo trash, the Crips, Bloods, old timers, and fresh fish. Resisting arrest and two counts of grand theft auto, we heard. No doubt the deputies had a laugh as they waved surfer-boy on, into the general population. The fellas thought he should’ve been sent to the soft tank with the "trannies and homos." Too late now. Like me, the guy clearly had no jail experience, but regardless of my fear and need for someone to talk to, I didn't go <i>near</i> that fool. He was radioactive. I’d arrived just a few weeks prior, and already I’d seen enough to stay clear. The guy might have protested getting stuck with the “faggots, bitches, putas, and pussies,” but it would've been far better than what actually happened to him.<!--more--> [caption id="attachment_3572" align="alignleft" width="229"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/9000.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-3572 " src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/9000.jpg" alt="Let's talk surveillance blind spots: Men's Central Jail Pre-housing assignment &quot;9000 Block&quot; " width="229" height="153" /></a> Let's talk surveillance blind spots: Men's Central Jail pre-housing assignment "9000 Block"[/caption] In truth, however, none of us gave a single thought to what his fate might've been <em>had</em> he been thrown to the gays and transsexuals, or the child molesters. <i>Would </i>he have been safer? The population’s only exposure to these prisoners occurs when busloads of shackled men are processed through Intake &amp; Receiving. Rows of crowded holding cells contain every shouting, spitting, thieving, screaming, bleeding, blubbering, cruising, infectious, bitch-slapping walk of life. The interactions between cells  –particularly between tranny tank and "normal" prisoners–  can burn a black-humored hole in the place where your memories go. The contention in Jules Stewart's independent film, <a href="http://youtu.be/VHI171snTms" target="_blank"><i>K•11</i></a>, is that the soft tank is hardly a refuge for he-whores and confused perverts. Just the opposite. The movie version of MCJ’s segregation unit (K•11 in the film; <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/informer/2014/11/18/in-the-gay-wing-of-la-mens-central-jail-its-not-shanks-and-muggings-but-hand-sewn-gowns-and-tears" target="_blank">K6G</a> in reality) is ruled by a heartless predator named "Mousey," a pencil-eyebrowed tuck-job nightmare who might better be called Hannibella Lecter. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Kate-del-Castillo-as-Mousey.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-3574" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Kate-del-Castillo-as-Mousey.jpg" alt="Kate del Castillo as Mousey" width="350" height="165" /></a>Mousey (Mexico's Kate del Castillo) runs the unit’s drug trade, and so commands her share of transvestite soldiers and muscular gay torpedoes. There’s sinewy competition and victims galore – just like every other prison movie, except with girl parts. At its core are sexual and psychological abuse issues akin to a pot of gold at the end of the exploitation rainbow. The filmmakers assert that: "In the dorm, there's no racial issues — they're all gay or transgender. That's what holds them together. So race is not an issue, which was a big message in this film. It doesn't matter what color you are, everybody is the same." Her understanding is correct. I remember regular prisoners talking about the unit's cease-fire vibe with jealously. Some years later, I find it funny that many of those queer-bashing bad-asses failed to predict the growth of LA County's gay prisoner population. with a last laugh, it eventually was moved to the 9000 series units, thus inheriting a formerly infamous gang recruiting hub. Despite this and the bleakness of the humor used to tell their tale, Stewart and her co-writer, Jared Kurt, ultimately don’t stray all that far from the stereotypical violence of modern day prison-tainment. Given how difficult it is to get a movie about prison made at all, though, I’m hardly surprised. Jules Stewart, by the way, is Kristin Stewart’s mom – and yes, I mean the 25-year-old heroine of Twilight fame. Not even <i>her </i>name being attached to the project initially helped “Mama Stew” get this thing greenlit. [caption id="attachment_3575" align="alignleft" width="376"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Jules-Stewart.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-3575 " src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Jules-Stewart.jpg" alt="If a movie professional's first shot out of the gate as a writer-director is a prison exploitation flick, and the year isn't 1974, it's either insanity or refusing to take Hollywood seriously. Both are acceptable." width="376" height="253" /></a> If a movie professional's first shot out of the gate as a writer-director is a prison exploitation flick, and the year is NOT 1974, it's either insanity or refusing to take Hollywood seriously. Both are acceptable.[/caption] Prison literature and movies about life behind bars are too often required to depict the world of detention through familiar custody clichés in order to reach production or publication. Even those who are fiercely driven to deliver their message must first bash their heads against the homogenization of their stories, and most wind up compromising to assure readers and audiences they're engaged in a prison story by feeding their expectations for the the kind of badass payoff that all prison stories “have to” have. As my own learning curve demanded, I've nicknamed this effect "the 3 Rs," for rape, riots, and rotten food. Publishers and production companies tend to avoid prison-related content that isn't easily recognizable and digestible. (A notable and pleasing exception is <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Orange-Is-the-New-Black/dp/B00HW3EXCE/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top" target="_blank">Orange is the New Black</a>, of course, but the creative compromises it's producers have adjusted to are glaring.) Prison shows and movies are often low-budget affairs, which, while luring a certain independent-minded demographic, come off as unexceptional. No mystery there: “easily digestible” results in projects that don’t turn a profit, because they’re all the same. So if another hysterical, hyper-gruesome prison movie like <i>K•11</i> still manages to make us think – in this case, about whether macho has to have a dick – should I dismiss it, or look for legitimate social observations? I’m inclined to think the latter: what really matters is whether the message Stewart and Kurt meant to convey managed to elbow its way past all the compromises it probably took to bring this film to market. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/K11.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-3567" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/K11.jpg" alt="K11" width="343" height="157" /></a>Those of you who’ve been here before know this blog serves as an information portal for <i>Where Excuses Go to Die</i>, my chronicle of the four years I spent in the California prison system (starting with Men’s Central Jail). You may also be aware of my stand that <i>Where Excuses Go to Die</i> was written to fill a void, an empty space where there are no differing voices or visions of incarceration and the incarcerated. Ultimately, <i>Where Excuses Go to Die</i> is a middle finger to anything that obscures, dilutes, or prevents legitimate messages from reaching an audience, whether the vehicle is an exploitation movie or not. Why? Americana spent 9.6 billion on prisons in 2011, but only 5.7 billion on higher education. Since 1980, California has built one college campus and 21 prison facilities. At least we know this: with numbers like these we can agree that prison is no longer just for "those people." And there are stories to be told. So make your own call on <i>K•11.</i> <i>And Surfer-boy’s fate? Where Excuses Go to Die is</i> now available everywhere. Paperback and e-book. Audio coming soon. Don't expect the 3 Rs. &nbsp; &nbsp; 3561 2013-03-15 15:29:08 2013-03-15 15:29:08 2014-11-23 19:41:40 2014-11-24 02:41:40 closed open a-prison-bitch-by-another-name publish 0 0 post 0 Culture gay wing Jules Stewart K11 movie K6G Kate del Castillo Kristin Stewart L.A. Men's Central Jail Los Angeles County Sheriff Men's Central Jail Men's Central Jail Movies _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:1;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704820570;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6842;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3929;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1180;}}}} 5130 Kerchoen servicesmail10@gmail.com 69.228.32.211 2013-03-17 06:57:52 2013-03-17 06:57:52 This post offers three times the compelling emotions and interest of Kristen Stewart's face (in even her most dramatic moments). By the way, was her mom "Jules" also her dad, "James"? Because, as long we're talkin' snap-on Tools, have you taken a close look at shim? I mean herm? I mean.....nevermind. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/murder/tj-max-and-his-middle-finger/ Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:14:14 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=3615 <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/TJ-LANE-Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3621" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/TJ-LANE-Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="TJ LANE Where Excuses Go to Die" width="323" height="232" /></a> <strong>Clearly, he intended to make a lasting impression.</strong> T.J. Lane wanted us to witness his transcendence to what he mistakes for character: he offered no excuses for his murders, his <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/ohio-school-shooter-tj-lane-victims-families-finger/story?id=18763554" target="_blank">obscene defiance</a>, and his soulless <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2013/03/20/2001983/" target="_blank">ability to surprise</a>. He hit that ball right 'outta the park, too, because today, like a bunch of scattering, squawking crows, cable TV news outlets are cycling the young man's name and footage of him in the courtroom every 15 minutes.  (Is his Tumblr fan <a href="http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/tj%20lane" target="_blank">site</a> really a shocker?) Countless wrathful comments now follow every T.J. Lane-related post. Some are angry, others giddy, and still others are nauseous with indignation. Many simply praise the treacherous world of prison, believing T.J. Lane will encounter Samuel Jackson's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2WK_eWihdU" target="_blank">Ezekiel 25:17</a> death speech from Pulp Fiction every day for the next 62 ½ years. (Example: "...tumblr isn't going to save him from the ass ramming he's bound to get in prison.") <!--more--> [caption id="attachment_3633" align="alignright" width="165"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/TJ-Lane-Pixar-Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-3633" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/TJ-Lane-Pixar-Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="TJ Lane Pixar Where Excuses Go to Die" width="165" height="136" /></a> TJ Lane - Pixar monster[/caption] Perhaps unbelievably, though, the gestures and remarks he made to that packed courtroom will instead likely serve as Lane's insurance policy against those vengeful public fantasies coming true. Like it or not, as he's transferred from Geauga County's Jail to Ohio's Lorain Correctional Intake and Reception Center, the impression he made on his soon-to-be "friends" will probably reveal itself to be a smart play. How, you ask? With all the media attention he's received, the State of Ohio will likely be forced to classify Lane <em>above</em> a scary, Level 4 Maximum Security inmate by appointing him to an even-scarier Level 5 "Administrative Segregation" unit. This means that, at <em>worst</em>, Lane's immediate future will be filled with intimidating remarks and mean looks from the workaday Badges with whom he'll interact. Corrections officers and facility functionaries tending to his case will hardly raise an eyebrow at the kid, since they process ho-hum paperwork for hardhearted badasses day in and day out. Sure, some of the Yard apes will be eager to knock Lane down a few pegs, but administrators are well aware of the staff's extreme distaste for incident reports (and spelling), so Lane will no doubt <em>stay</em> at Level 5 for a decade or more. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/TJ-Lane_American.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3636" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/TJ-Lane_American.jpg" alt="TJ Lane_American" width="206" height="151" /></a>If and when his status is finally dropped and Lane is let into the general population, the nickname T.J. Max will be waiting for him. And it will be no small thing that Badges and prisoners alike, in a maximum-security setting, never forget the faces of the men pointed out to them as convicted murderers. One learns to pick those guys out of a crowd by the deference that surrounds them. So if T.J. Max can maintain his defiance in the face of being tested ("Thank you Sir, may I have another?"), he'll walk the red carpet of homicide royalty from the chow hall to the basketball court. <em>If</em> they let him out of his solitary shoebox and onto a regular max Yard. No matter where Lane goes, it's true he'll probably face predators and those hoping to prove themselves more hateful than the Godless monster "character" he wanted the world to see. But those would-be attackers will be outnumbered by otherwise hardened convicts of every stripe wishing <em>they'd</em> displayed such bravado, cruelty, and callousness in the courtroom. And they will reward him for that. In other words, our offense is his footstool. 3615 2013-03-20 21:14:14 2013-03-20 21:14:14 2014-09-13 18:23:33 2014-09-14 01:23:33 closed open tj-max-and-his-middle-finger publish 0 0 post 0 "Killer" T-shirt Chardon High School Culture Geauga County Jail Murder Ohio school shooter Prison T.J. Lane _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:1;s:8:"facebook";i:11;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705646029;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:381;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9474;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:716;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/any-bloody-fool-can-pull-a-trigger/ Sat, 30 Mar 2013 05:48:32 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=3665 Give us another film like Bruce Lee’s <i>Enter the Dragon.</i> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Reservoir-Dragons1.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-3725" alt="Reservoir Dragons" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Reservoir-Dragons1.jpg" width="247" height="323" /></a> At one point, early in Bruce Lee’s 1972 karate classic-to-be,<a href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/enter_the_dragon/" target="_blank"><i> Enter the Dragon</i></a>, British Intelligence recruiter “Braithwaite” offers Lee whiskey, which he refuses as though it contains all the weaknesses of Western culture. Braithwaite’s droopy shrug ‘n gulp response serves to confirm for the audience that one of these two knows some things the other doesn’t. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Enter-the-Dragon08.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3691" alt="Enter the Dragon08" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Enter-the-Dragon08-150x150.jpg" width="120" height="120" /></a>As Braithwaite reveals more of <i>Enter the Dragon’s</i> cloak-and-dagger intrigue, Lee suggests someone just go in and shoot the bad guy. Initially, the question seems like a no-brainer, but Braithwaite assures Lee that possession of a gun on an island off of Hong Kong is a whopper of a British Colonial no-no: if firearms were suspected, he seems to say, the Queen herself would arrive to tidy things up. Moreover, this particular bad guy, “Han,” suspects he could be assassinated at any moment, so he’s particularly sensitive. “Can't really blame him,” Braithwaite reasons. “Any bloody fool can pull a trigger.” <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Enter-the-Dragon06.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3675" alt="Enter the Dragon06" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Enter-the-Dragon06.jpg" width="294" height="166" /></a>That line, delivered by another character in another film or era, could easily have slipped past, unnoticed. But when <i>Enter the Dragon</i> was released in '73, <i>it</i> changed the world – and I mean overnight. Western audiences, long accustomed to the action movie perspectives of white men with guns and horsies, were suddenly forced to recognize a mainstreaming of Asians and brown people. “Shaft” wasn’t going anywhere, and now he had badass company. A lot of us were ready to hang on Bruce Lee’s every word, especially since the man died strangely just a week before <i>Enter the Dragon</i> was released. That event itself was a conspiratorial marvel that helped sell thousands of martial arts magazines, all of which promised to fuel the mystique of Lee’s legacy. By the time I was ten, my own stack of <i>Black Belt</i> and <i>Inside Kung Fu </i>magazines was tall enough to stand on – so I could paper my bedroom walls with Bruce Lee posters. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Yellow-and-Black-.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-3686" alt="Yellow and Black" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Yellow-and-Black-.jpg" width="174" height="196" /></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Charles-Bronson-Black-Belt-1973.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3682" alt="Charles Bronson Black Belt 1973" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Charles-Bronson-Black-Belt-1973-227x300.jpg" width="159" height="210" /></a>From the pages of one such periodical, I ordered a <i>Game of Death</i> tracksuit, which my folks encouraged, as it was my first run at retail mail-order. I put it on as soon as it arrived and started sweating immediately: it was the scratchiest, lowest grade nylon imaginable, <i>and</i> it was too small. I felt like a sucker, but I buried it. I’d waited too long. Ill-fitting or not, within minutes I was walking right out the front door. And yes, I can still hear the laughter. Even worse were the erupting faces of the kids who held it back. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/SUCKERS.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3683" alt="SUCKERS!" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/SUCKERS.jpg" width="134" height="187" /></a>Yet there was hardly a kid around who didn’t relate, who didn’t engage in the debate over which martial art, artists, schools, and "training products" were the best. Or who could beat Bruce Lee. Plus there was always that linguistic biggie, the proper, “respectful” way to pronounce “numchucks.” That ain’t it, trust me, but you won’t actually get confirmation from the movie; despite its all-powerful use in the film, the weapon is never actually named. <i>Enter the Dragon</i> just isn’t formal or full of itself like that. Knowing head nods serve to highlight connections between the characters, and chins are often popped up to say <i>hello</i> or <i>I get it</i>. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Roper-and-Williams.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3693" alt="Roper and Williams" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Roper-and-Williams-300x129.jpg" width="300" height="129" /></a>With the exception of Braithwaite,<i> Enter the Dragon’s</i> characters speak in what was then considered loose, California-talk, using words like “faked out,” “man,” and “cat,” as in, “Whaddya know about this Han cat?” <i>Easy Rider</i> got there first, of course, with its vernacular of drug use and road trip freedom, but that was the sort of language more or less expected from a movie about fringe-by-choice fuck ups. <i>Enter the Dragon </i>took us farther. The power of Braithwaite’s disdain for guns was equal to Lee’s contempt for the liquor. “Any bloody fool can pull a trigger,” was vigorously accepted as code by young audiences. Fans picked it apart, and it felt like a higher standard. Even the movie's <a href="http://youtu.be/tB-QGOChuQc" target="_blank">grindhouse-esque trailer </a>promises that the human body is more deadly than bullets. Okay-sure, it immediately became a gimmick, but I'll bet it saved more lives than today's name calling, finger pointing, foot stomping, and cries for politicians to save us from the second amendment! <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Jim-Kelly.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3728" alt="Jim Kelly" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Jim-Kelly.jpg" width="290" height="150" /></a>When “Williams,” Jim Kelly’s doomed <i>Enter the Dragon</i> character, <a href="http://youtu.be/l8djo3gz06M" target="_blank">breaks a racist LAPD cop’s nightstick in half before breaking his face</a>, audiences saw right off the bat just how different this movie was going to be. The diversity in the cheers that followed this mother of all comeuppance karate scenes made ‘em even louder. Even more importantly, <i>Enter the Dragon</i> helped re-focus Americans’ collective lens on a group ‘til then most commonly referred to as “Orientals.” <a href="http://www.google.com/imgres?q=rots+o%27+ruck&amp;hl=en&amp;safe=off&amp;client=safari&amp;sa=X&amp;rls=en&amp;biw=1147&amp;bih=840&amp;tbm=isch&amp;tbnid=Th1QaF_sHahdMM:&amp;imgrefurl=http://www.flickr.com/photos/highsteelheels/353478193/&amp;docid=e-HVIxuCR-DzoM&amp;imgurl=http://farm1.staticflickr.com/128/353478193_5c5051da7c_z.jpg%253Fzz%253D1&amp;w=434&amp;h=640&amp;ei=A2VWUYqIHOLJ0QGe24DwBw&amp;zoom=1&amp;ved=1t:3588,r:2,s:0,i:90&amp;iact=rc&amp;dur=474&amp;page=1&amp;tbnh=178&amp;tbnw=121&amp;start=0&amp;ndsp=24&amp;tx=72&amp;ty=103" target="_blank">Stereotypes</a> such as those promoted through the dismissive, chopsocky kitsch of Carl Douglas’ radio hit, “Kung Fu Fighting” were challenged by Lee’s legacy, as well as by his Chinese and Filipino-American colleagues: Dan Inosanto, Sammo Hung, and Jackie Chan. Among others, these were guys who essentially negated everything we thought we knew about Asian cultures. Now, not only did we know more about Asians, we wanted to be more <i>like</i> them. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Angela-Mao.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-3701" alt="Angela Mao" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Angela-Mao-300x158.jpg" width="240" height="126" /></a>I couldn’t say why, but the older I got, the more I respected Lee’s refusal of the whiskey. Other admonitions were far quicker to sink in. Hundreds of viewings later, for example, I’m still awed by <a href="http://hkmdb.com/db/people/view.mhtml?id=3773=eng" target="_blank">Angela Mao</a>, playing Lee's sister, Su Lin. After utterly annihilating a gang of attackers with surgical strikes, Su Lin is finally cornered. As the gang leader catches up, the resignation and dignity in her face is devastating. Su Lin knows what’s coming, and also that none of these shit-stains will get their chance. From that day forward, I understood that real men don’t force themselves on women. My reverence for what I took away from this film as a ten-year-old is difficult to measure. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Braithwaite.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3703" alt="Braithwaite" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Braithwaite.jpg" width="102" height="123" /></a>So even though dorky Braithwaite was the one to blithely dismiss the use of guns, it was clear to us that this was all a part of the same lesson plan, made accessible through slang and story. Each character’s journey seemed dependent on how well he bridged so many cultural and linguistic gaps; it was highly persuasive when they navigated the differences so smoothly. I wanted to be <i>that</i>. Maybe not smooth, but uninhibited by other cultures -- and unarmed. I’ll watch just about any movie where dudes get their heads busted with flying feet, fists, and lead pipes. But my allegiance lies with (now rare) films in which only chickenshits fight with guns. Given the rise in firearm violence in America since the ‘70s, it sounds like we could use another <em>Enter the Dragon</em>. <div>How could Enter the Dragon, a 40-year-old film dismissed as violent "trash" by parents and of the era, contain so many healthy lessons? And how will we ever replace <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPRsKgyqTjE" target="_blank">Lalo Schifrin</a>!? <div></div> </div> <h3><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Tuesday, April 2</strong></span></span></h3> <h5>Gun violence in America during Easter weekend: 2 of the 25 people shot in Chicago were fatalities. An Ohio man walked into an Easter Sunday church service and fatally shot his father. In Texas a group of men fired wildly into apartments in a revenge attack for shootings and a murder that occurred the day before Easter. Guns seem to be more and more how Americans today are “solving” their problems.</h5> <div>• Is social complexity an excuse for seeking simpler solutions (i.e., resorting to guns)?</div> <div></div> <div>• Do such individuals still have influence over audiences, or has that been lessened by the ever increasing number of inputs those audiences are exposed to (e.g., social media commentary, online communities, etc.)?</div> <div></div> <div>• With Director Harmony Korine's toxic, empty and exploitive, "Spring Breakers" now unleashed upon teenagers, should we be asking where are today's Bruce Lees and Enter the Dragons?</div> <div></div> <div>• Should filmmakers and celebrities acknowledge – and take responsibility for – their influence over their audiences?</div> &nbsp; 3665 2013-03-30 05:48:32 2013-03-30 05:48:32 2013-04-02 22:20:34 2013-04-02 22:20:34 closed open any-bloody-fool-can-pull-a-trigger publish 0 0 post 0 Bruce Lee Culture Enter the Dragon gun debate Harmony Korine Karate Movies Spring Breakers _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:1;s:8:"facebook";i:9;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _thumbnail_id 3691 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706679764;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1742;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1163;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3408;}}}} 8079 C. Hodge c.r.hodge@hotmail.com 99.112.138.207 2013-03-30 17:26:18 2013-03-30 17:26:18 I enjoyed this article, but I have to say, the Game of Death tracksuit portion of it was most amusing. I really did laugh out loud! C. 1 comment 0 0 8940 Al lioninla@yahoo.com 75.41.99.254 2013-04-04 14:58:19 2013-04-04 14:58:19 Classic flick. Gonna watch it again. Great blog angle too, but what I wouldn't give for photo of you in that warmup suit! Priceless! 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/excuses/once-upon-a-time-in-atlanta/ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 02:53:44 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=3738 <h3><strong>On running a school district like a criminal enterprise.</strong></h3> Bail hearings have begun at the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia, where 35 educators, administrators, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/02/justice/georgia-cheating-scandal">and one Superintendent</a> are charged with everything from theft, racketeering, and violating the Corrupt Organizations Act, to making false statements and influencing witnesses (read: leaning on whistleblowers). While some parents sought to stop these teachers and principals from altering tests so they could collect bonuses for improved scores, it fortunately doesn’t appear that too many other parents were involved. <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Atlanta-Public-Schools_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-3752" alt="Atlanta Public Schools_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Atlanta-Public-Schools_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die1.jpg" width="418" height="211" /></a></p> It’s no Scorsese plot: squealers weren’t chased through parking lots with a pair of pliers, a baseball bat, or a 12-gauge. But your shrewdest criminal operations don’t <i>need</i> to resort to hostile messages. And not only had this particular operation been going on for a while, it's part of the larger and more entrenched standardized testing debate itself. In other words, it’s part of the system itself.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/STUDENT-SCORES-ARE-WORTH-BIG-MONEY.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3742" alt="STUDENT SCORES ARE WORTH BIG MONEY!" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/STUDENT-SCORES-ARE-WORTH-BIG-MONEY.jpg" width="420" height="257" /></a>In 2011, the Georgia Professional Standards Commission was informed of cheating by close to 180 educators in <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/07/05/national/main20076895.shtml" target="_blank">44 of 56 Atlanta schools investigated</a>. Students were either provided directly with the correct answers, or teachers changed incorrect answers on tests after they’d been turned in. Anyone who tried to shed light on the fraud reportedly lived in fear of retaliation. But as those teachers surrendered to authorities this week, union leaders Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, and Verdaillia Turner, president of the Georgia Federation of Teachers, issued <a href="http://www.aft.org/newspubs/press/2013/040213.cfm" target="_blank">a joint press release</a> that blamed the biggest standardized test cheating scandal in U.S. history on a “testing fixation,” as if to imply that cheating is a reasonable response to the pressure created by policies teachers don’t agree with. <h3 style="text-align: center;">I call that an unacceptable excuse.</h3> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Is-the-use-of-standardized-tests-improving-education-in-America.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-3745" alt="Is the use of standardized tests improving education in America?" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Is-the-use-of-standardized-tests-improving-education-in-America.jpg" width="280" height="176" /></a>"We do not condone cheating under any circumstances,” the statement begins. All too soon, though, its ethical high ground is eroded by a plea for public understanding, citing the difficulties of a “test-based culture” that dominates “everything” and rarely correlates to “what students need to know to succeed.” (Apparently, these are people who think they <i>do</i> need to know how to cheat.) Weingarten’s press statement also touts her teachers’ union as “the first whistle-blower to expose Atlanta testing irregularities,” a boast is as factually untrue as it is hypocritical. In 2008, the Atlanta Journal Constitution published statistical anomalies in state competency tests that showed suspicious numbers of teacher corrections in 58 Atlanta schools. It was the publication of this analysis that shed light on “schools with improbable gains” and kicked off the 2009 Fulton County investigation. So the <i>real</i> whistleblowers were the research nerds (that Weingarten probably refused to date when she was in school). <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/ANSWERS-EQUAL-SANCTIONED-PAYDAYS.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3746" alt="ANSWERS EQUAL SANCTIONED PAYDAYS" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/ANSWERS-EQUAL-SANCTIONED-PAYDAYS.jpg" width="209" height="118" /></a>Aside from being erroneous <i>and</i> a big fat excuse, Weingarten’s statement gives a bit too much away with its “outrage” over the fact that, at some Atlanta schools, teachers are “spending up to 100 days a year doing test-prep or actual testing.” In fact, education researchers like Richard P. Phelps, founder of the Nonpartisan Education Review, call excessive preparation <i>itself </i>cheating, because “teaching to the test” can <a href="http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2013/04/03/high-stakes-standardized-testing-accountability-or-inherent-corruption" target="_blank">result in teachers knowing more than they should</a> about what exactly will be on it, then drilling on those points. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Atlanta-Cheating-Scandal_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-3754" alt="Atlanta Cheating Scandal_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Atlanta-Cheating-Scandal_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="218" height="213" /></a>Randi Weingarten’s problem with teachers who’ve turned their classrooms into test farms doesn’t acknowledge this at all: her contentions center on the injustice of government mandates and regulations (never mind that Weingarten herself is occasionally in <i>favor</i> of interference: she recently Tweeted a report linking gun violence to weak state regulations). Maybe Weingarten is prioritizing. I guess it <i>would</i> make sense to first target teachers too lazy to even bother with drilling and repetition: the wrong-to-right answer changers now facing charges in Fulton County. The reality is, there are valid arguments for and against standardized testing, and plenty of useful evidence to suggest that the increase in testing mandated by the <a href="http://www.nea.org/home/NoChildLeftBehindAct.html" target="_blank">No Child Left Behind</a> Act can have a negative impact on student learning. Other people believe NCLB has been effective in holding teachers to appropriate evaluation benchmarks. <i>I</i> wonder what the parents of children fraudulently raised to undeserved levels in school think. When Little Joey is refused entry to another school because of his illiteracy, what questions will <i>his</i> folks have? What excuses will <em>they</em> be given? &nbsp; &nbsp; 3738 2013-04-05 02:53:44 2013-04-05 02:53:44 2016-12-01 10:39:57 2016-12-01 17:39:57 closed open once-upon-a-time-in-atlanta publish 0 0 post 0 Atlanta Journal Constitution Atlanta Public Schools Atlanta Testing Scandal Cheating Teachers Excuses No Child Left Behind Your Adorable Child _edit_last 1 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:1;s:8:"facebook";i:11;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704779505;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8404;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3878;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:293;}}}} http://working-copy.local/food/i-gave-my-love-a-chicken/ Wed, 10 Apr 2013 04:34:53 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=3782 <h2><span style="color: #800080;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/KFC-FINGER-BUCKET.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-3799" alt="KFC FINGER BUCKET" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/KFC-FINGER-BUCKET.jpg" width="198" height="209" /></a>Proudly distancing ourselves from the origins of our food</span></h2> On April 14, Kentucky Fried Chicken will prove to the American people just how much it loves us by unleashing its boneless chicken. Now, in my opinion, food should resemble something that can be found in nature, so we're not exactly talking about food, here. It’s more <em>mood</em>, as in, we’re not in the mood for skeletons. In the interest of full disclosure, I'm a vegetarian, but not a militant one. I don't believe that vegetarianism will cure all that ails this planet. I avoid meat for my own reasons and let the omnivores do what they will. ?But on the eve of KFC's boneless drumstick debut, I have to ask, "What more does the goddamn chicken have to do to please you lazy gluttons?"? Chickens live miserable lives...they die, en masse, in miserable conditions, but we look the other way because they're tasty. ?These birds give and give and give – they inspire not only our relentless philosophical conundrums (the chicken or the egg?) but even our <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UV3kRV46Zs" target="_blank">wedding dances</a>. ?And doesn’t "playing chicken" serve as an archetype for game theory? <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/WHERE-RUBBER-CHICKENS-GO-TO-DIE.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3798" alt="WHERE RUBBER CHICKENS GO TO DIE" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/WHERE-RUBBER-CHICKENS-GO-TO-DIE.jpg" width="139" height="416" /></a>Yet that's not enough. <em>Now</em> we need them to be boneless.? Not since that narcissistic little bastard in Shel Silverstein's "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giving_Tree" target="_blank">The Giving Tree</a>" have I seen such self-absorbed, entitled behavior by humans towards nature.? One day, the chickens will rise up with fists...or beaks...against their oppressors, and it will not be pretty. There will be blood. Actually, what bothers me most about this bit of "evolution" has nothing to do with the melancholy life and Dachau-like death of the chicken itself. Let's face it, chickens wouldn't know melancholy if Sam Cooke himself came back from the dead and serenaded them with "<a href="http://youtu.be/gbO2_077ixs" target="_blank">A Change is Gonna Come</a>." What's troublesome is that this is yet another assault on our food sense. KFC claims it’s saving us time and making our lives easier, but that’s an excuse for feeding us, technically, <i>rubber chickens</i>! According to Walter Perez, one satisfied KFC-feeder featured in a <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/04/05/kfc-kentucky-fried-chicken-boneless-fast-food-chicken/2011419/">USA Today video</a>, "It was easier to eat because it was boneless. It didn't take as much time." Watching Walter, I thought, <i>Now </i>here's<i> a guy with a jam-packed agenda. He doesn't even have time for a meat product engineered to fall from its bones to begin with! </i>Then I became distracted by pencil-brow'd Virginia Massie's case for convenience as her two-year-old forages in the background, likely believing there <em>are</em> no bones in food. What in the name of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Pollan">Michael Pollan</a> is going on here? It's bad enough that this mood-food is infected with Cartel kilos of sodium, fatty acids, and hormones. Now KFC, McDonald's, Jack-in-the-Box, and others are hell bent on getting these artery busters into our bodies even quicker. Less chewing is our undoing, people! <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/SUCKERS.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-3802" alt="SUCKERS" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/SUCKERS.jpg" width="249" height="159" /></a>If our fast food overlords were <em>truly</em> interested in saving us time, wouldn't they serve us healthier foods? Sure, a salubrious diet might take twenty, maybe thirty minutes longer to cook and eat than these processed nuggets of death, but aren't we then rewarded with five or ten <em>years</em> tacked on to the end of our lives? So by going the boneless route, are they really saving us time? Of course not. Profits are better when you can hook ‘em while they’re moving too fast and feeling too fit to care. It's important to remember that corporations and the politicians they purchase rarely have our best interests in mind. Call me paranoid, but every <a href="http://io9.com/5862455/10-great-american-dystopias">dystopian government</a> I've ever read about or seen in movies has used food to manipulate the masses. I don't need to tell you what <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green">Soylent Green</a> is. And not a single meal in Huxley's Brave New World was complete without <em>soma</em> ("all of the benefits of Christianity and alcohol, without their defects." Huxley's words, not mine). So on April 14, when KFC tries to serenade you with their version of "I gave my love a chicken; it had no bone," resist. Say no to wing shaped-meat paste masquerading as a real drumstick. As for me? I'll be at my neighborhood KFC, pulling a Belushi. Not the speedball – I mean the guitar. <h4><strong>I'm no vegetarian, but our first guest blogger and composer of this entry, Christopher Lewis, certainly is. Thank you, Mr Lewis. </strong></h4> 3782 2013-04-10 04:34:53 2013-04-10 04:34:53 2016-12-01 10:43:40 2016-12-01 17:43:40 closed open i-gave-my-love-a-chicken publish 0 0 post 0 chicken Comfort Zone Culture fast food Food Kentucky Fried Chicken KFC _edit_last 1 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:2;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1698417173;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4994;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:258;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9833;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/excuses-fail-of-the-month/ Sun, 14 Apr 2013 23:55:23 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=3809 <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Florida-Police-Sgt.-Ron-King_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3821" alt="Florida Police Sgt. Ron King_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Florida-Police-Sgt.-Ron-King_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="418" height="252" /></a>A1 Dumbass offers a meandering, self-righteous “apology”</strong> <h3>Let’s get one thing straight out the gate here: GET CHARACTER OR BECOME ONE!</h3> Florida police sergeant Ron King was canned for offering his colleagues practice shooting targets with a silhouette resembling <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Trayvon_Martin" target="_blank">Trayvon Martin</a>. Less than 24 hours later, King’s my-side-of-the-story video, which he was stupid enough to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=oonckYOhhy4#!" target="_blank">post on YouTube</a>, is a rambling, groan-inducing effort that only negates any argument or principle he petulantly wants us to recognize. “The events that took place on April 2 are as follows,” King says, only to literally recite his resume.  Instead of coming from the heart, speaking like a real person, or offering a human perspective, he hides behind a learned chain-of-command persona. Far from helping him make a point, it made <i>me </i>think of the cop-groupie weirdness of George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin’s killer. King’s immediate reliance on semantics to muddy his intention leads directly to his claim of victimhood for himself and the Martin family. But King doesn’t see the Martins as wronged in the way you might think: this cabbage-head, who blithely proposed an illustration of their dead son for firearms training, believes that both he and the Martins are simply the subjects of agenda-driven manipulation and “lies,” for which they are equally entitled to “feel used and violated.” This jaw-dropping lack of awareness makes his opening “apology” to  Trayvon’s family awkward as hell, and it’s downright cringe-worthy when King loses his place reiterating it later, after stating gallantly that <i>he</i> refuses to sit by and let himself be used for another’s gain.<!--more--> <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/oonckYOhhy4" height="315" width="560" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"></iframe> Throughout the statement, King shuffles the areas in which he claims “responsibility” and the excuses he makes for acting inappropriately in the first place – something he alternately feels and does not feel he’s done. Though he acknowledges that he shouldn’t have offered the Trayvon target to another sergeant for his pre-teen son to help with their father-son bonding, King ultimately decides that his primary failing was believing his cop colleagues wouldn’t sell him out for their own career advancement. Since, clearly, they did, the <i>real</i> thing he regrets is trusting them. <h3 style="text-align: center;"><b>In other words, King is sorry he got caught.</b></h3> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Trayvon-Martin-Shooting-Target.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3812" alt="Trayvon-Martin-Shooting-Target" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Trayvon-Martin-Shooting-Target-200x300.jpg" width="200" height="300" /></a>So again, super weird to watch him try to follow that up with an apology to the Martins, as if the act of including them in his robotic, authentic-adjacent mea culpa alone is sufficient to clear the air over his trivialization of their son’s killing. King does, by the way, weigh in on the shooting itself, with the disclaimer that he “[doesn’t] know the facts in the case and [he] reserve[s] judgment on either side.” That’s interesting, actually, because a large part of King’s self defense involves his post-firing claim that he <i>meant</i> for the hoodie-wearing Trayvon target to be a “no-shoot” training aid, and you’re not supposed to empty your police-issue bullets into those. He seems to forget that he essentially offered the target to a child completely outside of the training context when he goes out of his way to assure us that his judgment and integrity are outstanding because he’s trained firearms students with a range of aptitudes. I thought that part was funny, ‘cause it’s a practiced preamble of bullshit <i>I</i> once relied on as an excuse-ridden young adult. So needless to say, I know it when I see or hear it: most of us do. We also recognize fluff and filler, and King’s five minute flick’s got <i>ammo belts</i> of pointless detail. But back to the issue of judgment and the excuses our friend Ron King is making for his. King is now on record stating the following, “The only stupid act I performed was to believe that some of my coworkers would be mature enough and care enough to use a bad situation as a learning tool.” His meandering response finally settles on a self-righteous claim of having the maturity and experience to co-opt real life scenarios for more effective training, misperceptions be damned. (Will you just forget about his willingness to give the target to a kid already??) But I wonder, Ron   –considering the product description used by <a href="http://www.gunbroker.com/" target="_blank">the company</a> who sold these targets included the line, "Obviously we support Zimmerman and believe he is innocent and that he shot a thug"–   I wonder if you’re still on the fence about whether Trayvon Martin was a perpetrator or a victim? How can we believe you really intended to use his image as a no-shoot target? Oh that's right, we <em>don't</em> believe you!  I'll bet nobody does. 3809 2013-04-14 23:55:23 2013-04-14 23:55:23 2013-04-15 22:16:36 2013-04-15 22:16:36 closed open excuses-fail-of-the-month publish 0 0 post 0 Character Excuses George Zimmerman no-shoot situation no-shoot target Sergeant Ron King Sgt. Ron King Trayvon Martin _edit_last 1 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:9;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1688653579;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6118;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1125;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1254;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3066;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4439;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4866;}}}} 12469 Klaus Kerchoen mrnagle07@gmail.com 69.228.32.211 2013-04-16 06:54:23 2013-04-16 06:54:23 Well, what else we expect from the state that gave birth to Hooters, Scientology, and a past girlfriend of mine I like to call, "The Gloryhole"? On a map of the U.S., Florida is its own dangling chad. A landmass of confusion, Failure Syndrome, and bad decisions. Someone should tape Sgt. Ron King's mouth shut, tie his hands together, and, after wrapping him in a hoody that covers most of his face, send him running through the streets of St.Petersburg at 3am. Just sayin'. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/excuses/the-poo-in-reese-witherspoon/ Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:04:30 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=3878 <p style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;"><strong>Actress and patriot stands up for shit-faced Americans.</strong></span></strong></span></p> [caption id="attachment_3887" align="alignleft" width="319"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Reese-Witherspoon_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-3887 " alt="DON'T TREAD ON ME" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Reese-Witherspoon_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="319" height="214" /></a> DON'T TREAD ON ME[/caption] <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;"><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;">In Atlanta, Georgia last week, actress Reese Witherspoon did the Disorderly Conduct dance during an altercation with Georgia State Patrol Officers over her husband’s DUI stop. Witherspoon got mouthy, so the police got bossy. She was told to sit in her car, but she got in an officer’s face instead, allegedly multiple times. Once out of the car, she's said to have shouted, “I am a U.S. citizen! I am allowed to stand on American ground!”</span></strong></span> But the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stand-your-ground_law">Stand-Your-Ground</a> law doesn’t apply to drunk uncles, so only after hands were firmly placed on Witherspoon’s shoulders in anticipation of a struggle did she become physically compliant. Still, as the cuffs went on, so did Witherspoon, with the sanctimonious <i>don’t-you-know-who-I am!?</i> schtick. The arresting officer assured the tantrum-throwing actress that he didn’t need to know her name, but Reese wouldn’t let him diffuse things with his cop mind tricks. She reportedly insisted he’d soon find out who she is, and under the harsh light of national attention. But the harsh light of the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/reese-witherspoon-handcuffs-article-1.1325233?localLinksEnabled=false">Atlanta City Jail</a> got to her first. File this one under the Diminished Expectations reserved for most public figures, but Witherspoon deserves credit for not blaming her drunken stupidity on ibuprofen, eye irritation, Hollywood exhaustion, or a condition known as hotdog fingers. While staying clear of details or comments so loved by Saturday Night Live writers, the actress issued an apology, taking full responsibility for playing the celebrity card about as discreetly as Bieber or Lohan. As she sought to distance herself from the roadside antics of a skank – going so far as to state that her fear of the police is no excuse for her behavior – she showed relative class. <i>Relative</i> because the fear line is horse-poo. Berating police as if they were uppity house servants isn’t what terrified arrestees do, but she used the ides of it to her advantage, creating a platform upon which to rise above entitled pardons. The celebrity world has spoken in Witherspoon's favor, as expected, but she earns it with: <p align="center"><strong><span style="color: #993300;"><i>“I was disrespectful to the officer who was just doing his job. The words I used that night definitely do not reflect who I am. I have nothing but respect for the police and I’m very sorry for my behavior.” </i></span></strong></p> Who cares if she has respect for the police or not? Who cares whether those are really her own words? Her lawyer has already won approval for a pretrial intervention plan that would allow Witherspoon to avoid a conviction, yet her statement demonstrates an awareness of how her actions affect those around her. Like it or not, at least it's contributory. She has every reason to be embarrassed, but for an event of such utter meaninglessness, it offers  – <em>Witherspoon</em> offers –  a meaningful lesson: <strong><i>Own your poo!</i></strong> 3878 2013-04-23 23:04:30 2013-04-23 23:04:30 2013-05-09 21:02:04 2013-05-09 21:02:04 closed open the-poo-in-reese-witherspoon publish 0 0 post 0 American Citizen Atlanta Celebrity Character Excuses Poo! Reese Witherspoon Stand-your-ground law _edit_last 1 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705236344;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8404;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3738;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:293;}}}} http://working-copy.local/celebrity/theres-no-excuse-for-celebrating-incompetence/ Mon, 29 Apr 2013 01:27:23 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=3905 <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/White-House-Press-Room-Seal_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3914" alt="White House Press Room Seal_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/White-House-Press-Room-Seal_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="307" height="204" /></a> <strong>The W.H. Correspondents’ Dinner rewards nonfulfillment.</strong> I'm one of those people who respect the President, his family, and their values. I just wish the spectacle of immunity that is the 99th White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner didn't make me queazy for my country. It's nauseating that the self-approving lifestyles and arrogance of our government's elite will be inescapable when comedy highlights saturate the media this week. What is there for Washington bureaucrats to celebrate these days besides <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/slideshow/white-house-correspondents-dinner-2013-19057949" target="_blank">themselves</a>? Our gullibility, maybe? The whole <em>letting their guard down</em> angle seems increasingly phony when our leaders guard nothing but their own command. Cutesy clips of politicians' one-liners and zingers aren't worth having to watch 'em kiss the asses of High Media -- and vice-versa. Assurances that our President can be as loose and sharp as Patton Oswalt in the face of pressure isn't exactly what we need these days, not when his most sulfurous faultfinders and foes are enjoying their salads a few feet away. <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/White-House-Correspondents’-Association-Dinner_AP-Photo–Haraz-N.-Ghanbari.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-3913" alt="White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner_AP Photo–Haraz N. Ghanbari" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/White-House-Correspondents’-Association-Dinner_AP-Photo–Haraz-N.-Ghanbari.jpg" width="269" height="189" /></a>Maybe the Correspondents’ Dinner was more relevant back when everyone in the White House Press Room could feel the tension coming from <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/791/000023722/">Sam Donaldson</a> -- when the two sides in need of dropping their guards were the journalists and All the Presidents Men, not the entire country. The White House Correspondents’ Dinner meant a little more when it was full of inside jokes, when it wasn't so <em>relatable</em> to the public and tailored for the Internet. Now it's gone past even that: today it feels like it's being used <em>on</em> us. Don't agree? Okay look, I know it's not a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/berlusconi-bunga-bunga-photos-2011-11?op=1" target="_blank">bunga bunga party</a>. But Obama taking the stage to the lyrical rap beat, "All I do is win win win no matter what," then asking attendees how they liked his new entrance music, is funny, and not because the president is winning. It's bitterly humorous 'cause, given the climate in Washington, few are going to see this presidency as the bringer of change it was sold as. It's funny 'cause he's <em>not</em> winning. Considering that the Belgians just bought Budweiser, gas is still $4 a gallon, and many of the Correspondents’ Dinner guests are bowing to <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/congress-forcing-the-army-to-make-tanks-2012-10" target="_blank">corporate pressure</a> like never before, this isn't really a funny kind of funny. Our government is effectively paralyzed, so why reward it by watching Hollywood help to divert our attention from its bureaucratic blood clots? Oh right, we're "letting our guard down." <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/White-House-Correspondents-Dinner-2013_Hollywood-Reporter.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3912" alt="White House Correspondents' Dinner 2013_Hollywood Reporter" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/White-House-Correspondents-Dinner-2013_Hollywood-Reporter.jpg" width="316" height="177" /></a>So, what's the First Lady wearing? If we're gonna stop dwelling on the near Roman Empire-sized gulf that exists between rich and poor in this country, we'll need these sorts of distractions. (Thanks celebrity guests!) We'll need more assurances that our President can be hilarious (while America takes a back seat to corruption and corporate control). Originally, the White House Correspondents’ Dinner wasn't intended to pacify the public's discontent or divert attention from its grievances. But that's what it's being called upon to do in its modern omnipresence – with subtle, real-time revisions to boot. It's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses" target="_blank">bread and circuses</a> for sure. And God help us, we just don't care. 3905 2013-04-29 01:27:23 2013-04-29 01:27:23 2017-11-06 12:37:25 2017-11-06 19:37:25 closed open theres-no-excuse-for-celebrating-incompetence publish 0 0 post 0 Budweiser bunga bunga Celebrity Culture First Lady Obama Sam Donaldson White House Correspondents' Dinner _edit_last 1 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703746488;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5546;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7931;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2635;}}}} 16035 Chris cflewis1969@gmail.com 107.210.29.38 2013-05-01 03:50:05 2013-05-01 03:50:05 99th version of this? Makes one wonder what the earlier WH Correspondents Dinners were like. Constantine O'Brien: "I do not mean to raise anyone's dander, but President Coolidge is so boring..." CROWD: "How boring is he?" Constantine O'Brien: "President Coolidge is so boring he can not even entertain a doubt. But seriously folks... the Kellog-Briand Act? Really? War...huh...what is it good for, am I right?" [P.S. Thanks for the link to "bread and circuses". I had never heard it, and now I can't wait to use it] 1 comment 0 0 16065 Chris cflewis1969@gmail.com 107.210.29.38 2013-05-01 05:05:45 2013-05-01 05:05:45 Regarding Correspondents Dinner as a whole, I'm not nearly as irked by this annual convergence at the D.C. Chuckle Hut as you are (although there's very little about what you wrote that I can reproach). I like the dinner. I find it interesting that POTUS can say things that he would never say from the lectern in the White House briefing room (e.g. "Did you know that Sheldon Adelson spent $100 million of his own money to defeat me? You have to really dislike me to spend that kind of money..."). Why is it that you're allowed to be more truthful if you phrase your observations in the form of a comedic bit? I like that he can highlight the absurdity of his foes: "I'm not the strapping young socialist Muslim I used to be" and the bit about the "photo-shopped" day of skeet-shooting. People need to remember or be reminded of the specious behavior of the Fourth Estate. I find it interesting that jokes about certain politicians (Marco Rubio) are crafted with measured language, while jokes about other politicians (Michelle Bachman) sound like they were culled from a.séance with George Carlin's irascible ghost. In other words, this dinner/roast is a political litmus test of sorts (Rubio=alkaline, Bachman=acid). What I didn't like was the manner in which NPR and PBS were mocked for essentially providing news the way Edward R. Murrow used to deliver it, restrained and stoic. ("NPR...still the number one source for news delivered as though there were a toddler sleeping in the next room." That got a medium-sized laugh. "If the media were a high school cafeteria...NPR would be the kids with peanut allergies." That got a huge laugh. Yet CNN jokes were received with the sort of ambivalence the pretty girls exude when you make fun of the other pretty girls.. When all is said and done, the WH Correspondents Dinner will always hold a special place in my comedic heart because of 2006...when Stephen Colbert stood within a beer bong's striking distance of Bush the Lesser and said this: "I stand by this man. I stand by this man because he stands for things. Not only for things, he stands on things. Things like aircraft carriers, and rubble, and recently flooded city squares. And that sends a strong message: that no matter what happens to America, she will always rebound—with the most powerfully staged photo ops in the world." 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/los-angeles-county-sheriff/l-a-county-jail-my-yelp-review/ Thu, 02 May 2013 21:47:04 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=3929 <h2><span style="color: #333300;">Yelp reviews of prisons and jails? Fantastic. Count me in.</span></h2> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/YELP_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3930" alt="YELP_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/YELP_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="170" height="168" /></a> I couldn't be happier to <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/with-few-other-outlets-for-complaints-inmates-review-prisons-on-yelp/2013/04/27/59cc3440-9e24-11e2-a2db-efc5298a95e1_story.html" target="_blank">throw in my 2¢</a>, so here goes: Itching for that classic nightmare detention experience? Look no further than L.A. County's Men's Central Jail, located at the 9th Circle of Hell in downtown Los Angeles. If you've seen prison movies or watched <a href="http://www.spike.com/shows/jail/video-clips" target="_blank">cable TV handcuff porn</a>, you may think you know what to expect. Yet L.A.'s 2nd oldest jail never fails to surprise and inform. Not only will your experience unlock the power of contingency-based behavioral conditioning, you'll travel down an interpersonal rabbit hole of unimaginable depth, where each "teachable moment" is more fantastic than the last. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/LA-COUNTY-HELL.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-3934" alt="LA COUNTY HELL" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/LA-COUNTY-HELL.jpg" width="289" height="190" /></a>So ask yourself: how much would you pay for a vacation souvenir that allows you to walk away from annoying coworkers with the knowledge that they wouldn't last two minutes in the trauma grinder from which you've just emerged? Even your overbearing boss would be reduced to a bedwetting mute! Every time you see a self-important schmuck rolling up his car window at the sight of an approaching homeless person, you'll be able to call up the memory of what happened to that uppity lawyer from Encino, awaiting arrangement on DUI number five. Whoops! He didn't see <em>that</em> on MSNBC's "Lockup!" <!--more-->At MCJ, every conceivable custody horror will play out before you: gang initiation rituals, cockroach infestations, sleep attempts on a soiled newspaper pillow, 10-men-to-4-man-cell, your colon on jail food, the sounds of forced gargling at 3 am, and the ever popular jumping mice. Yep, with successful suicides and bi-polar berserkers always only a few feet away, yours will be the Adventure <em>Staycation</em> Package of a lifetime! Afraid you don't speak the language? No problem! Even if you've only joked around with naughty Español while waiting for your Benz to be washed, on this voyage you'll learn the sort of Spanish that may well save you from indelible psychic scars. And didn't you learn from your acting class how Crips and Bloods talk? Now get schooled on the hand signals that separate the "Busters" and "Slobs" from the "CRABS." <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/LA-COUNTY-JAIL_FIVE-STAR-HOTEL.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3938" alt="LA COUNTY JAIL_FIVE STAR HOTEL" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/LA-COUNTY-JAIL_FIVE-STAR-HOTEL.jpg" width="341" height="76" /></a>MCJ is unique in every way, offering custody themed entertainment you'd otherwise have to go back in time to experience because it's a dungeon as <a href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/l-a-county-sheriffs-vengeance-university/" target="_blank">as cruel as any Level-4 prison</a>. And your host, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, strives to maintain a hospitality worthy of ongoing <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-baca-tanaka-20130501,0,1608386.story" target="_blank">FBI excessive force and corruption probes.</a> Extras include getting "lost," where, despite headcounts and bar-code wristbands, your bellyaching will guarantee retaliatory placement in a forgotten cell module! Inmates will be transferred in and out daily, giving you countless opportunities to prove yourself to a whole new crowd.  By the time you are finally moved, you'll have become hardened and bitter enough to get by. And then your stay will end. When it does, you'll emerge as a new person, someone unafraid of stopping up a toilet with a breakfast orange to wash his underwear and socks. Friends, no money can buy a motivational seminar more permanent than time spent at MCJ. <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/gsWMj9UYtmQ" height="315" width="420" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"></iframe> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/YELP_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3930" alt="YELP_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/YELP_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="71" height="71" /></a> 3929 2013-05-02 21:47:04 2013-05-02 21:47:04 2014-12-21 10:07:18 2014-12-21 17:07:18 closed open l-a-county-jail-my-yelp-review publish 0 0 post 0 Adventure Vacation Package Los Angeles County Sheriff Los Angeles County Sheriff's Men's Central Jail Men's Central Jail The way I Yelp Yelp jail reviews _edit_last 1 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:1;s:8:"facebook";i:35;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1701160683;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8731;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2309;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1180;}}}} 16395 Kerschoen servicesmail10@gmail.com 38.98.61.114 2013-05-02 23:55:14 2013-05-02 23:55:14 I've marked this review as "useful"! Thanks! 1 comment 0 0 18664 Sally sallycomic@aol.com http://www.sallymullins.com 72.129.75.202 2013-05-21 00:00:59 2013-05-21 00:00:59 I am really pissed I never used the term "Staycation" that way. Awesome review. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/your-adorable-child/the-united-states-of-suspects-2/ Sun, 12 May 2013 23:36:42 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=3965 <h3><span style="color: #3366ff;"><b>File This One Under: Advice for Parents, Children and Teens</b></span></h3> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Notes6.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3970" alt="Notes6" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Notes6.jpg" width="237" height="220" /></a>Tuesday, April 23 – FoxNews.com posts an <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/23/marathon-attack-suspect-communicating-by-writing-sources-say-with-faith-seen-as/" target="_blank">article</a> linking the online Al Qaeda recruiting publication “Inspire” to bomb-making plans used in Boston. Soon after, here in L.A., “Charlie” clicks on a link contained in the piece that takes him to the Jihadist magazine itself. He explores it, without questioning why such a hot-potato link was live, instead of just explained. At 6:25 the next morning, Charlie’s condo door is nearly pounded off its hinges. Whizzing past his 18-month-old daughter’s crib, he marvels at her solid sleep. The peephole view through the door is of several LAPD officers and ATF agents. He turns the handle to find game faces and drawn sidearms. Boots instantly become doorstops. Their respective uniforms are tactical, but reasonably so. Still, they’re big, amped, and all going at once. <p style="text-align: left;">“Step back. You’re gonna wanna step back.”</p> <p style="text-align: left;">“Are you alone? Step back.”</p> <p style="text-align: left;">“We have a report of a man seen in your window waving a firearm.”</p> <p style="text-align: left;">“Hold on, <i>what?</i>” Charlie demands, alarmed at their inching inward.</p> <p style="text-align: left;">“Where are your weapons?”</p> <p style="text-align: left;">“Hey, wait,” Charlie implores. “I have my 18-month-old daughter here!”</p> <p style="text-align: left;">“Will you consent to a search of your property?”</p> <p style="text-align: left;">“A man in your window was seen from the street with a handgun.”</p> <p style="text-align: left;">“I don’t own a handgun! I have no firearms here.”</p> <p style="text-align: left;">“Yes you do – a Ruger American, 270.”</p> <p style="text-align: left;">“I just bought that. A friend is sighting it for me.”</p> <p style="text-align: left;">“At what location?”</p> <p style="text-align: left;">"You didn't get the scope option?"</p> <p style="text-align: left;">“Will you allow us further entry to check for ourselves?”</p> <p style="text-align: left;">“Go ahead and look! It isn’t here. I have a baby, so I don’t keep guns here.”</p> They fan out into the living room, dining area, and next to the plasma by the big window in question. Charlie doesn’t merit a strategic takeover of his living room or his life, so he’s clueless but calm. As it hits him that this is really happening, he wonders why it feels like both an honor and an insult.<!--more--> “Sir. Are. You. Alone.” “No! My daughter –” “Who’s here with you?” “My <i>daughter</i> is right behind you in her crib!” The lead agent turns peripherally, senses that the crib is already being eyeballed, and turns back. They own the place. They relax, but only by a notch. All guns are holstered now. The female officer is the last to enter. She’s ATF too, and carrying a black suitcase, the side of which reads “Vanguard.” They ask questions they already know the answers to, and no one can seem to do so one-at-a-time. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Supreme-VANGUARD.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-3981" alt="Supreme VANGUARD" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Supreme-VANGUARD.jpg" width="282" height="204" /></a>“Is your Subaru in the structure downstairs?” “Does this condominium belong to you?” “You’re a personal trainer. Do you do movie stars?” Charlie fires back, “Tell me how someone could’ve seen my window with our balcony in the way.” “Where is your wife? Is she here?” “No, she’s in Virginia ‘til tomorrow. Nobody was up here waving a gun.” “You were arrested in Virginia, in 1992, for the manufacture of explosives.” “Wow!” Charlie's a little afraid now. “Yes. I was 19. We made M-80s and tossed ‘em in the water.” “And in 1994 you were convicted of driving under influence of alcohol or drugs, also in Virginia.” Two of the LAPD officers remain in the hallway and hold the door halfway open. Another surveys the street from the condo’s sliding glass door. The fourth stands between Charlie and his access to the rest of the unit. If Charlie moves away from the crib, everyone will know it at once. He has never felt so small. The female agent sets down the Vanguard case and gestures toward the family computer. “This belong to you?” The energy in the room shifts to her container, which resembles a Humvee. “My wife uses it for work. So do I.” <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Common-Sense_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3987" alt="Common Sense_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Common-Sense_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="198" height="210" /></a>The female compliments the PC, remarking that it’s overbuilt for home use. Charlie explains it’s a gaming computer; his wife made him ditch the PlayStation, so he plays on the big, bad desktop. A seemingly casual conversation ensues about the first person shooter games he plays as each game is removed from a shelf and inspected. Just as Charlie realizes he’s been too permissive, the woman gets to it, flipping open the latches on her case. Inside, Charlie sees a coil of CAT-5 cable, parallel and SATA ribbons, a small keyboard, and two elaborate hard drive devices. “Hey, I invited you guys in. You can’t touch my computer! Where’s your warrant? ” The agent doesn’t remove her hands from the latches. All eyes are on her. “What were you doing on a watch-listed website?” “Huh?” “Yesterday morning, around ten. Inspire magazine. You visited a flagged website and spent approximately 39 minutes on it. What exactly were you looking for?” <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/OPEN-SOURCE-JIHAD.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-3991" alt="OPEN SOURCE JIHAD" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/OPEN-SOURCE-JIHAD.jpg" width="320" height="180" /></a>Suddenly Charlie’s view of the world changes. He knows things are like this now, but it’s never really applied to him. Homeland security is a thing, out there, in airports and shipping harbors. The thought doesn’t stop Charlie from becoming appropriately defensive. “That was ya’ll’s website! The link was live on FoxNews.com, in an article about Boston. The Inspire thing’s where they learned how to make their bombs.” “And you needed that information…why?” <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/FoxNews.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3989" alt="FoxNews" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/FoxNews.png" width="75" height="81" /></a>“I <i>didn’t</i> need that information. I was just looking. It was on Fox for cryin' out loud!” Charlie addresses each and every person that will match his eye contact. He’s pleading now, which sickens him. But this is bullshit. He isn’t lying; he isn’t a terrorist; and while <em>he</em> may have nothing to hide on his machine other than hotasianpussy dot com, <i>they</i> lied to get into his apartment. His confidence increases. “Sorry. You guys need a warrant. You told me there was someone with a gun up here, and that’s not true. There aren’t any guns here, or bombs.” Charlie reiterates that many times during the ensuing two hour ordeal. At last, the group packs up  and cinches their ballistic nylon brassieres. They grumble and growl on their way out, ticking off the risks of Internet surfing. They’ll be watching him, they warn. <p style="text-align: center;">• • • • • • •</p> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/This-is-your-brain-on-assumption_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-3994" alt="This is your brain on assumption_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/This-is-your-brain-on-assumption_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="328" height="214" /></a>This account was related to me by Charlie himself a couple hours after it ended. I interrogated him too, insisting on particulars and retellings. At every turn, I had to peel my palms from my face. I couldn’t wrap my head around Charlie’s failure to consider that the link might be bait, or at the very least monitored, flagged, and circled in red ink. <strong>How could <em>anyone</em> assume good judgment follows you like a dog? </strong> Yet I experienced the same disconnect Charlie must have. <i>Was</i> a direct link to Al Qaeda posted intentionally? Would whoever posted it be so obvious? How many Fox News fans assumed their favorite website would know better, on their behalf? How many other Charlies were out there with ATF teams sitting on their chests? And how much does <i>that</i> cost? How many “bad guys” does America truly reel in with such broad and obvious strokes? <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/WEAPONS-OF-THE-NEW-WORLD-ORDER.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4003" alt="WEAPONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/WEAPONS-OF-THE-NEW-WORLD-ORDER.jpg" width="276" height="122" /></a>Charlie didn’t have these answers. But since I’ve never personally seen a flagged website bring the surveillance state to someone’s front door, I pestered him about the agents’ facial expressions and statements, the computer forensics kit, and their refusal to address the <i>man in the window </i>ploy after it went limp. I also asked him whether he was planning to tell his wife what happened upon her return (I got a resounding ‘No way!’ on that one). Charlie runs boot camp classes for stroller pushers, flabby husbands, actors, cubicle dwellers, cat ladies, and the discipline deficient (like me). The gym where his classes are held is often empty when we work out together. We were doing just that when he told me this story; he’d just come from dropping off his daughter at her babysitter’s. <strong>It failed to dawn on either of us that the events he was relating were, in fact, <i>still going on</i>.</strong> Halfway through our workout, we noticed a middle-aged man we’d never seen before waiting near the front desk at the far end of our building. We didn’t know how long he’d been standing there, but just as we were about to explain that the gym wasn’t open yet, he walked out. Charlie stepped into the parking lot from a door near us to see what was up. The man saw him, pointed to a business card he was holding that was impossible to read from such a distance, and then jumped into his car and drove away. Charlie shrugged. I barely even registered the guy. Then, while sitting at a red light on my way home, I got a call on my cell. The caller ID showed a semi-local number, but no name. A Hispanic-sounding woman, possibly middle-aged, said, “You ordered an estimate for concrete delivery.” “Concrete delivery? No, I didn’t. I don’t need any concrete.” “Okay, thank you.” She hung up. It sounded dumb and weird. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/If-it-Smells-Like-Bullshit.gif"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-4000" alt="If it Smells Like Bullshit" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/If-it-Smells-Like-Bullshit.gif" width="216" height="266" /></a>Ten minutes later, at home, my landline rang. An older woman, sounding white as Wonder Bread, promptly apologized for having the wrong number despite not actually asking for anyone. She sounded annoyed, like someone at the Department of Motor Vehicles who <i>issues</i> sentences rather than saying them. She didn’t hang up immediately, either, letting the line hang for a few seconds before disconnecting. This time the number was blocked, which is when it hit me that the police – or someone – had just com-checked both my phone numbers. I felt honored and insulted at the same time. Unfortunately, because I’m a Felon-American, I have less of a right to feel either. What I’m <i>not </i>however, is a conspiracy theorist (or terrorist). Yes, in the aftermath of an initial engagement with a potential suspect, law enforcement has every reason to look at those with whom their target makes first contact. <strong>But I needed a little more to go on to believe Charlie’s story had now become <i>my</i> story.</strong> I called a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_hat_(computer_security)" target="_blank">White Hat</a> friend of mine who knows just what to do with every tool in that Vanguard suitcase. I explained everything that had been related to me, as well as all that followed. I provided him with the mystery phone number, and asked him to look into it – his way. He emailed his findings: <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">“First I called the number myself. A woman answered with a simple, ‘Hello?’ so I played along and said, ‘This is Ricky.’ She responded, ‘This is Milwaukee.’ When I asked, ‘Did you say Milwaukee?’ she said, ‘Oh. You must be calling for SSW Construction.’”</span></p> <span style="color: #3366ff;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/27b6.jpg"><span style="color: #3366ff;"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4018" alt="27b:6" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/27b6.jpg" width="295" height="165" /></span></a>“She sounded a little strange, so I ran a cursory search on the number. Eventually, it leads <a href="http://www.sswconstruction.com/home.html"><span style="color: #3366ff;">here</span></a>. It’s odd that two of the four links on the site are password protected: only the “Home” and “Contact Us” tabs are active. There’s a Northern California office in Roseville, just outside of Sacramento – nowhere near Wisconsin. Could be nothing....could be everything.”</span> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/SSW.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4021" alt="SSW" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/SSW.jpg" width="125" height="49" /></a> Okay, a construction company. I felt like I had my feet on the ground enough to call the number atop my cell phone’s incoming calls list, so I dialed it myself. A third woman answered but didn’t say hello; she said, "Milwaukee" and cleared her throat. I blinked, and hung up. A little while later, a second email from my friend read: <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #3366ff;">“These are all the people and corporations registered at the same location as SSW Construction’s Southern California address. <span style="color: #3366ff;">Just count them!</span> My favorite is that two of them, <i>On-Time Installers</i> and <i>On-Time Satellites,</i> is owned by the same person. Creepy much?”</span></p> Law enforcement fronts, maybe; a morning of curious events, <em>definitely</em>. That same day I found the FoxNews.com <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/23/marathon-attack-suspect-communicating-by-writing-sources-say-with-faith-seen-as/">article that Charlie described</a>. Sure enough, in the second paragraph, there was the word “Inspire” he’d clicked on. I did <i>not</i> follow his lead, but I’ve revisited that article several times, noting many changes to the URL. At one point, all of the links in the article had been deactivated. <strong>What are my takeaways? </strong> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/BHPD.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4011" alt="BHPD" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/BHPD.jpg" width="137" height="144" /></a>In the past when I’ve gotten pulled over for, say, sliding through a stop sign while making a right turn, police have returned to my car with my driver's license to ask about my criminal history. Once, a Beverly Hills cop pulled me over for going too fast on Sunset Boulevard. When <i>he</i> ran my license, he didn’t return until two additional BHPD cars arrived. I wound up having to prove to them I’d really been to Folsom Prison. It was at their fingertips, but they wanted a story. They cited and released me after 90-minutes. Truth be told; I didn't hate it or them, but  my conversations with police are rarely brief. I don’t do anything that might put me back in a courtroom. For me, that’s where life and time stops. If ever there was a place where questions are asked and answers are already printed out, it’s in a courtroom. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/DARPA.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-4012" alt="DARPA" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/DARPA.jpg" width="189" height="98" /></a>I believe that in this case, law enforcement types hidden behind a carefully constructed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office">public apparatus</a> did, in fact, check me out. It’s no big deal, but here’s why <i>you</i> should take it seriously: #1 Who cares what SSW is? Welcome to the United States of Suspects. Your neighbors are ready and willing to tell local cops and Federal agents anything and everything they know about you. All the better if they appear on CNN after you’ve been taken away. We’ve been trained to show a little too much pride in the takedown of our neighbors, so you might not want a laugh this one off. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/YOUR-HOUSE.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4014" alt="YOUR HOUSE" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/YOUR-HOUSE.jpg" width="209" height="134" /></a>#2 Someone as smart as Charlie should know not to click around “an English-language online magazine that Al Qaeda uses to radicalize and recruit Westerners.” So here’s that advice I promised: If you don’t want your kids bringing Neo-Centurion Assault Teams to your front door and staying for hours while they size up your station in life, urge them to use common sense on the Internet. Say the following so often they get mad at you: <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Don’t look up bomb-making diagrams.</b></p> <p style="text-align: center; padding-left: 30px;">They’ll huff and assure you they aren’t that stupid. So what? Tell ‘em anyway. ‘Cause when curious people think no one’s looking, they usually <i>are</i> that stupid.</p> <p style="text-align: center; padding-left: 30px;"><b>Don’t post pictures of your naked ass for the world to see.</b></p> <p style="text-align: center; padding-left: 30px;">If your kids are attention-needy, it’s your fault. Change that right now.</p> <p style="text-align: center; padding-left: 30px;"><b>Don’t pick on someone smaller than you with a mouse.</b></p> <p style="text-align: center; padding-left: 30px;">There’s nothing more chicken-shit than substituting mouse clicks for punches. Nothing.</p> <p style="text-align: center; padding-left: 30px;"><b>None of us is as dumb as all of us.</b></p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/MEN-IN-BLACK.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4023" alt="MEN IN BLACK" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/MEN-IN-BLACK.jpg" width="231" height="147" /></a>Say to your kids, “Before you get in the car, take an inventory of who’s already there. Do you want to be sitting in a holding cell with those people?”</p> <p style="text-align: center; padding-left: 30px;"><b>Don’t throw tantrums at fast food employees; don’t smash things that doesn’t belong to you; and when something <em>does</em> belong to you, think about it first.</b></p> <p style="text-align: center; padding-left: 30px;">Repeat after me: cameras are <i>everywhere</i>.</p> <p style="text-align: center; padding-left: 30px;"><b>YouTube governs Americans with shame more effectively than politicians do with laws. Don’t feed YouTube.</b></p> <p style="text-align: center; padding-left: 30px;">Don’t post anything to YouTube you didn’t first create or script on paper. It’s hard for people to do that without seeking feedback, and what’s feedback, if not counsel?</p> <p style="text-align: center; padding-left: 30px;"><b>We live in a world where innocence isn’t enough.</b></p> <p style="text-align: center; padding-left: 30px;">Just in case your kid says, “I was there, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/06/us/wrongfully-convicted-find-their-record-haunts-them.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;smid=tw-nytimes&amp;_r=2&amp;">but I didn’t do anything</a>.”</p> <p style="text-align: center; padding-left: 30px;"><b>Friends don’t let friends get on the news without helping someone or winning something.</b></p> <p style="text-align: center; padding-left: 30px;">Enough said, eh?</p> <p style="text-align: center; padding-left: 30px;"></p> 3965 2013-05-12 23:36:42 2013-05-12 23:36:42 2017-11-06 12:37:25 2017-11-06 19:37:25 closed open the-united-states-of-suspects-2 publish 0 0 post 0 Al Qaeda ATF Boston Culture Fox Inspire LAPD Your Adorable Child _edit_last 1 _wpas_done_all 1 _wp_old_slug the-united-states-of-suspects _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703686614;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:460;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8961;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1589;}}}} 17791 Al Lyons lioninla@yahoo.com 75.41.99.254 2013-05-14 14:56:02 2013-05-14 14:56:02 Charlie's got a lot more going on in that computer than those agents may ever get around to investigating. 1 comment 0 0 23613 Sally Mullins sallycomic@aol.com http://sallymullins.com 72.129.75.202 2013-06-30 22:58:09 2013-07-01 05:58:09 Great article! 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/culture/josh-blue-is-where-excuses-go-to-die/ Sun, 19 May 2013 20:48:58 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=4035 <h2 style="text-align: left;"><strong> Creator of the "Palsy Punch" is still swinging that "arm"</strong></h2> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Pasly-Punch.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4069" alt="Pasly Punch" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Pasly-Punch.jpg" width="238" height="358" /></a>In my love of all things standup, near the top of my favorites list is the sterotype-defying <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Blue" target="_blank">Josh Blue</a>, who rose to fame on NBC's <em>Last Comic Standing. </em>Cerebral palsy may have its grip on Josh, but his audiences see only the spirit and soul of a hundred three-legged horses rushing the corral gate. Josh works to change our perceptions of people with disabilities by shoving, 'er <em>shaking,</em> them into the spotlight and relishing the discomfort the rest of us must get past as a result. If you're not familiar with Blue's comedy, you're in for an uplifting surprise – and not like, "oh look, the boy in the wheel chair made a funny!" His bits are as relevant to fans as airport TSA screenings. (His proposed "No Ham, No Fly" screening policy is brilliant.) Blue's no Zach Galifianakis, which is good, especially since million-dollar paychecks don't really measure comedic success when your stock-in-trade  –an awkward physical presence–  <em>isn't</em> an act. And for the record, no material Galifianakis offers is nearly as original or free of artificiality. If you subscribe to cable's Showtime, you can catch Josh Blue: Sticky Change running 'til the end of this month. It's workman-like, practiced comedic craft. And though no Internet clips can match "Sticky Change" for irreverence and hilarity, YouTube has no shortage of Josh Blue samples for you to check out. The best of 'em, I think, are those that challenge people's comfort zones, like when Blue pretends to be homeless or approaches a random gangbanger on the street for help with opening a popsicle. "It's hard to look hard when you're opening a Popsicle!" It's reverse teasing, as he calls it: "I'm makin' fun you, makin' fun of me, by making fun of me  –again–  and somehow cripple comes out on top!" Ah, but don't confuse Josh Blue's self-deprecating humor with some condescending "It's okay to laugh!" tour of your own stereotypes of physical disability. That element is there for those who need it, but <em>everyone</em> is first required to get over their pity reflex. This stuff is funny; not just funny-from-a-guy-with-palsy. &nbsp; <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/jNz_mxjlmZ4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Josh Blue was meant to lead by example and lead he does, sometimes with a middle finger in the air. I can think of no comedian working a microphone today who brings together audiences more diverse than Josh Blue. He's clever, witty, and tremendously admirable – not least of all for his refusal to make excuses. 4035 2013-05-19 20:48:58 2013-05-19 20:48:58 2015-04-06 07:09:45 2015-04-06 14:09:45 closed open josh-blue-is-where-excuses-go-to-die publish 0 0 post 0 cerebral palsy Character comedy Culture Inspirational Josh Blue stand-up Sticky Change _edit_last 1 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:1;s:8:"facebook";i:5;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706691415;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10921;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1742;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6264;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/reject-blame-culture/ Fri, 24 May 2013 23:55:48 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=4084 <h3><span style="color: #0000ff;">Should we call "Blame" and "Fault" special interest groups?</span></h3> We say, “Change happens” with some resolve. It’s an existential observation, no doubt emanating from the same place that allows us to accept tornado “seasons.” But when did we become a country that assigns blame to the winds of change? <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/YOUR-FAULT.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4096" alt="YOUR FAULT" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/YOUR-FAULT.jpg" width="146" height="164" /></a>And we <i>have</i> become such a country – my guess is out of fear. With so much of American life shifting historically; with so many <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/boy-scouts-lifts-ban-gay-scouts-bars-gay/story?id=19243994#.UZ-66OAp-S0" target="_blank">institutions</a>, customs, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/17/us/whites-account-for-under-half-of-births-in-us.html?pagewanted=all" target="_blank">ethnic characteristics</a>, "norms," and <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/sandp-considering-first-downgrade-of-us-credit-rating/2011/08/05/gIQAqKeIxI_story.html" target="_blank">belief-systems</a> being updated (or at least challenged); and with so many <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,357941,00.html" target="_blank">fading voices</a>, the reactionary distrust, anger, and gloom is almost palpable in many parts of our “United” States. People everywhere are looking for <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/more-tornadoes-global-warming-nobody-knows-143945990.html" target="_blank">someone or something to blame</a>. I’m counting the minutes ‘til some lawyer accuses the Oklahoma sky of negligence.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/THE-FUTURE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4101" alt="THE FUTURE_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/THE-FUTURE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-275x300.jpg" width="174" height="189" /></a>Maybe it’s a generational perception, but America is changing faster than ever, too. That’s gotta scare the crap out of folks who really preferred things “the way they were.” But even the rest of us face a challenge here. Have our <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coping_(psychology)" target="_blank">coping skills</a> ever been tested to the degree they are today? And from what I’ve seen, we’re not meeting that challenge <a href="http://www.crybabies.org/" target="_blank">very well</a>. We’ve got tantrums – and countless TV shows <i>about</i> tantrums. We’ve got workplace meltdowns and employee target practice. We’ve got compulsive spending, clenched jaws, school shootings, road rage, and emotional eating. (Incidentally, the Germans call that, “Kummerspeck,” which literally translates to "grief bacon.” Tasty, tasty grief bacon…But I digress.) <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/BLAME-YOUR-STUPID-FACE.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4111" alt="BLAME YOUR STUPID FACE" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/BLAME-YOUR-STUPID-FACE.jpg" width="102" height="71" /></a>The number of ways we Americans find to blame others and the degree to which we exhibit such an unwillingness to face mistakes, changes, and challenges suggests this country is in a <a href="http://accomplishedcaliforniateachers.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/repairing-a-culture-of-blame/" target="_blank">blame free-fall</a>. So I guess it shouldn’t surprise me when even social progress gets viewed by some as betrayal. Still,<i> my</i> world isn’t ending just because the Boy Scouts are trying modernize: why assign treachery to evolution? I get that change is often a hassle, so gripes can be reasonable if we move past ‘em fairly quickly. But some people’s reactions demonstrate a lack of character more clearly than the degree of change affecting them. We’ve never lacked the capacity to make an enemy out of someone we don’t agree with; I just don’t remember it being so easy to <i>keep</i> them that way. That’s why I think Blame and Fault might as well receive special interest group designations. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/BRAKE-FAILURE-ON-SCHOOL-BUS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4103" alt="BRAKE FAILURE ON SCHOOL BUS_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/BRAKE-FAILURE-ON-SCHOOL-BUS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-150x150.jpg" width="120" height="120" /></a>Don’t misunderstand: I’m not suggesting we shrug and say, “Shit happens,” when the brakes on a school bus fail. That’s negligence, and identifying fault is a necessary part of future prevention. But it isn’t a single <i>person’s</i> fault that our gun laws need amending, and we can’t blame two women who hope to be married (or, for that matter, someone who believes life starts at conception). Yet because those individuals are the ones we see in the media day in and day out, we make them our enemies. And we then make enemies of those who march with them, whatever their drum beat may be. We find fault and assign blame. Human dignity, common sense, and the winds of change get co-opted, and we turn on each other. Or not. It’s up to you and me to lead by example, to opt the fuck out of blaming others for things we can’t control or own or remedy right now-now-now! Let’s say no to being suckers. Say no to "living in accordance with a <a href="http://digitaljournal.com/article/349557" target="_blank">script</a> created by political minders." <h3 style="text-align: center;">The Culture of Blame is death. Adapting is surviving. Social cohesion's a no-brainer.</h3> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/BLAME-CANADA_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-4099" alt="BLAME CANADA_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/BLAME-CANADA_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-300x279.jpg" width="108" height="100" /></a></p> 4084 2013-05-24 23:55:48 2013-05-24 23:55:48 2017-11-06 12:37:26 2017-11-06 19:37:26 closed open reject-blame-culture publish 0 0 post 0 American life Culture Culture of Blame emotional eating Inspirational social cohesion _edit_last 1 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706856909;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11128;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11697;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8614;}}}} 19178 Matt matt@burntcpu.com 72.207.113.59 2013-05-25 03:35:01 2013-05-25 10:35:01 To me, blaming you means I'm right! And using the same debates and pre-conceived notions, I can be "right" all the time, every day. It's a high. The goal then becomes how be "right" so often that I don't have to come down. In fact John, it's YOUR FAULT I'm writing this. If you hadn't written this post I'd be enjoying drinks on the beach right now. I'm sure there are other things I could blame, (like myself for choosing to come up with this response) but that would put it back on me. Well, then I'd be wrong about it being YOUR FAULT! Back to reality... In my experience, There's lots of people waking up to the idea that they create their own experience. They stop creating by default (blaming other's for <em>their</em> feelings) and become more mindful that their reactions to life aren't governed. Many people I speak with arrive at this conclusion at the epicenter of a downward spirals where they learn the pointlessness of blame and put their energy elsewhere. In this way, the world's blame culture is part of something far larger. It's a necessary step in waking people up and transforming society for the better...in my opinion. 1 comment 0 0 19188 Christopher Lewis cflewis1969@gmail.com 107.210.29.38 2013-05-24 22:31:25 2013-05-25 05:31:25 This entry has me thinking about a song by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBD_d9SZYnw " target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Todd Snider </a>,"Right-Wing Conservative Christian, Straight-White-American-Male," wherein he sings about the United States of Defamation...or the United Schisms of America...or the United States of Antagonism. (I haven't decided which one's best.) The fan reaction to this song is intriguing. Liberal fans sing along like this is a 21st century anthem. Right-Wing types (and he does have a gaggle of shit-kickin' zealots) loathe this song. During performances, they sit begrudgingly in their seats much the same way Springsteen fans in Red States do when he plays "We Shall Overcome," or worse yet "Philadelphia." While patiently –and sometimes not– wait for "Born to Run." What both sides don't seem to hear, or more accurately, don't want to hear is the most important lyric: <em>Diamonds and dogs, boys and girls/living together in two separate worlds/Following leaders of mountains of shame/looking for someone to blame.</em> <strong>"Following leaders of mountains of shame..."</strong> It's almost too poetically perfect that "blame" and "shame" rhyme so simply. 1 comment 0 0 19668 Jill kleinmutt@yahoo.com 63.206.47.126 2013-05-28 11:36:18 2013-05-28 18:36:18 I like that you're making people THINK about this stuff. 1 comment 0 0 19760 Al Lyons lioninla@yahoo.com 75.41.99.254 2013-05-29 07:36:45 2013-05-29 14:36:45 Accountability, responsibility, character and about 100 other areas are more and more falling by the wayside in our society. As someone who has devoted his life to teaching, I BLAME what I see regularly and increasingly as lazy parenting. Sad but true. People take the easy route in bringing up their kids, and society is slowly deteriorating as a result. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/cowardice/the-musketeers-of-urine-alley/ Thu, 30 May 2013 18:46:32 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=4137 <h3></h3> <b>Two holier-than-thou cowards win one for the good guys.</b> <p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/The-Musketeers-of-Urine-Alley_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die03.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4140" alt="The Musketeers of Urine Alley_Where Excuses Go to Die03" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/The-Musketeers-of-Urine-Alley_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die03.jpg" width="342" height="380" /></a>As you watch the hugely viral <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnOmxR_qQ_Q&amp;feature=player_embedded" target="_blank">video</a> attributed to the <a href="http://now.msn.com/shower-to-prevent-public-urinating-installed-in-pennsylvania-alley" target="_blank">Surprise Shower Guys of Allentown, Pennsylvania</a>, what’s <i>your</i> assessment of the people being sprayed with revenge water? I bet you’re glad to be dry, for one, but you’re probably happy you’re not in their shoes for other reasons as well. Folks urinating in backstreet doorways must be in pretty bad shape, right? They’re probably not good people.</p> In fact, from the handy voiceover provided by the video’s creators, we know they’re not. Apparently, we know how “these people” think and talk, too: they’re the “animals” we’re always hearing about. And here they are, in their native habitat – an alley. Look, at first I laughed too. But after the fifth or sixth spray, my gut told me there was something wrong here, and it starts with the arrogance conveyed by the video’s creators. Their camera looks down on people seeking a lousy 40 seconds of relief, and with their belittling, racist voiceovers, they clearly do too. But how many of them – and us – are really above peeing in an alley when the need arises?<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/The-Musketeers-of-Urine-Alley_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die2.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4152" alt="The Musketeers of Urine Alley_Where Excuses Go to Die2" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/The-Musketeers-of-Urine-Alley_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die2.jpg" width="239" height="338" /></a>Why would we clap and cheer as people are humiliated and bullied, as the hose spray follows them and ultimately turns them away? Is this video supposed to make us think like “we” scored one for the good guys? ‘Cause it <i>feels</i> more like an excuse to mock people who are different – and in many cases less privileged. Or like a coupla’ sanctimonious cowards hiding behind law and order rhetoric. Don’t get me wrong: there's no question that having to sign for a delivery while being hit with nose-sucking wafts of stale urine is awful. But so is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_urbanism" target="_blank">the militarization of urban space</a>, an exclusionary society whose architects design benches that can’t be slept on, toilet-less commercial districts, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0679738061" target="_blank">business plazas made difficult to enter for meanderers, unfamiliars, and of course, the poor</a>. So is a world in which the wealthy close the door behind them, leaving the rest of us out here in our “native habitat.” But more and more, that seems to be the world we live in. I'm sure it’s just me, but I've <em>damn well</em> seen enough of the world getting off on the humiliation of black people – security camera footage especially. I’m also biased ‘cause I’ve pissed in loading docks, alleyways, and door stoops. I’ve been royally shit-faced doing it, other times sober, and sometimes even ashamed. And the <i>next</i> time I find myself ready to explode and whip out the tap in the Gap, I’ll probably do it again. And I’ve got $20 that says the guys behind the video have done the exact same thing on <i>other</i> people’s delivery doors, the pious hypocrites. The rightness or wrongness of public urination is moot: of course it’s not <i>morally</i> wrong, except perhaps to some scowling stroller pusher walking by. It isn't evil. It’s inconsiderate, yes, and selfish too, but when you're dizzy with piss panic and you finally find three square feet of hidden brick, who cares? Just don't get all high 'n mighty (or racist) when stating your views on the matter because we all live in a glass house. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/David-Schmidt_Foaming-Manure-Pits-from-Iowa-State-University.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4156" alt="David Schmidt_Foaming Manure Pits from Iowa State University" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/David-Schmidt_Foaming-Manure-Pits-from-Iowa-State-University.jpg" width="158" height="118" /></a>I’ve decided the Surprise Shower guys are generally a couple of dickless, mid-level jock-tyrants who think their needs are more important than others’. But nothing makes ‘em bigger A-holes than editing into the video their swaggering, bigoted voiceovers of how them poor black folk talk. By the end of the clip I was daydreaming of these chicken-shit Musketeers being chased by <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/05/menace-manure-foam-still-haunting-huge-hog-farms" target="_blank">a wave of hog farm poop foam</a>, or even better, confronted by some of their victims. Hope it’s on camera when their teeth get kicked in – in that very same alley. &nbsp; &nbsp; <p style="text-align: center;"></p> 4137 2013-05-30 11:46:32 2013-05-30 18:46:32 2013-05-30 12:26:26 2013-05-30 19:26:26 closed open the-musketeers-of-urine-alley publish 0 0 post 0 Allentown Bullying Cowardice Culture Pennsylvania locksmith Public urination Surprise shower urinate in the alley voiceover _edit_last 1 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:1;s:7:"twitter";i:2;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:1;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703686061;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11377;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8371;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8281;}}}} 20107 F.T. becareful-with-that@hotmail.com 76.206.8.168 2013-05-30 12:38:49 2013-05-30 19:38:49 It's a drone strike. If the water cannon follows people down the alley...they're piloting it! They're up in the Star Wars bunker with Pepsi Max and Doritos. 1 comment 0 0 20140 Debbie tlkatz@hotmail.com 76.175.160.161 2013-05-31 00:06:22 2013-05-31 07:06:22 Let's see the videos they don't have the guts to show!!! Let's see the footage they would never put on YouTube! Let's see the clip where a homeless vet with a missing leg gets sprayed! 1 comment 0 0 20236 D.W. redpen61@hotmail.com 76.206.8.168 2013-05-31 09:02:50 2013-05-31 16:02:50 This was a way better movie than "After Earth!" (And that's not an endorsement of these dummies' video, believe me). Someone should douse Will Smith in a cold shower of urine. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/culture/over-her-dead-body-2/ Thu, 06 Jun 2013 20:21:01 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=4219 <h3><b>No way was photographer Vivian Maier gonna go out on top.</b></h3> <h5><b>All images © Vivian Maier/Maloof Collection</b></h5> <h6><b><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/All-Images-©-Vivian-MaierMaloof-Collection_Thank-you-from-Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4222" alt="All Images © Vivian Maier:Maloof Collection_Thank you from Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/All-Images-©-Vivian-MaierMaloof-Collection_Thank-you-from-Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-300x289.jpg" width="300" height="289" /></a></b></h6> For those unfamiliar with the Vivian Maier story, it’s a simple one that never changes. Vivian was a professional nanny who, in her off time, wandered around bad neighborhoods and metropolises snapping pictures of just about everyone from derelicts to fashionable women, cops, and lots of kids. Before she died in a Chicago nursing home in 2009, Maier had amassed over 120,000 images of strangers in streets, slums, and shadows. An extremely secretive woman, she never shared her activities, travels abroad, or any of her photos. With anyone. Not in fifty years of practicing street photography. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/All-Images-©-Vivian-MaierMaloof-Collection_Thank-you-from-Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die8.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4235" alt="All Images © Vivian Maier:Maloof Collection_Thank you from Where Excuses Go to Die8" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/All-Images-©-Vivian-MaierMaloof-Collection_Thank-you-from-Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die8-300x225.jpg" width="210" height="158" /></a>At the time of her passing, Maier was in possession of none of her work – not a single negative. This is to say, reel after reel of 8 and 16 mm film; personal writings and cassette tapes containing her voice recordings; personal observations on you-name-it; and seven hundred rolls of undeveloped color film. In 2007, it all had been forfeited to a storage company due to unpaid fees, for Vivian had begun this century almost destitute. She was powerless to stop the contents of the unit from being sold to a Chicago auction firm. To those who knew her, or thought they did (namely, the grown children she’d cared for), she was a recluse, a hoarder, and a peculiar spirit. But to the many who now consider her one of the most prolific and talented street photographers in the history of the medium, she is an ambiguous monolith of isolation, genius, and resolve. <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/All-Images-©-Vivian-MaierMaloof-Collection_Thank-you-from-Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die1.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4227" alt="All Images © Vivian Maier:Maloof Collection_Thank you from Where Excuses Go to Die1" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/All-Images-©-Vivian-MaierMaloof-Collection_Thank-you-from-Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die1-300x205.jpg" width="270" height="185" /></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/All-images-©-Vivian-MaierMaloof-Collection_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-5.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4200" alt="All images © Vivian Maier:Maloof Collection_Where Excuses Go to Die 5" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/All-images-©-Vivian-MaierMaloof-Collection_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-5-300x200.jpg" width="210" height="140" /></a>Vivian Maier's gift would have likely been lost to obscurity had it not been for an amateur historian named John Maloof, who lived across from the auction house that sold him a huge amount of her life-work in 2007 – for a mere $380. No need to go into what Maier’s pictures are like, ‘cause that’s for you to decide. But surely you’ll agree it would have been an tremendous loss for all that she’d produced, (plus the cataloging, receipts, instructions, and annotations) to wind up in a thousand thrift stores. Or worse. Ultimately, all the work it took to keep her undertakings and methodology a secret  –and the rational behind it–  now pushes Vivian’s mystique. Maloof took it upon himself to care for and protect this treasure – to become Vivian’s custodian, as he’s described himself. And almost as soon as he started sharing his find, Maier became a phenomenon. She stunned the established photographic world, elbowing aside dismissals that she was a nutjob with a twin-lens camera. Her obvious expertise and ability to capture so many sidewalk sensations continues to contradict any and all criticism. Makes sense, she had 50 years to get it right. Talk about delayed gratification! <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/All-Images-©-Vivian-MaierMaloof-Collection_Thank-you-from-Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die2.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4228" alt="All Images © Vivian Maier:Maloof Collection_Thank you from Where Excuses Go to Die2" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/All-Images-©-Vivian-MaierMaloof-Collection_Thank-you-from-Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die2.jpg" width="151" height="223" /></a>As a big fan myself, I often scratch my head over how Maier could have let her creative devotion drift away without revealing it, or anticipating <em>some</em> credit. Circumstantial bad luck created the conditions that caused so much of her color film to go undeveloped, but had it been me, I would have given in. I imagine myself jumping up and down, flailing my arms to tell the world what I'd done, and then expect it to come to my rescue. But that’s just me. The blueprint of Vivian Maier’s anonymity is mind-bending. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/All-Images-©-Vivian-MaierMaloof-Collection_Thank-you-from-Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die3.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4231" alt="All Images © Vivian Maier:Maloof Collection_Thank you from Where Excuses Go to Die3" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/All-Images-©-Vivian-MaierMaloof-Collection_Thank-you-from-Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die3-300x205.jpg" width="270" height="185" /></a>Thankfully, John Maloof will soon release a feature film documentary, entitled <a href="http://www.findingvivianmaier.com/" target="_blank">Finding Vivian Maier</a>, and I can’t wait for the revelations he and his team have pulled from those boxes. Because until then, Vivian’s story stops right where it started. I’m accustomed to not having a happy ending here; as I say, the story doesn’t change. Vivian died unacknowledged and poor. But she'd been a world traveler, taking pictures of people with whom she identified the most, those who were alone or down on their luck. I’ll argue that she took the last laugh with her. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/All-images-©-Vivian-MaierMaloof-Collection_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-8.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4203" alt="All images © Vivian Maier:Maloof Collection_Where Excuses Go to Die 8" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/All-images-©-Vivian-MaierMaloof-Collection_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-8-300x300.jpg" width="180" height="180" /></a>In February of 2011 I happened across one of the early online pieces covering Maloof’s discovery and what he then knew of Maier. It hit me like a truck. This woman had so secretly orchestrated her existence that none of the children she cared for as a professional nanny had any idea what was going on. Nor, for that matter, did their parents. False names, fake friendships and the intrigue of cityscapes made up the bulk of her life. But as Maier and the children took walks, or as she ran her personal errands, a camera hung at all times from her neck. And she was friendly enough with the vendors who sold her film, that some may have known her better than the families under her care. That is, if she let anyone know her at all. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/All-images-©-Vivian-MaierMaloof-Collection_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4206" alt="All images © Vivian Maier:Maloof Collection_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/All-images-©-Vivian-MaierMaloof-Collection_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-300x300.jpg" width="210" height="210" /></a>Maier ostensibly loved the children she nurtured, but every time she went out her bedroom door was locked tight, hiding what must have looked like a World War II aerial photography library. Her charges were warned to stay away; Maier even made the installation of a deadbolt a deal breaker when considering a new nanny job. Over her dead body would she compromise the program, and what a program it was! She captured the temperament and humanity of a thousand career portraitists, yet managed to completely contain whatever excitement she must’ve felt at the end of each successful photo safari. Emerging from her darkroom, she was just a regular nanny. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/All-Images-©-Vivian-MaierMaloof-Collection_Thank-you-from-Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die5.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4233" alt="All Images © Vivian Maier:Maloof Collection_Thank you from Where Excuses Go to Die5" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/All-Images-©-Vivian-MaierMaloof-Collection_Thank-you-from-Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die5-300x204.jpg" width="270" height="184" /></a>So again it makes you wonder: how had she acquired the ability to refrain from appreciation, or even measurement, of the skills she’d cultivated? <i>Was</i> she crazy? Or was she somehow so confident her in her talents that publicly charting her growth as a photographer was beside the point? Was her aim only to capture, and keep capturing, regardless of the outcome? Why? What was the secret behind the secret? As such a pragmatic, insightful, and cautionary observer of people, so attuned to the everyday world, you’ve gotta figure that, in her later years, Maier must’ve known about the Internet. And she was, no doubt, wary of society’s increasing obsession with appearance and hunger for instant gratification. How could she not be? It’s pretty much the opposite of how she lived her own life, and not exactly what her images – with their many scenes of discomfort, joy, offense, and confusion – convey. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/All-images-©-Vivian-MaierMaloof-Collection_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-4.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4199" alt="All images © Vivian Maier:Maloof Collection_Where Excuses Go to Die 4" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/All-images-©-Vivian-MaierMaloof-Collection_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-4-300x300.jpg" width="210" height="210" /></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/All-Images-©-Vivian-MaierMaloof-Collection_Thank-you-from-Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die9.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4241" alt="All Images © Vivian Maier:Maloof Collection_Thank you from Where Excuses Go to Die9" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/All-Images-©-Vivian-MaierMaloof-Collection_Thank-you-from-Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die9-297x300.jpg" width="208" height="210" /></a>While I have room for only a few examples here, take a look and you’ll see, for one, how close Maier gets to total strangers. (And with actual  machinery  –a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leica_Camera" target="_blank">Leica</a> or a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolleiflex" target="_blank">Rolleiflex</a>–  <em>not</em> a cell phone!) That couldn’t have been done without knowing people, their spirits, and their personalities, yet Maier knew <em>exactly</em> when to snap that shutter on depravity, duty, defiance, and dehumanization. So I doubt that, by the time of her death, our increasingly impeded attention spans, narrow world of indulgence, and demand for immediacy were lost on Vivian Maier. Which then makes me wonder if she secretly suspected her work would scratch an itch we would all feel today. I can only speculate, based on how I decode her photographic eye, but somehow Maier’s work makes me ashamed at how complicated, redundant, transient, and lazy life on America’s sidewalks have become. <iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qoqSYOCA3Eg" height="315" width="560" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"></iframe> 4219 2013-06-06 13:21:01 2013-06-06 20:21:01 2014-04-16 17:46:49 2014-04-17 00:46:49 closed open over-her-dead-body-2 publish 0 0 post 0 Character Culture Finding Vivian Maier Inspirational John Maloof Rolleiflex Street Photography Vivian Maier _edit_last 1 _wpas_done_all 1 _wp_old_slug over-her-dead-body _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:10;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:1;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703751009;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1163;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:474;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6520;}}}} 21628 Kerschoenn mrnagle07@gmail.com 69.228.32.211 2013-06-09 23:33:15 2013-06-10 06:33:15 With any justice, Maier will finally earn the recognition she deserves. While Van Gogh was alive, his work was known only to friends and neighbors, colleagues, local art dealers, and collectors. It wasn't until his sad, lonely death in 1890 that his work was put on display more broadly (generally as memorials). These subsequent retrospectives, shown internationally only a couple of years later, were the beginnings of a movement that would, and still does, embrace Van Gogh as one of histories most important artistic influences. Like Maier, he was an outcast and an introvert to his contemporaries. By enduring a compulsion to create in the face of the demons that drove her to isolation herself, she left us with important and mesmerizing images. Can't wait for the doc. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/excuses/the-future-of-the-internet-its-selling-you-access/ Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:14:32 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=4262 <h3><span style="color: #000000;"><b>Nothing sells better than the manifestation of exclusivity</b></span></h3> Let’s get something straight. While there may be good reason to be angry about new revelations related to our civil liberties, arguing over whether NSA leaker Edward Snowden is a traitor or a hero <i>isn’t </i>where our focus should be. <h2><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/TIME-TO-PAY-UP-SUCKERS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-4280" alt="TIME TO PAY UP SUCKERS_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/TIME-TO-PAY-UP-SUCKERS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="303" height="357" /></a>Right before our eyes we’re watching ground being broken for a new marketplace: our recent national lack-of-privacy fear just created a commercial demand for PRIVACY™</span></h2> Get it? The conservative drumbeat that ObamaCare, Benghazi, the IRS scandal, and the Justice Department’s seizure of journalists’ phone records represent expanded abusive government and/or a “continuation of policies” <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/your-world-cavuto/index.html" target="_blank">is a diversion</a>. And <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2013/06/08/ac-greenwald-fleischer-nsa-surveillance.cnn.html" target="_blank">CNN’s idiotic prizefights</a> between privacy advocates and backers of the doozy that started it all – the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act" target="_blank">Patriot Act</a>, are distracting millions from the real government data collection issue. In fact, the part of this week’s surveillance state revelations that stinks the most is the one thing we’re <i>not </i>hearing about: money. Fact is, telecom corporations don’t <i>need</i> to listen to your phone calls for you to fear they’re listening to your phone calls. They only need you to <i>think</i> that the tools and laws are in place in order to sell you a federally guaranteed “communication plan” or Internet “privacy.” Yup: this whole controversy is about the future of the Internet and monetizing our civil liberties. Anyone who thinks differently is naïve – or not paying attention. (On the other hand, considering that sales of Orwell’s 1984 rose by<a href="http://www.geekosystem.com/1984-amazon/" target="_blank"> 7,000%</a> this week, at least <i>some</i> are trying to widen their perception.)<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Total-Information-Awareness.png"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4277" alt="Total Information Awareness" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Total-Information-Awareness.png" width="216" height="220" /></a>Think about who and what the government is in 2013: it’s corporate lobbyists enticing Senators and Congressmen to do their bidding with an intensity America has never seen. It's <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/major-epa-warehouse-huge-man-cave-taxpayers-expense-report-article-1.1366042" target="_blank">agency</a> after <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57588456/state-department-memo-reveals-possible-cover-ups-halted-investigations/" target="_blank">agency</a> abusing its authority or hiring hookers. It’s fine print, booby-trapped legislation that is somehow more yawn inducing than ever (to the point that not even representatives end up reading it). We may be a government by the people and for the people, but more government “people” than we can count are scrambling out the door with the furniture and silverware – especially if you count <a href="http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-08-11/politics/35270239_1_romney-supporters-mitt-romney-private-sector-experience" target="_blank">corporations <i>as </i>people</a>. And corporations, as we know, are fundamentally after all the money in the galaxy. So make some sucker think he’s getting something extra, and he’ll pay you for it, right? My position is that this very thinking will soon be applied to privacy. So welcome to the kick-off. Giant telecom companies and other government-influencing conglomerates have a worldwide grip on how we live, breathe, and die. How can anyone say we aren’t governed by corporations, when they're handed seventy percent of the national intelligence budget!? Keeping some people out always guarantees someone else will pay to get in, which makes it likely that, in just a few short years, folks who want to get on the Internet will need a government permit to do so. Then, if you want to look at a website originating in Prague, your request will require a jump on three different servers to get you there. Naturally, you’ll going to be charged for all three jumps. And they'll <a href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/" target="_blank">be there to collect</a>. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/OVERLORDS-AMONG-US_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4278" alt="OVERLORDS AMONG US_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/OVERLORDS-AMONG-US_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="259" height="140" /></a>I envision an Internet future where you’ll need a permit to be online to begin with, and those who can afford it will be able to opt in to tiered  –and accordingly priced–  privacy packages. The telcom empire is taking advantage of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqETUDmgb_E" target="_blank">ineffective governance</a> and Washington’s perpetual war to create a demand for purchasable privacy, and will soon watch the profits roll in. It lets the Feds worry about the Edward Snowden's of the world, as well as pay for safeguarding the surveillance structure, because that’s its function. And <i>we </i>pay to get what our neighbor just bought: a Citizen Class Communications Monitoring Exemption Card. Sound like make-believe? <em>Bullshit it does! </em>Especially with reverse-accountability woven into the whole deal! The "world's largest internet brands" are free to deny involvement in any data-harvasting, and point the finger back at Washington, in part because the Director of National Intelligence and the United States Attorney General have the power to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/us-tech-giants-nsa-data" target="_blank">cancel out</a> actions being taken against internet companies as a result of co-operating with authorities' requests. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/TERMS-OF-USE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4275" alt="TERMS OF USE_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/TERMS-OF-USE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="256" height="214" /></a><strong><span style="color: #800000;">In the end, this isn’t about the CIA or the NSA. And it’s less about your constitutional right to privacy than you might be ready to accept. This is about big corporations working with their obedient little dog to collect data and position Americans for a future of paying for communications confidentiality – and all <a href="http://www.aclu.org/national-security/combatting-surveillance-industrial-complex" target="_blank"><span style="color: #800000;">in the name of anti-terrorism surveillance</span></a>. Where it stops, no one can really say, and it doesn’t really matter. You just need to prepare yourself to be pitched on new ways to part with your money in order to “limit” the evisceration of your civil liberties because they’re gone, folks. Now you'll pay to show others you’ve gotten your's back. Yes, online privacy is the new Mercedes-Benz. </span></strong> <h4><strong>Sound looney?  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAIC_(company)" target="_blank">Here's where all the players converge</a>. You decide. </strong></h4> Okay, WHEW! Enough! Now, all of that aside, I’ve tweeted and boasted this week that I saw this coming ten years ago. And I realize that if that’s true, it’s up to me and those who feel similarly to keep the focus on how we conduct ourselves, to think clearly and not allow ourselves to be distracted. It’s up to each of us to encourage others not to use this as an excuse for more mistrust, judgment, hatred, and division among <i>real </i>people. We have enough of that already, and P.S. 95% of it is artificial. Refuse to get into discussions about whether or not Snowden is a traitor. Don’t waste your breath blaming this liberal or that conservative. <span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>The enemy is not the person who believes differently; the enemy is whoever or whatever makes you <em>afraid</em> that person is around the corner. </strong></span> &nbsp; 4262 2013-06-11 13:14:32 2013-06-11 20:14:32 2017-11-06 12:37:26 2017-11-06 19:37:26 closed open the-future-of-the-internet-its-selling-you-access publish 0 0 post 0 1984 CIA Citizen Class Communications Monitoring Exemption ID Card Corporate corporate overlords Corporations are people Culture Edward Snowden Excuses FBI federally guaranteed communication plan George Orwell government issue Internet permit card National intelligence budget NSA leaker online privacy Patriot Act privacy for the rich telecommunications _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:1;s:8:"facebook";i:8;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1701233792;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9233;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11819;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4931;}}}} 21730 B&amp;G fiteon@pacbell.net 99.68.149.77 2013-06-11 13:51:16 2013-06-11 20:51:16 Great article. It isn't hard to see: basic plans, advanced plans, deluxe plans, silver, gold, platinum and titanium, and gift cards available at Target, Walmart, and Best Buy! 1 comment 0 0 21741 Sammiedasmellycat bobcat7575@yahoo.com 12.88.150.222 2013-06-11 16:19:44 2013-06-11 23:19:44 Big Brother? Well I look at it this way, if you have nothing to hide it's OK. If so, start going to the <a href="http://www.spybase.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Spy Store</a>. 1 comment 0 0 21919 ANDREA cmartin.nelson@gmail.com 130.154.0.250 2013-06-14 10:14:51 2013-06-14 17:14:51 Powerful. In 1968 a guy named Paul Armer warned the Senate how dangerous a cashless society would be to our privacy. Had we heeded that warning, things might be different today. But we didn't, and we have no one to blame but ourselves for the outcome. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/your-adorable-child/unlocking-the-truth-is-where-excuses-go-to-die/ Fri, 14 Jun 2013 03:12:59 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=4305 <h3>Lucky are the children who think (and rock) for themselves.</h3> Okay, how cool are fantasy tour dates!? Never mind the gold stars; here's our <a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/backstage" target="_blank">show rider</a>! <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/TOO-MUCH-METAL-FOR-ONE-HAND-.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4322" alt="TOO MUCH METAL FOR ONE HAND" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/TOO-MUCH-METAL-FOR-ONE-HAND-.jpg" width="218" height="199" /></a>The thing that thrills me about Malcolm Brickhouse and Jarad Dawkins isn't that they play so well, or that they're so determined to jam. What's cool is their combined and individual <em>grace</em>. They clearly choose their words in a manner that best serves their intentions and goals rather than making them<em> sound</em> hip and defiant. And it's almost as if you can see 'em processing their way through adolescent confusion – without the defeatism that accompanies juvenile martyrdom. It's called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacognition" target="_blank">metacognition</a> and it's incredible to witness in kids this young – bonus that's it's too much metal for one hand. <em> </em> I'm jealous. I certainly wish I'd been able to explain  –even to myself–  my own ideas and dreams so well at their age. I'm both enamored with Malcolm and Jarad and in admiration <em>of</em> them. Some may dismiss the heavy metal genre they've chosen (which would say more about the dismisser than the style preference) or the fact that it's a kid holding the guitar. But these two are future lawyers, teachers, engineers, or future <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Reid" target="_blank">Vernon Reid</a>s or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Graffin" target="_blank">Greg Graffin</a>s, so it really doesn't matter how they rock. They just <em>rock</em>. <iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/68177758" height="281" width="500" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"></iframe> Still, some might assume Jarad and Malcolm are being played by parents aiming for fast cash or fame they couldn't achieve themselves. And while that's often a bullseye, the difference between a kid whose heart isn't in it and a kid who is being <em>pulled along by his heart </em>is obvious. And not once in this video do we catch an adult speaking for either boy like a hovering stage-parent. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Unlocking-the-Truth.-Right-the-hell-on.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4311" alt="Unlocking the Truth. Right-the-hell-on" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Unlocking-the-Truth.-Right-the-hell-on-300x191.jpg" width="300" height="191" /></a>Jarad and Malcolm aren't just processing their young emotions, they're channeling their frustrations at being picked on in school through lyrics, stagecraft, and chords. They're not making excuses for altercations, broken windows, or self isolation; they're using viable tools to communicate what it feels like to be in their shoes. And they're learning to derive pleasure from a sustained relationship with delayed gratification (i.e. practice makes perfect) rather than posing or primping. That's rare in society generally -- even more so among kids this age, who usually still need adults to teach them how it's done. Getting picked on for thinking for yourself is the worst thing ever, but fortunately for people like these two, it just strengthens resolve. It's cool that Jarad and Malcolm's outlet is rock 'n roll, too, but if it were painting, chemistry, or anything else, I'd look up to them just the same. Most of us would. Nobody seems to be putting words into their mouths, but apparently someone has  already instilled some quality coping skills. My fingers are crossed that the world around them doesn't manage to undo their impressive drive and dedication, 'cause with the path they're on, these kids can become some seriously heavy hitters. 4305 2013-06-13 20:12:59 2013-06-14 03:12:59 2013-06-13 20:17:20 2013-06-14 03:17:20 closed open unlocking-the-truth-is-where-excuses-go-to-die publish 0 0 post 0 Bullying Culture Greg Graffin heavy metal Jarad Dawkins Malcolm Brickhouse rock Unlocking the Truth Vernon Reid Your Adorable Child _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:2;s:8:"facebook";i:4;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703794048;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6264;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6599;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11310;}}}} http://working-copy.local/prison-2/new-where-excuses-go-to-die-chapter-excerpt/ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:25:30 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=4346 <h3>Good Men Project cracks the spine of Where Excuses Go to Die</h3> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/AMX.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4348" alt="AMX" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/AMX-300x230.jpg" width="189" height="145" /></a>As of today, there are three publicly available chapters excerpted from <em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em>. Two are located <a href="http://working-copy.local/excerpts-from-excuses/" target="_blank">here</a>, and the latest, over at The Good Men Project, where I've been invited to contribute. If you're interested in getting air-dropped right into "Big Forehead" Ernie's world of interstate Grand Theft Auto, check out: <h1><span style="color: #993300;"><span style="color: #993300;"> </span></span></h1> <!--more--> &nbsp; <h1 style="text-align: center;">Ernie’s Auto-Erotic Wallpaper</h1> &nbsp; <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/A-gift-from-Ernie_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4352" alt="A gift from Ernie_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/A-gift-from-Ernie_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="536" height="699" /></a> 4346 2013-06-17 17:25:30 2013-06-18 00:25:30 2017-11-06 12:37:27 2017-11-06 19:37:27 closed open new-where-excuses-go-to-die-chapter-excerpt publish 0 0 post 0 AMX California State Prisons Car culture Culture excerpts Grand Theft Auto GTA Inspirational Prison The Good Men Project Where Excuses Go to Die _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:3;s:7:"twitter";i:1;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1688647209;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3561;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2444;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4503;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4035;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7779;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2128;}}}} http://working-copy.local/celebrity/the-sounds-my-neighbor-makes/ Fri, 21 Jun 2013 23:14:41 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=4368 <h3>Yeah, getting to know my neighbors means getting over myself</h3> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Sounds-My-Neighbor-Makes_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4380" alt="Sounds My Neighbor Makes_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Sounds-My-Neighbor-Makes_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="333" height="232" /></a>It’s funny, wanting to stand out. We desire individuality and to express ourselves uniquely, but we’re pleased when we discover we’re just like those we want to stand apart from. We enjoy learning that celebrities have wrinkles, blotchy skin, and one leg longer than the other. We gobble up captured private moments of public figures and we’re eager to learn how much in common we have with those whose fabulous lives we insist could never be ours. I can't even imagine having anything in common with <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/21/showbiz/paula-deen-racial-slur/" target="_blank">Paula Deen</a>, but you get the idea... Down here on earth and up the street on which my wife and I live, I smile when I hear my next-door neighbor drops his keys and mutters under his breath, still balancing things in his hands. I hear his daughter ask questions he either doesn’t have the answer to or has no patience to explain, and though I don’t have children myself, his impatience is gratifying. It’s not his exasperation that makes me root for him, but rather the certainty that I’d be likewise confounded. Soon the daughter will be older and bolder. Maybe she’ll hide his keys behind her back one afternoon and I’ll lean in to hear how it turns out. In the meantime, like watching some vulgar, egomaniacal luminary who’s been stripped down to <i>my</i> level of hygiene and over-limit fees, overheard and superficial commonalities with my neighbors will have to do.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/County-of-Los-Angeles-loves-design-flaws_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4385" alt="County of Los Angeles loves design flaws_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/County-of-Los-Angeles-loves-design-flaws_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="172" height="220" /></a>I think my neighbor once said he was Cuban, which intrigues me, but I won’t commit to inquiring about it in case I’m wrong, and he suddenly starts talking about how fitness is a journey. (I can’t risk that at this time.) I <em>do</em> know the wheel on his big blue recycling bin sticks just like mine does ‘cause I can hear him struggle with it up the driveway. I hope he’s never seen me pick mine up and throw it the fuck over the sidewalk. While I wouldn’t reject the opportunity to know my neighbor better, I think I would miss knowing him the way I do now. His truck needs power steering fluid; the squeal wakes me up each morning a mere minute ahead of my own alarm. This means he gets an early start each day, and I compliment him silently for being a few minutes ahead of me. I respect him, but I do so on my own, isolated terms. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Suicide-by-Norelco-circa-53_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4390" alt="Suicide by Norelco circa '53_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Suicide-by-Norelco-circa-53_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="172" height="415" /></a>On our side of the hedge, my old Norelco shaver dispenses freshly mowed whiskers outward and everywhere, so I run the thing over my jaw outside, where the a.m. chill, and mug-of-coffee combo can’t be beat. I wonder if my neighbors know it’s an electric shaver I’m using. I hope no one’s turning toward their SUV with a shudder, thinking, <i>OMG. I </i>so<i> don’t wanna know</i>! I was tempted once to stand on an upturned bucket and say hi while holding the thing to my chin. Would Cuban Neighbor Man be relieved? Would he even skip a beat? But I dropped the idea ‘cause the last time I tried something similar I succeeded only in weirding out his wife; our brief interactions are now awkward. But that’s what I get for the excuses I make in not taking the time to go beyond what I overhear. And what if something bad happened one day, like a fire, an earthquake, or – NRA-God help us – a shooting? Do Cuba and I know enough about each other to bank on both being solution oriented rather than problematic panickers? Pushing these considerations back into the wider world where celebrities live, had *Paula Deen ever taken the time to get to know and appreciate cultures other than her own, she wouldn't be so easily written off as a <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-paula-deen-n-word-daily-show-type-2-racism-20130621,0,7286965.story" target="_blank">whimpering racist dumb-ass</a> today. Trying to be funny by popping my head over the hedge is an embarrassment I can live with. So I’ll be making an effort again, because it’s a perfect excuse to fast track familiarity – and build from there. &nbsp; <h6 style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: left;"><strong>* That wretched woman's picture will not appear on this blog. She has allowed the world to interpret her choices at its whimsy. It's the essence of "get character or become one." Since Deen put her regional pride and cultural comfort zones before so much of her life, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">the public now gets to decide who and what she is</span>. Harsh consequences, no doubt, but the 'ol bag is very comfortably rich, so she'll remembered as just another wealthy racist.  YAWN.</strong></h6> &nbsp; 4368 2013-06-21 16:14:41 2013-06-21 23:14:41 2013-06-23 19:28:28 2013-06-24 02:28:28 closed open the-sounds-my-neighbor-makes publish 0 0 post 0 blotchy skin Celebrity Character Comfort Zone good fences make good neighbors next door neighbor Norelco over limit fees Paula Deen racist wrinkles _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:2;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:1;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703731326;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7041;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2593;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1134;}}}} 22822 Mike G. stallionpd@gmail.com 174.240.12.144 2013-06-23 18:59:21 2013-06-24 01:59:21 A hand across the fence is better than a misunderstood glance. Here-here, John. 1 comment 0 0 23612 Sally Mullins sallycomic@aol.com http://sallymullins.com 72.129.75.202 2013-06-30 22:52:21 2013-07-01 05:52:21 I thought this was going to be about someone masturbating, but I still really enjoyed it - particularly the recycling bin throwing visual. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/excuses/prison-diseases-will-kill-your-pets/ Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:07:22 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=4415 <h3><span style="color: #008000;">Apocalypse Hoosegow 7  Contagions, Taxes, and Pets Edition</span></h3> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Prison-Diseases-Will-Kill-Your-Pets_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4419" alt="Prison Diseases Will Kill Your Pets_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Prison-Diseases-Will-Kill-Your-Pets_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="427" height="200" /></a>For delaying action in addressing recurring outbreaks of Valley Fever in California's prisons, Governor Jerry Brown and the California Department of Corrections were criticized this week by U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson in a federal court order that demands they move some 3,200 of 8,100 inmates out of Pleasant Valley and Avenal state prisons, two facilities with the highest infection and fatality rates. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Apocalypse-Hoosegow-7_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4407" alt="Apocalypse Hoosegow 7_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Apocalypse-Hoosegow-7_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-150x150.jpg" width="105" height="105" /></a>Particularly affected by Valley Fever are African Americans and those with compromised immune systems. Over the last 6 years, 36 inmates who contracted the disease have died. But then, according to Henderson, California officials "clearly demonstrated their unwillingness to respond adequately to the healthcare needs of California's inmate population."<!--more--> For a little background, check out the <a href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/colonel-kelso-heads-up-the-river/" target="_blank">first</a> and <a href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/apocalypse-hoosegow-part-ii/" target="_blank">second</a> installments of my "Apocalypse Hoosegow" series. Despite having been posted back in 2011, they require little or no updating. Too little has changed, most noticeably, the state's <em>let's not be hasty </em><a href="https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/SVSPLADIES/conversations/topics/1356" target="_blank">approach</a> to its moral and constitutional duty to protect the health of prisoners. As a result, the order issued by Henderson gives the state 7 days to start the transfers and 90 days to complete them. It also takes California to task for its ongoing failure to protect ALL of its citizens from harm. The judge noted that this is "particularly ironic" given the state's insistence that it's now providing "a constitutional level of care." <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Image-Courtesy-ACLU.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4411" alt="Image Courtesy ACLU" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Image-Courtesy-ACLU.jpg" width="169" height="206" /></a>What Henderson doesn't directly address is the fact that a court-ordered migration of this magnitude is a now-necessary but nonetheless huge waste of taxpayer dollars. After years of California's attempts to incarcerate its way out of crime, every community will now face increasing financial and public health fallout from sick or infected inmates returning to seek care at the county level, further draining local funds. And what percentage of parolees return to their communities uninsured? Ninety. Staying ahead of the problem means bringing the prison system into compliance, and some view that as cozying up to devious, liberal ideology. But ignoring the larger, frankly <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/insider/2013/06/26/imagine-this-detente-between-the-right-and-the-left-on-prison-reform/" target="_blank"><em>conservative</em> fiscal issues</a> here to celebrate dismissiveness and petty finger-pointing is jaw-droppingly narrow minded. There's no excuse for letting this problem fester. If we Californians can't come together to fix this, we should expect to find ourselves on the losing end of a lot more than federal lawsuits. Besides, say your idiot cousin ends up in prison for his fifth DUI. Doesn't he at least deserve a pillow that isn't infected? Or, put another way, is the health of <em>your</em> pets <a href="http://www.scaryair.org/pets.html" target="_blank">worth risking</a> when this drunk-with-a-bad-cough shows up at Thanksgiving? And if that doesn't sway you, here's some further reading: <a href="https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/189735.pdf" target="_blank">The Health Status of Soon-To-Be-Released Inmates: A Report to Congress, Volume 1</a> <a href="http://www.aclu.org/prisoners-rights/medical-care-prison" target="_blank">The ACLU National Prison Project</a> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/CARRIER-PRISON-CATS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-4428" alt="CARRIER PRISON CATS_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/CARRIER-PRISON-CATS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="92" height="81" /></a></p> 4415 2013-06-28 17:07:22 2013-06-29 00:07:22 2016-12-01 10:39:57 2016-12-01 17:39:57 closed open prison-diseases-will-kill-your-pets publish 0 0 post 0 Avenal State Prison California Department of Corrections California State Prisons CDCR Excuses healthcare Incarceration Nation Jerry Brown Judge Henderson outbreak Pleasant Valley State Prison Prison Valley Fever _edit_last 1 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:1;s:8:"facebook";i:6;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1699241718;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10996;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7740;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2089;}}}} 23610 Sally Mullins sallycomic@aol.com http://sallymullins.com 72.129.75.202 2013-06-30 22:48:49 2013-07-01 05:48:49 I like animals better than people so this post isn't my favorite, but as usual, terrific writing. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/excuses/theres-no-excuse-for-being-uninformed/ Sat, 06 Jul 2013 17:03:01 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=4439 <h3>Video clip of Egyptian 12 year old goes viral, shames us all</h3> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/?????-??????-??????????-?????-???-???????-?????-??????_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4443" alt="????? ?????? ?????????? ????? ??? ??????? - ????? ??????_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/?????-??????-??????????-?????-???-???????-?????-??????_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="278" height="202" /></a>In a street interview conducted by Egypt's El Wady newspaper, this 12 year old proves that privileged Westerners should consider arming their children -- not with credit cards, guns, and Ramones t-shirts, but with information about our changing world. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/QeDm2PrNV1I" height="315" width="420" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"></iframe> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/You-will-not-find-TMZ-at-elwadynews.com_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die00.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-4442 alignleft" alt="You will not find TMZ at elwadynews.com_Where Excuses Go to Die00" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/You-will-not-find-TMZ-at-elwadynews.com_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die00.jpg" width="302" height="203" /></a> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ARM-YOURSELF-WITH-KNOWLEDGE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-4449" alt="ARM YOURSELF WITH KNOWLEDGE_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ARM-YOURSELF-WITH-KNOWLEDGE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die1.jpg" width="302" height="214" /></a></p> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 4439 2013-07-06 10:03:01 2013-07-06 17:03:01 2016-12-01 10:39:57 2016-12-01 17:39:57 closed open theres-no-excuse-for-being-uninformed publish 0 0 post 0 Character Culture Egypt Egyptian Democracy El Wady Excuses Mohammed Morsi Muslim Brotherhood revolution Smart 12 year-old boy Tahrir Square _edit_last 1 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:2;s:8:"facebook";i:1;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1696470949;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:298;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7620;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:672;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4946;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1326;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2944;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/what-is-hermans-house/ Tue, 09 Jul 2013 00:51:55 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=4456 <h3><b>It's a dream house built by an artist for a man in a cage… </b></h3> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Courtesy-of-Herman-Wallace-and-Jackie-Sumells-vision_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4459" alt="Courtesy of Herman Wallace and Jackie Sumell's vision_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Courtesy-of-Herman-Wallace-and-Jackie-Sumells-vision_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="255" height="192" /></a>Isn't it <em>just</em> when you find something you want to record that you encounter holes in your cable package? This became an issue for me when I attempted to DVR “<a href="http://hermanshousethefilm.com/" target="_blank">Herman’s House</a>,” a documentary airing tonight on the PBS series “POV.” Turns out AT&amp;T U-verse, my provider, isn’t much of a friend to public television; they don't actually carry the non-profit public broadcast network, PBS. I find that unfortunate and insulting, since they carry <em>loads</em> of useless crap. At any rate, Herman Wallace is an imprisoned member of the <a href="http://www.angola3.org/" target="_blank">Angola 3</a> who has been living his life – 41 years and counting – in solitary confinement. He’s maintained correspondence with artist <a href="http://www.hermanshouse.org/jackie.php" target="_blank">Jackie Sumell</a> for many years; it's with her help (and at her urging) that Wallace has conjured his “dream house.” <a href="http://hermanshouse.org/" target="_blank">The journey began</a> when Sumell asked Wallace in a letter, "What kind of house does a man who has lived in a six-foot-by-nine-foot box for over 30 years dream of?"<!--more--> I was immediately pulled into the story of Herman Wallace and Jackie Sumell, in part because of a question <em>I</em> once asked: “What’s left of a man after seventeen years in a box?” What began as a remarkable psychic survival tool in their written exchanges took on a life of its own when Sumell decided to build the house for real – though Herman may never step through its front door. It has since progressed into a fight for Wallace's release and a call to address growing questions about the <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96199165&amp;ps=rs">dubious manner</a> in which he was convicted <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/03/36-years-solitude" target="_blank">back in 1972.</a> <iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Gjd1smWtf7k" height="315" width="560" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"></iframe> Should "Herman’s House" be airing on <em>your</em> local PBS station – and it damn well should be – you won’t regret tuning in or recording it. Personally, I was scratching my head over what AT&amp;T’s excuse might be for neglecting programming of such quality and dimension, so of course I called. AT&amp;T U-verse <em>does</em> offer PBS for kids, I was told, aka “Sprout,” but further inquiry confused the young phone rep to whom my call was directed. Soon it was <i>he</i> who scratching his head over how I could persist. After all, he'd just shared with me his discovery of “PBS” in his service directory. I had asked, and he had triumphed – what was the problem? I said, “That isn't the one. I’m looking for the PBS station for those of us old enough to drive.” “Sir, AT&amp;T <i>does </i>carry PBS,” he countered – twice. “I have it <em>right here</em>. It’s called Sprout.” I hung up. His grandfather was probably on Herman Wallace’s jury. <div> Thankfully, "Herman’s House" will also be available online July 9, 2013 – Aug. 7, 2013. So again, try to check it out. Why? 'Cause it’s a story about <em>people</em>, and that’s all it should need to sell you. <h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;">Update:</span></h3> <h3 style="text-align: center;"><em>"I would like for you to build me a swimming pool with a large Black Panther in the center."</em></h3> <h3 style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Whaa! I just want to see the looks on the neighbor's faces! </span></h3> <h4 style="text-align: center;">Watch the house that Herman built now on <a href="http://www.pbs.org/pov/hermanshouse/full.php" target="_blank">POVdocs</a></h4> <div></div> <h3 style="text-align: center;"></h3> </div> 4456 2013-07-08 17:51:55 2013-07-09 00:51:55 2017-11-06 12:37:27 2017-11-06 19:37:27 closed open what-is-hermans-house publish 0 0 post 0 Angola 3 AT&amp;T Culture Excuses Herman Wallace Herman's House Jackie Sumell PBS POV Prison _edit_last 1 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:1;s:8:"facebook";i:6;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1689914660;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2635;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3905;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9916;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7280;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11697;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8634;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/great-struggles-in-reading/ Sun, 14 Jul 2013 18:47:47 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=4475 <h3>Apple Inc. is named ringleader in bullying of book readers.</h3> Apple Inc. is no longer just a monster; it's more like the Eye of Sauron. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Bad-Apple1.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4485" alt="Bad Apple" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Bad-Apple1.jpg" width="353" height="248" /></a>US District Judge Denise Côte ruled against Apple Inc. <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324425204578597453053469898.html" target="_blank">last week</a>, confirming that Apple, HarperCollins, Simon &amp; Schuster, Penguin, Macmillan, and News Corp. ganged up on readers to fix e-book prices. Last year, Bad Apple settled a separate antitrust case over e-book price-fixing with the European Commission without admitting any wrongdoing. Here in America, the company maintains the role of iSavior, insisting it was just trying to break <a href="http://allthingsd.com/20130710/apple-loses-e-book-antitrust-trial/" target="_blank">Amazon's control</a> of the publishing industry. I've been watching this story irregularly, as these are unhappy events. Back in the mid-90s, Apple Inc. was a failing company, so much so that by 1996-97 it was forced to swallow its meager pride and <a href="http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/08/dayintech_0806/" target="_blank">borrow loads of money from Bill Gates and Microsoft to stay afloat.</a> Steve Jobs got $95 million in operating capital by selling $150 million in non-voting Apple stock to Microsoft, and he sweetened the deal with Apple's silence over allegations that Microsoft had stolen its intellectual property in building Windows. <!--more--> Some Apple insiders at the time claimed Steve Jobs vowed to repay the money and buy back the stock, swearing that Apple would amputate each of the many electronic tentacles Bill Gates had slithered into his rival's company. Some of us thought we were looking at the death of Apple, that it had succumbed to the dark side; the evil Microsoft deal was, in part, a patent cross-license. Apple's corporate strategy had just allowed Internet Explorer to become every Mac's default browser (as if the the <a href="http://news.cnet.com/Mac-clone-market-sheds-another/2100-1001_3-204041.html" target="_blank">Clone Wars</a> hadn't been <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_clone" target="_blank">bad enough</a>.) <iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/WxOp5mBY9IY" height="315" width="420" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"></iframe> Back then, I knew of few bigger Apple cheerleaders than my friends and I. We didn't care that Apple was the joke of business computing; its people were special and its fanboys unified. When you met someone known for being a "Mac guru," first of all it was earned, and second, it was an esteemed introduction. That handshake meant something. Apple turned on that Esprit de corps when the term was made a marketing gimmick for its retail stores. Today, the authoritative influence of the term "Mac guru" is somewhere between buying men's cologne in a Burger King parking lot and tolerating a co-worker too fragile for eye contact or heavy lifting. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/THE-DARK-SIDE-OF-THE-APPLE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4495" alt="THE DARK SIDE OF THE APPLE_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/THE-DARK-SIDE-OF-THE-APPLE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="236" height="212" /></a>I read the judge's ruling with sadness but zero surprise. Apple had already become a monster, but this surpasses even the antitrust <a href="http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/2001-06-28-microsoft-antitrust-history.htm" target="_blank">antics</a> of its old arch enemy, Microsoft. I wonder if Gates is laughing. He not only outlived Steve Jobs, he's lived long enough to watch Apple betray the underdog ethics it was once proud of -- that <em>we</em> were once proud of. Ouch. (Check out this <a href="http://www.pophistorydig.com/?tag=apple-computer-ipo" target="_blank">Pop History Dig</a> for some pre-"Bad" Apple history.) On the other hand, as far as corporate ships go, I guess I'll go down with this is one. I purchased <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIc_Plus" target="_blank">my first used Macintosh computer</a> in 1989. With the sale came a personal tutorial, and after that I had to let the guy say goodbye to the damned thing -- not because it was like some poodle he was giving away, but because he was passing along something almost as meaningful: a symbol of open-mindedness. I know that sounds all elitist and bleeding heart, or maybe it's just nerdy, but for those too young to remember it really <em>did</em> feel like our exchange was part of something progressive and good. I knew to take care of the computer and pass it along with equal respect. It was like spreading the word. It was a middle finger to the establishment. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Prison-Computer_Apple-IIGS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4496" alt="Prison Computer_Apple-IIGS_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Prison-Computer_Apple-IIGS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="146" height="133" /></a>These days, Bad Apple defines the establishment, and that makes me sad. But I have my memories and I'm still loyal. I remain a cheerleader, though I neither lead nor cheer, which really makes me an Apple Apologist. (And now, if I might tie this post to some shameless book promotion, my <em>second</em> Apple product was a brand-new <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIGS" target="_blank">Apple IIGS, </a>sitting on the desk assigned to me as a teacher's aide in Wasco State Prison. <em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em> will be available on September 12, 2013 if you want to find out more.) 4475 2013-07-14 11:47:47 2013-07-14 18:47:47 2017-11-06 12:37:27 2017-11-06 19:37:27 closed open great-struggles-in-reading publish 0 0 post 0 Apple e-book ruling Apple Inc. Bill Gates Corporate Culture e-book prices Mac OS Microsoft Steve Jobs US District Judge Denise Cote _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:1;s:8:"facebook";i:9;s:10:"googleplus";i:1;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704458223;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7605;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4562;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9233;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/where-excuses-go-to-die-is-now-on-kickstarter/ Fri, 19 Jul 2013 06:32:34 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=4503 <h2><span style="color: #008000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: 800;">Your minor contribution is a thank you to prison educators.</span></span></h2> <h3><strong>    <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/excusesdie/where-excuses-go-to-die" target="_blank">And the "first responders of rehabilitation" are why this book needs an audience.</a></strong></h3> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/California_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4514" alt="California_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/California_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-177x300.jpg" width="159" height="270" /></a>I exchanged letters with each of the instructors and prison educators I encountered during my incarceration. As I was transferred from facility to facility, their words of encouragement were invaluable. They made me feel like I mattered, which is funny coming from a spoiled young adult. The fact that they didn't let go of the rope or forget what they saw in me has a lot to do with why I never re-offended; instead, I applied myself. Each teacher encouraged me differently, but they all said, "Never say no to a writing class." Investing in myself wasn't something I grasped too well back then, so I took a variety of courses for no reason other than I thought I owed it to those instructors. They'd helped me discover a voice, which I used to make others laugh. But since my audience was mostly an inmate one (i.e. both captive and desperate for humor), I was steered toward disciplining my gift instead, which was freeing. Before then, I'd only ever viewed the concept of discipline in terms of religious and scholastic compliance. Suddenly it was no longer something you got subjected to, but a sharpening tool you could wield.<!--more--> Some inmates laugh pretty easily. Most don't 'til you get to know 'em. <em>I</em> certainly didn't know how to communicate with these assholes, I thought, until one day I realized a few were letting me say things others wouldn't dare to. So I wanted to get better at it. I wanted to win 'em <em>all</em> over, not just the droolers. It was pretty egotistical, but that was the least of my arrogance back then. I disguised the scribbled pages of my prison journal as legal correspondence, which by some miracle no one ever touched. Not one person ever picked up a page and read what I really thought of them, or how afraid I was and how hateful of their rules. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/David-Scott-Milton_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-large wp-image-4551" alt="David Scott Milton_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/David-Scott-Milton_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1024x701.jpg" width="450" height="308" /></a>When I showed some of these pages to my teachers, though, it wasn't the humor that they were interested in. Naturally, I found this insulting. Yet as any somewhat patient writer will tell you, snark is great, but it's mere instant gratification. My instructors knew there was more to the story, even if <em>I</em> couldn't see the forest for the trees. These "first responders of rehabilitation," as I like to call 'em, explained that discipline was the way up and out. Listening to them was the smartest thing I ever did. <em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em> is an expression of gratitude for their guidance. I'd never followed through on anything before I met those men and women, so although it's taken me many years to do it, I'm damn well going to follow though on bringing this story to the public. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Kickstarter_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4553" alt="Kickstarter_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Kickstarter_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="297" height="284" /></a>With your help, <em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em> can earn its way into the national dialogue on prison reform. And <em>we</em> can find out how people will react to depictions of life behind bars that are unlike the cliches they know. The environment may be familiar, after all, though the story is anything but. Now, sitting in front of a camera and speaking to the public is no easy thing. But I promise you, my Kickstarter video does a much better job of explaining my mission than this blog entry. So please take a look and consider joining us. Just sharing the <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/excusesdie/where-excuses-go-to-die" target="_blank">Kickstarter link</a> is also extremely helpful. <strong>Whether you decide to help me stand up to the media's definition of prison and prisoners or you simply <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/excusesdie/where-excuses-go-to-die" target="_blank">forward the link</a>, many thanks.</strong> &nbsp; 4503 2013-07-18 23:32:34 2013-07-19 06:32:34 2013-08-04 09:13:39 2013-08-04 16:13:39 closed open where-excuses-go-to-die-is-now-on-kickstarter publish 0 0 post 0 California State Prisons Character Culture Excuses First Responders of Rehabilitation Kickstarter L.A. County Jail Men's Central Jail Prison Journal Prison reform _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:4;s:7:"twitter";i:1;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1686722743;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7132;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8424;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9274;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8961;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6354;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10134;}}}} http://working-copy.local/self-esteem/slamming-the-stroller-pushers-2/ Sat, 27 Jul 2013 23:16:55 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=4562 <h2><span style="color: #000000;">When the term “stroller-pusher” becomes a derogatory label</span></h2> &nbsp; <iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/jiyMx7rDKAM" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> When Stroller-pusher is used as a snide reference, it's usually directed at some self-righteous adult pushing not just a stroller, but a holy-stroller, a classist war-wagon, if you will. <img class="alignright wp-image-4571" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Notes-From-a-Non-Parent-7.jpg" alt="Notes From a Non-Parent 7" width="173" height="163" /> I also call it steering a child-hero or driving a trophy-trolley, (too often while forcing a 10th-grade wardrobe to conform to a 10th-grade-was-a-long-time-ago body). Certain Stroller-pushers have a pious air of expectation. Some Stoller-pushers rove in gangs, flying yoga colors, and they’re impatient, entitled, and predominantly white. Stroller-pushers believe it’s their privilege in life to express themselves, yet they demand the sanctity of their own comfort zones and short circuit like malfuctioning toasters when challenged. The woman in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHO72tjJZ7M" target="_blank">this cell phone footage</a> (we'll call her "Bananas")  exemplifies what happens when a self-important crybaby’s low tolerance for difficulty collides with not getting what she wants. She exemplifies a lack of patience and bearing. <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/INSANE-IN-THE-MEMBRANE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4584" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/INSANE-IN-THE-MEMBRANE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="INSANE IN THE MEMBRANE_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="303" height="220" /></a>Rather than get out and move a shopping cart, stroller-pushers like Bananas will use the front bumpers of their Priuses to nudge grocery carts out of their way – even into someone else’s car door. I've watched 'em. Rather than pull to the side of the road post-fender-bender, stroller-pushers hold up traffic in the middle of the highway to await law enforcement acknowledgement and service. Stroller-pushers like Bananas are vain and prone to meltdowns, extreme social hypocrisy, and door-lock profiling. Don’t agree? How much you wanna bet this one makes speeches about the importance of choosing your battles wisely? (Hello? Facepunch!) Stroller-pushers are sanctimonious, hourly victims-of-something or someone – in this case, Apple, Inc. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Worst-Baby-Name-Ever_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4587" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Worst-Baby-Name-Ever_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Worst Baby Name Ever_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="230" height="286" /></a>For many, the best days of their lives revolved around the band U2. Bananas doesn't like Florence and The Machine, but she'll claim otherwise as needed. They’re tramp-stamp hiders, Apatow lovers, Botox addicts, and Whole Foods shoppers; they’re stupid-baby-namers and self-righteous blamers. They use their brats’ faces as their Facebook profile pics not ‘cause they’re exploding with my-kid-is-better-than-you-dirty-commoners pride, but because they can’t get over their own blithering photographic self hate. (But no, you bitchy, bat-winged pterodactyl, shopping at Forever 21 doesn’t actually <em>make</em> you 21.) The ones with personalities scarred by feelings of powerlessness do their grocery cart nudging from behind the wheels of $63,000 jungle-crawler SUVs. Encountering the Bananas-type in public, especially when they loose their fragile grasp on reality, inspires in me a long sad sigh for America’s already ethically challenged, racism-denying future. Is it too much to hope that our truest heroes can be those for whom civility, composure, courtesy, and stability aren’t a struggle? I can just hear it now: “Jeeze! You make manners look easy!” <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/HEAR-MOMMY-ROAR_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4581" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/HEAR-MOMMY-ROAR_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="HEAR MOMMY ROAR_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="209" height="246" /></a>Contrary to a popular resentment-myth, today’s Apple products aren’t designed to achieve your goals for you. They’re designed to make learning curves less boring and more compact. (I taught myself iMovie in fifteen minutes because of a deadline, and now I use it for fun.) Likewise, Apple stores aren’t around to do your thinking for you; they’re there to get you to spend your money. If you walk into a store as unprepared as Bananas was, the name for you is “easy mark.” The quickest way to make a profit is by selling convenience to the lazy and exclusivity to the affluent; Apple does both very well. It’s up to you, the customer, to have the social skills, patience, courtesy, and willingness to help yourself when you walk through their door. I’ll bet Bananas spent more money than she had to solely because she was blind with narcissism. (And beating on the kid’s ride like that! Damn. Then again, the kid is probably walkin’ around the store because he or she is actually sixteen.) No matter how tempting, there’s no excuse for a retail tantrum. Is your iPad picking on you? Hate the Apple store? Too bad. Learn to navigate it and learn to social engineer the employees to get what you need. Work it; don’t yell it at, you sniveler. Maybe you <em>do</em> deserve what you want, but if you act like it, dumbass, you’ll just be the one who deserves what you got. Get character or become one! <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium;"> </span></div> 4562 2013-07-27 16:16:55 2013-07-27 23:16:55 2014-05-08 08:36:50 2014-05-08 15:36:50 closed open slamming-the-stroller-pushers-2 publish 0 0 post 0 Apatow Apple Apple store Botox Culture entitlement Facebook Florence and The Machine iMovie Inc. meltdown Percocet Self-Esteem stroller-pusher U2 Whole Foods yoga Your Adorable Child _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:7;s:10:"googleplus";i:1;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _wpas_done_all 1 _wp_old_slug slamming-the-stroller-pushers _yoast_wpseo_focuskw stroller-pushers _yoast_wpseo_title Slamming the Stroller-pushers - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Too many stroller-pushers are churlish and snappy. Why do they act so entitled, in-gracious and rude? Sometimes I can't help it. It's time to slam 'em. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 77 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1702567594;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4137;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10163;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8525;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10277;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7605;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7097;}}}} 87421 sfb asdfba@adf.com 123.243.132.203 2014-05-08 00:40:42 2014-05-08 07:40:42 I have no idea what the hell you're talking about. Here, we've always just had pushers. Strollers were something people had in the US. You make me more glad than I can say that your cultural references are beyond my ken, because your tone is so relentlessly negative. Ever consider what positive contribution you're making to the world? Or would that be too sanctimonious? 1 comment 0 0 87716 John Nelson john@whereexcusesgotodie.com 76.206.8.168 2014-05-08 08:38:28 2014-05-08 15:38:28 Thank you for your remarks. They do make me question why you'd bother if you don't know what I'm talking about, which by the way, isn't regional or alternative names for baby carriages. But never mind that. Sometimes when I read someone's snarky rant about something that's frustrated them, I relate, I agree, and I laugh. Reading somebody else's viewpoint can sometimes make me feel like I'm venting too, like someone has said something I've been feeling. It's the "positive contribution" I was aiming for, but since I clearly didn't deliver for you, here's Pharrell Williams, "Happy." <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/y6Sxv-sUYtM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> 1 comment 87421 1 http://working-copy.local/excuses/the-writers-discipline-in-the-digital-wilderness/ Mon, 05 Aug 2013 02:25:26 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=4621 <h2><span style="color: #808000;">The wilderness of self-publishing is where my excuses went to die</span></h2> <h5><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Foret-Allemagne-by-Michael-Lange.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4634" alt="Foret Allemagne by Michael Lange" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Foret-Allemagne-by-Michael-Lange.jpg" width="440" height="329" /></a>All digital photography by Michael Lange</h5> &nbsp; The digital revolution has forced traditional publishers to look a lot like Dick Cheney. It did the same thing to the music industry, too, before the record labels went out like the inflexible, teeth-gnashing dinosaurs they were. I do respect old-school publishing’s heritage of absolutism, but in the same way I’d defer to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smoking_Man" target="_blank">Cigarette Smoking Man</a> from “The X-Files” if he tapped me on the shoulder. What I no longer fear is the stigma of bringing my book to market on my own. I’m way past the point of no return financially and self-assuredly. No, I had no idea how difficult this was going to be, nor did I know how to avoid making it harder. But then my starting point was, “Hi, I’m an ex-felon and here's my 480-page manuscript about my prison sentence. Will you read a chapter and…” Yeesh. I wouldn’t wish that opener on my worst enemy! But seriously, if <i>my</i> journey could begin at a maximum security facility where I traded soap with murderers with open sores for pencils and paper, <i>you,</i> friends, have no excuse not to put your stories out there, satisfy your creative obsessions, and realize your dreams and goals.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Series-Wald-by-Michael-Lange.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4637" alt="Series Wald by Michael Lange" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Series-Wald-by-Michael-Lange.jpg" width="441" height="329" /></a>It’s funny, though. Despite the publishing playing field’s leveling-by-iPad, some people still pity self-published authors. They dismiss these “wanna-be” writers as having been turned down by editors, agents, and publishers. Bull’s-eye, in my case – 100% true. All for reasons too numerous to list here and equally irrelevant. But as those rejections were rolling in, I found that the industry itself was mutating in favor of authors and author royalty structures. Before long, it became a strategic move to flip ‘em the bird and keep my vision on my terms because there was no way in hell I was going to quit. I was also guided by a mantra you’ll find in my book that <strong>I’m not a product of what I <i>think</i> happens to me; I’m a product of what <i>actually </i>happens to me.</strong> I realized that perseverance matters a lot more than any sign people might hang around your neck, and determination is what earns you a last laugh. Just. Keep. Going. Besides, if those Aryan Brotherhood groupies from the prison yard couldn’t pressure me into hateful tattoos in order to get along, there’s no way I was gonna let some HarperCollins hipster edit hard-won lessons out of my memoir. I’ll let you, the public, decide what’s good and what isn’t. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Michael-Lange_2.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4639" alt="Michael-Lange_2" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Michael-Lange_2.jpg" width="440" height="329" /></a>If someone wants to hang a sign around my neck that reads, “Loser who couldn’t get a publisher,” that’s fine. <strong>It won’t be worse than the badge they’ll have to lay it over, the one that says, “Used to wash his underwear in a Folsom cellblock toilet.”</strong> Sure, it would be nice to have the “last laugh” of <i>Excuses</i> being received well. But whether it sells or not, I’ll know that I fulfilled a commitment I made to myself before I completed my parole. And I’ll get a last laugh all right, on yours truly. I realize not everyone has the thick skin resulting from having transcended a really bad mistake or beaten cancer. <strong>But everyone <i>does</i> have the option to ignore the unethical used-car salesman that lurks within us all, the one who hopes to sell us another worn out excuse.</strong> And speaking of excuses, I had to get over many of ‘em in order to announce my book’s release date of September 12, 2013. <p style="text-align: left;">Last week, for instance, I was invited to participate in an Internet radio roundtable on “The Road Less Published.” After I got over myself in thinking that Internet radio isn’t real radio, I enjoyed it immensely.</p> When I came on the air, the hosts were examining the discipline of writing and daily writing goals. Once the prison-guy thing got covered and I’d plugged <i>Where Excuses Go to Die,</i> Tiffany Colter of Writing Career Coach.com asked what I was doing to market myself and my work. <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Wald-by-Michael-Lange.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-4641" alt="Wald by Michael Lange" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Wald-by-Michael-Lange.jpg" width="629" height="288" /></a></p> Before I was halfway through my answer, I realized I was listing all of the “chores” I complain and whine about daily; the to-do list that tells the world that me and my book are too tough to die. I update my <a href="http://www.amazon.com/John-Espinosa-Nelson/e/B00DKB28BU/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1">Amazon Author Central page</a>; my <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/59779-where-excuses-go-to-die">Goodreads Giveaway</a>, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7008476.John_Espinosa_Nelson">profile, and blog</a>; and the blog you’re currently reading. I find ways to fit thoughts into <a href="https://twitter.com/defcon_john">140 characters or less</a> or short <a href="https://www.facebook.com/E80604">news-y items to post</a>, and I dart in and out of comments sections too – from aggregate sites like Huffpo, Gawker, and GalleyCat, to MotherJones, the ACLU, Right on Crime, the National Reentry Resource Center, the Private Prison Divestment Campaign, and so forth. Everywhere I go, I look for opportunities to mention the relevance of my story in the national dialogue on prison reform and criminal justice. When I finally shut up, I felt satisfied with the answer I’d provided. It meant I was doing the footwork instead of making excuses. Even rejection notices themselves tell you you’re taking action, rather than just talking about it. <strong>That’s huge for someone whose first understanding of completing a task was reaching the end of a prison sentence.</strong> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/River-Rhine-by-Michael-Lange.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4631" alt="River Rhine by Michael Lange" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/River-Rhine-by-Michael-Lange.jpg" width="482" height="350" /></a>I’ve heard others complain that all this social media activity radically decreases the amount of time one has to read and write – the very things a writer must do to stay sane. That’s true: it <i>does</i> take up a lot of time. I used to hide behind that as an excuse myself. I’d say things like, “I write; I don’t tweet.” Now I think, had that not been my attitude, the book would’ve been released two years ago or more. The delay is simply a consequence of putting myself above the daily footwork required of anyone hoping to see their work published. So welcome to self-publishing, where a writer must be his or her own best advocate and wear a <i>lot</i> of hats. The level playing field that the digital revolution has brought us is made of interactions and distractions. <strong>Self-published or not, to have a shot at success, authors must be present and accounted for in as many places as possible, all the time.</strong> No, it’s not writing; it’s work. It doesn’t help your page count, but it does require creativity. Once you swim out past the waves and you look back at that island growing smaller and smaller, you’ll be free, yes, but you’ll also be alone. The rules and expectations you left behind will pale in comparison to those you must first <i>find</i>, then <i>comprehend,</i> before you obey. For people like me, the discipline is intense. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Landscapes-of-Memory-by-Michael-Lange.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4632" alt="Landscapes of Memory by Michael Lange" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Landscapes-of-Memory-by-Michael-Lange.jpg" width="438" height="329" /></a>As some of you know, we recently launched a Kickstarter campaign in order to print more books and get ‘em shipped to our distributor in Michigan. <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/excusesdie/where-excuses-go-to-die" target="_blank">I hope you’ll take a look and at least consider sharing the link.</a> The campaign ends August 11. Kickstarter is no easy solution either, by the way. It’s just as much a part of that ocean or wilderness and amplifies your fear of what others might think <i>and</i> heightens your sense of being alone. Ah, but survivalists say that when you emerge from that wilderness – <i>if </i>you emerge from it – you’ll have grown two inches taller and the footprints you leave behind will sink that much deeper. <h3 style="text-align: center;">Good.</h3> ‘Cause in self-publishing, the old school’s ivory tower no longer controls the toys in the sandbox. In fact, regardless of your creative medium, the tools you’ll need are probably laid out before you. <strong>If you’ve got any signs hanging around your neck, simply move those out of the way and pick up what you need to get the job done.</strong> It’s either that or find a clearing and start waving your “I can’t” flag. Enough doers will be passing you by that eventually one of ‘em will stop and give you a lift to the road back to Excuse Town. <p style="text-align: center;"></p> 4621 2013-08-04 19:25:26 2013-08-05 02:25:26 2013-08-04 23:24:17 2013-08-05 06:24:17 closed open the-writers-discipline-in-the-digital-wilderness publish 0 0 post 0 ACLU Amazon Culture Excuses GalleyCat Gawker Goodreads Huffpo iPad Kickstarter Mother Jones National Reentry Resource Center private prisons Right on Crime self publishing Tiffany Colter writing coach _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:1;s:8:"facebook";i:8;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706788288;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5425;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3143;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2444;}}}} 26783 Gertrude Stain fuelfilter@sbcglobal.net 69.228.40.2 2013-08-04 23:45:46 2013-08-05 06:45:46 Hey great post! Good to hear your progress as you learn by doing. Gertrude Stain 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/prison-2/why-go-easy-on-junkies/ Tue, 13 Aug 2013 22:41:34 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=4697 <h2><span style="color: #000000;"><b>Reforming mandatory minimum sentences for low-level drug offenders.</b></span></h2> <b><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/RYAN-SHULTZ.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4699" alt="RYAN SHULTZ" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/RYAN-SHULTZ.jpg" width="480" height="360" /></a>Q: What’s in it for you?</b> <b>Q: Why should you care?</b> <b>Q: Nonviolent criminals are still criminals, so why go easy on junkies?</b> A: <a href="http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/read-ag-eric-holders-remarks-at-american-bar" target="_blank">Mandatory minimum sentencing reform</a> for nonviolent drug offenders is <i>not</i> “going easy on junkies.” In fact, nobody’s going easy on the junkies, especially junkies themselves. Addiction is a prison in its own right, and when our laws dictate that we <i>actually</i> imprison as many as we can for as long as we can, we perpetuate a cycle of inmates returning to their communities as maladapted as when they were prosecuted. Still, does helping to change the life of an imprisoned drug addict sound wrong to you? Then think of it this way: Why should taxpayers like you and me spend upwards of $50,000 a year to simply <i>house</i> an addict? We’re not actually helping them become productive citizens, after all; a recent <i>LA Times</i> editorial on California’s incarceration woes reminds us that “prisons have been notoriously ineffective at purging inmates of their addictions, illnesses, gang ties or antisocial attitudes.” Besides, junkies usually commit crimes the way lab rats run in circles or jump through hoops – because they’ve either been stimulated or manipulated into doing so. On the other hand, lawbreakers like me – convicted and sentenced to prison for robbery – are deliberate. We have getaway cars and backup plans. I’ve never seen a junkie or a lab rat with an escape route.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Spring-Street-Courthouse-U.S.-District-Court-in-Los-Angeles-By-Eric-E-Johnson.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4701" alt="Spring Street Courthouse - U.S. District Court in Los Angeles By Eric E Johnson" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Spring-Street-Courthouse-U.S.-District-Court-in-Los-Angeles-By-Eric-E-Johnson.jpg" width="344" height="517" /></a>Having seen the inside of the criminal justice system up close and personally, I can’t imagine that most of our judges are corrupt or incapable of making sensible choices regarding appropriate sentencing. I both feared <i>and</i> trusted United States federal judge Harry Lindley Hupp, before whom I stood in court. I respected him, and I honored his disposition of sentence by not reoffending. And while no one has ever accused me of being an ass-kisser, I wish I had the opportunity to shake that man’s hand and thank him. He’s part of the reason why I advocate for allowing judges the discretion to sentence accordingly. Though I haven’t read my court transcripts in quite some time, I remember Judge Hupp explaining why prison wouldn’t do me any good. He told me and my father that I’d be better served by therapy and counseling, but that he was unable to offer conditional probation. What the transcript leaves out is the frustration in his voice as he explained that he was compelled to sentence me to the mandatory minimum of 56 months in federal prison. Now in my case, there wasn’t any confusion in the courtroom; we all agreed that I’d gotten what I deserved for the crimes I perpetrated. But standing next to me, also awaiting sentencing, was a well-spoken black man about 50 years of age. Judge Hupp’s irritation continued when he found himself issuing an identical 56-month sentence to this offender – simply for possession of what would now be considered “personal use” cocaine. My lawyer told me later that Hupp <i>could</i> have departed from the sentencing guidelines in both cases, but that “he would have had some explaining to do” if he had done so. The souvenir I took home from the experience was that a federal judge had just (reluctantly) sentenced a crackhead to the same amount of time as someone who had robbed 39 retail businesses and 5 banks. That’s why <i>I</i> care. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Prison-vs-Princeton.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4703" alt="Prison-vs-Princeton" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Prison-vs-Princeton.jpg" width="364" height="920" /></a><b>But why should <i>you</i> care?</b> If what you just read doesn’t sound like justice to you, you’re not alone. Drug offenders make up 47 percent of the population in federal prisons, but only 20 percent of those are high-level drug traffickers. The remainder are convicted of minor dealing or personal possession. Yet who would you rather see behind bars for a long time, a crackhead or an armed robber? I <i>was </i>the latter, and I <i>still</i> know which one I’d pick. In my home state of California, the state to which I paid my debt to society, we’ve built 1 college campus since 1980 and 21 prisons. In the broader context of America, one of every 31 adults is under some form of custodial supervision, which has long-devastated communities of color. And if that particular demographic statistic isn’t something you’re concerned about, fine: don’t keep your eyes on the prize; keep ‘em on the money. Follow the money and you’ll still find the taxpayer waste. Michelle Alexander, author of <i>The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,</i> describes a system in which mandatory minimum sentencing has helped create “a permanently disenfranchised, legally discriminated-against under-class of felon-Americans.” I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to live in a country that escaped slavery only to turn around and build new shackles and chains out of “law and order” rhetoric. And right now, there are more African Americans in prison, in jail, and on parole or probation than there were slaves in 1850. <b>Still, what’s in it for you?</b> Even if you’re a closet racist who thinks civil rights should be reserved for “those people,” I bet you care about your wallet. So again, follow the money. What if America had to choose between wasting $80 billion a year on excessive incarceration or funding foreign wars? Well guess what? We <i>do</i> have to choose. We can no longer afford both – not when our roads and bridges are falling apart and major cities like Detroit are becoming Mad Max Island. <b>But nonviolent criminals are still criminals, and criminals belong in prison.</b> Yeah-yeah, we know that. So teach the lab rats to read already! I wasn’t a junkie, but I was certainly an inmate lab rat. And as such, I not only personally benefited from civilian employees poking and prodding the potential they saw in me that I couldn't see myself, I also witnessed the transformation that happened for other men who grasped the power of literacy. To the extent that we can provide inmates with milestones to achieve as a condition of their parole, a reallocation of our tax dollars toward making educational and vocational training more of a priority can actually help us reduce recidivism. Only then will we begin to see changes for the better in terms of the economic and social burdens that booby-trapped tough-on-crime policies and mandatory minimum sentencing have placed on communities nationwide. The more we start to question the ineffectiveness of a war on drugs where prosecutors and politicians compete with one another for "public safety" votes, rather than real solutions, the more apparent its failure becomes. <b>Right-wing? Liberal? A bunch of partisan rhetoric? </b> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/U.S.-Attorney-General-Eric-Holder_Justin-Sullivan.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4708" alt="U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder_Justin Sullivan" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/U.S.-Attorney-General-Eric-Holder_Justin-Sullivan.jpg" width="154" height="215" /></a>U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder gave a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/holders-charging-order-aims-to-reduce-prison-population/2013/08/12/d0660a3e-0384-11e3-9259-e2aafe5a5f84_story.html" target="_blank">rousing speech</a> yesterday at the American Bar Association's House of Delegates conference that reverberated “across the aisle.” Not even a month ago, the guy was being vilified by the media, and conservative TV talkers were ready ship him off to Benghazi. Today, though, liberals and conservatives alike are praising his call to reform mandatory minimum sentencing for nonviolent and drug-related crimes. Folks, prison reform may just be our politicians’ last chance at redemption, a way for them to actually get something done. I mean, what excuse do they have? (Wait, don’t answer that.) But in terms of legislation, this is clearly a centrist’s cause. So let’s save those billions <i>and</i> put fewer brown people behind bars – especially since we can condition addicts to make better choices in the first place. &nbsp; <h5 style="text-align: center;"></h5> <h5></h5> 4697 2013-08-13 15:41:34 2013-08-13 22:41:34 2017-11-06 12:37:27 2017-11-06 19:37:27 closed open why-go-easy-on-junkies publish 0 0 post 0 Attorney General Eric Holder drug crimes Election Politics excessive incarceration mandatory minimum prison sentences non-violent offenders Prison The Justice Department _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:1;s:8:"facebook";i:8;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706086608;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4755;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6491;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8912;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/elmore-leonard-r-i-p/ Wed, 21 Aug 2013 00:25:32 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=4730 <h3><strong>The height of irony was devouring Elmore Leonard novels in prison.</strong></h3> <b><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Mister-Millimeter-Will-See-You-Now.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4739" alt="Mister Millimeter Will See You Now" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Mister-Millimeter-Will-See-You-Now.jpg" width="313" height="505" /></a> If prisons produce better criminals, I was lucky to come out merely more sarcastic than when I went in. Elmore Leonard helped me get there – and taught me that exclamation points are worse than all the plagues in the Bible.</b> My family was, and still is, rather incisive, so when it came to the discovery of certain writers, I found authenticity in those who trafficked in quick comebacks and smartass remarks. Under the noses of bitchy nuns, schoolmate Chuck Miller and I traded copies of Don Pendleton’s pulp war-on-the-Mafia series, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Executioner_(book_series)" target="_blank"><i>The Executioner</i></a>. Pendleton’s stories were blunt and read similarly to how movies like <i>The French Connection</i>, <i>The Seven-Ups</i>, and <i>The Friends of Eddie Coyle</i> felt. We were just kids then, gaining access to all this stuff through older brothers and neighborhood teenagers. Little did I know what Elmore Leonard would have in store for me. Compared to him, Don Pendleton might as well have been script-writer for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragnet_(series)" target="_blank"><i>Dragnet</i></a>. Still, though Leonard would be <i>the</i> author to show me a celebration of the criminal spirit, I didn’t discover his novels until I myself was behind bars. Reading Dostoevsky’s <i>Crime and Punishment</i> just prior to being sentenced was a philosophical turning point, the likes of which I hadn’t previously experienced. Devouring Leonard's <i>Maximum Bob </i>while trying to drown out the sounds of cellblock idiocy was an comparable epiphany. Leonard's criminals were very similar to those with whom I was housed: sarcastic, daring, flamboyant, smart, haphazard, mean, self-sabotaging, and double-crossing. They spoke of pistol-whipping, bad lawyers, booze, payoffs to cops, drive-bys, finders-keepers, knife fights, knife fights with women, snitches (both living and “dealt with”), hustling cash like there’s no tomorrow, and detectives, detectives, detectives! They were giant, fat, tired, old, young, short, stupid, one-armed, covered in ink, loud, and witty. <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ELMORE-LEONARD_City-Primeval.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4743" alt="ELMORE LEONARD_City Primeval" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ELMORE-LEONARD_City-Primeval.jpg" width="209" height="300" /></a>In fact, two of the guys with whom I ate breakfast most mornings were as fast as Don Rickles. They were also murderers, who caused me wipe away tears of laughter with some frequency. It was impossible not to identify with the manner in which Elmore Leonard described the criminal mindset or let it be represented through dialog. Laid out before me were the mentality of both guards and inmates, men whose linguistic stingers ricocheted around me as though I were one Leonard’s own characters. Don't get me wrong, racial tension and gang politics aren’t anything worth romanticizing, and I would have rather been just about anywhere else. But, as was the case during most of my incarceration, I was able to start seeing people, circumstances, and life lessons in more than two dimensions just as soon as I got over myself. So I could make connections between the heart and humanity that exists in all penitentiaries and many of the criminals housed there. Those connections kept me going. So in other words, although there were several encouraging influences at work during that time in my life, Elmore Leonard made his mark. You may not know it from my run-on sentences, but you will by my disdain for exclamation points. <i>City Primeval</i>, <i>Maximum Bob</i>, <i>Get Shorty</i>, and <i>Killshot</i> are some of my favorites, though I’ve been told I’m a fool for never having read <i>Cuba Libre</i>. With a tip of the hat to Leonard, I’ll have to change that. &nbsp; <div></div> <h3><strong> </strong></h3> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 4730 2013-08-20 17:25:32 2013-08-21 00:25:32 2013-08-20 17:34:59 2013-08-21 00:34:59 closed open elmore-leonard-r-i-p publish 0 0 post 0 City Primeval Culture Elmore Leonard Exclamation points Get Shorty Inspirational Killshot Maximum Bob Movies The Executioner The French Connection The Friends of Eddie Coyle The Seven-Ups _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:1;s:8:"facebook";i:9;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703590229;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:474;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6952;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6908;}}}} http://working-copy.local/prison-2/avoiding-shortsightedness-in-prison-reform/ Fri, 23 Aug 2013 05:10:03 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=4755 <h2><span style="color: #000000;">Eric Holder isn't using prison reform as a means to rehab his image</span></h2> <h5> Why Go Easy on Junkies? Part II</h5> <div><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Evan-VucciAP.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4760" alt="Evan Vucci:AP" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Evan-VucciAP-300x239.jpg" width="300" height="239" /></a>Last week, Attorney General Eric Holder <a href="http://www.justice.gov/iso/opa/ag/speeches/2013/ag-speech-130812.html" target="_blank">called for the reform</a> of mandatory minimum prison sentences for low-level, nonviolent drug offenders. Almost as quickly, Rolling Stone's Tim Dickinson dismissed the move as symbolism. In "<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/eric-holders-drug-war-speech-dont-get-too-excited-yet-20130812" target="_blank">Eric Holder's Drug War Speech: Don't Get Too Excited Yet</a>," Dickinson predicts that Holder's proposed policy changes will have little impact. Why? In a nutshell, too many inmates. Then Dickinson adds, "We're not used to hearing U.S. Attorneys General talk this way." Now, couldn't <em>that</em> have been your title, Tim? <div></div> </div> <div>Writing for the investigative nonprofit <a href="http://www.propublica.org/" target="_blank">ProPublica</a>, Cora Currier implied a different sort of conspiracy. "<a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/the-sweeping-presidential-power-to-help-prisoners-that-holder-didnt-mention" target="_blank">The Sweeping Presidential Power to Help Prisoners that Holder didn’t Mention</a>" suggests a betrayal of those given life sentences for possession of drugs with the intent to sell. Currier's point is that Holder "skipped mention of the sweeping power the president has to shorten or forgive a federal prisoner’s sentence," whereas I think aggressively prosecuted drug offenders don't need rescuing from the president. Instead, it's the system that needs to change. I'm also inclined to remind Currier that Holder's avoidance of the hot potato of clemency and pardons in his speech does <em>not</em> a conspiracy make.</div> <div></div> <div> So come on you guys, give the rigidly uninteresting bureaucrat a break already!<!--more--></div> <div> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Prison-Reform.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4761" alt="Prison Reform" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Prison-Reform-607x1024.jpg" width="360" height="607" /></a>Presidential requests for commutations, pardons, etc. are kept in special jars on scary political shelves. When the fingertips of any administration brush past – let alone stop and try to open one – all speculative hell breaks loose. For all the wrong reasons, the ability to grant clemency is a highly controversial presidential power. And the media would go thermonuclear if it was somehow applied to nonviolent drug offenders en masse. At the mere mention of such a thought crime, I can just picture the faces of tough-on-crime congressional desk pounders in Washington melting, <i>Raiders of the Lost Ark</i>-style. Public opinion, too, would no doubt have Vietnam-era draft-dodgers faring better in the polls than “those people” locked behind modern day prison bars, especially after so many years of Americans hoping they can incarcerate their way out of crime. <p style="text-align: center;">I can hear it now: "We can't fix healthcare, but on whim we let murders 'outta prison by the busload?"</p> I vote we avoid such shortsightedness as we sort through those hot potatoes inevitably left out of the Attorney General's otherwise groundbreaking speech. Besides, where’s the mystery? The prison industrial complex is massive, and it’s dependent on the excessively long sentencing of young, strong, worker bee inmates. It will resist reform more vehemently than a cat being held over a bathtub. So if Holder omitted from his speech a statement about a topic that would send conservatives into a tailspin as soon as the president’s hands touch one of those special jars, big deal. The fight over Obamacare would pale in comparison. And besides, the speech was well crafted and widely shared without it. So I say that, for now, let’s give this particular beleaguered bureaucrat credit for using his position to defend both taxpayers <i>and</i> those trapped in a cycle of drug addiction and recidivism. Not everyone will benefit from the outset, regardless of how long they’ve been stuck in prison. But it’s a little early to point fingers at who’s not doing enough, or which (as of yet nonexistent prison reform law) fails to measure up. Nobody's rooting for bureaucracy. We’re just lookin’ at one giant mountain here, yet Holder managed to get the media, politicians, and the public to turn their collective necks in a direction that will allow more and more of us to recognize the increasingly large, legally discriminated-against underclass of felon Americans created by excessive prison sentencing and mandatory minimums. I’d say that’s a damn good place to start. </div> 4755 2013-08-22 22:10:03 2013-08-23 05:10:03 2013-08-22 22:20:44 2013-08-23 05:20:44 closed open avoiding-shortsightedness-in-prison-reform publish 0 0 post 0 Attorney General Eric Holder drug crimes excessive incarceration Incarceration Nation mandatory minimum prison sentences non-violent offenders Prison The Justice Department _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704868220;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4697;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6175;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8684;}}}} 34615 JK kleinmutt@yahoo.com 63.206.47.126 2013-08-23 09:18:28 2013-08-23 16:18:28 Immediately after Holder's reform announcement I thought, <em>Oh great, more parolees who won't be able to find jobs or have access to healthcare</em>. While that distant possibility (fingers crossed the economy will improve) doesn't change my mind that altering sentencing guidelines for low-level drug offenders is the right thing to do, it seems the economic atmosphere at present bodes ill for a successful transition of the releasees into law-abiding, productive worker bees on the "outside." 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/history/i-cant-always-avoid-u-s-foreign-policy/ Fri, 30 Aug 2013 19:54:04 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=4775 <h2><span style="color: #000000;">Where's this pressure to open another theater of war coming from?</span></h2> <strong>Who would actually benefit besides those in our government bought off by defense contractor lobbyists?</strong> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Who-says-Attack-Syria_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die1.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4782" alt="Who says Attack Syria_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Who-says-Attack-Syria_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die1.jpg" width="386" height="350" /></a>Americans like me aren't indifferent to innocent men, women, and children being killed with chemical agents, but we've grown increasingly wary of the distractive properties of a constant, multi-front war. After all, between the money spent on the aforementioned contractors and the banks backing them, America itself has been ransacked and destabilized. And who's looking out for us while we go acting abroad on behalf of others? In fact, how can the United States authentically serve as peacekeeper, lead by example, <em>or</em> stand up for the little guy if we're too busy forcing this world police thing down everyone's throats -- including those of our own majority? The credibility of American might (<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/06/21-charts-that-explain-american-values-today/258990/" target="_blank">and ethical standards</a>) exists not because our elected leaders keep insisting on it, but because we've won a few; because we've <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jun/26/news/la-pn-doma-supreme-court-ruling-20130626" target="_blank">overcome some</a>. But now America's foreign policy feels like we're still pulling the trigger, but the chamber is empty. President Obama feels strongly that America needs to “send a message” to brutes like Bashar al-Assad. Yet if we target and destroy Assad’s chemical weapons stockpiles in a “limited” and “narrow” attack that in no way demands regime change, won’t the message be: <i>Use chemical weapons and we’ll shoot some missiles at your bunkers but not remove you from power</i>? This kind of shock and awe sounds more like shove ‘n shoo. If, on the other hand, Obama &amp; Co. stick to humanitarian aid  –terrible as that may seem–  might we instead finally send the message that America won’t be <span style="text-decoration: underline;">baited</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">into</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">intervention</span>? Won’t it signify our intention to start holding our cards closer to our chest? Might that not help us be taken even more seriously in the long term? <div style="text-align: center;">No?</div> <div style="text-align: center;">Less <em>isn’t</em> more, you say?</div> Fine. But isn’t it smarter to avoid military engagement with Syrian Opposition Forces made up of jihadists and fighters about whom we know so little? Before you answer that, scroll down this long list of those <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_opposition" target="_blank">groups who make up the opposition</a>. <p style="text-align: center;">One last question: <b>Does America represent the power of unilaterally exercised principles, or the principles of unilaterally exercised power?</b></p> 4775 2013-08-30 12:54:04 2013-08-30 19:54:04 2016-12-01 10:39:57 2016-12-01 17:39:57 closed open i-cant-always-avoid-u-s-foreign-policy publish 0 0 post 0 Americans banks chemical agents defense contractors History lobbyists peacekeeper Syria unilateral war _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1687453927;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1896;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8614;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:460;}}}} http://working-copy.local/murder/murderers-are-his-life/ Mon, 02 Sep 2013 23:12:32 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=4795 <h3><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Writing teachers are neurotic candy-asses. Not David Scott Milton</strong></span></h3> <strong>“All writing is re-writing.” Yeah, try telling that to someone who last wrote in blood.</strong> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/DSM.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4797" alt="DSM" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/DSM.jpg" width="192" height="256" /></a>Author and playwright <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Scott_Milton" target="_blank">David Scott Milton</a> spent 13 years teaching creative writing at <a href="http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Facilities_Locator/CCI.html">CCI</a>, a “SuperMax” prison in Tehachapi, California. “Tehachapi,” as the facility itself is better known, has seemingly been around forever. It was built for inmates refusing to live by regular prison rules, murderers serving lengthy sentences, and men assigned to extreme isolation in high-security units, a.k.a. the controversial S.H.U. programs <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/50-days-california-prisons-hunger-strike-explainer">making headlines today</a>. Milton’s average Tehachapi class consisted of 15 to 20 lifers, most in for murder. I met him after he’d been hired to teach one of his classes about 80 miles north, on the Level III Yard at Wasco State Prison. By then, David Scott Milton was a veteran prison educator familiar with every risk, procedure, and personal reward his job could entail. First off, for all the prominence of literacy and its rehabilitative powers, which we assume exists behind bars, you’d think creative writing courses would be better attended. They’re not. Though the power to save lives endures in the written word, a lot of the fellas incorrectly assume writing credentials come with the territory. Yet you don’t learn to write in a prison writing class: you learn why it’s important to fight for the <i>time</i> to write, which sounds funny considering inmates are supposed to have nothing but time. But if there’s one thing true about prison, it’s that it's one upended Hollywood cliché after the next.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Murderers-Are-My-Life_David-Scott-Milton.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4807" alt="Murderers Are My Life_David Scott Milton" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Murderers-Are-My-Life_David-Scott-Milton.jpg" width="378" height="216" /></a>Walking into a prison classroom for the first time is like joining any other penitentiary waiting room or assemblage: the best seats have already been taken, and that’s all there is to it. You enter, shoulders proudly back or slung lazily, whichever your distrustful swagger requires, and you scan the room for adversaries even if you have none. In fact, inmates judge each other on a number of postures, from chewing to pooping: prison is like a fashion show for the various chips on your shoulder. Upon finding an empty seat, you may recognize a few of the fellas, but in the light of the learning environment they look different. For one, they showed up voluntarily, like you, which means they’re exposing to all comers a willingness to be seen as teachable – and therefore vulnerable. The trade-off is huge because a prison classroom is a place where one's identity can be discovered, reclaimed, and cultivated. Accurately or not, the insecurity that results is projected onto every guy in the room, and snickers and comments abound. But you’re used to those by now. And if the group gets past touchy arrivals like these without altercation, an exploratory trust starts to build. For a teacher, the civilian employee watching this little dance, trust builds in a different way. It starts with us, the students, pushing buttons and psychologically taunting him or her to find out who’s tough enough to have despicable prison guys as students. Mr. Milton, I would come to find, was darker and more capable of angrily demanding answers from God than most of the men he encountered. His cement truck of a voice helped, but it was his weary wisdom that immediately took over the room. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Murderers-Are-My-Life_David-Scott-Milton4.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4811" alt="Murderers Are My Life_David Scott Milton4" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Murderers-Are-My-Life_David-Scott-Milton4.jpg" width="378" height="214" /></a>I was excited to apply what I’d more or less been learning on my own about writing and couldn’t imagine a more productive two hours a week than listening to this man. Little did I know how meaningful and important our friendship would become. David Scott Milton, when I met him, made me feel like everything in my life, prison or not, was meant to get me to this point – right to his instruction. It was all I could do to follow through on every piece of advice he gave us and never go slack on any of the footwork, practice, or emotional risk he’d later urge me to take. After a few months, David returned to his regular Tehachapi class, and we stayed in touch through letters and greeting cards. He never wrote a letter that felt engineered, as if he’d been borrowing from exchanges with other former students to save time. He wrote instead about some of the challenges he faced, as well as those he saw others face – friends and students alike. He was serving as an adjunct professor at USC, for instance, when a former student and close friend killed his family and himself. In his letters, David wondered if his connection to imprisoned murderers had somehow tainted his civilian life, and this dark question was only one of many personal musings he chose to share with me. In turn, I wrote only about those things that were least resolved in my life at the time: my future, my excuses, and my fears. If David trusted me enough to share pictures of himself with his children at Christmas time, how could I not fully open myself to him? How could I not become a student in the most consequential of ways? I didn’t know it at the time, but the degree of self-reflection his correspondence demanded of me made me a better writer and a better person. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/David-Scott-Milton_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4551" alt="David Scott Milton_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/David-Scott-Milton_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-300x205.jpg" width="300" height="205" /></a>After my release, David and I exchanged a few more letters and then fell out of contact. We recently reconnected, though – just in time for the release of the prison memoir he’d urged me to write even before my release. And here we are. <i>Murderers Are My Life</i> is David Scott Milton’s one-man spoken word performance, dramatizing his experiences with inmate writing students and the effect those experiences had on him. It’s available on DVD and download. Some of the most emotionally harrowing things David endured are right there on screen: more than a few I remember him describing to me in letters – as he was experiencing them. It was surreal, but the performance itself is moving and funny. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Murderers-Are-My-Life_David-Scott-Milton3.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4810" alt="Murderers Are My Life_David Scott Milton3" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Murderers-Are-My-Life_David-Scott-Milton3.jpg" width="373" height="216" /></a>Flavorwire’s Sophie Weiner recently posted "<a href="http://flavorwire.com/411416/25-things-to-read-watch-and-listen-to-if-you-loved-orange-is-the-new-black">25 Things to Read, Watch, and Listen to If You Loved ‘Orange Is the New Black’</a>" and if you watch <i>Murderers Are My Life, </i>I'm sure you'll agree it should’ve been snagged by Sophie's radar. Because if, as she claims, one of the best things about <i>Orange</i> is that the new show leaves us hungry for more of its fresh take on incarceration, certainly the voices of inmates aren't the only ones that should be heard. Equally important are those who give them a reason to rehabilitate instead of reoffend. Like David did for me. I’ve blogged frequently on the importance of civilian employees like David Scott Milton, who saw my potential in ways I couldn't see myself. They are a large part of why I didn't wind up in the spin cycle of recidivism. Although I had to first become the kind of person that could tell my story in a way that would be meaningful to others, David Scott Milton played no small part in my eventually bringing <i>Where Excuses Go to Die</i> to market. Its <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Where-Excuses-John-Espinosa-Nelson/dp/0988573601/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1378163106&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=where+excuses+go+to+die" target="_blank">release date is September 12</a>. <p style="text-align: left;">So check out David's powerful <i>Murderers Are My Life</i>. It's a three-dollar download and worth every penny in terms of providing a different perspective on life behind bars. For those who like the rubber stamps of cell house rape, stabbings, and general savagery, well, that stuff gets covered too.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><b>Either way, let's make sure the wisdom of prison educators doesn't get left out of a dialogue that has become water-cooler conversation across America.</b></p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> 4795 2013-09-02 16:12:32 2013-09-02 23:12:32 2017-11-06 12:37:27 2017-11-06 19:37:27 closed open murderers-are-his-life publish 0 0 post 0 All Writing is Re-writing California Correctional Institution (CCI) Character David Scott Milton Inspirational Murder Murderers Are My Life Tehachapi California Wasco State Prison _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:115;s:8:"facebook";i:12;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706732026;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8961;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7132;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6175;}}}} http://working-copy.local/your-adorable-child/theres-no-excuse-for-limiting-9-11-to-hero-worship/ Mon, 09 Sep 2013 02:32:32 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=4828 <h3><span style="color: #000000;">Are 9-11 Remembrance Festivals really latent Islamophobia picnics?</span></h3> Those that serve only to indoctrinate - <strong>yes</strong>. <div> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Nintendo1.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4838" alt="Nintendo" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Nintendo1.jpg" width="245" height="251" /></a>You've got your 9-11 ceremonies and your 9-11 family fun runs, silent auctions, parades, Karaoke, walkathons, crafts for the kids, food, refreshments, and for some groups, even mock CSI investigations with clues, evidence, and presumably "perps." (I wonder what <i>they </i>look like at a 9-11 festival.) You can be outraged at my questioning this stuff, but you can't be offended by my asking why these events rarely include educational opportunities to broaden our understanding of cultures other than our own. Yes-yes, I understand it was <i>Western</i> culture that took a hit that morning, but number one, ours wasn't the <i>only</i> culture to be irreversibly affected, and number two, not every follower of Islam is hiding Boeing 747 wiring diagrams. So what's the excuse? Where's the booth that explains to young people what the Koran is, and who reads it? Of Connecticut's Wethersfield 9-11 memorial picnic, a Richard M. Keane Foundation spokesperson told <a href="http://articles.courant.com/2013-09-03/community/hc-wethersfield-picnic-0904-20130903_1_keane-foundation-judy-keane-old-wethersfield" target="_blank">a local paper</a>, "It's a nice family evening, and a time to remember in a positive way. It's a looking-for-the-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel kind of theme. I think it's a great way for people to share the day and remember, but also enjoy their families." Absolutely. And familiar sentiments all –– the physical and emotional scars of 9-11 are indeed part of America's social fabric. I'm just asking why it has to be limited to <i>only</i> those. Why can't it <em>also</em> be used as a teaching tool (and an ounce of prevention)? Limiting these festivals to only "our side" and our understanding is dangerously restrictive in terms of dealing with those suspicious or distrustful of our way of life. Even from a tactical military standpoint, a soldier would question why we're dismissing "the other guy." Must hearts and minds always be won after America has put itself above those with whom it seeks to gain favor?<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/NEVER-FORGET-OR-THOUGHTCRIME_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die1.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4841" alt="NEVER FORGET OR THOUGHTCRIME_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/NEVER-FORGET-OR-THOUGHTCRIME_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die1-300x225.jpg" width="300" height="225" /></a>Part of understanding what happened that day is learning where the men who committed those atrocities came from and identifying the conditions that lead to new threats. But how many of the people attending these events, particularly young people, could find Syria, Yemen, or the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan on a map if one was laid out before them? You could argue that a celebration of 9-11 heroes and victims is no place for acknowledging the enemy, which is fine, but acknowledging the enemy isn't my issue.  I'm talking about explaining to a 9-year-old girl that she has a counterpart 6,000 miles away who isn't permitted to attend school, and that the men responsible are more likely to fit the definition of  an "enemy" than she is. How else are American kids going to learn to differentiate between the two? Oh, that's right, Islamic awareness is your kid's teacher's job, right? <strong>Chalk up another excuse not to try: </strong><em>I</em><i>t's the school's responsibility to ensure that my adorable child doesn't start throwing the word 'towelhead' around, not mine.</i> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Islamaphobia-Bear_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4843" alt="Islamaphobia Bear_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Islamaphobia-Bear_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-300x300.jpg" width="240" height="240" /></a>Personally, I think there should be booths to explain our vets' PTSD and traumatic brain injuries to appropriately oriented juveniles, and others to reinforce certain facts about 9-11, such as the number of civilians who ran back into those buildings to help pull people out. How 'bout Q&amp;A sessions for parents and children to ask questions of vets, 9-11 survivors, clergy, and academics? Or is that not "light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel" enough? And lastly, between the silent auctions, the 5K jogs, the fried foods, folding chairs, and red, white 'n blue, are we so righteously unbending and sword-like on the eve of bombing yet another Islamic country that we can't make room for wider recognition and a larger general message in our 9-11 remembrances and commemorations? &nbsp; <p style="text-align: center;">Is the excuse because we're American?</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Is the excuse because we said so?</p> <p style="text-align: center;">Of course it isn't, 'cause there is no excuse.</p> <strong> </strong> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>“One’s opinion should only be as strong as one’s knowledge on the matter.” </strong> <strong>? Eric Hirzel</strong></p> </div> 4828 2013-09-08 19:32:32 2013-09-09 02:32:32 2015-04-06 07:09:45 2015-04-06 14:09:45 closed open theres-no-excuse-for-limiting-9-11-to-hero-worship publish 0 0 post 0 9/11 Memorial 911 Afghanistan America Culture History Islam Islamophobia military Pakistan picnic PTSD Syria terrorism twin towers Yemen Your Adorable Child _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:1;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1688483145;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:303;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:460;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:312;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:316;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2374;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7605;}}}} 35625 Christopher cflewis1969@gmail.com 107.212.213.150 2013-09-08 22:27:33 2013-09-09 05:27:33 I agree...I also think that it's vital for us to acknowledge that this year's high school freshmen were two years old in 2001...those currently being matriculated at university were in kindergarten. This newest generation of abstract thinkers has little empathy for the emotions of September 11, 2001. This is history to them much the way Vietnam seemed like history to my generation. Your suggestions may fall on the deaf ears of many adults who have made up their minds about the culpability of Islam, we do owe these nascent world citizens a comprehensive map of the “rivers” they will be navigating in the not so distant future. No, it's <strong>not</strong> necessarily my job as a teacher to teach them about Isaac and Ishmael and the roots of conflict, but it <strong>is</strong> my job to help them become free thinkers. And in turn, the mind of a free thinker is more likely to find and to act upon the truth. I believe this with a level of conviction unparalleled by anything else in my big-bag-of-beliefs, which is why I appreciate your final quote by Mr. Hirzel, and which is why I’ll leave you with a quote that I write on the board when my students begin their lessons on logic and persuasion. <em>“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that."</em> ––– John Stuart Mill 1 comment 0 0 35666 Jill kleinmutt@yahoo.com 63.206.47.126 2013-09-09 09:51:02 2013-09-09 16:51:02 Good points made. But there are events going on this week geared towards informing in the manner you suggest. In San Diego, LA, and across the country, for instance, vets and open minds will gladly answer questions or, at least, provide food for thought. In New York one could attend any of the daily events for "How the World Changed After 9/11: A Symposium of Critical Thinkers." But if you can't make any of the live events in your city, ReThink911.org, <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">informationclearinghouse.info</a>, and <a href="http://www.veteransforpeace.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">veteransforpeace.org</a> are all good places to start for information outside the box of what is typically promoted as patriotism and honoring the day. 1 comment 0 0 35669 John Nelson john@whereexcusesgotodie.com 76.206.8.168 2013-09-09 12:34:51 2013-09-09 19:34:51 Thank you for your response, Jill, but <strong>I'm advocating for less groupthink and more acceptance of cultures other than our own</strong>, namely, Middle Eastern, Arabic, Islam and so forth. The links you provided seek to rally public opinion against action in Syria and recruit Ground Zero Grassy Knollers. Those are very different kinds of events, whereas I'm merely suggesting our existing 9-11 events be less asymmetric and better proportioned. <strong>I'm proposing that we take up the opportunity to teach rather than indoctrinate.</strong> Bombing Syria is just about the dumbest effin' thing ever –– especially considering the many problems here on American soil. If folks want to bring their kids to get pelted with antiwar rhetoric, fine with me (if you're dumb enough to prematurely sharpen their skills of protestation). And yes, every young and mature adult should delve further into the questions being asked of the government's official explanations of 9-11. It's up to each individual to determine how deeply they want to go into it. I just don't think it's a good idea to use this specific date on the calendar to tell your kids that the towers fell via controlled demolition. I mean, it's parentally selfish not to pick another day, not to mention it strengthens the holiday–ization of 9-11. <strong>Again, with this post I was merely trying to get across that the anniversary is too important not to use as a tool against xenophobia.</strong> 1 comment 35666 1 http://working-copy.local/excuses/get-character-or-become-one/ Thu, 12 Sep 2013 18:31:43 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=4866 <h2><span style="color: #0000ff;">The release date for <em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em> has finally arrived.</span></h2> <h3><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/WHERE-EXCUSES-GO-TO-DIE_Get-Character-or-Become-One.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4879" alt="WHERE EXCUSES GO TO DIE_Get Character or Become One" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/WHERE-EXCUSES-GO-TO-DIE_Get-Character-or-Become-One.jpg" width="378" height="272" /></a>Not until today could the story behind this highly personal motto be told.</h3> My reasons are simple. First, with today's official publication of <em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em>, I've paid myself back for the opportunities, experiences, friends, and belongings that the consequences of my actions took from me. Second, a prison sentence was the first thing I ever started and saw through to the end, and the long journey of bringing this book to market would never have begun if I hadn't formulated and maintained a relationship with delayed gratification. Neither would certain realizations have been triggered by the input of those I encountered along the way. The late comedienne Lotus Weinstock, for example, encouraged me to consider developing my newfound voice under less isolating circumstances, and her advice came just as the meaning of the concept -- having a voice at all -- was finally becoming clear. <em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em> contains a good number of instances where the lights came on. But this is the most important of all:<!--more--> I'd been arrested and charged with multiple armed robberies. Between State and Federal prosecutors, it took nine weeks for evidence to be substantiated, assembled, and presented at my preliminary hearing. As I'd gone on quite a spree, the evidence continued to trickle in after that, too. The judge marveled at my lack of criminal history. Even the prosecutor dropped his pretense, at one point lowering his folder and asking me point blank, "What were you thinking!?" <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-Cover-Concept_©GKS-Creative.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4876" alt="Where Excuses Go to Die Cover Concept_©GKS Creative" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-Cover-Concept_©GKS-Creative.jpg" width="281" height="419" /></a>Preliminary hearings are basically presentations of some or most of the evidence against you in order to confirm the need for a trial. When you're attending your own, you don't look around much. On TV, defendants always seem to be looking behind them, smiling or grimacing at unseen persons. I can't imagine doing that! The defendant's chair is scary as hell, and the last thing you want to convey to a judge is that you aren't paying attention or that the world around you is more interesting than what he's saying. I looked straight ahead, which is why I didn't catch the arrival of the many witnesses lined up to testify against me on behalf of the State. One by one, each of them came forward to tell their version of events, and as they did, I sank deeper and deeper into my chair. In a courtroom, with all of its bearing, permanence, and officiated morality, it's difficult for anyone to speak openly into a microphone, so it couldn't have been easy on these people. But they conducted themselves as if they were there to perform a civic duty -- all the way up until <em>I</em> entered their accounts. Almost to a person, the witnesses embellished details, exaggerated my demeanor, and flat out lied. (Stick with me here...this isn't a blame-the-victim story.) The first witness said I'd screamed, pulled out a gun, and pointed it everywhere. The woman who followed testified that I'd shoved her into a closet. I flat out panicked. I absolutely <em>had</em> robbed these people, but I'd never touched anyone, removed the movie prop .38 from my waistband, or raised my voice. I didn't need to! That was my big idea: that the implication of a threat would do all the work for me. I scribbled frantically on my yellow legal pad and slid it to my attorney, but he waved it away and whispered, "Don't worry about it. It's just a preliminary hearing." !!!!! Easy for him to say. Witness after witness was sympathized with and patiently allowed to collect themselves, which made perfect sense. These were victims. <em>My</em> victims. They had every right to be compensated for what I'd put them through, but did they have to make things up? Oh yeah, they were gettin' me back, and I guess they'd earned that right, too. The bottom line was, I was powerless to do anything about it. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/LA-County-Seal_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4890" alt="LA County Seal_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/LA-County-Seal_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="195" height="195" /></a>By my own actions, I had surrendered my control over how people saw me or who they decided I was as a person. I'd willingly relinquished my ability to influence how others perceived my actions. That's something people never think about in terms of getting into trouble: at some point, witnesses will be given carte blanche to say what they will, and defending attorneys have to work their way back from those accusations. As a defendant, the process can be torturous. I knew I hadn't been and wasn't the monster people were making me out to be, but that didn't matter for shit. And there was no one to blame but me. <em>I</em> was the one who opened the door for future witnesses to color their experience any way they wanted. I <em>had</em> no character, so I <em>became</em> a character: a young man with all of the attributes those witnesses cared to ascribe. So here's your origin of  "get character or become one." It's the most important advice I can offer the world, and it applies well beyond the courtroom. As of today, with <em>Where Excuses Go to Die's</em> public debut, that lesson is set free. I'm once again allowing my worth to be determined by others -- but this time it's for positive reasons rather than a cringe-worthy, humiliating wake-up call. And it's all brought to you by my voice, the one I was helped to find behind bars. &nbsp; 4866 2013-09-12 11:31:43 2013-09-12 18:31:43 2013-09-12 11:33:04 2013-09-12 18:33:04 closed open get-character-or-become-one publish 0 0 post 0 character Character Excuses Lotus Weinstock prison publication Where Excuses Go to Die _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:1;s:8:"facebook";i:22;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703532078;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6473;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4346;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7779;}}}} 35778 D.W. cmartin.nelson@gmail.com 130.154.0.250 2013-09-12 11:37:38 2013-09-12 18:37:38 Congratulations on how far you've apparently come, John. I like what you've been doing with the blog and have been waiting to hear that the eBook is available since I rarely read on paper these days. Looking forward to checking it out. 1 comment 0 0 35795 Michael M. techrev@live.com 192.0.231.229 2013-09-12 20:34:18 2013-09-13 03:34:18 The funny thing is, I doubt those witnesses lied to get even with you so much as they did it to protect their own egos. For you, though, the end result would be the same. In the end, you're right, you really had no choice but to take it. I think though you had character all along; you just didn't really know how to use it properly, yet. Awesome story so far. I can't wait to read more. I'm a huge fan of the irony you've created here. I can't say that I've seen or heard anything like it. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/culture/music-is-moral-law/ Tue, 17 Sep 2013 20:45:10 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=4908 Not havin' the day you hoped for? Here's some joy you can't ignore <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Are-You-Hep-to-the-Jive_Cab-Calloway.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4920" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Are-You-Hep-to-the-Jive_Cab-Calloway.jpg" alt="Are You Hep to the Jive_Cab Calloway" width="141" height="161" /></a>I'm a big fan of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR2gR6SZC2M&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=59s" target="_blank">Sister Rosetta Tharpe</a> and <a href="http://www.npr.org/programs/jazzprofiles/archive/calloway.html" target="_blank">Cab Calloway</a>, of his high speed rhyming, wordless "scat" singing, and his manic energy. A friend who's familiar with my admiration of the big band leader shot me this clip, and upon watching it I felt guilt, excitement, and the swelling of my heart – in that order. The magic here is its big middle finger to <em>me-me-me</em>. It seems like we live in a world where everybody has to be everywhere at once, where, if we can't have what we want, we know what it looks like to get it. It's a world in which nearly all of our needs are digitally serviced, yet nothing does as much for us as music. <div></div> <iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/NKDXuCE7LeQ" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> As important as music has always been to me, woven throughout my history and tied to just about every human connection I've made since my youth, I haven't used it enough to help others. And by help, I mean I haven't used it to brighten someone's day, or as a means for giving others a way to communicate -- i.e., <a href="http://jailguitardoors.org/" target="_blank">the power to climb up and out</a>. Not for years I haven't. Never mind bemoaning a bygone era in which we spent hours of super concentrated brain power creating vinyl-to-cassette compilations as gifts. Lots of writers have bitched about our loss of such human connections, not to mention the generosity on which they were based. But with music being so readily available today, what excuse could I possibly have to keep it limited to my own selfish enjoyment and confined to lightening only <em>my</em> load? Evidently, I need to remember that music is not for the self-serving. It never has been (though it's funny to me that music-based plastic purchase vouchers are called iTunes gift cards: they're meant for sharing, but they're more often used like isolation training. Maybe that's the "I" part). I need to be better about letting music help me help others. My maternal grandmother, for instance, is from El Paso, Texas, by way of Chihuahua, Mexico. She used to love listening to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay5ciplY4Pg" target="_blank">Freddy Fender</a>. So this iTunes gift card here, the one held to the wall above my monitor by a magnet, saving itself for something I really want, should probably get put to use. How suddenly stupid it makes me feel, looking at it. I have only one grandparent left, and no excuse not to spend my card on a way to brighten her day. &nbsp; <div style="text-align: center;"><b>Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, </b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><b>flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.</b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><b>– Plato </b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"></div> <div style="text-align: center;"></div> <div style="text-align: center;"></div> <div style="text-align: center;"></div> <div style="text-align: center;"></div> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> 4908 2013-09-17 13:45:10 2013-09-17 20:45:10 2016-01-27 17:57:17 2016-01-28 00:57:17 closed open music-is-moral-law publish 0 0 post 0 big band Cab Calloway Culture El Paso Freddy Fender Mexico music Texas _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:1;s:8:"facebook";i:8;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1696470948;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10863;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6295;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7334;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9474;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:303;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11737;}}}} 36219 M. Sharpe becareful-with-that@hotmail.com 76.206.8.168 2013-09-18 06:34:35 2013-09-18 13:34:35 I'd like to be there when you sneak up behind your grandmother with a set of headphones. How about some video? 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/prison-2/evil-incarnate-lock-up-quotas/ Fri, 20 Sep 2013 18:34:34 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=4931 <h2><span style="color: #0000ff;">Taxpayer penalties for unfilled corporate prison cells are a thing.</span></h2> In hopes of extending this infographic's reach (Huffington Post's smart use of <a href="http://www.bjs.gov/" target="_blank">BJS</a> data) I now present the biggest argument for the growing national dialogue on prison reform in America: <strong>Lock-up Quotas</strong>. For years,  Morgan Stanley, Ameriprize, Barclays, Invesco, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, among others, have invested heavily in for-profit detention. So, if you're someone who still dismisses incarceration as being for "those people," perhaps you should follow the money. You see, the same idiots who mistakenly foreclose on people's homes, may wind up deciding just how long your brother, sister, son or daughter are detained for public drunkenness. Operating at such a competency level, and with occupancy the highest priority for private prisons, all bets will soon be off with regards to who fills those beds. Sound crazy? Sure it does, but at the rate we're going it's not hard to imagine a day when banking institutions and financial investment companies open pop-up prisons like so many Wal-Marts. Without a complicit criminal justice system, <a href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/kids-for-cash-judge-vs-parents/" target="_blank">ever more</a> influenced by these financial entities, today's lock-up quotas wouldn't be so easily and enthusiastically enforced across the country. Have a look: <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/HuffPo_Private-Prisons-Infographic1.png"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-4932" alt="HuffPo_Private Prisons Infographic" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/HuffPo_Private-Prisons-Infographic1.png" width="720" height="755" /></a></p> 4931 2013-09-20 11:34:34 2013-09-20 18:34:34 2017-11-06 12:37:27 2017-11-06 19:37:27 closed open evil-incarnate-lock-up-quotas publish 0 0 post 0 Corporate for-profit detention GEO Group Lock-up quota Management and Training Corporation Prison Private Prison Companies Private Prisons The Corrections Corporation of America _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:9:{s:8:"facebook";i:10;s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:6:"reddit";i:0;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;s:6:"buffer";i:0;} _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704563823;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2089;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8424;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7896;}}}} 36472 Stilts19 stilts19@me.com 72.201.211.171 2013-09-20 23:03:22 2013-09-21 06:03:22 HOW is it constitutionally legal for a PRIVATE corporation to lock up American citizens??? Even if it is contracted by the government... 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/cowardice/abandoning-old-furniture-is-a-hate-crime/ Thu, 26 Sep 2013 22:15:32 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=4946 <h2><span style="color: #3366ff;">Littering should be judged by respective degrees, just like murder.</span></h2> <b><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Abandoned-Mattresses-are-Hate-Crimes_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4949" alt="Abandoned Mattresses are Hate Crimes_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Abandoned-Mattresses-are-Hate-Crimes_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="347" height="274" /></a>"First degree littering" would be considered the worst, of course, a genuine, pre-meditated affront to humanity. <b> </b>"Second degree" wouldn't be any better, except that maybe you put a "FREE" sign on your old-ass queen size. But because that's a stupid excuse, I take it back: there'd be no second or third degrees. </b> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3366ff;"><b>It's <em>all</em> bad. It's <em>all</em> willful and deliberate. </b></span></p> <b>When I find some skanky mattress or overturned recliner dumped next to sidewalk tree, I imagine locating its former owner and rubbing his face in it the way my father taught our dog not to crap in the house. There's simply no excuse for making your problems ours, and those who do are self-serving leeches with rat urine for blood. So no, the "Take Me" sign you stuck on that used condom of an old couch doesn't frame this picture any more forgivably. Your Carrington-Breckenridge microsuede fat throne and you can go to hell.</b> I can't say why the site of abandoned furniture hits my <i>who-the-hell-do-you-think-you-are?</i> nerve with the precision of a laser-guided missile, but when it strikes I picture the culprit creepin' around, lookin' for the right spot and the perfect moment to dump a lifeless TV before racing off like he'd just waved his dick at some kids. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Self-serving-leech-with-rat-urine-for-blood_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4954" alt="Self-serving leech with rat urine for blood_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Self-serving-leech-with-rat-urine-for-blood_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="275" height="117" /></a>If the offending home furnishing happens to be sitting in front of <em>your</em> home or at the end of <em>your</em> driveway   –and it belongs to you–   that's a different story. But old couches are most often abandoned in and around condo and apartment complexes. Discarded mattresses are leaned upside electrical boxes, building entrances, parking garage gates, and in street gutters for all to enjoy. (Here, too, I imagine a herpetic male tenant who doesn't pay his child support, waiting 'til midnight before wrestling his personally varnished king-sized Euro-top out of the building and into the alley, where it'll stay for weeks.) <!--more--><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Las-ratas-salen-por-la-noche_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4956" alt="Las ratas salen por la noche_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Las-ratas-salen-por-la-noche_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="206" height="154" /></a>Ever see a furniture-dumper in broad daylight? Not me! I'm glad I haven't, too, 'cause if I did there'd be a confrontation. 'Course I <em>really</em> can't go around mashing people's faces into their inconsiderately disposed of, human-soiled IKEA foam waste products: <i>Hello!</i> I have both state and federal rap sheets. Such an incident would guarantee conversations with suits and badges I neither want nor need. But I <em>would</em> find myself tempted, upon catching some unmanly do-nothing dumping his tattered La-Z-Boy, to hop out of my car with a digi-SLR (14.3 Megapixels of mega-shame, baby!) I'd run over and yell, <i>"Yo Landfill, say cheese!" </i> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/WTF_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4959" alt="WTF!?_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/WTF_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="173" height="128" /></a>Then I'd zoom home and crank out some nice color prints, returning to the scene of the criminal laziness with many copies. Each would feature an abusive, unfairly judgmental, and contemptuous description of what I saw. It would say "HATE CRIME" or "RODENT BREEDER" in giant letters. My eyewitness account would even include claim to have seen the perpetrator stopping to wipe himself all over with a large dead fish – just because. Readers need a good <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/man-who-sex-sofa-public-2002194" target="_blank"><em>WTF!?</em></a> to keep 'em hooked. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/A-Dogpile-of-Bad-Karma_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-4961" alt="A Dogpile of Bad Karma_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/A-Dogpile-of-Bad-Karma_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="240" height="180" /></a>I'm <i>not, </i>however, prepared to dial 9-1-1. My faith in local law enforcement's concern for aesthetic, quality of life issues is dubious to begin with. Besides, 3½ hours standing around with the police actually <i>is</i> too much to ask. Far too many cops are anxious to end their shift with as few incident reports to complete as possible, and they can be a headache for <em>both</em> parties to deal with. Thus my vigilante creed: "Don't magistrate: humiliate!" But is publicly dumping boxes of your old clothes or bedding really a hate crime? Other than a self-hate crime, technically (obviously) no. It <i>is, </i>however, illegal, and certainly arguable that only self-haters buy Swivel Rocker Recliners "with Storage Arm" and <a href="http://www.la-z-boy.com/Product/6447-8082/Legend-Sectional/" target="_blank">fabric sectional sofa-yachts</a>. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Recliner-Diabetes-Barge-with-Storage-Arm_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4962" alt="Recliner Diabetes Barge with Storage Arm_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Recliner-Diabetes-Barge-with-Storage-Arm_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="172" height="133" /></a>I mean, <a href="http://www.lanefurniture.com/">Lane</a> and Broyhill are the<i> real</i> reason people dump these wretched discourtesies in the dark of night, right? General laziness too, of course, but who'd want to be seen scurrying away from an <a href="http://www.bassettfurniture.com/Rectangular-Cocktail-Table-DZ34552.asp" target="_blank">Emporium Class</a> end-table on a sunny day? Not me. And isn't it always that hideous Macy's clearance center garbage <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/man-who-sex-sofa-public-2002194" target="_blank">these assholes</a> make us look at on the street, too? I call unfair! You're walking down the sidewalk and up-comes some lunchtime spaghetti at the sight of a Bulldog Pad-Over Rocker. And what in goddamn hell is a "Catnapper Magnum!?" Who invents these names, by the way? <p style="text-align: center;">Whatever, it doesn't matter. Just don't pollute our day with whatever's left of your ugly-ass home furnishings.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Sidewalk-INFESTATION_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-4964" alt="Sidewalk INFESTATION_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Sidewalk-INFESTATION_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="269" height="215" /></a></p> 4946 2013-09-26 15:15:32 2013-09-26 22:15:32 2017-11-06 12:37:28 2017-11-06 19:37:28 closed open abandoning-old-furniture-is-a-hate-crime publish 0 0 post 0 Comfort Zone couch Cowardice Culture curb furniture hate crime home furnishings La-Z-Boy mattress recliner sectional TV _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:6;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704375261;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7896;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2243;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8863;}}}} 37040 Helen hcs@helenstringer.net 108.91.173.1 2013-09-26 17:35:33 2013-09-27 00:35:33 After the raccoons realized that my aquarium was actually a sushi bar, I decided that fish in my barn was a bad idea. I emptied the tank and put it on the curb, along with the filter and all accoutrements. It was gone in 30 minutes. 1 comment 0 0 37041 John Nelson john@whereexcusesgotodie.com 76.206.8.168 2013-09-26 18:31:24 2013-09-27 01:31:24 Most people recognize a fish tank as well as the basic equipment that might accompany one, so I'd say you gave away something of value, not to mention made someone's day. 1 comment 37040 1 http://working-copy.local/culture/walts-transformation-my-ass/ Mon, 30 Sep 2013 21:51:24 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=4979 <h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Meth dealers are far closer to prison</span></h2> <h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">snitches than math teachers.</span></h2> <h2 style="text-align: center;"></h2> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>No, really. I promise. </strong></p> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Holy-Crap_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-4980" alt="Holy Crap_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Holy-Crap_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="493" height="392" /></a> 4979 2013-09-30 14:51:24 2013-09-30 21:51:24 2013-09-30 14:55:00 2013-09-30 21:55:00 closed open walts-transformation-my-ass publish 0 0 post 0 Breaking Bad Character Culture Drug Dealers Heisenberg Math Meth Walt _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:9;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1682944476;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:343;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8371;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1326;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1233;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5546;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7931;}}}} http://working-copy.local/food/the-feast-and-the-furious/ Fri, 04 Oct 2013 05:04:50 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=4994 <h2><span style="color: #666699;">Slower fast food drive-thru times may indicate less of a shit given</span></h2> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/DRIVE-THRU_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5003" alt="DRIVE-THRU_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/DRIVE-THRU_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="231" height="172" /></a>With the furious pace of America's dumbing down, de-skilling, and low-waging, it's no surprise that drive-thru speed of service is suffering. Yet after catching sight of a pedestrian nursing a chocolate shake, his facial expression as blank as a feeding infant's, it suddenly becomes critical that <em>I</em> not have to wait too long for my own. The notion now planted, the countdown from image to intake shouldn't be longer than six minutes, and two have been annoyingly consumed by the two block drive. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/YOU-SHUT-YOUR-FACE-WE-PAY-YOU-IN-PEANUTS.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5018" alt="YOU SHUT YOUR FACE - WE PAY YOU IN PEANUTS" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/YOU-SHUT-YOUR-FACE-WE-PAY-YOU-IN-PEANUTS-300x200.jpg" width="210" height="140" /></a>When I finally reach the drive-thru, I'm certain that anything beyond four more minutes would be un-American. So the <em>foreign-American</em> up there pulling various levers and pushing little buttons is just going to have to snap it up. But wait! That's not a compliant brown person at the window: it's an uppity white kid! What's <em>he</em> doing here? Oh, right, he's one of those college grads pushing lower-skilled workers and immigrants <a href="http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/24/6/1640.full" target="_blank">even further down</a> the occupational staircase. No wonder my Jalapeno Chicken Squeezer isn't already running down my neck-slide! The chow line is slow 'cause Hamilton just doesn't care. And he's not some trophy-collecting, millennial foot-dragger, either: he's as boxed in as the fast food coworkers with whom he stood last month, demanding a bump in the $7.25 federal minimum wage.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Your-expectations-will-kill-you_Where-Excuses-Go-TO-DIE.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5008" alt="Your expectations will kill you_Where Excuses Go TO DIE" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Your-expectations-will-kill-you_Where-Excuses-Go-TO-DIE.jpg" width="145" height="88" /></a>I eyeball his lax performance from my car, and frankly I understand where his apathy's coming from. Having earned an M.A. in electronic business technologies, he probably resents having to choose between Hot Pockets™ and rent. But though 13 1/2 million college graduates currently work for hourly pay, it isn't just aspiring hipsters being pounded into low-skill submission. According to the Economic Policy Institute, 87.9% of Hamilton's coworkers are older. Factoring in life experience and education, their sense of insult is probably that much greater. Still, Ham's bad case of the fuck-its is ruining the bonus binge I didn't know I wanted 'til two stop signs ago. I find my desire for a Croissant Buster diminishing, and my engrafted appetite is in danger of being replaced by a sense of having hit some high-bottom Waterloo, a picture of a country that doesn't give a shit. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/McDonalds-Distorted-McWorldview.png"><img class="alignright wp-image-5005" alt="McDonald's Distorted McWorldview" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/McDonalds-Distorted-McWorldview.png" width="229" height="288" /></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/NLIHC-Housing-Cost-of-Living-Infographic_-01.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5006" alt="NLIHC-Housing-Cost-of-Living-Infographic_-01" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/NLIHC-Housing-Cost-of-Living-Infographic_-01-300x259.jpg" width="240" height="207" /></a>Simply put, we're all being corralled behind fences of <a href="http://www.bls.gov/emp/" target="_blank">diminished expectations</a>. Diminished expectations of our leaders, diminished expectations for our wages and quality of life, and diminished expectations of one another. Some days, the little voice inside me that usually manages to fight its way forward and say, "But that's no excuse to quit!" feels as forfeited-upon as someone working a drive-thru window. And few things represent the diminished expectations being shoved down onto us better than a <a href="http://www.practicalmoneyskills.com/mcdonalds/budgetJournal/budgetJournal.php" target="_blank">personal budget published by Visa and McDonald's</a>, for distribution to McDonald's employees (see greenish graphic to the right). In it, lowered life-values are served up with steamy piles of the assumptions the budget's creators make on behalf of workers: namely that they'd have zero debt, work two jobs, and pay monthly health insurance premiums roughly equal to the cost of two fast food meals. Entirely omitted are childcare expenses, transportation costs, or <a href="http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Los-Angeles-Southern-California-Roads-Freeways-Road-Conditions-226291511.html" target="_blank">automotive upkeep of any kind</a>, and all of life's other basic necessities -- food, clothing, medication, toiletries -- aren't supposed to exceed $27 per day (doesn't that dollar menu look good?). Don't even <em>think</em> about setting anything aside for a stress relieving hobby or diverting night off. And it's fortunate you don't have a family, 'cause no one's sending <em>those</em> kids to college! This budget here is simply a way for you to secure and maintain a convenient standby location 'til your next work shift. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Will-Work-For-Dignity_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5015" alt="Will Work For Dignity_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Will-Work-For-Dignity_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="134" height="103" /></a>The whole subject of fast food and drive-thru service actually hit my radar via a <a href="http://www.insularesearch.com/news.aspx" target="_blank">recently released performance study</a> that looked at drive-thru efficiency, order accuracy, exterior appearance, customer service, and so forth. My interest morphed into these larger questions, because any discussion of how fast we get (or don't) our three minute garbage meals represents so much more: specifically, our being trained to expect so much less. <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>How can our only defense be apathy?</strong></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/HIRING-FOR-THE-HOLIDAYS___Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-5023" alt="HIRING-FOR-THE-HOLIDAYS___Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/HIRING-FOR-THE-HOLIDAYS___Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="300" height="237" /></a></p> 4994 2013-10-03 22:04:50 2013-10-04 05:04:50 2017-11-06 12:37:28 2017-11-06 19:37:28 closed open the-feast-and-the-furious publish 0 0 post 0 American Americans budget Corporate Culture drive-thru dumbing down expenses fast food Food Hot Pockets McDonald's millennial minimum wage quality of life rent Visa _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:1;s:8:"facebook";i:4;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703831505;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9833;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:869;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2243;}}}} http://working-copy.local/prison-2/the-cellblock-on-sesame-street/ Sat, 12 Oct 2013 18:12:35 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=5039 <h2><span style="color: #0000ff;">Today, even Sesame Street intersects with Incarceration Boulevard.</span></h2> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/New-Character-Alex-on-Sesame-Street.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5040" alt="New Character Alex on Sesame Street" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/New-Character-Alex-on-Sesame-Street.jpg" width="286" height="284" /></a>The most important thing you can learn from Alex, a new Sesame Street character with an incarcerated dad, is that he exists. While he's not yet a regular on the show, Alex is out there on the Internet, interacting with your children via the “Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration” initiative, an <a href="http://www.sesamestreet.org/parents/topicsandactivities/toolkits/incarceration" target="_blank">online tool kit</a> designed to help kids aged 3-8 deal with having parents in custody. To some, that might sound a little scary. But fear not, Helicopters, there's safety in numbers. One of every 28 children in the United States has a parent in prison, so Alex has a lot of friends, some of whom are already interacting with your child in real life. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/WheresMom_TulsaPeople.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5043" alt="WheresMom_TulsaPeople" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/WheresMom_TulsaPeople.jpg" width="115" height="562" /></a>This is what makes Sesame Street so special, because it traditionally tackles issues head-on, literally at the 3-foot level. Because parents can't always be there. The show's producers and writers (and by extension, sponsors) often address the questions children ask about a variety of subjects that confuse, confound, and anger us grownups. This time, the topic at hand is incarceration – and the reality that 2.7 million U.S. children have a mom or a dad in prison. Alex is Sesame Street's answer to the soaring numbers of kids in America who have questions about what it means to be quarantined from the rest of society. “Coming from a Muppet, it’s almost another child telling their story to the children,” <a href="http://www.today.com/moms/sesame-street-creates-first-muppet-have-parent-jail-6C10345061" target="_blank">Jeanette Betancourt</a>, vice president of outreach and educational practices at the Sesame Workshop, told NBC's Today. Criminal detention and life behind bars is about as dark a subject as you could ever cover with a child. I'm not a parent, so I've never had that conversation, but I've witnessed and overheard hundreds. In visiting rooms at the various prison facilities in which I was housed during my four-year tour, it was hard to pull my eyes from the interactions between incarcerated fathers and their children. (And to say it's not polite to stare in prison is a deadly understatement, believe me.) I witnessed everything from familiar representations of guilt, phony-baloney contrition, overwhelming love, and genuine pride to awkward reverence and equal opportunity resentment. Much of this extends well beyond the individual child-parent bond. There are caretakers, aunts and uncles, older and younger brothers, and so forth, all of whom have an elephant in the room that needs to be addressed, who have questions that need attention from the best person to answer them: the one who doesn't get to leave. So bravo! Sesame Street, for showing adults how urgently we need to start educating our children  --and ourselves--  about the effects of mass incarceration. It's a problem that won't likely be going away any time soon. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 5039 2013-10-12 11:12:35 2013-10-12 18:12:35 2017-11-06 12:37:28 2017-11-06 19:37:28 closed open the-cellblock-on-sesame-street publish 0 0 post 0 "Little Children Big Challenges" Alex children of incarcerated parents Comfort Zone Culture Prison Sesame Street Sesame Workshop _edit_last 1 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:1;s:8:"facebook";i:7;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1696049684;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7321;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7708;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2809;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11099;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8371;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11637;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/a-false-image-of-solid-parenting/ Wed, 16 Oct 2013 23:01:06 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=5056 <h3><span style="color: #000000;">Taking responsibility for your children doesn't work in silhouette</span></h3> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Notes-from-a-Non-parent-8.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5071" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Notes-from-a-Non-parent-8.jpg" alt="Notes from a Non-parent 8" width="230" height="203" /></a>After 12-year-old Rebecca Sedwick threw herself off an abandoned concrete silo tower last month, her friends and schoolmates came forward in droves to tell police she'd essentially been bullied to death. Guadalupe Shaw, 14, and another girl (aged 12) were charged with felony aggravated stalking after Shaw posted a new message stating in no uncertain terms that she couldn’t care less that her cruelty had resulted in the girl's death. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd reacted to that arrogance swiftly. He has since been adamant in his intent to jail the two minors, and he’s not staying silent on the responsibility their parents should bear, either ("I'm aggravated that [they] aren't doing what parents should…Responsible parents take disciplinary action"). I won’t get into the particulars of the backstory since, for instance, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/15/justice/rebecca-sedwick-bullying-death-arrests/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the intimidating coercion by Shaw</a> of one of Rebecca's friends to join in the bullying is all over the Internet. But I will note that an examination of Rebecca's computer revealed search queries for "What is overweight for a 13-year-old girl?" <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/10/15/girls-12-and-14-arrested-in-death-bullied-florida-girl-police-say/">"How to get blades out of razors,"</a> and "How many over-the-counter drugs do you take to die?" That’s a kicker that feels like it just hit your chest. <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Parents-of-Alleged-Cyberbully-Blame-Facebook-Hack-via-Good-Morning-America.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5058" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Parents-of-Alleged-Cyberbully-Blame-Facebook-Hack-via-Good-Morning-America.jpg" alt="Parents of Alleged Cyberbully Blame Facebook Hack via Good Morning America" width="345" height="193" /></a>But let's get to the part of the story that’s still unfolding: The fact that <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/parents-alleged-rebecca-sedwick-cyberbully-blame-facebook-hack/story?id=20583537">Guadalupe Shaw's parents now insist that their daughter's Facebook page was hacked</a> and that she'd never behave in such a terrible way. I call B.S. I think Shaw's parents knew she'd bring some atrocity or another down on their heads sooner or later. Their comically trite denials have come just a little too quickly. And certainly the hacked account excuse is a bit too <em>born yesterday</em> to be credible. Eh, not to mention it's now a stunt double for, "I'm incapable of telling the truth." <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Sell-it-someplace-else-cabbage-head.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5069" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Sell-it-someplace-else-cabbage-head.jpg" alt="Sell it someplace else cabbage head" width="134" height="181" /></a>In stark contrast, the father of the other girl has admitted not knowing enough about Facebook to have monitored his daughter's activity there, going so far as to say it was his fault. His daughter's personal choices aren't on him, but it's encouraging that he is willing to accept responsibility for her environment at home. Meanwhile, isn’t it curious that Shaw's parents agreed to be interviewed by Good Morning America – but only in silhouette? Insisting that their little angel is anything <em>but</em> cold-blooded tells us exactly where the problem came from. When I was arrested for <a href="http://working-copy.local/who-is-this-guy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">robbing a series of bookstores and stupidly moving onto banks</a>, one of the things that changed my life forever was watching my father stand up behind me in court to answer for his son's actions. I’d had no idea he was present ‘til the judge addressed him. When I turned to see my dad standing at military parade rest, the room began to spin. Every single neuron that fired off in my brain in those 45 minutes would never dim again. If I get Alzheimer's, they'll be the last to surrender. Here was a brokenhearted father agreeing to let the system take his son, showing his faith in criminal justice procedures, and accepting formally that his own child had both acted criminally <i>and</i> behaved like a goddamned idiot. I can't imagine for one <i>second</i> my father instead choosing to put himself on parade for all the world to see, (in silhouette) only to defend what he knew to be hideous acts and portray a false image of solid parenting. Guadalupe Shaw's parents, though, did exactly that. And they did it for no one but themselves. The day I sat in that courtroom and was told I wouldn't be going home for at least five years was one of the worst days of my life. Yet it was in those very moments that I actually felt lucky. Yes, I admit that it took several years and a lot of growing up for that sense of luck and pride in my upbringing  –not to mention in the man my father is–  to take shape. But now, as an adult who <i>did</i> get to learn from my mistakes, I value those things as much as I value my own life and freedom. My father, humbling himself before a federal judge on behalf of his dumb-ass son, gave me an hugely beneficial starting point. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/CAUTION_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5066" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/CAUTION_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="CAUTION_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="130" height="120" /></a>Guadalupe Shaw is 14 years old, and she has been robbed of an equally powerful lesson <i>by her own parents</i>, who lack the integrity to force their daughter out into the light of consequence. Shaw's starting point is much worse than mine was, and <i>my</i> next stop was a maximum-security prison. <span style="color: #800000;"><strong>UPDATE: 10/17/13</strong></span> <span style="color: #800000;"><strong><span style="color: #333333;">Raising the question of what to do about bullying, County Sheriff Judd is making noise about charging the parents, but is powerless to do so under Florida law. Still, fanning the flames of accountability and responsibility keeps the dialog hot and that's preventative in the eyes of many teens who wait for things to "die down."</span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Didn't you?</strong></span></strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong> </strong></span> 5056 2013-10-16 16:01:06 2013-10-16 23:01:06 2019-09-16 14:00:57 2019-09-16 21:00:57 closed open a-false-image-of-solid-parenting publish 0 0 post 0 Bullying Bullying Excuses Facebook Guadalupe Shaw Notes from a Non-parent parenting Polk County Sheriff's Office Rebecca Sedwick Suicide Your Adorable Child _edit_last 1 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:1;s:8:"facebook";i:30;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _yoast_wpseo_focuskw parenting _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 74 _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _yoast_wpseo_primary_category 3 _yoast_wpseo_content_score 30 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703772742;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:366;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1315;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2485;}}}} http://working-copy.local/self-esteem/breaking-the-narcissist-richter-scale/ Mon, 21 Oct 2013 04:53:25 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=5088 <h3><span style="color: #0000ff;">Goofing on cosmetic surgery martyrdom and Justin Bieber's toolface</span></h3> <h3><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;"><em><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Narcissist-Richter-Scale_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5100" alt="Narcissist-Richter-Scale_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Narcissist-Richter-Scale_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="228" height="168" /></a>If I look like Justin Bieber, I'll live like Justin Bieber</em>, goes the thinking of a <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2468391/Unbeliebable-33-year-old-Bieber-fanatic-100k-plastic-surgery-look-like-idol.html" target="_blank">sick, dumb animal</a>.</span></h3> <h3><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;">When humans are psychologically backed against a wall, they often do silly things reminiscent of the crazed stumble of mad cow disease. Narcissism is like mad cow, in that infected animals' brains and spinal cords get wonky after eating too much of themselves. </span></h3> At 33 years-old, “songwriter” Toby Sheldon is one such sick, dumb animal, thanks to his diseased missteps in pursuing the surgeried  likeness of Justin Bieber's pout. He may not have succeeded in turning his mug into a copy of The Bieber's, but he <em>has</em> broken the Narcissist Richter Scale and become this month's poster boy for GET CHARACTER OR BECOME ONE. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/DUMBASS-AND-DUMBERASS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5102" alt="DUMBASS AND DUMBERASS_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/DUMBASS-AND-DUMBERASS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="262" height="205" /></a>Perhaps it's unfair for me to pick on one of God's mixed up creatures, one whose likely next move is stumbling in a circle until it dies. But God commanded me to write this blog, and I can't be blamed for self-poisoning narcissists who shudder, shake, and stagger madly before my oncoming truck. Maybe the rule of thumb should be that, if you're such a delusional cosmetic surgery pigeon that becoming a laughing stock is a <em>minor</em> consequence, you should be entitled to special insurance coverage or perhaps your own island residency. I favor the island, a zero-liability  environment where you can immolate yourself with a can of gas, invent a chainsaw radio, or stagger delusionally off a cliff, all free from the legal or social judgments of others. <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/EPIC-SWAG-FAIL_Where-Excuses-go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5113" alt="EPIC SWAG FAIL_Where Excuses go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/EPIC-SWAG-FAIL_Where-Excuses-go-to-Die.jpg" width="131" height="176" /></a>Don't get me wrong, Toby Sheldon-Bieber is still a person: it's just that he's about as empty a vessel as you could get without breaking the laws of physics. Or is that mean? Is it wrong to make fun of somebody so devoid of substance that they choose someone equally empty to emulate? Toby's somebody with love to give, things to be happy about, and talent to share. I'm sure he's terrific with a ball of yarn. But then I look at what he's done to himself and I feel lucky. Not lucky because I know I'd never do such a thing, but because I know myself well enough to believe I'd eat a gun barrel before heading down this particular path. Not that I'm advocating suicide here; I just want to know what of <em>Toby Sheldon</em> Toby Sheldon is getting to know by doing this. It's a safe assumption his doctors didn't care enough to ask. And determining the psychological state of a patient before approving the surgery is one thing: shouldn't <em>some</em> thought have gone into what his psychological state will be 10 years from now? But speaking of results... <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Happy-Halloween.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-5120 alignleft" alt="Happy Halloween" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Happy-Halloween.jpg" width="103" height="158" /></a> The thing about moderate-to-excessive cosmetic procedures that I just don't get is why or how its electors fail to notice the resulting uniformity. With the exception of the super freaks, they all tend to look the same: puffy cheeks, narrow rat eyes, inhumanly smooth facial derma, and lips less attractive than 3rd-degree burn pus. It leaves the rest of us feeling pity and judgment, not admiration. For instance, in the millisecond before I laughed at Sheldon's before-and-after photos, I actually felt sorry for the guy. Okay, okay, so it was room temperature empathy immediately cooled by the hydrant of humor, but it did register. How could it not? Sheldon's face will never be what it was, and without an island on which to install him, it'll never blend in. Poor fool. In the real world, life experience is just beginning to carve its way into the expressions of those in their early- to mid-30s. Sheldon not only <em>doesn't</em> look like Justin Bieber, his face will never even be capable of showing the regret, growth, or wisdom he may yet gain from surviving such a truly dread-inducing choice. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Donatella-Versace.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5109" alt="Donatella Versace" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Donatella-Versace-300x212.jpg" width="180" height="127" /></a>I'm admittedly limited in my charity, though, because another thing I can't get my head around is the rate at which we're <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Narcissism-Epidemic-Living-Entitlement/dp/1416575995" target="_blank">cranking out people who martyr themselves in this way</a>. What horrible forces are at work when self obsession collides with this level of celebrity fixation? And you wanna talk excuses? How 'bout this: <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/BAD-GRILL_Image-Twitter.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5147" alt="BAD GRILL_Image-Twitter" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/BAD-GRILL_Image-Twitter.jpg" width="75" height="104" /></a>Toby Sheldon deliberately chose to look like someone who acts out publicly with little or no consequence. It's one thing to wish we were a muscular or heroic person, some intellectually admirable achiever with leadership qualities or courage. But it's another thing entirely to permanently and surgically alter oneself to look like a naughty man-baby who is rewarded by the media for immature, irresponsible, and discourteous behavior. To me, that's a heavier indictment on <em>society</em> than on looneys who copycat the looks and lives of Hollywood tools. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 5088 2013-10-20 21:53:25 2013-10-21 04:53:25 2013-10-23 11:52:20 2013-10-23 18:52:20 closed open breaking-the-narcissist-richter-scale publish 0 0 post 0 33-year-old Justin Bieber fan Beliebers Celebrity Character cosmetic surgery addict Culture empty vessel Justin Bieber mad cow Narcissist Richter Scale Narcissist Richter Scale plastic surgery Self-Esteem Toby Sheldon _edit_last 1 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:6;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703645136;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6233;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7041;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8306;}}}} 39751 Charlie bobcat7575@yahoo.com 75.80.57.183 2013-10-21 06:56:05 2013-10-21 13:56:05 This really pisses me off. I'm going to have my Bieber tattoo removed. 1 comment 0 0 39959 Christopher cflewis1969@gmail.com 107.210.29.38 2013-10-23 09:38:40 2013-10-23 16:38:40 Well...the sagacity of this "wake-up-call" comes a bit too late, seeing as I'm already six reconstructive surgeries into the process and only a brow-lift and chin implant away from my homage to <a href="http://www.freeinfosociety.com/media/images/867.jpg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rasputin</a>. (That guy got all the ???????.) 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/excuses/lifes-simpler-things-salvation-or-swindle/ Mon, 28 Oct 2013 19:38:46 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=5236 <h2><span style="color: #000000;">We all have excuses for ignoring the simple things. Here are mine:</span></h2> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Simplicities_Salvation-or-Swindle__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-5238" alt="Simplicities_Salvation or Swindle__Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Simplicities_Salvation-or-Swindle__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="759" height="343" /></a></p> <h2><span style="color: #000000;">Here's part one of an ongoing series in which our rationale for taking life's simplicities for granted are admitted to – and mocked.</span></h2> <h3>Sometimes, stopping to smell the roses is boring.</h3> Let's face it, some of life's simpler things are real snooze-fests. Take nature watching, for example, or going for a walk. I've never been one to just up and stroll around aimlessly. I mean, I enjoy walking, but it makes a lot more sense to me when there's a destination. Also, I like to look like I have a destination. It's all good to get into your head, appreciate your surroundings, sit on a bench, or listen to birds, but I'd rather get something out of it, like the clarity needed to make hard decisions or work through tough problems. Call me tightly wound, but a mental payoff is required. In the rare times I find myself walking on a beach, I always pick a point and head toward it. That way, on the return trip, I can at least relish a building sense of accomplishment and follow-through. I don't need to stop and smell every rose or stand in awe beneath every majestic tree. I'm walkin' here: they aren't exactly whizzing by. <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/PLEASE-DO-NOT-TELL-ME-ABOUT-YOUR-AUDITION.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5241" alt="PLEASE DO NOT TELL ME ABOUT YOUR AUDITION" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/PLEASE-DO-NOT-TELL-ME-ABOUT-YOUR-AUDITION.jpg" width="243" height="151" /></a>Otherwise, I exercise often and love the productive ache that follows a new routine. You can't beat the feeling of achievement in the hours after a good workout, and I've learned that my physical activity requirements can be met without my having to wander up a hillside, forcing myself to feel serene because the hillside is. Don't get me wrong, I like hillsides, but here in Los Angeles, our  hiking trails are often poseur-crowded fashion runways ranked by the number of celebrities rumored to use 'em. Tranquil is as tranquil does, so most local hillsides are out. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Los-Angeles-Unified-School-District_File-Photo.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5257" alt="Los-Angeles-Unified-School-District_File-Photo" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Los-Angeles-Unified-School-District_File-Photo.jpg" width="164" height="110" /></a>Fresh air is the simplest and greatest of life's restorative pleasures, and admittedly it helps keep me sane. I'm not so delusional, however, as to believe I won't encounter a mouthful of L.A. bus exhaust as soon as I step outside. Hence the destination part: when I get to where the fresh air is actually located, I know I'll enjoy it that much more. Plus, if the endpoint is genuinely serene, chances are I'll be able to relax there, carefree. This could be measured by the ability to take off one's pants without getting arrested. Nature watching is life-affirming stuff, but it's best when it sneaks up on you, like when the sound of rain draws me to a window and compels me stay, or when I find myself transfixed by something as simple as a squirrel at the base of bush or the wind whistling through a corridor. It's not city living that keeps me from this state; it's my own wavering ability to be still and just listen – a different matter entirely. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/I-SHOULD-NOT-HAVE-FIRED-OFF-THAT-FLARE-GUN.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5244" alt="I-SHOULD-NOT-HAVE-FIRED-OFF-THAT-FLARE-GUN" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/I-SHOULD-NOT-HAVE-FIRED-OFF-THAT-FLARE-GUN.jpg" width="180" height="117" /></a>Over the years, "helpful" friends have recommended other forms of meditation, including suggesting that cleaning out a closet can be Zen. I'd rather chew a sheet of aluminum foil. Talk about a surefire way to wind up muttering angrily to myself! Not exactly the desired mental payoff there... Then there's yoga. Sure, I could detail myriad reasons and excuses for why you'll never find me among the vapid hierarchy of yoga class attendees, but let's leave it at genuine post-traumatic stress disorder. If you think naked, breastfeeding, yoga mommies are asinine, try cellblock yoga masters who will break your face if you get it wrong. Oh yeah, they're real. I've seen 'em. <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Hey-great-Seated-Cobra-Plank-now-give-me-your-shoes.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-5246" alt="Hey great Seated Cobra Plank now give me your shoes" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Hey-great-Seated-Cobra-Plank-now-give-me-your-shoes.jpg" width="425" height="199" /></a></p> Civilians tell inmates it's relaxing and healthy, then they leave us alone to make it a blood war. Yoga in prison is for placing bets. Besides, if you're dumb enough to do anything that even resembles martial arts on a prison yard, you deserve what follows, Karate-man. After that, out here with the Volvos and Subarus, it's difficult to take it seriously. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/KIDS_NOT-EVEN-ONCE.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5247" alt="KIDS_NOT EVEN ONCE" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/KIDS_NOT-EVEN-ONCE.jpg" width="166" height="125" /></a>Watching children play always lifts my spirits, as long as I don't have to leave with any of 'em. Otherwise, other people's kids are fun to watch in nearly all stages and moods. In fact, seeing my friends interact with their children after they've turned red-faced with defiant rage, screaming at their parents who, only a minute before, had been expressing pity at my childlessness is truly one of life's greatest rewards. Who says a last laugh can't be a simple pleasure? So what's left other than popping bubble wrap? Strolling in fresh snow, now that's living! And when a return mug of hot chocolate is your destination, it's about as restorative and life-affirming as you can get. The point is, whether it's saving our sanity or downgrading our dignity, stopping to smell the roses isn't always something that comes naturally. And if you're like me, you can think of all sorts of excuses why. Part two of this series will pick those apart. But first, I'm off to enjoy the simple pleasures of an all-beef hot dog with jalapeno peppers and Mittelscharfer mustard. <p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/The-Great-Lifeboat-Swindle.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-5262" alt="The Great Lifeboat Swindle" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/The-Great-Lifeboat-Swindle.jpg" width="110" height="109" /></a></p> <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000; font-family: Helvetica; line-height: normal; font-size: medium;"> </span></div> 5236 2013-10-28 12:38:46 2013-10-28 19:38:46 2016-12-01 10:39:58 2016-12-01 17:39:58 closed open lifes-simpler-things-salvation-or-swindle publish 0 0 post 0 Culture Excuses exercise fresh air hiking life's simple pleasures nature walks stopping to smell the roses yoga yoga mommies _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:1;s:8:"facebook";i:5;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1688522985;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6233;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8028;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8193;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8514;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9833;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2444;}}}} http://working-copy.local/prison-2/bernard-kerik-the-wrong-man-to-talk-about-prison-reform/ Tue, 05 Nov 2013 22:29:19 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=5289 <h2><span style="color: #0000ff;">Kerik, former Homeland Security Secretary nominee, should shut up.</span></h2> <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Mugshot-Tough-Guy-Bernie-Kerik.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-5296" alt="face.jpg" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Mugshot-Tough-Guy-Bernie-Kerik.jpg" width="300" height="300" /></a>Bernie Kerik is no friend to those who have been prosecuted excessively for drug crimes or, for that matter, to <em>anyone</em> serving time in prison. By my estimation, his unlooked-for discovery that America's drug sentences have created a huge underclass of offenders is little more than fodder for Kerik's own PR agenda.</strong> Here's both barrels: For starters, though Kerik did spend time behind bars, he can't speak on behalf of the general population. A former NYPD Commissioner and the man who once oversaw one of the facilities in which he was detained, Kerik definitely did not live among gen pop inmates. He was housed in protective custody, a much less transitory and smaller environment. Protective custody (a.k.a. administrative segregation) is mainly for informants, self-harmers, perverts, and anyone else facility administrators deem likely to become stabbing practice. So from my perspective – and probably that of every other rational general population convict – Bernie Kerik is free to speak only for snitches and kid touchers. Sure, like me, he's entitled to a second chance and the opportunity to use that chance and his platform productively. But I say, consider the source.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Bernie-Kerik_MAFIA-COP.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-5303" alt="Bernie Kerik_MAFIA COP" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Bernie-Kerik_MAFIA-COP.jpg" width="150" height="195" /></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/DAILY-NEWS.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5318" alt="DAILY NEWS" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/DAILY-NEWS.jpg" width="151" height="193" /></a>Whether or not Kerik has <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2004/12/13/keriks_nanny_just_the_tip_of" target="_blank">Mafia ties</a>, as has been speculated for years, isn't the problem: neither is <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/07/AR2007040701398.html" target="_blank">Rudolph Giuliani's ignoring them</a>. Even Bouncin' Bernie's truly <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/bernard-kerik-double-affair-laid-bare-article-1.340899" target="_blank">asinine marital indiscretions</a> and <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/2004/12/13/kerik-withdraws-from-dhs-over-nanny-problem/" target="_blank">his very own Nannygate</a> aren't what get me. I simply look at the company he's kept throughout his life, from when he was a once-proud Marine to when he was a dutiful police officer, innovative corrections administrator, <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/prosecutors-expected-file-charges-bernard-kerik-article-1.231367" target="_blank">bribe-taking</a>, mobbed-connected cop, and finally, the man I met and briefly served, back when he was one of many conspiring to take advantage of post-9/11 homeland security fervor. Creepy old rich guys, law enforcement groupies, witness tamperers, crooked political appointees, and so on. Now Kerik is seeking to insert himself into another national dialog, this time on prison reform. Frankly, in terms of character, I think ol' Bernie's a player. And the yearn to be an even bigger player – a <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=decider" target="_blank">Decider</a> – didn't get shaken during his incarceration. It makes me want to ask him what did. Yet here's Kerik, out the gate, telling the nation what it needs just like he did when George W. Bush nominated him to head Homeland Security. He's shown us no proof of personal growth. A change of heart requires more than merely glimpsing another man's perspective. I smell a rushed approach to a fast flag planting. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/THE-AWNER-IS-NO_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5304" alt="THE AWNER IS NO_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/THE-AWNER-IS-NO_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="203" height="191" /></a><strong>Today, I was asked whether I thought Kerik's views were a legitimate part of the overall discourse on prison reform.</strong> My answer is an unequivocal NO. Why not? Shouldn't I be happy when someone with a big media platform brings attention to issues about which I care passionately? Maybe. But Kerik ain't the guy to sing this song. In addition to what I've already cited, let me share my experience with his <em>last</em> planted flag. As detailed in a 2011 post called <a href="http://working-copy.local/celebrity/from-beat-downs-to-bear-hugs/" target="_blank">From Beat-downs to Bear Hugs</a>, Kerik was part of a cast of characters you would've had to hear and see to believe. Many of them were law-enforcement brass, political appointees, Swiftboat-men, and flat-out con artists – the core group of whom went on to be indicted, disgraced, incarcerated, or all three. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/California-Gold-Star-Awards_Written-by-John-Espinosa-Nelson.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5308" alt="California Gold Star Awards_Written by John Espinosa Nelson" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/California-Gold-Star-Awards_Written-by-John-Espinosa-Nelson.jpg" width="281" height="363" /></a>For those who'd rather not bother with my previous entry, this was 2003, and I'd been hired to write teleprompter banter, announcer intros, and presenting-the-award speeches for a Beverly Hills gala/fundraiser hosted by LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling and others. The theme was homeland security; the attendees were a garish, cosmetically-enhanced who's who of Los Angeles power players, movie stars, real estate moguls, sports team owners, philanthropists, and military types. (For the record, besides my future wife and the lady who'd hired me, the military personnel were <em>some</em> of the only genuine human beings there.) Though my direct exposure to Bernie was limited to the afternoon and evening of the event, someone from his team had to approve what I'd written for him and the producers had asked me to introduce myself as Show Writer in order to facilitate each presenting luminary's last-minute changes. For the most part, the task was a joy for a guy whose then-biggest hope was to "never go back." It wasn't that far after 9/11, and the raw materials for our current, protracted state of war were being grabbed by anyone who could fetishize the Star-Spangled Banner. This marked a new frontier for private security companies, construction contractors, defense firms, and especially tactical uniform manufacturers. That night, if you weren't wearing a tux, suit, ball gown, or cocktail dress, SWAT gear was all the rage. (Speaking of fetishizing.) <strong>But the homeland security fanfare was more than a theme: it signified compliance. The problem with compliance is that it's easy to fake.</strong> So while many were were high on badge and hero worship  –or simply NeoConning the part–  the whole circus was so full of itself that even the red carpet press release declared the alert status of a high-value target. "War footing," was listed as the official Operational Security "Posture" for journalists, attendees, and any jihadist sleeper cells in the LA area who may have been paying attention. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Godzilla-Facepalm_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5311" alt="Godzilla Facepalm_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Godzilla-Facepalm_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="383" height="240" /></a>The clear implication was, "Don't mess with us: we've got lawyers, guns, and money." It was as smug and self-righteous as anything I've ever seen. In truth it was mostly hype for the donors: an aura of power for them to soak in (and soak they did). But even though I was feeling like I'd snuck in the back door, I also felt the American flag and its colors were being abused. Not by right wing ideology or conservative values, but by people who'd hijacked those beliefs for personal gain. And there was <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/fox-news-boss-roger-ailes-allegedly-urged-judith-regan-dirt-bernard-kerik-feds-article-1.134450" target="_blank">Bernie Kerik, the principal show pony.</a> How is it, then, that Kerik imagines he's any different from those who turned on each other in court and in the media when it all fell apart? Before the curtain went up that night, I'd watched him belly-laugh with a colleague who, just 3 years later, <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/dec/20/local/la-me-don-haidl-20121220" target="_blank">wore a wire to bring down his partner in crime</a> and save his own butt. They were all presenting awards to each other and I'd written the power-fluff they'd recite to do so. (It wouldn't be the last time.) Now if you're still back on how the world a convicted felon winds up inside a <a href="http://www.501c3.org/what-is-a-501c3/" target="_blank">501(c)(3)</a> hive, first check out the <a href="http://working-copy.local/celebrity/from-beat-downs-to-bear-hugs/" target="_blank">aforementioned blog entry</a>, then consider the fact that you yourself have just survived a government shutdown. Get it yet? These crazies were high as a kite on "If you're not a cop, you're little people," and everyone was jerkin' everybody else to the same theme. In other words, <em>they were preoccupied as hell</em>. I was vetted about as thoroughly as a certain newly minted healthcare website was tested prior to launch. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Script-Page-27_2nd-ANNUAL-GOLD-STAR-AWARDS_Written-By-John-Espinosa-Nelson.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5322" alt="Script Page 27_2nd ANNUAL GOLD STAR AWARDS_Written By John Espinosa Nelson" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Script-Page-27_2nd-ANNUAL-GOLD-STAR-AWARDS_Written-By-John-Espinosa-Nelson.jpg" width="276" height="362" /></a>Which brings me back to Bernie Kerik and whether or not he's a legitimate voice for prison reform. Kerik played along with these phonies that night and probably countless nights with other tuxedo-wearing clowns before and since. He was as rah-rah as they wanted him to be – even as <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2004/12/13/keriks_nanny_just_the_tip_of" target="_blank">his fingers were in pies so questionable</a> they led eventually to allegations of nefarious profiteering. He was as corrupt as the rest of 'em, even though he held on longer. Remember that whole protective custody thing? Even his prison in-processing was a con job. Kerik, a.k.a. prisoner #210-717, apparently "insisted" he not be administratively segregated or housed in protective custody, but he knew full well his request would be laughed at for the disruption such a misplacement would cause. How could he have known? As a former corrections boss himself, he <em>never</em> would have honored a similar request, and for good administrative reason: such things inevitably result in an explosion of incident reports, assault documentation, and overtime costs. Kerik's move was a play to BS the inmates he'd soon face. A false tough-guy shielded by a ho-hum procedural safe zone. I can't count how many times I heard that spiel from segregated inmates while I was locked up, nor how many eyes rolled along with mine at the sound of it. You think a guy like this didn't find an angle to exploit in prison? Of course he did. The fact that he chose prison reform itself? This full circle that Bernie and I have come is suddenly making me nauseous. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Sell-it-someplace-else-cabbage-head.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5069" alt="Sell it someplace else cabbage head" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Sell-it-someplace-else-cabbage-head.jpg" width="105" height="142" /></a>So do I give this bastard a chance because <em>I</em> was given one? No, he won't get an empathy pass from me. BUT Bernie Kerik is the only former police-commissioner-turned-political-hustler-corrections-administrator to ever do real time, even if it was on a snitch yard. He's in a class by himself in many ways, but this is the one that might actually be of some value to the rest of us. (I hold the line at <em>might</em>.) We might be able to learn from Kerik's experience in the same way folks are telling me that others can learn from mine. So I'll listen long enough to determine if the guy did any real growing as a man. <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>If he did  –and <em>only</em> if he did–  Kerik may yet prove to be one of the RIGHT men to talk.</strong></p> 5289 2013-11-05 15:29:19 2013-11-05 22:29:19 2017-04-24 12:16:13 2017-04-24 19:16:13 closed open bernard-kerik-the-wrong-man-to-talk-about-prison-reform publish 0 0 post 0 administrative segregation Bernard Kerik Beverly Hills Celebrity Character Donald Sterling George W. Bush Homeland Security LA Clippers Nannygate NeoCon NYPD Prison Rudy Giuliani _edit_last 1 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:3;s:8:"facebook";i:3;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703327255;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9190;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:841;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4755;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8684;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2089;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4697;}}}} 44586 Crawford goldenraydesigns@gmail.com 75.172.104.123 2013-11-20 11:00:28 2013-11-20 18:00:28 You make a very good point. 1 comment 0 0 83629 DoingTimeWithBernie DoingTimeWithBernie@gmail.com 69.205.18.139 2014-05-05 15:45:22 2014-05-05 22:45:22 Your general impression of Bernard Kerik here is spot on! I know. I was in daily contact with Bernie during his incarceration. Correction on one point: Bernie was only on solitary SHU for about a month while testifying in NYC at DiTommasso trial. The rest of his sentence was spent in a small minimum security section of Cumberland MD Fed prison. Bernie survived ok. Being denied liberty is punishment. However, as prisoners go, he had every advantage and perk allowed. I know. This jail pimp manipulated $93,000 in support from mediating his 3-year incarceration. Imagine that? Lesson learned...by me. Not him. His prison and justice reform is all about him. If anyone else benefits, just collateral consequence... 1 comment 0 0 86715 John Nelson john@whereexcusesgotodie.com 76.206.8.168 2014-05-07 11:38:35 2014-05-07 18:38:35 Thanks for your response. My general impression of the man consists of not only of my brief interaction with him, but those around him; the hustlers, suitors, cop-groupies and the hangers-on orbiting whole bunch. 1 comment 83629 1 http://working-copy.local/character-2/honor-wife-made-2/ Mon, 11 Nov 2013 14:33:56 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=5383 <h3><span style="color: #000000;">Unprincipled enabler blows his integrity on whims of half-wit wife</span></h3> <h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;">or</span></h2> <h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;">Spiteful, shortsighted, lady-child steers husband right to jail</span></h3> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Christian-Mingle-KICKS-ASS.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5400" alt="Christian Mingle KICKS ASS" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Christian-Mingle-KICKS-ASS.jpg" width="300" height="229" /></a>In 2010, weirdly-named Kent Wycliff Easter and his just-as-oddly-titled wife, Jill Bjorkholm Easter, sought vengeance upon Kelli Peters, a volunteer at Plaza Vista Elementary School in waspy Irvine, California. Among their many complaints was that Peters hadn't escorted the Easters' son (what <em>his</em> name is, I can't imagine) from school to his mother's waiting <del>Range Rover</del> car <em>fast enough</em>. Apparently there was a lot about Peters's care-taking that the Easters didn't like, <a href="http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/orange_county&amp;id=8707680" target="_blank">so the bumbling A-holes went to town.</a> First, the two lawyers tried to get Peters fired from the school: FAIL. Then they harassed her: FAIL. They actually filed a restraining order to prevent her from going near their son: FAIL. Twice they tried to <em>sue</em> Peters; both lawsuits were dismissed. Frivolous much? Talk about diminished credibility as attorneys: FAIL. And <em>Kent</em>. Our man Kent had been a Newport Beach law firm's "rising star" until the couple's campaign against the school volunteer culminated in a hysterically catty attempt to have her arrested. This, after the Easters had located her home and planted drugs in her car in the middle of the night. Jill Easter has since pled guilty and separated from her husband, leaving him to fend for himself. Quality of life spiraling downward due to lack of character? FAIL.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Kent-Easter-in-court_-KABC_7-Los-Angeles.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5391" alt="Kent Easter in court_ KABC_7 Los Angeles" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Kent-Easter-in-court_-KABC_7-Los-Angeles.jpg" width="253" height="163" /></a>Now on trial, Kent Easter is facing charges related to planting drugs, conspiring to procure a false arrest, and calling in a phony police report under a fake name. From the beginning, he'd helped engineer the couple's targeting of Peters, so it's ridiculous to believe Kent didn't enjoy what the two thought would be a takedown. Yet with his defense portraying the estranged Jill Easter as a malicious cougar and placing blame squarely on her, it's clear the sort of squirming, throat clearing, low blows, cheap shots, and excuses these guys are willing to trot out. Efforts to throw the cosmetically oafish she-lion under the bus include (yawn) accusations of affairs – hardly surprising from a cabal of male lawyers, who can be counted on to hedge their narrow bets by whipping out their whore cards. Make no mistake, the Easter woman is as discombobulated as petty criminals get, but the relevance of her alleged infidelity serves only to make her husband and his defense sound that much more pathetic. <p style="text-align: left;"><em>Get character or become one</em>.</p> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Bullshit-Detector.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5364" alt="Where Excuses Go to Die_Bullshit Detector" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Bullshit-Detector.jpg" width="186" height="138" /></a>The Easters claimed Kelli Peters ignored their son while he was under her supervision. Whether that's true or not is irrelevant: what matters is that their coping skills apparently jumped out from a funhouse mirror. Both Easters dealt with reality in a very <em>un</em>real and small minded way, one that has framed them as an embarrassment, first and foremost I'm sure, to their son. And to Kent Easter's former law firm. And to the community in general. Kent's courtroom excuse that his wife made him go into a hotel and call the cops on Peters is absurd. He claims he didn't know about the drugs Jill had planted, even if, up to that point, he'd been party to her witches' brew of entitled mommy tantrums. The whole thing is a case study in hateful yet self-congratulatory values. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/LA-County-Mens-Central-Jail-visiting-booths.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5402" alt="LA County Mens Central Jail visiting booths" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/LA-County-Mens-Central-Jail-visiting-booths.jpg" width="350" height="217" /></a>I hope Junior gets to see his parents squirm through all of this, by which I mean I hope they both figure out they've got a lot of reason <em>to</em> squirm. I also hope that, if they're ever made to serve time, the son visits, 'cause these are two individuals who absolutely need to speak with their son through visiting booth glass. Trust me, this specific consequence can be an all-powerful way to force someone to recognize his or her lack of character. I know we see it all the time in movies and it sounds cliché, but in <em>person</em> it's a profoundly difficult psychological and emotional ordeal for most people. You're a different human being altogether when you a watch a loved one hold his or her hand up to jailhouse glass. <strong>So as for these two weak-willed and overly pampered Easter fools, maybe the visiting booth will be where their excuses go to die.</strong> 5383 2013-11-11 07:33:56 2013-11-11 14:33:56 2013-11-11 23:28:55 2013-11-12 06:28:55 closed open honor-wife-made-2 publish 0 0 post 0 Bullying Character cougar courtroom FAIL Irvine Jill Easter Kelli Peters Kent Easter lawyer Narcissist Richter Scale Newport Beach Plaza Vista Elementary _edit_last 1 _wpas_done_all 1 _wp_old_slug honor-wife-made _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:2;s:8:"facebook";i:4;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703585561;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1233;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3665;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:331;}}}} 45090 Jill kleinmutt@yahoo.com 63.206.47.126 2013-11-22 16:20:34 2013-11-22 23:20:34 Update: MISTRIAL !!!! http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?id=9335066 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/excuses/hi-used-rob-bookstores/ Mon, 18 Nov 2013 06:44:22 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=5425 <h2><span style="color: #000000;">Even with that opener, some indie authors have it worse than I do.</span></h2> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Mr.-Consequences.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5496" alt="Mr. Consequences" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Mr.-Consequences.jpg" width="284" height="209" /></a>I get a lot of questions about what it's been like to bring my story to market. I hear a lot of gripes from writers about agents, the traditional publishing industry, and whether or not the stigma of self publishing has decreased with our digital all-access passes. Being congratulated on publishing a book is cool, though what I hear is, "Congratulations on not being a talker" and "Congratulations on learning what follow-through means." You see, having come as far as just getting the thing out there is a big deal for me, because for too many years I was incapable of establishing and maintaining a relationship with delayed gratification. Today, I feel it's important to be a resource for other aspiring authors who are navigating the many choices, pitfalls, and publishing models now available. The following opinions are based on my experience. To some in publishing, they'll probably show what little I know about the very journey I'm on, but others may find 'em helpful. <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Highrise-Press_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5467" alt="Highrise Press_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Highrise-Press_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="127" height="137" /></a>When it comes to engaging with bookstores and bookstore owners, I couldn't be more grateful to have a distribution deal through my publisher, Highrise Press. It’s been 60 days since the official launch of <i><a href="http://working-copy.local/buy-the-book/" target="_blank">Where Excuses Go to Die</a>,</i> and one of my self-marketing duties is to engage local book buyers with regards to purchase and placement. Reactions range from aloof to wary, and from lively to indifferent. But certain choices made along the way have resulted in an advantage I didn't anticipate, based on the fact that most folks still differentiate between self published authors and those published traditionally. My book isn’t self-published, nor is it print-on-demand or co-op published. It's just "published." Its jacket was designed by a book cover design firm, its layout assembled by an interior page designer. The content has been edited professionally. Most importantly, my book's title and ISBN can be found in every bookstore ordering system in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Revolution-is-Individual1.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5469" alt="Revolution-is-Individual" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Revolution-is-Individual1.jpg" width="96" height="158" /></a>I hadn't realized how critical it would be to also sign with a warehousing and fulfillment distributor. As it turns out, that fact matters a good deal to bookstores. As someone who's now managed to talk his book onto the shelves of several prominent ones, I’ve witnessed first hand what appears to be a lack of employee interest in fanning the flames of the independent spirit. I’m referring to the coldness that many self published authors experience while seeking relationships with merchants. Writers hit enough walls as it is, so it's unfortunate when they reach the bookstore stage, having achieved the dream of a retail paperback, and the digital revolution's fist-in-the-air hospitality suddenly becomes indistinguishable from the aggrandized barriers of traditional publishing. Or does it? <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/BOOKSTORE-PLACEMENT-IS-NOT-GUARANTEED_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5433" alt="BOOKSTORE PLACEMENT IS NOT GUARANTEED_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/BOOKSTORE-PLACEMENT-IS-NOT-GUARANTEED_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="295" height="197" /></a>If your book can’t be ordered through the publishing industry’s primary fulfillment channels (e.g., Baker &amp; Taylor, Ingram), you’ll be pitching a consignment arrangement. And when you call a bookstore to get that dialogue going, chances are you'll detect the indifference in the employee's voice as he or she describes the consolation prize that is the store’s consignment program. To hear some aspiring authors tell it, this is the wanna-be shelf where your self published novel will sit for a month before they call you to come and retrieve the unsold copies. It's a <em>glass-is-half-empty</em> response that can come off like sour grapes without a little foresight. But such scenarios can be prevented in the first place by due diligence, vision, and patience. Sure, books sold on consignment can seem segregated from the others, and as a result they may not be as likely to fly off the shelves. Nevertheless, having a consignment deal with store owners means the difference between having your title on bookstore shelves and a box of 'em in your trunk. Do your research. No author wants to be the guy who shows up at social events trying to sell books out of his car. Yet that's how self publishing has typically been looked at by the establishment, and it's something I <i>thought</i> the digital revolution would mitigate. That’s happened to some degree, but the fact that you can hear this lingering stigma in the voices of store employees can be a letdown for someone who’s worked so hard: <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;"><em>“You’ll have to call back on Tuesday to speak with the buyer. If your book is accepted for placement, it'll be a 60-40 split between you and the store. Unsold copies will need to get picked up after four weeks. Don't send a sample; we get 20 a day."</em></span></p> On the other hand, it's up to the self published author to both accept and work with the reception he or she gets, based on solid footwork and research; I can only share the choices I made and how they've helped or hindered. It's not a bookstore employee's fault if a sore loser gets resentful that his print-on-demand crime novel has no retail credibility. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/GOAL-POST.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5452" alt="GOAL POST" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/GOAL-POST.jpg" width="411" height="275" /></a>There's no conspiracy here: Too many aspiring authors confuse the popularity of self publishing with a general consensus that traditions are less relevant. Bookstore employees are inundated daily with writers and diary-keepers who act like shelf space is owed to their vanity press paperbacks. <div>Having a genuine distribution deal gives you a different approach. It allows you to play dumb and ask if, by chance, the store has already ordered your book. As soon as they hear the word "order," the monotone disappears. "<em>Oh</em>, you're distributed. So your <em>published</em>-published," said one  surprised young lady. "I'm sorry. Let me check the computer. Yep, there it is – it hasn't been ordered yet, but all you need to do is..."</div> <strong>In contrast, one self published author friend recently pouted, “On what mountaintop do these minimum-wage clock-watchers imagine they’re sitting – and from behind a cash register?” I replied, "Hey, at least you're not opening with, 'I used to rob bookstores.'"</strong> From where I sit, the faster store owners or employees can find your book’s info on the screen in front of them, the better. Shelf placement becomes a 1,2,3 procedure, and from there discussions of in-store signings and other events can follow. Except for the quality of the book a customer will hold in his or her hands, little else, apparently, matters. [caption id="attachment_5495" align="aligncenter" width="399"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Augustus-F.-Hawkins-High-School_Los-Angeles-CA_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-5495 " alt="Augustus F. Hawkins High School_Los Angeles CA_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Augustus-F.-Hawkins-High-School_Los-Angeles-CA_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="399" height="308" /></a> A bookshelf more important, for the most important readers: Today, 11/20/2013, was day one of a year-end, semester-closing lesson plan created around Where Excuses Go to Die, for 30 students at Augustus Hawkins High School. When the teacher and students have completed the classroom questions at the back of the book, I'll be there for a Q&amp;A. It's a small high school in South L.A. the rest of the world doesn't care about, but that faculty's trust is the closest I'll ever get to carrying the Olympic Torch.[/caption] &nbsp; 5425 2013-11-17 23:44:22 2013-11-18 06:44:22 2016-12-01 10:39:58 2016-12-01 17:39:58 closed open hi-used-rob-bookstores publish 0 0 post 0 Augustus Hawkins High School Baker &amp; Taylor consignment Culture digital revolution distributor Excuses Highrise Press independent bookstore Ingram ISBN publishing industry self publishing _edit_last 1 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:22;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1688535450;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4621;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3143;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2444;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2128;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4475;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8424;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/whats-mitzvah/ Mon, 25 Nov 2013 04:48:50 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=5502 <h3><span style="color: #000000;">Performing a kind act solely because you're in a position to do so</span></h3> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/WE-LEARN-BEST-AMONG-EACH-OTHER.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5514" alt="WE LEARN BEST AMONG EACH OTHER" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/WE-LEARN-BEST-AMONG-EACH-OTHER.jpg" width="432" height="289" /></a>I don't know many Hebrew words, but Mitzvah is one of my *favorites. Technically, it means "commandment," but it also goes by the above definition, which is how it was broken down for me. I think about the word often ‘cause I'm almost always in a place in life where my right-now resources are relatively rich. Yet shedding comparisons, quieting the noise, ditching conditions, excuses, and all those countless words I'd use to describe my otherwise good intentions only leaves "because I can." So, "help that person because you can" has become a personal commandment. Right. Well, nobody wants to hear about how I threw a dollar at a homeless dude as I exited Breakfast Coma Café, so don't worry, that's not where this is going. You probably don’t really care what I do; more relevant is how one can be coerced into developing character.<!--more--> Like a lot of people, at some point I realized I'm always going to be in a position to help someone else because there will always be those who have less than I do. I'll never be without opportunities to shut up, get over myself, and be of genuine use to someone. The question is whether or not I <em>do</em> those things. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/BAR-HUMBUG.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-5516" alt="BAR HUMBUG" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/BAR-HUMBUG.jpg" width="218" height="138" /></a>What's most unfortunate about Thanksgiving week in America are the crass commercial references to kindness, gratitude, and generosity: they flatten me with cynicism. It's consumer-based monkey training that reflects not <i>who</i> we are, but rather who retail merchants want us to <i>imagine </i>we are. In reality, we're all in this together. And I say we're better <i>for</i> and <i>around</i> each other when we reject this kind of holiday noise. I do that by acting on things like, “I’ll be nice to that person – because I can.” “I'll let this lady's Volvo pull in front of me rather than condemning her to hell with Hitler – because I can.” <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Good-Intentions-and-Gold-Toilets_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5517" alt="Good Intentions and Gold Toilets_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Good-Intentions-and-Gold-Toilets_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="239" height="254" /></a>I’m not always so good. Yesterday someone dropped his groceries in front of me at the supermarket, and while I'm not one of these people to wait for someone else to chip in first, I <i>do</i>, as a personal policy, decide if the person is bat-shit crazy before raising an eyebrow, let alone a finger. I'm not gettin' pulled into <i>that</i>, no way. In this case, I must admit, I stood my ground and chose not to move. The guy’s cans and food items were rolling this way and that, and I must have looked like an asshole just standing there regardless of my reasoning. It was this coldness that bothered me later: I had failed to remember “because I can.” Look, I'll be the first to admit that charity, kindness, and generosity don't come naturally to me. You'll find no contrived goody-goodness bumper stickers on my car. I need reminders. Real ones. I need the word <em>Mitzvah</em>. Maybe it's easier for you. Perhaps you're less openly distrustful than I am. Maybe it’s less necessary for you to fight what later makes you feel small. Perhaps you don't care to wrestle with the deeper stuff, or maybe, when you do something kind for someone, you expect it to be recognized. That's okay too, especially this week, with generosity, kindness, and gratitude flying through the air as holiday marketing buzzwords. The stage is set for you to take advantage of the fact that folks are looking for someone to applaud. Whatever it takes. If it means actually helping someone, just do it. Because you can. &nbsp; &nbsp; <h5><strong>*"Schmuck"is my #1 favorite – though considered English, it comes from Yiddish (<em>Engliddish? Yinglish?</em>)  </strong></h5> 5502 2013-11-24 21:48:50 2013-11-25 04:48:50 2013-11-25 13:28:18 2013-11-25 20:28:18 closed open whats-mitzvah publish 0 0 post 0 Character commandment Culture good Hebrew help Hitler Mitzvah Thanksgiving _edit_last 1 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:12;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1682914408;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1442;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9557;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10799;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3143;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11637;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4305;}}}} 45579 Christopher cflewis1969@gmail.com 99.109.88.245 2013-11-25 23:14:27 2013-11-26 06:14:27 It's interesting what a chasm exists between "Just because you can, doesn't mean you should" and... "helping someone...just because you can." It cuts to the bone, the essence of free will. We have free will and therefore we have no excuse when treating others poorly, nor should we knock ourselves out congratulating ourselves when we treat others well. Either way, we did it because we could. 1 comment 0 0 45707 Stilts stilts19@me.com 70.162.153.175 2013-11-26 12:22:55 2013-11-26 19:22:55 So, the saying, "this isn't my first Mitzvah" doesn't really make any sense then. Interesting. Thank you for clarifying that for me. Good article. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/excuses/excuses-dishonesty-tragedy/ Sun, 01 Dec 2013 03:13:02 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=5546 <h2><span style="color: #000000;">A daughter's collect call from jail interrupts Thanksgiving dinner</span></h2> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Jail-is-the-New-Grounded.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5550" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Jail-is-the-New-Grounded.jpg" alt="Jail is the New Grounded" width="317" height="313" /></a>To look at Everett and Ella, you'd never know they're the parents of a troubled, incarcerated daughter. They're both successful in careers they love and they both espouse the family values with which they were raised, albeit modernized ones. Their home, where my wife and I were guests for Thanksgiving dinner, sits on a nice street in a neighborhood just about any set of young parents could happily work with. When the phone rang the air at the table thickened slightly, as if a fly had entered the airspace. If the fly knows what's good for it, it had better not land. A second ring offered a perspective on what it's like to <em>be </em>the fly, buzzing in during dinner, which for Everett and Ella is a consistently early evening affair. It was their old-school land-line ringing, and because, like a lot of us, they live and work by their iPhones, that meant that whoever was being ignored was family. Who else, besides mom and dad, first dials a land line these days? Regardless, ring number three provided satisfaction in the parental example they were setting for their four-year-old boy: no matter who's buzzing around, during dinner, nobody touches the phone or the television.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Photo-by-Arthur-D.-Lauck_THE-ADVOCATE.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5553" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Photo-by-Arthur-D.-Lauck_THE-ADVOCATE.jpg" alt="Photo by Arthur D. Lauck_THE ADVOCATE" width="427" height="337" /></a>The fourth ring triggered the answering machine, a joyful throwback to a time when apps were mechanical. The thing engaged with plastic snaps and metallic clicks, the sounds of something doing its best to be allowed to stick around. Then a beep, followed by a robotic: "You have a collect call from ––EMILIA–– an inmate at the Los Angeles County Jail." Though it was too late, Everett pushed his chair back and stood just as the the voice asked, "Will you accept the call?" I felt heavy unease. <em>Oh God. This is what my parents went through on this very holiday </em>(and any other day I could get to a phone without a fight). In an instant I was looking at life through the eyes of someone in custody. In this case, those of a daughter from a previous marriage. Emilia's story is simple: you can't tell her anything because she has all the answers. Of the few rules that seem to apply to her, most are codes provided to her by boyfriends, drugs, and an all powerful middle finger of defiance. Across the room, Everett reached for his cell phone, already buzzing with Emilia's second option. With a move of his thumb it went quiet and he walked out of the room. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Glazed-Imperial-Onion-Salad-Roasted-Potato-Puree-Living-Room-raised-Liberty-Turkey-and-Caramelized-Date-Pudding_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5556" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Glazed-Imperial-Onion-Salad-Roasted-Potato-Puree-Living-Room-raised-Liberty-Turkey-and-Caramelized-Date-Pudding_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Glazed Imperial Onion Salad, Roasted Potato Puree, Living Room-raised Liberty Turkey and Caramelized Date Pudding_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="266" height="197" /></a>Unable to look up from my plate, which had turned into a prison dinner tray, I said, "The turkey on the end of my fork doesn't look anything like the turkey she's eating, if she was lucky enough to get any." "He hasn't spoken to her in a year," Ella whispered once Everett rounded the corner. She's supportive of his decision to take a break from Emilia, as are we all. Everett isn't the kind of man to kick his daughter to the curb completely, although for whatever reasons many parents have done so for much less. Emilia has repeatedly demonstrated her allegiance to meth and morons and her indifference to the lives of her special-needs toddlers: an endless conveyor belt of excuses, dishonesty, and tragedy. Everett knows that, Thanksgiving dinner or not, by answering the phone he runs the risk of being played by his daughter yet again. For now, his concern must remain within the limits of his and his wife's dignity. And they have a four-year-old with a positive outlook to protect as well. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Carrots-and-Beans_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5557" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Carrots-and-Beans_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Carrots and Beans_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="249" height="198" /></a>We speak about Emilia often. He and Ella know how I feel about consequences, accountability, and the agonizing road on which respect is either earned or burned. If I didn't believe that the wake-up call of incarceration kicked off events that helped turn <em>me</em> around, I might be resentful toward Everett when he chooses to ignore his daughter's call on a special family day. <p style="text-align: center;">I'm not.</p> As an inmate, my heart sank like a rusty boat anchor during the holidays, but that was just too bad. I'd taken my parents for granted. It still took way too many of my father's four-hour journeys to visit for me to appreciate the position I'd put him in, but we've been building on that since. And every so often, when something like this occurs, I see things from a different perspective that lets me understand a little better. That's when the new life my lessons are given advances my gratitude so much I think my heart might burst. For a second there, staring down at the turkey on the end of my fork, I was enormously thankful for how useful my experiences could be to someone else. 5546 2013-11-30 20:13:02 2013-12-01 03:13:02 2014-11-26 09:15:31 2014-11-26 16:15:31 closed open excuses-dishonesty-tragedy publish 0 0 post 0 Character collect call Excuses inmate iPhone L.A. County Jail Thanksgiving turkey _edit_last 1 _wpas_done_all 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw thanksgiving dinner _yoast_wpseo_title Excuses, Dishonesty, and Tragedy - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Thanksgiving dinner was interrupted by, "You have a collect call from ––EMILIA–– an inmate at the Los Angeles County Jail." _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 79 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:5;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1701071010;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7931;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2309;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2523;}}}} 46005 M. Grant Stallionpd@gmail.com 174.240.6.61 2013-11-30 23:12:10 2013-12-01 06:12:10 Love the perspective. Thanks. 1 comment 0 0 46037 Joanne joiem721@yahoo.com 108.64.104.231 2013-12-01 13:52:10 2013-12-01 20:52:10 Thank you for this blog. Going through this very recently gave me comfort for the position I have had to take. Being strong because you love someone more than they love themselves is not always easy, but it is necessary. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/comfort-zone-2/cops-cathedrals-part/ Sun, 08 Dec 2013 19:52:47 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=5582 <h2><span style="color: #0000ff;">For me, really embracing Detroit means being a wreckage dork first</span></h2> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Downtown-Detroit-Lives_©Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5588" alt="Downtown Detroit Lives_©Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Downtown-Detroit-Lives_©Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="363" height="268" /></a>I'm in <a href="https://www.detroitmi.gov/">Detroit</a> this week and have assorted free days to leave the safe confines of my host’s Grosse Pointe neighborhood for Mad Max Island, aka downtown. I’m sitting at a table with coffee now, preparing  for the 21º weather and listening to police scanner feeds covering <a href="http://www.waynecounty.com/">Wayne County</a>, which itself is like sticking my hand into a bucket of ice water before it’s poured over my head. Off Waverly Street, a policewoman reports, a fight between two women has just ended with one holding the other’s hand in a car door and breaking it. A suicidal man is offering to kill himself, but through police observations from across the street, he has a severely autistic adult in tow who is resolutely unwilling to step away. “Daughter is threatening mother with a gun over a check” crackles over the air, followed by an officer in another location answering a call involving “a group of people” attempting to “force their way into a home” where workers are inside. Aside from that literal siege, a mile away, an actual home invasion is announced as being “in progress.”<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/EVERYONE-LOVES-A-COMEBACK_©Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5592" alt="EVERYONE LOVES A COMEBACK_©Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/EVERYONE-LOVES-A-COMEBACK_©Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="217" height="162" /></a>After a silence, two officers report they’re on the lookout for kids witnessed breaking into a boarded up church who are now throwing chunks of stained glass from the tower. You notice two things right off the bat, listening to Detroit Police Dispatch. First is how <i>observational</i> the police role in this city has become: very few perpetrators will be confronted unless and until it’s absolutely necessary, and even then there’s no guarantee. This metropolis simply doesn’t have the depth or funding to risk a showdown with its citizens. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Detroit-Police-Dispatch_©Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5595" alt="Detroit Police Dispatch_©Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Detroit-Police-Dispatch_©Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-.jpg" width="188" height="140" /></a>Second is how casual some officers’ reportage seems. It isn’t neglectful: it’s pared down and practical in a <em>fancy-radio-jargon-went-out-the-window-long-ago</em> kind of way. In contrast, LAPD code speak and radio chatter sounds sorta stuck up; at least to civilian ears, it’s far more “regulation” (and thus ambiguous). That’s probably unfair to the LAPD, but it’s as if these things are extras Detroit can no longer afford. I've seen two police cars in four days. I’ve been to this city before, taking tributary routes off Jefferson, Mack, and Michigan Avenues into the night, into the snow, sneaking around, and exploring <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=205058152">block after block of burned out houses</a>. I have hardcore stair-climber guides (yet), so I haven’t sat in silence 22 floors up, in one of the many abandoned office towers, but it’s a goal. During my last visit I found myself belly up to a bar with a bunch of laid-off auto workers a few days before <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/19/news/companies/auto_crisis/">Chrysler got its bailout from the federal government</a>. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/BELESSED-ARE-THE-PORCHES-FOR-THEY-ARE-WHERE-CHILDREN-LEARN_©Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5597" alt="BELESSED ARE THE PORCHES FOR THEY ARE WHERE CHILDREN LEARN_©Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/BELESSED-ARE-THE-PORCHES-FOR-THEY-ARE-WHERE-CHILDREN-LEARN_©Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="184" height="138" /></a>Driving through this part of Michigan is alternately inspiring and incredibly disheartening. Inspiring for the community victories that will reinvent –are reinventing– this city, and disheartening for the cards stacked against them. But because it’s demise has been so well covered by one of my personal heroes, <a href="http://charlieleduff.com/">Charlie LeDuff</a>, and <a href="http://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/7170/battle_rages_over_bourdain_s_portrayal_of_detroit#.UqKf6I3Rcqc">more controversially by Anthony Bourdain</a>, and <a href="http://detroiturbex.com/etc/tours/index.html" target="_blank">Detroiturbex</a> – I’ll stick to how this applies to my own experience. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/The-Sidewalk-Doesnt-End_©Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5598" alt="The Sidewalk Doesn't End_©Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/The-Sidewalk-Doesnt-End_©Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="175" height="130" /></a>I don’t find <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1463747/posts">36 square miles</a> of subjective hazards and urban desolation disappointing just because to some it means that American pride has been reduced to car exhaust. I don’t believe the way things have been qualifies them for the way things should stay, and I also don’t believe that’s necessarily bad. I believe in evolution, and we have yet to see what Version 2.0 (or 7.0, for that matter) <i>can</i> mean to a major U.S. city. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Abandonned-churches-seem-as-strange-as-echos-that-grow-louder_©Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5600" alt="Abandonned churches seem as strange as echos that grow louder_©Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Abandonned-churches-seem-as-strange-as-echos-that-grow-louder_©Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="187" height="166" /></a>What does get to me, though, is that the trust one comes to have in buildings, in industrial architecture, is blown apart here. It’s all but gone. And it’s not just address after address of gorgeous, 1920s brick homes now standing empty, some with giant trees on top and others burned to a crisp. Encountering massive stone cathedrals, beautiful and old but now just gutted, battered, and lost, bums me out tremendously. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/TWO-HOTELS-ONE-SMILE_©Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5601" alt="TWO HOTELS ONE SMILE_©Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/TWO-HOTELS-ONE-SMILE_©Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="174" height="131" /></a>What this all comes down to for me is how much we –Angelenos, Americans, and more fortunate citizens of the world– take for granted. The fact that there’s really no excuse for doing so weighs on me. Corn flake-sized snow has now entered the equation with strength. It won't deter us from exploring <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whittier" target="_blank">The Whittier</a>. I know what all of these structures look like covered in white –and it's not much of an improvement. But have you ever met someone you really like and come away hoping they like you just as much? That's how I feel about Detroit. Kinda takes me back to school, when I found that the kid in the wheelchair was almost always the best judge of character. <p style="text-align: center;"></p> &nbsp; 5582 2013-12-08 12:52:47 2013-12-08 19:52:47 2016-12-01 10:39:59 2016-12-01 17:39:59 closed open cops-cathedrals-part publish 0 0 post 0 Americans Anthony Bourdain cathedral Charlie LeDuff Chrysler Comfort Zone Culture Detroit Detroit Police Detroiturbex Inspirational LAPD Mad Max police _edit_last 1 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:11;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703716833;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11462;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:869;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:922;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/la-county-sheriffs-christmas-special/ Wed, 11 Dec 2013 02:09:47 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=5616 <h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000000;">Top 10 reasons you're glad these</span></h2> <div style="text-align: center;"> <h2><span style="color: #000000;">losers are being made examples of</span></h2> </div> <h2><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/County-Sheriff’s-Christmas-Special_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-5620" alt="County Sheriff’s Christmas Special_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/County-Sheriff’s-Christmas-Special_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="619" height="259" /></a></h2> <div style="text-align: center;"><strong>"There's no perfect law enforcement agency anywhere in the world, let alone the United States."</strong></div> <div style="text-align: center;">– Sheriff Lee Baca on the FBI indictment of 18 LA Sheriff's Deputies</div> <div style="text-align: center;">(A ceremonial dagger of an excuse for <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/22/local/la-me-0722-scannergate-20100722" target="_blank">poor leadership</a> if there ever was one.) <!--more--></div> <h3>Top 10 reasons you're glad these losers are being made examples of...</h3> <div></div> <div><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Steve-Whitmore_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img alt="Steve Whitmore_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Steve-Whitmore_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="52" height="63" /></a>10. Because it marks the beginning of the end of spokesman Steve Whitmore's <a href="http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2012/07/sheriff_spokesman_steve_whitmores_personal_blog.php" target="_blank">lifework </a>of being Mr. Smithers to Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca's C. Montgomery Burns. You did it Steve: "Teflon" Sheriff Baca would be seen for the aluminum foil he really is were it not for your iron soul.</div> <div><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></div> <div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/A-LINE-RECRUITS-SHOULDNT-CROSS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5637" alt="A LINE RECRUITS SHOULDN'T CROSS_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/A-LINE-RECRUITS-SHOULDNT-CROSS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="48" height="43" /></a>9. Because Deputy Sheriff “Honor Recruits” shouldn't emerge from the academy <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/oct/07/local/la-me-honor-recruit-20111007">already whistleblowers</a> <em>or</em> be worried about which intra-departmental <a href="http://rt.com/usa/racist-cop-la-county-469/" target="_blank">gang</a> they should join. Nice prison yard values, Sheriff Baca.</span></div> <div><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></div> <div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Palsy-Bullies.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5623" alt="Isn't this what we're talking about?_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Palsy-Bullies.jpg" width="70" height="63" /></a>8. Because the "wisdom, common sense, and fairness" cited in the "Core Values" of the LA Sheriff's Department can no longer be worth less than whatever is gained by <a href="http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/10/06/sheriffs-deputy-quits-after-he-said-he-was-forced-to-beat-mentally-ill-inmate/">beating disabled and mentally ill prisoners</a> in Baca's jails. </span></div> <div><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></div> <div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/The-LAUSD-is-My-Hometown-Sports-team_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5625" alt="The LAUSD is My Hometown Sports team_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/The-LAUSD-is-My-Hometown-Sports-team_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="79" height="78" /></a>7. Because STUDENTS OVER STORMTROOPERS! Fat civil payouts intended to settle excessive force lawsuits shouldn't be written off as the cost of doing business with Sheriff Lee Baca -- not when student attendance, engagement, and achievement in the Los Angeles Unified School District could be improved by funding the continued implementation of <a href="http://budgetrealities.lausd.net/">Common Core State Standards</a>.</span></div> <div><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></div> <div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/3000-Boys-Gang-sign_KTLA-photo.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5649" alt="3000 Boys Gang sign_KTLA photo" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/3000-Boys-Gang-sign_KTLA-photo.jpg" width="192" height="109" /></a>6. Because the LASD has consistently demonstrated an inability to make course corrections despite Baca's insistence to the contrary during yesterday's press conference (and every other one he's given in the past several years). Rather than changing policy or solving problems, the department typically launches <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2013/12/01/la-times-publishes-leaked-information-on" target="_blank">witch hunts</a> into who <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">ratted to the media</span> leaked sensitive information. (Certainly <a href="http://www.thecrimereport.org/news/inside-criminal-justice/2013-07-operation-pandoras-box" target="_blank">Operation Pandora’s Box</a> seems to have proved that true.) </span></div> <div><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></div> <div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/APOCALYPSE-HOOSEGOW_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5652" alt="APOCALYPSE-HOOSEGOW_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/APOCALYPSE-HOOSEGOW_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="218" height="79" /></a>5. Because (speaking of <a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/12/2/report-reveals-lasheriffshiredwithhistoryofseriousmisconduct.html">leaked documents</a>) 71% of the department's hires in 2010 were rejects from other law enforcement agencies. Ha! "<a href="http://graphics.latimes.com/behind-the-badge/" target="_blank">Welcome Discipline Problems In Waiting!</a>" Are these the "few bad apples" to whom Steve Whitmore defensively refers, ad-nauseum? As if this department didn't have enough problems: it's hiring criteria just might become the crown jewel of jokes about incompetent law enforcement.</span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></div> <div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/THEYRE-COMING-TO-GET-YOU-BARBARA_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5632" alt="THEY'RE COMING TO GET YOU BARBARA_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/THEYRE-COMING-TO-GET-YOU-BARBARA_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="47" height="41" /></a>4. Because in Cabalistic Numerology, the number 18 relates to secrets, lies, selfishness, criminality, destruction, difficulties, sickness, danger, and the disposition of accidents. (Look, these can't all be winners, <a href="http://youtu.be/_Ht4Ei3pdR8?t=24s">can they</a>?)</span></div> <div><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></div> <div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Burrito-de-Pollo-y-Blanco_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5634" alt="Burrito de Pollo y Blanco_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Burrito-de-Pollo-y-Blanco_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="122" height="92" /></a>3. Because <a href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/apocalypse-hoosegow-4-of-heroin-burritos-and-dings-at-l-a-s-mens-central-jail/" target="_blank">HEROIN BURRITOS</a>! Come on, what did a delicious <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/26/local/la-me-deputy-smuggling-20120626">burrito de pollo</a> do to deserve such mistreatment!? What did Los Angeles do to deserve national headlines about its Sheriff's Deputies smuggling gutter-grade economy heroin through its criminal courtrooms and into adjacent holding cells for distribution back at the jails? Oh, that's right, it failed to fire Lee Baca – even at his request. </span></div> <div></div> <div><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Haa-cha-cha-cha-cha-.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5640" alt="Haa-cha-cha-cha-cha!" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Haa-cha-cha-cha-cha-.jpg" width="162" height="106" /></a>2. Because if the blasted Vatican can finally cough up a better Pope, certainly Angelenos can elect a better Sheriff. The LA County Sheriff's Department does have many decent, law-abiding and even gracious deputies, people who are from (and for) the communities they serve. And to be fair, as Baca claims, the majority are "on the right track," which makes it imperative they be given <span style="text-decoration: underline;">a</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">better</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">boss</span>.</div> <div></div> <h2><span style="color: #000000;">...and finally</span></h2> <div></div> <div><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Operation-Pandora’s-Box_16-of-the-18.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5666" alt="16-of-the-18_KTLA NEWS" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Operation-Pandora’s-Box_16-of-the-18.jpg" width="323" height="179" /></a>1. Because cops shouldn't idealize, mimic, emulate, protect, tattoo themselves with, or promote thug life attitudes or <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/20/jump-out-boys-gang_n_1440998.html" target="_blank">gang-banger politics</a>. I'm an ex-felon, a convicted multiple armed robber. My reasons for respecting law enforcement and police are very personal and go to places only cops and robbers can, psychologically, spiritually, and so forth. I have good reasons to look forward to the day when <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/la-sheriff-accused-ignoring-corruption-prisons-faces-heavy-pressure-resign-article-1.952232" target="_blank">the LASD</a> isn't thought of as <a href="http://www.streetgangs.com/police/cops/051012-jump-out-boys">criminals</a>, racist goons, and <a href="http://documents.latimes.com/three-l-deputies-charged-mortgage-fraud-scheme/" target="_blank">real estate con artists</a>. Some of them, I call friends.</div> <div></div> <div>.</div> <div>.</div> <div>.</div> <div></div> <div></div> 5616 2013-12-10 19:09:47 2013-12-11 02:09:47 2017-11-06 12:37:28 2017-11-06 19:37:28 closed open la-county-sheriffs-christmas-special publish 0 0 post 0 Character Excuses FBI Incarceration Nation jail LASD Lee Baca Los Angeles County Sheriff Los Angeles Unified School District Montgomery Burns Sheriff's Department Smithers Steve Whitmore whistleblowers _edit_last 1 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:3;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704376201;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2309;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3469;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5926;}}}} http://working-copy.local/comfort-zone-2/affluenza-ass-backward-social-conditioning/ Tue, 17 Dec 2013 07:21:20 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=5716 <h2><span style="color: #000000;">As a trapped society are we now chewing off our own leg to survive?</span></h2> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/THE-PATHOLOGY-OF-WEALTH-IS-WHERE-EXCUSES-GO-TO-DIE.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5723" alt="THE PATHOLOGY OF WEALTH IS WHERE EXCUSES GO TO DIE" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/THE-PATHOLOGY-OF-WEALTH-IS-WHERE-EXCUSES-GO-TO-DIE.jpg" width="289" height="298" /></a>Amidst the dumbing down and de-waging of America, are we now also agreeing that if a child is raised in a household where excuses are the norm, this in itself is insurance from liability? Holy crap! Are there no limits to the a-hole ethics and diminished expectations we'll sign off on? Whatever your answer, we're probably still going to be arguing about this five years from now, so get used to the term "<a href="http://ideas.time.com/2013/12/14/co-author-of-affluenza-im-appalled-by-the-ethan-couch-decision/" target="_blank">affluenza</a>." <h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Welcome to Where Excuses Go to Die's 2013 Excuse of the Year.</span></h3> After killing four people, Ethan Couch  –a <em>lethally spoiled</em>  16-year-old drunk driver–  got off  essentially scot-free: not because he's rich, but because of complications resulting from wealth. What complications? Well, for starters, mom and dad never taught him right from wrong.  Also, being raised in a monstrously overprivileged environment provided freedoms that Ethan's child brain was incapable of processing. Unsupervised access to disposable income and empty luxury homes didn't help, as they conditioned Ethan to remain separate from his peers, i.e. immune to the lessons learned in moral training grounds teenagers tend to create for themselves. The kicker, far as I see it, is that, as a child, Ethan learned if you hurt someone you sent them money.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Error-404_Ideology-Not-Found_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5724" alt="Error 404_Ideology Not Found_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Error-404_Ideology-Not-Found_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="250" height="217" /></a>Couch's high-dollar attorney successfully argued that accountability for one's actions was a lesson never explained to Ethan because his rotten-to-the-core parents were too busy using him against each other as a <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2524872/Millionaire-parents-affluenza-teen-20-arrests-citations.html" target="_blank">tool</a> of emotional manipulation. Ethan, therefore, can't be responsible for the deaths of the four people he struck with his car: he has no understanding of consequences because he's never faced any. In other words, his criminal defense comes down to his unawareness that our actions affect those around us. It is sickening in its brilliance; its simplicity is full of vile cynicism. As we're all learning, the presiding judge actually agreed with the defense's argument. He gave Ethan probation and "counseling" at <a href="http://www.newportacademy.com/" target="_blank">Newport Academy</a>, a resort for little <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula" target="_blank">Caligulas</a> that markets itself as a big-ticket treatment center. The whole affair smacks of a moral free-for-all, especially since it began in a household where excuses are, uh, good manners. The conditions created by that household then became an excuse. It's like opening up a medicine cabinet mirror onto the mirror it's mounted next to. Good luck trying to find the bottom. Or have we hit it? <div><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/BEAR-TRAPS-OF-THE-RICH-AND-STUPID.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5726" alt="BEAR TRAPS OF THE RICH AND STUPID" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/BEAR-TRAPS-OF-THE-RICH-AND-STUPID.jpg" width="270" height="257" /></a>Little is more reminiscent of a trapped animal chewing off its own limb to escape than a criminal defense strategy in which the dilemma solves the problem – and the criminal consequences save the day.</strong></div> <div> Ethan Couch went from facing a 20 year prison sentence to probation because he didn't know right from wrong. This is a kid who had his own mansion, money to burn, cabbage-headed parents, and no guilt. Yet most of us are richer than he'll ever be. Will he ever have a chance to know this? <h3></h3> <h3>As a society, we've gotta ask ourselves: what Pandora's Excuse Box have we opened?</h3> <h3>Here's some examples:</h3> <h4><strong>Wednesday 18 December 2013 – <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/18/shia-labeouf-plagiarism-cultural-affluenza" target="_blank">Shia LaBeouf's plagiarism may be a case of cultural 'affluenza'</a></strong></h4> . . &nbsp; <h4></h4> &nbsp; &nbsp; </div> 5716 2013-12-17 00:21:20 2013-12-17 07:21:20 2013-12-31 09:08:24 2013-12-31 16:08:24 closed open affluenza-ass-backward-social-conditioning publish 0 0 post 0 affluenza Affluenza Teen AFFLUENZA VICTIM Caligula Character Comfort Zone consequences Culture Ethan Couch Newport Academy Pandora's box _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 61 _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw affluenza defense _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:8;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:1;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1685774060;s:7:"payload";a:0:{}}} http://working-copy.local/uncategorized/remembering-joe-strummer-august-52-december-02-2/ Sun, 22 Dec 2013 07:48:30 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=5746 <h2><span style="color: #000000;">Strummer was a rock 'n roll hero tailor-made for a sinner like me.</span></h2> <em>"The toughest thing is facing yourself. Being honest with yourself, that's much tougher than beating someone up. That's what I call tough."</em> <em>"When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing..."</em> <em>"I'd define it as self-awareness: an ability to trust your own judgment. An ability to see through veils of bullshit or spins on stories or propaganda. Maybe an ability to think for yourself."</em> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Joe Strummer – August 21, 1952 - December 22, 2002</strong></span></p> Check out <a href="http://jailguitardoors.org/" target="_blank">Jail Guitar Doors</a>, an organization created "in the spirit of justice and public service" to honor the life of Joe Strummer, to bring music and other educational and vocational programs to inmates, and to raise awareness for prison reform issues. <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Joe-Strummer_-RankinRankin-Film.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-5738" alt="Joe Strummer_ Rankin:Rankin Film" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Joe-Strummer_-RankinRankin-Film.jpg" width="518" height="640" /></a></p> 5746 2013-12-22 00:48:30 2013-12-22 07:48:30 2013-12-22 00:55:12 2013-12-22 07:55:12 closed open remembering-joe-strummer-august-52-december-02-2 publish 0 0 post 0 Uncategorized _edit_last 1 _wpas_done_all 1 _wp_old_slug remembering-joe-strummer-august-52-december-02 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1696049407;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11737;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8525;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4084;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6599;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8134;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2910;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/head-lice-saved-christmas/ Fri, 27 Dec 2013 08:41:00 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=5755 <h3><span style="color: #000000;">When help arrived this far-gone family's mental resources were DONE</span></h3> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/HOLIDAYS-ON-LICE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5770" alt="HOLIDAYS ON LICE_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/HOLIDAYS-ON-LICE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="321" height="290" /></a>And when I say "done," I mean that arguing and shrieking could be heard from the driveway. Anna, the specialist who'd soon be knocking on their front door, had been given detailed instructions and a description of the wits' end she'd have to deal with. Slowing for the address, Anna pictured having to talk her way past a police perimeter or finding the family of seven tossing its furniture into a bonfire on the lawn. These were panicked people. Not one of them knew which had been child zero, the one to bring the louse home. They only knew that dad couldn't go to work; the kids had been removed from school; and no one had so much as put on a sock in four days. They all wore towels, the only cloth they believed wasn't contaminated. Each was driving the others nuts with complaints and tantrums – let alone living the misconceptions of their predicament. When the 14-year-old shaved parts of her head with the wailing martyrdom of St Ludmila of Bohemia, mom finally called a head lice removal service. Where she'd once been too proud to dial Hair Whisperers, Lice Lifters, The Lice Squad, and especially an outfit called Lice Schmice, at this point she'd been reduced to begging.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Home-Health-Ouija-Board_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5771" alt="Home Health Ouija Board_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Home-Health-Ouija-Board_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="298" height="209" /></a>And now, at last, someone was parked closer to the house then even the mailman was willing to go. Except the car had been sitting in the driveway for a good five minutes. Why wasn't the person getting out? Seven faces pressed against every one of the home's front windows. <p style="text-align: left;"><em>Whoever you are, c'mon already! Protective amulets? Hostile magic? We don't care!                                           Rid us of the demon! Free us from this castigation!</em></p> <p style="text-align: left;">These were Anna's very first clients at her very first house call. She'd only recently answered a Craigslist post offering $30 an hour without really saying why –not unusual for jobs on Craigslist– but she'd replied because it just didn't matter anymore. She'd already answered fifty others, with each being as absurd as employed people might expect. What the hell. After this she'll have put in her time for the day: the rest belonging to her 12-year-old.</p> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Christmas-Insect-Invasion_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5773" alt="Christmas Insect Invasion_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Christmas-Insect-Invasion_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="363" height="329" /></a>The woman on the other end of the phone explained that the hourly wage was compensation for head lice removal. Anna would have to buy her own gallon jug of olive oil (an apparently important part of this <em>specific</em> remedy), lice combs, and set of hospital scrubs, which would serve as her uniform. The rest of the job would take care of itself: customers were usually so desperate that the mere sight of medical scrubs rendered them compliant and grateful. Anna would need only to be gentle, polite, impartial to politics, and –if possible when examining someone's scalp– never say, "OH MY GOD, THAT'S A BIG BUG!" Previous employee turnover had been high because many people crossed these lines and more. Yet Craigslist, it was mentioned, was the only source for recruits that could keep up with demand. The job broke down like this: After watching some online videos, Anna, along with four or five other "specialists" on the team, would receive text notifications of families or children in need. Mileage is paid and tips are common. The first team member to answer affirmatively gets the job. Some do well; others flip out; some hang up halfway through the initial interview; and a few stick around. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Work-Ethic-vs.-Perfect-Mom_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5774" alt="Work Ethic vs. Perfect Mom_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Work-Ethic-vs.-Perfect-Mom_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="242" height="250" /></a>Anna was laughing as she related all of this to me – <em>surrender</em> laughing. She asked, "Would you agree it's been rough for me? Paying the rent; keeping the kid fed and in school; car payments; insurance; food – all of that?" "I <em>would</em> agree. You've done a great job." "And would you agree that I've taken on some pretty crappy gigs to keep things afloat no matter what?" Her most recent job had involved testing Apps, but the start-up had its funding yanked. Its location in Greece should have been considered, but I didn't want to be discouraging. "Yes. Absolutely. One hundred percent." I answered. "My favorite was when you were the 'Activities Assistant' at the old folks home." Anna giggled. "Okay, good. 'Cause you're gonna love this one. You ready?" "Yeah-yeah, go." <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/HOLLYWOOD-LOL.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5776" alt="HOLLYWOOD LOL" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/HOLLYWOOD-LOL.jpg" width="407" height="231" /></a>It wasn't always like this. Anna left behind a career in the entertainment industry where some big names benefited from her creative vision and stubbornness. I can't tell you what she did or which notables might've thrown themselves between her and the phone had they known she was going to answer that Craigslist ad, but I <em>can</em> tell you you're familiar with her work. Even your kids likely know the names of those on the receiving end of Anna's career highs. We're only talkin' 11 or so years ago, but on the month she learned she was pregnant, Anna gave it all up. She wasn't running from rehab, debt, or crazy ex-boyfriends. She's just somebody who flung herself off a cliff in order to be a mom. She told her baby's father of her disinclination to marry, but then she encouraged him to visit. He's nice enough, but no deal-breaker. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Ive-Had-Enough-of-Hollywood_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5778" alt="I've Had Enough of Hollywood_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Ive-Had-Enough-of-Hollywood_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="302" height="280" /></a>Besides, Anna was already married – to her profession. And she was <em>so</em> committed to it that, when she hit this particular fork in the road, she chose the life of her child and an unmapped future <em>instead of</em> compromising her work. Despite much of the rest of the world not needing the skills Anna had learned in Hollywood, she left her native L.A. for a part of the country where money stretched further and where only the people she chose to tell would know who she was. Once her money ran out, the real fight for character began. Anna could've run back to L.A. and made a few phone calls any time. Instead, after difficult days, lots of sacrifices, and jobs that came and went (each a little further from her vocation 'til no trace of Anna's former career remains), she got out of her car and knocked on the door of a crazed family whose bodies were infected with lice. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/LORD-OF-THE-FLIES.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5779" alt="LORD OF THE FLIES" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/LORD-OF-THE-FLIES.jpg" width="255" height="189" /></a>The mom answered and apologized for the appearance of the home. The place was nice – <em>very</em> nice.  These people had money. And Anna was just as nervous to admit it had come to this for her as the mother was in exposing her personal <a href="http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/l/lord-of-the-flies/lord-of-the-flies-at-a-glance" target="_blank"><em>Lord of the Flies</em></a>. So, literally and figuratively tiptoeing through her first squirmy experience with lice removal, Anna repeated the only line she could remember: "It's okay, I'm here to help." Like cops, firefighters, and soldiers do, she clung to her training. Okay, okay...cops, firefighters, and soldiers don't train by watching YouTube clips, but you get the idea. <em>"It's okay, I'm here to help."</em> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/EMBARRASSMENT-METER_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5780" alt="EMBARRASSMENT METER_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/EMBARRASSMENT-METER_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="288" height="158" /></a>Back in the front seat of her car on the driveway, Anna had bargained with God a little the way many of us do before pretending to know what we're talking about for a paycheck. It's not really praying; it's more like hedging a bet. But Anna asked for only one thing: to not humiliate herself. When she told me this I got choked up. I was proud of her and proud to know her. Personally, there's no way in hell I would've gotten out of that car, let alone started measuring my shame so late in the game. I mean, by my calculation, Anna had gone past the point of humiliation when she answered the ad. But there she was, hoping not to embarrass herself after having already demonstrated a huge willingness to be humble and teachable, to start at the bottom, to suit up and show up. I listened with admiration as she told the me the rest. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Get-rid-of-the-bugs-losers_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5782" alt="Get rid of the bugs losers_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Get-rid-of-the-bugs-losers_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="359" height="257" /></a>The family members had slowly emerged from under things and around corners. The ordeal took eight long hours, but Anna followed all the steps correctly and was a calming presence in the home. They gave her a $100 tip and offered a glowing report to Anna's new boss, who coughed up the hourly as promised, and told of weaker constitutions cracking under far less of an inaugural outing. And if Anna's interested there's plenty more work crawling around on people's heads out there. As it was three days before Christmas, Anna took her pay-day home to her daughter with a big smile. They've been existing for so long with so little that this was a huge improvement from last Christmas. So what, you say? It's true these are the duties of any decent parent. But this isn't about parenting. It's about somebody with a lot less than I have whose personal challenges saved my Christmas from my own excuses to bitch 'n moan about the holidays (now <em>there's </em>something to be embarrassed about). Happy holidays. Happy New Year. Happy life. 5755 2013-12-27 01:41:00 2013-12-27 08:41:00 2015-04-06 07:09:46 2015-04-06 14:09:46 closed open head-lice-saved-christmas publish 0 0 post 0 Character Christmas Comfort Zone Craigslist Excuses Greece Happy New Year head lice Lord of the Flies _edit_last 1 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:8;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706729907;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4219;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7935;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11561;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/making-better-bad-decisions/ Tue, 31 Dec 2013 22:38:14 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=5800 <h2><span style="color: #000000;">There are many excuses for failed NYE resolutions. These are mine.</span></h2> <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/HEALTHY-CHEAP-FOAM-WHOLESALE-YOU-BUY-NOW.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5824" alt="HEALTHY CHEAP FOAM WHOLESALE YOU BUY NOW" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/HEALTHY-CHEAP-FOAM-WHOLESALE-YOU-BUY-NOW.jpg" width="187" height="132" /></a><span style="color: #000000;">Resolution: Get more rest.</span></strong> I can't afford a Tempur-Pedic® TEMPUR-Topper (but why so stupid a name?), which would make spending eight hours on my bed much easier, but in the face of a 2007 study by British psychologist Richard Wiseman, this excuse falls short. A tired brain is more susceptible to temptation, Wiseman <a href="http://www.quirkology.com/UK/Experiment_resolution.shtml" target="_blank">found</a>, making the value of a night's rest a serious priority with regards to willpower. Problem is, willpower and one's ability to control impulses are located in the prefrontal cortex, just behind the forehead, and I've bashed that in enough to qualify for some of that <a href="http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000235494/article/nfl-explayers-agree-to-765m-settlement-in-concussions-suit" target="_blank">NFL money</a>. The "better bad decision"? Hello! <a href="http://www.foamcenter.com/" target="_blank">Discount foam</a>!<a title="discount marine foam" href="http://www.foamorder.com/boat-mattress.html" target="_blank"> </a> <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/1958-Borg-Home-Bathroom-Scale.jpg.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5807" alt="1958 Borg Home Bathroom Scale.jpg" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/1958-Borg-Home-Bathroom-Scale.jpg-300x224.jpg" width="113" height="85" /></a><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Resolution: </strong>Lose weight.</span></strong> I need to lose about 15 pounds, but with everything I've learned about myself and the (same) 15 pounds I needed to lose last year, hell, I'm going into this with such an advantage that I might not even have to modify my food choices. But just in case, I've got a fallback position. It's a "better bad decision" to eat a few dozen less of the things I love, so I'll just buy 'em every <em>other</em> time I'm at the grocery store. Lesson learned: self awareness isn't enough.<!--more--> <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/This-is-an-inside-out-teddy-bear-and-best-represents-my-Workspace.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5811" alt="This is an inside-out teddy bear and best represents my Workspace" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/This-is-an-inside-out-teddy-bear-and-best-represents-my-Workspace-253x300.jpg" width="106" height="126" /></a><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Resolution: </strong>Organize my clutter.</span></strong> I'm irrationally committed to things that might jar memories later. My office looks like  bomb went off inside a collector's record store next door to an antique shop. I often find myself saving mementos during a cleaning fit just to struggle with the same decision again in the future, and this is something I've done even with bits 'n pieces of <em>bad</em> memories. It's a classic case of something a friend of mine said once, which is, "<a href="http://www.angelfire.com/ut/inorbit/rollq.html" target="_blank">the more you own, the more it owns you</a>." But I can <em>counter</em> this truth by making a "better bad decision" to re-archive things inside new and differently shaped boxes and containers. Now I can justify a trip to The Container Store and everything will take up less space. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Peanut_MM.gif"><img class="alignright wp-image-5816" alt="Peanut_M&amp;M" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Peanut_MM.gif" width="104" height="136" /></a>Another "better bad decision" is when I eat the rest of the peanut butter M&amp;Ms so there won't be any left to tempt me. I've been known to cram as many of 'em into my mouth as I can. I usually don't touch them 'til well after dinner, because with a break they'll feel like they've got their own digestion freedom in my stomach. (About half an episode of <a href="http://www.sho.com/sho/shameless/home" target="_blank"><em>Shameless</em></a> works, and fits thematically; there's no better writing on television that addresses the consequences of one's actions in an entertaining way. In fact, I'm hoping the show's producers do a diabetes episode real soon.) <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Windbag-Meter_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5826" alt="Windbag Meter_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Windbag-Meter_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="253" height="266" /></a>New Year's resolutions are too much about suddenly changing your life, remodeling your behavior, pulling discipline from thin air, or acting as if self-defeating behavioral patterns are easy to shake. It's hard to listen to, since <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year's_resolution" target="_blank">88%</a> of it is self-congratulatory B.S.. The only way to really change something about yourself is to start moving in the direction you want to go: Actions speak louder than words. In my experience, it's been the little drops in the bucket that add up. You can't just turn it off and on. You can't just become a marathon runner or an exercise queen because of a calendar date – all stuff we already know, but it does need repeating. This week alone, several friends have described the coming year like it's a boxing ring, and they're already wearing the winner's belt. I've gotta wonder: What's their fallback position? Where's the "better bad decision"? Where's the improvement, the incremental progress? But maybe I'm no one to judge. I probably shouldn't even use myself as an example here, considering my own history with bad decisions begins with armed robbery. As long it doesn't put the cops back in my face, just about every decision I make is "better" by comparison. So here are a couple of motivational clips to start your 2014 just right. Happy New Year and thumbs up for rock 'n roll. <iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/eaIvk1cSyG8" height="360" width="640" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"></iframe> <iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/0Z9AXfp49sg" height="360" width="640" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"></iframe> &nbsp; 5800 2013-12-31 15:38:14 2013-12-31 22:38:14 2013-12-31 20:45:23 2014-01-01 03:45:23 closed open making-better-bad-decisions publish 0 0 post 0 better bad decisions Comfort Zone Culture discipline Excuses lose weight M&amp;Ms New Year's resolutions NFL NYE prefrontal cortex progress Richard Wiseman Shameless Tempur-Pedic willpower _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 75 _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw bad decisions _yoast_wpseo_metadesc There are many excuses for failed New Year's Eve resolutions. These are mine. _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:9;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1701160902;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1125;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9702;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11819;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/dumping-toxic-people-vs-loser-management-2/ Mon, 06 Jan 2014 07:36:11 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=5883 <h2><span style="color: #000000;">Dumping all the so-called "toxic" people in your life is an excuse.</span></h2> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/TOXIC-PEOPLE_THE-FINAL-SOLUTION_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-5849" alt="TOXIC PEOPLE_THE FINAL SOLUTION_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/TOXIC-PEOPLE_THE-FINAL-SOLUTION_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-257x300.jpg" width="257" height="300" /></a>In line for coffee the other day I overheard a woman urging her two companions to rid themselves of all the "toxic" people in their lives. It sounded like a New Year's resolution conversation had collided with an annoying friend story, but who knows and who cares? She was off and running, listing relatively intimate evidence that proved a certain friend was a "guilt trip assassin." This person had to go, she reasoned. And the relief and freedom she'd soon be experiencing by taking action would no doubt be something her two companions would want to get in on. Of this she sounded sure, if vulnerably so. Now, maybe it was the hand gestures, the loud-talking, or the sequined fedora, but this young lady sounded like a mosquito in my ear canal. Following a life-coach testimonial with gossip as your example of why Friend X should be dismissed only demonstrates your poor coping skills. Get rid of the toxic people in your life? What, you have a list? And you're gonna push the button on all of 'em? Have any idea how much demented resolve that takes? I've seen it done on prison yards, but never in coffee shops. Besides, what monsters are we talking about? Psychic hostages? Emotional cripples? Abusers? Followers? Manipulators? Martyrs? Excluders? Stalkers? Downers? Demanders? <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/DRUMS-OF-TOXIC-PALS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5893" alt="DRUMS OF TOXIC PALS_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/DRUMS-OF-TOXIC-PALS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-278x300.jpg" width="250" height="270" /></a>And with what Rays of Final Solution Sunshine will you and your Authentic Self replace these lepers? Is there a magical land that only A-1 positive people come from? <div>Me, I'm suspicious of schmucks who push mantras made of across-the-board labels. People aren't "toxic" -- behaviors and choices are. Simply terminating contact with the so-called toxic people in our lives is an excuse for not examining our own actions to see whether or not we enabled, mishandled, or helped damage the relationship in the first place. (Oh, 'scuse me: relationships, plural. I forgot that this a clean-up.) <div></div> <div>It's easy to declare a wish to be free from toxic people because it's lazy, so lazy you probably won't follow through on it. If you did, that would be representative of how you deal with other challenges, hence the aforementioned reference to poor coping skills.</div> <div></div> <div> I can't say I have any acquaintances or relationships that are so demonically frothy that I'd refer to them as toxic, but I'll admit to knowing a "drainer" or three, people needing a cosigner, a sounding board, or a sucker to hear themselves verbally map out their good intentions. The dead giveaway to the lack of follow-through to come are the conditions ("...but if it doesn't pay $17 an hour, I'll stay here in bed).</div> </div> <div> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/WHEN-I-SAY-I-NEED-TO-GO_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5896" alt="WHEN I SAY I NEED TO GO_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/WHEN-I-SAY-I-NEED-TO-GO_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-300x114.jpg" width="270" height="103" /></a>Sometimes the screen on my phone will catch my eye and read something like 39:17. Sheesh! 39 straight minutes of listening to someone bellyache about their miserable life. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/CRYBABY_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5867" alt="CRYBABY_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/CRYBABY_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-300x200.jpg" width="180" height="120" /></a>Some people aren't looking for solutions: they'd rather be acknowledged and know that they matter enough to listen to. Every now and then, that's fine. My problem is that it's been happening so often lately, I figure it's a sign I should stop accommodating those in my life who cling to the familiar rather than rise to the occasion. We all know people who are sitting in a mud puddle, but rather than stand up and get out of it, decorate and stay put. I wouldn't call these people poisonous or toxic -- they're far too normal and human for that. And although some are repeat offenders, I'm to blame for continuing to listen to their bullshit. I guess it's a desire to be of assistance; these are generally people I care for. But when I start to feel like the line between being helpful and being a chump is being crossed, I get insulted and angry. Still, tolerating 39 minutes of sulking or self-justification isn't their problem; it's mine. And what does it say about me if I enable someone like that, only to turn around and label them toxic and push the button on the ol' heave ho? Don't they possess other traits I once admired? No doubt. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/REGISTERED-SULKER_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5870" alt="REGISTERED SULKER_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/REGISTERED-SULKER_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-300x218.jpg" width="180" height="131" /></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/NAZIS-HATE-2009-CARS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5868" alt="NAZIS HATE 2009 CARS_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/NAZIS-HATE-2009-CARS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-234x300.jpg" width="126" height="162" /></a>So if some Toxic Avenger tells you to detach from all the wrong and awful humans keeping you down, consider for a second how well that person negotiates personalities and cultures different than their own (or, for that matter, any challenge to their comfort zone). Think about where else in their lives they might exhibit the behavior of a control freak or a finger-pointer. Finally, ask them to cite specific examples of having swept through the plains of their life, eliminating people like a Level-5 prison yard Sharknado. How did that work out for them? Refusing to squirm through other people's wishy-washy rationalizations is at the top of my list of things to do this year, but nowhere on my list is turning my back on someone. Instead, I'll practice what I always have: Loser Management. <p style="text-align: right;">.</p> &nbsp; </div> 5883 2014-01-06 00:36:11 2014-01-06 07:36:11 2014-01-06 09:23:10 2014-01-06 16:23:10 closed open dumping-toxic-people-vs-loser-management-2 publish 0 0 post 0 assassin Comfort Zone Culture Excuses life coach prison yard Sharknado toxic toxic people _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 84 _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw toxic people _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Dumping all the so-called "toxic" people in your life is an excuse. _wpas_done_all 1 _wp_old_slug dumping-toxic-people-vs-loser-management _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:63;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706835760;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2674;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1103;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4946;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/l-sheriff-baca-steps-down/ Tue, 07 Jan 2014 19:29:08 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=5926 <h2><span style="color: #000000;">You can't run for reelection when you've been indicted by the Feds.</span></h2> He was the most powerful elected official in Southern California. His jail was compared to Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, Iraq. He was called "deliberately indifferent" to civil rights abuses and corruption among his deputies. He saw controversy and criticism as opportunities. He compared his job to missionary work. What a surprise. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/3000_Baca_Photo-by-Grant-Slater–KPCC.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5918" alt="3000_Baca_Photo by Grant Slater–KPCC" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/3000_Baca_Photo-by-Grant-Slater–KPCC.jpg" width="404" height="270" /></a>I once came across what I thought was a dead or dying 50-something Asian man in the 3000 block of the Men's Central Jail. He was lying with his head between an open cell's steel toilet bowl and the concrete wall. This last cell in the row had been left open for those of us housed on the tier because of overcrowding. The old man was there for two days; others used the bowl around him and <em>on</em> him. Someone should've been told, but not an eyebrow had been raised by the other inmates, so I was afraid to speak up. These units at MCJ are referred to as modules, and their ground floor walkways –still very much in use– have been dubbed "The Freeway." That was just about the worst place an arrogant fuck-up like me could imagine, and I was there to stay. One afternoon, from outside that open cell, I heard someone yelling angrily because the man was in their way, and I was torn up in ways I've never felt. So I walked up to the module's sally port cage door, got the attention of a Sheriff's deputy, and told him the old guy needed to be dragged out of there. I got waved off and told to get lost.<!--more--> In the middle of the night, several badges pulled me out of my bunk on The Freeway and dragged me to a laundry room, where they held me against a wall so the deputy from the cage could beat the crap out of me. Apparently I'd interrupted a conversation he was having with a female deputy: he growled as much into my ear as I slid down the wall. Sheriff Lee Baca isn't responsible for this, but the incident, chronicled in <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Where-Excuses-John-Espinosa-Nelson/dp/0988573601/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1389119545&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=where+excuses+go+to+die" target="_blank">Where Excuses Go to Die</a> </em>(the book for which this website serves as an information point), christened the ship that would help turn me around. What Sheriff Lee Baca <em>is</em> responsible for is the worsening conditions in his jails, the so-called "culture of violence" among his deputies, and the corrosive corruption pervading the LASD. So to say that I have a love-hate relationship with the L.A. Sheriff's Department is an understatement. L.A.'s Men's Central Jail is a human meat grinder for deputies and pretrial prisoners alike. Extended exposure crumples your faith in fellow man and uses it to wipe. Not everything I witnessed there made it into my book. It didn't need to. Just about everything I saw –and more– is finally a part of the public record. As I've mentioned in <a href="http://working-copy.local/los-angeles-county-sheriff/making-excuses-for-incompetence-l-a-county-sheriffs-edition/" target="_blank">previous entries</a>, I never thought I'd see the day that photos from inside the 3000 block (limited as they are) would be seen by the public. I never imagined such a movie-like scenario as the FBI placing an agent <a href="http://www.latimes.com/la-me-ln-fbi-sheriff-arrests-jail-20131209,0,5070461.story" target="_blank">inside</a> that dungeon to collect proof and evidence that conditions are as treacherous as so many years' worth of <a href="https://www.aclu.org/prisoners-rights/aclu-releases-experts-report-nightmarish-conditions-mens-central-jail-los-angeles" target="_blank">allegations</a> and accounts have claimed. <h3>In L.A. Sheriff radio code-speak, that's a "10-7" for OUT OF SERVICE.</h3> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Apocalypse-Hoosegow_Sheriff-Baca-Steps-Down_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5929" alt="Apocalypse Hoosegow_Sheriff Baca Steps Down_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Apocalypse-Hoosegow_Sheriff-Baca-Steps-Down_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="346" height="135" /></a>"Baca Steps Down" are words almost too weird to type. What <em>isn't</em> weird (or even unexpected) is how many diversionary points and excuses he crammed into his press <a href="http://ktla.com/2014/01/07/sources-l-a-county-sheriff-lee-baca-plans-to-retire/" target="_blank">announcement</a>. With his retirement news now public and after 16 years of service, Leroy Baca will soon be free to reconnect with the East Los Angeles of his youth. I expect we'll soon see him out in the community with all the awkwardness a public service legacy PR effort will bring. But wait – is it reckless of me to assume there <em>will</em> be a Baca PR campaign to come? Maybe, but the <a href="http://working-copy.local/celebrity/from-beat-downs-to-bear-hugs/" target="_blank">dude's an operator</a>. He enjoys keeping chummy with L.A.'s power elite so much that he might not be able to resist countering the inevitably poor characterizations of his tenure by replacement candidates like Paul Tanaka, Bob Olmsted, Todd Rogers, and others. For me, the second half of my love-hate relationship –with the jail itself– now steps into play. And hopefully, whoever is elected to be the next L.A. County Sheriff will reclassify <em>that</em> hellhole as a 10-7. [caption id="attachment_5932" align="aligncenter" width="577"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Baca-and-the-3000-Block_Photo-by-Grant-Slater–KPCC.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-5932" alt="Baca and the 3000 Block_Photo by Grant Slater–KPCC" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Baca-and-the-3000-Block_Photo-by-Grant-Slater–KPCC.jpg" width="577" height="386" /></a> Most photographs taken inside MCJ (and cleared for publication) are of clean and forever freshly painted corridors used by Sheriff's deputies to march inmates to and from the chow hall. Inside the 3000 pods and modules however, not all of the fluorescent lights function, so it's dark in there, and as unhygienic as it gets. Anyone who says different took an approved press tour – or is lying.[/caption] &nbsp; 5926 2014-01-07 12:29:08 2014-01-07 19:29:08 2014-01-08 15:24:13 2014-01-08 22:24:13 closed open l-sheriff-baca-steps-down publish 0 0 post 0 Bob Olmsted Excuses LA County Jail LASD Lee Baca Los Angeles Los Angeles County Sheriff MCJ Men's Central Jail Men's Central Jail Paul Tanaka Sheriff deputies Sheriff Lee Baca _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 79 _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw Baca Steps down _yoast_wpseo_title L.A. Sheriff Baca Steps Down _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Baca Steps Down - Long before "retiring," L.A. Sheriff Lee Baca compared his job to missionary work. What a surprise. _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:45;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703419466;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8731;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2309;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3469;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/bridge/ Mon, 13 Jan 2014 05:12:52 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=5948 <h2><span style="color: #000000;">Have YOU ever deliberately "inconvenienced" co-workers or enemies?</span></h2> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Symbol-of-Political-Bullying_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5955" alt="Symbol of Political Bullying_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Symbol-of-Political-Bullying_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="276" height="266" /></a>A mayor declined to endorse his state's governor during an election, so the governor's top aides <a href="http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Timeline-George-Washington-Bridge-Scandal-Chris-Christie-Fort-Lee-Bridgegate-239431091.html" target="_blank">ordered a shutdown</a> of lanes on a heavily used bridge. Delivery, maintenance, and fire trucks, as well as school buses, ambulances, and commuters, were mired in gridlock for days, causing outrage, scandal, and <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/republicans-rush-defend-embattled-gov-chris-christie-bridgegate-scandal-grows-article-1.1577074" target="_blank">backlash</a>. The perpetrators, who joked about the resulting chaos in emails, have since been found out. Check your local internet. So what are <em>your</em> excuses for inconveniencing adversaries on purpose? Oh, come on. Payback? You've never done that? No, I don't mean shut down a bridge – I mean, impeded someone intentionally. Haven't you ever waited to send your print job to the office copier until right when a co-worker needs it to prep for a meeting? Ever put off booking your boss's flight 'til only middle seats at the back of the plane were available? How about crankin' the thermostat? If any of this sounds familiar, you've George Washington Bridged someone. (Now let's abbreviate that down to "you've GWB'd some fool," or "you pulled a GWB.")<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Book-of-Traffic-Revelations_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5958" alt="Book of Traffic Revelations_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Book-of-Traffic-Revelations_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-300x298.jpg" width="210" height="209" /></a>People do it to each other in traffic every day: you signal and the guy in the next lane speeds up to prevent you from moving over, though he has no intention of maintaining that speed. In an even more pathetic display of passive aggressive powerlessness, sometimes those same people <em>slow down</em> once the other driver has fallen in behind them. I see this all the time on Los Angeles freeways. (And yeah, I've been guilty of it myself.) Next hospital bed over from mine I once saw a nurse bring a guy dinner right after surgery because he was such a pain-in-the-ass patient. Post-op people are hungry. But it was just like they warn: the guy blew chunks on himself for twenty minutes. Nurse comes in and says, "Oh, what a shame!" True story. We all know why we shouldn't get mouthy at the Department of Motor Vehicles, right? <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/TREE-TRIMMER-ZINGER_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5959" alt="TREE TRIMMER ZINGER_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/TREE-TRIMMER-ZINGER_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-282x300.jpg" width="169" height="180" /></a>Here's another one: Last week I was speaking with "Shins," a neighbor who wears protective kneepads when working around his house (he never pulls them up, so to me and to his face he's Shins). Shins asked me how angry I'd be if he had a tree trimming service show up the forthcoming Sunday at 7 am. My face answered before I could, which triggered a confession. The trimmers could just as easily come on Saturday, said Shins, but this would be a perfect opportunity to mess with the family who lives behind him, whom we'll call the "Dreadnaughts." Shins can't stand the Dreadnaughts. At the end of his diatribe I told him I didn't care either way, but neither would I cosign his unneighborly behavior. It was his decision. So Shins apologized in advance and laughed at how much the Dreadnaughts "would be hatin' life." <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Dinner-with-the-Dreadnaughts_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5960" alt="Dinner with the Dreadnaughts_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Dinner-with-the-Dreadnaughts_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="370" height="228" /></a>Sure enough, the following Sunday morning the wood chipper fired up and the chainsaws screamed – for six straight hours. I was sure the Dreads were seething. Now, I don't know the Dreadnaughts, but Shins hasn't shut up about them for years. The father works seven days a week and owns a frequently investigated car dealership. The Dreadnaught teenagers are supposedly pants-sagging, porta-potty burning, sport-riot hoodlums. Everyone on the street can hear the four Dread dogs, so that much I <em>can</em> confirm. To hear him tell it, they're all Juggalos who go out of their way to insult, endanger, and somehow impede Shins "every chance they get." Seeing how joyful he was about poisoning this family's Sunday – I'm sure he imagined them turning on each other – inclined me to take a big step back in my own relationship with Shins, but seeing as he lives 15 feet from my kitchen door, the best I can probably hope for is only to engage him in small doses. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/ILLBOARDS.COM_.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5962" alt="ILLBOARDS.COM" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/ILLBOARDS.COM_.jpg" width="317" height="139" /></a>We learn – and teach – this kind of retaliatory thinking so early in life that I'd be willing to bet there's some little gene of human deviousness none of us can avoid. So for the sake of argument, let's say lapses in maturity and self-image occasionally tempt us all, eh? Perhaps wrestling with the excuses or reasons behind these temptations can help us limit our actual participation in GWB-related activities. Theoretically, working backwards from an excuse for pettiness <em>should</em> lead us to the core grievance. Then we can deal with it head on instead of resorting to juvenile bullshit that only makes <em>us</em> look contemptibly narrow in the end. <p style="text-align: center;">As New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's people go, so go the rest of us.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>The hope is that some of <span style="text-decoration: underline;">us</span> GWB-slap each other less.</strong></span></p> 5948 2014-01-12 22:12:52 2014-01-13 05:12:52 2016-12-01 10:39:59 2016-12-01 17:39:59 closed open bridge publish 0 0 post 0 bridge Bullying Chris Christie Culture Election Politics Fort Lee George Washington Bridge governor gridlock New Jersey shutdown _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 74 _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw bridge _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:7;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1689960427;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8084;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2603;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:379;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/jail-easier-feeding-grandmother-2/ Sun, 19 Jan 2014 21:30:38 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=5981 <h2><span style="color: #0000ff;">At 94, growing her hair long is the extent of her personal choice.</span></h2> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Photo-by-Alexander-Kleppesto.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5993" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Photo-by-Alexander-Kleppesto.jpg" alt="Photo by Alexander Kleppesto" width="449" height="316" /></a>It was just an ice cream sandwich, placed in a bowl and broken up after it had thawed some. My mom had handed it to me, saying as she picked up a magazine, "Here, give your grandmother her dessert. Help your grandmother." She deserved the five-minute break; she'd been sitting next to her mother for the past 37 hours. Neither of my parents has left her side in years, whereas my brothers and I have the luxury of going wherever life takes those who aren't trapped. When I arrived I found my grandmother and my mom in a very nice hospital room. The staff was largely Catholic-Hispanic, so I knew both felt comfortable and free to exaggerate to their heart's content. The large window perfectly framed the setting sun, and you couldn't ask for a better time to look out at it. Which was all I wanted to do. But my mom had put me on the spot by handing me that bowl. I resented her for it because I'm a selfish person first and an empathetic one second, plus I'd become aware of dueling feelings that had arisen within me. I felt both unworthy of and above this task. I was afraid of an up close look at what age had done to my grandmother, and while I wanted to believe this was normal, my brain defended that fear with pride and conceit.<!--more--><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Ice-Cream-Sandwich_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-5995" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Ice-Cream-Sandwich_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Ice Cream Sandwich_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="200" height="275" /></a> What would my heart do if she couldn't keep the food in her mouth? Would our eyes meet if I had to wipe her lips? If so, what would hers say? My fear doesn't make me an asshole grandson, but failing to rise to the occasion does. Yet negotiating an hour's worth of time on a prison typewriter controlled by two elder Black Muslim lifer administrative clerks was easier than this. No lie. At first, I couldn't look anywhere but into the bowl. I dug at the chocolate more than necessary, remembering how my dad had once lifted his cancer-ridden father out of bed so it could be changed. I've been haunted by the image ever since, angry that life would force my dad to do that and angrier still that such a man as my grandfather was so robbed of his dignity. As I dug at the bowl, I felt thankful for not having had too much experience in this department: with death, old age, dying people. And I felt a little cheated, too. My grandmother lives with my parents and dislocated her shoulder, which required surgery. Stabilization pins were successfully placed, but they lost their grasp and popped back out just as her sutures were being bandaged. This second dislocation complicated matters to the extent that she required placement in a post-surgery convalescent environment. She was sentenced to 14 days in death's waiting room – except she'd merely be passing through, one arm nearly useless, the other in a sling. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/HC-SFV.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5997" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/HC-SFV.jpg" alt="HC SFV" width="345" height="207" /></a>She had parole to look forward to, but one night she had trouble breathing, which was a new development. The staff took her to a nearby ER; she was admitted for pulmonary embolisms. Fortunately this particular medical facility was where half my family had been born, so the last time someone had to ask how to find it was 1961. As the all-hands-on-deck went out to uncles, brothers, and cousins, none of us knew how much this latest setback would affect my grandmother’s will to hang on or how much of a hit her consciousness had taken. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/LAC_USC_Emergency_Room.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5999" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/LAC_USC_Emergency_Room-300x266.jpg" alt="LAC_USC_Emergency_Room" width="210" height="186" /></a>Now, I don't like being in crowded hospital rooms. I don't like to find out who among my family or friends has poor hospital manners, treats attending nurses like waitresses, or is unaware of how much space they take up. In fact, anytime, anywhere I dislike people who won't move their asses out of the way quickly. Of course nobody's perfect, so despite my father’s request that no one visit earlier than 4 pm, I showed up at 1. The plan was to get in and get out without having to witness my grandmother’s being overwhelmed or spoken to like a child, and without having to bear witness to that sense of entitlement that seems to come with a family matriarch mid health scare. I wasn't there 3 minutes before my mom handed me that bowl. I pulled myself away from the sunset reluctantly: my grandmother could see right through every bad decision I've ever made, and the good grandson act I was now playing was obviously phony baloney. It was hard to look at her hands, so blue from surfacing veins. Likewise her skin and thinning hair. I never want to see more of my grandmother than I'm supposed to, not even an exposed kneecap. Whenever they come in to check on her, or when she's moved into a more comfortable position, I always look away. [caption id="attachment_6000" align="alignleft" width="258"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/ONLY-JOKING_THIS-IS-NOT-MY-GRANDMOTHER.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-6000" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/ONLY-JOKING_THIS-IS-NOT-MY-GRANDMOTHER.jpg" alt="ONLY JOKING_THIS IS NOT MY GRANDMOTHER" width="258" height="145" /></a> No, this isn't my grandmother, although come between her and her slot machine and it might be.[/caption] The good news is the woman's brain is sharp. It makes me worry that she's trapped in there, but she can still be sarcastic and she understands everything everyone is saying. She definitely knows who’s full of it and who isn't. I was raised by a bunch of Mexicans and a few whites, yet I'm not bilingual. She's never been happy about that. My grandfather understood why I wanted to run from my heritage when I was younger, but he isn't here to defend me – not that he would. (La verdad es que soy perezoso.) No, my only refuge is to be completely straight with my grandmother, to talk to her like she's a suspicious 13-year-old. Others in my family speak loudly and slowly, close to her face as though she were 6. I don't know if she thinks that's annoying as hell and insulting, but I feel like giving her my megaphone so she can get revenge. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Pulmonary-embolism.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5996" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Pulmonary-embolism-264x300.jpg" alt="Pulmonary-embolism" width="185" height="210" /></a>It took all my strength to lift that first spoonful to her lips, over which I was immediately and overwhelmingly relieved to see she was in very good control. Her tongue darted out and wiped away any potential residue just as competently as could be. I felt even smaller, even worse in my relief, but relieved I was. [caption id="attachment_6002" align="alignright" width="222"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Our-Lady-of-Guadalupe.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-6002 " src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Our-Lady-of-Guadalupe.jpg" alt="Our Lady of Guadalupe" width="222" height="291" /></a> This isn't my grandmother either, but I sure grew up with this lady![/caption] She ate just as consciously and with as much dignity as ever, well aware of my discomfort. I’d never fed her before, and it was probably even harder on her. So there I went again, feeling small and stupid for projecting my need for her to somehow carry herself well. I have a lot to learn. Since that day, my grandmother’s shoulder has gotten better and she's been moved to a longer-term facility, where she’ll remain until she goes back to my parents’ house or checks out. Yesterday, my brothers and I held an iPhone up to her face so she could see my parents and they her. She’d been laughing with us at the antics of her great grandsons and showed herself to be every bit as cognizant and smart as a 94-year-old can. She knows iPhone video conferencing well enough to remember to pause in case there's a delay or overlap in responses from the other side. Then my iMom commented on the length of her hair, and it just crushed me to hear the excitement in my grandmother’s voice when she announced she'd decided to let it grow out. <i>This is what’s left?</i> How easily I'm pulled back into resenting the fact that choices like this one – how long to have her hair – represent the extent of her personal freedom. I have a lot to learn: me, my excuses, and my hot 'n cold running relationship with humility. . 5981 2014-01-19 14:30:38 2014-01-19 21:30:38 2023-03-06 13:05:53 2023-03-06 20:05:53 closed open jail-easier-feeding-grandmother-2 publish 0 0 post 0 Comfort Zone convalescent ER Excuses grandmother hospital ice cream iPhone Muslim nurse pulmonary embolism surgery _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 75 _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw my grandmother _yoast_wpseo_metadesc What would my heart do to me if my grandmother couldn't keep the food in her mouth? Would our eyes meet if I wiped her lips? If so, what would hers say? _wpas_done_all 1 _wp_old_slug jail-easier-feeding-grandmother _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:1;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705452296;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11419;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4908;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10346;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor http://working-copy.local/excuses/wherein-attack-word-blessed/ Sun, 26 Jan 2014 18:52:14 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=6013 <h2><span style="color: #000000;">Excessive use has reduced the word to a good-for-nothing air kiss.</span></h2> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/CHIMP-BLESSED-WITH-HUMAN-BRAIN_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-6029" alt="CHIMP BLESSED WITH HUMAN BRAIN_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/CHIMP-BLESSED-WITH-HUMAN-BRAIN_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="331" height="364" /></a>I'm blessed, you're blessed, she's blessed, those kids are blessed, the Seattle Seahawks are blessed, blessed-blessed-blessed!  Since when did so many people start benefitting from divine intervention? When did "luck" morph into into a Vatican Press Office buzzword? Don't get me wrong, it's perfectly fine to cram the annoyance of an entire Christmas letter into a single word, but could you do it with this one a little less often? And while we're at it, for the love of all things peaceful and plain, don't ever throw it at me as a projection of good things to come. Don't use "Blessings!" as a goodbye salutation. Nothing makes you sound less employable. Yeah yeah, it's just terrific as hell that gratitude has gotten fashionable, but isn't gratitude supposed to be <em>shown</em>, rather than flaunted? We're supposed to <em>give</em> thanks, not <em>blab</em> thanks. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present without giving it – yes, I <em>have</em> heard that one. But while some small dogs are cute, the ones that bark  in order to be paid attention to are more or less the worst creatures on earth. And way too many people use the word "blessed" as an excuse to <del>announce</del> bark their personal status.<!--more--> <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>bless·ed</strong> adjective: 1. Worthy of adoration. 2. Divinely or supremely favored; fortunate</p> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/BLESSINGS-FOR-THE-BLONDE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6030" alt="BLESSINGS FOR THE BLONDE_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/BLESSINGS-FOR-THE-BLONDE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="312" height="465" /></a>As often as I hear "blessed" tacked onto superficial conversations about petty material gain is as often as my mind associates it with people who start every sentence with "I." A writing teacher once urged me to reduce the number of sentences beginning with "I" in my own work. Over the years, it's made sense to apply the same effort to my conversations, and by extension to the impression I leave behind. It's similar to using curse words less frequently in order to heighten their power, though for me that's a harder struggle. The point is, making an effort not to throw the word "blessed" around would prevent the further deadening of its importance. When I took on the nuns, one of my primary arguments involved questioning how God could spread himself so thin by overseeing everything we do, every part of our bodies that we touch, and everything we ask for. The response was always the same: "God is everywhere."  My lifelong struggles with the fun house mirror of Catholicism aside, hearing <em>blessed-blessed-blessed-blessed</em> everywhere these days makes the word "omnipresent" seem downright limiting. Anyway, isn't it arrogant to assume that the sign of your holy sanctification is a smaller-than-expected dry cleaning bill? Cancer survivors are blessed we know, but show me someone who equates being "blessed" with the absence of problems, and I'll show you someone with poor coping skills and a warped understanding of personal advancement. . 6013 2014-01-26 11:52:14 2014-01-26 18:52:14 2014-01-26 17:31:08 2014-01-27 00:31:08 closed open wherein-attack-word-blessed publish 0 0 post 0 blessed blessings buzzword Catholicism Christmas Culture Excuses God nuns Seattle Seahawks Vatican _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 88 _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Excessive use of the word "blessed" has reduced it to a good-for-nothing air kiss. After all, isn't gratitude supposed to be shown rather than flaunted? _yoast_wpseo_focuskw blessed _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:17;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703084931;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9141;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9474;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9557;}}}} http://working-copy.local/cowardice/curious-morass-stephen-glass/ Thu, 30 Jan 2014 17:43:06 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=6044 <h2><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/NO-DO-OVERS-FOR-STEPHEN-GLASS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-6073" alt="NO DO-OVERS FOR STEPHEN GLASS_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/NO-DO-OVERS-FOR-STEPHEN-GLASS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="345" height="296" /></a><span style="color: #000000;">Shamed ex-journalist is definition of Get Character or Become One.</span></h2> <strong>Here's the background in a nutshell:</strong> They made a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shattered_Glass_(film)" target="_blank">movie</a> about how full of crap this guy is, and in recently denying his bid to become a lawyer, the California Supreme Court agreed that Stephen Glass is an unreformed, serial liar (and a bigot). The court's decision is the document your mother warned you about. The first few sentences alone hooked me, and as I continued reading I couldn't help but pause to appreciate how good <em>I</em> have it. I may be a convicted armed robber who the state of California once sent to Folsom prison, yet to the best of my knowledge and documentation retrieval efforts no court decision or official determination of me is anywhere near as condemning as this decision on Glass. Blame it on Hayden Christensen's wooden acting if you must, but not even <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shattered_Glass_(film)" target="_blank">Hollywood's version</a> more indelibly reinforces the expression that <em>cheaters never prosper</em>.  (Yeah yeah, they often <em>do</em>, but  journalistic fraud circa 1998 doesn't quite reach the heights of today's macroeconomic mega-scams or the cheating wars <a href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/once-upon-a-time-in-atlanta/" target="_blank">teachers</a> and Chinese-trained <a href="http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Corona-del-Mar-High-School-Cheating-Hacking-Scandal-Tutor-242423361.html" target="_blank">GPA hackers</a> are now waging.) America is a nation of second chances, yet the court's decision essentially stamped "NO DO-OVERS" across Stephen Glass's doughy face. How harsh is that!? <!--more--> <h2><span style="color: #000000;">But consequences and bells that can't be un-rung are my point.</span></h2> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/PEAK-BULLSHIT_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-6058" alt="PEAK BULLSHIT_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/PEAK-BULLSHIT_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="312" height="156" /></a>Stephen Glass will forever be known as a "serial liar," and to some (for maligning certain ethnicities in phony stories for various print magazines), a racist. He lacked the character to do his own footwork or risk failure, so he's <em>become</em> a character. Glass has allowed himself to become a guy we point at, the new face of <em>cheaters never prosper</em>. And technically, back when he was writing for The New Republic, Glass didn't even risk failure. He might have missed out on a few pats on the back had he failed to produce conventionally cultivated editorial content, but that's something that coulda, woulda and shoulda made him relatable to his peers and known to himself. Instead, Glass chose to zoom right past all that to the victory party. He fabricated quotes from sources he invented to support nonexistent news items, and once questioned, had business cards printed to prove these people existed. He even went so far as to impersonate some of these ghost-leakers in phony voice messages he left for his skeptical editors. Read the court's decision or watch the movie: he created fake websites, whole newsletters, and more. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Science-of-Character-Analysis_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6062" alt="Science of Character Analysis_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Science-of-Character-Analysis_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="221" height="293" /></a>When you break the law in pursuit of becoming the exceptional individual you believe yourself to be, other life lessons become casualties along the way. You miss out on epiphanies and corner-turns. And this only highlights your lack of character. From that point on, when you make a bad decision, you allow others to declare they saw it coming. The essence of <em>get character or become one</em> is that you let others to decide who you are, rather than maintaining control of your brand yourself. <h5>(Further exploration of such a soul crushing, life altering wake-up call can be found in this <a href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/get-character-or-become-one/" target="_blank">account </a>of my pre-trial hearing, wherein I sat dumbfounded and powerless to protest state witness embellishment and exaggeration.)</h5> But back to sacrificed life lessons: Among those Stephen Glass apparently lost out on is what it means to be humbled by apology. In <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/stephen-glass-i-lied-for-esteem-07-05-2003/" target="_blank">2003</a>, he admitted to 60 Minutes' Steve Kroft that he hadn't apologized to anyone despite coming clean about hurting coworkers, family, and friends. "I didn't apologize to people. Because I was so ashamed." It came off back then like an excuse from someone of little character, like a snake eating its own tail. The California Supreme Court's current assessment, all these years later, is the same. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Stephen-Glass-morally-unfit-to-be-a-California-lawyer–WOW_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6071" alt="Stephen Glass morally unfit to be a California lawyer–WOW_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Stephen-Glass-morally-unfit-to-be-a-California-lawyer–WOW_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="347" height="270" /></a>Unbeknownst to Glass, he also lost out on learning to manage his sense of entitlement. Even after a movie exposed what creeping ground fog he's made of, the schmuck couldn't leave well enough alone. He nabbed a six figure book advance for a novel about a reporter who's a pathological liar, and not even that was enough. Standup comedy was next – because apparently that's what you do (S<em>o I look at the guy and I say, Buddy, I'm so full of shit I should have flush levers instead of ears!). </em>When the state of New York denied Glass's application to practice law because he couldn't pass a standard "moral fitness test," he didn't skip a beat. He moved to Los Angeles in 2004 and talked his way into paralegal job at a Beverly Hills law firm. There, still unable to let sleeping dogs at least take a nap, Glass began his fight to join the California Bar Association. Just this week, though, Glass got his ass royally handed to him via the mother of all <a href="http://admissions.calbar.ca.gov/MoralCharacter/Factors.aspx" target="_blank">moral character determinations</a>. After hearing arguments from the state bar examiners that the issue isn't Glass's past sins as much as his current lack of  character, the California Supreme Court decided he <em>hasn't</em> proven himself rehabilitated or even repentant. Wrote the court:  “...if Glass were to fabricate evidence in legal matters as readily and effectively as he falsified material for magazine articles, the harm to the public and profession would be immeasurable.” So uh, he won't be practicing law in the sunny state. The moral of the story is that the rest of us now get to decide anything we want about Stephen Glass, for the rest of his life. <h3 style="text-align: center;"> Get character or become one – period.</h3> . &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 6044 2014-01-30 10:43:06 2014-01-30 17:43:06 2014-12-21 10:07:18 2014-12-21 17:07:18 closed open curious-morass-stephen-glass publish 0 0 post 0 bar exam California Bar Association California Supreme Court character Character Cowardice Folsom Hayden Christensen journalist lawyer Narcissist Richter Scale serial liar Stephen Glass The New Republic _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 91 _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw stephen glass _yoast_wpseo_metadesc The moral of the story is that the rest of us get to decide anything we want about Stephen Glass, for the rest of his life. Get character or become one. _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:8;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706114688;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6118;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11819;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5383;}}}} http://working-copy.local/celebrity/needle-arm/ Wed, 05 Feb 2014 23:33:42 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=6086 <h2><span style="color: #000000;">This week's media drumbeat: "Found dead with a needle in his arm." </span></h2> <h4><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>It's bad enough he died alone with the only disease on earth that convinces its host it's not there.</strong></span></h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ACE.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6096" alt="ACE" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ACE.jpg" width="210" height="315" /></a>Halfway through the first full day of Philip Seymour Hoffman media coverage I knew that "with a needle in his arm" had entered our cultural zeitgeist. Ever since, it's been a week of the phrase, over and over again. Yes, we know why – it's a lurid, gritty and vulgar journalistic standard, but this has hit such a level of capitalization, it's almost as though it's been sexualized, as if media outlets can't cover Hoffman's death without worming it in, right upfront. As the week has progressed, in fact, I've been hearing ever more creative insertions and timing of the phrase in broadcast media. News readers both local and national threw it out there immediately at first, but now it's hangin' back by a sentence or two. By next week it'll be a paragraph, but only because the story has turned toward the Somali Pirate Chechnya Warlord Taliban drug dealers who might'a sold a beloved fat white guy a truckload of smack. <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Philip-Seymour-Hoffman.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6100" alt="Philip Seymour Hoffman" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Philip-Seymour-Hoffman.jpg" width="310" height="416" /></a>Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of the guy's work, and the best of it likely took place during his periods of abstinence. So, since the grand tapestry of Hoffman's life <i>should</i> be stitched together with the golden thread of his contributions to the craft of acting, it’s disappointing that he's being pissed on by the constant addition of the phrase, "with a needle in his arm." What's next, a Norwegian death-metal band by the same name? My point is, our Philip Seymour Hoffman takeaways shouldn't be what the corporate media uses to make money, but rather what addiction takes away. <p style="text-align: center;">Having gotten that out –  I must now confess to being a hypocrite.</p> A heroin overdose killed a friend years ago. More recently, an even better friend – to whom my book, <i>Where Excuses Go to Die</i>, is partly dedicated – died of complications resulting from a long battle with the same. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/NEEDLE-EXCHANGE-SHORTCHANGE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6102" alt="NEEDLE EXCHANGE SHORTCHANGE_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/NEEDLE-EXCHANGE-SHORTCHANGE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="46" height="364" /></a>Well, when the subject comes up, of these two, which do you think is my go-to cautionary tale? It's the first one, the lesser of the two amigos. Why? Because he died with a needle in his arm. He'd rolled over and weezed away between his bed and the wall. The arm in question was sticking up above the mattress with the syringe still in it. The other guy was an indie rock hero who'd played a number of significant dates with many of music's heavy hitters. Ah, but he died in a hospital bed, begging his brother not to tell their mom. By the journalistic norm we've seen this week – not quite as sexy huh? What makes me a hypocrite is that I too, use the power of the needle-in-arm imagery. Granted, I'm not selling advertising time, or trying to secure a greater place in the pantheon of broadcast news, but I'm damn well familiar with how people react to the punch of that single-sentence narrative. Disappointingly, it's apparently not punchy enough as now the Internet and media swirls with the titillations of the late Hoffman being at the center of a gay <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/philip-seymour-hoffman-gay-friend-legal-action-claim-article-1.1603049" target="_blank">scandal</a>. Unbelievable. Whether he was secretly gay or not, of course, is irrelevant, but the excuses to expand the fetishization of his death, say much more about us than we'll ever say of Hoffman. Instead of rest in peace, Phil, I'll just say enjoy that last laugh. It's on us. <h6>• <span style="color: #333333;">Photo credit: Philip Seymour Hoffman by Michael Muller</span></h6> &nbsp; 6086 2014-02-05 16:33:42 2014-02-05 23:33:42 2014-02-06 10:38:31 2014-02-06 17:38:31 closed open needle-arm publish 0 0 post 0 acting Celebrity Culture heroin journalistic standard Philip Seymour Hoffman with a needle in his arm _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 83 _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw with a needle in his arm _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Halfway through the first full day of Philip Seymour Hoffman media coverage I knew that "with a needle in his arm" had entered our cultural zeitgeist. _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703238102;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8306;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6491;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:316;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/clarence-thomas-talks-people-groan/ Thu, 13 Feb 2014 19:47:54 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=6118 <h2><span style="color: #000000;">February is the wrong month to excuse American racial insensitivity</span></h2> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Clarence-and-Stephan_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6130" alt="Clarence and Stephan_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Clarence-and-Stephan_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="489" height="217" /></a> Speaking this week at Palm Beach Atlantic University in Florida, African-American Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas bemoaned what he believes to be today's oversensitivity to issues of race and differences among us. Thomas may have been aiming his criticism at the deterioration of personal responsibility (as in, <em>I'm a victim, you're a victim, wouldn't you like to be a victim too?</em>), but if he was referring to entitlement and victim culture instead of mitigating racism, perhaps those are the words he should have used. 'Cause the controversy his arguably broad statements set loose won't be going away any time soon. The good news is we've been given fresh meat dialog regarding how we process our racial differences. And when better than Black History month to offer such a gift to society (besides every other day)?<!--more--> The bad news  –for Clarence Thomas–  is that he chose February to tell Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant and Jordan Davis supporters to chill out. I'm of the age where just the mention of Thomas's name brings to mind Coca-Cola, specifically <a href="http://www.zimbio.com/America's+50+Most+Scandalous+Political+Scandals/articles/20/Clarence+Thomas+Anita+Hill+Pubic+Hair+Can" target="_blank">cans</a> of the stuff. But I'm not going there. Thomas, we know, can be credited for updating our awareness of workplace sexual harassment (at the expense of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Hill" target="_blank">Anita Hill</a>). Enough said. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Coke-Clarence_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-6133" alt="Coke Clarence_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Coke-Clarence_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="246" height="420" /></a>Palm Beach Atlantic University didn't allow cameras, but apparently something called Yahoo! News managed to come away with his honor's <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/clarence-thomas-on-race-194104252.html" target="_blank">personal observations</a> about how infrequently the issue of race came up when he was the first black attendee of a Savannah, Georgia school before and during the civil rights era. "Now," says Thomas, "name a day it <em>doesn’t</em> come up. Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesn’t look at you right, somebody says something..." Reading the excerpts, I half expected to find, "Dopey broads can't take a joke!" And again, if the Supreme Court Justice was talking about our current age of entitlement he'd have a point. But he fails to distinguish between crybabies, drama queens, emotional vampires, and genuine victims of racism. Isn't this guy supposed to know better? Doesn't he have handlers to discuss with him what should leap from his public mouth? I mean, this is the man who, in one day, coined the phrase "high-tech lynching" AND testified before Congress that his workplace references to old timey porn star Long Dong Silver had been "taken out of context." <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>He's a friggen' lawyer! Shouldn't he be <em>supremely</em> well-versed in context?</strong></span></p> (I know, I vowed not go down the Long Dong Silver road, but <em>get character or become one</em>, y'all!) Thomas's comments weren't a gaffe. No microphone was accidentally (or purposefully) left on. He flat out said, publicly, that we should stop having hissy fits over racism. And from where I sit, African-American or not, Clarence Thomas isn't the guy to tell us we talk too much about race. Supreme Court Justice or not, I'm free to doubt the man's common sense, as many have since 1990. And still, my head just can't get around him sounding off this way. Even if it's just for the sake of argument  –and tact–  you don't go generalizing everyone's personal sensitivities and experiences and measuring 'em upside only your own (superior) views. Yet this is exactly what Thomas did, showing how unaware  –or unconcerned–  he is with the fact that anyone under 30 interprets intolerance and issues of race in an entirely different setting and an entirely new world of social communication. And Supreme Court Justice or no, who needs an old man of dubious achievement telling you to relax? <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Kathleen-Neal-Cleaver.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-6135" alt="Kathleen Cleaver" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Kathleen-Neal-Cleaver.jpg" width="354" height="324" /></a></p> &nbsp; &nbsp; 6118 2014-02-13 12:47:54 2014-02-13 19:47:54 2017-11-06 12:37:29 2017-11-06 19:37:29 closed open clarence-thomas-talks-people-groan publish 0 0 post 0 African-American Anita HIll Black History monrh Character Clarence Thomas Coca Cola Congress Culture Florida Kathleen Cleaver Long Dong Silver Palm Beach Atlantic University racism Savannah Supreme Court Trayvon Martin _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 82 _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Did African-American Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, coiner of the term, "high-tech lynching," just excuse American's racial insensitivities? _yoast_wpseo_focuskw clarence thomas _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:6;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704496171;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3448;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:357;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11819;}}}} http://working-copy.local/your-adorable-child/racist-tree-part-ii/ Sun, 16 Feb 2014 22:19:47 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=6140 <h2><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/But-the-tree-did-not-actually-like-Hitler_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6143" alt="But the tree did not actually like Hitler_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/But-the-tree-did-not-actually-like-Hitler_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="312" height="302" /></a>Additional thoughts on an entry from 2012 that has stayed with me.</span></h2> <div>The Racist Tree is a simple little poem by Onion writer <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3287706/" target="_blank">Alexander Blechman</a> that packs a punch despite the fact it was probably written in fifteen minutes for fun. Lark it or not, I remain intrigued. It's the epitome of <em>get character or become one</em>.As you'll see, the consequences of the tree's poor choices go beyond a label when it's deeper beliefs, latent virtues, and intentions are rendered irrelevant. </div> <div></div> <div>The poem rips conditional social justice, but its subject is securely tethered to the writer's sense of humor. So on this casual Sunday, enjoy. And consider discussing with someone 20 years younger, a teen screw-up you may know, a teacher, or a parent. </div> <div><!--more--></div> <div></div> <div></div> <div></div> <div><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/The-Racist-Tree-by-Alexander-Blechman.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6141" alt="The Racist Tree by Alexander Blechman" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/The-Racist-Tree-by-Alexander-Blechman.jpg" width="438" height="739" /></a>.</div> <div>.</div> <div></div> <div></div> 6140 2014-02-16 15:19:47 2014-02-16 22:19:47 2014-02-17 00:51:22 2014-02-17 07:51:22 closed open racist-tree-part-ii publish 0 0 post 0 Alexander Blechman Character justice racism the Onion The Racist Tree Your Adorable Child _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 74 _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_metadesc The consequences of the racist tree's poor choices, go beyond a label, when it's deeper beliefs, latent virtues, and intentions are rendered irrelevant. _yoast_wpseo_focuskw racist tree _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:1;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706537866;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1309;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7041;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6798;}}}} http://working-copy.local/prison-2/restore-voting-rights-re-enfranchise/ Thu, 20 Feb 2014 00:07:22 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=6175 <h2><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Restore-Voting-Rights-Re-Enfranchise_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6180" alt="Restore Voting Rights - Re-Enfranchise_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Restore-Voting-Rights-Re-Enfranchise_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="322" height="278" /></a>My restored voting rights remind me I've paid my debt to society.</span></h2> It shouldn't matter that my right to vote was taken away because I was sent to prison. What should matter –and what matters to me– is that I earned it back. I'm proud of that. My right to vote does a lot for me, too, starting with being a happy reminder that the state of California and I have settled our differences amicably. I tend to think less of slackers who come up with excuses not to vote, which can be a dialogue-friendly counterbalance to feeling "less than" because of the criminal record stigma I'll always have. <!--more--> I <em>like</em> it when others assume that, as a convicted felon, I'm not allowed to vote, because answering that my vote was restored once my parole requirements were complete boosts my sense of purpose. Successful parolees in all 50 states should have it as lucky as I do when it comes to electoral <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/presumed-guilty-ex-felons-face-barriers-to-voting-rights" target="_blank">eligibility</a>, and being vocal about that is important. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Disenfranchisement_The-Sentencing-Project.gif"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6169" alt="Disenfranchisement_The Sentencing Project" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Disenfranchisement_The-Sentencing-Project.gif" width="318" height="427" /></a>Attorney General Eric Holder, the leading voice on criminal-justice reforms, called the impact of state laws preventing convicted felons from voting even after they've served their sentences "disproportionate and unacceptable." In a recent Georgetown University <a href="http://www.justice.gov/iso/opa/ag/speeches/2014/ag-speech-140211.html" target="_blank">speech</a>, Holder cited the roughly 5.8 million Americans who are prohibited from voting because of felony convictions. Among those 5.8 million are people like me, who'd like to fulfill their civic duties and add that humbling single vote to their self-image. Say what you will about your vote not counting because it's all alone in this big corrupt world. And say what you will about Congress, boring 'ol politics, or how things never change. When your right to vote has been taken away and won back the hard way, your insights allow you to forgive a certain degree of government apathy – but not excuse inaction. Because state and federal agencies can't predict what might get the attention of a criminal offender, one of the secrets to genuinely reducing recidivism is casting a wide net where each crisscrossing strand is an incentive to reengage. Restoring voting rights for ex-cons is just one strand in the net, yet it can help pull offenders from cycling through the system. What rang <em>my</em> bell were the writing instructors and teachers working in the various facilities to which I'd been sent; they saw potential in me I couldn't see in myself. That's my story, but it's not unique. Lots of other convicted felons answer the call to apply themselves in new and better ways too. So while restoring voting rights in all 50 states isn't the answer to recidivism, it <span style="text-decoration: underline;">is</span> <em>part</em> of the answer. The bottom line is this: even if casting a vote won't empower me much as a citizen, entering a polling place to find someone waiting to check me off a list for a good reason is <em>part</em> of what keeps me out of prison. <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.sentencingproject.org/map/map.cfm" target="_blank">Restore Voting Rights and Re-Enfranchise.</a></p> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Related: <a href="http://working-copy.local/election-politics/nobody-votes-in-l-a-2/" target="_blank">There are many excuses not to vote. These are mine.</a> . &nbsp; 6175 2014-02-19 17:07:22 2014-02-20 00:07:22 2014-02-19 17:07:22 2014-02-20 00:07:22 closed open restore-voting-rights-re-enfranchise publish 0 0 post 0 Attorney General Congress Culture Eric Holder Georgetown government Prison recidivism reenfranchise Restore Voting Rights vote Voting _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 88 _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw restore voting rights _yoast_wpseo_metadesc It shouldn't matter that my right to vote was taken away because I was sent to prison. What should matter –and what matters to me– is that I earned it back. _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:11;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706900108;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11042;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2703;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3507;}}}} http://working-copy.local/uncategorized/holocaust-survivors/ Mon, 24 Feb 2014 14:13:25 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=6188 <h2><span style="color: #000000;">None of us know life without living, breathing Holocaust survivors  </span></h2> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Alice-Herz-Sommer_The-Lady-in-Number-6.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6197" alt="Alice Herz-Sommer_The Lady in Number 6" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Alice-Herz-Sommer_The-Lady-in-Number-6.jpg" width="311" height="324" /></a>I'm far from a historian -- or even all that well educated -- but I don't need a degree to wonder how the tools and materials used to teach people about the Holocaust will change when no survivors remain to tell their stories. The easy answer is film, video, family, <a href="http://sfi.usc.edu/" target="_blank">Shoah Foundation</a> histories, and the <a href="http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=lsKWLbPJLnF&amp;b=6212365" target="_blank">Simon Wiesenthal Center</a>, but none of these can match the power of personal interaction with a death camp survivor. There is no experience in the world like simply being in the same room with someone who has lived and breathed such a range of human nature, who has faced such evil incarnate and, well, <em>survived</em>. While you yourself may never have gone out of your way to speak or even listen to a Holocaust survivor, until now we've all at least lived with the ability to do so. Taking advantage of the opportunity doesn't make us better people, but it<em> is</em> an addition to one's soul. And now our chances to interact with survivors are narrowing – too quickly. <!--more--><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/AP-Holocaust-Survivors.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6200" alt="A:P Holocaust Survivors" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/AP-Holocaust-Survivors.jpg" width="327" height="184" /></a> Alice Herz-Sommer, believed to be the oldest remaining survivor (and the oldest living pianist), has just died. It's bitterly ironic that a short documentary film about her life, “<a href="http://nickreedent.com/" target="_blank">The Lady in Number 6</a><a href="http://nickreedent.com/" target="_blank">: Music Saved My Life</a>,” is up for an Academy Award this year. And without people like Alice, to whom will the next generation turn – to truly get a sense of their history? I was born a military brat in Germany, later returning to live there and now occasionally going back to visit friends. I've spent an accumulated 200+ hours inside the preserved and elucidated KZ camp system, at Holocaust and D-day memorial sites, as well as at the ruins of Third Reich glory. I've done all of this entirely on my terms, and given that I'm <em>not</em> the descendent of a survivor (or, for that matter, even Jewish), to some this may sound odd. But my gut has always pulled me toward these places and lessons and examples of courage. And yet, as many times as I have shared with anyone who will listen some of the wonderful, life-affirming stories that can be found in such dark places, I can't remotely do a life like Alice's -- let alone the expressive magic in her face -- justice. So find the documentary and see for yourself. Most importantly, consider searching for an opportunity to introduce a young person to a Holocaust survivor. Families of survivor lineage often have this ground well covered, so maybe pick some goy kid you know and say you're taking him or her to get some bacon-wrapped meatloaf. Lie. Whatever. Visit a survivor you know or take in a lecture by a stranger; just take advantage while there's still a little time left. No excuses. <iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/8oxO3M6rAPw" height="360" width="640" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"></iframe> <h3>Meet a Holocaust survivor at the <a href="http://www.museumoftolerance.com/site/c.tmL6KfNVLtH/b.4866121/k.7BDE/Hear_a_Holocaust_Survivor.htm" target="_blank">Museum of Tolerance</a>, or start with the <a href="http://www.lamoth.org/" target="_blank">Museum of the Holocaust</a> to begin your search for a Holocaust lecture series in your area.</h3> 6188 2014-02-24 07:13:25 2014-02-24 14:13:25 2014-02-24 21:15:28 2014-02-25 04:15:28 closed open holocaust-survivors publish 0 0 post 0 Alice Herz-Sommer Culture death camp Germany Holocaust Jewish justice Shoah Foundation Simon Wiesenthal survivor The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life Third Reich Uncategorized _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 91 _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_metadesc How might the tools and materials used to teach people about the past change when no Holocaust survivors remain to tell their stories? _yoast_wpseo_focuskw holocaust survivors _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:10;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1696470836;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11905;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10865;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2374;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1088;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1173;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:343;}}}} 67351 Andrew S Leigh andy@dealingwithtoxicpeople.com 92.24.144.243 2014-02-24 07:53:55 2014-02-24 14:53:55 I was fortunate to attend a visit to Barnsley College in the UK by two Holocaust survivors about 15 years ago. The meeting was delayed - so many of our students had turned up that a bigger room had to be found. Even that wasn't really large enough and the room was crammed to the rafters almost. When the two survivors began speaking you could hear a pin drop. They communicated the horror, but also their hope and belief in the goodness of their audience. Inspiring and humbling - and we filed out of that crowded room different (and better) people than when we entered. You are right - if you do get the chance to be with and listen to one of these remarkable survivors make sure you take that chance. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/excuses/file-cosmetic-surgery-martyrdom/ Sat, 01 Mar 2014 06:00:30 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=6233 <h3><span style="color: #000000;">The Narcissist Richter Scale doesn't measure this far off the chart</span></h3> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Blondie-Bennet-Pic-via-Twitter.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6245" alt="Blondie Bennet Pic via Twitter" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Blondie-Bennet-Pic-via-Twitter.jpg" width="312" height="246" /></a>Blondie Bennett, a long-obsessed Barbie weirdo from California, is using online hypnotherapy lessons to reduce what she's being told is her IQ level in hopes of becoming less human, more doll-like, and --if it's an option-- "completely plastic." She reports she's "super happy" and that the sessions must be working since she's becoming "forgetful and brainless." These sessions follow body alterations, facial do-overs, and breast enlargement surgeries that rival Lexus dealership up-sells. Bennett wears footwear made for a mule deer and her applied tan looks just like the one Mattel sprays on its signature toy. She says she's pleased to be achieving her goal (never mind that doing so may pose future challenges, like forgetting <em>not</em> to brush her teeth with gasoline; her online sugar daddies look out for her). The unemployed Bennett's many procedures are funded in exchange for one-on-one time (yeesh), webcam antics, surgery footage, and pictures of Bennett wearing Barbie-inspired garments. But don't worry, Blondie doesn't feel exploited. She told an<a href="http://youtu.be/NIA00l1Cnmc" target="_blank"> interviewer</a>, “When people ask why I want to be Barbie, I think, ‘Who <em>wouldn’t</em> want to be?’ She has the best life. All she does is shop and make herself look pretty. She doesn’t worry about anything.” <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Cosmetic-Surgery-Bird-Strike_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6247" alt="Cosmetic Surgery Bird-Strike_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Cosmetic-Surgery-Bird-Strike_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="440" height="275" /></a>Folks, it's real sad when a wide-eyed goose flies into the spinning blades of a jet engine, but what about the passengers stuck looking at the flameout? And by extension, when a sick, dumb animal like Bennett wanders into Looney Tunes surgeries in hopes of becoming more and more like an inanimate object (with the "best life"), we can't neglect those left scratching their heads. You know, US! The people gaping at the fireball that was once engine number two! If bird strikes can remind us of life's unpredictability, cosmetic surgery disasters like this one here scream human <em>fallibility</em>. The number of <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/02/what-men-find-behind-female-masks/283972/" target="_blank">icky stories</a> about men don't equal the countless casualties in the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Backlash-Undeclared-Against-American-Women/dp/0307345424" target="_blank">war</a> on women, I know, but readers familiar with this blog know that my goofing on cosmetic surgery <a href="http://working-copy.local/self-esteem/breaking-the-narcissist-richter-scale/" target="_blank">martyrdom</a> is as balanced and nondiscriminatory as it is unapologetically judgmental. Bennett claims to be drug-free, which I found surprising. I'd assumed that reaching this level of kaleidoscopic self-determination-harm would require doctor-shopping from Chicago to Reno. I figured on at <em>least</em> 22 pharma-variants running through her blood. But drugs or no, by her own admission, Bennett's friends and family aren't into <em>any</em> of this shit. BTW, Blondie looks nothing like Barbie. But it's not like she'll find honest appraisals by hanging around loiterers at seaside arcades. If anything, like the guy in the <a href="http://youtu.be/NIA00l1Cnmc" target="_blank">video</a> they'll be elbowing each other out of the way to enjoy her curious brand of WTF.  (Their in-flight counterpart would be those of your seat-mates who tell you how beautiful flames are as your plane enters a death spiral.) You can say I shouldn't judge, and you can insist that people are free to do whatever they want with their bodies: I'll agree to both. But those also sound like the statements of an parasites and enablers, say, like the medical professionals and "special friends" who funded or abandoned Bennett's off-the-rails self-iamge. <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>UPDATE:  Okay-then. Upstaging Bennett by a long shot comes Ukranian model, Valeria Lukyanova, aka "The Human Barbie."  If you're sure you can or care to stomach more (at a far higher altitude of self harm and mental disorientation) check out Michael Idov's <span style="color: #000000;">piece</span> for GQ.</strong></span> &nbsp; . &nbsp; 6233 2014-02-28 23:00:30 2014-03-01 06:00:30 2016-12-01 10:39:59 2016-12-01 17:39:59 closed open file-cosmetic-surgery-martyrdom publish 0 0 post 0 Barbie Blondie Bennet California cosmetic surgery Culture Excuses hypnotherapy Lexus Mattel Narcissist Richter Scale Sick, Dumb Animals spray tan war on women _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 80 _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw cosmetic surgery _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Those familiar with this blog know that my goofing on cosmetic surgery martyrdom is as balanced and nondiscriminatory as it is unapologetically judgmental. _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:2;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1700360053;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5088;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8306;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11948;}}}} 67403 B &amp; G fiteon@pacbell.net 99.68.149.77 2014-02-28 23:59:29 2014-03-01 06:59:29 Laughed out loud! 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/excuses/hate-word-nigger/ Sun, 02 Mar 2014 02:13:39 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=6264 <h2><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/THE-N-WORD_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-6271" alt="THE N-WORD_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/THE-N-WORD_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="341" height="343" /></a>I hate the word "nigger" because of what it reveals about its user.</span></h2> Blue, Black, White, or Brown – you’re lazy. How’s that, you ask? Well for one, what have you, the N-word user, attempted to learn about the volatile word? 'Cause it's a shape-shifter: one that can be used rightly and wrongly, ironically and seriously, congenially and maliciously, of necessity for the sake of realism and impishly for the sake of comedy.* Do you know its etymology? Have you taken the time to read any <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wright_(author)" target="_blank">Richard Wright</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Wilson" target="_blank">August Wilson</a>? Who were the <a href="http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=Little+Rock+Nine&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8" target="_blank">Little Rock Nine</a>? Do you know why Malcolm X and Richard Pryor swore off using it? It doesn't matter. And regardless of who you are, you weren’t <em>born</em> with the right to use the word, so don’t even go there. You have a choice. If you want to debate whether or not cultural perspective should govern its meaning, you’d better find out more than what you heard someone say, sing, shout, or slur. <em>I</em> hate the word because it whispers its right to be among us, forcing users to make excuses for it. It’s a chunk of broken cement that has, for too many people, disguised itself as a Fabergé egg. Which people, you ask? As Clarence Major wrote in his <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Afro-American-Slang-Clarence-MAJOR/dp/B00252VLFE" target="_blank">Dictionary of Afro-American Slang</a> (1970), “persons insufficiently attuned to the volatility of this singularly complex and dangerous word.” Having been to prison and, therefore, temporarily disqualified from societal participation, you might think my learning was limited to how to survive and/or how to become a better criminal, not unlike the claim that college merely teaches one to be a better student. While there may be a basis in reality for both assertions, prison wasn’t a School of Crimethink for me: it was an ungodly wake-up call. And since the phrase “wake-up call” is grossly overused, I’ll go a little deeper. <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/California-Prison-Tower.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6260" alt="California Prison Tower" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/California-Prison-Tower.jpg" width="321" height="181" /></a>During one of my my first prison breakfasts, I infuriated a cluster of Aryan Brotherhood wannabes by accepting uneaten food from an older black inmate. Sitting a table over, the guy caught my eye and held out his uneaten slices of toast. An always-starving 20-something, I eagerly reached for 'em. Let me tell you, humans have never moved faster than those that group of inmates. <em>Immediately</em> five pale, ink-covered arms --each holding bread-- plunged into view. For an instant I thought, “How generous!” Then I realized these “do-gooders” were simply driving me away from something the old man had touched. I looked at the old man, thanked him, then turned to the ugly, biker-lookin' bastard next to me, took <em>his</em> bread and ate it. No one said a single word after that; the tension was awful. I knew I was in trouble, but not 100% certain why. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Fine-Dining-With-Friends.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6277" alt="Fine Dining With Friends" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Fine-Dining-With-Friends.jpg" width="235" height="326" /></a>Outside the chow hall, I naively told my would-be-protectors that everything was okay: <em>I</em> didn’t mind if the old man had touched the bread. “I’m not like that,” I think I said. Which is when they turned into a snarling pack of pit bulls, jamming their fingers into my cheeks, forehead, and chest. “You ever eat, smoke, or drink after one’a them niggers again, we’re gonna – " It was Orwell’s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Minutes_Hate" target="_blank">Two Minute Hate</a> stretched out 'til one guy reluctantly waved a hand and said, “Enough! I’ll take responsibility for schoolin’ him right.” Finally the monosyllabic cabbage-heads backed off, went their separate ways, and scowled at me for the next three weeks. What followed is a four-year journey in which I experienced first hand the physical, spiritual, and psychological effects of racist anger on young men. It was "nigger" this, and "nigger" that a hundred times a day –not humorously, not lyrically, and not among friends. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Peckerwoods-1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-6274" style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; cursor: default; float: left; border-width: 0px;" alt="Peckerwoods-1" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Peckerwoods-1.jpg" width="320" height="157" /></a> I saw Hispanic, White, and Black men (and essentially boys) hit the Yard sans tattoos only to become fully inked with imagery many didn’t really understand. And it wasn’t always from direct pressure to do so. Often these guys' own minds would go to work on 'em first. Some were desperate for the outward appearance of one who targets, rather than gets targeted. Now, I’m not claiming wisdom here, just experience. And when it comes to using the N-word, I demand you not be “insufficiently attuned.” I demand respect for the word, not just defiance or humor from someone who thinks he’s funny or cool or Black or Tarantino enough to use it. Think I'm nuts? No problem. But sit for a moment with the idea of going to sleep to the N-word and waking up to it every single day for years. Those thinking they were using the word on their terms were fooling themselves, because two feet away, someone else believed the word's usage conformed to <em>their</em> rules. Nothing's different out here except that we're spread further apart. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Modules-Photo-LAT.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6280" alt="Modules Photo - LAT" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Modules-Photo-LAT.jpg" width="374" height="251" /></a>From the 3rd floor modules of the Los Angeles County <a href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/l-a-county-sheriffs-vengeance-university/" target="_blank">Mens Central Jail</a>, to the "old Yard" of Level 4 Folsom Prison, the experience I claim includes having heard every imaginable excuse and rationalization for the N-word. From the contemptuous mispronunciation of the term "Negro" when American slavery was in full swing to the insistence on repossession by anyone claiming the right to take it back and turn it around, no stone was left unturned as men of every color picked the word apart. The N-word means a lot of things to a lot of people: from those who claim it’s a term of affection to those who think it should be stricken from the English language. To me, the former is just an excuse for a double standard and the latter is plain censorship. I believe that just like the excuses we make in our lives, the N-word  –and any other racial epithet–  has an important job: to serve as a rung on the ladder of character. <div> <h3>Wanna learn more without eating prison food?</h3> <a href="http://www.tolerance.org/magazine/number-40-fall-2011/feature/straight-talk-about-n-word" target="_blank">Straight Talk about the N-Word</a> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/nigger.htm">Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word</a> <a href="http://www.ferris.edu/news/jimcrow/caricature/">Nigger and Caricatures by Dr. David Pilgrim, Professor of Sociology, and Dr. Phillip Middleton, Professor of Languages and Literature, Ferris State University </a> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Word-Who-Can-Say-Shouldnt-ebook/dp/B00CR6WQ7U/ref=la_B001H6OCF0_1_6?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1393718994&amp;sr=1-6" target="_blank">The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why</a> <h6> *Adapted from <em>Fires in the Mirror: Essays and Teaching Strategies</em>, WGBH, 1993</h6> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/SYSTEM-OBSTRUCTED_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-6281" alt="SYSTEM OBSTRUCTED_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/SYSTEM-OBSTRUCTED_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="237" height="239" /></a></p> </div> <div></div> <div></div> <div></div> 6264 2014-03-01 19:13:39 2014-03-02 02:13:39 2014-03-03 21:29:24 2014-03-04 04:29:24 closed open hate-word-nigger publish 0 0 post 0 August Wilson Character Excuses Folsom Prison George Orwell LA County Jail Malcolm X Men's Central Jail N-word negro nigger Peckerwoods Prison Prison politics Richard Wright Self-Esteem Tarantino Two Minute Hate _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 80 _edit_last 1 _wpas_done_all 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw nigger _yoast_wpseo_title Why I Hate the Word "Nigger" _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Just like the excuses we make in our lives, the N-word –and any other racial epithet– has an important job: to serve as a rung on the ladder of character. _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706030475;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6842;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7132;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5746;}}}} 68222 Mary Mshookxo@yahoo.com 69.105.138.170 2014-03-21 11:22:21 2014-03-21 18:22:21 The word is the word. In the opening song from the movie 12 Years A Slave, they used the N word so many times, (WAY beyond the point of making a point) it gave me a nauseating migraine that lasted the entire day. I don't get migraines... 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/excuses/morality-morning-2/ Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:56:43 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=6295 <h2><span style="color: #000000;">Are we more dependable and trustworthy at breakfast than at dinner?</span></h2> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/The-Morning-Morality-Effect_Psychological-Science-January-2014.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6303" alt="The Morning Morality Effect_Psychological Science January 2014" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/The-Morning-Morality-Effect_Psychological-Science-January-2014.jpg" width="422" height="329" /></a>Are you tired of your account managers giving you the runaround about their weekly TPS reports? Try moving your meetings with them to the a.m.! According to a just-released <a href="http://pss.sagepub.com/content/25/1/95" target="_blank">study</a> from the <em>Association for Psychological Science</em> (<em>APS</em>), straight answers are more likely in the morning than in the afternoon. The APS study proposes that the rigors of everyday living erode our capacity to resist lying and cheating, using four experiments to substantiate what researchers call the "morning morality effect." The morning morality effect basically means that, by the end of the day, our ability to process moral decisions and maintain self-control is about as effective as an empty can of air freshener. The study also found that people with a greater innate propensity for theft, murder, and bullshit are influenced by the morning morality effect to a greater degree than those with a naturally heightened sense of moral awareness. In other words, unless you're a codependent fixer, the colleagues you likely already avoid will get even worse toward quittin' time, while the steadfast goody-goodies will be more likely to resist the temptation to act on their amoral thoughts. (Still, ever notice how impatient the sanctimonious types can become by the end of the day? Sounds to me like the APS is sayin' that, come four o'clock, even the cloyingly self-righteous can't help plotting to kill their rich uncles.) <!--more--> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Association-for-Psychological-Science.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-6299" alt="Association for Psychological Science" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Association-for-Psychological-Science.jpg" width="729" height="82" /></a></p> People want to do the right thing, the study says, but time pressures, sleep deprivation, and duties that require one form of self-regulation or another decrease people's self-control, which leads to unethical behavior in the face of temptation. So yes, the esteemed Association for Psychological Science <em>is</em> basically saying it's fatigues fault you took off your wedding ring to go talk to the new girl three cubicles over. And the part of me well aware of the lines <em>I</em> cross at the end of a long afternoon when I'm tired and irritable doesn't disagree. If I get cornered on a phone call, say, I'm <em>much</em> more likely to come up with some baloney to get myself off the hook as quickly as possible, whereas in the morning I'm a lot more patient. This is nothing we don't already know about ourselves, so big whoop, right? What interests me is how studies like this tend to sell us on the idea of our fates being inevitable. In other words, I can't help reading into this a little and meeting resistance to the idea of afternoon exhaustion being an acceptable excuse for unethical behavior and an inability to overcome temptation. There's something just too compelling about letting science soothe our guilt and make it okay not to try. Back in the '80s, I remember how the parents of a glum 12th-grader <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_Solution" target="_blank">sued</a> Ozzy because his music "told" the kid to eat a 12-gauge shotgun shell. I laughed at how dumb of an excuse that was, but being able to <em>spot</em> an excuse didn't stop me from rationalizing my own bad choices. So as far as I'm concerned, it doesn't matter what time of day you lie, cheat, or steal. Being worn out <em>doesn't</em> get you off the hook, just as recognizing laughable excuses won't prevent you from inventing whoppers. Maybe someone should study the part of the brain that convinces us to justify bad coping skills. The point is, morality in the morning doesn't hold a candle to defying your fate. <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/I-AM-SO-GOING-TO-STEAL-THIS-PLACE-BLIND-AFTER-LUNCH_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="wp-image-6305 aligncenter" alt="I AM SO GOING TO STEAL THIS PLACE BLIND AFTER LUNCH_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/I-AM-SO-GOING-TO-STEAL-THIS-PLACE-BLIND-AFTER-LUNCH_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="163" height="162" /></a></p> &nbsp; 6295 2014-03-07 11:56:43 2014-03-07 18:56:43 2014-03-07 11:59:01 2014-03-07 18:59:01 closed open morality-morning-2 publish 0 0 post 0 APS coping skills Culture Excuses fate morality Ozzy Psychological Science temptation The Morning Morality Effect TPS report _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 80 _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw morality _yoast_wpseo_title Morality in the Morning _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Debauchery at dinner versus morality in the morning; a new study suggests we're too worn out at day's end to resist the temptation to lie, cheat and steal. _wpas_done_all 1 _wp_old_slug morality-morning _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:2;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703837513;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8404;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10277;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4866;}}}} http://working-copy.local/guilty-pleasures/court-referred-community-service-diary-1/ Mon, 10 Mar 2014 06:07:58 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=6309 <h2><span style="color: #000000;">I meant to pay the speeding ticket right away; now I owe 50 hours.</span></h2> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Goodwill-Logo-Registered-Trademark.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6314" alt="Goodwill-Logo-Registered-Trademark" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Goodwill-Logo-Registered-Trademark.jpg" width="224" height="311" /></a>I really did mean to pay the ticket on time, but when both extensions I’d requested were granted, so much time passed that I marginalized its importance. When I finally faced the music, the Traffic Commissioner was happy to suspend my hefty fine in exchange for 50 hours of community service at a local Goodwill Donation Center. <h3><span style="color: #000000;">March, 2014 – Goodwill Donation Center, Monday</span></h3> Ten feet inside the door, a 20-something young lady at the counter took one look at the yellow triplicate form in my hand and rolled her eyes. Turning to a tiny Asian woman helping her stock sunglasses, I heard her say, "typical community service," as she walked off. The Asian woman, though, threw out her hand, shook mine, accepted my paperwork, and started walking backwards toward a pair of beat up, swinging metal doors. "I'm Julie," she began, "and I’m afraid you can't work in those." She pointed to my 501s. "Do you have black pants and a white business shirt?" "Not that I can work in, no," I admitted. "But thrift store clothes and I go way back, so I'll just buy something now. That cool?" <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Swinging-Metal-Doors-of-Consequence.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6318" alt="Swinging Metal Doors of Consequence" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Swinging-Metal-Doors-of-Consequence.jpg" width="236" height="350" /></a>Through the double doors we went, past several other indentured service workers who were organizing the morning's donations. Though they were practically shoulder-to-shoulder no one spoke, and they all kept their heads down as though wearing invisible headphones (presumably real ones don’t fly with Julie). Not exactly depressing, but not too cheery, either. "That's fine," she responded, "but you can’t shop while you're working off your hours. Will you be working today?" "Just the paperwork today. But I'll buy clothes before I leave and see you tomorrow." A man with a clipboard approached in an official Goodwill uniform just like Julie’s. Scanning a form as he walked, he banked left to continue around us but glanced up to excuse himself as he passed. Every inch of his skin –arms, hands, and from his collar up– was covered in bubble-like tumors, small and large. I smiled when he looked my way and said "Hey" as un-self-consciously as I could. In an instant, though, every physical freedom I have, everything I own, every privilege I take for granted, and everything I can afford to be sarcastic about in the way that I do became goddamn priceless. The guy’s disease, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurofibromatosis" target="_blank">Neurofibromatosis</a>, if my guess is correct, is something I actually became familiar with in prison. It's genetic and affects about 1 in 3000 people. Suddenly I find myself once again interacting with someone who's probably tougher and stronger than I could ever hope to be in every way. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/TPS-REPORTS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-6319" alt="TPS REPORTS_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/TPS-REPORTS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="128" height="189" /></a>I sat with Julie in her office to review and sign various documents, like the one that releases Goodwill from providing insurance coverage or the sorts of benefits known to its regular employees. Another form was intended to confirm I’d seen and signed the first, and a third listed rules of conduct for court referred community service personnel. I read that long list more thoroughly than the other paperwork. Number 35: "No starting gossip or spreading rumors," I pointed out to Julie, was my favorite. I was glad to see her laugh a little; although she seemed pleasant enough, she was definitely guarded. But when I asked for a copy, her demeanor changed. "Oh, I don't think I'm allowed to..." she hesitated. "I don't think I can give you a...I'll have to check if I can give you a copy." I hoped she hadn't felt challenged, but I sensed that explaining why I’d wanted a copy –because corporate HR interpretations of human behavior are always entertaining to me– would risk insulting her. And pointing out that I'm entitled to a copy of <em>anything</em> requiring my signature definitely wasn't the way to go. Besides, when people see you surrender a sticking point, they sometimes follow your lead. But while starting off on an adversarial note isn't too smart, I did let about 5 to 7 seconds of awkward silence pass. Only the banging of the double doors could be heard, at which point Julie offered to get me a copy of the form upon my return (should she be allowed to). I smiled. I have every intention of holding her to it. <h3><span style="color: #000000;">Next up:  "Where Pleated Pants Go to Die" </span></h3> . &nbsp; 6309 2014-03-09 23:07:58 2014-03-10 06:07:58 2014-04-09 18:19:28 2014-04-10 01:19:28 closed open court-referred-community-service-diary-1 publish 0 0 post 0 501s community service Court Referred Community Service Goodwill GUILTY PLEASURES Neurofibromatosis thrift store Traffic Commissioner uniform _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 68 _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw community service _yoast_wpseo_title Court Referred Community Service Diary - 1 _yoast_wpseo_metadesc I really did mean to pay the ticket on time, but now I owe 50 hours of community service. _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:29;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1701210863;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6677;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6311;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6430;}}}} http://working-copy.local/guilty-pleasures/court-referred-community-service-diary-2/ Wed, 12 Mar 2014 05:27:40 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=6311 <h2><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Blotchy-the-Bear.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6350" alt="Blotchy the Bear" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Blotchy-the-Bear.jpg" width="349" height="360" /></a>"Where Pleated Pants Go to Die" – Thursday morning, March 5, 2014.</span></h2> <h5><span style="color: #808080;">I really did mean to pay the ticket on time, but when both extensions I’d requested were granted, so much time passed that I marginalized its importance. When I finally faced the music, the Traffic Commissioner was happy to suspend my hefty fine in exchange for 50 hours of community service at a local Goodwill Donation Center. This is the second in a series...</span></h5> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Day one's "Top Five Items that Qualify as Most Disgusting."</strong></span> <div> <ul> <li><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Food-encrusted plates and utensils</strong></span></li> <li><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Matted stuffed animals</strong></span></li> <li><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Pillows</strong></span></li> <li><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><strong>Crumb-sprinkling toasters</strong></strong></span></li> <li><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Hairdryers and curling irons</strong></span></li> </ul> </div> Three hours was all I could do. I thought for sure I'd be able to push it to four, but both the headache and the pre-judgment I'd arrived with had worsened.  And yet, even failing to scratch the surface of my commitment, I began to appreciate the septic funhouse I'd entered.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/RACKS-OF-SLACKS.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6334" alt="RACKS OF SLACKS" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/RACKS-OF-SLACKS.jpg" width="517" height="231" /></a>I made friends with an older black lady named Doris, and together we shelved newly priced items from carts that were rolled up the ramp from the receiving area. After those came roller-racks of clothing, mostly women's. The minute each rack came to a stop in front of us, three Asian women descended like muted pigeons: silent but jittery. They yanked what they appraised to be the best stuff before dispersing back into the store, lapsing into a calm browsing mode until another rack came banging through the double doors. There was also a huge guy, maybe in his 60s, who went through just about every lady's garment there. Samsung Galaxy in one hand, notepad and pen in the other, he jotted notes on certain labels and made phone calls about others. He was looking for newer, more viable designer stuff in good enough shape to resell – at least that's what it <em>looked</em> like he was doing. He and the Asian ladies each walked out with about 10 bags of clothes. They probably had a knife fight in the parking lot. I found myself feeling old enough to find my <em>own</em> concept of thrift store bargain hunting quaint. Maybe I wasn't paying enough attention or was watching the wrong people, but it didn’t seem like very many were on the lookout for that one unique prize that can make someone’s day. But then my training grounds weren’t filled with so much stretchy material. (Not that I’m <em>un</em>-glad it exists, especially in the case of suit shirts.) <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/I-make-42-kills-in-revolution.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6338" alt="I make 42 kills in revolution" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/I-make-42-kills-in-revolution.jpg" width="281" height="372" /></a>And speaking of old... An old couple who looked like escapees from a Bulgarian village council wandered in and took up positions on separate couches, where they stayed for an hour. The wife stood stock still, but her eyes followed me like a painting of the revolutionary <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayna_Knyaginya" target="_blank">Raina Kniaginia</a>. Whenever I glanced her way she’d sense it, turn her head, and stare me down. The husband wandered around a bit, at one point returning to his couch with one of those stupid, metal, faux-vintage Coca Cola platters – the kind you can't give away. I guess he liked it, though, 'cause every few minutes he’d gaze down at the tray's Victorian lace-wearing porcelain lady. God knows what it reminded him of: his first date, his mother, whatever the Serbian-killing sniper on the opposite couch used to look like… Yet when they got up to leave, they did so empty-handed. Replacing them was a rather large Filipina who talked to herself a lot and tried on several pairs of high-heeled shoes. She left empty-handed, too. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Picasso-Facepalm.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6348" alt="Picasso Facepalm" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Picasso-Facepalm.jpg" width="139" height="182" /></a>Imelda's replacement was a 50-something beatnik lookin’ guy, complete with black beret and a salt-and-pepper goatee. This one whipped out his magnifying glass to inspect framed artwork I wouldn’t hang in my <em>garage</em> long enough to toss a Molotov cocktail at. When I made the mistake of asking what he was looking for, I got a lecture in how much money the guy's made by reselling prints and lithographs that people don’t realize are valuable. It was old news – until he added (with a straight face) that he'd once found a Picasso print something-something. He may have, but borrr-rring!  That's when I went back to stocking shelves and trying to decipher the difference between a blouse and a top. I failed to ask Julie for my copy of that rules sheet, in part because I just wanted to get out of there after the three long hours. But then I wondered if I was trying to avoid saying hello to the guy with the skin condition. To prove I wasn't, I readied myself to stick out my hand just another rack burst through the doors. Of <em>course</em> I had to go with it. I’ll have to try again with him on my next shift. It was the slowest three hours I've spent in a long, long time, and I have 47 more Court Referred Community Service hours just like 'em to look forward to. So let me end with the <strong>"Five Most Frequently Asked Questions Thrown My Way So Far:"</strong> <ol> <li>(Thrusting popcorn popper in my face) This a good one?</li> <li>When you gonna bring out more shoes?</li> <li>(Thrusting soiled, leave-behind shoe, minus mate, in my face) Where's the other one?</li> <li>(Thrusting random tchotchke in my face) What is this?</li> <li>You only got 50 hours!?</li> </ol> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #000000;">Next Up: Cocaine Double-talk at Breakfast</span></span> . &nbsp; 6311 2014-03-11 22:27:40 2014-03-12 05:27:40 2014-03-12 09:53:14 2014-03-12 16:53:14 closed open court-referred-community-service-diary-2 publish 0 0 post 0 beatnik Bulgarian Coca Cola community service Court Referred Community Service Goodwill GUILTY PLEASURES Molotov cocktail Picasso Samsung Galaxy sniper thrift store Traffic Commissioner _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 76 _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw community service _yoast_wpseo_title Court Referred Community Service Diary - 2 _wpas_done_all 1 _yoast_wpseo_metadesc It was the slowest three hours I've spent in a long, long time, and I have 47 more Court Referred Community Service hours just like 'em to look forward to. _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:17;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1699891724;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6309;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6677;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6430;}}}} 67868 Sally Mullins sallycomic@aol.com http://sallymullins.com 172.248.67.101 2014-03-13 14:29:02 2014-03-13 21:29:02 Fifty hours? That's nothing. Try 24 hours in any Florida or Oklahoma Travelodge or Best Western. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/excuses/pre-trial-labor-slavery/ Fri, 14 Mar 2014 06:24:03 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=6354 <h2><span style="color: #000000;">Lawsuit over solitary vs. work detail stirs a 13th Amendment debate</span></h2> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/oooop.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6363" alt="Hard day at the office_WHere Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/oooop.jpg" width="389" height="272" /></a>Is pre-trial labor slavery? Not every detention facility relies on the same frontline custody policies, but the fact is, most pre-trial prisoners are allowed to choose between a daily work assignment and remaining confined to their dorm units or cells. Before we dive in, let's take a look at what, for some, is merely semantics. For others, though, the distinction couldn't be more important. See, you're a "prisoner" until you've been sent to a genuine penal facility, at which point you're given an "inmate" number. Once you're on a full blown prison yard, you strive to graduate to "convict" and leave the inmate label behind. Likewise, "jail" and "prison" are not the same. Jail custody is similar to an airplane circling a runway 'til it's permitted to land. Jail is where one goes to await trial, pause between court appearances, get convicted and sentenced in the first place, then finally transferred to state or federal custody -- i.e., prison. Jail life, though, is often more harsh, because prisoners are transitory and often mistake jail for the big house themselves. Prisoners fear that not making a name for themselves right away is a dangerous mistake, so guys get beaten up a lot in jail. What many prisoners don't realize is that they'll have to reestablish their reputations as soon as a new busload replaces those they "taught" to respect them. <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/ooooooop.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-6364" alt="ooooooop" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/ooooooop.jpg" width="408" height="254" /></a>This is the exciting environment in which one must decide whether or not a work assignment is the way to go. The reasons prisoners refuse work are numerous, from wanting to avoid rival gang members to having been accused of crimes involving either children or sexual assault. <em>Sure</em> you haven't been convicted yet, but if you ever get cornered as a pervert, the LAST thing you'll want to rely on is the word "alleged:" it may end up being your last. Sheer laziness, of course, is the biggest reason prisoners and inmates alike may refuse work. Though the payment for such menial labor usually doesn't exceed 35¢ an hour, an accumulation of work hours does pay for postage stamps, stationary, and items with which to barter, like soap, candy, and smokes. But sometimes there's simply no choice: you either work, or your stay is made that much more difficult. Finbar McGarry, a University of Vermont grad student facing weapons and other charges, <em>was</em> apparently given a choice between solitary confinement and a 25¢ per hour laundry job. (McGarry had allegedly threatened his family with a gun and spoken of killing his teachers. I say he was on bath salts, but that's another discussion. To me, the point is, if you're named like a Hobbit, you have no business pistol whipping people.) <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Prison-Laundry.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-6365" alt="Prison Laundry" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Prison-Laundry.jpg" width="640" height="175" /></a></p> Finny didn't want to work the laundry and he let his jailers know it, which is when he was threatened with solitary confinement. However unsanitary or under-compensated laundry duty may have seemed at the time, I suspect he probably had a target on his back before the choice even came down. BTW, most Badges will tolerate a little bellyaching if you choose your battles wisely (i.e. not spout your rights to everyone you see). So it's surprising to me that Finny would have gone from first gear to fifth so immediately. Usually there's an option <em>before</em> the dreaded isolation unit. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Master-of-Fine-Arts-in-Laundry-Carts.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6374" alt="Master of Fine Arts in Laundry Carts" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Master-of-Fine-Arts-in-Laundry-Carts.jpg" width="274" height="269" /></a>But to avoid being sent to "the hole," Finny gave in and opted to washed some nasty linens. Shortly thereafter, he contracted a bacterial infection, which probably made him that much more of joy. Still, one day, all charges against him were dropped and Finbar was freed. He felt certain his 13th Amendment rights had been violated, so he sued the state of Vermont for $11 million, asserting he'd been made a slave at Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility. Three days a week he worked, for up to 14 hours. It had gone on for six weeks. The judge ruled against McGarry, saying his constitutional rights had <em>not</em> been violated. But his lawyers appealed and the court's findings <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/man-alleging-prison-labor-violated-anti-slavery-amendment/story?id=16970464" target="_blank">were overturned</a>. Thanks in part to this case, though, nowadays the question of pre-trial labor constituting slavery is again up for debate. And I can't answer it any more clearly than defining slavery as forced labor under threat. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/op.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-6362" alt="Prison Industrial Laundry" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/op.jpg" width="253" height="189" /></a>What I <em>can </em>offer is how the fellas probably look at Finbar. Once he healed from being trounced for his name, the cycle probably repeated itself, beginning with Finny's being called things like "pussy," crybaby," and "flojo"(Español for lazy.)  After all, the mentality inside is along the lines of, "If I have to work, you have to work." Plus, the same values we in the civilian world live by -- good work ethic, good and bad behavior, etc. -- all apply behind bars. The main difference is that you can get your ass whooped for infractions like laziness. I'm an advocate for regulating the <em>sale</em> or disposition of inmate labor (and especially forced inmate labor for profit), but in jail and prison, definitions and legal interpretations come second to survival. As can be found in <em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em>, my account of custody life, "You can't become your own country unless you play with the politics." But while the fellas trudged off to a work assignment he'd decided he was too good for, let's put it this way: Finbat is lucky to have made it out of there to file his lawsuit in the first place. . &nbsp; 6354 2014-03-13 23:24:03 2014-03-14 06:24:03 2014-04-05 16:03:06 2014-04-05 23:03:06 closed open pre-trial-labor-slavery publish 0 0 post 0 big house Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility convict detention Excuses Finbar McGarry Incarceration Nation inmate jail labor prison Prison prisoner slavery University of Vermont Vermont _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw slavery _yoast_wpseo_title Is Pre-trial Labor Slavery? - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Your choice is 25¢ an hour working in a less-than-sanitary jail laundry or await trial in solitary confinement. Is pre-trial labor slavery? _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 77 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:2;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705493358;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10046;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9274;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7479;}}}} http://working-copy.local/idiots/court-referred-community-service-diary-3-2/ Tue, 18 Mar 2014 06:27:35 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=6430 <h2><span style="color: #000000;">"His jaw was working harder than a hog's hips at a crowded trough."</span></h2> <span style="color: #808080;"><strong>I really did mean to pay the ticket on time, but when both extensions I’d requested were granted, so much time passed that I marginalized its importance. When I finally faced the music, the Traffic Commissioner was happy to suspend my hefty fine in exchange for 50 hours of community service at a local Goodwill Donation Center. Welcome to #3 in a series...(Parts 1 and 2 are <a href="http://working-copy.local/guilty-pleasures/court-referred-community-service-diary-1/" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://working-copy.local/guilty-pleasures/court-referred-community-service-diary-2/" target="_blank">here</a>.) </strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>March 10, 2014 – Goodwill Donation Center, Wednesday</strong></span> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Microwave-Isotropic-and-Anisotropic-Superconductors.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-6407" alt="Microwave Isotropic and Anisotropic Superconductors" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Microwave-Isotropic-and-Anisotropic-Superconductors-300x180.jpg" width="300" height="180" /></a>Only when you’re outta your mind on blow do you pay $59 for a thrift-store microwave oven circa 1995 by leaving a deposit with the manager, going to your car, and coming back for the thing a mere 15 minutes later. Only when your head is reeling from cocaine psychosis do you not realize you’re wiping your mouth in a forward motion with the back of your hands like a rat. And only when you’re anxious about returning to your car for more booger-sugar does your “inside voice” become your Dodger Stadium voice. <!--more--> By day three of my Court Referred Community Service, amidst old boom-boxes, radios, and receivers, I’d given myself several self-directed tasks. The first involved reeling in all the errant, dangling power cords and speaker wires in the electronics section of the store; a small Hispanic woman I worked with had nearly broke her ankle there not 24 hours prior. Now how or why this triggered my mischievous side I don’t know, but I figured I’d have some fun and make the area a little safer – in that order. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Z2.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-6408" alt="Z2" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Z2-300x224.jpg" width="300" height="224" /></a>I like to begin by my shifts in the morning, 'cause other than return customers who show up daily for things to resell on eBay and elsewhere the place is empty. Today it was empty of all but regulars too, save for Cocaine Boy, who'd entered the store as wired as could be. His first stop, I noticed, was asking to see things in the locked display cases by the register. Nothing like tweakin' on old flip phones, I guess. In the meantime, I'd secured a box of rubber bands and pulled all the speakers off the shelves. Spinning each pair, I spiraled their wires around two of my fingers, stopping periodically to tighten each coil into smaller and smaller circles. Fifteen sets of speakers in all, small and large, and to anyone glancing my way I was just another blue aproned worker, tidying things up in the name of the disabled. But I was having fun, wrapping cords in figure-eights weaving in and out of themselves, interlacing patterns that might inspire the head-scratcher to ask, ¿Qué idiota trenzado estos cables eléctricos? (What idiot braided these electrical wires?) DVD players and VCRs followed speakers; next came desk lamps, rice cookers, karaoke machines, televisions, and hair curlers. <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>The Big Idea was to:</strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>• Up the nuisance level, to separate loiterers from serious used electronics consumers</strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>• Secure myself some entertainment after moving on to organize bookshelves</strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>• Place mental bets on who’d be thwarted and who'd be determined to test out speakers</strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>• Find out what sells better: well-dressed or neglected Goodwill shelves? (A case study)</strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>• Appear dutiful and satisfactorily occupied to my non-profit handlers</strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>• Determine how long it would take for shit to get trashed (again)</strong></span> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Do-it-Yourself.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6422" alt="Do it Yourself" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Do-it-Yourself-300x233.jpg" width="240" height="186" /></a>I forgot to mention that I was finally given <a href="http://working-copy.local/guilty-pleasures/court-referred-community-service-diary-1/" target="_blank">a copy of that rules sheet</a>, and if I read it correctly, none of the above was listed as an infraction. Besides, when the woman who almost fell meandered back around, her smile and nod was all the confirmation I needed to know my box of rubber bands and I were of righteous making. Yet my crusade was no match for the King's Habit. Cocaine Boy had apparently saved the best of the store for last: the electronics wall. Now, you're probably wondering how I could just up 'n decide the guy'd had California Cornflakes for breakfast, right? It's a fair question, but when my five-year-old nephew can call it, the vocabulary needs no further qualifying. Sure enough he went to town, inspecting anything with a plug. Even over by the bookshelves I could see that the guy's jaw muscles were working harder than a hog's hips 'round a crowded trough. And the difference between a runny nose when you have a slight cold and the rhythmic snot-pull of cocaine use is unmistakable. When the roof of your mouth is completely numb and you're feeling parts of your throat you normally don't, you're a lot more prone to Morse code sniffles and repeatedly touching your nose with the grace of a goat eating lunch. Swallowing the drip at the back of your throat is nearly constant. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Dork-ass-Halo-Surrounds.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6417" alt="Dork-ass Halo Surrounds" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Dork-ass-Halo-Surrounds-300x262.jpg" width="210" height="183" /></a>Plus, clothing says a lot. The indoor sunglasses with the Trump Casino ornamentation were a giveaway, as was the embroidered V-neck shirt and pre-worn denim. To me this is the menswear equivalent of automotive "Halos," those dorky LEDs surrounding the headlights of cars that will never see the autobahn. So yes, I realize I could sum this guy up more quickly with  the phrase "coke-head douchebag," but I'm not of fan of the word: I can do better. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Ray-Bolger.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6431" alt="Ray Bolger" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Ray-Bolger-150x150.jpg" width="67" height="67" /></a>And throw all of this into a blender, along with the guy's pacing and that weird back-hand mouth wiping, and you've got a face full of powder and a physical presence not unlike the Scarecrow from The Wizard of Oz. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/X-Bass.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6418" alt="X-Bass" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/X-Bass.jpg" width="180" height="134" /></a>When he started in on the first boombox, I thought my otherwise monotonous time would fly by. I had quite a number of books to organize, but with him there mixing and matching speakers, and trying to untie my knots, I figured I wouldn't even notice the tedium of my chore. What I didn't factor in, though, was his attention span. This was like watching a grasshopper and expecting it to go in straight line. The guy was into everything  –for about 15 seconds–  until he discovered the microwave. Then he excavated his way down to that and wrestled it forward. He even managed to free it without the avalanche of golf clubs I'd predicted. He inspected it for one full, uninterrupted moment, and then, like a psychic robot-drone, he spun on me and approached, which took me by surprise. He'd been so isolated in his world of Vin Diesel (or who knows what) I didn't think he'd noticed anyone else. But clearly he knew I was there. "Can I leave a deposit on the microwave and come back to get it, like late tonight?" Why was he speaking so loudly? Was he puttin' the stuff in his ears? "I don't know," I answered (because I didn't). "But go check out the manager – she'll tell you." <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/SAD-FACE-FOR-ICKY.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-6419" alt="SAD FACE FOR ICKY" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/SAD-FACE-FOR-ICKY.jpg" width="300" height="199" /></a>He walked off, stopped and inspected glassware and then men's pants, and I figured I'd seen the last of him. But then he came back, and this time with Julie, the manager. He pointed his out prize; she inspected it; and after a quick exchange, Julie herself disappeared. Cocaine Boy stood there, anxiously. You should have seen the purchase this guy was considering: <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>a) They make 'em much smaller now</strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>b) It was crusty with food</strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>c) It was white, for God's sake!</strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>d) The buttons had finger impressions like the fallen foam of an abandoned couch</strong></span> Um, so, why the Goodwill if you can afford the marching powder, bro? <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/I-Can-Haz-Nasal-Collapse.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6423" alt="I Can Haz Nasal Collapse" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/I-Can-Haz-Nasal-Collapse-300x215.jpg" width="210" height="151" /></a>But wouldn't you know it: Cocaine Boy's science oven had the one cord I'd missed. I don't know how much of a sign that is, if it's one at all, but when Julie asked me to carry the thing up front for her, I almost broke my neck tripping on it. Oddly  –but not for someone on nose candy–  the guy really did return 15 minutes later. Did he go to an ATM? Did he vacuum up a pile of gak on his dashboard? I don't know. But he sure was attached to that rancid-ass microwave. And yours truly has one less day of community service. <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Next up:  Dean R, Koontz, James Patterson, Danielle Steel, Tom Clancy, Dale Brown, Stephen King and Signing for Dummies!</strong></span> . 6430 2014-03-17 23:27:35 2014-03-18 06:27:35 2014-04-09 18:17:34 2014-04-10 01:17:34 closed open court-referred-community-service-diary-3-2 publish 0 0 post 0 autobahn cocaine community service Cornflakes Court Referred Community Service Dodger Stadium DVD Goodwill GUILTY PLEASURES Idiots microwave thrift store Traffic Commissioner Trump VCR Wizard of Oz _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw community service _yoast_wpseo_title Court Referred Community Service Diary – 3 _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Welcome to entry number three of a Court Referred Community Service confessional. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 70 _wpas_done_all 1 _wp_old_slug court-referred-community-service-diary-3 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1702059117;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6309;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6677;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6311;}}}} http://working-copy.local/inspirational/book-year-finalist-2/ Fri, 21 Mar 2014 06:14:21 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=6473 <h2><span style="color: #000000;">From secret prison journal pages to 2013 Book of the Year finalist.</span></h2> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/indiefab-finalist-imprint.png"><img class="alignright wp-image-6392" alt="indiefab-finalist-imprint" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/indiefab-finalist-imprint.png" width="208" height="380" /></a>This is for you, <a href="http://youtu.be/yXTDSGv4J8w" target="_blank">Lotus Weinstock</a> – thank you. With the national dialogue on prison and sentencing reform as loud as it’s ever been in America, I couldn’t be happier that <a href="https://www.forewordreviews.com/about/" target="_blank">ForeWord Reviews</a>, a quarterly trade review journal, has chosen <em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em> as a finalist for its annual <a href="https://botya.forewordreviews.com/finalists/2013/autobiography-and-memoir/" target="_blank">Book of the Year</a> awards. The winner will be announced in June, in Vegas, at the American Library Association’s yearly pow-wow. Among 13 other candidates in the autobiography &amp; memoir (adult nonfiction) category, <em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em> is a testament to the insight, character, and generosity of education professionals and workshop instructors to whom I surrendered while incarcerated for, coincidentally enough, the armed robbery of multiple bookstores. It doesn’t matter whether or not the book wins. What matters is that the rehabilitative methodology and milestone approach used to get my attention back then remains the primary takeaway in any discussion of the book’s merits.<!--more--> I won’t have it any other way. When it comes to the lessons <em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em> has to offer, I am as single-minded as a hornet. My story would not be a story were it not for <a href="http://working-copy.local/murder/murderers-are-his-life/" target="_blank">those</a> who saw potential in me that I could not see in myself. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/LA-Talk-Live_John-Espinosa-Nelson_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-6465" alt="LA Talk Live_John Espinosa Nelson_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/LA-Talk-Live_John-Espinosa-Nelson_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="377" height="196" /></a>When I began writing, I set out to be as excruciatingly truthful to the pages of my prison journal — and to those who inspired it — as I could stand. My task was to write a book about prison for people who could never see themselves turning the pages of such a thing. Being in a Book of the Year finalist tells me I’ve exceeded the promise I made to my mentors – from cell #203 those years ago. The end result is something I believe hasn’t yet been brought to market: a coming-of-age story set behind bars that highlights the character of one mentor after another. Mine is the story of people who gave of themselves in order to show me what an idiot I’d been, followed quickly by the contributions I might make. So I set out to deliver the gut-honest account these people all implored me to write (not realizing how varied the resulting contributions <a href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/excuses-dishonesty-tragedy/" target="_blank">might be</a>). <em><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/ForeWord_2013-Book-of-the-Year-Finalist_FOIL_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6480" alt="ForeWord_2013 Book of the Year Finalist_FOIL_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/ForeWord_2013-Book-of-the-Year-Finalist_FOIL_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="290" height="262" /></a>Where Excuses Go to Die</em> doesn’t rely on cell block payback, gang warfare, seething predators, rape, or just about anything the public has been trained to recognize as “prison.” Some of that stuff is there: it’s just not used as a jackhammer to prove to readers that they’re immersed in a prison narrative. If readers find the humor and humanity I experienced during my 4-year sentence, my biggest goal for the book will have been achieved. At that point, discussions of turning offenders around will become less polluted with images of feces-throwing, howling monsters force-fed to the public by television shows like "Lock-up," "On the Inside," "American Jail," and so forth. But if <em>that</em> doesn’t do anything for you, think about this: when a criminal emerges from prison an even worse offender, you, the taxpayer, aren’t getting what you paid for. Yet when milestone-based education is made a principal factor in helping inmates create and maintain a relationship with delayed gratification, the whole game changes. When inmates are shown potential that they’re either unaware of or from which they’ve been led astray — and especially when they’re shown how to <em>apply</em> this potential – better choices get made, recidivism rates lower, and there’s less grist for the mill of blame, buck-passing, and excuses. Oh, and calling around L.A. today asking independently-owned and chain bookstore managers if I could stop by to affix the “official foil stickers" to any copies of my book they have on their shelves is a joy I <em>earned</em>. It tells me I learned to defy my fate, rather than follow it. <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>If I can do it, anyone can.</strong></span></p> <div>.</div> <div></div> 6473 2014-03-20 23:14:21 2014-03-21 06:14:21 2014-03-21 08:14:16 2014-03-21 15:14:16 closed open book-year-finalist-2 publish 0 0 post 0 American Jail American Library Association autobiography Book of the Year education professionals excuses Foreword Reviews Inspirational Lock Up Lotus Weinstock memoir On the Inside prison Where Excuses Go to Die _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw book of the year finalist _yoast_wpseo_title Book of the Year Finalist - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc ForeWord Reviews, a quarterly trade review journal, has chosen Where Excuses Go to Die as a Book of the Year finalist. Let's talk about prison reform. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 86 _wpas_done_all 1 _wp_old_slug book-year-finalist _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:49;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703533701;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7132;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4866;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8961;}}}} 68217 Andrew S Leigh andy@dealingwithtoxicpeople.com 78.145.162.11 2014-03-21 04:28:44 2014-03-21 11:28:44 Congratulations, John. Hope you win it, but like you say your message is already getting out there because of being a finalist. You have a compelling and influential voice. The more people hear it the better. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/excuses/heroin-harm-reduction/ Wed, 26 Mar 2014 05:05:30 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=6491 <h2><span style="color: #000000;">Do heroin harm reduction policies help create excuses for junkies?</span></h2> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Source-Unknown.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6496" alt="Source Unknown" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Source-Unknown.jpg" width="320" height="285" /></a>Kevin Thompson, 43, a participant in two Canadian clinical studies where patients were given doses of pharmaceutical heroin, says he was given three fixes a day at a downtown Vancouver clinic. The injections, <a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/features/2014/3/vancouver-doctorsheadtocourtinafighttoofferprescriptionheroin.html" target="_blank">Thompson told a Vancouver journalist,</a> meant he could live free from worry about how and where to obtain his next dose. “It can be a lot of hassle just to get what you need for the day,” Thompson recalled. As an addict, Thompson says he shoplifted, scrounged for money, and woke up in an anxious state, fearing withdrawal symptoms, for years. The cycle was finally broken when he applied and was approved for two Canadian studies that are part of Vancouver’s longstanding “harm reduction” public policy. The first, the North American Opiate Medication Initiative (<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2587648/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">NAOMI</span></a>), took place from 2005 to 2008. The Study to Assess Longer-term Opioid Medication Effectiveness (<a href="http://www.providencehealthcare.org/salome/" target="_blank">SALOME</a>) was conducted in 2013. Both provided treatment in the form of diacetylmorphine – a.k.a. prescription heroin. <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/WELCOME-TO-HEROIN_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6499" alt="WELCOME TO HEROIN_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/WELCOME-TO-HEROIN_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="358" height="362" /></a>Like others who participated in the studies, Thompson reports that it wasn’t long before he went from being homeless to being employed and having a place to stay. “I’ve gone from using hard-core every day and being homeless to having a roof over my head and working,” he says. “With your heroin habit supported, you can start thinking about bettering your life. It gives you a chance to think and get your head back together.” But the controversial program is not without its detractors. This past October, Canada’s Health Minister, Rona Ambrose, went after one of the larger loopholes in Canadian federal law to try to prevent drugs like heroin, cocaine, and ecstasy from being prescribed at all. The move prompted Providence Healthcare of Canada and five SALOME participants to gear up for battle in British Columbia's Supreme Court: they want Vancouver’s doctors to be able to prescribe drugs like diacetylmorphine whenever it’s deemed medically necessary. The plaintiffs hope to convince the court that ample evidence exists showing prescriptions of this sort (also known as "heroin maintenance") can represent a valid and compassionate form of medical treatment. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Heroin_by-Jim_Himes.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6502" alt="Heroin_by Jim_Himes" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Heroin_by-Jim_Himes.jpg" width="269" height="402" /></a>Vancouver has long been known for not turning its back on its more down-and-out citizens. For years before the first NAOMI trials even started, the city enjoyed a mobile needle distribution system, where clean syringes were provided by those driving vans around the Vancouver area. Making more recent news are the <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/crack-pipe-vending-machines-stir-controversy-canada-article-1.1608483" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">vending machines</span></a> that sell none other than Pyrex™ glass crack pipes. The price for each is a generous 25¢ (Canadian). The idea is to decrease the spread of infection (and ostensibly to make visits by Ontario Mayor Tom Ford more comfortable though bumbled pipe purchases make excellent fodder for American media, which needs <i>something </i>now that it can no longer exploit the search for Malaysian Air Flight 370.) The thinking behind monitored doses and prescription heroin is similarly about harm reduction. Proponents believe that by bringing addicts<i> into</i> the healthcare system, you simultaneously lead them <i>away</i> from the crimes frequently associated with addiction. Here're a few "Principles of Harm Reduction," as proposed by the <a href="http://harmreduction.org/" target="_blank">Harm Reduction Coalition</a>. They: <ul> <li>Accept, for better and or worse, that licit and illicit drug use is part of our world and choose to work to minimize its harmful effects rather than simply ignore or condemn them.</li> <li>Do not attempt to minimize or ignore the real and tragic harm and danger associated with licit and illicit drug use.</li> <li>Affirm drug users themselves as the primary agents of reducing the harms of their drug use, and seek to empower users to share information and support each other in strategies which meet their actual conditions of use.</li> </ul> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Z21.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6503" alt="Harm Reduction Coalition" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Z21.jpg" width="391" height="80" /></a>No, these aren't part of a Ten Commandments for Dope Fiends; they're for Overdose Prevention Healthcare workers facing one person dying of a drug overdose every 19 minutes in America.<a href="https://www.drugfree.org/join-together/prescription-drugs/prescription-drug-abuse-results-in-one-death-every-19-minutes-in-u-s" target="_blank">*</a> Movin' on... <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Heroin-Hates-You_Iggy-Pop.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6505" alt="197Recorded Live in 1979 - Stardust Ballroom Los Angeles" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Heroin-Hates-You_Iggy-Pop.jpg" width="225" height="225" /></a>When the case does go up before the Canadian Supreme Court, the legal future of "evidence-based care" of this nature will have some heavyweights to back it up, such as trial results reported in the <a href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa0810635" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">New England Journal of Medicine</span></a> and legislators in New York State who are primed to expand the accessibility of a heroin overdose prevention drug called naloxone. In other words, despite stated “Prevention” anti-drug policies of Canada and the United States and the fact that American needle exchanges and other treatment programs do without public funds, it would seem that community-based healthcare workers and advocacy groups are actually gaining ground. At the very least, they’re doing the legwork: providing better evidence and making more sense than talking heads within the two governments. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/RYAN-SHULTZ.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6504" alt="RYAN-SHULTZ" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/RYAN-SHULTZ-300x225.jpg" width="270" height="203" /></a>Now I've never used heroin, so maybe I don't have a dog in this fight. On the other hand I do know people struggling with addiction, and of course there’s the fiscal issue of whether or not to spend public funds to study overdose reversal or how to decrease the spread of HIV among IV drug users (to me, it’s a no-brainer that we should). If Kevin Thompson is able to get his heroin by visiting government approved clinics, he no longer needs to lie, cheat, and steal to get drugs. <i>He</i> says he’s able to focus on bettering his life as a result, because the accessibility provides him with more time to think and get his head together. So on the surface, the math seems easy. But isn’t there still the reality of heroin addiction being a part of his daily life? In other words, isn’t Thompson using the compassionate city in which he lives as an excuse to remain a junkie? <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Heroin-by-WRDBNR-.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-6506 alignleft" alt="Heroin by WRDBNR" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Heroin-by-WRDBNR--226x300.jpg" width="203" height="270" /></a>So here’s my question: Just because a program in which someone participates eliminates the need to commit crime to score dope, isn’t someone like Thompson still expecting to get what he wants out of life on his terms? And isn’t there an excuse to <i>get his way</i> in there somewhere? Admittedly, this was a lot of background to get through to merely wind up questioning whether or not there’s an excuse here (there is). But walking through these public-policy gray areas  is necessary to arrive at the one thing that matters most: someone is out there sharing a needle. If it’s possible to nod our heads at the genuine and theoretical benefits of the two Canadian studies, as well as the efforts being made by healthcare workers in New York, certainly it’s possible for us to get out from under the War on Drugs mindset. Not that I see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervised_injection_site" target="_blank">supervised injection sites</a> and heroin prescription stations next door to your local weed shop (the one by the Starbucks) anytime soon, but this dialogue<i> does</i> bring us to what the future will require to reduce crime and overdose statistics, decrease the spread of HIV and other STDs, and help people help themselves in a compassionate progressive manner. We just need to keep our eyes on the excuses in the meantime, 'cause there’s nothing gray about <i>them</i>. &nbsp; &nbsp; <strong>Related:</strong>  <a href="http://working-copy.local/prison-2/why-go-easy-on-junkies/" target="_blank">Why Go Easy on Junkies? Reforming mandatory minimum sentences for low-level drug offenders.</a> <b> </b> &nbsp; 6491 2014-03-25 22:05:30 2014-03-26 05:05:30 2014-03-25 22:30:26 2014-03-26 05:30:26 closed open heroin-harm-reduction publish 0 0 post 0 crack pipe crack pipe vending machine Culture diacetylmorphine Excuses harm reduction heroin naloxone NAOMI needle exchange North American Opiate Medication Initiative Ontario Mayor SALOME Study to Assess Longer-term Opioid Medication Effectiveness Tom Ford Vancouver _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw harm reduction _yoast_wpseo_title Heroin Harm Reduction - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Maybe Heroin Harm Reduction eliminates the need to commit crimes to score, but aren't participants still expecting to get things their way, on their terms? _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 85 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:17;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1701230697;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1180;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7321;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5616;}}}} 68723 B&amp;G fiteon@pacbell.net 99.68.149.77 2014-03-26 20:10:31 2014-03-27 03:10:31 Interesting and provocative. Our question would be: exactly who would be paying for this state sponsored drug use? 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/culture/finding-vivian-maier-2/ Sat, 29 Mar 2014 22:49:03 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=6520 <h3><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Finding Vivian Maier, her story, and her posthumous public profile.</span></strong></h3> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Vivian-Maier_Memorializing-the-images-of-her-subjects.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6537" alt="Vivian Maier_Memorializing the images of her subjects" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Vivian-Maier_Memorializing-the-images-of-her-subjects.jpg" width="207" height="207" /></a>For those familiar with this blog, <a href="http://working-copy.local/uncategorized/in-admiration-of-vivian-maier-1926-2009/" target="_blank">my affection</a> for the late street photographer Vivian Maier <a href="http://working-copy.local/culture/update-the-vivian-maier-phenomenon-continues/" target="_blank">goes deep</a>. She was a woman who had every reason in the world to shout from the rooftops that she'd arrived, but she opted to pursue perfection and technical excellence over fame and fortune. I think one of the reasons her story resonates with people today is that Maier represents a level of dedication and personal character we don't often see in today's run-of-the-mill fame whores. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Classic-Vivian-Maier-Image.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6538" alt="Classic Vivian Maier Image" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Classic-Vivian-Maier-Image.jpg" width="191" height="191" /></a>A Vivian Maier selfie, for example, is an the image I can lose myself in (though I suspect she would have hated the word). Scratch that for just about everyone else on earth. Since I first discovered early stories of Maier in April of 2011, I've watched and commented on the growing awareness of her legend. I've even goofed on the emergence of the <a href="http://working-copy.local/culture/enter-the-vivian-maier-crowd-2/" target="_blank">Vivian Maier “crowd</a>.” (I proudly include myself.) Now, I'm pleased to report that tonight I'll be rubbing elbows with a subset of Maier fans once again, at a screening and filmmaker Q&amp;A of <a href="http://www.findingvivianmaier.com/" target="_blank">Finding Vivian Maier</a>. If anything ridiculous jumps off I'll update this entry, but it's doubtful that'll happen. Documentary types are <em>way</em> more tolerable and less make-believe than dopey gallery crowds anyhow.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Vivian-Maier-Crowd-Shot.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6535" alt="Vivian Maier Crowd Shot" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Vivian-Maier-Crowd-Shot.jpg" width="182" height="182" /></a>The subtitle of my <a href="http://working-copy.local/?s=Vivian+Maier" target="_blank">first</a> Vivian Maier blog entry was, "Humbled by a feminist pot of gold at the end of a corner rainbow." That still describes what the street photographer means to me. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/All-images-©-Vivian_Maier_Maloof_Collection.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6542" alt="1963. Chicago, IL" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/All-images-©-Vivian_Maier_Maloof_Collection.jpg" width="210" height="210" /></a>The late Maier was a loner with a tremendous gift who existed among and celebrated the salt of the earth of her day. She wandered primarily around Chicago and New York, taking pictures of urban nobodies, then promptly hid her undeveloped film. What's revealed in the images themselves, now finally seeing the light of day, is that Maier practically had to climb into people's personal spaces in order to get the shot her keen photographic eye had zeroed in on from 10-20-30-50 feet away. Because practically no one alive today really knew the woman (even those who did, it turns out, didn't), it's been speculated that she was able to get close to curbside strangers because she had an aura of confidence but was entirely herself. In other words, when Maier approached, she did so with the air of a fellow nobody. Until 2009, she was even less than that. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/DRAKE-LOUNGE_Vivian-Maier.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6536" alt="DRAKE LOUNGE_Vivian Maier" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/DRAKE-LOUNGE_Vivian-Maier.jpg" width="186" height="184" /></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/The-Vivian-Maier-Selfie.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6526" alt="The Vivian Maier Selfie" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/The-Vivian-Maier-Selfie.jpg" width="184" height="189" /></a>Her discovered collections of photos are absolutely gripping – a looking glass like no other. This is exquisite, technically proficient photography with compositional and emotional storytelling that will first take you close as you'll ever get to time travel, and second will take your breath away. In the end, you'll get to know Vivian Maier herself, because so much of her can be found in the faces of the people she captured, strangers in whom she evidently put more faith than anyone, because it's these faces she entrusted to speak for her. Maier's belief in both the inherent and unintentional goodness of nobodies is a testament to her character. That's what I choose to see in her pictures, anyway, and it's what's in my heart as I shamelessly romanticize Maier's role and output. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/All-images-©-Vivian-Maier_Maloof-Collection.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6539" alt="All images © Vivian Maier_Maloof Collection" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/All-images-©-Vivian-Maier_Maloof-Collection.jpg" width="201" height="201" /></a>I'd be willing to bet this woman offered maybe six or seven excuses in her entire life. Although it's been revealed that Maier did, at one point in her mind-bendingly disciplined and private existence, write a letter to propose that some of her work be published, details have been held back in anticipation of the documentary's many reveals. Be that as it may, the brief dalliance with exposing her work seems half-hearted compared to the now legendary secrecy that ultimately won out. No other commercial effort was ever pursued by Vivian Maier. <span style="color: #000000;">She stayed out of the result, remaining in the process, her craft, and in the work. </span> And in the four years since a fateful box of photographic negatives became a $400 exploratory purchase for a then twenty-something bargain hunter John Maloof, Maier's story hasn't changed. She took over 100,000 photos and 8mm films and kept 'em from the world. But now her story belongs to everyone. <em> </em> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>UPDATE: Sunday, March 30, 2014</strong></span> Well it turns out the letter Maier wrote wasn't to a publisher at all, and indeed was more of a personal dalliance. But beyond that I cannot go: you'll have to see the documentary for yourself. When you do, though, you'll be treated to a story that will stay with you for a long time. It'll tell you everything you need to know (or more) and delivers on the fuller picture it promises. It will surprise and inspire you too (or you have dead eyes and no soul). It's a little clunky at times, but so what? It's full of life and brimming with a passion for Maier's journey. The post screening Q&amp;A was hosted by comedian <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0307531/" target="_blank">Jeff Garlin</a>, the film's wildly unlikely executive producer. Yet after those credits rolled, his energy was a sucker punch of much needed humor. Not that <em>Finding Vivian Maier</em> is a bummer, per se, but it will make you question how seriously you take the opportunities you've been given in life. It did me, at least, so Garlin's chaperoning and snarky hurrying-along of audience questions was really terrific. And last --I'm sure you'll agree when you see the film-- the world is a better place because of the choices John Maloof made to "get Maier into the history books." She's a noteworthy example of someone who "stayed out of the results" and stayed focused on her work at hand. 6520 2014-03-29 15:49:03 2014-03-29 22:49:03 2014-04-04 17:56:11 2014-04-05 00:56:11 closed open finding-vivian-maier-2 publish 0 0 post 0 Character Chicago Culture documentary fame whores Finding Vivian Maier gallery Inspirational Jeff Garlin John Maloof New York photography selfie street photographer Vivian Maier _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw finding vivian maier _yoast_wpseo_title Finding Vivian Maier - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc "Finding Vivian Maier," a documentary about the late street photographer Vivian Maier, is all about strength of character and personal principles. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 90 _wpas_done_all 1 _wp_old_slug finding-vivian-maier _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:7;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706809140;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1103;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1163;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:474;}}}} 68812 Cecilia margaetnedu@gmail.com 72.21.130.200 2014-03-31 22:00:34 2014-04-01 05:00:34 I want see the film after hearing about it on the radio, but now I MUST see it. Who knows what photos <em>we</em> may be in – in the next 50 years. Thank You for the article and your insights. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/guilty-pleasures/kevin-cook-show-tonight/ Wed, 02 Apr 2014 00:18:57 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=6551 <h2><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/WKTA-1330_Kevin-Cook.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6552" alt="WKTA 1330_Kevin Cook" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/WKTA-1330_Kevin-Cook.jpg" width="204" height="284" /></a>If you can laugh behind bars you can survive just about anything.</span></h2> I'm looking forward to assuming the guest position tonight on WKTA 1330 AM –<em><strong> </strong></em>Chicago's Kevin Cook Show, where topics careen "from politics to the paranormal." You can look for the interview link right here next week, or <a href="http://kevincookshow.com/listen-live/" target="_blank">listen online</a>. The show begins at six pm Pacific – The Kevin Cook Show is piloted by Kevin Cook and Heidi Hollis, and while it's scheduled to go an hour, I'm not sure if they're going to take live callers or just make fun of me. Either way, it sounds fun, and I'm sure we'll get into prison reform, parolee reentry, and maybe even the top 10 self-help books currently being treated for Twinkies on prison yards across America. Many of the other excuses, subjects, and current issues found here on Where Excuses Go to Die are all up for grabs as well. If you listen in and wind up offended, please tell your friends. . 6551 2014-04-01 17:18:57 2014-04-02 00:18:57 2014-04-01 17:23:34 2014-04-02 00:23:34 closed open kevin-cook-show-tonight publish 0 0 post 0 GUILTY PLEASURES The Kevin Cook Show _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw The Kevin Cook Show _yoast_wpseo_metadesc I'm looking forward to assuming the guest position tonight on Chicago's Kevin Cook Show. If you listen in and wind up offended, please tell your friends. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 56 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703560539;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2809;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11905;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:417;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6491;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9233;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3782;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/chris-brown-mens-central-jail/ Fri, 04 Apr 2014 20:14:00 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=6563 <h2><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Mens-Central-Jail_MILLION-DOLLAR-ROW.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6581" alt="Men's Central Jail_MILLION DOLLAR ROW" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Mens-Central-Jail_MILLION-DOLLAR-ROW.jpg" width="392" height="291" /></a>It's hard not to mock Chris Brown's stay at LA's Men's Central Jail</span></h2> It's also really hard not to mock Chris Brown. To paraphrase a web commentator: No one suffers like Chris Brown, <em>just ask Chris Brown</em>. But Chris Brown at the Men's Central Jail reminds me of election campaign rallies where attendees are pre-screened for cross-eyed party loyalty regardless of candidate, and at the same time showcased to media as "a diverse array of everyday voters." Or of how Dick Cheney used to make those surprise visits to Iraq: no way in hell was that man gonna subject himself to real Iraqis or suffering, but gosh those visits were all hearts and minds nonetheless, weren't they? The parallel in Brown's case is that the court never intended for him to see the<em> </em>particular Men's Central Jail he'll no doubt brag of surviving. I'll get there. First, since the LA-leg of the girl-punching celebrity inmate's <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/chris-brown-area-jail-await-assault-trial-article-1.1745361" target="_blank">tour </a>of custody is over, let's consider a few of the realities he's facing that he's probably been able to sidestep so far. Number one having been diagnosed with PTSD and bipolar disorder, as apparently Brown has. It's no excuse for beating the crap out of a 90-pound woman – period.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Did-Chris-Brown-get-RAT-status_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6589" alt="Did Chris Brown get RAT status?_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Did-Chris-Brown-get-RAT-status_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="283" height="268" /></a>Number two, though, is that the L.A. Men's Central Jail unit where Brown briefly resided is called "Million Dollar Row" for a reason. It's where O.J. Simpson stayed during his trial, and it's where everyone else with a million dollar bail or higher  –anyone whose notoriety is equal a target on their back–  is detained. So yes, it's dreaded administrative segregation ("protective custody"), considered worse than leprosy to the general population. Child molesters, rapists, wife-beaters, suicide prospects, and girlfriend-punchers are the primary recipients of PC status, but they're not the biggest reason it exists. No, no: Administrative segregation's <em>most</em> important function is to house snitches. It's where rats soften up their mattresses with their little claws before sleeping. See what I did there? When you <em>become</em> a character, rather than <em>earning</em> character, you surrender to the world your right to control your own narrative. In effect, Chris Brown just gave me and everyone else permission to imply that he's no better than a pointy-clawed snitch. It's why he can't be near other inmates, and is something he can expect from the public. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/The_Power_and_Control_Wheel.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6584" alt="The_Power_and_Control_Wheel" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/The_Power_and_Control_Wheel.jpg" width="315" height="311" /></a>And I'm gonna say it again, being diagnosed with post-traumatic stress or bipolar doesn't mitigate beating a woman's face with your fists. Chris Brown deserves to be separated from his fellows, both while in custody and until so determined by the appropriate court – from society. He also deserves the future awkward moments he'll face when his entitled ego compels him to deny he was kept away from regular inmates, not because he's a celebrity, but because he'd be killed as batterer. <span style="color: #000000;">With the tapestry of incarceration stitched together by the steel cable of domestic violence,  believe me, I couldn't hope to fully translate the hostility imprisoned men and women have for guys who like to slap girls around.</span> Kicked out of a Malibu rehab resort for reportedly behaving "inappropriately" with a female staffer and boasting of his prowess with knives and guns in a group therapy session, Brown most recently refused to submit to drug testing, frankly earning himself the flat metal shelf on which he slept at MCJ, affectionately called a "cookie sheet." <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/All-alone-with-yourself_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-6587" alt="All alone with yourself_Where Excuses Go to Die" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/All-alone-with-yourself_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-300x184.jpg" width="300" height="184" /></a>As relayed to supporters and social media sites, Brown's thoughts on all of this range from his losing all hope, to custody being the worst experience of his life. It may be his only saving grace, should he experience an epiphany of some sort while in custody, but I wouldn't bet on it. I submit that it's not his MCJ custody, the isolation, or the cement box Brown is living in that's the worst thing he's ever experienced. I think it's probably facing the noise in his own head that takes that cake. Coming to terms with having no one to blame but yourself is <em>far</em> worse than handcuffs and crappy food. Yet declaring he feels like a "caged animal," as Brown has said via his defense attorney, is about what I'd expect (personally, I felt like a caged dumb-ass). Bragging about how much tougher prison made him? That'll leave only laughter for the hollow tiger he creates out of his time "inside." Am I biased? Maybe. Men's Central Jail is where I discovered I was actually the most powerful I'd ever been. Down at the bottom, you see, insight is in greater abundance than hindsight. &nbsp; <h3><a href="http://www.lfcc.on.ca/HCT_SWASM_4.html" target="_blank">Characteristics of Abusive Men</a></h3> <p style="text-align: right;">.</p> <p style="text-align: right;"></p> 6563 2014-04-04 13:14:00 2014-04-04 20:14:00 2014-04-04 18:06:33 2014-04-05 01:06:33 closed open chris-brown-mens-central-jail publish 0 0 post 0 administrative segregation bipolar disorder Chris Brown Dick Cheney Excuses Iraq MCJ Men's Central Jail Men's Central Jail Million Dollar Row O.J. Simpson protective custody _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw chris brown _yoast_wpseo_title Chris Brown at the Men’s Central Jail - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc With the tapestry of prison sewn together with the steel cable of domestic violence, the hostility held for guys who like to slap girls around is volcanic. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 87 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:10;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704608025;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6842;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11224;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8731;}}}} http://working-copy.local/character-2/chuck-stone/ Thu, 10 Apr 2014 22:43:31 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=6599 <h2><span style="color: #000000;">You're told someone upset is waiting to speak with you on line two.</span></h2> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Former-Daily-News-columnist-Chuck-Stone_Daily-News-photo-by-G.W.-Miller.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6641" alt="Former Daily News columnist Chuck Stone_Daily News photo by G.W. Miller" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Former-Daily-News-columnist-Chuck-Stone_Daily-News-photo-by-G.W.-Miller.jpg" width="324" height="321" /></a>He's alternately weeping and cursing. He'd just informed whoever answered that your office's most experienced people don't count for shit: it's you or nobody. He's on the run, apparently, and deathly afraid of the cops learning his location. He's a suspected murderer they've been after for months. He's tired. He can't run anymore. It was self-defense, he insists, but in police custody he knows he's in for beatings and probably death. <em>Terrific.</em> You've got it bad enough as it is; you don't need more hassles. As the only black man with a desk in this white staff room, you already stick out like a sore thumb. Hell, just out in the hallway, above the restrooms, the words "COLORED" and "WHITE" are under scant few of coats of paint –and you remember when the first was applied. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/THE-NEWSROOM.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6642" alt="THE NEWSROOM" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/THE-NEWSROOM.jpg" width="189" height="161" /></a>Explicit racial segregation may have been recently outlawed, but the leftovers of <em>implicit</em> segregation are everywhere. You know some of your colleagues are lurking, questioning why you'd even been given this job. You're one of maybe three black journalists in America working for a major metropolitan newspaper (white owned, of course). Not only are you lucky you're not pushing a broom, here's your next story being handed to you personally. No hunting down witnesses for lengthy interviews, no knocking on doors or being told to get lost. All so you can stand in the way of 20 seething badges, each of whom is banging at the starting gate for a run at your new friend. There are few things cops hate more than not controlling the narrative of an apprehension, and this won't easily be forgotten. But that's okay: you've got this. <em>You</em> are Chuck Stone.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/AP-PHOTO_Chuck-Stone-poses-in-the-newsroom-of-the-Philadelphia-Daily-News_1984..jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6625" alt="AP PHOTO_Chuck Stone poses in the newsroom of the Philadelphia Daily News_1984." src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/AP-PHOTO_Chuck-Stone-poses-in-the-newsroom-of-the-Philadelphia-Daily-News_1984..jpg" width="259" height="194" /></a>Your place in journalism and in the media has been controversial long before now. And for whatever it's worth, as the former editor of the black-owned weekly, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Age" target="_blank"><em>New York Age</em></a>, you once put a white dude on staff, gave him a page-one column, and let him fend for himself in <span style="color: #000000;"><strong><em>your</em></strong></span> newsroom. So sitting behind this desk, about to take the fugitive's call...at least you've lived the principle of not asking someone to do something you wouldn't do yourself, even if fate did reverse that order. The places you've been and the powerful agendas you've battled required such lessons to be learned. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Richard-J.-Daley_Boss-of-Chicago.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6626" alt="Richard J. Daley_Boss of Chicago" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Richard-J.-Daley_Boss-of-Chicago.jpg" width="115" height="177" /></a>Remember how you were fired as editor-in-chief of the <a href="http://chicagodefender.com/" target="_blank"><i>Chicago Daily Defender</i></a> for refusing to back off of Chicago's infamous "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Boss-Richard-J-Daley-Chicago/dp/0452261678" target="_blank">Boss</a>," Mayor Richard J. Daley? Until then you unflinchingly covered the administration of a guy who'd say to a sitting US Senator without blinking an eye, "Fuck you, you Jew son-of-a-bitch, you lousy motherfucker, go home."<span style="color: #000000;">*</span> Before that, even, Daley had sliced his neck with an index finger in a signal to the <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1968-democratic-convention-931079/?no-ist" target="_blank">'68 DNC</a> podium to cut the the man's microphone, as the Senator was speaking of things the Boss didn't want heard. It was a hell of a time in America then, eh? But rather than simply attack Daley's leg-breaker public persona, you stayed focused on what he did while no one was looking, like divert millions in city funds to a firm that employed his son. (Daley's retort was, "If a man can't put his arms around his sons and help them, then what's the world coming to?") <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_1st-Edition-Copy-of-Black-Political-Power-in-America-by-Chuck-Stone.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6627" alt="Where Excuses Go to Die_1st Edition Copy of Black Political Power in America by Chuck Stone" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_1st-Edition-Copy-of-Black-Political-Power-in-America-by-Chuck-Stone.jpg" width="148" height="221" /></a>For pushing for change; for what you chose to write about; for standing up to men like Daley; and for your <a href="http://articles.philly.com/2014-04-08/news/48943371_1_man-chuck-stone-vision" target="_blank">friendship</a> with Malcolm X you were labeled "the angry man of the Negro press." It was a nickname you brushed aside with a smile before entering politics yourself. And when the House Select Committee wound up investigating the candidate whose staff you'd joined, you lost your job then, too, for hitching your wagon to someone the Southern politicians and their money men likely considered <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Clayton_Powell,_Jr." target="_blank">another "uppity" black man</a>. These events notwithstanding, you, Chuck Stone, were just getting started. Many of your printed articles soon were published under the title, <i>Tell It Like It Is</i>. Following that, you wrote and published <i>Black Political Power in America, </i>a spotlight on black exclusion from government jobs, policy-making, and essentially any position from which jobs could be created or dispensed. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/TESTING-MAFIA_Chuck-Stone.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6629" alt="TESTING MAFIA_Chuck Stone" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/TESTING-MAFIA_Chuck-Stone.jpg" width="270" height="157" /></a>You then took on <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1891&amp;dat=19860313&amp;id=O7QfAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=R9cEAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=4364,2302930" target="_blank">what you called</a> "the testing mafia," claiming that SATs and ACTs are virtually pointless since, "in an unequal society, standardized test scores only reflect inequality." If that wasn't enough (and because you are Chuck Stone), you founded the Cambridge-based National Center for Fair and Open Testing or "<a href="http://www.fairtest.org/" target="_blank">FairTest</a>." Finally, you became the <em>Philadelphia Daily News's</em> first black columnist, which is the desk your fugitive has just asked for. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Chuck-Stone_The-Surrender-Middleman.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6631" alt="Chuck Stone_The Surrender Middleman" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Chuck-Stone_The-Surrender-Middleman.jpg" width="167" height="126" /></a>You <em>will</em> referee this narrative, so those 20 plus street cops waiting to pounce can just sit tight until you're ready for them. You will first meet secretly with the murder suspect. You will calm him down and prepare him. You will take pictures of his face from multiple angles, just in case the police decide to go to town on it. And you'll look into his story. It ain't your first time at this rodeo, no sir: this is maybe the <a href="http://www.thefreelibrary.com/NABJ+reflects+problems+of+today's+journalism.-a091475330" target="_blank">75th</a> African-American fugitive suspect to call you, "the surrender middleman." <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/RIZZO-MEANS-BUSINESS-YOU-SONS-A-BITCHES.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6632" alt="RIZZO MEANS BUSINESS YOU SONS-A-BITCHES" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/RIZZO-MEANS-BUSINESS-YOU-SONS-A-BITCHES.jpg" width="112" height="120" /></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Let-the-Fire-Burn.png"><img class="alignright wp-image-6633" alt="Let the Fire Burn" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Let-the-Fire-Burn.png" width="227" height="128" /></a>And why? Because you can handle walking into dark rooms with fearful, desperate men   –murderers in most instances–   while still maintaining professional equilibrium and taking your pre-surrender mug shots, collecting details the cops have to wait for. What's on your mind when you do this? The word count on a Philadelphia graft and corruption piece you're simultaneously writing? Are you mentally back at your desk, drafting invective for thuggish and fatally bumbling Philly mayors <a href="http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/off-mic/56302-frank-rizzo-battles-recalled-in-new-documentary" target="_blank">Frank Rizzo</a> and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/14/us/police-drop-bomb-on-radicals-home-in-philadelphia.html" target="_blank">Wilson Goode</a>? They were desperate men too – desperate to get away from <em>you!</em> Your writing style is informative, scathing, and funny. The doubters in the newsroom may think you're there for show, a militant nationalist ready to take on Whitey at the drop of a hat. But they <em>wish</em> they could come up with zingers like yours. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/YOU-ARE-CHUCK-STONE.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6637" alt="YOU ARE CHUCK STONE" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/YOU-ARE-CHUCK-STONE.jpg" width="134" height="174" /></a>And you, Chuck Stone, are not one of those people to climb a ladder only to pull it up behind him. You taught students to <em>do</em> what you do, though perhaps less controversially. You became an English professor at the University of Delaware. And leave it to you to win the city's Excellence in Teaching award, then go and earn another just like it from North Carolina's School of Journalism. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Chuck-Stone_Tuskegee-Red-Tail-Navigator.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6638" alt="Chuck Stone_Tuskegee Red Tail Navigator" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Chuck-Stone_Tuskegee-Red-Tail-Navigator.jpg" width="106" height="215" /></a>Did I mention your days in Tuskegee, Alabama during World War II? You were a Tuskegee <a href="http://www.tuskegeeairmennationalmuseum.org/" target="_blank">Red Tail</a> navigator. You also were a father of three and a husband to boot. You were a White House correspondent and editor of the <i>Washington Afro-American. </i>You were an NBC-TV news commentator for the <i>Today</i> show, a Black Power advocate, and before that a distributor of food and farm equipment to forgotten farmers in Egypt and India. You invented "Stone's Index of Proportional Equality," a tool used to <a href="http://lists.topica.com/lists/TheBlackList/read/message.html?sort=t&amp;mid=1300739780" target="_blank">measure</a> an ethnic group's percentage in the population against its percentage of elected officials. And all the while, you've been exposing police brutality, corrupt college placement testing, political strong-armers and their henchmen...And you <em>still</em> aren't satisfied. You're Chuck Stone, and you don't let your bow tie or flat-top fool anyone. Not even the inmates at Pennsylvania's Graterford Prison, who've just taken 39 hostages under the leadership of <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&amp;dat=19811028&amp;id=0xwxAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=UeQFAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=2643,5390170" target="_blank">Joe-Joe Bowen</a>, a fearsome Black Liberation Army soldier. <div><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/1981-Graterford-Prison-Riot_Philadelphia-Daily-News.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6639" alt="1981 Graterford Prison Riot_Philadelphia Daily News" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/1981-Graterford-Prison-Riot_Philadelphia-Daily-News.jpg" width="211" height="252" /></a>You think little of walking into a "riot-torn hellhole" to square off with the one waving the shotgun. When they told you Bowen had already shot an elderly couple, killed a cop, a warden, and then the warden's deputy – what were you doing, grading student papers?</div> Whatever it was, you helped negotiate to free the Graterford hostages and then worked a deal for Bowen's gang's surrender. Pennsylvania's governor himself had asked you to give it a shot, probably because he knew that anyone going in there couldn't be some corrections administrator; it would have to be the real deal. It would have to be Chuck Stone. Negotiations ended with Bowen telling you, "Everything here is cool," and the man has been in solitary ever since. But you probably thought Joe-Joe was a cupcake compared to Bossman Daley, eh? <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/04/07/300277869/chuck-stone-pioneering-black-journalist-and-professor-dies-at-89" target="_blank">You died this week</a>, but you took pictures of this place (from multiple angles) before you passed. You left impressive images of Chuck Stone with everyone you encountered. You lived an incredible life, always finding opportunities and outliving the lurkers, freely challenging, insulting, and speaking truth to men of power with every step of your career. Today, your legacy rests at the <a href="http://www.nabj.org/" target="_blank">National Association of Black Journalists</a>, the institution you co-founded. <p style="text-align: left;">Whoever's up next to speak to the fugitive on line two, we can only hope he'll live up to your standards. (Literally, the ones you called "FEAT" for <a href="http://www.spj.org/news.asp?ref=698" target="_blank">Fairness, Even-handedness, Accuracy and Thoroughness</a>.)</p> <p style="text-align: left;">Charles Sumner "Chuck" Stone, Jr., you can rest now.</p> &nbsp; &nbsp; <h5><em>* Allegedly said to Senator Abe Ribicoff of Connecticut, when the Senator challenged Daley's use of force during the '68 DNC  (Source: Wikiquote)</em></h5> <div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 16px; white-space: nowrap; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></div> 6599 2014-04-10 15:43:31 2014-04-10 22:43:31 2014-04-10 22:17:02 2014-04-11 05:17:02 closed open chuck-stone publish 0 0 post 0 Black Political Power in America Character Chicago Chuck Stone Frank Rizzo Graterford Prison hostage Index of Proportional Equality Joe-Joe Bowen Joseph Bowen Malcolm X Mayor Richard Daley National Center for Fair and Open Testing Philadelphia Red Tail segregation Tuskegee Wilson Goode World War II _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw chuck stone _yoast_wpseo_title You Are Chuck Stone - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc You enter a prison under siege and square off with the #1 hostage taker: the one who murdered a cop, a warden, and the warden's deputy. You are Chuck Stone. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 80 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:4;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704669772;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11310;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:351;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2061;}}}} 69001 María Isabel margaetnedu@gmail.com 72.21.130.200 2014-04-11 06:40:20 2014-04-11 13:40:20 Powerful and heartfelt obit. So how about that veiled racism? Still with us. Prompted I believe, by fear and mistrust. 1 comment 0 0 69061 Helen Hcs@helenstringer.com 108.91.173.1 2014-04-12 00:09:49 2014-04-12 07:09:49 Wonderful. One of the best written, most moving pieces I've read in a long time. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/guilty-pleasures/court-referred-community-service-diary-4-2/ Wed, 16 Apr 2014 21:19:02 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=6677 <h2><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Poop.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-6685" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Poop.jpg" alt="Where Excuses Go to Poop" width="350" height="262" /></a><span style="color: #000000;">"My brain processed disgust and fault, but fairness also factored"</span></h2> <h5><strong><span style="color: #808080;">I meant to pay the ticket on time, but when both extensions I’d requested were granted, so much time had passed I marginalized its importance. When I finally faced the music, the Traffic Commissioner was happy to suspend my hefty fine in exchange for 50 hours of community service at a local Goodwill Donation Center. Welcome to <span style="color: #000000;">#4</span> in a series...(Here's parts <a href="http://working-copy.local/guilty-pleasures/court-referred-community-service-diary-1/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #808080;">1</span></a>, <a href="http://working-copy.local/guilty-pleasures/court-referred-community-service-diary-2/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #808080;">2</span></a>, and <a href="http://working-copy.local/idiots/court-referred-community-service-diary-3-2/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #808080;">3</span></a>)</span></strong></h5> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>March/April 2014 – Goodwill Donation Center, Friday.</strong></span> It’s one thing to work alongside Goodwill’s physically challenged employees and see the nonprofit’s bighearted claims of helping the disabled play out before you. It’s quite another thing to use a toilet after them. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/HAIL-SATAN_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6700" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/HAIL-SATAN_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="HAIL SATAN_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="248" height="244" /></a>But first, a little scene setting... Disabled persons selected to work at this particular Goodwill are essentially removed from the non-disabled. To use the employee break room, for example, they have to pass through the "regular" employees’ work areas, but not the other way around –because they’re stuck in a corner. They're not banished in any way, but they do work in a rather lonesome neighborhood of the building. I’d rather not exaggerate things by adding that their primary function –sorting donated clothes– is the most repellent of Goodwill tasks, but it’s true. It doesn't help that the neighborhood in question is surrounded by a wall of six-foot roller-bins, clothing racks, and giant piles of donated garments. Benjamin Netanyahu would be <a href="http://www.albawaba.com/news/jordan-israel-syria-netanyahu-wall-security-palestine-530951" target="_blank">jealous</a>. <strong>Donated Clothing Fun Fact:</strong> <em>even by the time garments reach the floor, soiled handkerchiefs and, er, </em>other<em> items, can often be found in pockets. It's dicey, sure, but my guess is everyone goes through a checking-pockets phase regardless. You can't watch how nonchalantly bags of expensive clothing are thrown from luxury cars by people who decline receipts without letting your curiosity get the best of you.<!--more--></em> Moving on. The bank of employee lockers isn't in the disabled neighborhood; the time clock's on "our side" too. BTW, the terms "they," “neighborhood” and “our side” are not reflective of a personal position, nor should they imply any official boundary: just what is depressingly conveyed. But hey, this is work. It’s a bore. Nobody’s standing over anyone with a megaphone and a whip, right? <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/CONFESSIONS-OF-A-TASKMASTER.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-6692" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/CONFESSIONS-OF-A-TASKMASTER.jpg" alt="CONFESSIONS OF A TASKMASTER" width="226" height="179" /></a>“Wrangler,” however, <em>does</em> rather accurately describe the disabled employees' supervisor. She keeps them contained. No one's mistreated, mind you, just kept on task. Sometimes our staffers can get chatty, and a couple of 'em mutter to –and then answer– themselves. One of my fellow court-referred community service workers said he didn’t like one of his disabled colleagues because of that, so no doubt the Wrangler is there to protect them from assholes, too. If someone takes too long or too wide a stroll, she goes and gets him or her. Usually they don’t go further than down the ramp, through the double doors, and into the store itself, but the Wrangler's presence is crucial because the parking lot is psychotic. Many of my co-workers would stand little chance against this area's entitled, medicated divorcees. But you're probably wondering when I'll get to the part about the toilet, right? <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/EXPERT-MODE.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6694" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/EXPERT-MODE.jpg" alt="EXPERT MODE" width="210" height="198" /></a>Okay. Despite these precautions, tedious chores, and a barrier or two, the disabled workers I've seen seem happy with their treatment here. And I’m happy to see that Goodwill doesn’t have ‘em making waterboarding hoses for the CIA. So it was with a genuine but obliging smile that I held the solo restroom door open for a disabled co-worker at the beginning of my shift. On his way out and my way in, we excused ourselves with an awkward laugh. Some of the disabled workers at this location are less “abled” than others, and when two very different levels of physical acuity collide it can be humbling. But there’s understanding and humor too, and this particular person enjoys raising a hand for a high-five, so high-five we did. Smile still on my face, in I walked. I locked the door, turned around, and whispered “Fuck.” <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Goodwill-Affronting.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6696" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Goodwill-Affronting.jpg" alt="Goodwill Affronting" width="157" height="166" /></a>It looked like some hammered Coachella wreckage had tried to write his name. Toilet paper that appeared as though it was spun off the roll for amusement littered the area where one’s feet would be placed if sitting. It both surrounded and filled the toilet bowl. The seat itself –one hinge broken– created an off-kilter picture frame for the whole drippy mess. The store’s entrance had only been unlocked five minutes prior. We’d been the restroom’s first occupants, I was sure, but in the millisecond that my brain processed disgust and fault, fairness also factored in. This particular restroom is for men and women, and it’s open to all customers. We all know about the busted seat-hinge. Maybe High-Five had only gone in to check in the mirror - ? <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/©_JohnNelson_whereexcusesgotodie.com_.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6707" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/©_JohnNelson_whereexcusesgotodie.com_.jpg" alt="©_JohnNelson_whereexcusesgotodie.com" width="378" height="242" /></a>True, the sink and floor at the faucet were still dry and showing evidence of the nighttime janitorial team’s work, but I have to look at this from all angles. It’s not right to simply jump up and blame the one person most likely to say, “What earthquake?” once the shaking stops. But goddamn! Maybe it was Blindfold Day at the Goodwill and no one told me. Oh sure, I'm presumably an experienced former felon, so I realize I shouldn’t be fussy. In truth, though, these days I’m about as hard as a day-old banana. A crapper resembling a really sad Pixar character is as close as I get to prison flashbacks. But I’ve seen prison assault victims treated with more respect than that toilet. As a general rule, I try not to walk out my front door without sitting on my own personal throne. When necessary, though, I’m not above squaring off with a unfamiliar butt hairs. So I looked up at the ceiling, sighed, and got busy cleaning. (What, you think holding your breath and squatting is enough?) When I run into High-Five again, I’ll be even less likely to do what the disabled hate most: put their physical limitations before their identity. I will, however, regard that kind smile with a little suspicion for what I’d like to believe was a good laugh at my expense. . 6677 2014-04-16 14:19:02 2014-04-16 21:19:02 2014-04-16 18:35:37 2014-04-17 01:35:37 closed open court-referred-community-service-diary-4-2 publish 0 0 post 0 CIA community service Court Referred Community Service earthquake Goodwill GUILTY PLEASURES Netanyahu Pixar prison the disabled waterboarding _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw community service diary _yoast_wpseo_metadesc I’ve seen jail sexual assault victims treated with more respect than that toilet. Maybe it was Blindfold Day at the Goodwill store and no one told me. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 78 _wpas_done_all 1 _wp_old_slug court-referred-community-service-diary-4 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706891944;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6309;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6430;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6311;}}}} http://working-copy.local/prison-2/sentencing-reform-nutshell/ Wed, 23 Apr 2014 18:54:09 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=6759 <h2><span style="color: #000000;">Since 1980, California has built one college campus and 21 prisons.</span></h2> That's a heckuva statement isn't it? Twenty-one prisons versus one college campus. It gives us a little insight into why sentencing and prison reform is becoming an ever more crucial national dialogue. And California is hardly the only state dealing with the consequences of America's push to incarcerate its way out of crime. Sentencing Reform in a Nutshell – When someone commits a crime and goes to prison only to emerge a worse criminal, taxpayers <a href="http://working-copy.local/prison-2/why-go-easy-on-junkies/" target="_blank">are not getting what they paid for</a>. The proverbial nutshell rarely gets <a href="http://working-copy.local/prison-2/avoiding-shortsightedness-in-prison-reform/" target="_blank">easier</a> to understand. <iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/C8NJ0qEFvpk" width="610" height="343" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> . &nbsp; 6759 2014-04-23 11:54:09 2014-04-23 18:54:09 2014-04-23 12:16:40 2014-04-23 19:16:40 closed open sentencing-reform-nutshell publish 0 0 post 0 Incarceration Nation Martin Sheen President Bartlet Prison Private Prisons Sentencing Reform West Wing _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw sentencing reform _yoast_wpseo_title Sentencing Reform in a Nutshell - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Sentencing Reform in a Nutshell: A college student costs $8,667 per year; a prisoner costs it $45,006 a year or more. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 61 _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1700584240;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4697;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4755;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7740;}}}} http://working-copy.local/murder/billboard-brainlessness/ Thu, 24 Apr 2014 21:03:22 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=6772 <h2><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;">No, he won't have to answer questions like "Whad they get you for?"</span></h2> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/MUG_SHOT_MURDER_Jeffrey-Wade-Chapman.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6774" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/MUG_SHOT_MURDER_Jeffrey-Wade-Chapman.jpg" alt="MUG_SHOT_MURDER_Jeffrey Wade Chapman" width="252" height="318" /></a>Jeffrey Wade Chapman is about to stand trial for First Degree Murder  –but ooh–  doesn't want to appear before a jury with "MURDER" tattooed like a billboard for brainlessness across his throat. So the pride of Great Bend, Kansas is appealing to the <a href="http://www.gbtribune.com/section/1/article/70674/" target="_blank">Barton County District Court</a> for help.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;">Through his attorney, Defendant Chapman has asked that what has essentially become an albatross around his neck be either removed or obscured. Never mind that he lacked the foresight to have thought twice about getting the tattoo. And forget that he’s made himself a walking, talking jury instruction. (Guilty!) Chapman is as desperate as a house cat above a tub full of water. And he should be.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;">Maybe someday he’ll be able to figure out what the hell he was thinking when he mistakenly chose “MURDER” over “MONSTER COCK.”</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;">He reminds me of a guy I met at Folsom Prison's Level-4 "Old Yard,”  a guy who’d similarly chosen to market what he brought to the table.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;">They called this guy "Fresno”…because he had "FRESNO" tattooed across his forehead in big, old English lettering. Having eaten a few meals together, I eventually got up the courage to ask him why. Fresno just shrugged and kept eating. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;">So I have a sneaking suspicion Chapman's answer won’t be much different. (By the way, were I to go by Fresno’s and Chapman's logic, my own face would read, "FARTER,” but that’s another post entirely.)</span> <!--more--> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Giant-murder-tattoo-successfully-covered-on-cute-dog.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6779" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Giant-murder-tattoo-successfully-covered-on-cute-dog.jpg" alt="Giant murder tattoo successfully covered on cute dog" width="236" height="245" /></a>Since the tattoo can’t be easily concealed with clothing (and a giant bandage may not be an improvement), Chapman hopes for either a field trip to a local tattoo parlor or a jail visit from a professional. So far, he's gotten only resistance from the county <a href="http://www.bartoncounty.org/vnews/display.v/SEC/Sheriff%7CAdministration" target="_blank">Sheriff</a> responsible for his pre-trial detention.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;">The prosecutors, mind you, are okay with Chapman obscuring his tattoo with clothing or phony bandages. But if you ask me, the Barton County D.A. is guilty of a little prosecutorial joke here. Juries aren't stupid. Everyone knows turtlenecks don’t work without a zodiac-themed medallion on a long chain. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;">The fake bandage, though, is another story. With the right gauze wrap, surgical tubing and a simulated puss drainage device, a sympathy-grabbing medical necessity of the highest order can be achieved. Ultimately I can't imagine who Chapman &amp; Co. would actually fool, but the fact is, any jury left staring at “MURDER” is going to put him away.  </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;">Furthermore, unless the tattoo has been declared inadmissible, why wouldn’t a conviction-hungry district attorney just show the jury a picture? No matter, if the tattoo doesn’t scream “Convict me!” – Chapman’s bleak prison eyes sure do.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> But speaking of prison, here're a few certainties for ol’ Jeffrey: </span> <h5 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span">• His Yard nickname will be a done deal.  </span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span">• During in-processing, he won't have to answer silly questions like "Whad’ they get you for?"</span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span">• Cellblock tattoo artists will snitch on each other for the opportunity to cover the rest of his body with “HITLER-SATAN-PUPPY DESTROYER-?????????? ????”</span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span">• Chapman’s Prison Unapproachability Index will make earning a tough guy rep a homicider’s cakewalk</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span></h5> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Bigfoot–Impartial-Juror_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6781" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Bigfoot–Impartial-Juror_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Bigfoot–Impartial Juror_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="225" height="196" /></a>In fact, that rep will roll out before him like a red carpet, which brings me to my real point: "Get character or become one." Chapman’s tattoo may be the least subtle example of this yet. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;">How so? Understandably, the defense is worried about pretrial publicity, claiming the tattoo will make finding an impartial jury impossible. The whole point of “getting” character on your own is so that you can proactively avoid concerning yourself with, "What's the jury gonna think?"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;">Now for those of you just tuning in, "Get character or become one" is a motto – <em>my motto</em>. It's an epigraph to coming back from willful neglect, and it goes something like this: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;">We're all on this long, forced march to death, right?  The horizon is wide and the sun is high. Well along way, we come across tools just laying there all stupid on the ground: pliers, hammers, a piece of rope, maybe a wrench.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Vintage-Tools_®All-Rights-Reserved-by-Nonk.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6783" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Vintage-Tools_®All-Rights-Reserved-by-Nonk.jpg" alt="Vintage Tools_®All Rights Reserved by Nonk" width="125" height="83" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;">As we march, our pockets fill with these jangly, heavy things, and it's a pain to stop and pick ‘em up. And then what happens? We find one whose purpose we can't even imagine; its weird shape doesn’t offer a clue. And though we don’t even have the right pocket for the thing, we grab it and go. Whatever. Everything’s already hard, so what do we care?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/©Goldenberg-Nonk.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6784" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/©Goldenberg-Nonk.jpg" alt="©Goldenberg Nonk" width="49" height="59" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;">Except one day, we reach a door, and a note on it says there’s no way around or over – only through. So the hammer, the pliers, the screwdriver – all come into play, and none of ‘em do the trick. But that weird thing we picked up? Bingo.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/THE-KANSAS-JURY-AND-YOU_-A-Guidebook-for-Defendants.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6786" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/THE-KANSAS-JURY-AND-YOU_-A-Guidebook-for-Defendants.jpg" alt="THE KANSAS JURY AND YOU_ A Guidebook for Defendants" width="238" height="241" /></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;">Which means, of course, that those who chose not to take that one odd-shaped tool are screwed. And you never can tell which tools to do the trick.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;">I never said there was a surprise ending, but there is a moral to this, and here it is: Be careful about the tools you reject: you don’t want to be left on the wrong side of the door allowing those who made it through speculate whatever they want about you. Jeffrey Wade Chapman has waived jurisdiction over how people see him – or who he is as a person.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;">His lack of character tools leaves others to call him like they see him: the dumbass with “MURDER” tattooed across his neck.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;">And poof!  Jury trial or not, as far as most are concerned that’s the end of his story.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000000;"> </span> . For another courtroom example based on my <em>own </em>poor choices, check out a previous entry entitled  –wait for it–  “<a href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/get-character-or-become-one/" target="_blank">Get Character or Become One</a>." . &nbsp; 6772 2014-04-24 14:03:22 2014-04-24 21:03:22 2014-04-24 14:13:44 2014-04-24 21:13:44 closed open billboard-brainlessness publish 0 0 post 0 Barton County District Court Character get character or become one Great Bend Kansas Jeffrey Wade Chapman Murder MURDER Murderer tattoo _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw jeffrey wade chapman _yoast_wpseo_title A Billboard for Brainlessness - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc A Billboard for Brainlessness is a giant "MURDER" tattoo across your neck during your murder trial. It might as well be a jury instruction. (Guilty!) _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 69 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:11;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1700414509;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7448;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3615;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9141;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/im-racist/ Wed, 30 Apr 2014 02:21:20 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=6798 <h2><span style="color: #000000;">Don't have the nerve to be openly racist? Don't say or perpetuate racist things.</span></h2> There’s nothing surprising about life circling back on karma leper Donald Sterling. And this week, L.A. feels like when they hauled the Space Shuttle Endeavor through the city: scores of Angelenos on the same <a href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/making-room-for-goosebumps/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proud page</a>, even if only briefly. Thank you Donald Sterling, shoo-in for the 2014 Utter Lack of Character Award. As a former recipient myself, I fully admit to being ethically spoiled (privileged) in my early 20s – so much so that it took being dropped into an environment where everything I <em>didn't</em> want to be crept its way toward me every day. Frankly, "<em>Scared Straight</em>!" was the only way for me to learn. The sole advantage I had was a dark sense of humor, which meant that one or two my wake-up calls were sort of met halfway. There are, though, three things I understood right off: <ol> <li> <h4><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Don't hang around with people who like to punch others ‘cause they have to practice on someone (it’ll eventually be you)</strong></span></h4> </li> <li> <h4><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>No matter what it is, say to their face. Own it. Force the other guy to do all the work, all the reacting, and all the resenting</strong></span></h4> </li> <li> <h4><span><span style="color: #000000;">If you don't know what racism is (learned, legacy or systemic), you should probably shut up about how "...people of color are  ____________. ”</span></span></h4> </li> </ol> Equally clear to me was that, behind bars (or anywhere else) anything in that begins with or contains  "I'm not a racist, but..." is BAD. <!--more--> The irony is that when I came home, disappointingly few people on the outside understood this. I’d once again been dropped into an environment full of people behaving repulsively. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/PLEASE-DONT-SNEEZE-ON-THE-CONVICTS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6810" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/PLEASE-DONT-SNEEZE-ON-THE-CONVICTS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="PLEASE DONT SNEEZE ON THE CONVICTS_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="339" height="162" /></a>Now, just like in prison, not all of these people deserve  book-cover judgment, and it's wrong to write 'em all off. But squandering the freedom they have to speak and act on impulse?…well, this is a tough thing to get accustomed to. <em>I</em> had to learn to size up a stranger in 10 seconds or less because my life depended on it. Walking around  –or stepping over–  the reasons why became routine. I learned to survive in an environment where people are very, <em>very</em> careful about what comes out of their mouths: walking around  –or stepping over–  the consequences of those who chose to act otherwise <em>also</em> became routine. See, the strange thing about prison is that many of its inhabitants adhere to (and enforce) rules, morals, and principles they failed to live up to while free. So, when granted your freedom from such a place, you can't help but wonder what would've happened to the guy who just cut in front of you in line at the bank. You picture the fate of the jerk who chooses not to hold the door for someone carrying something, or one who behaves inconsiderately during a meal. To go from a place where bad manners may mean a broken jaw to being sneezed at, full force, in Target – what and no throat punch!? Suddenly, when you find yourself comparing the value systems of incarcerated criminals to those of your new friends, <em>civilians</em>, you know you need to look for something to hold on to. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Out-here-in-the-real-world_term-used-loosely.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-6813" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Out-here-in-the-real-world_term-used-loosely.jpg" alt="Out here in the real world_term used loosely" width="390" height="203" /></a>Out here in the real world, we're too quick to navigate the rapids of other people's backpedaling and justifications. Too many of us squirm quietly while a colleague espouses racist sentiments: it’s latently acceptable (and expected) to look the other way. Prison ruined that for me. Prison saved me from a life-sentence of looking the other way in the face of latent bigotry. Nowadays, if some chicken-shit thinks it's funny to openly point out our ethnic differences, #1 he or she had better be hilarious, and #2 he or she had better be hilarious to the faces of those about whom they're speaking. Anything else'll get you a shake of the head and a, "Oh, you one of <em>those</em> guys!?" I call it subway platform citizenship, and I like it even more when offense is taken. Ol' Donny Sterling took offense at the suggestion that he was racist in <em>the very same</em> audio recording in which he said riotously bigoted things. So as I say, he's definitely a shoo-in for our 2014 Utter Lack of Character Award, the only one he hasn’t bought for himself. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Donald-Sterling-Facepalm_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6814" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Donald-Sterling-Facepalm_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Donald Sterling Facepalm_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="299" height="232" /></a>Despite a well-documented history of speaking and doing things that are considered incontrovertibly racist by the rest of us, Sterling simply refuses to see himself as someone who is brazenly prejudiced. And his is not such an unusual response, really, but it <em>is</em> pathetic. If you can't spout off on the deficiencies of others in a way that forces you to defend your beliefs to their face, you’ve got no excuse for pointing, laughing, and assuming you’re divinely appointed as a superior. Sterling, of course, has the added weirdness of living in a bubble of money and power (given that, he could really use a chin tuck), but his isolation in no way excuses his behavior. The fact remains that, as a team owner, he's an example to young people. Oops…I meant as a soon-to-be <em>former</em> team owner. Put through the funhouse mirror of prison politics, Donald Sterling’s inability to own his beliefs and say, "<em>Fuck it. You got me. Now what?</em>"; pay the NBA fine; and walk away is something that would get him killed on the inside. So come to think of it, maybe losing the L.A. Clippers isn’t all that much of a punishment after all. <p style="text-align: center;">And how's <a href="http://working-copy.local/celebrity/from-beat-downs-to-bear-hugs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this</a> for related content?</p> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Donald-Sterlings-NBA_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-6839" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Donald-Sterlings-NBA_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Donald Sterlings NBA_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="340" height="341" /></a> <span style="color: #000000;"><b> </b></span> 6798 2014-04-29 19:21:20 2014-04-30 02:21:20 2021-06-21 12:45:29 2021-06-21 19:45:29 closed open im-racist publish 0 0 post 0 Bigoted Black Blacks can't swim Character Clippers Culture Donald Sterling Donald Sterling Facepalm I'm not a racist but Los Angeles Narcissist Richter Scale Prejudice prison Prison politics racism racist Space Shuttle Endeavor _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw racist _yoast_wpseo_title "I'm not a racist, but..." - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc "I'm not a racist, but..." will earn you a "Oh are you one of those guys!?" I call it subway platform citizenship and I like it even more when they get offended. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 78 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:4;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704459560;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7041;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9190;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6140;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor http://working-copy.local/prison-2/mall-mens-central-jail/ Mon, 05 May 2014 08:37:34 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=6842 <h4><span style="color: #000000;">The LA County Jail doesn't need tearing down, it needs Rick Caruso.</span></h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/LOCK-DOWN-SHOPPING-TOWN.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6852" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/LOCK-DOWN-SHOPPING-TOWN.jpg" alt="LOCK DOWN SHOPPING TOWN" width="410" height="273" /></a>The Los Angeles County <a href="http://shq.lasdnews.net/pages/tgen1.aspx?id=MCF" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Men’s Central Jail</a> is an overcrowded dungeon, a house of horrors for pre-trial prisoners, the physically disabled, the mentally ill, and even jail visitors. An ongoing federal investigation into allegations of brutality at MCJ has exposed ghastly conditions, corruption, excessive force, free roaming retaliation, and secretive factions of Sheriff’s deputies and jailers. Well is there a better location for a mixed-use mega-mall? Nope. Shake off your  handcuffs and imagine Neiman Marcus, Blaze Pizza, Crate &amp; Barrel, Abercrombie Kids, and Apple all competing for a share of this exciting retail market. With the fate of Men’s Central <a href="http://www.dailynews.com/opinion/20140501/la-jail-proposal-would-do-little-to-help-guest-commentary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">uncertain</a>, why not take a page from the old-timey tours and gift shops currently operated at <a href="http://visitfolsom.com/history/museum/prison.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Folsom</a> and <a href="http://www.alcatrazislandtickets.com/?gclid=CKTo3-Lkk74CFa_m7AodvAMAWg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alcatraz</a>? Or from Philadelphia’s <a href="http://www.easternstate.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eastern State Penitentiary</a>, fresh from its annual <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/04/us-usa-pennsylvania-prison-idUSBREA4302Q20140504" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reunion</a> of former guards and inmates? Even better, why not go further upscale and consider something along the lines of Boston’s quaint <a href="http://www.libertyhotel.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Liberty Hotel</a>, formerly known as the infamous <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Street_Jail" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charles Street Jail</a>? All are popular tourist attractions that generate big bucks. They serve as walkable warnings to the mentally-ill and socially wayward, and provide the public with glimpses into America’s penal history – and future. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/WHITE-WOMEN-COME-AND-CHECK-OUT-THE-PRISON-PRICES.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6859" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/WHITE-WOMEN-COME-AND-CHECK-OUT-THE-PRISON-PRICES.jpg" alt="WHITE WOMEN COME AND CHECK OUT THE PRISON PRICES" width="324" height="246" /></a>Too soon for a custody-themed Cellblock Shopping Town? Too “insensitive” of an idea? What’s stopping us, bad taste? Ha! Prison ideation saturates media and advertising anyway, so why not give the secret “crimeshopper” in all of us a little fun? Let’s go from jail rats to mall rats and rake in the tax revenue! Why <em>not</em> plan a “Shopping Daycation” around a jail-themed Apple Store or J.Crew? Men’s Central will forever be remembered as <a href="http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1994-12-27/news/9412260281_1_men-s-central-jail-special-treatment-derrick-nelson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">O.J. Simpson’s</a> courtroom hotel and where lady-puncher <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/01/showbiz/chris-brown-hearing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chris Brown</a> will spend his 25^th birthday: why <em>shouldn’t</em> the city cash in? Yet turning a civil rights cesspool like LA’s Men’s Central Jail into one of SoCal’s hippest destinations for designer handbags and iPhones is the one idea no one has proposed. <h4><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Until now. Welcome to The Fashion Industrial Complex – the Mall at Men’s Central Jail.</strong></span><!--more--></h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/God-of-Mall-Rats_-Rick-Caruso.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6849" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/God-of-Mall-Rats_-Rick-Caruso.jpg" alt="God of Mall Rats_ Rick Caruso" width="207" height="270" /></a>Only one man can deliver on such a tall order: Retail Superman and Mixed-use Mall Developer Extraordinaire <a href="http://www.carusoaffiliated.com/caruso/the_company/profiles.php?id_profiles=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rick J. Caruso</a>. Yes, former President of the Los Angeles Police Commission Rick Caruso. And finally, <em>one</em> L.A. real estate mogul the County Supervisors can hire without ending up with <a href="http://deadspin.com/map-162-properties-owned-by-infamous-racist-donald-ste-1570037118" target="_blank" rel="noopener">segregated restrooms</a>. Caruso could come up with a jail-themed food court and a performing arts stage like the one erected for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L05KOAhZA1A" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johnny Cash</a> inside the Folsom Prison dining hall (of course Cash’s music would be piped in over the mall-wide speaker system as well). Sports bars with names like <em>Acquittals</em> and <em>Warning Shots</em> could “compete” for the attention of adult children shoppers; novelty guard towers could surprise guests hourly by “firing” confetti cannons into the common areas. (This would be quickly cleared away by janitors in jail blues as they live-act that hallowed custody pastime: sweeping.) Follow the yellow line to the restrooms and the blue one to a mall directory! And those cutesy LED lights that are wrapped around the trees? How about fiber optic glow lights designed to simulate the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concertina_wire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">concertina wire</a> atop chain-link perimeter fences! A special electronically programmed light show for the kiddies could be kicked off every 30 minutes by the sound of escape alarms, and I can see the promotional tagline now: Historic Lofts – Fine Chow Hall Dining – Premium Shopping: “<em>Live-Work-Parole!”</em> <a href="http://www.carusoaffiliated.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Caruso Affiliated</a>, of course, is known for ripping the roofs off concrete, bunker-like shopping malls and turning them inside out. So who better to reverse the clammy and oppressive world of Men’s Central Jail than the man who created such polished utopias as The <a href="http://www.thegrovela.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Grove</a>, the <a href="http://www.americanaatbrand.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Americana</a> at Brand, The Calabasas <a href="http://www.shopcommons.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Commons</a>, and the Marina <a href="http://shopwaterside.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Waterside</a>? Hell, wouldn’t a Caruso jail <em>itself</em> be better than a real one (that doesn’t even work)? Besides being a great way to benefit the local economy (heads up, <a href="http://www.lamayor.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mayor Garcetti!</a>), such a venue would serve the employees of downtown’s courts buildings <em>and</em> allow the neighboring Twin Towers jail to regain its former glory, like back when it was just another proposed jail expansion concept. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Prison-Parade-Day-Costumes_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6861" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Prison-Parade-Day-Costumes_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Prison Parade Day Costumes_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="238" height="294" /></a>Where prisoners were once justly confined, the public will now be safely confined to walkways made of cobblestones carved from the old building and treated to a central fountain made from rusted and broken plumbing, a prison laundry cart choo-choo, and of course, hidden speakers softly playing the aforementioned Man in Black. Darkened chambers once filled with rampaging sodomites will now feature Santa’s Village and Sephora. Here's a private prison <em>everyone</em> will love! And just like in jails and prisons everywhere, hierarchy among "cons" will rule the day. Are you sitting on my bench? Yes, reserve a public bench by the hour so you and the kids can shoo away the unwelcome with rentable MY BENCH™ tasers! Or perhaps you'd care to pay for that fabulous pair of shoes ahead of everyone else. Just swipe your Prison Privilege Card and you’ll be granted access to a separate cashier counter ready to serve the town’s most revered residents. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Sheriff-Lee-Baca-Annual-Deputy-Inmate-Reunion-Luncheon.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6862" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Sheriff-Lee-Baca-Annual-Deputy-Inmate-Reunion-Luncheon.jpg" alt="Sheriff Lee Baca Annual Deputy-Inmate Reunion Luncheon" width="281" height="187" /></a>To fulfill a civic responsibility, of course, retired LA County Sheriff’s deputies and former MCJ prisoners alike could be invited annually to regale enthralled audience with fond memories about their time “onsite.” A Q&amp;A session could be an additional opportunity for promotion and product placement. But simply calling it the Men’s Central Jail Mall? No, we need a better name. It’s clear the word “jail” has to go, and the new moniker should infer a serene and homogenized shopping experience that can be marketed as all things to all people (except <em>those</em> people). Finally, in order to pass off a rainbow of retailers as "cultural" variety, I’m wondering if we shouldn’t be aiming for outlets... Here's my list so far: <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>-The Yard at LA River</strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>-Contraband Premium Outlets</strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>-Lock-down Shopping Town</strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>-Control Unit Commons &amp; Dining </strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>-Out of Bounds Fashion Central  </strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>-Freedom Shops Superior Food Court</strong></span> How 'bout The Ding Wing? Maximum Security Maul? Thread Man Walking? <em>Anyone</em>? <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/PRISON-LAUNDRY-CART-CHOO-CHOO_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6865" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/PRISON-LAUNDRY-CART-CHOO-CHOO_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="PRISON LAUNDRY CART CHOO-CHOO_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="224" height="222" /></a>This week, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors will address what to do with the crumbling Men’s Central Jail and it’s reputation for embarrassing the city. Will it be torn down? Will it be expanded and made into even more of a <a href="http://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Winchester Mystery House</a> than it’s already become? Will it be replaced with a "campus-like" jail facility, as has been proposed? <em>Again, I</em> vote a Rick Caruso detention-themed retail masterpiece. LA's incarceration meat-grinder deserves something special, so why not a Godiva Chocolatier? T<em>his </em>is, after all, the jail facility that became the subject of a now famous <a href="http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/video/6291209-fbi-investigating-alleged-beatings-at-mens-central-jail/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI investigation</a>, following a 2006 <a href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/apocalypse-hoosegow-part-ii/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">federal receivership</a> takeover of the California prison system. It's one of, if not <em>the,</em> institution that kicked the current national dialogue on prison reform into high gear. <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/The-Yard-at-LA-River_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-6875" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/The-Yard-at-LA-River_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="The Yard at LA River_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="199" height="196" /></a></p> 6842 2014-05-05 01:37:34 2014-05-05 08:37:34 2021-01-28 11:23:05 2021-01-28 18:23:05 closed open mall-mens-central-jail publish 0 0 post 0 Alcatraz Apple Caruso Affiliated Charles Street Jail Chris Brown Crate &amp; Barrel Culture Eastern State Penitentiary Folsom Prison iPhone J.Crew Los Angeles County Sheriff Men's Central Jail Men's Central Jail mixed-use mall O.J. Simpson Prison Rick Caruso Sephora sports bar the Liberty Hotel Winchester Mystery House _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw Men’s Central Jail _yoast_wpseo_title The Mall at Men’s Central Jail _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Welcome to The Fashion Industrial Complex – the mall at Men’s Central Jail, where novelty guard towers “fire” confetti into the common areas every hour. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 77 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:8;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706284761;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3929;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11224;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8731;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor 82679 Gertrude Stein fuelfilter@sbcglobal.net 69.228.44.251 2014-05-05 01:57:56 2014-05-05 08:57:56 Holy shit, how can I get Pre-grand opening access!? Sign me up for "Scared Straight" shopping! 1 comment 0 0 83286 Alicia del Mundo cmartin.nelson@gmail.com 130.154.0.250 2014-05-05 10:23:28 2014-05-05 17:23:28 How about an add-on residential component called "The Modules at Men's Central?" 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/culture/excuses-book-review-1/ Wed, 14 May 2014 05:21:00 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=6908 <h2><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/The-Skies-Belong-to-Us.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6919" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/The-Skies-Belong-to-Us.jpg" alt="The Skies Belong to Us" width="313" height="310" /></a>The Skies Belong to Us: Love &amp; Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking</span></h2> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>In the end, Brendan Koerner's <em>The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking</em>, is about character. Though it was published nine months ago, it's a fun choice for No Excuses Book Review #1.</strong></span> I'm not old enough to remember the plague of airline hijackings that took place in and around American airspace during the hippie era, but I do remember laughing with my mom through a television rerun of <em>The Out of Towners</em>, a 1970 Jack Lemmon comedy. In it, everything that <em>can</em> go wrong for two hapless New York tourists does, and despite the appearance of a happy ending, the two find themselves on a hijacked plane just before the credits roll. "This plane is going to Havana, Cuba!" announces the hijacker as he brandishes a gun. (Apparently a lot of these folks were aiming for Cuba; they envisioned a revolutionary paradise when, in reality, Castro jailed 'em instead.) Initially that's why I picked up this book: Because I <em>am</em> old enough to remember the aftermath of the '60s and '70s <a href="http://theskiesbelongtous.com/" target="_blank">skyjacking plague</a>. <p class="p1">In <em>The Skies Belong to Us,</em> Brendan Koerner provides readers with a central romantic antihero narrative on which his exhaustive research hangs. But nothing hangs so long as to slow things down. Koerner's approach and writing is solid as cement, yet it moves as quickly as a TV news crawler.<!--more--></p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Cathy-Marie-Kerkow.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6923" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Cathy-Marie-Kerkow.jpg" alt="Cathy Marie Kerkow" width="437" height="129" /></a>Readers are treated to a time when airline privileges included paying for your tickets in the air and no TSA screenings, full body scanners, metal detectors, long lines, or being spoken to as though you were asking your fellow travelers for spare change. As you seamlessly breeze in and out of the rich cultural and criminal scenery of <a href="http://skyjackeroftheday.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">dozens of hijackings</a>, you are anchored by and hooked to Bonnie and Clyde at 30,000 feet. This, after all, is mainly the story of San Diego lovers Roger Holder and Cathy Marie Kerkow, who themselves pulled off one of the most infamous commercial airline hijackings of all time. Throughout their four decades-long tale, there's loads of history pertinent to both the lovers' fate and the timeline of airline safety, policy, and security. It's a revealing, entertaining read.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Roger-Holder-in-Vietnam-in-1967_Image-courtesy-of-the-skies-belong-to-us-dot-com.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6926" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Roger-Holder-in-Vietnam-in-1967_Image-courtesy-of-the-skies-belong-to-us-dot-com.jpg" alt="Roger Holder in Vietnam in 1967_Image courtesy of the skies belong to us dot com" width="217" height="160" /></a>As we accompany Holder, Kerkow, and other and less successful, looney hijackers, we see how simultaneously naïve and crafty the commercial airline industry was before, during, and after skyjackings reached 82 per year in 1969 (82!!!). We learn of the industry's resistance to pricey metal detectors and lobbyists who dissuaded Washington from laws making it mandatory to X-ray carry-on luggage. And we gain insight into how both law-enforcement and the airline industry adapted to then weekly hijackings: at first by giving in to demands made, then by giving in to trigger-happy FBI agents. All of this is just as engrossing as Holder and Kerkow's "happy" ending once they walk away with the ransom money.</p> <p class="p1">With every turn of the page comes something else that's difficult to imagine in today's post-9/11 world. Then there's Kerkow and Holder: he with his paranoia, excuses, and Vietnam trauma, and she with her culturally insensitive amoralism. One minute you catch yourself hoping they'll get away, and the next you find yourself soothed by their misfortune. Their story is a roller coaster of principles, ideology, practical law enforcement realities, and people's need to feel important. Ultimately, Koerner portrays the couple and every other hijacker he addresses in very human strokes. I found myself moved by the sadness of some, the idiocy of most, and the unique place in history they all occupy.</p> <iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/w9ereYP4RF8" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/727-TYPE-200-Airliner_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6939" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/727-TYPE-200-Airliner_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="727 TYPE 200 Airliner_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="99" height="317" /></a>Several times throughout the book, Koerner points out that virtually all of the hijackers between 1957 in 1985 were desperate, misguided people who, at certain points in their lives, decided they needed to pull off something big and theatrical to prove to the world that they mattered.</p> <p class="p1">And that's probably the biggest reason I enjoyed Koerner's effort. We see a lot of that thinking today, too frequently involving moving targets.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Courtesy-skyjackeroftheday.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6931" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Courtesy-skyjackeroftheday.jpg" alt="Courtesy skyjackeroftheday" width="349" height="206" /></a>Like disgraced Vietnam vet Holder, aspiring hijackers were people who'd seen others take command of entire airports, demand ransoms, boss the police around, and grab the world's attention. Desperate to feel like they, too, could seize the day, sweep away their regrets, and free themselves of unfavorable circumstances, the hijackers of <em>The Skies Belong to Us</em> thought they'd found an answer.</p> <p class="p1">Redirecting an airliner's flight path at gunpoint was seen by many as a form of heroic, personal reinvention. So really, this story is about spectacularly poor coping skills, rationalizations, excuses, and deep resentments. In terms of Roger Holder and Cathy Kerkow, it's also about people who were disillusioned to utterly shocking degrees. In Kerkow's case there was an astonishing a lack of self-direction and purpose, but as a fugitive (still), she may have gotten one of the juiciest last laughs law enforcement will ever know.</p> <p class="p1">In sum:<em>  The Skies Belong to Us is </em>a kick ass true crime epic written like a (good) Tarantino movie that I want to go see now-now-now!</p> <p class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>And that's the gist of No Excuses Book Review #1.</strong></span></p> <p class="p1">.</p> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 6908 2014-05-13 22:21:00 2014-05-14 05:21:00 2014-05-15 11:27:10 2014-05-15 18:27:10 closed open excuses-book-review-1 publish 0 0 post 0 Bonnie and Clyde Brendan Koerner Castro Cathy Kerkow Character Cuba Culture FBI hijacking Jack Lemmon No Excuses Book Review Roger Holder skyjacking The Out of Towners The Skies Belong to Us TSA _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw Excuses _yoast_wpseo_title No Excuses Book Review #1 - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Brendan Koerner's The Skies Belong to Us: Love & Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking, is about character - and a fun choice for No Excuses Book Review #1 _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 85 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:8;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706169946;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6473;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3066;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4866;}}}} http://working-copy.local/idiots/according-average-americans-dumb/ Mon, 19 May 2014 19:33:32 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=6952 <h2><span style="color: #000000;">55% of America's dummies believe they are the smartest Americans...</span></h2> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Make-room-for-genius__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6987" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Make-room-for-genius__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Make room for genius__Where Excuses Go to Die" width="280" height="265" /></a>But 55% of us <em>know</em> we're smarter than they are.</strong></span> <a href="https://today.yougov.com/about/" target="_blank">YouGov</a> is a British polling firm that dangles the <del>alternate currency</del> digital carrot of redeemable points and "cool rewards" to survey takers, then sells its gathered intelligence to clients around the world. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America" target="_blank">America</a> is a country that loves free movie tickets, raffle prizes, and gift cards, all of which can be earned by participating in YouGov's data harvesting efforts. According to YouGov, some of <a href="http://cdn.yougov.com/cumulus_uploads/document/gjfw827qts/tabs_OPI_intelligence_20140502.pdf" target="_blank">this data</a> says that 55% of Americans believe the "average" American is dumb, or more accurately, that they themselves are <a href="http://today.yougov.com/news/2014/05/11/intelligence/" target="_blank">smarter</a> than their compatriots. <p class="p2"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/WHERE-WHAT-THE-WORLD-THINKS-GOES-TO-DIE_.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-6971" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/WHERE-WHAT-THE-WORLD-THINKS-GOES-TO-DIE_.jpg" alt="WHERE WHAT THE WORLD THINKS GOES TO DIE_" width="205" height="86" /></a>What's funny is that this global marketing outfit, YouGov, probably pays next to nothing for results like this, which it markets and sells to the world at what we can only surmise is a tidy profit. Surely their acquisitions people lock in gift cards and movie tickets for pennies on the dollar before offering them up. Then they trade mere <em>eligibility</em> for those products and services for our most valuable natural resource: personal time. What do I mean? Well, keep in mind that "reward points" are only as good as their ease of redeem-ability. By the time you find out how many hoops you have to jump through in order to cash in, access to your opinions and whatever other data can be mined from them will probably have been sold the world over many times.<!--more--></p> <p class="p2"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/DUMB-FACE-CHAMPION-OF-AMERICA.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6973" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/DUMB-FACE-CHAMPION-OF-AMERICA.jpg" alt="DUMB FACE CHAMPION OF AMERICA" width="80" height="116" /></a>Granted, most of us spend way too much time on the Internet anyway, so why not profit a bit? Yet the very act of pursuing these baubles requires little more than a willingness to be dumbed down even further. The irony comes with the realization that YouGov is apparently <em>so</em> secure in its operations it can afford to release a study that basically calls its subjects, participants, prizewinners, and "members" dumb to their faces.</p> <p class="p2"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/I-let-a-rat-crawl-in-my-mouth-for-America_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6974" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/I-let-a-rat-crawl-in-my-mouth-for-America_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="I let a rat crawl in my mouth for humanity_Photo © Richard Banks" width="135" height="101" /></a>And considering 55% of this research came from people genius enough to devalue of their own time for the promise of balloons and cake, it's downright hilarious that they did so <em>while</em> presuming they're smarter than everyone else. It's like a snake wearing a birthday hat and trying to swallow its tail. This might even rank up there with a 2010 study that found knowing divorced people can be bad for your marriage -- in other words, divorce is contagious.</p> <p class="p2"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Its-PLAY-Hard-not-Make-Play-Hard_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6976" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Its-PLAY-Hard-not-Make-Play-Hard_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Its PLAY Hard not Make Play Hard_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="104" height="117" /></a>I guess what I really don't like about this YouGov study is what it says about me. I certainly don't count myself among the 45% of stupids, but who am I to think I'm smarter than everyone else? The last time I tried that, I wound up eating prison food. But to be honest, I don't need an excuse to put myself above average Americans. On the other hand, with your average American being as big as a buffalo these days, you really don't want to piss one off...</p> <p class="p2"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Wiley_My-all-time-favorite-newspaper-cartoon-artist.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6984" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Wiley_My-all-time-favorite-newspaper-cartoon-artist.jpg" alt="Wiley_My all-time favorite newspaper cartoon artist" width="322" height="141" /></a>But who designates themselves as one of the 34% of Americans who claim they're "about as smart" as their national peer group? And think of the few, the proud, the 4% who admit they're <em>less</em> intelligent than your average American bear. But not you, right? According to <em>you</em>, Americans are dumb.</p> <p class="p2"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/PEOPLE-WHO-PROTEST-ARE-DUMBS.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6978" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/PEOPLE-WHO-PROTEST-ARE-DUMBS.jpg" alt="PEOPLE WHO PROTEST ARE DUMBS" width="123" height="115" /></a>Look, I know I'm smarter than a lot of people, but that's not saying much because "smart" and "dumb" are both relative and subjective. I pride myself <em>more</em> on not being a chump. I picture myself living long enough to turn a senior citizen phone scam around on the numb-nuts who dials my number. In the olden times I'd go to the mall and see a brand-new Mercedes being raffled off by the "Prize Dispersal Corporation" and laugh at the idiots filling out raffle cards, unaware they're signing up for smart missiles of junk mail. Data harvesting, the beta years.</p> <p class="p2"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Wolf-Of-Wall-Street_Paramount-Pictures.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-6981" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Wolf-Of-Wall-Street_Paramount-Pictures.jpg" alt="Wolf Of Wall Street_Paramount Pictures" width="120" height="91" /></a>And here's a question we may never get the answer to: Since a YouGov client must have requested this study, who <em>was</em> that client? Was it some hideous group of Wall Street overlords playing with people's sense of inferiority, like so many sandbox toys? Were they curious to know who among us thinks we're big shots down here, with our bad minimum wage earning, credit card debt having, rent paying selves?</p> [caption id="attachment_6982" align="alignleft" width="82"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Tagged-and-Bagged_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-6982" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Tagged-and-Bagged_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Yours truly – shit-faced with plastic bag on my head. I am an Average American. " width="82" height="89" /></a> Yours truly – with plastic bag on my head. I am an Average American.[/caption] <p class="p2">Or is YouGov having fun with this one? Are we looking at a database vendor with a sense of humor? Their website <em>is</em> designed to attract folks in a friendly manner and provide examples of what the company's mathematical algorithms can do with the information we give it. It's also meant to get people talking, especially the overlords. Some of us stick around for the balloons and cake and some don't, but at the end of the day, this is high priority business intelligence sold to the highest bidder. I won't dismiss the usefulness of some of their data gathering, but I think I'll come back when YouGov releases a study a little more relevant to me, such as what percentage of us posses a propensity for cynicism.</p> 55% of America's dummies believe they're smarter than everyone else. <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>100% of chumps don't consider the source.</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: left;">.</p> <p style="text-align: left;">.</p> 6952 2014-05-19 12:33:32 2014-05-19 19:33:32 2014-06-20 08:15:34 2014-06-20 15:15:34 closed open according-average-americans-dumb publish 0 0 post 0 average Americans Culture data collection data extraction gift cards Idiots movie tickets prizes reward points Wall Street YouGov _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw average americans _yoast_wpseo_title According to you: Average Americans are dumb _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Will you join the 34% of average Americans who say they're as smart as average Americans? Of course you won't. You're smarter than that right? _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 82 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:4;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706707221;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:764;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10410;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:460;}}}} http://working-copy.local/incarceration-nation/la-county-sheriffs-crrc/ Mon, 26 May 2014 23:44:51 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=6993 <h2>And it begins – the rehabilitation of the LA Sheriff's Department...</h2> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/LA-County-Sheriffs-Department-calls-for-a-Do-over.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7019" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/LA-County-Sheriffs-Department-calls-for-a-Do-over.jpg" alt="LA County Sheriffs Department calls for a Do-over" width="258" height="172" /></a>Interim LA County Sheriff John Scott's news conference last week announced the opening of the Sheriff’s Department's Community Reentry and Resource Center (CRRC). It's a new component of the department's  <span style="color: #000000;">Education Based Incarceration/Merit Program. </span></p> <p class="p1">As he has several times before, Scott stood in contrast to the Department's typically defensive posture, indifference toward matters of prisoner reentry, and former Sheriff Lee Baca's endless insistence that only <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/21/local/la-me-jail-closure-20120321" target="_blank">more money</a> can resolve overcrowding and the <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/26/local/la-me-deputy-smuggling-20120626" target="_blank">problems</a> faced in running the nation's largest jail.</p> <p class="p1">In terms of my love-hate relationship with the LASD, some of <em>these</em> men are cops this former criminal happens to be rooting for. I'll set aside my cynicism and suspicions to appreciate Scott's effort to repair the damages wrought by corrupt, Nazi-gang-affiliated, vengeful Department brass (and –as described by insiders– its cult-like following).</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/SO-LONG-LA-Sheriffs-Spokesman-Steve-Whitmore.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7027" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/SO-LONG-LA-Sheriffs-Spokesman-Steve-Whitmore.jpg" alt="SO LONG LA Sheriffs Spokesman Steve Whitmore" width="141" height="118" /></a>It's no small thing that this first high profile attempt to reverse the Men's Central Jail's inhumane and festering image addresses the <em>causes</em> of recidivism rather than demonstrating a tougher resolve or blaming budget woes. Scott is clearly borrowing a page from the national dialog on prison reform, and yes, it's a little Simpsons-esque to watch <a href="http://www.signalscv.com/archives/56972/" target="_blank">this</a> particular department pitch their newfound forbearance to the public. But folks, this is how it's gonna be for a while. Luckily, I've spoken with several respected officers in the department who have an impressive sense of humor about their profession and their beleaguered employer.</p> <h3 class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;">And what <em>is</em> the LA County Sheriff’s Community Reentry and Resource Center?</span></h3> <p class="p1">Through the CRRC, return-to-the-community services such as drug and alcohol treatment, job placement assistance, temporary shelter, tattoo removal, family reintegration, and mental health counseling will be made available to anyone emerging from the building that's been making headlines as "one of the worst jails in America." Its offices have been set up right across the street from the 'ol dungeon itself (the one the county might either expand, tear down or, if there is a God, <a href="http://working-copy.local/prison-2/mall-mens-central-jail/" target="_blank">turn into a mall)</a>.</p> <h3 class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;">So what's it like to walk out of Men's Central Jail, anyway?</span></h3> <p class="p1">This might be difficult to imagine if you've never experienced it, so I'll start by describing release from MCJ this way: it's like being kicked out of your own failure, especially if you don't have someone ready and waiting to get you out of the area.<!--more--></p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/APOCALYPSE-HOOSEGOW_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7020" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/APOCALYPSE-HOOSEGOW_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="APOCALYPSE-HOOSEGOW_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="323" height="117" /></a>Before now, Sheriff's Department jailers showed you the sidewalk and shooed you away. That's it, get lost. It's a disorienting passage for which there's no step-down, only modifications to existing architecture that steer you to the street. To some extent, this will probably continue 'til all the veteran Deputies can wrap their heads around leadership and policy changes. Increased efficiency is imminent. In the meantime, among anyone breathing fresh air again, standard release from Men's Central can quickly diminish your expectations and hopes for a second chance.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/MCJ_Complex-at-Avila-Street_Los-Angeles.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7024" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/MCJ_Complex-at-Avila-Street_Los-Angeles.jpg" alt="MCJ_Complex at Avila Street_Los Angeles" width="339" height="190" /></a>Release times are so arbitrary and so often after midnight that it's almost impossible to guess when a friend or loved one will emerge. For that same loved one, the faint promise of renewal is already competing with pools of sidewalk urine at his feet.</p> <p class="p1">Lucky is the offender who is released when the sun is out, though he's most likely to wind up waiting for a ride with the same fellas keeping him company for hours on end through a series of MCJ Intake Release Center (IRC) holding cells. He'll think he's seen the last of 'em until he realizes everyone's still in the same boat.</p> <p class="p1">Suddenly everyone's a civilian needing distance from this place. But maybe one or two of those dudes didn't like him very much. For some, circumstances don't necessarily improve once the doors shut behind them.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Los-Angeles_Downtown-Industrial-District.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7026" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Los-Angeles_Downtown-Industrial-District.jpg" alt="Los Angeles_Downtown Industrial District" width="214" height="175" /></a>But no one just wants to walk off into the night, 'cause they'll be walking into one of the most intimidating industrial areas downtown LA has offer. This is acre after acre of desolate, industrial real estate that says either, "What are <em>you</em> smiling at?" or "What're you lookin' to score?"</p> <p class="p1">From the railroad tracks to the bail bonds offices and the pitch black hole under the Vignes Street bridge mere steps away, the inexperienced might be tempted to turn around and go back inside -- that is, until they remember who's in there: LA County Sheriff's deputies. I did watch a guy do that once, though. In the two hours it took for my friend's car to roll up, that fraidy-cat never even reemerged. My guess is he was shoved back into a crowded cell for five more hours to marinate -- and to teach him not to chicken-out.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/MCJ_Los-Angeles_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7021" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/MCJ_Los-Angeles_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="MCJ_Los Angeles_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="379" height="251" /></a>The bank of pay phones set famously into the cement in front of MCJ might as well be a platform on which to shout to passers by that you're a big fat loser who just hit the streets. I can certainly understand why the deputies want the phones well lit and right out in the open, but if a telephone is a lifeline for a newly released offender, that lifeline at MCJ is shaped like a middle finger.</p> <p class="p1">The receivers on those handsets have heard more begging, crying, and lying than the hot gates of Hell, and they look like it, too. Seeing someone pick one up is to presume they're less than you. In the end, it feels better just to take your chances and start walking. But that's an awfully lonely feeling to start out with when the world expects you to turn it all around. And while you may think otherwise, it's no less lonely to jump into a car full of gangbangers, which is also something I've seen. You can bet the conversation in <em>those</em> cars isn't centered on what was spoken of inside: turning things around.</p> <h3 class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;">What are some of the challenges the CRRC will face?</span></h3> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/This-is-NOT-what-newly-released-offenders-see-upon-leaving-MCJ.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7028" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/This-is-NOT-what-newly-released-offenders-see-upon-leaving-MCJ.jpg" alt="This is NOT what newly released offenders see upon leaving MCJ" width="231" height="163" /></a>I'll again set aside my obvious suspicion that the CRRC/EBI is a public relations ploy to offset the damage done by poor leadership, the FBI probe, and the resulting indictments – because the CRRC has enough going against it as it is. For one, I can't see its office being open 24 hours a day, can you? The competition, however (for example, the drug dealers waiting around the corner from Vignes and Bauchet Streets), are always open.</p> <p class="p1">So on one side of the street you got <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/homeless-beating-la-deputies-investigated-15354893" target="_blank">excessive-force-prone</a> deputies barking orders and demonstrating an inhuman lack of tolerance as they rubber stamp waves of scumbags out of the building. And we're talking about a <span style="color: #000000;">50-year-old jail</span> described by its own command staff as a dumping ground for bad apples and poorly performing personnel. On the other side of the street, we're told that a brighter future begins just through that door, over which hangs the exact same Sheriff's badge. It's pretty hard to imagine newly released offenders going from one group of deputies to another, believing that grudges picked up by all concerned will somehow disappear with a simple cross of the street.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/EBI_CRRC_LASD.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7030" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/EBI_CRRC_LASD.jpg" alt="EBI_CRRC_LASD" width="346" height="262" /></a>Add to that the fact that out-processing through the IRC can take 8-to-14 hours. It's anything but recuperative, so anyone with the energy and willingness to go through another orientation, another mental health screening, another gang affiliation interview, and another Q&amp;A about the bad influences they might be returning to will pretty much have to have had a jail visit from the Meth Fairy, Jesus Christ, or Oprah Winfrey.</p> <h3 class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;">What would I say to the Sheriff's Department when they ask me what's missing? ('Cause we may be about to find out.)</span></h3> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>You have to get to these guys before they even step outside.</strong></span> Why not start an inexpensive little program inside the jail whereby inmates can access a list of approved books? They could read one and write a book report right there in the jail, which they'd submit to the CRRC. Maybe they'd include a little description of themselves and a mention of any opportunities they may or may not have available upon their release. <strong><span style="color: #000000;">You have to meet them halfway.</span> </strong>CRRC staffers should conduct this non-intrusive assessment of participating individuals' literacy <em>before</em> they make that trek across the street on little or no sleep. And guys coming out will be more likely to head toward something familiar when they don't know where else to turn. <h5 class="p1" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;">“We are at a time when innovative and forward thinking practices are necessary for the successful transition and reintegration of inmates from the footsteps of our jails to the doorsteps of our communities.”  </span></h5> <h5 class="p1" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;">– Los Angeles County Interim Sheriff John L. Scott.</span></h5> <span style="color: #000000;"><b><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Lil-Shadow.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7038" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Lil-Shadow.jpg" alt="Lil Shadow" width="180" height="124" /></a>Okay-then, don't just "inform" them that this is the new LA Sheriff's Department: <em>show</em> them. </b></span>I believe civilian greeters –paid or volunteer–  should be waiting outside MCJ with picture-laden literature and hope in their goodhearted eyes. For many, an obvious difference between high and low roads will need to be closer than across the street. <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Offer personalized service. </strong>Why not?</span> Don't you want to fix the problem? I'd even go so far as to give greeters signs to hold like limousine drivers at the airport. Go ahead, laugh it up, but if personalization goes a long way with us suckers in the regular world, it will go even further with newly freed offenders. Sure it's lame, but we've got nothing to lose by helping people make better decisions. In my case, it was lame-o civilians with a willingness to present silly ideas just like these who helped save my life. So I hope to present these and other ideas to the department's <span style="color: #000000;">Education Based Incarceration/Merit Program and </span>CRRC leaders in the coming weeks, and I hope they'll listen. Wish me luck. . &nbsp; <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Almost-as-lame-as-Dungeons-and-Dragons.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-7039" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Almost-as-lame-as-Dungeons-and-Dragons.jpg" alt="Almost as lame as Dungeons and Dragons" width="123" height="122" /></a></p> 6993 2014-05-26 16:44:51 2014-05-26 23:44:51 2017-04-24 12:16:13 2017-04-24 19:16:13 closed open la-county-sheriffs-crrc publish 0 0 post 0 bail bonds Community Reentry and Resource Center corruption CRRC Education Based Incarceration FBI Incarceration Nation John Scott LASD Lee Baca Los Angeles County Sheriff Los Angeles County Sheriff Men's Central Jail Men's Central Jail Merit Program reentry rehabilitation The Simpsons _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw crrc _yoast_wpseo_title LA County Sheriff’s "CRRC" _yoast_wpseo_metadesc The new Community Reentry and Resource Center (CRRC) is a step in the right direction for both the rehabilitation of inmates – and the LA Sheriff's Dept. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 83 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:1;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706783170;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11224;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2309;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5616;}}}} 117767 Andrew S Leigh andy@dealingwithtoxicpeople.com 2.99.139.164 2014-05-27 00:38:53 2014-05-27 07:38:53 Good luck, John. This may be the best time ever to be heard and listened too. 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/celebrity/rationale-racist-jokes/ Sun, 01 Jun 2014 23:33:20 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=7041 <h2 class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;">It's not what you say privately that matters; it's what you say...</span></h2> <p class="p1"><strong>Justin <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/THE-DUMB-WORLD-OF-JUSTIN-BIEBER__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7050" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/THE-DUMB-WORLD-OF-JUSTIN-BIEBER__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="THE DUMB WORLD OF JUSTIN BIEBER__Where Excuses Go to Die" width="191" height="190" /></a>Bieber's unsuccessful attempt to buy (and presumably squash) 2011 <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/justin-biebers-n-word-disgrace-singer-3632704" target="_blank">footage of himself using the N-word</a> while telling a joke puts him right back in the <em>Get Character or Become One</em> hot seat.</strong></p> <p class="p1">The rationale of the racist joke always begins and ends with, <b>"I'm not racist."</b> But there are other excuses widely used as well, like, "<b>My grandfather was born during a time when...</b>" To hell with your grandfather – now what? Every day is a day in which to get a clue.</p> <p class="p1">Bieber and Paula Dean and Donald Sterling were born some 47 and 60 years apart, so to those who point to silliness like the "era" in which certain A-holes were born, I say, "Go sell that excuse someplace else." Willful ignorance and insensitivity are learned behaviors, not vintage collectibles. Americans are just as aware that the narrow-minded walk among us as they were in 1963, but thankfully there are far more opportunities today to learn the difference between acceptance and tolerance, as well as bad character versus bad taste. (P.S. Only someone with a grapefruit for a brain would think it "bad taste" to get caught sharing racist thoughts or humor; when the perpetrator is old enough to know better, it's no-less than treacherously immoral.)<!--more--></p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Fire-Hose-1963_Bull-Connor.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7051" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Fire-Hose-1963_Bull-Connor.jpg" alt="Fire Hose 1963_Bull Connor" width="141" height="195" /></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/THIS-IS-JUSTIN-BIEBER_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7052" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/THIS-IS-JUSTIN-BIEBER_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="THIS IS JUSTIN BIEBER_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="163" height="131" /></a>So while 20-year-old Bieber may live in a more enlightened age, he's apparently no more enlightened a thinker than any 20-year-old who willingly turned a fire hose on black students in '63. Too extreme or bleeding heart a comparison? I don't believe so. The kid holding the fire hose was told he was defending American values. Today, we not only buy in to the excuse of a "nonpublic forum," we believe one exists <em>and</em> that it is somehow protected from judgment. Show me where levels of misguidance and delusion between '63 and now aren't the same.</p> <p class="p1">Speaking of delusion, the rationale of racist jokes often also comes from those <del><span class="s1">Bielbering</span></del> believing they're entitled to make them because of a shared connection to the target ethnicity, as in, <b>"Some of my best friends are..."</b> People who pop off with stuff like this aren't spoken of very highly by their ethnic "friends;" you can bet on that like you can bet on gravity. Bieber's own friends are obviously money hungry wolves, yet he believes he's protected within the circle of sycophants, baby-bros, and fools by which he surrounds himself.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Natalie-Nourigant.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7056" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Natalie-Nourigant.jpg" alt="Natalie Nourigant" width="186" height="165" /></a>Declaring we'd never have said something bigoted in public via the excuse, <b>"It wasn't meant for pubic consumption,"</b> is equally lame. By this logic, someone who <em>whispers</em> an ethnic joke is somehow better than the guy who says it aloud. The non-public forum is irrelevant – always has been, always will be. We're defined by our actions both in private and in public. So do yourself (and the world) a favor and either educate or un-friend a closet racist today.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Aziz-Ansari-Kicks-Ass-Onstage.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7053" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Aziz-Ansari-Kicks-Ass-Onstage.jpg" alt="Aziz Ansari Kicks Ass Onstage" width="198" height="134" /></a>Another defense I've heard people claim is, <b>"Comedians get away with racist jokes all the time."</b> Society's raging narcissism and hypocrisy aside, the volatility of humor that highlights differences between cultures is constant and fierce. Anyone attempting to engage an audience in this way had better be savvy and had better understand what it's like to be on the receiving end.<em> And</em> that person had better bring fresh insight to accepted truisms. Most comics literally stand before a microphone and risk everything to do this. (But for the record, that still doesn't excuse the word "nigger." I have <a href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/hate-word-nigger/" target="_blank">my reasons</a>.)</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/PAULA-DEEN_LYNCHABLES.png"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7055" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/PAULA-DEEN_LYNCHABLES.png" alt="PAULA DEEN_LYNCHABLES" width="81" height="121" /></a>The point is, if you wanna rig the game of life in your favor, don't make life choices that allow the public to control your narrative. And that whole "Who cares what anyone thinks" hoo-ha? Drink that little character cocktail in moderation too. Look around, and you'll find people suffering from the hangover of defiant isolation they weren't able to outgrow. Sound ridiculous? Give it a few years and take another look.</p> <p class="p1">Dismissing racist or misogynist jokes as <b>"something everyone does"</b> is either an arrogant posture or self-deceit. Nothing says, "I can't think for myself," like using mass culture to back you up. I mean, holy crap  –  if none of us are as dumb as all of us, someone defending everybody should be avoided at all costs.</p> <p class="p1">My favorite excuse is, <b>"Everyone's a little racist." </b></p> <p class="p1">That's squishy horse shit I'd like to feed to people who say it one spoonful at a time.</p> <p class="p1">No, we're <em>not</em> all "a little racist." We're afraid of not being accepted, of being alone, and of being left out. And we cope with this fear in ways that show the world (and ourselves) either our character or our asses. That's a choice, not a predetermination.</p> <p class="p1"><em>Get Character or Become One</em></p> <p class="p1" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/The-following-media-may-contain-insensitive-duffus.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-7057" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/The-following-media-may-contain-insensitive-duffus.jpg" alt="The following media may contain insensitive duffus" width="224" height="223" /></a></p> 7041 2014-06-01 16:33:20 2014-06-01 23:33:20 2014-06-01 16:38:17 2014-06-01 23:38:17 closed open rationale-racist-jokes publish 0 0 post 0 Celebrity Character Donald Sterling get character or become one Justin Bieber N-word Narcissist Richter Scale Paula Dean racism racist the rationale of racist jokes _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_metadesc The rationale of racist jokes always begins and ends with, "I'm not racist." But what you say –even privately– matters. Just ask Justin "Grapefruit" Bieber. _yoast_wpseo_focuskw racist jokes _yoast_wpseo_title The Rationale of Racist Jokes - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 83 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:3;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705524487;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6140;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6798;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1309;}}}} http://working-copy.local/your-adorable-child/saw-selfie/ Mon, 09 Jun 2014 05:54:04 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=7064 <h2 class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;">A friend's daughter's selfie stirs contempt for social distortion.</span></h2> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Notes-from-a-Non-parent-9_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-7068" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Notes-from-a-Non-parent-9_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Notes from a Non-parent 9_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="364" height="322" /></a>Somewhere around age 11, most kids stop thinking of themselves as children. In fact, with some, there might even be a first taste of contempt: an inaugural disdain for one's own image in light of the year’s more celebrated models. That was my experience, and I’m guessing it might also be that way for Ray (short for Rayna), the 12 year-old daughter of my friend Ruby. One of Ray's selfies, in which she’s wearing thick eyeliner and lipstick, took me by surprise this morning. Now, I'm a non-parent by choice, so these remarks are made knowing that my own being caught off guard can't compare to the urgency felt by Ruby and other moms. But the photo made me sad, nonetheless: sad for the marketing designed to strategically <a href="http://working-copy.local/self-esteem/beauty-is-an-attitude/" target="_blank">divide and conquer</a> women that’s already being aimed at this kid, this baby held by me in a picture above my desk. What I saw in this selfie took me by surprise, ‘cause I wasn't prepared to equate Ray’s face with my anger for how dumb adults can be.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/NOT-ALL-PARENTS-ARE-LIKE-THIS-YES-THEY-ARE.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7069" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/NOT-ALL-PARENTS-ARE-LIKE-THIS-YES-THEY-ARE.jpg" alt="NOT ALL PARENTS ARE LIKE THIS YES THEY ARE" width="217" height="266" /></a>I've been unfortunate enough to overhear or sit through parental conversations so torturously inane they’d crack a Taliban terror cell. Too few parents realize they're actually expecting others to raise their children. The bedrock of their child rearing seems to be a reliance on corporations that make the “safest” toys; start-ups that guarantee the “most innovative” approach to learning; car manufacturers who offer “top of the line” protection; prepared foods manufactured with the “healthiest” ingredients; and martial arts instructors espousing the most “inclusive” (homogenized) philosophies. Worst of all, perhaps, is their insistence on schools with the “best” reputations (and of course the longest waiting lists). As long as little Joey “gets in,” all will be well. Rarely do I hear a parent say, "My kid really loves his teacher." Among my own adult parent peers, when it comes to schools, the emphasis is too often on the forest, rather than the trees. By the time I’d been kicked out of my third school, for example, my parents were forced to settle for something pretty far away from the traditional definition of things. Yet it was in the classroom of a converted 7-11 where I was finally “found” by a teacher who channeled my defiance and turned my academic life around in about three hours. It took thinking outside the mainstream to get there. But these days, for whatever reason, more and more parents are followers. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/MOMMYS-LITTLE-ASSHOLES.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7071" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/MOMMYS-LITTLE-ASSHOLES.jpg" alt="MOMMYS LITTLE ASSHOLES" width="300" height="199" /></a>Adult followers, of course, were once teenage sheep, and in my experience, mainly male sheep. I hate that Ray will face idiot boys who fail to question each other, who suppress doubts about what they're told girls have to offer, and who come from parents who judge a school by what other parents are seen driving. You know, the sort of people who have to first look around to gather others’ opinions before they can form their own. I have to admit: some of my friends and family <em>are</em> these breeding yes-men and gullible moms. <p class="p1">My own attraction to women who think for themselves has left me wealthy with insights for which many of my guy friends have no use. Still, with full awareness that it’s limited to the world of men, I'll stick to my own experience. Straight up: I’m sad and angry when I witness the discomfort, dissatisfaction, and sometimes self delusion on the part of women I've known.</p> <p class="p1">Just a few weeks ago, a lifelong female friend from before high school died, and it’s likely the toxicology report will show that she took her own life.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/NO-FUNHOUSE.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7074" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/NO-FUNHOUSE.jpg" alt="NO FUNHOUSE" width="188" height="282" /></a>Her choices were her responsibility, but she’d suffered for decades with a negative body image, constantly dissatisfied by the results of tricks, helpers, and procedures that were supposed to return her to her to happiness. She kept her loved ones at bay and disintegrated until she could no longer see enough of herself to recognize something worth fighting for.</p> When it comes to parenting, you can tell me I don’t know what I’m talking about. But I’ve seen and known a lot of people pursuing an inner satisfaction through an outer cure, and I think this is why parents need to dive deeper into what influences their children – and how those things are interpreted. I’m not saying that Ruby contributed to her daughter’s decline by allowing her to experiment with makeup. I just wish Ray wasn't entering the circus of hoops we make women jump through, and I wish she wasn't about to encounter teenage boys who’ll look to see how their friends acknowledge her presence and contributions before knowing how to acknowledge it themselves. Her survivor mother will guide her well I know... Yes, all of this and more is what I saw in a selfie. It was like looking at the picture in a funhouse mirror: the social distortion a young girl is about to face, stretching and bubbling the photo itself. . &nbsp; <p style="text-align: center;"></p> 7064 2014-06-08 22:54:04 2014-06-09 05:54:04 2014-06-09 06:27:01 2014-06-09 13:27:01 closed open saw-selfie publish 0 0 post 0 child rearing Culture funhouse mirror Notes from a Non-parent parenting self-image selfie sheep social distortion Your Adorable Child _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw selfie _yoast_wpseo_title What I Saw in a Selfie - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc It was like looking at the selfie in a funhouse mirror: the social distortion a young girl is about to face, stretching and bubbling the photo itself. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 79 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703356699;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1816;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8306;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:412;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:922;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:319;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6140;}}}} 129275 Karen kard@socal.rr.com http://www.karenard.com 104.35.131.56 2014-06-09 00:16:04 2014-06-09 07:16:04 Disintegrated...well said. 1 comment 0 0 130063 Samara twnluv@gmail.com 108.228.240.42 2014-06-09 17:20:57 2014-06-10 00:20:57 Well said John. As a mom of two Autistic boys, I love the fact that they really don't care what 'everyone else' is doing. Of course it hurts their 'social' life, or what society deems as 'normal social interaction'.. but.. if they're happier playing within their own world and are satisfied with who and what they are, who am I to question it? Rather, I embrace it! 1 comment 0 0 http://working-copy.local/comfort-zone-2/defensive-architecture/ Mon, 16 Jun 2014 07:00:19 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=7097 <b>Anti-loitering architecture forces the homeless out into the shame</b> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Dinner-time-for-De-waged-Americans_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7121" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Dinner-time-for-De-waged-Americans_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Dinner time for De-waged Americans_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="394" height="207" /></a>Kristin Hohenadel's <a href="http://Slate.com" target="_blank">Slate.com</a> piece on "managing" London's homeless ("Are Anti-Homeless Sidewalk Spikes Immoral?") <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/06/12/artist_nils_norman_documents_anti_homeless_spikes_and_other_defensive_architecture.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content&amp;mc_cid=e80357ce80&amp;mc_eid=1c4bc52787" target="_blank">points</a> to a <a href="http://Change.org" target="_blank">Change.org</a> <a href="http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/mayoroflondon-residential-property-partners-remove-the-anti-homeless-spikes?recruiter=107232150&amp;utm_campaign=share_twitter_mobile&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_source=share_petition" target="_blank">petition</a> that insists we give a damn about vulnerable populations rather than ostracize them with defensive architecture. The "spikes" that sparked the outrage&gt;petition&gt;renewed UK debate&gt;this blog entry were installed near the entrance of a luxury residential building in London on June 10, 2014. The article's example pictures of "anti-bum" devices, culled from artist Nils Norman's international <a href="http://www.dismalgarden.com/archives/defensive_architecture/bum-free" target="_blank">collection</a>, show a callousness that is not, to me, the least bit surprising. For years, I've referred to nasty urban planning designs like these as "MAN-EATERS" since they frequently resemble shark teeth. Here in Los Angeles, in a world of caged trash bins and spatial confinement of the homeless, we have a disheartening array of them. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Pigeon-Science-on-Human-Subjects.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7108" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Pigeon-Science-on-Human-Subjects.jpg" alt="Pigeon Science on Human Subjects" width="142" height="218" /></a>We're not alone, though: across modern urban landscapes everywhere, commercial and residential developers are planning and designing "exclusionary" access ways and loading docks to discourage the poor from setting up shop in doorways and “gap sites," those architectural nooks and crannies that most of us sinners have been grateful to find at one time or another – usually when drunk. But let's face it: in every one of us lurks a little NIMBY contradiction, the sentiment otherwise known as, "not in my backyard." Partiers are grateful to find a place to pee, sure, but don't want to work near or pass through one of these stink-holes on a daily basis. (By the way, if anyone is offended by the implication that you'd <em>ever</em> urinate in an alley or between two buildings, please discontinue reading now. I make no guarantee your head won't explode when I start mocking those who feel a moral playing field has been leveled, now that anti-pigeon science is being used on humans.)<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Ledge-benches-revent-lazy-jobless-losers-from-nap-time-.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7110" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Ledge-benches-revent-lazy-jobless-losers-from-nap-time-.jpg" alt="Ledge-benches prevent lazy jobless losers from enjoying nap time" width="274" height="184" /></a>The fact is, residential management companies and corporate <a href="http://www.westfield.com/centurycity/" target="_blank">re-developers</a> are exploring increasingly inventive tactics for shooing the poor elsewhere. It's something I've seen all my life, and it wasn't until the 1990 publication of Mike Davis's fascinating (if bleak) <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/06/where-to-start-when-it-comes-to-city-of-quartz-mike-daviss-1990-polemic-against-the-rampant-privatization-and-gated-communi.html" target="_blank">City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles</a> that I knew what to call it. Finally, there was a name for public parks and spaces that, by their very design, discriminated between the welcome and the unwelcome, the haves and have-nots: "Fortress L.A." In the chapter, "<a href="http://www.u.arizona.edu/~compitel/Fortress%20LA.pdf" target="_blank">Fortress Los Angeles: The Militarization of Urban Space</a>," Davis argues that architects in L.A. have led the way in "privatizing public space" through urban design intended to steer the unsightly out of places like Century City, Beverly Hills, and so forth. Though fairly self righteously written, a handful of friends and I devoured City of Quartz, quoting from it like a favorite movie (my term, MAN-EATERS, was born out of one such discussion). And while Davis's views can arguably be taken as bloated Marxism, there's no getting around his prescience in viewing prison construction as a de facto urban renewal program, predicting <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=aaokOIsMogAC&amp;pg=PA68&amp;lpg=PA68&amp;dq=Immigration+and+Customs+Enforcement+Micro-prisons&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=wY-c5wMtYg&amp;sig=xlnZIq_yMrpUFazlS_uLPeQwTso&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=OI6eU_rIIObc8gG8s4DACg&amp;ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q=Immigration%20and%20Customs%20Enforcement%20Micro-prisons&amp;f=false" target="_blank">ICE micro-prisons</a> and "<a href="http://www.correctionalnews.com/products/video-visitation-systems" target="_blank">designer prisons</a>," and believing the War on Drugs would double our prison population in <a href="http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Prisons_and_Drugs#sthash.WjIucqAE.dpbs" target="_blank">one generation</a>. Boy, was he <a href="http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Prisons_and_Jails#sthash.2UJajJCE.dpbs" target="_blank">right!</a> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/City-of-Quartz_Mike-Davis.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7115" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/City-of-Quartz_Mike-Davis.jpg" alt="City of Quartz_Mike Davis" width="169" height="243" /></a>There's also no getting around the fact that "bathrooms are for customers only" has become part and parcel of our urban world, something Davis calls "spatial apartheid." Published 10 years before cell phone culture kicked off, City of Quartz foresaw a “universal electronic tagging of property and people.” And finally, on the subject of crowds, Davis wrote: <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;"> “...the designers of malls and pseudo-public space attack the crowd by homogenizing it. They set up architectural and semiotic barriers to filter out ‘undesirables’. They enclose the mass that remains, directing its circulation with behaviorist ferocity. It is lured by visual stimuli of all kinds, dulled by musak, sometimes even scented by invisible aromatizers.”</p> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Access-Schmaccess-Say-No-to-Commoners.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7117" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Access-Schmaccess-Say-No-to-Commoners.jpg" alt="Access Schmaccess Say No to Commoners" width="91" height="97" /></a>So...yeah: much of what the guy wrote was prophetic. Installing rows of steel spikes in the doorways of <a href="http://la.curbed.com/archives/2014/04/the_revealing_map_of_donald_sterlings_162_la_properties.php" target="_blank">luxury apartment buildings</a> fits today's classist climate to the letter, from the missing Metro line between East LA and the beach, to Pacific Coast Highway homeowners disguising public ocean access as private property. (The really obnoxious ones <a href="http://la.curbed.com/archives/2013/07/malibu_residents_can_now_go_around_issuing_parking_tickets.php" target="_blank">issue parking tickets</a> and <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2013/may/29/local/la-me-0529-lopez-malibu-20130529" target="_blank">hire goons</a> to chase off visitors, and now, to counteract them -- drumroll -- there's an <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/our-malibu-beaches/id565636167?ls=1&amp;mt=8" target="_blank">app</a> for that!) <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/The-Tortilla-Curtain-by-TC-Boyle.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7118" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/The-Tortilla-Curtain-by-TC-Boyle.jpg" alt="The Tortilla Curtain by TC Boyle" width="155" height="237" /></a>The ideas laid out in City of Quartz were today's public mindset in the making. The extremity of the doorway spikes photographed in the UK may still be an ocean away, but gated communities disguised as Main Street, USA are their forbearers (fiction or no, see also <a href="http://www.tcboyle.com/books/index.html?10" target="_blank">T.C. Boyle's Tortilla Curtain</a>). This brings me back to the NIMBY contradiction. Exclusionary and defensive architecture does have its purpose, such as when you're pushing a baby stroller past someone smoking crack in the recess of a building near where you live. Yet for every crack smoker, urinator, puker, and people-of-Walmart who contaminate our privileged lives 14 seconds at a time, it helps to remember that 1.6 million children are homeless in America. In other words, delusional homeless people picking a fight with a cardboard box aren't the <em>only</em> ones looking for hidden corners on hot days and cold nights. And isn't it a tad hypocritical to coax your little Joey into giving away his used toys so other kids can play with them when you live behind "reminder spikes" installed by your home owners' association to make sure none of those less fortunate children try to share his space? Wouldn't that technically be an excuse for solidifying a class ideal in the mind of someone with his whole world and life ahead of him? Do we really want the next generation to grow up thinking it's ok to punish the poor? If that sounds like an exaggeration, just what level of rational analysis do you think a hungry nine-year-old is capable of? Never mind the 'ol wino talking to himself as you take out your trash, we need to think of the young ones from both a moral and a practical standpoint. I mean, do we really want to harden the hearts and minds of an ever growing population of homeless children? If spatial apartheid exists, and I believe it does, it means the endgame is to keep us separated into controlled and monitored groups. What end result can we expect, then, beyond the neo-militarization of our world? And for that, there's simply no excuse. <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/OMG-Poor-People-Sleeping-on-Spikes-LOL.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-7123" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/OMG-Poor-People-Sleeping-on-Spikes-LOL.jpg" alt="OMG Poor People Sleeping on Spikes LOL" width="297" height="301" /></a></p> &nbsp; 7097 2014-06-16 00:00:19 2014-06-16 07:00:19 2014-06-16 09:03:15 2014-06-16 16:03:15 closed open defensive-architecture publish 0 0 post 0 Beverly Hills Century City City of Quartz Comfort Zone Culture defensive architecture Fortress L.A. homeless Kristin Hohenadel London Los Angeles Marxism Mike Davis Nils Norman Slate.com T.C. Boyle Tortilla Curtain _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw architecture _yoast_wpseo_title Defensive Architecture - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Hey, here's a question: how does one explain the nasty "Defensive Architecture" of anti-homeless doorway spikes to a curious five year old? _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 80 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:4;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704968174;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1946;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10163;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6491;}}}} http://working-copy.local/prison-2/new-prison-reality/ Thu, 26 Jun 2014 18:42:04 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=7132 <h2 class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/WELCOME_TO-COMCAST_NBC_UNIVERSAL_PRISON.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7153" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/WELCOME_TO-COMCAST_NBC_UNIVERSAL_PRISON.jpg" alt="WELCOME_TO COMCAST_NBC_UNIVERSAL_PRISON" width="255" height="245" /></a>Heart and humanity must now evolve into the new prison reality....</span></h2> <p class="p1">Just yesterday, a stranger told me he'd heard the words "prison rehabilitation" more times in the last two months than ever before in his life. My first reaction was that sentiments like his will only become more common as Americans adapt to new representations of incarceration and the incarcerated, and as the dialogue on prison reform becomes an increasingly pressing topic in Washington, at the state level, and in so many of our social and cultural realms.</p> <p class="p1">At the same time, the implication that criminal offenders are (usually) people too causes friction as it rubs up against the manner in which we've been trained to recognize prison -- narrowly, dismissively, and neglectfully.</p> <p class="p1">I began this blog in 2010, when <em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em> was still a manuscript. I intended to blog about excuses made daily by celebrities, politicians, and whoever else was unlucky enough to publicly display poor coping skills. I've had a lot of fun with the sarcasm, not to mention with challenging people's comfort zones and entitlements.<!--more--></p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Cardboard-Standup_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7135" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Cardboard-Standup_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Cardboard Standup_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="320" height="306" /></a>I've also worked to defy the public's proclivity for dismissing the incarcerated as "those people"; as scumbags who <i>must</i> deserve whatever they're getting, "or why else would they be locked up?" Inmates are easily and often blamed for poor public policy decisions relating to criminal justice, overcrowding, and crappy conditions, but a lot less noise is made about milestone-based education and genuine rehabilitation. I'm not only <i>for</i> both, I'm a product <i>of</i> them.</p> <p class="p1">Yet if I had a nickel for every time I've heard, "or why else would they be locked up?" I could move to the south of France, decide it sucks, relocate to Switzerland, then pull a U-turn and move back here to LA. In <i>this</i> housing market.</p> <p class="p1">For too long, the public's understanding of our justice system has come from preposterous media representations. This exploded with prison documentary TV, edited to highlight the screamer in the box spitting, shouting, and finally being subdued by six guards. These shows, this "inmate blackface," as I call them, are entirely exploitive. They ignore rehabilitation completely, reinforcing narrow beliefs that put us farther from each other and from understanding what people face when released from a custody environment. And I've said it before, but I'll say it again: When someone goes to prison only to emerge a worse criminal, taxpayers aren't getting what they paid for.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/It-Takes-Five-to-Tango-at-the-Discovery-Channel.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7136" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/It-Takes-Five-to-Tango-at-the-Discovery-Channel.jpg" alt="It Takes Five to Tango at the Discovery Channel" width="286" height="164" /></a>When I began this journey, hoping my fresh take on the prison narrative would appeal to others, I could count from 8-12 inmate blackface jail shows listed in my cable guide on any given day. <i>Inside American Jail, Lockup, Lockdown, Las Vegas Jailhouse, America's Hardest Prisons, First Week In, Torture: America's Brutal Prisons</i>, and so forth. They're all the same, with producers eager to prove they're delivering bona fide hard-core prison. And still, they can't scratch the surface of the heart and humanity that also exists inside (hmm...can't, or won't?). Having spent four years of my life experiencing every conceivable prison cliché, miracle, and monster, nothing is more offensive than inmate blackface masquerading as documentary. In the immortal words of George Carlin, "It's all bullshit, and it's bad for you."</p> <p class="p1">The <i>real</i> reality is that the world behind bars is one rich in creativity, misguided intelligence, disregarded and wasted potential, and of course, evil mutherfuckers who should never see a public sidewalk again. The lessons I learned and the things I discovered in myself apply, all these years later, almost daily. Prison was the worst thing I've ever done to myself and my family, but it also had the greatest impact on my character, emotional intelligence, and sense of self direction. I attribute most of this to finally learning the benefits of creating and maintaining a relationship with delayed gratification.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/lgd_logo11.png"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7138" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/lgd_logo11.png" alt="lgd_logo1" width="158" height="175" /></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/OITNB.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-7139" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/OITNB.jpg" alt="OITNB" width="263" height="138" /></a><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/blogs/alternate-take/hard-time-the-mc5s-wayne-kramer-goes-behind-bars-for-new-album-20140613" target="_blank">Wayne Kramer</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bragg" target="_blank">Billy Bragg</a>, who founded Jail Guitar Doors to bring musicians, instruments, and music to inmates, are among those I've admired on this journey. I'm a fan of <i>Orange is the New Black</i>, both the book and the Netflix show, so naturally I'm an admirer of Piper Kerman, who single-handedly dragged an otherwise immovable spotlight to shine on prison issues. Kerman's platform is far larger than mine (but she follows me on Twitter hee-hee!) and she uses it inspirationally and with class. This stands in contrast to celebrities who've aligned themselves with the "cause" of prison reform to boost their own profiles. But even coming to terms with <i>this</i> less-than-tactful element is a tiny irritation in exchange for the attention being paid to wrongful convictions, 3-strikes law, botched executions, negligent prosecution, DNA exoneration, attorney misconduct, felony disenfranchisement, sexual assault in jails, overcrowding, private prisons, immigrant detention centers, and the big daddy of 'em all: America's predilection for incarcerating its way out of crime – <a href="http://newjimcrow.com/" target="_blank">starting with black people</a>.</p> <p class="p1">Now before you write me off as some bleeding heart liberal who's hoping you'll feel sorry for criminal offenders, just know that I'm a guy who's looked around a prison yard and decided that if these are the idiots they're locking up and clogging the court system with, then they're doing a damn fine job. <i>I</i> sure don't want to run into these guys again!</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/GEO-logo.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-3453" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/GEO-logo.jpg" alt="GEO logo" width="208" height="72" /></a>But that was the perspective of someone whose greatest hope at the time was to avoid reoffending. These days, I take the slightly more sophisticated view that our prison system is scamming taxpayers. We're spending more and more, while under the guise of cost-savings we're undercutting programs that could help reverse our alarming rates of incarceration, such as inmate advisory councils, honor yards, and real prisoner education opportunities.</p> <p class="p1">The corporate prison industry is just about the worst entity that exists in America, second only, in my opinion, to the insidious snake of heroin. Yet for every golf-course-owning, detention-for-profit-loving executive out there paying judges to sentence inmates to their privately owned facilities, there are countless County and State employees struggling under bumbling, inept, and buck-passing government bureaucrats.</p> <p class="p1">And for every private prison lobbyist in Washington, there are maybe ten civilian teachers and prison educators truly attempting to reach at least one inmate. I'm here to tell you, there <i>are</i> people who lose sleep over stuff like this, and they're the ones to focus on.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Daivd-Scott-Milton.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7141" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Daivd-Scott-Milton.jpg" alt="Daivd Scott Milton" width="112" height="151" /></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Lotus-Weinstock.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7142" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Lotus-Weinstock.jpg" alt="Lotus Weinstock" width="118" height="158" /></a>The decisions I make, the quality of my life, and the person I am today are largely owed to people like playwright, author, and former penitentiary writing instructor <a href="http://working-copy.local/murder/murderers-are-his-life/" target="_blank">David Scott Milton</a>; pre-release instructor Chuck Hildebrandt; the late comedienne and erstwhile mentor <a href="http://youtu.be/yXTDSGv4J8w" target="_blank">Lotus Weinstock</a>; LA County Men's Central Jail Chaplain William McKinley; jail hobby shop monitor Gary Palmer; two Associate Wardens; and about 15 career corrections officers who, sometimes without knowing it, encouraged me to push myself for the better. In a million years, I couldn't make up the things I experienced while incarcerated or the level of generosity I witnessed from these and others. The greatest advantage I had as an inmate –working day by day to survive and understand concepts like excuses and personal accountability– was the degree of emotional intelligence that was suddenly attainable because of these employees and guards.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/THIS-IS-NOR-ABOUT-FEELING-SORRY-FOR-CRIMINALS.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7146" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/THIS-IS-NOR-ABOUT-FEELING-SORRY-FOR-CRIMINALS.jpg" alt="THIS IS NOT ABOUT FEELING SORRY FOR CRIMINALS" width="131" height="136" /></a>There were inmates, too, who made sacrifices on my behalf, put me ahead of others in line, scolded me in the spirit of personal growth, and showed me how to protect myself from predators, including me. These were good, conflicted, and deeply injured human beings who showed me that real rehabilitation is only possible once you get over yourself. Like me, most hoped to take advantage of a second chance; others wanted to live a better life despite never going home. And sure, there were assholes you'd have to see to believe, but a copy of <i>Where Excuses Go to Die</i> is a fine, fine alternative to getting locked up in order to meet them. I wrote it to honor these men and women, and to offer the public stories of the men from whom I learned so much about life. To this day, I remain devastated by what I heard and how much I grew when I finally shut up and started listening to others.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/indiefab-finalist-imprint_new.png"><img class="alignright wp-image-6835" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/indiefab-finalist-imprint_new.png" alt="indiefab-finalist-imprint_new" width="106" height="186" /></a>Speaking of the book, I'm headed to Vegas this weekend for the national American Library Association conference, where the trade magazine <i>ForeWord Reviews</i> will announce the winners of its <a href="http://ala14.ala.org/" target="_blank">2013 IndieFab Book of the Year Awards</a>. <i>Where Excuses Go to Die</i> has been nominated, and while my fingers are crossed, I've already won. The number of rape 'n riots prison shows has dwindled recently, and folks are hearing the word "rehabilitation" more than ever.</p> <p class="p1">Plus, I've become an active voice in the fight against the inhumanity of 24-minute-long prison TV that perpetuates inmate blackface. I can't single-handedly change public policy, but I can help change public perception.</p> <p class="p1">Check me out later today on <a href="http://cyruswebbpresents.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Cyrus Webb's</a> Conversations LIVE on WMPR 90.1 FM in Jackson, Mississippi -- 5 pm Pacific, 8 pm Eastern. (Live streams <a href="http://wmpr901.com/" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/conversationslive" target="_blank">here</a>.) And watch my Tweets for updates during the conference (@defcon_john).</p> <p class="p1">.</p> <p class="p1" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Inmate_Cardboard-Standup_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-7155" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Inmate_Cardboard-Standup_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Inmate_Cardboard Standup_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="121" height="116" /></a></p> 7132 2014-06-26 11:42:04 2014-06-26 18:42:04 2014-06-28 02:07:50 2014-06-28 09:07:50 closed open new-prison-reality publish 0 0 post 0 Billy Bragg Culture Cyrus Webb David Scott Milton France George Carlin incarceration Incarceration Nation inmate blackface Jail Guitar Doors Lotus Weinstock Men's Central Jail Netflix Orange Is the New Black Piper Kerman prison Prison recidivism rehabilitation Wayne Kramer _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw prison _yoast_wpseo_title New Prison Reality - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc I can't single-handedly change public policy, but I can help change public perception about prison and prisoners. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 91 _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1700493437;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7321;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8684;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7708;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/like-win-literary-award/ Mon, 14 Jul 2014 06:09:38 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=7165 <h2><span style="color: #000000;">I earned my first literary award in Folsom. This time? Las Vegas...</span></h2> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/2014-ALA-banner.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-7208" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/2014-ALA-banner.jpg" alt="2014-ALA-banner" width="596" height="129" /></a> <p style="text-align: left;">ForeWord Reviews <a href="https://indiefab.forewordreviews.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IndieFab Book of the Year Awards</a>, presented at the <a href="http://ala14.ala.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2014 American Library Association Conference</a> at the Las Vegas Convention Center.</p> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/IndieFab-Certificate.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7168" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/IndieFab-Certificate.jpg" alt="IndieFab Certificate" width="302" height="411" /></a><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Folsom prison has its thugs, killers, and seething sodomites perched like gargoyles, set to pounce on the right bounce, but it's got nuthin' on exposed armpits in Vegas.</strong></span> What <em>is</em> it about Las Vegas that makes tank tops so ubiquitous? From wife-beaters to big, tie-dyed side-wallers, it seems six of every ten meanderers goes sleeveless, choosing the display of warty pits over dignity. It's as if they think armpits, with all of their "character," have become substitutes for good ink work. They haven't. And we're not talking about your nicer tank tops, either – more like saggy, cigarette ash 'n mayo varnished nightwear. Blech. Yes, I know it's Sin City; <em>let it all hang out;</em> blah-blah-blah. But that's no excuse for flaunting your weight-loss stretch marks each time you roll some dice, lift a fork, jab at a slot machine button, or u-turn your rented casino scooter into another herd. When planning a trip to Vegas, it's helpful to adjust your expectations a notch below your last memories of the place, 'cause Vegas today is all about elastic waist bands, approximated quality, billowy tank tops, and carry-along toy trumpets of frozen, fruity booze. I realize that Frank Sinatra's life has been highly mythologized, but I'm confident there was a moment when he looked at Vegas and thought: <em>it's only downhill from here</em>. <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/WORST-ROOM-KEY-GRAPHICS-EVER_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7172" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/WORST-ROOM-KEY-GRAPHICS-EVER_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="WORST ROOM KEY GRAPHICS EVER_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="122" height="187" /></a>Harrah's check-in...</strong> Thursday-to-Saturday Vegas beats Friday-to-Sunday anytime. Just ask road-weary parents of toddlers and teenagers  –which my wife, Crystal, and I are not– or drivers –like we <em>are</em>– who hate being stuck behind card-carrying members of Snails of America. Once your return trip eats up an entire Sunday, ending with a drive directly into the blazing sunset, you won't make that mistake again. Midnight departures out of Los Angeles are the best, and nondescript commuter vehicles are the smartest. (A little over 3<span style="color: #000000;">½</span> hours is our best time.) The only drawback to getting a room at three on a Friday morning in Vegas is who and what you encounter upon arrival. Since the front desk area is much quieter than normal, you tend to notice the first of your fellow visitors. <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/George-C.-Scott_Sony-Pictures-Entertainment.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7175" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/George-C.-Scott_Sony-Pictures-Entertainment.jpg" alt="George C. Scott_Sony Pictures Entertainment" width="111" height="301" /></a>In our case, this meant shit-faced twenty-something women. With their volume set to "annoying drunk" they paraded by, managing mumbly boyfriends and wardrobe failures. A glimpse of their filthy bare feet was my personal, "Oh, right – <em>Vegas</em>." One couple stopped to lean on a counter obviously more stable than they were. Older woman, younger guy: these two were long past the point of knowing for sure whether Harrah's was their hotel or just a shortcut. Clad in a one-piece Lycra tube dress that had ridden up to where it was tucked under her butt cheeks, this woman, too, had bare, dirty feet, but a pair or four-inch pumps dangled from her fingers.<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/My-wife-says-I-should-clean-my-scanner-bed-but-underwear-germs-dont-live-this-long.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7171" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/My-wife-says-I-should-clean-my-scanner-bed-but-underwear-germs-dont-live-this-long-300x276.jpg" alt="My wife says I should clean my scanner bed but underwear germs dont live this long" width="182" height="168" /></a> Her date was hiding his drunken boyishness in her ample cleavage, though it was more like he'd hooked his face there and let his body hang like a coat. She turned my way at one point, and man oh man, she had the beaten mug of a Staten Island sanitation worker circa 1959. (Come to think of it, she looked a lot like the late George C. Scott.) This was one of the ugliest women I've ever seen. I was fascinated. They were both a mess. And suddenly crumpled cash started falling from under her fruit roll-up of a dress. She was oblivious, coddling the man-boy under her chin. I elbowed Crystal, too busy checking us in to join my impolite gawking. When they wobbled away the money went with them, stuck to her feet. I can only imagine what made her feet adhesive, but when two of the bills freed themselves, I raised my hand to say something, then dropped it just as quickly. I let them round a corner, went over, and pocketed the singles. I scanned one, and here it is. Let's move on. <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Harrah's Carnival Tower, Room 1431... </strong></span> Rather than let the realization that the room was dumpy sit for just a minute, outta my mouth came, "Oh right, it's crappy Harrah's. Look at this garbage. Two queen beds? I bet there's bird flu on these glasses. Why'd you pick Harrah's again?" <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Harrahs-Las-Vegas_Looks-great-untill-you-look-closer.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7184" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Harrahs-Las-Vegas_Looks-great-untill-you-look-closer-300x225.jpg" alt="Harrahs Las Vegas_Looks great untill you look closer" width="180" height="135" /></a>Crystal explained the conference discount hotel block (for what she <em>claimed</em> was the third time). She ticked off the other hotels we could have chosen – all about the same in terms of "luxury" accommodations. Then she reminded me of Tommy Allison's wedding at Harrah's Lake Tahoe. The officiant was a blackjack dealer and Tommy's boss came with hookers on each arm (women he was rumored to have paid in coke). We skipped that all night party and instead learned to play craps with some lucky rollers. "Harrah's was good to us once," Crystal told me. "Maybe it will be again, when they announce the winners." What's a tired grump gonna do with that? We climbed into beds made of germs and splinters for the few hours we figured we'd catch. Fortunately, we were tired enough to doze off. <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>"BLEEP! BLEEP! BLEEP!"</strong></span> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Tangled-wires.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7185" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Tangled-wires-300x181.jpg" alt="Tangled-wires" width="234" height="141" /></a>Ninety minutes in to an already fitful sleep, the alarm clock sent us both scrambling. But bash the thing as we might, its already beat-up buttons wouldn't respond. As if one mind, our arms stabbed for a plug, only to find a middle finger from hotel electricians so devious it earned our grudging respect. The lamp and alarm clock cords led to a big tangle of unrelated, randomly selected wires bundled together, then came out the other side and disappeared into the floor. Anyone running a hand back there would feel a knot designed to defeat someone high on bath salts using nothing but exasperation. And what a marvelous clump it was: spiraled phone cords, ethernet wires, even headphone wires in all sorts of colors. Everything was tied into knots, and the knots themselves were zip-tied to one another. Unfortunately the mind-bending electronic chirp shattered our patience and cut short our admiration. The only way to make the thing stop was to reset the alarm. Truly sadistic. Knowing we were due for a room upgrade, we, of course, chose 4:08 am. No reason not to share the madness. <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Sixty bucks for Bro tacos...</strong></span> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/I-would-sooner-chew-a-sheet-of-aluminum-foil.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7204" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/I-would-sooner-chew-a-sheet-of-aluminum-foil-1024x764.jpg" alt="I would sooner chew a sheet of aluminum foil" width="268" height="200" /></a>For today's Vegas low-roller, the place is one big interconnected food court specializing in flavorless cruise ship nutrition. Steakhouses are so pervasive they might as well be creepy oil portraits with eyes that follow you – especially the large, mausoleum-looking ones off the Strip: patches of undeveloped land allow 'em to keep watching even after you've turned the corner.<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Armpits-arent-just-those-things-above-your-elbows.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7188" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Armpits-arent-just-those-things-above-your-elbows-300x200.jpg" alt="Armpits aren't just those things above your elbows." width="184" height="122" /></a> You <em>can</em> drive or cab it to Henderson or Summerlin for healthier, less insultingly priced options, but time was an issue for us. Conference registration was at hand, and we weren't exactly sure when the ForeWord Reviews IndieFab Awards would be announced. Wandering through damn near identical casinos, looking for a place to eat while hungry (on a total of 2.5 hours of sleep) is pretty much a worst case scenario. The exercise, we enjoy; woozy hypoglycemia and armpits, we don't. Every place with a menu had a 30-minute wait just to be seated. The peeved faces of those outside Hash House a Go Go triggered "food mood," at which point 7-Eleven burritos become an arguable option. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Gastrointestinal-bleed-out.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7195" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Gastrointestinal-bleed-out-300x91.jpg" alt="Gastrointestinal bleed-out" width="205" height="62" /></a>We'd normally howl with laughter at the tequila castle we settled for, but it had precious few customers, and sitting amongst empty tables in the air conditioning was appealing. So while the playpen crowd did Jäger shots at the bar and smeared things on themselves, we collected our thoughts about the day ahead. Oddly enough, it was here that I first really contemplated the journey of <em>Where Excuses Go to Die </em>from jail scribbling to spoken word readings, and from self-indulgent manuscript to literary award finalist. Each step of the way required only one thing – the one I'm not known for. Perseverance. And P.S. we shoulda gone with the 7-Eleven burritos. <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Room swap... </strong></span> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Into-the-Armpits-of-Strangers_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7189" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Into-the-Armpits-of-Strangers_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-300x298.jpg" alt="Into the Armpits of Strangers_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="182" height="181" /></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Concierge-Desk-at-Harrahs-Las-Vegas_Dirty-Bare-feet-Welcome.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7210" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Concierge-Desk-at-Harrahs-Las-Vegas_Dirty-Bare-feet-Welcome-300x225.jpg" alt="Concierge Desk at Harrahs Las Vegas_Dirty Bare feet Welcome" width="185" height="139" /></a>After breakfast, at the 490-foot long "concierge" counter, I saw countless people slugging cans of beer and hefting 12-packs while standing in line to check in. Yeah, don't wait for the Vegas experience to load up or anything, just skip the power of anticipation and jump to the sensory overload. I don't see this behavior as much different from staying home, putting on some music, and shocking yourself with an electrical cord. Don't get me wrong, I understand radicalized partying and appreciate that my own party suicide vest hasn't yet killed me. But Vegas was never much of a factor in marking my transition from teenager to man-child. My eye caught an electronic ad for a bar selling cans of beer in paper bags, ostensibly for sidewalk enjoyment. I looked around and thought, to visit a place of incalculable resource consumption, where the gods of waste hide their faces in embarrassment and where a poverty themed hotel may one day stand, only to walk around with a $14 can of beer in a bag...is like puking into a mirror. <strong style="color: #000000;">To the Vegas Convention Center! (But first, the craps tables...)</strong> Discovering that we needn't register at the conference for several hours was a lucky bonus. The IndieFab announcements wouldn't take place until the opening conference reception, scheduled for late afternoon. So we bee-lined it for the craps tables with a $5 minimum. Two hours later, I could see that Crystal had been right to pick this place. Harrah's was again good to us; I only hoped we hadn't depleted our luck. We headed up to our new room, a "mini-suite" in the recently renovated Mardi Gras Tower, then out to the conference. <strong style="color: #000000;">Conference registration and the pride of community...</strong> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/John-Nelson_Author_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7191" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/John-Nelson_Author_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-300x221.jpg" alt="John Nelson_Author_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="225" height="167" /></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/FIND-ONE-EXPOSED-ARMPIT-IN-THIS-PICTURE.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-7200" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/FIND-ONE-EXPOSED-ARMPIT-IN-THIS-PICTURE-300x224.jpg" alt="FIND ONE EXPOSED ARMPIT IN THIS PICTURE" width="300" height="224" /></a>The walk across the Vegas Convention Center parking lot was painful. Not a stick of shade and 108°, it's an environment impossible for us puny humans to appreciate. Yet despite the heat, we saw fewer exposed armpits: librarians tend to dress with a creative approach to casual Friday. You've got your funny hats, your flair, and even your personalized formal wear, but the glue holding this ambiance together is neither loyalty to the alphabet nor to a specific dress code. It's womanhood. Mind you, library conferences aren't <em>all</em> women, but their numbers are greater and you can hear it in the laughter. I don't do gun shows or Comic-con, but from a guy's perspective, it was a relief to be at a convention where the female form wasn't being used as a doormat. Naturally, library conferences are places where <em>books</em> are the star of the show. In fact, everything library-related was represented: publishers, scholastic service providers, communications and archival companies, library science, logistics, and so forth. So to be acknowledged here, to be judged by a select group of librarians and booksellers from across the country, felt pretty cool. And hey, I was a librarian once – a prison librarian. I could make your late fees disappear for a pack of cigarettes or some other commodity. This conference felt personally satisfying, which even helped me get past my fear about the one title we figured was our toughest competition, a memoir that was already the recipient of a PEN American award. <strong>Watching the presenters get things dialed in...</strong> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Watching-things-get-dialed-things-in.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7206" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Watching-things-get-dialed-things-in-300x225.jpg" alt="Watching things get dialed things in" width="229" height="172" /></a><a href="https://www.forewordreviews.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ForeWord Reviews</a> complimented and honored <em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em>, so it was nice to thank its editors and publisher personally at the conference. Besides, it felt like I'd already won. ForeWord is a quarterly magazine covering the publishing industry, acquisitions, independent and university presses, authors, and trade shows from BookExpo America to international shows in China and Europe, so it meant a lot to have their endorsement, even as a finalist.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ForeWord-logo.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7211" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ForeWord-logo-300x300.jpg" alt="ForeWord logo" width="132" height="132" /></a>As noted previously, ForeWord's IndieFab Book of the Year Awards are unique in that winners are chosen by working librarians and booksellers. The other finalists' submissions were yet another reminder of how far we'd come and how hard we worked. <em>Where Excuses Go to Die </em>wouldn't have been among any of 'em had I quit when I'd been tempted to.</p> <p class="p1">We hadn't known a lot about ForeWord before they gave <em>Excuses</em> a glowing <a href="http://www.icontact-archive.com/s2qh3_mmqxmJvO4YEK6LUzzdcx8UMnWF?w=4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">review</a>, but bringing to their attention the example they're helping me set –someone who started this journey in a prison cell– seemed like the most important thing to do all weekend.</p> <p class="p1"><strong>Acceptance speech not necessary...</strong></p> <p class="p1">Apparently this was to be a press conference-style announcement of medalists and editors choice awards, which was good news for the audience. Had they been forced to endure thank-yous from the IndieFab winners in every category, we would have been there for 4<span style="color: #000000;">½</span> hours. (All I'm asking is that you read this long-ass blog post.)</p> <p class="p1">As the names were read, I realized the results wouldn't be as black 'n white as I'd anticipated, with a single winner in each category. An honorable mention, bronze, silver, and gold prize allowed a 1-in-4 chance of being recognized, which was a relief. On the assumption that there'd be only one winner, though, I'd beaten myself up in advance over seeing myself as a mere also-ran. We writers, we do that to ourselves.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/BLEEDER-by-Shelby-Smoak.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7213" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/BLEEDER-by-Shelby-Smoak-199x300.jpg" alt="Print" width="140" height="211" /></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Straight-Cover.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7215" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Straight-Cover-200x300.jpg" alt="Straight Cover" width="137" height="207" /></a>Back and forth my mind went like this for 30 minutes, the only point in this journey I'd call manic. It was exciting and torturous.</p> <p class="p1">Shelby Smoak's "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bleeder-A-Memoir-Shelby-Smoak/dp/1611860695" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bleeder</a>" is a terrifically titled coming-of-age story that was the intimidating entry on the horizon. Smoak, a hemophiliac to begin with, contracted HIV through a bad blood transfusion. Talk about a world of hurt.</p> <p class="p1">Yet our stories have isolation, loneliness, mistakes, and presumptuousness in common. I couldn't help but wonder which of us had written about these in a more compelling way. Smoak's prose is taut and accomplished. Like <em>Excuses</em>, it's a dark story told humorously, which had me and many other readers hooked right away.</p> <p class="p1">We were pretty sure <i>our book </i>would make the top four, but when Autobiography/Memoir was announced and it received neither an honorable mention nor a bronze medal, my mind had one more split-second to poke me with its all-or-nothing pinpricks...</p> <p class="p1"><strong><em>Bleeder</em> gets the gold; <em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em>, the silver...</strong></p> <p class="p1">And how does that feel?</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/indiefab-silver-imprint.png"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7229" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/indiefab-silver-imprint.png" alt="indiefab-silver-imprint" width="149" height="261" /></a>Damn good. The knowledge that it took 170+ literary professionals to make the decision illustrates the worthiness of my writing. It will help bring balance to those who unknowingly put conditions on an author's success with questions like, "Yeah, but how many books have you sold?" or "Now you need to make it into a movie!" as if such things were printed on numbered sushi menus. Getting professional recognition will at least help me explain how difficult it is (but why it's worth it) to keep oneself at the fucking keyboard day in and day out.</p> <p class="p1">So many of today's writers –myself included– have to wear multiple hats and become their own best advocates. Yet we do this because we know readers care about quality, not the prestigious brand of a publishing imprint or logo. Nobody walks into a bookstore asking for the latest from Random House. My book was published by Highrise Press, and it's companies like ForeWord Reviews who recognize small presses and indie publishers and help spread the word about plain ol' good writing.</p> <p class="p1">The top IndieFab prize winner has a damn good story, written well, and I'm pleased to be in his company and that of of all the other finalists. Memoirs and autobiographies must be as tough to judge as books on algebra. I'm definitely grateful.</p> <p class="p1">Crystal and I left the conference and went straight back to our mini-suite with its fluffier towels and cleaner glasses. Instead of an A/C unit that sounded like a helicopter hovering overhead, as we'd enjoyed in our first room, this one silently blew ice cold air. Standing in front of it, fresh out of the shower, was terrific.</p> <p class="p1">I gave in to the steakhouse idea. We went to Ruth's Chris and were seated in a circular glass room containing only three other tables. It was quiet and they had a dress code against exposed armpits, so I got to enjoy good conversation and a little eavesdropping, a huge ribeye, and the look of pride on my wife's face.</p> <p class="p1"><strong>So what is it like to win even a small Literary Award?</strong></p> <p class="p1">For me – something like this:</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/What-its-Like-to-Win-a-Literary-Award_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7250" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/What-its-Like-to-Win-a-Literary-Award_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="What its Like to Win a Literary Award_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="302" height="269" /></a></p> <h5><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>No references to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas were made in the creation of this blog post</strong></span>.</h5> . 7165 2014-07-13 23:09:38 2014-07-14 06:09:38 2023-03-06 13:10:59 2023-03-06 20:10:59 closed open like-win-literary-award publish 0 0 post 0 7-Eleven American Library Association Bleeder Book of the Year casino Comic-con craps Culture Folsom Prison Foreword Reviews Frank Sinatra George C. Scott Harrah's IndieFab Lake Tahoe Las Vegas PEN American Shelby Smoak Where Excuses Go to Die Writing _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw Literary Award _yoast_wpseo_title What it's like to Win a Literary Award _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Your average literary award doesn't result in cash or glamour, but it tells the world you're a doer, not a talker. It's a score people can see in your eyes. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 84 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:21;s:10:"googleplus";i:1;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1702758684;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:716;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6473;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8684;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor http://working-copy.local/culture/argument-hiddencash/ Mon, 21 Jul 2014 05:56:48 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=7280 <h2><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/DAN-TAGUE_dan_tague_sthhhudio_dot_com2.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7304" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/DAN-TAGUE_dan_tague_sthhhudio_dot_com2.jpg" alt="DAN TAGUE_dan_tague_sthhhudio_dot_com2" width="286" height="303" /></a>Never mind the guy's icky; there's no excuse not to donate the cash</span></h2> <p class="p1">For anyone unfamiliar with the @HiddenCash story, there's a rich dude running around the U.S., stashing fistfuls of cash for people to find. It's called a Social Media Scavenger Hunt. He uses the @HiddenCash Twitter handle to drop clues as to the money's general location, or to announce the next area to be blessed with his <del>self-promotion</del> benevolence.</p> <p class="p1">We know it's a guy, 'cause in early June of this year his identity was revealed, either by an interviewer or by design (I'd bet on the latter). <em>He</em> is alleged real estate scammer Jason Buzi, an ex-mortgage industry mercenary who keeps his house flipping out of the traditional real estate processes. Buzi is what's known as a "lowballer": He saturates neighborhoods with flyers offering "Ca$h for your home," then contractually locks suckers into the price he offers. Assuring his clients they don't even have to leave their homes, their contracts obligate them to sell to him alone. Buzi then goes off in search of an unknown third party to cover his end of the deal, leaving homeowners high and dry 'til he does. Eventually, the mystery investor acquires the property and flips it for a much higher price.</p> <p class="p1">I don't know about you, but I know someone who lost their home through these kinds of "deals." And when the recession hit, Buzi is known to have made the money he's now giving away. Personally, I wouldn't search for his money if he put it in my bathroom.<!--more--></p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/DAN-TAGUE_dan_tague_studio_dot_com2.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7302" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/DAN-TAGUE_dan_tague_studio_dot_com2.jpg" alt="DAN TAGUE_dan_tague_studio_dot_com2" width="214" height="219" /></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Gernerous-Jason-Buzi_CNN.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7311" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Gernerous-Jason-Buzi_CNN.jpg" alt="Gernerous Jason Buzi_CNN" width="261" height="138" /></a>Buzi employed his questionable tactic as far back as the mid-90s, all the while claiming to be your average Joe – "a real person, just like you." At one point, Buzi's success caught the attention of <a href="http://www.forbes.com/1997/05/16/spam_watch.html" target="_blank">Forbes</a>, but it wasn't long before he discovered just how much <em>more</em> attention he could get by giving money away.</p> <p class="p1">He got his first taste for that attention in 2008, when he pretended to be a spokesman/VP for a outfit called <a href="http://cashtomato.com/" target="_blank">Cashtomato.com</a>. A company <a href="http://www.prweb.com/releases/Online/Video_Website/prweb714393.htm" target="_blank">press release</a> celebrated a "wealthy and eccentric real estate investor" hoping to give away money (for his birthday) to anyone asking for it. It claimed to have "...distributed thousands of dollars in cash to students in the UK and US, and to stunned passersby in London, San Francisco, and soon New York and more cities."</p> <p class="p1">Sound familiar?</p> <p class="p1">Buzi – acting as a loyal VP – further describes Cashtomato's elusive founder as having "more money than he knows what to do with," adding that he "strongly believes that it is better to give than to receive." Aww, what a guy!</p> <p class="p1">So it's no surprise that today's media has run wild with a nearly identical "this is what he best enjoys doing" reverie for Buzi's @HiddenCash antics, which has the public running <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-hidden-cash-park-damage-20140716-story.html" target="_blank">wild</a> as well.</p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #000000;">From the <em>Los Angeles Times</em>:</span></p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;"><em><span style="color: #000000;">Unlike scavenger hunts in the past, the William Penn Park gathering quickly became unmanageable as roughly 1,000 people trampled on plants, destroyed fences and sprinklers and even tried to uproot a newly planted tree believing cash was hidden in the fresh dirt.</span></em></p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Empire-Center-Hidden-Cash-Photo_NBC-Los-Angeles.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7299" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Empire-Center-Hidden-Cash-Photo_NBC-Los-Angeles.jpg" alt="Empire Center Hidden Cash Photo_NBC Los Angeles" width="314" height="203" /></a>Never mind that Northern California real estate agents and homeowners alike warn each other to keep their wallets close when dealing with Buzi, or that his misleading, barely legal house-flipping tactics make @HiddenCash something of a vacation from constantly being on the defensive. As for causing a stampede among low wagers eager to feel like they finally got something of their own? Boring! You could set your watch by the cynicism of making plebeians scrabble at dirt with their fingernails for $140. And @HiddenCash is nothing, if not cynical. From Buzi toying with people and calling it a good deed, to his shrewdly building an Up With People public profile around himself as an anonymous "donor." I actually wonder why <em>more</em> folks aren't asking what purpose this all serves.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/DAN-TAGUE_He-is-a-Liar.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7309" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/DAN-TAGUE_He-is-a-Liar.jpg" alt="DAN TAGUE_He is a Liar" width="158" height="178" /></a>And why not press Buzi on why he chooses these self-aggrandizing public appeasements instead of donating money to one of countless charities? I'm guessing such an option would have afforded true anonymity – as if he really wanted that after all.</p> <p class="p1">But I get it: cutting a check to fight homelessness isn't sexy or fun. You'll never hook CNN without donating enough to buy a building, and even that's no guarantee. But blowing $5000 in damages to a neighborhood park for what was ultimately your own gain is an affront to the concept of a good deed in the first place. Then again, you're a purveyor of spam and a real estate trickster.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/DAN-TAGUE_dantaguestudiodotcom1.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7306" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/DAN-TAGUE_dantaguestudiodotcom1-241x300.jpg" alt="DAN TAGUE_dantaguestudiodotcom1" width="134" height="167" /></a>Too many people have hopped aboard the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses" target="_blank">bread and circuses</a> express of "Leave him alone; he's making people happy." Add up all the money Buzi has spent flying around the country, staying in hotels, and so forth, and one can't help but wonder how many people could have been made happier and healthier with a <em>genuine</em> investment of that magnitude in their well being. On the other hand, it might be easier to compare the number of meals he could've purchased with what the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6_hZgYXIqM" target="_blank">Cashtomato melee</a> cost him.</p> <p class="p1">Not that it's any big whoop, but Buzi has obviously never turned the pages of the Lloyd C. Douglas novel <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/545936.Magnificent_Obsession" target="_blank">Magnificent Obsession,</a> in which the power of truly anonymous charity emancipates the giver on an almost spiritual level from the semantics and strains of daily life. Maybe he should pick up a copy if he can sit still long enough to read it.</p> <p class="p1">And yes, you're welcome to throw perhaps the biggest argument of all in my face. We all know this is Buzi's money and Buzi can burn it any way he wants. But the more he masquerades as a gentleman philanthropist, turning mobs of people into mental pine cones at the chance of feeling rewarded for about six minutes, the greater the lack of character he demonstrates.</p> <p class="p1" style="text-align: center;"></p> 7280 2014-07-20 22:56:48 2014-07-21 05:56:48 2014-07-20 23:16:07 2014-07-21 06:16:07 closed open argument-hiddencash publish 0 0 post 0 @HiddenCash cash Cashtomato.com CNN Culture Hidden Cash Jason Buzi Narcissist Richter Scale Social Media Scavenger Hunt Whittier California _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw @HiddenCash _yoast_wpseo_title The Argument Against @HiddenCash - Where Excuses Go Die _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 74 _yoast_wpseo_metadesc @HiddenCash perpetrator Jason Buzi insults the poor and the concept of "giving" by having to cover damages his self-aggrandizing philanthropy now causes. _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:2;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1701146042;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1946;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:733;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:351;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/fact-needs-spoken/ Mon, 21 Jul 2014 17:48:03 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=7321 <h2><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/His-limitlessly-enthusiastic-facial-expressions-just-kill-me_HBO.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7322" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/His-limitlessly-enthusiastic-facial-expressions-just-kill-me_HBO.jpg" alt="His limitlessly enthusiastic facial expressions just kill me_HBO" width="186" height="155" /></a><span style="color: #0000ff;">John Oliver joins the national dialogue on prison reform – vividly.</span></span></h2> I'm sure it will surprise no readers of this blog to know I'm a radicalized John Oliver fan. From Net Neutrality to the World Cup, I'm thrilled at the breath of fresh air HBO has allowed Oliver to blow our way on the topics of the day. As I watched this piece last night, I was pleased to see that just about every prison reform and private prison-related topic I've covered here – he nails. But, of course, the best part of the segment is the musical number. By singing about prison reform with Sesame Street muppets he sends it all over the top, simplifying the issue, making us laugh, educating and surprising us. <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: center;"><em>It's a fact that needs to be spoken</em></p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: center;"><em>America's prisons are broken</em></p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: center;"><em>It's a hard truth about incarceration</em></p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: center;"><em>prisons are needed for our civilization</em></p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: center;"><em>But mandatory minimums for heroin and crack</em></p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: center;"><em>stack the system against Hispanics and Blacks</em></p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: center;"><em>Our prison population is bigger than Slovenia</em></p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: center;"><em>'Cause we put people in jail instead of treating schizophrenia!</em></p> Oliver and his writing team are hilarious. For me, they created a valuable tool I can use to snow plow through an otherwise complex issue. Helping to widen people's understanding of incarceration in America and those behind bars just became a little easier. Thank you John Oliver. &nbsp; <iframe src="//www.youtube.com/embed/_Pz3syET3DY" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> 7321 2014-07-21 10:48:03 2014-07-21 17:48:03 2014-07-21 10:50:51 2014-07-21 17:50:51 closed open fact-needs-spoken publish 0 0 post 0 Culture HBO John Oliver national dialogue on prison reform Prison reform Private Prisons private prisons _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw john oliver _yoast_wpseo_title John Oliver Does Prison - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Who better than John Oliver to hilariously break down private prisons, incarceration, and the often poor conditions in which some juvenile offenders live. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 76 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:11;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1688022437;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6759;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4931;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10046;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/marijuana-storytelling/ Tue, 29 Jul 2014 06:21:49 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=7334 <h2><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Commander-Blast-off-celebrates-his-promotion-to-the-rank-of-Field-Marshal.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7344" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Commander-Blast-off-celebrates-his-promotion-to-the-rank-of-Field-Marshal.jpg" alt="Commander Blast-off celebrates his promotion to the rank of Field Marshal" width="428" height="364" /></a><span style="color: #008000;">Whatever your opinion of pot, haven't you <em>one</em> good marijuana story?</span></span></h2> A friend of mine was so baked once that he walked into a department store women's restroom, surprising the hell out of a lady with his leather jacket, orange mohawk, and T-shirt featuring Ronald Reagan in a penis hat. All the guy did was turn a wrong corner, but the woman's horror movie screams could be heard on every floor. We were laughing so hard we couldn't breathe for three straight minutes. Watching this big, punk rock tough guy fly out of a ladies' room like dobermans were on him was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Of course, we were stoned as well, but that was a long time ago and I'm <em>still</em> laughing. Another time, a young schoolmate of mine created a pipe out of a piece of fruit, employing the sediment screen from a bathroom faucet to line the "bowl." My dad had to replace so many of our family faucet screens after that, he still mentions it to this day. Then there was that rumor circulating at the record store where I worked. A female colleague had gotten stoned for the first time ever, run out into the middle of traffic, and was promptly struck and killed. I was told this on my first day by my new manager, who fired up a joint and blew smoke into the air-conditioning vent to prevent our fallen co-worker from haunting us. This manager told me all employees who smoked were required to do likewise. (He turned out to be a cabbage-headed idiot and the story wasn't true.)<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Bought-this-sticker-on-Venice-Beach-in-1989-but-never-stuck-it-to-anything-becasue-it-was-always-too-good-to-waste-–dont-judge-me.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7346" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Bought-this-sticker-on-Venice-Beach-in-1989-but-never-stuck-it-to-anything-becasue-it-was-always-too-good-to-waste-–dont-judge-me.jpg" alt="Bought this sticker on Venice Beach in 1989, but never stuck it to anything becasue it was always too good to waste –don't judge me" width="160" height="203" /></a> The very <em>last</em> time I smoked pot, I was headed north to hang lights on a movie set with a crew-mate who handed me a fatty somewhere near Bakersfield. After three big lungfuls, my brain suddenly hit me with, <em>DUDE. You borrowed all those CDs from Angelo and you never returned 'em. You are SUCH an asshole! </em>For the next hundred miles, thoughts of this failure returned to the same piece of music. <em>All those CDs...such an asshole...never gave 'em back.</em> Now, from a great distance, I can laugh at this as well. And smoking or not, I still enjoy the camaraderie of others' shared marijuana experiences, be they friends younger than me or those with whom I otherwise have little in common. Because who <em>hasn't</em> heard a stupid-good pot story that was rich with takeaways? You either laugh or scoff at the near-miss folly (fortunately someone else's) or you guilt trip the person at the center of your intervention: either way, there's something for everyone. The world would be a little duller without ganja-themed storytelling.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Phillip-Morris-Introduces-Marlboro-Marijuana-Cigarettes.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7349" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Phillip-Morris-Introduces-Marlboro-Marijuana-Cigarettes.jpg" alt="Phillip Morris Marijuana Cigarettes" width="376" height="238" /></a>But will hog-wild commercialization ruin the juju and familiarity of pot stories? I fear it will emphasize gratification rather than signify growth, in the same way the sex appeal of knowing one's limitations in Vegas has been replaced with elastic pants. <p class="p1">So I find myself a bit melancholy over today's so-called "golden age of marijuana," and not because of the (ho-hum) passing of some generational torch. In fact, hurry up and give the thing to somebody else already; the flame's gotten too big. My point is, it's not really<em> being</em> passed –what we're seeing here is a cultural shift from the personal to the demographic.</p> <p class="p1">What do I mean? Well, when you find bits of bud in your keyboard, notice the blaze in someone's eyes, or suspect your dog knows you're baked, that's personal. Pot doesn't seem so personal anymore. It's more like a stampede. With the decriminalization of marijuana in several states and corporate owned media going all-American with it, pot is being "personalized" more than it is personal. What was once naughty is beginning to look like NASCAR.<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/PLAY-STATION-NATION.jpeg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-7350" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/PLAY-STATION-NATION.jpeg" alt="PLAY STATION NATION" width="318" height="159" /></a></p> <p class="p1">I find it disappointing that this also means we're diluting the coming-of-age marijuana story as it has always thrived in the oral tradition.</p> <p class="p1">No matter who you are or whether or not you've ever inhaled, the learned behavior of this gateway drug is a fact of Western life. And just this week, the New York Times <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/27/opinion/sunday/high-time-marijuana-legalization.html?_r=0" target="_blank">called for </a>a repeal of the federal ban on marijuana –with what feels like a campaign of editorial and related blog coverage– meaning a whopping 54% of Americans who favor marijuana legalization just got a corporate-media high-five. This doesn't bode well for intimacy, and intimacy is where good stories come from.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/OH-MY-GOD-THATS-MY-DAUGHTER.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7351" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/OH-MY-GOD-THATS-MY-DAUGHTER.jpg" alt="OH MY GOD THATS MY DAUGHTER" width="187" height="185" /></a>Nevertheless, you're probably wondering how I could suggest that pothead culture has somehow been struck a death blow now that smokers can practically wave it in cops' faces. I mean, that's a big touchdown, right?</p> <p class="p1">Or maybe you're thinking, <em>Hey, wait. There are </em>always<em> gonna be two guys sitting on a bench, passing a joint and tripping on the unappreciated magnificence of a sanitation truck, </em>which is true, not to mention funny.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/IT-HELPS-ME-WITH-MY-PAIN.gif"><img class="alignright wp-image-7354" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/IT-HELPS-ME-WITH-MY-PAIN-296x300.gif" alt="IT HELPS ME WITH MY PAIN" width="157" height="159" /></a>But lately I hear less talk about the ups 'n downs of getting stoned than I do of dispensaries; pricing; paperwork; seed-to-sale software; regional and jurisdictional complications; weed tourism; potency; and high-end accessories. The ones that really get me are anti-microbial bongs and pipes. As far as I'm concerned, palming the slobber off the top of a bong before taking a hit just comes with the THC territory.</p> <p class="p1">And when did the biblical plague of “chronic pain” befall the earth? It seems like every time someone lights up these days, woven somewhere into the fabric of their enjoyment is a discussion about pain. Since when is smoking weed about pain? Painfully funny stories, yes, but back pain, eye pain, ear pain, follicular pain? I'm just saying...but we're talkin' oral tradition today, not excuses.</p> <p class="p1">When I was 15, an LAPD Sergeant pulled a small bag of weed out of my pocket while frisking a group of us crazy-haired punkers. As he dropped it onto the ground he said, "I can't let you keep that." I was astonished. Before he let us all go with a warning that punk rock signified the decline of the American family, I almost questioned his leniency. Instead, I bragged about my good fortune for a week.</p> <p class="p1">Nowadays, with marijuana so easily purchasable, what will the future generation of 15-year-old experimenters have to be proud of?</p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #008000;"><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/The-Infamous-Bananna-Pipe.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7356" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/The-Infamous-Bananna-Pipe.jpg" alt="The Infamous Bananna Pipe" width="247" height="252" /></a>Here's a brief look at how much things have changed:</strong></span></p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #008000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Then</span>: "Dude – the cops pulled Tommy over and found his weed! The idiot hid it in his glove box!"</strong></span></p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #008000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Today</span>: Who cares? Cops move the weed aside and ask why you're carrying old D-cell batteries.</strong></span></p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #008000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Result</span>: Good stories gone. Valuable stoner learning tool decommissioned. Weed taboo narrowed.</strong></span></p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #008000;"><b>••••</b></span></p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #008000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Then</span>: "And does she ever bring her own? No."</strong></span></p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #008000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Today</span>: Who cares? Your apartment is above the Ralter Weed Medical Center, so there's plenty for everyone.</strong></span></p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #008000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Result</span>: Pot manners depreciate more than they already have. (Keyword: manners). "Bogart" becomes as obscure as "Hotsy-totsy."</strong></span></p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #008000;"><b>••••</b></span></p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #008000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Marijuana-Storyteller-Captive-Audience_Yours-truly-on-Fishbone-Tour-Bus-circa-1997.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7357" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Marijuana-Storyteller-Captive-Audience_Yours-truly-on-Fishbone-Tour-Bus-circa-1997.jpg" alt="Marijuana Storyteller Captive Audience_Yours truly on Fishbone Tour Bus circa 1997" width="463" height="291" /></a></span></strong><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Then</span>: "'Open the door: it's Dave.' 'Dave's not here.' 'No, <em>I'm</em> Dave!' 'Dave's not here...'"</strong></span></p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #008000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Today</span>: I had to explain postage to the guy at Mail Boxes 'n More</strong></span></p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #008000;"><strong>Result: We can't all say, "Weed doesn't affect me" while marveling over how ultimately baked we are, but we're losing our comparison points for weed-induced stupidity. What will become of hierarchies of dysfunctionality among our heaviest users? And P.S., even potheads don't want their orders blown.</strong></span></p> <p style="padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #008000;"><b>••••</b></span></p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #008000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Then</span>: "Just say no."</strong></span></p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #008000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Today</span>: Obama to ABC News: "We've got bigger fish to fry."</strong></span></p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #008000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Result</span>: America faces Darwinian crisis: now everyone takes two hours to go to the corner market.</strong></span></p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #008000;"><b>••••</b></span></p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #008000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Then</span>: "Naw, not Steve's place, man. All he ever has is shake, seeds, and stems. Let's go chill at Marcos's pad."</strong></span></p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #008000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Today</span>: Marcos pays coke prices to get his weekly supply via MotaMessenger.com for $100 an 1/8th</strong></span></p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #008000;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Result</span>: When everyone has mindblowing weed, how will we know how special your 30th birthday was?</strong></span></p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 60px; text-align: left;"><strong>••••</strong></p> <p class="p1">As though lousy pot has been eradicated from the earth, these days all we hear about is how amazing everyone's killer science-weed is.</p> <p class="p1">I'm already bored by those stories.</p> <p class="p1">.</p> <p class="p1" style="text-align: center;"></p> 7334 2014-07-28 23:21:49 2014-07-29 06:21:49 2014-07-28 23:47:07 2014-07-29 06:47:07 closed open marijuana-storytelling publish 0 0 post 0 bong bud chronic pain Culture decriminalization dispensaries federal ban ganja gateway drug joint LAPD legalization marijuana NASCAR New York Times oral tradition pipe pot pothead punk rock Reagan stoner storytelling THC Vegas weed _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw Marijuana _yoast_wpseo_title Marijuana Storytelling and You - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Today's so-called golden age of marijuana is a little disappointing because its very first casualty isn't brain cells, it's storytelling. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 94 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:6;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704673760;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7420;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3448;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:412;}}}} http://working-copy.local/character-2/zamperini/ Mon, 04 Aug 2014 23:44:23 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=7378 <h2></h2> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Louis-Zamperini-and-his-Middle-Finger-to-Der-Fuehrer.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7392 size-full" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Louis-Zamperini-and-his-Middle-Finger-to-Der-Fuehrer.jpg" alt="&quot;During the Olympics, I tore Hitler's swastika flag off the Reich Chancellery. I thought, 'Boy, what souvenir!'&quot;" width="335" height="462" /></a> <h2><span style="color: #000000;">Seriously, shoot me if I ever name-drop –– except this once...</span></h2> "Zamperini and Me" is simple to explain; the late Louis Zamperini had been my neighbor. I didn't <em>know</em> he was my neighbor until we were introduced through a mutual friend, Dena, who'd petered out beneath a big tree while jogging one day. A chainsaw firing up above her head caused her to spaz and discover a then 90-year-old <a href="http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/07/31/thousands-gather-in-torrance-to-celebrate-late-hometown-hero-louis-zamperini/" target="_blank">Louis Zamperini</a>, 15 feet up and clinging to branches. He guided the saw through a thick limb and only took notice of her when it fell at her feet. Or so she thought. "Hello!" he shouted, repositioning himself to see her better. "Hi!" she answered. "Need any help?" "Nahh, been doing this since I bought the place, thanks. Besides, young lady, you need to keep running. Your form could improve." And there it was: constructive criticism from a famed Olympic athlete, a veteran of the men's 5000 meter race. Apparently, he'd watched her flail all the way up the hill. He climbed down to meet an equal of sorts; Dena is a short, hugely stubborn Italian. The two hit it off, and before long were enjoying tea as the sunset's glow reached Zamperini's collection of Olympic torches in the living room of his hillside post-and-beam home. Now, I'm already convinced that Dena's soul is on loan from WWII infantryman turned B-movie filmmaker, Sam Fuller, but she was really on fire after that. "You've <em>got</em> to meet Louis," I heard again and again. "He's so great and his story is <em>incredible</em>. You'll really like him." I didn't know the half of it.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Consolidated-B-24-Liberator.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7398" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Consolidated-B-24-Liberator.jpg" alt="Consolidated B-24 Liberator" width="184" height="180" /></a>For those unfamiliar with Zamperini's legacy, he was a B-24 Liberator bombardier in the Pacific Theater in 1943 when his plane, nicknamed "Green Hornet," fell into the ocean. No survivors were ever rescued; instead, he and two others washed ashore after 47 days at sea and were promptly captured by the Japanese. Back home, Zamperini had been declared KIA after first being listed as missing. In reality, he was squaring off with his enemy captors as though standing up to Imperial Japan itself. He paid for his obstinacy, too, in ways few of us Facebook grudge-holders can imagine. Even before the war, as a USC student, Zamperini had qualified to compete in the "Nazi Olympics" in 1936 Berlin. Louis ran so fast that none other than Hitler himself insisted on meeting him. And Zamperini wasn't about to leave Berlin without a souvenir. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Louis-Zamperini_Training-for-1940-Olympics.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7399" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Louis-Zamperini_Training-for-1940-Olympics.jpg" alt="Louis Zamperini_Training for 1940 Olympics" width="283" height="170" /></a>After two liters of German beer, he staggered before the Reich Chancellery where he again encountered Hitler exiting a car. Louis decided he wanted one of the banners Hitler passed under as he entered the building. He waited for two guards to turn their backs and made a run for it, but he was too short to grab the thing easily, so he had to jump up and down several times before he could tear it loose. By then, the guards had spotted him so he took off, flag in hand and well prepped for another long, hard run. He stopped when he heard rifle fire, but the sway of his Olympic uniform and his charming bullshit won over a ranking officer, who allowed him to keep the banner and go. <em><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Louis-Zamperini_Amazon-Video.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7400" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Louis-Zamperini_Amazon-Video.jpg" alt="Louis Zamperini_Amazon Video" width="197" height="157" /></a>This</em> was the Louis Zamperini I wanted to meet. Not so much the Olympian distance-runner or the guy who survived in a plane that hobbled home with 594 bullet holes; not the guy who fought off sharks while adrift at sea or who endured as a test subject for Japanese military experiments in biological warfare; and not the guy who caught an albatross, snapped its neck, and drank its blood before using the fish in its stomach for bait. <em>I</em> wanted to meet the man described as "confident to the point of flippancy." I wanted to see the <em>me</em> in Zamperini, to meet the guy who'd fucked with Hitler. And meet him I did, but I didn't find a mirror in his eyes. When Dena introduced us, I was instantly struck by my own small-mindedness. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Zamperini-for-USC-News_Photo_David-Ahntholz-and-Tracy-Boulian.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7403" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Zamperini-for-USC-News_Photo_David-Ahntholz-and-Tracy-Boulian.jpg" alt="Zamperini-for-USC-News_Photo_David Ahntholz and Tracy Boulian" width="258" height="172" /></a>Louis let us hold his stolen flag; it was there for the touching, among assorted Trojan and Olympic memorabilia. It was one of those moments where proceeding very slowly feels safest; you want your host to know you're not taking anything about the encounter lightly while you desperately grasp at the significance of the gesture, its value outside yourself. We only visited three times, but it's a hell of a thing to have called Louis Zamperini a neighbor. His unassuming home was filled with rich, dark brown woods –the kind that make you fall in love with bannisters, baseboards, and even paneling. There were drafty, "Jalousie" louvered windows from the 50s just like the ones in my house and a piano I wouldn't know what to do with. I did question if someone else (or maybe twelve different people) had helped the man decorate, but either way the home felt comfortable, warm, and full of character. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Louis-Zamperini_SKATEDOG1.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7404" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Louis-Zamperini_SKATEDOG1.jpg" alt="Louis Zamperini_SKATEDOG" width="186" height="173" /></a>Something I found especially poignant was a telescope on a tripod. It tilted all the way up as if its counterweight had been removed, leaving it to point at nothing less than the stars. Our conversation included everything from what it was like to work with Laura Hillenbrand, author of the biography-turned-Oscar bait, “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Unbroken-World-Survival-Resilience-Redemption/dp/1400064163" target="_blank">Unbroken</a>," to Louis's absurdly messy desk. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Unbroken_A-World-War-II-Story-of-Survival-Resilience-and-Redemption.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7406" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Unbroken_A-World-War-II-Story-of-Survival-Resilience-and-Redemption.jpg" alt="Unbroken_A World War II Story of Survival Resilience and Redemption" width="165" height="250" /></a>During what would be our final visit, Zamperini showed us a Japanese rifle that had been warped by the blast at Hiroshima. He pointed to a large smudge on the stock in the shape of a hand: it had <em>been</em> a hand, flash-burned onto the wood. The rifle had been a gift. Its presenters told Louis that his return to Japan had brought them great honor. Imagine an entire home filled with such humbling items (sixty-three pound scrapbook anyone?), each with a story expressed to you by the person who'd collected them. As far as I'm concerned, they don't call Zamperini's "the greatest generation" because it was the bravest, but because it rose to the occasion, which required neither bravery nor courage –just faith that there are things in life other than your own feelings. That's how America won World War II, and that's how Zamperini survived POW camp torture, beatings, and the mind-bending isolation of 47 days adrift in the Pacific. The feeling of being in the same room with this guy was a mixture of awe for what he'd endured, experienced, and forgiven; a sense of human grandeur for the span of his absorption and for everything that passed through the man in his lifetime; and the smallness of all of my silly excuses. <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Louis-Zamperini_Sally-Peterson_Wall-Street-Journal.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-7408" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Louis-Zamperini_Sally-Peterson_Wall-Street-Journal.jpg" alt="Louis Zamperini_Sally Peterson_Wall Street Journal" width="198" height="201" /></a></p> &nbsp; <h5><span style="color: #000000;">The movie version of Hillenbrand’s book,“Unbroken," is set to be released Christmas 2014. It was (re)written by Joel and Ethan Coen (hell yeah) and directed by another Zamperini neighbor, Angelina Jolie.</span></h5> . &nbsp; &nbsp; 7378 2014-08-04 16:44:23 2014-08-04 23:44:23 2014-08-04 20:28:50 2014-08-05 03:28:50 closed open zamperini publish 0 0 post 0 B-24 Berlin Character Facebook History Hitler Inspirational Laura Hillenbrand Louis Zamperini Nazis Olympics Pacific Theater POW swastika torture Unbroken USC World War II _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw Zamperini _yoast_wpseo_title Zamperini and Me - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 98 _yoast_wpseo_metadesc I'm not one to name drop, but there's something special about a guy who stole from Hitler: my neighbor, Louis Zamperini. _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706621819;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8012;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4368;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11462;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor http://working-copy.local/character-2/affront-james-brady/ Mon, 11 Aug 2014 00:58:25 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=7420 <h2 class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;">Ruling James Brady’s death a murder is to piss on his brave legacy.</span></h2> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/After-this-image-hit-the-press-Many-Americans-were-upset-the-Secret-Service-used-Israeli-Uzi-submachine-guns-instead-of-American-made-firearms.-.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7433" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/After-this-image-hit-the-press-Many-Americans-were-upset-the-Secret-Service-used-Israeli-Uzi-submachine-guns-instead-of-American-made-firearms.-.jpg" alt="After this image hit the press, Many Americans were upset the Secret Service used Israeli Uzi submachine guns instead of American-made firearms." width="478" height="323" /></a>The passing this week of James Brady, former White House press secretary, has been ruled a homicide 33 years after he was wounded in John Hinckley's <a href="http://vault.fbi.gov/president-ronald-reagan-assassination-attempt" target="_blank">attempted</a> assassination on President Ronald Reagan. <p class="p1">Jim “The Bear” Brady, a friendly, unpredictably witty, and satirical man, survived being shot in the head, even though his life was changed forever. Brain damage and partial paralysis kept him wheelchair bound; his speech was slurred, and he was in a good deal of pain until the day he died. Nancy Reagan <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/james-brady-dead-73-friends-lawmakers-react-reagan-press-secretary-passing-article-1.1891399" target="_blank">reflected</a> that knowing him meant learning what it truly is to "play the hand we're dealt."</p> <p class="p1">Brady <a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/letters/2014/08/08/Jim-and-Sarah-Brady-showed-strength-devotion-and-purpose-after-tragedy/stories/201408080073" target="_blank">became an example</a> of what I believe matters most in life: Living, not by what you <em>think</em> happens to you, but instead by what actually does.</p> <p class="p1">Which is exactly what someone needs to remind the North Virginia Medical Examiner, who, in making this pronouncement 33 years late, did nothing more than tee up another round of partisan hate-trading –this time about whether <a href="http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hinckley/hinckleyaccount.html" target="_blank">John Hinckley</a> should be prosecuted for murder.</p> <p class="p1">Is it just me, or does this come from the same playbook someone will triumphantly read from when "evidence" of Saddam Hussein's WMDs are discovered in 40 years?<!--more--></p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Jim-Brady_Evan-VucciAssociated-Press.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7430" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Jim-Brady_Evan-VucciAssociated-Press.jpg" alt="Jim Brady_Evan Vucci:Associated Press" width="295" height="291" /></a>The contention is that Brady died as a result of the shooting after all, after many years of tragic health consequences. But a new homicide charge would have to exist on its own, without details from the previous case being handpicked to give it merit. And the facts of that case haven't changed in the 33 years since John Hinckley was found not guilty based on an insanity defense.</p> <p class="p1">What <em>did</em> happen in that 33 years is that, despite his poor health, James Brady became a crusader for gun control, backed even by NRA member Ronald Reagan. Brady pursued stricter <a href="http://www.bradycampaign.org/" target="_blank">handgun and assault weapons restrictions</a>, and the Federal Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, aka "the Brady Bill", was named in his honor. And we know one thing for sure about the guy's life: they don't give the Presidential Medal of Freedom to sore losers or those who look back instead of forward.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/The-Brady-Center-to-Prevent-Gun-Violence_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7432" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/The-Brady-Center-to-Prevent-Gun-Violence_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-300x148.jpg" alt="The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="257" height="127" /></a>So the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/09/us/james-brady-s-death-ruled-a-homicide-police-say.html?_r=0" target="_blank">Medical Examiner's ruling</a> this week strikes me as narcissistic, petulant, and a genuinely assholish way to draw attention from James Brady's life and legacy. It's not likely anyone's really going to re-try Hinckley for murder, so what purpose does it serve other than to stir shit up, make a name, and plant a victim flag?</p> <p class="p1">The ruling is grabby in a way where the only thing that matters is the statement itself, not the outcome. It's as if an arbitrarily catty visitor to the Fox &amp; Friends website won some Medical-Examiner-for-a-Day contest and is using that platform to launch a predictably dead-end effort solely to perpetuate divisiveness, which is sort of like spitting on Brady's grave. Unfortunately, historical revision on behalf of those who feel entitled to an outcome that promotes one's particular agenda is something we've seen a lot lately, mostly from various strains of (strained) conservatism.</p> <p class="p1">Did this M.E. think a homicide ruling would curry favor with the more egregious polarization promoters? I'd love to ask if he or she would've had the guts to approach <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/James-Brady-is-where-excuses-went-to-die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7438" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/James-Brady-is-where-excuses-went-to-die.jpg" alt="James Brady is where excuses went to die" width="286" height="253" /></a>James Brady <em>before</em> he died to flat out say, "Hey Jimbo, when you croak, we're gonna undo the life you've lived since the shooting. Never mind your last three decades of healing, struggling, processing, evolving, rising to the occasion, forgiving, and being a powerful symbol of the gun debate. Thanks for your incalculably brave legacy, but we plan to hijack it for payback and spite, to set the stage for a consensus-shredding argument in which we'll also insist on avenging Ronald Reagan. None of this will be about you, but look, you had that Federal law named after you, and that's a pretty big platform, right? Besides, the worst that could happen is that the Brady Bill will get reduced to little more than a consolation prize for your takin' that bullet. And I know, in our fervor to remind everyone that we're the righteous victims here it might <em>seem</em> like we haven't heard a thing you said, and of course we'll be admitting that John Hinckley still owns us, but hey, revenge! Plus, we think this is the best way to take that pesky spotlight off gun control and get back to focusing on what really matters, obstructionism. You're okay with that, right Jim?"</p> <p class="p1">Of course, if he'd died right there from a broken heart, that woulda blown the whole thing.</p> <p class="p1">Read more about Jim and Sarah Brady at <a href="http://www.bradycampaign.org/jim-and-sarah-brady" target="_blank">bradycampaign.org</a>, and check out the "<a href="http://prezi.com/ejfpygvasq9m/pathology-of-gun-violence/" target="_blank">Pathology of Gun Violence</a>" covering the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence <span style="color: #363636;">commitment.</span></p> <p class="p1">James Brady is where excuses went to die.</p> <p class="p1">.</p> <object id="flashObj" width="700" height="394" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0"><param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashVars" value="videoId=3712783952001&linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fti.me%2F1AP8yw4&playerID=1917933886001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAABGEUMg~,hNlIXLTZFZn-NQOazMchMDWH0SI1hX7f&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" /><param name="base" value="http://admin.brightcove.com" /><param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="swLiveConnect" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="videoId=3712783952001&linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fti.me%2F1AP8yw4&playerID=1917933886001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAABGEUMg~,hNlIXLTZFZn-NQOazMchMDWH0SI1hX7f&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="700" height="394" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" swLiveConnect="true" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object> 7420 2014-08-10 17:58:25 2014-08-11 00:58:25 2014-08-10 18:08:56 2014-08-11 01:08:56 closed open affront-james-brady publish 0 0 post 0 assault weapons Brady Bill Character Federal Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act Fox &amp; Friends gun control James Brady John Hinckley Nancy Reagan North Virginia Medial Examiner Presidential Medal of Freedom Ronald Reagan _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw james brady _yoast_wpseo_title An Affront to James Brady - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc The James Brady ruling is petulant and grabby, as if a visitor to the Fox & Friends website had won its Be Medical Examiner for a Day contest. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 91 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:3;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705554810;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7334;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:347;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1946;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor http://working-copy.local/murder/billboard-brainlessness-pt-2/ Mon, 18 Aug 2014 03:37:17 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=7448 <h2><span style="color: #000000;">Jeffrey Chapman's trial begins next week. He'll wear a turtleneck.</span></h2> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/MUG_SHOT_MURDER_Jeffrey-Wade-Chapman.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6774" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/MUG_SHOT_MURDER_Jeffrey-Wade-Chapman-237x300.jpg" alt="MUG_SHOT_MURDER_Jeffrey Wade Chapman" width="156" height="197" /></a>For those unfamiliar with the young man's plight, Jeffrey Wade Chapman is an accused murderer who doesn't want to start his murder trial with the word "MURDER" tattooed across his neck. In April of this year, I mistakenly closed a previous Chapman entry, "<a href="http://working-copy.local/murder/billboard-brainlessness/" target="_blank">A Billboard for Brainlessness</a>," with, "as far as most are concerned, that’s the end of his story." Turns out, not only does Chapman's saga continue (the trial was postponed pending his court-ordered mental evaluation), I think I've figured out a way for his defense to turn that tattooed frown upside down! Chapman's attorney previously appealed to the court to allow a professional tattoo artist into the jail to obscure, alter, or remove the tattoo from his client's throat, but he'd been turned down. So, between the prosecutor, the judge, and the sheriff running the jail, alternate ideas of a turtleneck and fake bandages had been proposed. The turtleneck won, which I find disappointing 'cause I <em>really</em> wanted to see the bandage idea in action. Imagine the distraction in the courtroom!<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Courtesy-KSNW-TV-Wichita.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-7453" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Courtesy-KSNW-TV-Wichita-300x167.jpg" alt="Courtesy KSNW-TV Wichita" width="300" height="167" /></a> The sheer volume of gauze and medical tape required would make it tough to keep a straight face. How could the defendant – or anyone for that matter – manage to behave as if it wasn't there? Watching someone otherwise unimpeded by the serious injury such a large bandage implies would be off the hook. I can just imagine Chapman, mid-proceedings, jabbing his fingers between fraying layers of gauze to get at an itch and expecting no one to notice he has no difficulty responding verbally to the judge's questions – again despite his apparently sizable wound. That's not to say the turtleneck won't be an elephant in the room on its own. But now I believe Chapman would be <em>best</em> served by leaving the tattoo exposed. In fact, it could be one of those crazy-daring defense maneuvers silly jurors love to be charmed by. <!--more--> Think I'm nuts? Get this: Chapman's giant MURDER tattoo is mirrored. It's reversed. Boom! <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Photo-by-Curtis-Perry.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7462" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Photo-by-Curtis-Perry-300x163.jpg" alt="Photo by Curtis Perry" width="156" height="85" /></a>I didn't think much of that back in April, but now I think it just might be his way around the prosecution's lock on a guilty verdict. Before I explain, I need to cop to another mistake. My comparison of Chapman to a guy I knew who had "FRESNO" inked across his forehead was also erroneous. Fresno, you see, provided others with pertinent information: his city of origin, gang affiliation, etc.. <em>Chapman's</em> tattoo obviously isn't meant for public consumption (despite its visual assault on anyone looking directly at him). <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Deliberation-is-a-process-of-thoughtfully-weighing-sleeping-options.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7468" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Deliberation-is-a-process-of-thoughtfully-weighing-sleeping-options.jpg" alt="Deliberation is a process of thoughtfully weighing sleeping options" width="284" height="213" /></a>Chapman's albatross is highly, highly personal, intended for him to appreciate in a mirror. It's a pitiful and harrowingly self-loathing message to oneself, sure, but it's also uniquely defensible because of that. Perhaps some sympathy can be garnered by telling the jury how the tattoo represents the despicably low picture Chapman has of himself, underscoring that it's by no means intended as a public announcement, warning, or prediction. In other words, it's "philosophically harmless!" Just think, if counsel for the defense was to verbalize this <del>utter nonsense</del> stroke of genius in open court, the judge would probably throw a stapler at him. But in the end, I bet at least <em>one</em> softie juror would ruin the district attorney's day by being unable to get past the ink-inspired "bias" his or her fellows display during deliberations. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Jeffrey-Wade-Chapman_Philosophically-Harmless.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7465" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Jeffrey-Wade-Chapman_Philosophically-Harmless.jpg" alt="Jeffrey Wade Chapman_Philosophically Harmless" width="326" height="244" /></a>So Chapman's lawyer should forget the turtleneck and ditch those change of venue motions. (Besides, would the tattoo be less prejudicial two counties over?) Embrace it! Go so far as to tell jurors that Chapman's is a spiritual journey, a journey inward. Since the mental evaluation has now <a href="http://ksn.com/2014/07/17/trial-delayed-for-mental-evaluation/" target="_blank">proven his trial fitness</a>, proceedings have been calendared for next week and Chapman's counsel will need to downplay any risk the tattoo poses by getting ahead of it, ideally by suggesting that Chapman is even <em>crazier</em> than what he was tested for. There's no excuse not to try; they already told the judge that Chapman was suffering from severe hallucinations while awaiting trial in custody (which made no difference whatsoever). This lawyer needs to turn that loss into a win by <em>agreeing</em> with the psychiatric report: Jeff's no wingnut, no sir. Instead, he's a first responder to the human dilemma!<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/The-elelphant-in-the-courtroom-will-NOT-be-the-turtleneck.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7466" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/The-elelphant-in-the-courtroom-will-NOT-be-the-turtleneck.jpg" alt="The elelphant in the courtroom will NOT be the turtleneck" width="224" height="156" /></a> Hell, if I was Chapman's attorney, I'd grab a Magic Marker and draw a big question mark next to the word MURDER. Why not? Maximize the pitch! Emphasize the ultimate existential question all humans ask: <em>Could I kill someone if I had to?</em> You might laugh, but everyone I've ever known who has served swears up and down their jury box was filled with drooling mouth breathers who ate their pizza "crust first" and had trouble with crosswalk push buttons (meet our "peers," people). I see no reason why this approach wouldn't have at least <em>some</em> value as a counter strategy. Sure, the defense will still have to contend with all the evidence against Chapman for that pesky murder thing, but at least his billboard for brainlessness can be reduced to postcard size. &nbsp; &nbsp; 7448 2014-08-17 20:37:17 2014-08-18 03:37:17 2014-08-17 20:37:17 2014-08-18 03:37:17 closed open billboard-brainlessness-pt-2 publish 0 0 post 0 Barton County District Court Character get character or become one Great Bend Kansas Jeffrey Wade Chapman mental evaluation Murder MURDER Murderer tattoo _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw brainlessness _yoast_wpseo_title A Billboard for Brainlessness Pt. 2 - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Here's how accused murderer, Jeffrey Wade Chapman's defense attorney can turn a billboard for brainlessness into a courtroom touchdown. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 77 _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704385626;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6772;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3615;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:829;}}}} http://working-copy.local/comfort-zone-2/concerns-others/ Mon, 15 Sep 2014 05:30:36 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=7475 <h2><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Im-feeling-happieness-for-someone-else-This-never-happens.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7575" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Im-feeling-happieness-for-someone-else-This-never-happens.jpg" alt="I'm feeling happiness for someone else? This never happens!" width="192" height="198" /></a><span style="color: #000000;">Deny this ugly age of self mania; recognize the concerns of others.</span></h2> Something I dislike about myself is that I'm occasionally caught off guard by my reaction to the concerns of others. I spend so much time <em>pretending</em> to care that when it's real, my whole being awakens. And it doesn't matter if my bureaucratic, rubber-stamping brain comes along or not. Finding myself 100% unreservedly happy for someone else's joy, for instance, makes me need to find a chair, fast; to think and relish the awareness before it fades. Sadly, I can only remember nine or ten instances in which I recognized the strange sensation of wanting to sing out-loud because something good happened to someone else. It works the other way too, like it did with Big Wednesday, a well-fed, fifty-something homeless guy with sun-bleached dreads. I hadn't seen him when I pulled into the gas station, but suddenly he was at my bumper.<!--more--><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/EGO-FALLOUT-SHELTERS-ARE-NOT-REAL-BUT-DO-NOT-TELL-OTHERS.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7573" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/EGO-FALLOUT-SHELTERS-ARE-NOT-REAL-BUT-DO-NOT-TELL-OTHERS.jpg" alt="EGO FALLOUT SHELTERS ARE NOT REAL BUT DO NOT TELL OTHERS" width="254" height="416" /></a> Big Wednesday's California tan was natural and healthy; he wore a classic Baja pullover, Billabong shorts, and flip-flops – a wardrobe one could wear for weeks without question on the coast. But <em>this</em> gas station was at Franklin and Gower, in Hollywood, a good deal inland. He definitely failed the drunk-look. In fact, he looked new to homelessness, new to self-inflicted consequences, maybe, or just new to L.A. <p class="p1">The pumps were busy with customers so he hadn't startled me, yet I was rendered useless at the sight of him. He was like a frog removed from its creek bed, and his face could've sold me a car. His presence gently excused itself around the...um...<em>unpermissive</em> disposition I'm occasionally teased about, and when he asked for any spare change, my brain got left behind.</p> "Listen, man. I'm not lazy. I'm not like this. I'm a good worker." It was important to him that I know he was forgivable, exceptional, and worth my empathy. And boom, the universe, or God, or what-the-hell-ever slugged me in the chest with one of those stray Mike Tyson body blows still zooming around since the '90s. Who am <em>I</em> that this man should account for his bad luck? Who am I that he should atone for his need of 90¢? Who am I that he should assure me he beats himself up when no one's looking? And while I was still microprocessing the word "lazy," with images of him busting his ass on a construction site crushing any contrary possibility, his voice cracked on the word, "worker." Of all people, who am <em>I </em>that this man's voice should break while explaining himself, when an incalculable number of coins were being handed out freely all over the city? We judge people all the time, but here I was suddenly wondering, who am I to do so? It's unsettling when judging others turns on you – and I don't mean when you're the one being judged. <em>I</em> mean when casual dismissiveness betrays you. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/X-Ray-vision-is-okay-until-you-start-asking-existential-questions.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7577" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/X-Ray-vision-is-okay-until-you-start-asking-existential-questions.jpg" alt="X-Ray vision is okay until you start asking existential questions" width="163" height="176" /></a>Big Wednesday cleared his throat and smiled. He tried to toughen up, but I'm cursed with weirdo prison X-ray vision when it comes to men summoning up the macho, and this happy-go-lucky-burn-out didn't need to bother. Even in prison, there are just some guys every bastard on the Yard agrees not to mess with because it feels like going after a baby deer with a combat shotgun. Even the purely predatory need to laugh, and the relief of humanity in prison comes from men just like Big Wednesday. He couldn't con his way out of a paper bag – anyone could see that. All I wanted was for this frog to be returned to its creek bed. So I said, "It's cool, dude. This is <em>nuthin'</em> man. Shit'll get better. You watch." I gave him a few bucks. I smiled back, and I kept myself from hugging the guy and freakin' us both out. He smiled again and turned away. I felt so small. It had only been 54 seconds, but it rang a bell my heart can still hear clearly. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/JUST-SAY-NO-TO-PHILOSOPHICAL-BUREAUCRACY.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7578" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/JUST-SAY-NO-TO-PHILOSOPHICAL-BUREAUCRACY.jpg" alt="JUST SAY NO TO PHILOSOPHICAL BUREAUCRACY" width="169" height="217" /></a>My inner DMV employee – the bureaucrat who misses nothing and withholds his feelings while holding people to the properly filled out emotional forms before engaging in a sincere exchange – got his ass <em>kicked</em>. Standing at that gas pump, I was suddenly desperate not to go back to being me. And I really did go on to hide behind my tough-love, scar-tissue, conditional-on-you principles a little less. Somehow, being willing to recognize the concerns of others; good, bad and ugly, became less excruciating. Fighting to keep that and struggling to improve upon it has since become crucially important. Because it won't always be a frog removed from a creek bed. Wherever I can replace "John" with admitting and acknowledging the concerns of others, I try to do so. I force myself to apply this effort to less dramatic scenery, to mundane interactions and even, God help me, "undeserving" situations where someone is ready with an excuse, or otherwise fails to meet my criteria for a re-trial. Still, the key word here is "force," 'cause believe me, it isn't easy. Most of those around me at any given moment can kiss my ass for their complaining and entitlements. I just hope to reach a point where the amount of shock I feel when I'm pulled outside of myself at the news of someone's tight-spot or triumph is decreased. I know that that "unpermissive" disposition I get teased about will only distance me from people as I get older. So, happy or wicked-annoying, I'm going to practice recognizing the concerns of others – to further deny my <em>own</em> self mania. &nbsp; &nbsp; “I write to discover what I know.” ? Flannery O'Connor . 7475 2014-09-14 22:30:36 2014-09-15 05:30:36 2014-09-15 08:35:04 2014-09-15 15:35:04 closed open concerns-others publish 0 0 post 0 Baja Billabong bureaucratic California Character Comfort Zone DMV Flannery O'Connor Hollywood Mike Tyson _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw others _yoast_wpseo_title On the Concerns of Others... - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Something I don't like about myself is occasionally being surprised at the concerns of others, at being caught off guard by a wallop of emotion regarding another's tight spot or triumph. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 86 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704385186;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:377;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3905;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1816;}}}} http://working-copy.local/prison-2/upselling-prison/ Sat, 06 Sep 2014 06:42:47 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=7479 <h2><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/No-matter-what-your-prisonware-supplier-tells-you-these-do-NOT-age-well.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7488" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/No-matter-what-your-prisonware-supplier-tells-you-these-do-NOT-age-well.jpg" alt="No matter what your prisonware supplier tells you - these do NOT age well" width="223" height="328" /></a>A former inmate sizes up detention products, #1 in a casual series.</strong></span></h2> It's a dubious distinction, I know, but I've been among the first 75 inmates to enter a brand new prison. The place hadn't been “officially” opened yet, and it wasn't even entirely complete. In fact, it took months before the technological marvel it was said to be actually began to function as designed. My memoir, <em>Where Excuses Go to Die,</em> can tell you more about <em>that</em> story; today we’re simply going to look at some of the design elements and corrections products that represent modern incarceration in America. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Phone-Companies-Rip-Off-Inmate-Families.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7534" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Phone-Companies-Rip-Off-Inmate-Families.jpg" alt="Big phone companies rip off inmate families" width="121" height="123" /></a>I bring up my own experience because, in the absence of a boisterous and threatening prison population, I actually had the luxury of appreciating the punitive design genius behind shelving, inmate phones, door hinges, mattresses, linens, flooring, high pressure laminate table tops, mirrors, hooks and hardware, and so forth – almost as if they'd been displayed in an art gallery. It was spooky and (relatively) wonderful. Imagine an essentially empty prison, almost entirely free of brutality, toothless Yard apes, and the white power hoo ha they blabber on about. It didn't last, of course, but I treasured it while it did. Throughout the following year, inmates and staffers recognizing each other from that quieter time enjoyed something of a secret handshake, as if we were a step above unappreciative newcomers. It made eye contact and common goals a bit easier for us both to reach. At any rate, whether you take your first custody turd in a prison cell, a county jail, or a police substation, sitting on your first steel pot will make you wonder what sadist invented such an uncomfortable throne.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/California-Prison-Tower.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7591" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/California-Prison-Tower.jpg" alt="California Prison Tower" width="315" height="177" /></a>And you'll have countless occasions to ponder this. My own musings roamed from diabolical designers to the sales techniques that ultimately convinced our facility administrators to buy the horrible things. I did, after all, have the advantage of seeing them as they appeared in brochures, before they became truly hideous. I could just hear the upsell: “You want the wall-hang or the floor mount? The blowout jet or siphon jet? You're definitely gonna wanna add on the socket-niche for a roll of toilet paper! Now, our suicide-resistant models use about 2 gallons of water per flush, but the drain openings are smaller and tend to overfill. We can widen 'em for you, but it won't be long before inmates realize they can fit a hand in there and start hiding stuff...” So who <em>is</em> out there, upselling prison? Well, there’s CharmTex, makers of the anti-suicide sleep sack, for one. Let’s listen in on their pitch: “Inmates on suicide watch need to sleep too, and with this product, they can sleep comfortably, while you won't have to constantly worry about them ripping off a strip of vinyl from a mattress or tearing up a sheet or even a blanket and hanging themselves with it.” <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Nobody-beats-the-Handcuff-Warehouse_Yee-HAW.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7497" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Nobody-beats-the-Handcuff-Warehouse_Yee-HAW.jpg" alt="Nobody beats the Handcuff Warehouse_Yee-HAW" width="170" height="375" /></a>Constantly worry? Who's worried? No front-line custody personnel <em>I</em> ever saw worried about such things! And never mind the implied coziness of the sales literature: whatever this thing is made out of, no <em>way</em> is it comfortable to sleep in. But who convinces custody officials to have their holding cell benches sprayed with sound-deadening insulation in order to keep the “volume to a minimum” when the benches are “forcibly struck by arms and legs”? Well, in the case of the Shh! Bench (my name), that would be <a href="http://www.sterlingdula.com/detention" target="_blank">Kane Architectural Innovations</a>, “Guardians of Safe Environments.” <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Pre-Emptive-Strike-Lice-Shampoo-ALSO-RELIEVES-EXTREME-CONSTIPATION-.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7535" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Pre-Emptive-Strike-Lice-Shampoo-ALSO-RELIEVES-EXTREME-CONSTIPATION-.jpg" alt="Pre-Emptive Strike Lice Shampoo ALSO RELIEVES EXTREME CONSTIPATION" width="300" height="195" /></a>Kane offers civilian commercial property developers and prison wardens alike ornamental fabrications, fencing, decorative accent systems, window protection, sun shades, and a slew of mounting solutions. They do all of this with the conviction that, in today's world, “unpredictable has become the norm.” It is, by far, <em>the</em> greatest upsell closer ever conceived. Can't you hear it? “Look, Bob, your Board can do what it wants on these louvered windows, but building and business model be damned: bath salt crazies and Muslims <em>could</em> swarm your lobby any 'ol Monday morning. Oh, they're comin'. And if your vandalism screens and window louvers aren't made by Kane, you're putting pregnant staffers at risk.” Not that Kane reps are this crass (though wouldn’t some of ‘em <em>have</em> to be?), but having been on the receiving end of their trade, I can assure you that this is an industry whose best interest is <em>not</em> served by the current national dialogue on <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/crime/214998-federal-sentencing-and-prison-reform-now-bipartisan-issues" target="_blank">sentence reform</a>. It's an industry that prefers to keep things like the “<a href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/kids-for-cash-judge-vs-parents/" target="_blank">Kids for Cash</a>” scandal, which shed light on some of its ugly, for-profit detention practices, quiet. It's also an industry dependent on grim statistics like California's having built 1 university since 1980, versus 30 prisons. So here's a look at a few more products from Kane and other prison product suppliers... <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/The-prefered-mesh-security-ceiling-of-mischievous-prison-birds-everywhere.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7485" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/The-prefered-mesh-security-ceiling-of-mischievous-prison-birds-everywhere.jpg" alt="The preferred mesh security ceiling of mischievous prison birds everywhere" width="119" height="89" /></a>Kane's 13-gauge steel “Vantage Barrier” is a thick mesh fencing often used for interior hallway partitions and exterior recreation roofing. It looks great ‘til it traps so much dust that the upper reaches fill with particulates and start closing off light. Meanwhile, on the Yard, mid-air bird poops explode upon impact with the barrier, showering fellas below with a white rain that makes even the meanest Yard ape jiggle and dance like Dora the Explorer. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/©Kane-Manufacturing-Corporation.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7486" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/©Kane-Manufacturing-Corporation.jpg" alt="©Kane Manufacturing Corporation" width="143" height="126" /></a>And forget inhospitable steel toilets, Kane's line of custody “modesty panels” are both ineffective and insulting. They're offered for “safety and privacy” and upsold to detention administrators as if inmates can afford to be shy. So here's a cost-cutting tip: Don't buy these! There's no privacy in crowded holding cells; modesty is moot where feces gets smeared on walls; and safety? Really? From whom, predators too big to slip under the panel, too small to step over it, or too dumb to go around? (Answer: yes.) <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/THE-BOSS_Body-Orifice-Security-Scanner-not-to-be-confused-with-the-Diana-Ross-song-of-the-same-name.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7504" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/THE-BOSS_Body-Orifice-Security-Scanner-not-to-be-confused-with-the-Diana-Ross-song-of-the-same-name.jpg" alt="THE BOSS_Body Orifice Security Scanner not to be confused with the Diana Ross song of the same name" width="148" height="135" /></a>Then there's the Ranger Security Big B.O.S.S. II, the latest Body Orifice Security Scanner – because walk-through metal detectors don't always zero in on razor blades keestered in the anus. The upsell here is the foot pedestal detection sensor, but plain old tickling works too well with toe-hiders to justify the extra cost. Besides, do you <em>really</em> want to know which employees are foot fetishists? Now don't get me wrong: just 'cause we're having a little fun with this stuff doesn't mean it isn't necessary, effective, or in some cases, appropriate. At $12,000 the B.O.S.S. II is also a bit overpriced, but such products do have their place. I’m not sure what the plan is to guard against heroin burritos, but I bet that upsell will be announced soon. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/American-Detention-Supplies_GBIB-2000-Isolation-Bed.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7514" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/American-Detention-Supplies_GBIB-2000-Isolation-Bed.jpg" alt="American Detention Supplies_GBIB-2000 Isolation Bed" width="248" height="159" /></a>In the meantime, from American Detention Suppliers, I bring you the G-BIB-2000 Isolation Bed. At $2246.85, the G-Bib has everything you need – unless you want your prisoner to stay put, in which case you’re gonna have to add the proprietary strap kit to your purchase. Those'll dent your budget by another $399.85 for the polyurethane kit, and a whopping $752.85 for good old-fashioned leather. And you're already paying $203.85 for a foam pad – ha! Look, no phrase is repeated more behind bars than “If I was in charge” (and that includes the old chestnut, “I didn't do it”). I must've said hundreds of times that, if I was in charge, I'd shop elsewhere. Humane Restraint, Inc., for instance, offers a backboard not unlike those used by paramedics – at half the price. The upsell straps are less than $50 a set, which means the pillow option can stay on the table. Plus you have the ability to stand a guy up in a closet, a real bonus for overcrowded prisons. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Sleep-Sack-should-not-be-used-with-Self-Protection-Smock-due-to-heightened-exposure-to-polyester-and-Chinese-foam.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-7516" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Sleep-Sack-should-not-be-used-with-Self-Protection-Smock-due-to-heightened-exposure-to-polyester-and-Chinese-foam.jpg" alt="Sleep Sack should not be used with Self Protection Smock due to heightened exposure to polyester and Chinese foam" width="242" height="63" /></a>In this golden age of detention supply profits, every other company out there wants to sell, sell, and upsell – some more brazenly than others. Across a lot of years of watching this emerging market, I’ve seen only one company set its marketing tone by what some would consider a humanitarian issue. <a href="http://icswaco.com/" target="_blank">ICS Jail Supplies, Inc.</a> out of Waco, Texas, is a small, family business unafraid of addressing big and potentially off-putting topics. For instance, its home page asks, “Is Your Facility P.R.E.A. Compliant? We can help you get there.” <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/PREA-Resource-Center.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-7531" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/PREA-Resource-Center.jpg" alt="PREA Resource Center" width="114" height="113" /></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ICS-Jail-Supplies-Inc..jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7520" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ICS-Jail-Supplies-Inc..jpg" alt="ICS Jail Supplies Inc." width="275" height="25" /></a>Huh? In 2003, Congress passed the <a href="http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&amp;tid=20" target="_blank">Prison Rape Elimination Act (P.R.E.A.</a>), under which the Prison Rape Elimination Commission develops and maintains national standards to “prevent, detect, and respond to prison rape.” As much as I like to keep things light, it’s hard to forget waking up in the middle of the night to men screaming ‘cause they’re being held down somewhere nearby. And of the many detention suppliers out there, ICS is the only one to go near the uncomfortable reality that rape occurs behind bars on a minute-to-minute basis. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Prison-rape-is-accepted-reality-in-a-system-that-dehumanizes-people-by-design.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7532" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Prison-rape-is-accepted-reality-in-a-system-that-dehumanizes-people-by-design-300x129.jpg" alt="Prison rape is an accepted reality in a system that dehumanizes people by design" width="244" height="105" /></a>If I were in charge, if I had to fill a prison with toilets and beds, I wouldn't want to think about an epidemic of rape. Likewise, if I were a detention vendor, I wouldn't rub the terrible specter of prison rape in the faces of my potential customers. Other vendors rely on social responsibility officers: ICS hangs its social credibility right out on its commercial shingle. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Silly-rabbit-Trix-are-for-kids_©ICS-Jail-Supplies-Inc..jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7599" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Silly-rabbit-Trix-are-for-kids_©ICS-Jail-Supplies-Inc..jpg" alt="Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids_©ICS Jail Supplies, Inc." width="341" height="133" /></a>I guess it could be argued that ICS is playing P.R.E.A. compliance to its own gain. But I spoke with two of the women who run the place, and I could tell neither saw me coming. Small or large, any business truly exploiting a humanitarian issue for profit is well prepared for questions from the public. These ladies weren't. Turns out ICS offers surveillance products that reduce blind spots and, ideally, minimize assaults. It’s nothing earth shattering, but there’s clearly a market need. Given the sheer number of detention vendors out there – from those who do good while profiting to those who tantalize goon squads with tactical gear – the unanswered question really is, <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>What do our prisons say about us?</strong></span> Maybe it’s time to examine the very idea of buildings we fill with humans and handcuffs. For a fascinating look at structures that “should not have been built,” listen as Jim Mueller, architect with KMD (the firm that designed Pelican Bay State Prison), discusses Ethical Standard 1.4 of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) at 99% Invisible. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/BIG-BOSS-II-now-with-with-foot-pedestal-detection-sensor.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-7537" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/BIG-BOSS-II-now-with-with-foot-pedestal-detection-sensor.jpg" alt="BIG BOSS II now with with foot pedestal detection sensor" width="159" height="154" /></a> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 7479 2014-09-05 23:42:47 2014-09-06 06:42:47 2016-12-01 10:39:59 2016-12-01 17:39:59 closed open upselling-prison publish 0 0 post 0 "Kids-for-Cash" American Detention Suppliers Body Orifice Security Scanner CharmTex custody detention products heroin burrito Humane Restraint ICS Jail Supplies Incarceration Nation isolation bed Kane Architectural Innovations modesty panel P.R.E.A. Prison Ranger Security sentence reform steel toilet upsell vantage barrier _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw upselling _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Wardens are having their detention furniture sprayed with sound deadening paint for when inmates' heads are bashed against it. Now that's upselling prison! _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 85 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:14;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1695137079;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7896;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10134;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4931;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/born-phone-plans-2/ Mon, 22 Sep 2014 02:45:13 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=7605 <h2><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Bigger-than-your-worst-nightmares.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7613" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Bigger-than-your-worst-nightmares.jpg" alt="Bigger than your worst nightmares" width="284" height="288" /></a>GUEST POST: 17-yr-old Grant Calderone on the future of phone plans.</span></h2> <p class="p1">If you’re asking me to shell out $749 for a smartphone, don’t market it to me like it’s a hamburger.</p> <p class="p1">It's hard to imagine Apple, Inc. desperate for anything, but the company has been squirming to return to prominence under the smartphone spotlight following the failure of its cheap and synthetic iPhone 5C.</p> <p class="p1">We didn't see the fall of tech's Holy Roman Empire, but it was pie in the face of Steve Jobs' legacy nonetheless. Now, with the the length of the iPhone 6+ exceeding six inches, infamous media manipulator Apple has detoured the public's attention from design brilliance to bigness in one product. What's next? A lifestyle clothing line featuring pockets fit for a smartphone king? A true visionary, MC Hammer sported iPants <em>years</em> ahead of their prime.<!--more--></p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Perfection-on-Planet-Trump_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Dial.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7615" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Perfection-on-Planet-Trump_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Dial.jpg" alt="Perfection on Planet Trump_Where Excuses Go to Dial" width="216" height="302" /></a>But baggier garments to fit bigger phones aside, this Jumbotron Industrial Complex was initially born of one-upsmanship between <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electronics_Co.,_Ltd." target="_blank">Apple and Samsung</a> over "similarities" in features like voice recognition systems, phone-bump-file-sharing, operating systems, and even built-in kickstands. Now comes the "size matters" contest and the diminishing value companies assign to the intelligence of consumers. Is this arms race towards bigger and bigger screens really what we want?</p> <p class="p1">Who will the i6+ appeal to, anyway? Will it be iOS gamers seeking ever larger screens to maximize Threes, Candy Crush, and Plants vs. Zombies game play? More real estate for thumb swipes on Temple Run? Or are we talking about entitled 9 year-olds, then? Everyone knows at least one of these whiny creatures, and they're the last people on earth who need to learn the phrase, “Bigger than Bigger." Who lets a kid use a $750 überscreen phablet when it's bigger than his head? Whoever it is, they're going to have fun when the i6 battery runs out and the babysitter needs to be relinquished to Mommy's oversized iPurse.</p> <p class="p1">And what about the phone loans, service agreements, and data plans with which Apple has now begun to <a href="http://www.dailyfinance.com/2014/09/19/iphone6-skip-subsidized-contract-buying-outright-better-deal/" target="_blank">meddle</a>? Will parents of the not-too-distant future be signing a two-year contract with Verizon immediately upon signing their child's birth certificate?</p> <p class="p1">Come to think of it, why not merge birth certificates and carrier contracts into one document and give new meaning to the phrase "family plan"? Will, "It's a boy!" be shortly followed by, "and we picked Sprint!" Children are already born onto kindergarten waiting lists; why not born into phone plans?</p> <p class="p1">We'll have to pick that up another time, though...I just heard my local Apple store got re-stocked.</p> <h5 class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;">Grant Calderone, like everyone you know, is currently in the market for a new smartphone. Say hi to this button-pusher on Twitter</span> @grantcalderone</h5> <p class="p1">Apple Inc. related: <a href="http://working-copy.local/culture/great-struggles-in-reading/" target="_blank">Great Struggles in Reading</a></p> <p class="p1">.</p> <p class="p1" style="text-align: center;"></p> 7605 2014-09-21 19:45:13 2014-09-22 02:45:13 2017-04-24 12:16:13 2017-04-24 19:16:13 closed open born-phone-plans-2 publish 0 0 post 0 Apple Candy Crush Saga contract Corporate Culture gamers i6 iOS iPhone MC Hammer phone plans Roman Empire smartphone Sprint Steve Jobs Temple Run Verizon _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw phone plans _yoast_wpseo_title Born into Phone Plans _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Will, "It's a boy!" will be shortly followed by, "and we picked Sprint!" Children are already born on to kindergarten lists. Why not born into phone plans? _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 80 _wpas_done_all 1 _wp_old_slug born-phone-plans _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:53;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1691292077;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2453;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4475;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2330;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/defense-isis/ Thu, 25 Sep 2014 03:59:00 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=7620 <h2><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/How-do-we-respond-to-the-ISIS-threat.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7654" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/How-do-we-respond-to-the-ISIS-threat.jpg" alt="How do we respond to the ISIS threat?" width="303" height="265" /></a><span style="color: #0000ff;">No, Isis the cat, not the beheading berzerkers in Vietcong jammies!</span></span></h2> Natalie, a friend of mine, has a cat named Isis. Now, after a comment a neighbor lady made, she wants to change it, and that causes my brain to reach Critical Processing Failure. So in defense of Isis, the cat, I'm now determined to convince my friend to shave an Islamic crescent moon into the animal's fur. Apparently the neighbor said something about the cat confusing kids, who are just learning about the militants. At any rate, that's about as far as Natalie got before my hands and arms took on a life of their own, flailing like flies were trying to get into my mouth and land on my eyeballs. "Wait, wait, wait...she said WHAT!?" What low-watt adults are<em> these</em>, inflicting the media's 24-hour terrorist hostility feed onto children? Show me kids who are so ruinously strobed by ISIS media hype that they'd confuse a house cat with the Islamic bogeyman and I'll show <em>you</em> parents who need an ass-kicking in a parking lot. I had to sit down and be convinced not to confront the woman, demand she never speak to Natalie again, and wish mortuary cannibalism upon her. But it was Nat's failure to laugh that gave me pause. She'd actually taken the woman somewhat seriously, I could tell, which re-prioritized the mission at hand. I realized I needed to listen, to offer Natalie counsel. <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ISIS-DESTROYS-MAN-IN-UNIFORM-CHRISTIAN-OPPRESSOR.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7653" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ISIS-DESTROYS-MAN-IN-UNIFORM-CHRISTIAN-OPPRESSOR.jpg" alt="ISIS DESTROYS MAN IN UNIFORM CHRISTIAN OPPRESSOR" width="381" height="273" /></a>The woman claims that when Natalie calls the cat in the evenings, as she does, and rings her little food bell-thing, the next-door kids hear, "Eye-sis! Eye-sis! C'mere Eye-sis!" So she's concerned for them, which is classic, because this pinecone has simultaneously managed to project TV terror onto a couple of hapless seven-year-olds <em>and</em> emasculate the Islamic State by associating its call to arms with a kitty bell. I guess it doesn't help that Isis, the cat, has black fur, which means she was born in the same Vietnamese guerilla/insurgent black pajamas now worn by the Islamic dudes. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ISIS-is-so-angry-she-cant-see-straight.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7633" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ISIS-is-so-angry-she-cant-see-straight.jpg" alt="ISIS is so angry she cant see straight" width="245" height="154" /></a>It also doesn't help that she has, in fact, ruthlessly beheaded lizards, mice, grasshoppers, and praying mantises by the dozen. She likes to stand imperiously above their carcasses as though delivering a horrifying message to the rest of the backyard that all disbelievers should be thrown into the pit of body parts. I'll admit she's a little unnerving in the evening, when car headlights momentarily radicalize her eyes. When Isis became an indoor-outdoor pet, we'd catch her studying us from tree branches, from behind trash cans, and from atop fences. She would peer out from beneath neighbor's cars, awaiting word of activation. And there was no telling from where she'd awaken, race across the yard, and attack baby birds whose only crime was touching down in an area controlled by Isis. Think it's a coincidence that Natalie's dog ran away when Isis arrived from the rescue shelter? Compared to other cats on Natalie's street, Isis is new, yet the others run away when she's on the move. These refugees long ago stopped encroaching on Nat's driveway, now a flat, barren no man's land. It's been estimated that up to four cats have been displaced from their roaming areas since Isis began widening her boundaries. They wait each night for Natalie to let the little hardliner in the back door. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Keep-walking-champ-curiosity-killed-the-fool-who-kept-eyeballin-the-wrong-cat.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7637" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Keep-walking-champ-curiosity-killed-the-fool-who-kept-eyeballin-the-wrong-cat.jpg" alt="Keep walking champ, curiosity killed the fool who kept eyeballin' the wrong cat" width="353" height="264" /></a>Isis got her name a long time before the Islamic State arose, back when Bin Laden was still living in a cave. It was given because Natalie likes Egyptian stuff, but whatever! None of this needs to be said. The old drunk next door need not even be acknowledged. So <em>what</em> if Natalie calls out "Eye-sis!" during the NBC nightly news. Surely the parents on the other side of the fence have a sense of humor, or have at least explained that Nat's Isis shouldn't be confused with <b>????? ????????? </b>. "She was nice about it," Natalie related, "but she had this look on her face." "Please tell me you didn't agree to change her name." "I told her I'd think about it." She quickly added a tentative, "But I wasn't serious - ?" I responded with a petulant, "Well, if you were, you might as well help her make sure your cat didn't plant a car bomb under your Toyota." And there it is: I just can't believe Natalie is entertaining the idea of accommodating this whack-job's dumb-ass excuse for ill-informed, self-aggrandizing Islamaphobia. My fingers remain crossed that she'll opt instead to sling the little G.I. Joe M-16 I gave her around her Isis's collar. Really, folks...it's ok to challenge someone's comfort zones, intentionally or not. <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ISIS_Possibly-the-first-house-cat-to-build-an-Islamic-state.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-7648" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ISIS_Possibly-the-first-house-cat-to-build-an-Islamic-state.jpg" alt="ISIS_Possibly the first house cat to build an Islamic state" width="128" height="117" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> 7620 2014-09-24 20:59:00 2014-09-25 03:59:00 2014-09-25 09:17:36 2014-09-25 16:17:36 closed open defense-isis publish 0 0 post 0 Bin Laden cat Character Culture GI Joe guerilla insurgent ISIS Islamaphobia Islamic State M-16 mortuary cannibalism NBC refugee terrorism terrorist Vietcong _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw ISIS _yoast_wpseo_title In Defense of ISIS - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc I can't believe Natalie's thinking of changing her cat's name, "Isis," because a bonkers neighbor-lady says it may confuse or scare kids. Oh, America. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 93 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:11;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704484952;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9141;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:417;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4368;}}}} http://working-copy.local/prison-2/prison-visitor-hardball/ Fri, 03 Oct 2014 18:43:18 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=7708 <h2><span style="color: #0000ff;">As if California's prison visitors didn't have it demanding enough.</span></h2> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Process-in-and-process-out-is-what-seeing-daddy-is-all-about.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-7687" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Process-in-and-process-out-is-what-seeing-daddy-is-all-about.jpg" alt="Process in and process out is what seeing daddy is all about" width="298" height="223" /></a>It goes without saying that, for family members, prison visits are psychologically and emotionally demanding. Just keeping up with background check requirements, approved visiting days, bureaucratic obstacles, and the distinct operational eccentricities of the facilities in which your loved one may be housed is an education in itself – a part-time job. And none of it applies to the wild-card of lockdowns or the myriad other things that can affect visitations, like visits being cut short due to overcrowding. The experience itself is more akin to driving for four hours only to stand in line to deal with a speeding ticket for which you'd previously failed to appear. You get a strong sense that you're only being grudgingly tolerated by authorities, who've lumped you in with the rest, with "those people." And in fact you <em>are</em> literally penned in with other visitors awaiting approval and entry. Such areas are always some variation of "Visitor Intake" or "Processing," and they're never short on militaristic signage and ALL CAPS ANXIOUSNESS. Depending on the facility and its administrator's interpretation of departmental policy, waiting areas may be lined with hard wooden benches (the kind you could easily be handcuffed to), tattered airport seating, or flimsy plastic stackables.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/From-recycling-to-rehabilitation-to-redirecting-offenders-California-Prisons-have-a-long-way-to-go_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7700" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/From-recycling-to-rehabilitation-to-redirecting-offenders-California-Prisons-have-a-long-way-to-go_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="From recycling to rehabilitation to redirecting offenders California Prisons have a long way to go_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="454" height="112" /></a>Many in your group have never had a relationship <em>with</em> authority, only against, so you keep your eyes down when voices are raised. You didn't drive all that way to wind up like the woman and two kids who just lost their visiting privileges. But toss in every conceivable permutation of judgment and profiling imaginable, <em>plus</em> the learned behaviors of macho, mayhem, and menace, and what do you get? Personnel trained to fall back on indifference as an emotional defense. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/RIOT-BABY-TAKEDOWN_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7701" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/RIOT-BABY-TAKEDOWN_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="RIOT BABY TAKEDOWN_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="204" height="183" /></a>You're here to show support, to see your loved one or friend for yourself, up close. And even that can be hard to hang onto once you're inside, trying to center yourself amidst the latent hostility of inmates and guards who've seen each other's true colors and will likely return to them when this is over. Don't let the <a href="http://v-e-n-u-e.com/Captive-America-An-Interview-with-Alyse-Emdur" target="_blank">inmate painted murals</a> of Key West or circus clowns fool you: these rooms are <em>never</em> relaxing. Back in the parking lot and the sanctity of your car, you'll be overwhelmingly grateful you get to be the one to drive away, because you've just been spat out of a turbine of criminal, ethnic, and economic profiling. You're not even the inmate, and yet self appraisal, hard reality, and genuine relief have just slammed against one another with such force that it'll take a day or two to decide whether you feel violated or restored. Prison visitation is emotionally exhausting even for correctional officers, who: <ul> <li class="p1">are under pressure to scrutinize civilians to prevent drugs and weapons from entering the facility (though most of these folks aren't too good at differentiating between "scrutinize" and "size-up")</li> <li class="p1">must blur the psychological lines between maintaining a command presence over inmates and begrudgingly conveying the intent of the department's visitor program to encourage "healthy family and community relationships"</li> <li class="p1">must assist members of the community sporting the same tattoos as "those assholes in the chow hall"</li> <li class="p1">must smile back at people who hate them, fear them, and otherwise profile <em>them</em> as "weak-ass punks" and "Nazi goons"</li> <li class="p1">must listen to weeping wives, screaming babies, begging husbands, and excuses galore for eight hours at a stretch</li> </ul> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/California-Correctional-Peace-Officers-Association.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7698" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/California-Correctional-Peace-Officers-Association.jpg" alt="California Correctional Peace Officers Association" width="182" height="182" /></a>Don't worry, though, as members of the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA) and attendant support clubs, those <a href="http://ordinary-gentlemen.com/blog/2011/06/05/the-role-of-the-prison-guards-union-in-californias-troubled-prison-system" target="_blank">guards make out just fine</a>. And now, <a href="http://www.cimriders4ccpoa.com/" target="_blank">disturbing coping outlets</a> aside, detention administrators across the country are receiving national and international attention for their efforts. Despite the same 'ol operational management and inherent marginalizing of prison visitors, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) appears to be addressing rehabilitation and parolee reentry issues as never before (and I do mean never). The department wants people to know that it, too, is a Netflix subscriber: after all, <em>everybody</em> loves Orange Is the New Black. It's even teamed up with <a href="http://www.sesamestreet.org/parents/topicsandactivities/toolkits/incarceration" target="_blank">Sesame Street's</a> "Little Children, Big Challenges: Incarceration" program, which is all <em>about</em> family contact. And a few clicks around the <a href="http://visitorreservations.cdcr.ca.gov/" target="_blank">CDCR website</a> will confirm the department's intent to soften up its whole approach to scumbag gang-banger wives and parolee babies. <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>There's only one problem:</strong></span> the contradictions California's prison system wears like a tattoo it got on the Yard. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/The-black-and-white-world-of-the-CDCR.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7695" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/The-black-and-white-world-of-the-CDCR.jpg" alt="The black and white world of the CDCR" width="180" height="179" /></a>Just this month, California confirmed its reputation as a lousy state in which to visit inmates by beginning to test new "emergency" visitation rules, hardball hoops designed to decrease the weed, speed, and smartphones smuggled into its facilities. (Good luck with that iPhone 6 Plus, though I am told it bends.) Even as the national dialogue on prison reform brings a dawning revelation that America's attempts to incarcerate its way out of crime have backfired, California is introducing drug dogs, <a href="http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/sep/24/california-prisons-toughen-screenings-of-visitors/" target="_blank">ion scanners</a>, and random visitor strip searches, which will no doubt take little more than a rookie badge convincing his or her sergeant that you smell like weed to initiate. In other words, if these new policies are implemented the way the old ones were, then like every other rule in California prisons, they'll be carried out arbitrarily and subjectively. Kind of like the mind-bending prison visitor dress code...Be sure not to smart off when bickering with that ready-to-retire fussybuttons about what exactly constitutes an underwire; they're forbidden in California facilities. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Video-Remand-Stations_The-future-of-detention-visitation_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7702" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Video-Remand-Stations_The-future-of-detention-visitation_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="&quot;Video Remand Stations&quot; The future of detention visitation_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="270" height="202" /></a>Governor Jerry Brown's efforts to catch up with other states making strides in prison reform, overcrowding, conditions, and re-entry will turn up the heat on CDCR employees to justify expenditures associated with playing visitor hardball. Besides, prison families already face isolation, so further criminalizing them only makes it harder for inmates to get the support from loved ones that is so essential to genuine rehabilitation. And corrections officers are usually decent people forced to rely on indifference and judgment as emotional defenses. Given the state of the state, they may be doing so now more than ever. But if we can start to cut law-and-order rhetoric from prison soundbites and eliminate <a href="https://www.aclunc.org/news/governor-signs-historic-california-fair-sentencing-act" target="_blank">sentencing disparities</a>, surely we can improve visiting room operations as well, maybe ease up some on the indifference and reduce the feeling of guilt-by-association. It's aspirational, I know. From recycling bodies to redirecting offenders, California has a long road ahead. <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Prison-Visitor-Hardball_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-7727" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Prison-Visitor-Hardball_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Prison Visitor Hardball_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="139" height="134" /></a></p> &nbsp; 7708 2014-10-03 11:43:18 2014-10-03 18:43:18 2014-12-21 10:07:18 2014-12-21 17:07:18 closed open prison-visitor-hardball publish 0 0 post 0 California California Correctional Peace Officers Association CCPOA CDCR corrections officers incarceration Incarceration Nation ion scanner iPhone 6 Jerry Brown Netflix Orange Is the New Black overcrowding Prison Prison Guards Prison reform prison visitation rehabilitation Sesame Street smartphone _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw prison visitor _yoast_wpseo_title Prison Visitor Hardball _yoast_wpseo_metadesc As I see it, the call for a strip search will be subjective - like when a rookie badge convinces his sergeant that you, the prison visitor, smell like weed. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 89 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:1;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1697463428;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1568;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8684;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6759;}}}} http://working-copy.local/prison-2/ccpoa-opposition/ Wed, 15 Oct 2014 22:30:18 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=7740 <h2><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>California prison guard union’s silence on Prop 47 smells funky...</strong></span></h2> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Apocalypse-Hoosegow-9_CCPOA-EDITION_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7742" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Apocalypse-Hoosegow-9_CCPOA-EDITION_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Apocalypse Hoosegow 9_CCPOA EDITION_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="269" height="262" /></a>In 2011, the CCPOA claimed it had “played a decisive role” in electing Governor Jerry Brown after dropping $2 million on his campaign alone. The characteristic boast came in the form of a video called “The Winners,” griped about at the time by <em>Los Angeles Times</em> columnist Steve Lopez. That year, the union endorsed candidates it favored to the tune of $7 million and received plenty in exchange. Of 107 candidates it backed in California, 104 were elected. It’s no secret that the CCPOA is one of the most influential unions in American history: it’s been building that power in earnest since the ‘80s, when CCPOA-sponsored legislation began to be successful about 80% of the time. Not surprisingly, this period includes some of California’s most intractable laws, such as 1984’s infamous Three Strikes legislation. “The formula is simple,” writes Joan Petersilia in Volume 37 of <a href="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/series/CJ.html">Crime and Justice: A Review of Research</a>. “More prisoners lead to more prisons; more prisons require more guards; more guards means more dues-paying members and fund-raising capability; and fund-raising, of course, translates into political influence.” Naturally, the CCPOA has a vested interest in keeping incarceration and recidivism rates high.<!--more--> <em><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Don-Novey_Labor-Icon-and-Mickey-Spillane-Celebrity-Lookalike.jpeg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-7749" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Don-Novey_Labor-Icon-and-Mickey-Spillane-Celebrity-Lookalike.jpeg" alt="Don Novey_Labor Icon and Mickey Spillane Celebrity Lookalike" width="144" height="181" /></a>Ordinary Times</em> writer Tim Kowal offers a thorough and concise explanation of how California's prison system, once a model of corrections management, pulled a hard u-turn during the tenure of Don Novey, who ran the CCPOA from 1980 to 2002 and made ‘roid rage look like lollipops. Under Novey’s leadership, the union's influence grew exponentially – right alongside the 18 prisons California built between 1985 and 1995. One state senator remarked of the CCPOA at the time, “If you screw them, they make life miserable.” I'm surprised a movie biopic hasn’t been made about the Hoffa-esque Novey, who notoriously stuck around to keep a hand in things even after he left office. Now, if you don’t have your own thoughts on how badly things need to change, just skimming the Lopez and Kowal pieces will serve as a fine introduction to the whys of prison reform (for a bit more, see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Plata" target="_blank">Brown v. Plata</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plata_v._Schwarzenegger">Plata v. Schwarzenegger</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman_v._Schwarzenegger">Coleman v. Schwarzenegger</a>). But it’s only now that the public has become aware of how poorly our war on drugs/three strikes mentality has affected state and national welfare that the CCPOA itself has started to modify its <a href="http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/agitation/prisons/campaigns/ca/caguardunion.html">guards-are-your-neighbors</a>; prisoners-are-scum-of-the-earth rhetoric. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/CCPOA_BATTLE-CONFETTI_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-7748" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/CCPOA_BATTLE-CONFETTI_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" width="144" height="224" /></a>Yes, the same CCPOA that for <em>years</em> worked to beat back reforms, rehabilitation, house cleaning, and operational transparency, is now taking a page from the California Department of Corrections’ tactical handbook. See, the CDC added an “R” for “rehabilitation” back in 2005 – after the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals used words like “depravity,” “unconstitutional,” and “failure” to describe the department’s <a href="http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/toyed-discarded-inmate-human-age-mass-incarceration/">appalling</a> inadequacies. These days, the CCPOA almost sounds like the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), that infamous private prison profiteer. Questioned as to why, about a year ago, the CCA had begun acquiring firms that operate halfway houses and other community-based corrections facilities, <a href="https://www.cca.com/press-releases/corrections-corporation-of-america-to-enhance-and-expand-reentry-programming-opportunities-that-reduce-recidivism">CEO Damon Hininger</a> insisted that “reentry programs and reducing recidivism are 100 percent aligned with our business model.” <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/CCA_IS_WORST.jpeg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7140" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/CCA_IS_WORST.jpeg" alt="Corrections Corporation of America_The largest private corrections company in the United States " width="179" height="133" /></a>Why all the shifting priorities? Is public sentiment so changed that it can no longer be swayed by old school fear-mongering? Why, for instance, does the CCPOA seem so silent on California's Prop 47 initiative, which seeks to reclassify non-serious/non-violent property and drug crimes from felonies to misdemeanors and allow re-sentencing of inmates serving time for crimes newly eligible for reclassification. The legislation would appear to strike at the very heart of the CCPOA’s unwavering job security interests, so why no political muscle flexing this time around? Why? Because this union is <em>good</em>, that's why. The CCPOA, with its fortress of lawyers and public image strategists, is as coldly shrewd as ever. That victory video Steve Lopez disliked has since been pulled from the CCPOA website, but not before its narrator’s most cautionary words could be captured: “We win because we never quit, and that's what makes us CCPOA.” <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/CCPOA_Labor-Aristocracy_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-7752" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/CCPOA_Labor-Aristocracy_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="CCPOA_Labor Aristocracy_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="619" height="202" /></a> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>So what does the CCPOA want?</strong> Like most unions, more money (remember: money is power), better benefits, and improved job security.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>The problem: </strong>If California genuinely reduces its current rate of incarceration, perks like <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/02/local/la-me-prisons-20110302" target="_blank">hazard pay</a>, extra shifts, and overtime may be in jeopardy.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;"><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/CCPOA-Profiled-by-Joshua-Page.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-7757" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/CCPOA-Profiled-by-Joshua-Page.jpg" alt="CCPOA Profiled by Joshua Page" width="165" height="248" /></a>So ideally, the CCPOA wants to keep prisons full.</strong> In the old days, to facilitate this, they’d just:</span></p> <ol> <li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Be anti-private prison</strong></span> (tactics: CCPOA kept financial pressure on legislators and used a “they’re worse than we are because they have no oversight” PR strategy with the public.)</span></li> <li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Back tough-on-crime legislation</strong></span> (tactics: while accepting no culpability for increased recidivism rates, the CCPOA helped put more <em>new</em> people behind bars by effectively and publicly tying lower crime rates to higher incarceration rates.)</span></li> <li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Trot out the victims </strong></span>(tactics: the CCPOA has long been notorious for co-opting victims and their families for media appearances in support of a “lock ‘em up” agenda.)</span></li> <li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Heighten fear around reentry failures</strong></span> (tactics: with an emphasis on the differences between what CCPOA members do and what their “lesser” county counterparts are able to handle, reentry and early release failures were publicized widely as detrimental to public safety.)</span></li> </ol> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;">Now, with the public tide continuing to turn in favor of civil liberties and genuine rehabilitation, the <strong>CCPOA must shift its strategy to:</strong></span></p> <ol> <li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Maintain an anti-private prison stance</strong></span> (tactic: those guys can always be made to look worse, which makes the CCPOA look better by comparison.)</span></li> <li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Make federal oversight go away so the union can get back to doing things <em>its </em>way</strong></span> (tactics: acknowledge that the only way to offload the feds is to appear to comply with population reductions and operational improvements. Work with paid-for politicians to increase capacity restrictions at state facilities to make the problem seem less egregious, then appear to go along with realignment to county facilities.)</span></li> <li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Keep more state incarceration funds where they belong – with CCPOA members</strong></span> (tactic: even nominal compliance with federal requirements can curtail expensive class-action lawsuits around, say, subhuman confinement conditions.)<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/CALIFORNIA-TAXPAYERS-Behind-the-same-bars-as-its-prisoners.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7745" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/CALIFORNIA-TAXPAYERS-Behind-the-same-bars-as-its-prisoners.jpg" alt="CALIFORNIA TAXPAYERS - Behind the same bars as its prisoners" width="339" height="226" /></a></span></li> <li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Hedge bets vis-à-vis public sentiment, including legislation like Prop 47 </strong></span>(tactic: even as they continue to tell their members that they “walk the toughest beat in the state,” the CCPOA can make a highly visible “we’ve seen the light” shift from lock-up-those-assholes mentality to pro-rehab and successful reentry, like it does in its <a style="color: #800000;" href="http://www.ccpoa.org/beyond-prisons-the-future-of-corrections-2012/">“Beyond Prisons”</a> booklet. Public acknowledgment that recidivism’s detriments outweigh its benefits, coupled with complete silence on the countless years and dollars spent by the union to ensure high recidivism rates, should help achieve this goal.)</span></li> <li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Embrace the digital age</strong></span> (tactic: make a movie! When a union can rewrite history with the unmitigated gall of a Michael Bay film, making it look like guards are just as afraid of mass incarceration as the public is – holy crap! Be sure to open the video by sure-footedly sidestepping all blame for turning California prisons into a union-made drainpipe for public resources and lost lives.)</span></li> <li><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Remember that realignment offers protection against the horrors of early <em>release</em>, which would really impact CCPOA job security</strong></span> (tactics: when things go wrong with realignment, or with a piece of legislation that cuts the union out of the pie, staunchly defend public safety by wondering aloud where things broke down – it will always be on someone else’s watch! Then point out how only CCPOA members can truly handle “these people” and must therefore be included in any future solution. Insist, for instance, that the <em>in-prison</em> reentry programs you conduct yourselves are better. Ca-ching!)</span></li> </ol> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/YES_ON_47_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7763" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/YES_ON_47_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="YES_ON_47_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="362" height="357" /></a>Basically, the CCPOA doesn’t really need to care what happens with Prop 47; it can afford to sit this one out, because it’s spent the last 35+ years preparing for the tide to turn. At this point, any reduction in the prison population that may result from 47’s passage won't make much of a dent in the union’s comfort, strength, or lobbying power. Sure, prison reform might suddenly be a bipartisan issue, corralling fiscal conservatives and lefties in the same arena, but <a href="http://vimeo.com/59702761" target="_blank">when you wield the power of omission and obfuscation like these guys do</a>, you can afford to throw the opposition a bone. I didn't write <em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em> to knock correctional officers, but to tell the public about civilian prison educators who helped me self-rehabilitate, as it was the only option. Because of them, I did find a second chance  –not in the system–  in the compassion and humanitarianism of those who believed in what they were doing, rather than in higher-ups they could hide behind. And while the CCPOA’s new rhetoric may <em>sound</em> good, it’s not likely their agenda really has this sort of authenticity in mind. <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>So we have no excuse not to keep an eye on the money – and the influence to which it leads.</strong></span> . 7740 2014-10-15 15:30:18 2014-10-15 22:30:18 2014-10-15 16:22:51 2014-10-15 23:22:51 closed open ccpoa-opposition publish 0 0 post 0 Brown v. Plata California Correctional Peace Officers Association CCPOA CDC CDCR Corrections Corporation of America Damon Hininger Don Novey Election Politics Governor Jerry Brown Hoffa incarceration Los Angeles Times Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Prison Prison Guards Prison reform private prisons Prop 47 recidivism reentry Schwartzenegger silence on Prop 47 Steve Lopez three strikes union Where Excuses Go to Die _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw ccpoa _yoast_wpseo_title What, CCPOA, no opposition? _yoast_wpseo_metadesc New CCPOA rhetoric may sound good, but it’s not likely their agenda really has much authenticity in mind. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 84 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:9;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706844780;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9105;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8912;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:364;}}}} http://working-copy.local/prison-2/hell-robs-bookstores/ Mon, 20 Oct 2014 00:40:40 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=7779 <h2><span style="color: #0000ff;">10/20 Where Excuses Go to Die at Univ. San Diego: Warren Auditorium</span></h2> FREE <em>WHERE EXCUSES GO TO DIE</em> AUTHOR TALK WITH Q&amp;A: Many thanks to Gina DeLapa of <a href="http://stuffyoualreadyknow.com/meet-gina-delapa/" target="_blank">Stuff You Already Know</a> fame and the Department of School, Family and Mental Health Professions at the University of San Diego. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/10-20-14_WHO-THE-HELL-ROBS-BOOKSTORES__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-7777" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/10-20-14_WHO-THE-HELL-ROBS-BOOKSTORES__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="10-20-14_WHO THE HELL ROBS BOOKSTORES__Where Excuses Go to Die" width="663" height="852" /></a> <p style="text-align: center;">.<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/John-Espinosa-Nelson_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Photo-by-Katie-Ferguson.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-7787" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/John-Espinosa-Nelson_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Photo-by-Katie-Ferguson.jpg" alt="John Espinosa Nelson_Where Excuses Go to Die_Photo by Katie Ferguson" width="216" height="200" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"></p> 7779 2014-10-19 17:40:40 2014-10-20 00:40:40 2014-10-20 07:24:18 2014-10-20 14:24:18 closed open hell-robs-bookstores publish 0 0 post 0 author talk Comfort Zone Prison University of San Diego USD Where Excuses Go to Die _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw where excuses go to die _yoast_wpseo_title WHO THE HELL ROBS BOOKSTORES? _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Join us in Warren Auditorium Mon., October 20, from 5:30-6:30pm as author John Espinosa Nelson reads from his award-winning memoir, Where Excuses Go to Die. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 55 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:1;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1688471899;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9010;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4346;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2444;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6908;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2128;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4503;}}}} http://working-copy.local/inspirational/fitness-stuff-jimmy-2/ Wed, 29 Oct 2014 00:34:57 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=7795 <h2 class="p1"><span style="color: #0000ff;">I abhor the pretend comfort of gyms. My alternative is much worse. </span></h2> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/PLENTY-OF-CLOWNS-TO-MAKE-THE-ROUNDS.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7824" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/PLENTY-OF-CLOWNS-TO-MAKE-THE-ROUNDS.jpg" alt="PLENTY OF CLOWNS TO MAKE THE ROUNDS" width="370" height="279" /></a>Weekday mornings, my wife and I are up at 5:50, wishing we could hide behind our excuses. Our destination is a nearby gymnastics academy, where we attend workout classes that are held before the facility opens for training. The hour-long sessions are similar to those at other fitness bootcamps, yet ours seems to lack an expectation of polite behavior – and that works for us just fine. We sneer at the uniformity, the schadenfreude, and the peacockish know-nothings that inhabit the world of franchise fitness.</p> <p class="p1">Kooks of a <em>different</em> stripe are the smart-asses our alternate choice tends to attract. We get misfits, irregulars, and the godless.</p> <p class="p1">Fitness buzzwords and cheerful slogans don't get thrown around our class, but insults, gripes, and taunts certainly do. Some of us <em>do</em> manage to refrain from using the word "retard," which is interesting, because as ethnically, culturally, and socially diverse as we are, it's the only taboo word no one seems willing to reconsider. And nothing beats "fatso" for the most commonly heard.</p> <p class="p1">And it's <em>still</em> better than a gym membership.<!--more--></p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Try-planking-on-a-balance-beam-for-two-minutes-why-dont-ya.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7825" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Try-planking-on-a-balance-beam-for-two-minutes-why-dont-ya.jpg" alt="Try planking on a balance beam for two minutes why dont ya" width="193" height="145" /></a>Jimmy, our master and trainer, conducts the classes on a huge expanse of carpeted, spring-loaded foam where, later in the day, kids will practice their floor routines. Our warm-up consists of jogging around the carpet in a big circle, but since the typical age range in our class is about 25-50, there's always a slow-lane for the bad knee gang. Monday mornings find most of our bootcampers stiff and grumpy, and our running circle looks more like a conga line of broken toys than sinewy, half-naked poseurs. These people aren't trim, tanned, and tiger-blooded; they're argumentative, arthritic, and abusive. A woman in our group is a reality show casting agent who's repeatedly said we're the best pool of potential recruits she's ever seen.</p> <p class="p1">For instance, we've got a Colombian mother and daughter who only speak to each other in low whispers and in Spanish. They're perfectly nice, but there's something joyfully sinister about them too. We sometimes try to make 'em laugh out loud just to see if we can.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Meat-Lovers-Pizza_Piled-high-with-Pepperoni-Cardiovascular-Disease-and-pork-sausage-Colon-Cancer.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7826" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Meat-Lovers-Pizza_Piled-high-with-Pepperoni-Cardiovascular-Disease-and-pork-sausage-Colon-Cancer.jpg" alt="Meat Lovers Pizza_Piled high with Pepperoni Cardiovascular Disease and pork sausage Colon Cancer" width="85" height="86" /></a>Then there's our middle-aged high school football hero who updates his Facebook page with near-daily pictures of the artery-clogging food he's pitching down his gullet. He told us a few weeks ago that he <em>just</em> learned how many calories are in a large <a href="https://order.pizzahut.com/home" target="_blank">Pizza Hut</a> Meat Lover's pizza, which he used to consume regularly all by his lonesome (let's put it this way...you'd have to ride a bicycle for 9.5 hours to burn the calories). He's a big guy with a big heart, and it'll probably explode in a big way. He enjoys telling stories – sometimes about exercises he used to be able to pull off.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Shes-got-Bette-Davis-eyes.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7838" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Shes-got-Bette-Davis-eyes.jpg" alt="She's got Bette Davis eyes" width="123" height="39" /></a>Another storyteller – especially in the middle of Jimmy's tough <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-intensity_interval_training" target="_blank">Tabata workouts</a> – is our self-described "cougar boss." This operator owns a company that produces high-quality spanking fetish, mouthsoaping, and diaper videos; you can imagine how tall <em>her</em> tales can get...</p> <p class="p1">"Slab" is an elected city official who looks like an escapee from promotional materials on diabetes among African Americans. The structural integrity of the gym flooring is sometimes called into question when Slab's there and Jimmy assigns squat jumps. But he's gentle and funny and we enjoy his company very much, even if he does need to take his health a bit more seriously. My writing "R.I.P." and "Ask me about my pancreas!" in the dirt on his car windows obviously hasn't worked.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Stand-Up-Comedy-is-definitely-Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7829" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Stand-Up-Comedy-is-definitely-Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-.jpg" alt="Stand-up comedy is definitely Where Excuses Go to Die" width="246" height="163" /></a>We also have a successful standup comedienne who is indeed a <a href="http://bit.ly/Sally_Mullins" target="_blank">very funny woman</a>, but funnier still is her approximation of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZQA08SlJnM">burpees</a> (who knew there was a donkey kick involved?) Sometimes she shows up drunk wearing week-old clothes, but it doesn't stop her from giving it her "all."</p> <p class="p1">Which may be partly why Jimmy claims to give up on us all the time. But we keep coming back, making him show us how to do exercises we've been doing for two years as if we'd never seen 'em before. We wheeze and complain our way through 55 minutes of hell, often more out of breath from laughter than our halfhearted efforts. We've nicknamed the class everything from "Das Bootcamp" to "Insult Workout" to "Bullshit Exercises Jimmy Got Off the Internet."</p> <p class="p1">We welcome newcomers. We'd never stand in the way of Jimmy's new client acquisition efforts – though we've admittedly annoyed off a few. "Sagebrush Cantina" couldn't figure out why no one related to her misplaced $5k watch, which she later found on her boat where she left it. She had a fake rack and butt implants. She wore pricey workout clothes too, but it took forever for the woman to figure out it was all lost on us slobs. (Jimmy says working out with us is like doing yoga with Amy Winehouse.)<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Homer_Marge-and-the-makeup-gun.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7831" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Homer_Marge-and-the-makeup-gun.jpg" alt="Homer_Marge and the makeup-gun" width="121" height="101" /></a></p> <p class="p1">"Dave &amp; Buster," a couple of plus sized waitresses, required smoke breaks during class. Another smoker, "Sons of Anarchy," smeared her nicotine-craved face with so much makeup that by the time class was over she looked like Marge Simpson, shot in <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Im-mad-as-hell-and-Im-not-going-to-take-it-anymore.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7833" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Im-mad-as-hell-and-Im-not-going-to-take-it-anymore.jpg" alt="I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!" width="110" height="165" /></a>the face by Homer's makeup gun.</p> <p class="p1">"Mad Cow" was a litigious man who said he'd sue Jimmy <em>and</em> the gym owners if he ever tripped or fell over any of the equipment. Never mind that he was an easy 320 lbs. (down from 480), had bizarre-looking folds of excess skin, and not a muscle on him. One angry dude. He ended up having a small stroke, recovering, refusing anyone's help, and never coming back. He became Mad Cow once his brain turned off and his body started moving in several directions at once. The remarkable thing was how long it took for his quivering flab to settle after he righted himself.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Victoria-isnt-so-secret.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7846" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Victoria-isnt-so-secret.jpg" alt="Victoria isn't so secret" width="177" height="230" /></a>A young woman with a Wisconsin accent showed up once and announced she'd be competing in a series of upcoming beauty contests, the first of which was Miss Santa Monica. After that would be a regional event, then a state-level competition, and on to the Miss America Pageant itself. She couldn't say how or why she figured her plan would work, but she did tell us how much of a slave driver her father was about her achieving these goals, and that certainly stood out! Before her <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/©Crown-Diva-Boutique-Pageant-Academy.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-7835" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/©Crown-Diva-Boutique-Pageant-Academy.jpg" alt="©Crown Diva Boutique &amp; Pageant Academy__No really_that's the name" width="170" height="82" /></a>first class was over, she'd shared that she wanted to become "Victoria's Secret skinny," which we all thought was a joke. Turns out it wasn't. So the three women most likely to <em>never</em> be Victoria's Secret skinny started talking like prison inmates planning a hit on a snitch. How Miss America could return cluelessly each day was a mystery, 'cause anyone with a leaf-eating Koala's capacity for understanding danger would've gotten the hint. Not her. When she told Jimmy <em>in front of people</em> she couldn't work out "real hard" because sweat would make her spray tan run, we pretty much tormented her 'til she finally ran out the door. Or maybe being overlooked for Miss Santa Monica exposed an embarrassing flaw in her endgame.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Exercise_Royal-Caribbean-style.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7836" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Exercise_Royal-Caribbean-style.jpg" alt="Exercise_Royal Caribbean style" width="252" height="226" /></a>Needless to say, this would be the "stuff" in "Fitness &amp; Stuff with Jimmy."</p> <p class="p1">The whole thing is reminiscent of the exercise classes you find on a cruise ship sports deck. You know, the ones sprinkled with participants who force exercise upon themselves because going through the motions on a guided tour of fitness validates the recuperative elements of time away from work. One or two have just come from the buffet line, bearing their own oxygen supply and sporting mashed potatoes on their collar. Others are fresh from holding court at the pool bar. Assemble these sinners on Royal Caribbean anti-stain carpeting, drop some <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZXlgNMDK3E">Bomba Estero</a>, and you've got a packed day room in a Pennsylvania crazy house circa 1922. They last all of four minutes once things get going, and while some may push it, most end up standing around telling stories, rolling about on the floor, or just plain wiggling.</p> <p class="p1">Back on land, not all of us are this useless, of course. Some try harder than others, but <em>none</em> of us would rather hang around Squat Press machines, meatheads, or Megan Fox. Our workout peers, among whom we find our "zone," are far better than what any gym membership would get us.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/SMART-IS-SEXY-TOO_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7840" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/SMART-IS-SEXY-TOO_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="SMART IS SEXY TOO_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="352" height="232" /></a>Plus, Jimmy's a certified trainer who runs his business in defiance of fitness products and buzzwords that promise quick results. The academy's "trampoline row" is off limits and we're sworn to avoid trendy <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2390132/Trampoline-jump-gym-craze-sweeping-U-S-putting-people-risk-broken-bones-paralysis-DEATH.html" target="_blank">jump gyms</a>. Sure, he endlessly blabs about dietary changes that can "reset" a person's metabolism, the value of exercises that use your own body weight, and why you should always use heavier weights when you can. He likes the high intensity B.S. that none of <em>us</em> like, nor do we like <em>him</em> much when he says stupid things like, "They're not lay-downs; they're get-ups!" We tell him that every day, but he never fails to unlock the door for us.</p> <p class="p1">And partly because of Jimmy-the-menace, we've learned that consistency matters even more than how many Boat Pose with Arm Flys you can do. Making the same marginal, interruption-laden effort 3, 4, or 5 days a week will yield results you can actually be proud of. We, too, value consistency over caliber, 'cause non-athletes like us aren't discipline machines or single-minded insects of fitness. But we still want to respect ourselves.</p> <p class="p1">We know we have no excuse not to push ourselves physically, and consistency is all it takes to start. Push yourself a little bit each day and the rest will come along too – so long as you don't inhale processed sugar like you're snorting coke.</p> <p class="p1">Oh, did I mention Cougar Boss can also hook you up with some good blow?</p> <p class="p1"></p> 7795 2014-10-28 17:34:57 2014-10-29 00:34:57 2014-10-28 22:08:32 2014-10-29 05:08:32 closed open fitness-stuff-jimmy-2 publish 0 0 post 0 bootcamp burpees cougar Facebook fitness get-ups gym membership gymnastics Inspirational jump gym Miss America Miss Santa Monica Pizza Hut push-ups Royal Caribbean Sons of Anarchy spray tan Tabata Victoria's Secret _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw fitness _yoast_wpseo_title Fitness & Stuff with Jimmy - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 79 _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Fitness products and buzzwords promising quick results are what my exercise class eats for breakfast. We barely work out though, and that's a problem. _wpas_done_all 1 _wp_old_slug fitness-stuff-jimmy _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:9;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706891324;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4368;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6044;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7448;}}}} http://working-copy.local/prison-2/crass-incarceration/ Sat, 08 Nov 2014 06:25:42 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=7861 <h2><span style="color: #0000ff;">Eligibility for a second chance begins with being taken seriously.</span></h2> <h4><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Crass</strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"> • adjective: lacking in discrimination and sensibility, blundering, asinine</span></h4> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/WHERE-DO-WE-GO-FROM-HERE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7872" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/WHERE-DO-WE-GO-FROM-HERE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?__Where Excuses Go to Die" width="446" height="299" /></a>Okay, here it is: the mentally ill in California prisons are far more likely to be subjected to harsher treatment and longer sentencing than other inmates. That's a <em>criminal</em> lack of <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>discrimination</strong></span> and <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>sensibility</strong></span>. Of all the inmates who occupy facilities up and down the state, roughly 30% are mentally ill, making the California Department of Corrections a de facto mental health treatment provider. Now t<em>here's </em>your <strong><span style="color: #000000;">blundering</span> </strong>and <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>asinine</strong></span>. According to the Stanford Law School's <a href="https://www.law.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/child-page/632655/doc/slspublic/Report_v12.pdf" target="_blank">Three Strikes Project</a>, "The average sentence imposed on defendants suffering from mental illness is longer than the average sentence imposed on defendants who do not have mental health diagnosis but who committed the same crime." Shane Bauer of Mother Jones claims there are ten times more mentally ill people behind bars than in state hospitals, and many of those inmates have severe illnesses like schizophrenia. Furthermore, solitary confinement can make it harder or even impossible for the untreated mentally ill to re-enter society. Amy Fettig, senior staff counsel for the ACLU <a href="https://www.aclu.org/prisoners-rights/aclu-national-prison-project" target="_blank">National Prison Project</a> says “it’s a risk that can’t be condoned. They come out such ruined human beings. It has essentially harmed them in such a substantial way they can’t ever return to the community or society.” <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/The-Coldest-Iron_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7873" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/The-Coldest-Iron_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="The Coldest Iron_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="75" height="84" /></a>The passage of California's Prop 47 was important to me personally because of the smiley Nicaraguan we called "Hey," to whom my book, <a href="http://working-copy.local/buy-the-book/" target="_blank">Where Excuses Go to Die</a>, is dedicated. Hey's chapter is one I read a lot at book signings and other events, because even without shocking statistics it powerfully demonstrates how narrowly the public has been trained to recognize what prison and prisoners look like. Where Excuses Go to Die <em>exists</em> to defy that recognition.<!--more--> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Untreated-Tourette-Syndrome-Behind-Bars_-You-have-no-idea_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7875" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Untreated-Tourette-Syndrome-Behind-Bars_-You-have-no-idea_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Untreated Tourette Syndrome Behind Bars_ You have no idea_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="402" height="178" /></a>Hey had <a href="http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/tourette/detail_tourette.htm" target="_blank">Tourette's</a>, and I wonder if you've ever imagined what life must be like behind bars for someone whose movements and expressions are involuntary. I don't just mean in terms of survival. I mean the desperate panic to be taken seriously in housing units already crowded with screamers, schizophrenics, and stupids. 'Cause if custody personnel, and by extension facility administrators, don't take you seriously, they won't lift a finger to offer you rehabilitative services. That need to be taken seriously – to literally be viewed as eligible for a second chance – is so dire and isolating for someone with even a mild mental illness like Tourette's that I'm compelled to shake the public by the collar and make sure people hear Hey's story.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Treatment-Advocacy-Center_Mother-Jones.png"><img class="alignright wp-image-7877" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Treatment-Advocacy-Center_Mother-Jones.png" alt="Treatment Advocacy Center_Mother Jones" width="430" height="137" /></a>You see, when a staff member is cranky at the end of his or her shift, your personal and medical needs are at the mercy of their mood. Will they pass your concern on to the next shift officer? They <em>might</em> remember to do so, sure. But that likelihood decreases significantly when you're explaining your needs calmly and respectfully over the jabbering moron in the cell next to you who's threatening the officer at your door.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/The-Silver-Dog-Tag-of-Power-and-Professionalism.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7882" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/The-Silver-Dog-Tag-of-Power-and-Professionalism.jpg" alt="The Silver Dog Tag of Power and Professionalism" width="183" height="385" /></a>An irrefutable fact of life for inmates is that correctional officers are trained to detach. They are trained to be aloof and indifferent, not only for their own mental health, but for the safety and security of the institution. Add in bravado; add in the influence of inmate politics, such as hatred for suspected snitches and sex offenders; and finally include the fact that we all operate on perception, and what do you have? An environment where an individual afflicted with something as little as a facial tic can be <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/+hwce_corrections_officer_earring_circle_charm,1182022512" target="_blank">written off</a>. So what do you suppose happens to someone who can't stop yelling "HEY!" in a guard's face? What second chances are there for those who aren't taken seriously?</p> <p class="p1">Besides, prison is a kaleidoscope of provisions and variables. Around every corner are factors that undermine the intended purpose of all things regulatory, rehabilitative, and sensible.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Prisons-are-made-of-clipboards-and-clipboards-shall-set-you-free_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7879" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Prisons-are-made-of-clipboards-and-clipboards-shall-set-you-free_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Prisons are made of clipboards and clipboards shall set you free_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="157" height="139" /></a>Let's say you <em>do</em> manage to get your name on a list. Great. Now what? List, lists, lists – prisons have more lists than bars! As a former inmate clerk to an Associate Warden and her secretary, I've personally altered lists of all sorts. I did it every <em>day</em>, putting the highest bidder at the top. And I've been asked, ordered, and bribed to add and remove names from lists by Lieutenants, Sergeants, and suits on down.</p> <p class="p1">And even then... Is your name finally at the top of that list? Good for you. A fight on the Yard got bloody, so your facility just got put on lockdown for a month. Just like that, there you are, back at your old cell door, pleading with a housing unit officer to honor the appointment you finally got –– to take you seriously.  I'm quite sure I needn't break down the different shades of being taken seriously that exist in a world of criminal offenders...</p> <p class="p1">My point is, the whole concept of second chances in the criminal courts and prison system is one thing; what happens <em>inside</em> can be something else entirely, for staff and inmates alike. It's crass.</p> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/California_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-4514" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/California_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="California_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="99" height="167" /></a>What's ironic is that other states don't take <em>California</em> seriously as a model of "corrections and rehabilitation, not even New York, where the average stay for an inmate at Rikers Island is 42 days while mentally ill inmates average 215. Hard-ass Texas, of all states, is viewed as more reform-minded than The Golden State. But California voters did something good this week. They didn't just vote to save the state hundreds of millions of dollars by reclassifying certain felonies as misdemeanors, such as fraud, petty theft, and some drug possession; they voted for a proposition that guarantees more money for successful mental health programs. According to California's <a href="http://www.lao.ca.gov/ballot/2014/prop-47-110414.aspx" target="_blank">Legislative Analyst</a>, Prop 47 requires that annual savings to the state from the measure’s passage be transferred to the new Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Fund. The new fund gives 25% of that to reduce K-12 truancy and dropouts (both early indicators of future incarceration), 10% to victim services grants, and 65% to mental health and drug abuse treatment services designed to keep individuals out of prisons and jails.<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/HEY_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7883" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/HEY_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="HEY_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="157" height="130" /></a> Just this year, Colorado became the second state (after New York) to ban solitary confinement for the mentally ill. California isn’t quite there yet, but given Prop 47's bi-partisan passage and an April federal <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-ff-california-prison-system-creates-isolation-cells-for-the-mentally-ill-20140829-story.html" target="_blank">court order</a> to improve care and treatment of the mentally ill in isolation, we've taken a small step toward reversing the animal-in-a-cage caricature of incarceration that makes it easy to remain unaware of circumstances like Hey's. 7861 2014-11-07 23:25:42 2014-11-08 06:25:42 2014-11-08 11:41:48 2014-11-08 18:41:48 closed open crass-incarceration publish 0 0 post 0 California California Department of Corrections California prisons CDCR incarceration Incarceration Nation inmate legislative analyst mentally ill Prison Prop 47 recidivism rehabilitation Stanford three strikes Where Excuses Go to Die _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw incarceration _yoast_wpseo_title Crass Incarceration - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc "Crass incarceration" is any custody environment that restricts base mental health survival to the hope of being taken seriously enough for a second chance. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 81 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:17;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1701824132;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1568;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10996;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8684;}}}} http://working-copy.local/prison-2/upselling-prison-pt-2/ Mon, 17 Nov 2014 19:48:48 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=7896 <h2><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Upselling-Prison-Part-2_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7905" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Upselling-Prison-Part-2_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Upselling Prison Part 2_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="338" height="210" /></a><span style="color: #000000;">A former inmate sizes up detention products, #2 in a casual series.</span></strong></span></h2> <strong>Upselling Prison:</strong>  accessories, upgrades, add-ons, and salespersons of the detention supply industry. <p class="p1">Norix Inc. claims it doesn't just make prison mattresses: it makes "Comfort Shield® Remedy Mattresses." And if cost equalled quality, Comfort Shields would clearly be a cut above. But ask anyone on the <em>inside</em>, and a prison mattress is a prison mattress is a prison mattress. They're subject to the worst an infected wound has to offer; and they get clutched, twisted, and chewed on like nobody's business. For something that has more prayers <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/prison-inmates-wouldnt-have-looked-at-Jesus-mattress-twice_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7906" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/prison-inmates-wouldnt-have-looked-at-Jesus-mattress-twice_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Prison inmates wouldn't have looked at Jesus' mattress twice_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="216" height="384" /></a>whispered into it than Israel's Western Wall <em>and</em> all of Islam's worry beads, nothing has less to show for it than a prison mattress.</p> <p class="p1">It's kind of tough to wrap your head around trading a pair of shoes (or several meals) to obtain a less "raped" one, but it's what you do. Otherwise, as we once heard an intake sergeant say to a complainer, "it's mind over mattress."</p> <p class="p1">Fortunately, distinguishing bloodstains from even less pleasant discolorations gets easier after, say, month three. But the marks inmates leave behind aren't limited to bodily fluids or semi-solids: prisoners love writing gang names, anti-Semitic messages, zip codes, and their sweetheart's initials on the very bedding into which your tears will be absorbed.</p> <p class="p1">Naturally, these handwritten hieroglyphics can be more indelibly printed onto older cotton mattress covers than the newfangled, vinyl laminate "wipe 'n cleans," so these days one needs to make sure his ink has dried before drifting off to dreamland. While most ink dries quickly, sweat can often reactivate it, and entering a chow hall wearing gang signs on your face that are only decipherable by the fellas planning a hit on "those fools" after breakfast is really something to avoid. And trust me, you'll want to take the time to check for swastikas drawn in magic marker by the guy before you. The rule is: read your mattress first and watch where you put your face.</p> <p class="p1">For the record, endlessly violated (and absorbent) cotton mattress covers are actually <em>preferable</em> to the newer sealed plastic pads – unless you enjoy marinating in your own sweat at 3:30 in the morning. Besides, wipe 'n cleans get weird blisters that make you wonder how your body heat could have caused mystery chemicals to churn and gurgle beneath the vinyl.</p> <p class="p1"><!--more--></p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Anchortex-Corporation_Restraint-Chair.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7909" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Anchortex-Corporation_Restraint-Chair.jpg" alt="Anchortex Corporation_Restraint Chair" width="91" height="94" /></a>Like the mattresses, a <a href="https://www.anchortex.com/corrections-and-detention-supplies/physical-protective-restraint-systems/humane-restraint-emergency-restraint-chair-detail" target="_blank">$2,065.85</a> "Humane Restraint Emergency Chair" is, to me, still just a torture chair. Why? 'Cause once you've witnessed how <em>in</em>humanely it can serve its end users, carefully worded re-labels mean nothing. Which brings me to one of the points of this series: I love the language of this stuff! The phraseology and contradictory terms crack me up, and I find some of today's most entertaining doublespeak in detention supply literature.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/No-Shank_No-Dignity_Toothbrush.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7910" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/No-Shank_No-Dignity_Toothbrush.jpg" alt="No-Shank_No Dignity_Toothbrush" width="110" height="110" /></a>One of my all-time favorite corrections products is <em>not</em> something I had the indignity of being expected to use, but it does manage to exceed even <em>my</em> expectations for user insult and strategic product naming. Presenting the No-Shank® Fingertip <a href="http://no-shank.com/no-shank-products/" target="_blank">Toothbrush</a>. The name alone is like a sign the criminal spirit itself must wear around its neck. Inmates live in a world where knives can be made of many things, but "No Shank®" robs them of even the cynical, disparaging caricature of deviousness. I mean, just imagine yourself being told to "grab a few" from a bucket as the waves of <em>why did I do this to myself?</em> wash over you.</p> <p class="p1">Inmates will shamelessly put their fingers in anything that can be poked, prodded, or plugged up. It's not like out here in the civilian world, where there's some decorum about what you do with yourself: when you're locked up, nasal exploration and crevice extraction operations are a common sight. But me? I'd be thinking scalp massage!</p> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Mississippi-model-M109-Boot-Cuff-Oversized-Leg-Irons_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7911" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Mississippi-model-M109-Boot-Cuff-Oversized-Leg-Irons_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Mississippi model M109 Boot Cuff Oversized Leg Irons_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="205" height="144" /></a>Now that prison reform is in full swing across the United States, lots of companies are rushing forward to cash in on kinder, gentler detention products and environments. It's remarkably similar to what they did when voters were told America could incarcerate its way out of crime; with the exception of "updated branding," some of the products are even the same. Websites, though, are far slicker, and usually much <a href="http://www.norix.com/" target="_blank">softer in appearance and navigation</a>. Many use serene color schemes to help alleviate the sense of foreboding that could accompany the unpleasant subject of detention accessories. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/This-is-where-my-excuses-went-to-die_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7912" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/This-is-where-my-excuses-went-to-die_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="This is where my excuses went to die_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="155" height="108" /></a>Whatever it takes to sway prison procurement administrators, the thinking goes, because they are on the front lines, for instance, of the uphill battle to propose pricier, more comfortable inmate writing desks that might actually be used versus a stiffer and cheaper variety. But remember, punishment and rehabilitation are in the eye of the default beholder, which still mostly means frontline custody personnel who prefer to judge for <em>themselves</em> which inmates deserve rehabilitation, and which – punishment. And just as there are some prison guards who seem to believe an extra kick in the teeth is what the public wants, there are prison administrators who feel the same. The tough-tough-tough on crime rational that turned our prison system into a picture of what America has become certainly won't change overnight, no matter how many muted tones and soothing platitudes accompany detention product marketing. And until it does, a prison mattress will <em>still</em> be just a prison mattress. &nbsp; &nbsp; <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>REALATED: </strong></span><a href="http://working-copy.local/prison-2/upselling-prison/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong> Upselling Prison Pt. 1</strong></span></a> <h3><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong> </strong></span></h3> 7896 2014-11-17 12:48:48 2014-11-17 19:48:48 2014-11-18 22:05:04 2014-11-19 05:05:04 closed open upselling-prison-pt-2 publish 0 0 post 0 Comfort Shield custody detention incarceration Incarceration Nation mattress Norix prison Prison Prison Guards Prison reform rehabilitation restraint swastika vinyl laminate Western Wall _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_title Upselling Prison Pt. 2 - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_focuskw upselling prison _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Presenting an indignity the criminal spirit itself must now wear like a scarlet letter: The "No Shank®" fingertip toothbrush. Now that's upselling prison! _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 93 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:7;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706800940;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10134;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7479;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8424;}}}} http://working-copy.local/uncategorized/daughter-ignored/ Wed, 26 Nov 2014 16:57:01 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=7931 <h2>Happy Gratitude Awareness Day; please consider a Turkey Day re-post</h2> <p class="p1"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">Excuses, Dishonesty, and Tragedy </span></strong> <span style="color: #0000ff;">A daughter's collect call from jail interrupts Thanksgiving dinner</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Jail-is-the-New-Grounded.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5550" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Jail-is-the-New-Grounded.jpg" alt="Jail is the New Grounded" width="317" height="313" /></a></p> <p class="p1" style="text-align: center;">Originally posted, Saturday, November 30th, 2013</p> To look at Everett and Ella, you'd never know they're the parents of a troubled, incarcerated daughter. They're both successful in careers they love and they both espouse the family values with which they were raised, albeit modernized ones. Their home, where my wife and I were guests for Thanksgiving dinner, sits on a nice street in a neighborhood just about any set of young parents could happily work with. When the phone rang the air at the table thickened slightly, as if a fly had entered the airspace. If the fly knows what's good for it, it had better not land. A second ring offered a perspective on what it's like to <em>be </em>the fly, buzzing in during dinner, which for Everett and Ella is a consistently early evening affair. It was their old-school land-line ringing, and because, like the rest of us, they live and work by their iPhones, that meant that whoever was being ignored was family. Who else, besides mom and dad, first dials a land line these days? Regardless, ring number three provided satisfaction in the parental example they were setting for their four-year-old boy: no matter who's buzzing around, during dinner, nobody touches the phone or the television.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Photo-by-Arthur-D.-Lauck_THE-ADVOCATE.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5553" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Photo-by-Arthur-D.-Lauck_THE-ADVOCATE.jpg" alt="Photo by Arthur D. Lauck_THE ADVOCATE" width="427" height="337" /></a>The fourth ring triggered the answering machine, a joyful throwback to a time when apps were mechanical. The thing engaged with plastic snaps and metallic clicks, the sounds of something doing its best to be allowed to stick around. Then a beep, followed by a robotic: "You have a collect call from ––EMILIA–– an inmate at the Los Angeles County Jail." Though it was too late, Everett pushed his chair back and stood just as the the voice asked, "Will you accept the call?" I felt heavy unease. <em>Oh God. This is what my parents went through on this very holiday </em>(and any other day I could get to a phone without a fight). In an instant I was looking at life through the eyes of someone in custody. In this case, those of a daughter from a previous marriage. Emilia's story is simple: you can't tell her anything because she has all the answers. Of the few rules that seem to apply to her, most are codes provided to her by boyfriends, drugs, and an all powerful middle finger of defiance. Across the room, Everett reached for his cell phone, already buzzing with Emilia's second option. With a move of his thumb it went quiet and he walked out of the room. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Glazed-Imperial-Onion-Salad-Roasted-Potato-Puree-Living-Room-raised-Liberty-Turkey-and-Caramelized-Date-Pudding_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-5556" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Glazed-Imperial-Onion-Salad-Roasted-Potato-Puree-Living-Room-raised-Liberty-Turkey-and-Caramelized-Date-Pudding_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Glazed Imperial Onion Salad, Roasted Potato Puree, Living Room-raised Liberty Turkey and Caramelized Date Pudding_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="266" height="197" /></a>Unable to look up from my plate, which had turned into a prison dinner tray, I said, "The turkey on the end of my fork doesn't look anything like the turkey she's eating, if she was lucky enough to get any." "He hasn't spoken to her in a year," Ella whispered once Everett rounded the corner. She's supportive of his decision to take a break from Emilia, as are we all. Everett isn't the kind of man to kick his daughter to the curb completely, although for whatever reasons many parents have done so for much less. But Emilia has repeatedly demonstrated her allegiance to meth and morons and her indifference to the lives of her special-needs toddlers: an endless conveyor belt of excuses, dishonesty, and tragedy. Everett knows that, Thanksgiving dinner or not, by answering the phone he runs the risk of being played by his daughter yet again. For now, his concern must remain within the limits of his and his wife's dignity. And they have a four-year-old with a positive outlook to protect as well. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Carrots-and-Beans_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-5557" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Carrots-and-Beans_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Carrots and Beans_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="249" height="198" /></a>We speak about Emilia often. He and Ella know how I feel about consequences, accountability, and the agonizing road on which respect is either earned or burned. If I didn't believe that the wake-up call of incarceration kicked off events that helped turn <em>me</em> around, I might be resentful toward Everett when he chooses to ignore his daughter's call on a special family day. <p style="text-align: center;">I'm not.</p> As an inmate, my heart sank like a rusty boat anchor during the holidays, but that was just too bad. I'd taken my parents for granted. It still took way too many of my father's four-hour journeys to visit for me to appreciate the position I'd put him in, but we've been building on that since. And every so often, when something like this occurs, I see things from a different perspective that lets me understand a little better. That's when the new life my lessons are given advances my gratitude so much I think my heart might burst. For a second there, staring down at the turkey on the end of my fork, I was enormously thankful for how useful my experiences could be to someone else. 7931 2014-11-26 09:57:01 2014-11-26 16:57:01 2014-11-26 09:57:01 2014-11-26 16:57:01 closed open daughter-ignored publish 0 0 post 0 Uncategorized _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw gratitude awareness _yoast_wpseo_title Daughter Ignored - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc A daughter ignored on Thanksgiving: Having made holiday collect-calls home –from jail– knowing what both ends feel like has tripled my gratitude awareness. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 74 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:1;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1696277245;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5546;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2198;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:922;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/christmas-cards-ass/ Wed, 03 Dec 2014 06:12:02 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=7935 <h2><span style="color: #000000;">There are many excuses for not sending holiday cards. Here're mine:</span></h2> <strong><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Holiday-Cheer_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7950" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Holiday-Cheer_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Holiday Cheer_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="419" height="301" /></a>Christmas cards, holiday cards, greeting cards – whatever people wanna call 'em, I don't care.</span></strong> It's been many years since I purchased a greeting card, because the greeting card industry has become insulting. It pushes homogenized sentiments and condescending condolences that are marketed as if buyers were monkeys. While card aisles and displays are perfectly convenient and, yes, could come in handy someday, I must say I did better in a prison cell with magazine collages, glue sticks, and agitated screamers to my left 'n right. Yes sir or ma'am: I heavily promoted my "John has turned over a new leaf" brand by mailing handmade greeting cards to friends and family who were on the fence about me. For one, I was determined to prove that my imagination would never be replaced by swastika tattoos and institutionalized hatred. Watching the arrival and transformation of so many gullible young men into seething and explosive monsters positively inspired me to trade even my meals for whatever I needed to stay creative, expressive, and weird. And there were just certain things I couldn't re-embrace upon returning to the civilian world. First among them, coincidentally, was store-bought greeting cards. Why? Because I was fresh out of the joint one day and nudged toward a cousin's birthday party the next. I looked at the clock, gathered the things I'd need (accessing real scissors was a plus), and never looked back. All these years and hundreds of greeting cards later, the only downside has been visiting my parents during the holidays to find my own card among their others, displayed writing-side out (as if the interior sentiment were the thing!). Apparently my mom is uncomfortable with the idea of guests commenting on the one that's "different." My cards are as professionally made as the <a href="http://thomaskinkade.com/product-category/winter-christmas-sale/?gclid=Cj0KEQiAwPCjBRDZp9LWno3p7rEBEiQAGj3KJmWmE66Bnmtvk-VRkcO5LqMOnliI-tVZq3k2pAM5WAQaAlRs8P8HAQ" target="_blank">Thomas Kinkades</a>, yet the images I choose are antidotal to forced-marching-to-the-glowing-Christmas-cottage. <h3><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>But never mind all that self-congratulatory poo, here are my excuses for not lifting a finger this year:</strong></span><!--more--></h3> <span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/The-Santa-Crisis_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7953" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/The-Santa-Crisis_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="The Santa Crisis_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="491" height="170" /></a><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>1.</strong></span> The polite, contemporary approach to holiday greeting cards is to send them to both professional contacts and loved ones. Considering "Mr. Creative, Expressive, and Weird" can't bring himself to allow hands other than his own to accomplish this goal of giving, that sounds like a lot of goddamned work.</span> <span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>2</strong>.</span> Today's generic, bulk-order holiday advertisements for parenting prowess, prestige, and private property have desensitized us. Christmas cards feel like junk mail with niece and nephew faces. Put another way, "traditional" family holiday greetings have become like those notepads that get distributed in neighborhoods everywhere by real estate agents. So my excuse here is that my efforts deserve better company on a mail truck. </span> <span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Ho_Ho_Hostage_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7954" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Ho_Ho_Hostage_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Ho_Ho_Hostage_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="216" height="300" /></a><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>3.</strong></span> Who really looks at these things? And by "look" I mean worship, 'cause who doesn't secretly expect or hope that their holiday card will be given some dopey award? (Now there's an idea!) Problem is, few have the time to ever truly appreciate your vision – unless they call terrorists "Japs" and reside in the assisted-living wing of So-long Gardens.</span> <span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/It’s-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-Christmas_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7959" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/It’s-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-Christmas_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="232" height="249" /></a><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>4.</strong></span> We're lousy with social media principles these days, and they've trained our expectation for immediate recognition. But lemme tell you something, Snowflake: if you hope to spark some admiring crisscross family-chatter about your snail-mail greeting, you better see "saturation bombing." See also "a lot of goddamned work."</span> <span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>5.</strong></span> I don't know about you, but I can't write the exact same greeting over 'n over again to those I care about. I'm compelled to </span>descend into particulars, to individualize! (Result: when I sign copies of my book, people make fun of me for taking so long.) To me, blank holiday cards are daunting, especially a pristine stack with my chosen image, fresh from the printer. Plus my wrist gets sore after well-wishing number six, so I'll have to continue these later. And who knows what evasive reasoning I'll invent in the interim? <span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>6.</strong> </span>With so many interesting designs and historical figures to memorialize, buying stamps is usually fun. But during the holidays, when I've got 30-50 cards going out, what will I pick? Keep in mind that I'm applying self-sabotaging social media expectations to my carpet bombing of Christmas cheer. So should it be socially conscious or funny? Harvey Milk? MLK? Hot rods? Birds? Nevada statehood? I'm tempted to buy sheets of Charlton Heston and dissentingly turn him upside down. Believe it or not, the dude was once cool. (Sorry Obama, but you'd get the same treatment for the same reason.)</span> <span style="color: #333333;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Moses-Ruined-the-First-Christmas-Tree_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7955" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Moses-Ruined-the-First-Christmas-Tree_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Moses Ruined the First Christmas Tree_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="221" height="285" /></a><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>7.</strong></span> In John World, each unit (including applied stamps) must be a self-contained, highly personalized reflection of my exacting standards. Sometimes, like when I chose to use black linen and gold foil-lined A7 invitation envelopes, costs can skyrocket. And naturally I have to buy a lot of extras, because if quality inspection reveals a sloppy letter "R" or an address number woefully inconsistent with people-are-going-to-see-this holiday penmanship, I'm quick to crumple and toss. Envelopes aren't cheap, and I have to factor in do-overs when submitting my initial printing order. So hell, I don't need an excuse to decline spending all this money on ingrates.</span> <span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/SANTA-VS-CHINA_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7958" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/SANTA-VS-CHINA_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="SANTA VS CHINA_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="317" height="194" /></a>8.</strong></span> I like to set up shop on my thrift store coffee table beneath my TV so I can watch reruns while working at being sincere. Of course this drags out the whole project and invites interruption and mistake. But not this year. This year it's back to basics: back to 1982. If I can't play it on my turntable – if it's not made of vinyl – it doesn't get played. There will be no electronic accompaniment of any kind. I will force myself to sit, mute and disciplined, like an Opus Dei enforcer, and remain dedicated to the task at hand. I'll rely on my Catholic breeding to ensure that each recipient feels the seasonal glow of my rigid, festering, and chastised heart. </span> <span style="color: #333333;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>9.</strong></span> This excuse is the one I'm most tempted by, and if I think about it too much I just know I'll use it. Stupid Facebook, e-mails, and even Instagram and Twitter are now acceptable forms of mass holiday cheer dispensing. They are easier, faster, and could give me damn near instantly what I'm seeking in the first place: recognition, praise, gratitude, compliments. I mean, I'm no better off than anyone else: I, too, have been trained to seek prompt feedback and encouragement. Joylessly tapping on a keyboard – maybe pasting in a Christmas wreath jpeg– would do the trick just fine, and I know it. I could even have <em>Apocalypse Now</em> or episodes of Deadwood running in the background while I clicked right past Christmas.</span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>10.</strong></span> Oh look, it's December 10 already! Seasonal etiquette dictates that cards arrive by mid-December. Well there went <em>those</em> good intentions. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Happy-Holidays-from-the-lump-in-my-throat_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7961" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Happy-Holidays-from-the-lump-in-my-throat_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Happy Holidays, from the lump in my throat_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="191" height="250" /></a>Yet having spent four holiday seasons behind bars, during which time I felt lucky to be issued a new plastic Christmas fork, I remember sending out my pathetic, handmade convict Christmas cards – and doing so happily. Dropping 'em into the housing unit mailbox and getting teased by fellow inmates who'd made much less of an effort (if any) was half the fun. Whatever acknowledgment I hoped to receive wouldn't arrive for months, yet I was still eager to do the legwork, to make cell house bargains to get my precious glue sticks. The sense of accomplishment was empowering. Besides, if this persistent, cross-eyed buoyancy worked for the British during the <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/blitzkrieg" target="_blank">Lightning War</a>, why not make it work for me? Despite everything I had to deal with during those days (you know, loneliness, self-pity, dodging sicko predators, knife attacks that popped up like jacks-in-the-box, navigating territorial gang boundaries, remembering courtesies universally extended to Aryan master race dick-heads – small things), the act of letting someone know they were worth taking my eyes off my surroundings long enough to say "Happy Holidays" was a really solid place to stand. I never cared whether my recipients wept over my incomprehensibly beautiful, handcrafted artwork. I was just grateful to have someplace to send it. A lot of guys don't. So I guess if I could do it then, I can do it today. &nbsp; <h3 class="p1"><span style="color: #800000;">Happy Holidays.</span></h3> <p class="p1">Here's to supporting the Postal Service.</p> <p class="p1" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Sad-Sack-Santa.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-7972" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Sad-Sack-Santa.jpg" alt="Sad Sack Santa" width="232" height="176" /></a></p> 7935 2014-12-02 23:12:02 2014-12-03 06:12:02 2017-04-24 12:16:13 2017-04-24 19:16:13 closed open christmas-cards-ass publish 0 0 post 0 Apocalypse Now Catholic Charlton Heston Christmas Culture Deadwood Facebook greeting cards Harvey Milk Instagram Martin Luther King Obama prison social media Thomas Kinkade Twitter _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw christmas cards _yoast_wpseo_title Christmas Cards My Ass - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 85 _yoast_wpseo_metadesc I can't write the exact same greeting over 'n over to those I care about. I'm compelled to descend into particulars, to individualize my christmas cards! _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:7;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706664440;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2061;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4795;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6952;}}}} http://working-copy.local/character-2/zamperini-repost/ Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:30:52 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=8012 <h2><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Louis-Zamperini-and-his-Middle-Finger-to-Der-Fuehrer.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-7392" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Louis-Zamperini-and-his-Middle-Finger-to-Der-Fuehrer.jpg" alt="Louis Zamperini and his Middle Finger to Der Fuehrer" width="335" height="462" /></a>This guy's story beats the holidays, so here's a rerun from August. </span></h2> <h3><span style="color: #000000;">Seriously, shoot me if I ever name-drop – except this once...</span></h3> "Zamperini and Me" is simple to explain; the late Louis Zamperini had been my neighbor. I didn't <em>know</em> he was my neighbor until we were introduced through a mutual friend, Dena, who'd petered out beneath a big tree while jogging one day. A chainsaw firing up above her head caused her to spaz and discover a then 90-year-old <a href="http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/07/31/thousands-gather-in-torrance-to-celebrate-late-hometown-hero-louis-zamperini/" target="_blank">Louis Zamperini</a>, 15 feet up and clinging to branches. He guided the saw through a thick limb and only took notice of her when it fell at her feet. Or so she thought. "Hello!" he shouted, repositioning himself to see her better. "Hi!" she answered. "Need any help?" "Nahh, been doing this since I bought the place, thanks. Besides, young lady, you need to keep running. Your form could improve." What Dena didn't know at the time is that she'd just received constructive criticism from a famed Olympic medalist, a veteran of the men's 5000 meter race. Apparently he'd watched her motor all the way up the hill. Dena's a tough chick, but her asthmatic breathing must've reminded him of how his plane sounded when it was nosediving into the Pacific. Nevertheless, the man climbed down to meet his match (Dena's a short, hugely stubborn Italian too), and the two hit it off. Before long, they were enjoying tea while the sunset's glow reached Zamperini's collection of Olympic torches in the living room of his Hollywood hillside post-and-beam home. Now, I'm already convinced that Dena's soul is on loan from WWII infantryman turned B-movie filmmaker Sam Fuller, but she was <em>really</em> on fire after that. "You've got to meet Louis," I heard again and again. "He's so great and his story is <em>incredible</em>. You'll really like him." Ha! I didn't know the half of it.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Consolidated-B-24-Liberator.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7398" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Consolidated-B-24-Liberator.jpg" alt="Consolidated B-24 Liberator" width="180" height="176" /></a>For those who are unfamiliar with Zamperini's legacy (which won't be too many once Angelina Jolie's version hits theaters later this week), he was a B-24 Liberator bombardier in the Pacific Theater in 1943 when his plane, nicknamed "Green Hornet," fell into the ocean. No survivors were ever rescued; he and two others washed ashore after 47 days at sea and were promptly captured by the Japanese. Back home, Zamperini had been declared KIA. In reality, he was squaring off with his enemy captors as though standing up to Imperial Japan itself. He paid for his obstinacy, too, in ways few of us Facebook grudge-holders can imagine. Even before the war, as a USC student, Zamperini had qualified to compete in the "Nazi Olympics" in 1936 Berlin. Louis ran so fast that Hitler himself insisted on meeting him. And Zamperini wasn't about to leave Berlin without a souvenir. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Louis-Zamperini_Training-for-1940-Olympics.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7399" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Louis-Zamperini_Training-for-1940-Olympics.jpg" alt="Louis Zamperini_Training for 1940 Olympics" width="283" height="170" /></a>After two liters of German beer, he was staggering around the Reich Chancellery when he again encountered Hitler, exiting a car. Louis decided he wanted one of the banners Hitler passed under as he entered the building. He waited for two guards to turn their backs and made a run for it, but he was too short to grab the thing easily, so he had to jump up and down several times to tear it loose. By then the guards had spotted him. So he took off, flag in hand and prepped for another long, hard run, but he stopped when he heard rifle fire. Fortunately, the sway of his Olympic uniform and Louis's charming bullshit won over a ranking officer, who allowed him to keep the banner and go. <em><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Louis-Zamperini_Amazon-Video.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7400" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Louis-Zamperini_Amazon-Video.jpg" alt="Louis Zamperini_Amazon Video" width="187" height="149" /></a>This</em> was the Louis Zamperini I wanted to meet. Not so much the Olympian distance-runner or the guy who survived in a plane that hobbled home with 594 bullet holes; not the guy who fought off sharks while adrift at sea or who endured as a test subject for Japanese military experiments in biological warfare; and not the guy who caught an albatross, snapped its neck, and drank its blood before using the fish in its stomach for bait. <em>I</em> wanted to meet the man described as "confident to the point of flippancy." I wanted to see the <em>me</em> in Zamperini, to meet the guy who'd fucked with Hitler. And meet him I did, but I didn't find a mirror in his eyes. In fact, when Dena introduced us, I was instantly struck by my own small-mindedness. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Zamperini-for-USC-News_Photo_David-Ahntholz-and-Tracy-Boulian.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7403" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Zamperini-for-USC-News_Photo_David-Ahntholz-and-Tracy-Boulian.jpg" alt="Zamperini-for-USC-News_Photo_David Ahntholz and Tracy Boulian" width="246" height="164" /></a>Louis let us hold his stolen Nazi flag; it was there for the touching, among his other assorted Trojan and Olympic memorabilia. It was one of those moments where proceeding very slowly feels safest; you want your host to know you're not taking anything about the encounter lightly while you desperately grasp at the significance of the gesture, its value outside yourself. We only visited three times, but it's a hell of a thing to have called Louis Zamperini a neighbor. His unassuming home was filled with rich, dark brown woods –the kind that make you fall in love with bannisters, baseboards, and even paneling. There were drafty, "Jalousie" louvered windows from the 50s just like the ones in my house and a piano I wouldn't know what to do with. I did question whether someone else (or maybe twelve different people) had helped the man decorate, but either way the home felt comfortable, warm, and full of character. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Louis-Zamperini_SKATEDOG1.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7404" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Louis-Zamperini_SKATEDOG1.jpg" alt="Louis Zamperini_SKATEDOG" width="180" height="167" /></a>Something I found especially poignant was a telescope on a tripod. It tilted all the way up as if its counterweight had been removed, leaving it to point at nothing less than the stars. Our conversation included everything from what it was like to work with Laura Hillenbrand, author of the biography-turned-Oscar bait, “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Unbroken-World-Survival-Resilience-Redemption/dp/1400064163" target="_blank">Unbroken</a>," to Louis's absurdly messy desk. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Unbroken_A-World-War-II-Story-of-Survival-Resilience-and-Redemption.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7406" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Unbroken_A-World-War-II-Story-of-Survival-Resilience-and-Redemption.jpg" alt="Unbroken_A World War II Story of Survival Resilience and Redemption" width="150" height="228" /></a>During what would be our final visit, Zamperini showed us a Japanese rifle that had been warped by the blast at Hiroshima. He pointed to a large smudge on the stock in the shape of a hand: it had <em>been</em> a hand, flash-burned onto the wood. The rifle had been a gift. Its presenters told Louis that his return to Japan had brought them great honor. Imagine an entire home filled with such humbling items (sixty-three pound scrapbook anyone?), each with a story expressed to you by the person who'd collected them. As far as I'm concerned, they don't call Zamperini's "the greatest generation" because it was the bravest, but because it rose to the occasion, which required neither bravery nor courage – just faith that there are things in life other than your own feelings. That's how America won World War II, and that's how Zamperini survived POW camp torture, beatings, and the mind-bending isolation of 47 days adrift in the Pacific. Being in the same room with Zamperini brought a mixture of awe for everything he endured, experienced, and forgave; a sense of human grandeur at the depth of his absorption and all that passed through the man in his lifetime; and an excellent lesson in the smallness of my own silly excuses. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/LUCKY-LOUIE.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-8017" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/LUCKY-LOUIE.jpg" alt="LUCKY LOUIE" width="257" height="242" /></a> <p class="p1">After Louis Zamperini passed away on July 2, 2014, the Pasadena Tournament of Roses, which had named him 2015 Rose Parade Grand Marshal, announced that it would still honor the man as such, posthumously. Whereas I can usually only stomach a combined 22 minutes of the parade's television coverage, I'll be watching this year to find out how the Tournament of Roses will fulfill that commitment.</p> <h5><span style="color: #000000;">The movie version of Hillenbrand’s book,“Unbroken," is out this Thursday, Christmas Day. It was (re)written by Joel and Ethan Coen (hell yeah) and directed by "spoiled brat" and Sony hacking casualty Angelina Jolie.</span></h5> . 8012 2014-12-22 15:30:52 2014-12-22 22:30:52 2014-12-22 15:30:52 2014-12-22 22:30:52 closed open zamperini-repost publish 0 0 post 0 Angelina Jolie B-24 Berlin Character Hitler Inspirational Laura Hillenbrand Louis Zamperini Nazi Flag Nazis Olympics Pacific Theater POW swastika torture Unbroken USC World War II _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw zamperini _yoast_wpseo_title Zamperini and Me (Repost) _yoast_wpseo_metadesc I'm not one to name drop, but there's something special about a guy who stole from Hitler: my neighbor, the late Louis Zamperini. He's a survivor I admire. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 92 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:3;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705761922;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7378;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4368;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7620;}}}} http://working-copy.local/winner-excuse-of-the-year/2014-golden-excuse-emo-pets/ Tue, 30 Dec 2014 03:44:17 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=8028 <h2><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/PIG-LADY-Photographed-by-passenger-Robert-Phelps_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8047" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/PIG-LADY-Photographed-by-passenger-Robert-Phelps_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="PIG LADY Photographed by passenger Robert Phelps_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="548" height="331" /></a><span style="color: #99069e;">Emo pets managed to upstage my long list of 2014's "best" excuses...</span></span></h2> <p class="p1">Okay, had I been aboard the plane onto which a woman carried her 60-pound emotional support shit 'n piss machine, the conversation would've likely gone something like this:</p> <h5 class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Me: Seriously? In coach?? This is a first class move. Since when do poors get to pull off such entitlement?</span></h5> <h5 class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Pig Lady: Oh, but this is my friend. He's an emotional support pet. I have a prescription and a letter from my doctor. </span></h5> <h5 class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Me: <em>I</em> see. Must be a prescription for combatting powerlessness with selfishness. What's the letter say, dare I ask?</span></h5> <h5 class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #000000;"><a style="color: #000000;" href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/This-little-guy-here_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Doody.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8065" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/This-little-guy-here_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Doody.jpg" alt="This little guy here_Where Excuses Go to Doody" width="363" height="557" /></a>Pig Lady: How dare you! This is a psychiatric service animal! He's critical to my mental health and/or treatment. </span></h5> <h5 class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;">Me: "And/or treatment"...You're hilarious! I've got ten bucks that says before this oversold, flying gas can touches down, you'll get spit on by one of these nice passengers.</span></h5> <h5 class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;">Pig Lady: You're disgusting.</span></h5> <h5 class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Me: Conniving baloney. Treatment of what, by the way, therapeutic reduction in personal resilience?</span></h5> <h5 class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Pig Lady: You judgmental, narrow-minded ass! </span></h5> <h5 class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Me: DUDE! You brought a squealing, urinating pig onto a flight where passengers are already treated like farm animals. Plus, that guy there is Muslim, so you're definitely freaking <em>him</em> out. What if I kept kosher, or the lady in front of us was allergic? Try to think outside of your own headspace for a minute.</span></h5> <h5 class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Pig Lady: Excuse me! I have documentation from a mental health professional stating that I require my pet to accompany me – </span></h5> <h5 class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Me: Sell it someplace else, Charlie. Sounds to me like you live behind a fantasy excuse for staying curled up in a little ball in the face of life's challenges. I'm telling you, if this plane nosedives, I'm using you as a battering ram to get to the emergency exit.</span></h5> <h5 class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Pig Lady: Oh my God! You're threatening me!? I'm telling the flight attendant. Excuse me, miss? This man just said –</span></h5> <h5 class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Me: I think you have pig poop on your shoes. </span></h5> <h5 class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Pig Lady: I do NOT! And who the hell are you to tell me my mental wellness is an excuse for – </span></h5> <h5 class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Me: In New Guinea they'd eat you <em>and</em> your incontinent buddy there. </span></h5> <h5 class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Pig Lady: I can't believe this! Air Marshal! Air Marshal!</span></h5> <h5 class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #000000;">Me: (singsong): La-La-La-La, I'm not listening. One, two, Buckle my shoe; Three, four, Knock at the door...La-La-La...</span></h5> <p class="p1"><!--more--></p> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Countervalue-Culture_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8053" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Countervalue-Culture_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Countervalue Culture_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="284" height="414" /></a>The fact is, there were so <em>many</em> Golden Excuses to work with this year that, without this particular gem, it would've been hard to pick. We've got everything from self-aggrandizing ice bucket bullshit to CNN's wallowing coverage of troubled Malaysian aviation; vets who've died of delays in basic medical screenings; and anything and everything Justin Bieber. Of course there's also Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson's not being cross examined on the stand; botched death row executions; U.S. Secret Service incompetence; Michael Jackson's moonwalking hologram ghost; that racist land baron turd Donald Sterling; arrogant, ebola quarantine-bucking super asses Nancy Snyderman and Kaci Hickox; the Israel-Hamas horror show known as "Operation Protective Edge"; kidnapping, murder, and beyond-the-pale corruption in Guerrero, Mexico; and whatever God himself was thinking when he threw a Walmart truck at Tracy Morgan. But from all of that (and mountains more), the award for 2014's Where Excuses Go to Die "Golden Excuse" simply <em>must</em> go to the "<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/20/pets-allowed" target="_blank">emo pet</a>" and the diminished expectations for national coping skills that it represents. <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Welcome to nuclear winter for the American backbone.</strong></span> It doesn't stop with pigs, either (did you know a mini horse can be an emo pet?). So if you're afraid you'll feel lost without your own purse-bound inbred puffball, this new, cold landscape of "access rights" means all you need to do is head over to a website called the National Service Animal Registry (a.k.a. <a href="http://www.nsarco.com/" target="_blank">Chickenshit Headquarters</a> among many), take an online quiz, and purchase, for $64.95, "certification paraphernalia" for Mr. Wigglepants that will let you wave your excuse for maladaptive behavior at all those haters. And what maladaptive behavior am I referring to? Well in this not-so-brave new world, it could be a number of things, but a strong sense of entitlement is certainly a factor. Public temper tantrums are a classic sign of "I want what I want, and I want it now;" put another way, "If I <em>can</em> get away it, I should." And nothing allows people to trumpet the fact that they're "owed" such exceptionalism better than officialdom. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/CASED-CLOSED-HERE_Photo-by-Denis-Cameron.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8054" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/CASED-CLOSED-HERE_Photo-by-Denis-Cameron.jpg" alt="CASED CLOSED HERE_Photo by Denis Cameron" width="354" height="212" /></a>But come on, aren't I overreacting? Can I really believe emo pets represent the final FAIL nail in America's pine box? Thanks to something I call "countervalue culture," yes, yes, and yes. 'Cause you see, the ONLY logical place to go from a woman forcing her emo-sow onto a domestic flight is toward the even more mind bending self centeredness of one Connie Ley, an Indiana lame-brain who signed a Last Will and Testament that contained <a href="http://www.womansday.com/life/news/a49046/pet-owner-asks-dog-to-be-buried-with-her-goodhousekeeping/">euthanization instructions for Bela</a>, her German Shepherd. Oh yeah, Conns was so certain Bela wouldn't want to live without her that she planned to have the dog cremated and stuck into her own casket (heck, why not have someone dress up like Jim Jones to give Bela her <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/11/drinking-the-kool-aid-a-survivor-remembers-jim-jones/248723/" target="_blank">Kool Aid</a>, you A-hole?). And while the final court ruling determined that individuals don't expressly have the right to <em>destroy</em> their property via death documentation, Bela's fate was looking precarious for a while: a serious attempt was made to extend Connie's selfish demand for emotional support into the afterlife -- because she wanted what she wanted when she wanted it, without regard for the very life of her "beloved" pet. <p class="p1">And that just <em>had</em> to be called out as the Golden Excuse of the year.</p> Certainly 2015 will be an even bigger year for excuses, so stay tuned. <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/THE-GOLDEN-EXCUSE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die296x300.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-8025" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/THE-GOLDEN-EXCUSE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die296x300.jpg" alt="THE GOLDEN EXCUSE_Where Excuses Go to Die296x300" width="91" height="92" /></a></p> <p class="p1" style="text-align: center;">For more mockery of companion animal phonies (oh, white people problems) check out The New Yorker's "<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/20/pets-allowed" target="_blank">Pets Allowed</a>," by Patricia Marx. .</p> 8028 2014-12-29 20:44:17 2014-12-30 03:44:17 2016-12-15 20:45:47 2016-12-16 03:45:47 closed open 2014-golden-excuse-emo-pets publish 0 0 post 0 Connie Ley emo pet emotional support German Shepherd Jim Jones Kool Aid mental health National Service Animal Registry pig on a plane service animal therapy Where Excuses Go to Die Winner: EXCUSE OF THE YEAR _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw emo pets _yoast_wpseo_title 2014 Golden Excuse – EMO PETS - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc The 2014 Where Excuses Go to Die "Golden Excuse" goes to emo pets, and the diminished expectations for our national coping skills they represent. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 82 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:1;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw_text_input emo pets _yoast_wpseo_content_score 30 _yoast_wpseo_primary_category 1776 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1702266926;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8772;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4415;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5716;}}}} http://working-copy.local/self-esteem/2015-gut-calling/ Mon, 12 Jan 2015 06:48:39 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=8084 <h2><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/What-Lies-Beneath_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8087" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/What-Lies-Beneath_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="What Lies Beneath_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="245" height="332" /></a><span style="color: #000000;">Fear of failure is your gut's mating call. Your gut is saying, TRY.</span></h2> 1. Your gut tells you you're unique, doesn't it? You bring all sorts of good things to the table, and you know it. Whether you're alone, on a team, or among co-workers, your gut has ways of forcing you to push your strengths ahead of your limitations, but you don't always. In our heads we think, "I could do this, but..." or "I'm good at that, but..." To me, the way we naturally order these sentiments is proof that our <em>guts</em> are the ones kicking our abilities –not our shortcomings– upfront. Self-confidence comes into play, yes, which is also something we must sharpen and build, but it all starts with your gut. <p class="p1">2. Worry about self confidence or where your hesitations come from later. Yes, you have limitations, so get to know the bastards, but in moments of opportunity and chance, trust that your gut knows what it's doing by putting things in order of their importance.<!--more--></p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Steve-Jobs_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8090" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Steve-Jobs_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Steve Jobs_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="316" height="243" /></a>3. People will criticize you: do not join them. <em>Constructive</em> criticism usually comes from a good place, like when others see you've hammered a nail only halfway in and believe they can help. This often takes time and patient explanation. So how do you instantly separate the wheat (constructive input) from the chaff (negative nattering)?</p> <h5 class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;">a) If you're focused on your strengths, rather than your limitations, you'll see others' contributions for what they are, and</span> <span style="color: #000000;"> b) Your gut will always tell you who to blow off. If your brain knows you're about to tap your fingers before you physically do it, couldn't such prescience also be true of your gut?</span></h5> <p class="p1">4. Sharpen your instincts. Travel alone or take up a solo creative endeavor, the more expressive the better. Activities like these result in the healthiest form of self-attention that exists, because they're centered around personal growth, making mistakes, and feeling fulfilled (rather than simply gratified). Think about how you instinctively respond when someone who lives in that headspace enters a room. Their presence can be intimidating. Join them! Standing tall has more to do with learning and trying again (and again) than it does with put-on expertise or pay-offs.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/JUST-BECAUSE-YOU-CAN-DOESNT-MEAN-YOU-SHOULD_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8092" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/JUST-BECAUSE-YOU-CAN-DOESNT-MEAN-YOU-SHOULD_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN DOESN'T MEAN YOU SHOULD_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="225" height="226" /></a>5. <strong><span style="color: #000000;">Fear of failure is nothing more than the part of your gut that lives outside your body: embrace it. Go for it. Your gut isn't already just talking to its counterpart, it's conspiring with fear to seduce you into trying. Put simply, fear is your gut's mating call, and your gut wants you to try.</span></strong></p> <p class="p1">6. Your gut will always tell you to be yourself, and that's good advice -- despite the fact that we live in a world that says the opposite, making us aspire to everything that cheapens and separates us. We all know people who've lost their sense of self and who seem to go along with the version of themselves they believe is expected. Don't do that! Your gut doesn't want you to look to your left, then to your right, in order to know what your own opinion is.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/SUCKER-MOVE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8093" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/SUCKER-MOVE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="SUCKER MOVE_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="191" height="153" /></a>7. If your gut tells you not to do it, don't. Sure, this is the most obvious one of all, but it includes the lesser considered,<em> just because you can doesn't mean you should</em>. Here's where a resonant rapport with your intuition can bring the most satisfaction -- or the most cringe-worthy of consequences.</p> <p class="p1">8. Finally, forget comparing yourself to others. At all costs, avoid using other people's success, gridlock, or good luck as a measure of who you are. I know, I know: we hear this all the time -- and we probably fully agree -- but do we live by it? If no one has ever suggested you write down things you alone have achieved, journeys you've been on, ethical challenges you've overcome, or anything you earned, won, or done (including raising a child), you should try it. Your gut will be really happy that you're talking directly to it.</p> <p class="p1"><strong>Forget resolutions. </strong></p> <p class="p1"><strong>Make 2015 the best it can be by shoving aside everything but what your gut has to say.</strong></p> <p class="p1"></p> <p class="p1"></p> 8084 2015-01-11 23:48:39 2015-01-12 06:48:39 2015-01-12 12:27:10 2015-01-12 19:27:10 closed open 2015-gut-calling publish 0 0 post 0 constructive criticism gut instinct Self-Esteem _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw 2015 _yoast_wpseo_title It's 2015 – Your Gut is Calling - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Your gut isn't already just talking to its counterpart, it's conspiring with fear to seduce you into trying. It's 2015 – Your Gut is Calling _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 86 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:6;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706633285;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4137;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6188;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:303;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/second-chance-sexy/ Thu, 22 Jan 2015 21:12:10 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=8134 <h2 class="p1"><b><span style="color: #000000;">People who screw up but handle it well are more attractive than those who don't. </span> </b></h2> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/AVOID-PSYCHIC-CLUTTER_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8155" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/AVOID-PSYCHIC-CLUTTER_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="AVOID PSYCHIC CLUTTER_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="559" height="435" /></a>That's no newsflash, but why do you suppose it's true? What is it about second chances, and second chance stories, in which we find inspiration? Aren't flaws and faults at the center of nearly <em>any</em> second chance?</p> <p class="p2">Here're a few things I've learned about errors and do-overs:</p> <p class="p2"><span style="color: #000000;"><b>Excuse-makers are repellant.</b></span> You can't spend time behind bars without becoming intimately familiar with psychic clutter. Clutter comes in many forms, but people who consistently fall back on rationalizations, excuses, and denial are usually quite guarded, with mental walls of all shapes, sizes, and complexities. If you've ever lied to cover up a lie, psychic clutter isn't new to you, either. It's just that too few of us recognize how unappealing we become, stressing and tripping when our heads are filled with it.</p> <p class="p2"><span style="color: #000000;"><b><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Let-us-go-forth-with-fear-and-courage-and-rage-to-save-the-world.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8152" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Let-us-go-forth-with-fear-and-courage-and-rage-to-save-the-world.jpg" alt="Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world" width="262" height="214" /></a>Deniers are draining. </b></span>We all have friends, family members, or co-workers with good traits, generous moments, and genuine talents, which makes it frustrating and disappointing to accept them fully (or even work around them) when they're in bullshit mode. I don't mean your actors and other neurotics, or even dinner guests who show up and start ticking off their food allergies – those are a different kind of drain altogether. I'm talking about blamers, focus-shifters, liars, counter-accusers, and verbal bullies. We might be cheerleaders for the parts of these people we appreciate, but after coming to terms with their weak-ass coping skills, we can't help but feel betrayed. And while positive character traits may make a person worthy of a second chance, should they get a third or fourth? The more efficient and healthier option would be to move on to a less draining individual, but individual results may vary.<!--more--></p> <p class="p2"><span style="color: #000000;"><b><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/TPS-Reports_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8156" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/TPS-Reports_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="TPS Reports_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="303" height="183" /></a>People who've learned from their lapses allow access.</b> </span>How do you feel when an overbearing boss apologizes? Once you get over the shock, you realize this person has just granted you a form of entry by demonstrating vulnerability. This promotes trust and correlation, a link between two or more variables. People tend to follow those who have made mistakes (i.e. appear human) and demonstrate an ability to learn from them, thereby earning respect instead of demanding it.<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Raymond-Carver-Cathedral_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8167" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Raymond-Carver-Cathedral_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Raymond Carver - Cathedral_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="203" height="194" /></a></p> <p class="p2"><b><span style="color: #000000;">Taking advantage of a second chance means you've been around the block</span>.</b> How do you feel about scars? I dig 'em on men <em>and</em> women: I prefer rugged dames and stoic dudes, neither of which are attainable without some bumps, bruises, or bereavement. In discussions I've had with young people on the prowl for jobs or old friends trying to stay employable, I've heard several stories where interview points were scored and positions obtained by those who came clean about a dismissal, a poor review, and even jail time. So why are we trained to bury our mistakes and proceed as if they never happened? The Japanese are admired for doing exactly the opposite.</p> <p class="p2"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><em><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/POWERED-BY-A-2ND-CHANCE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8165" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/POWERED-BY-A-2ND-CHANCE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="POWERED BY A 2ND CHANCE_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="173" height="169" /></a>The numbers matter. </em></strong></span>I don't believe in parapsychology or auras, so how do we explain what attracts us to a second chance? Naturally the feeling is enhanced when someone makes good their second time around, but why does the concept compel us to begin with? I only know the magic number of chances is two, not three or four. If you can turn things around after chance three or four – after tripling and quadrupling judgment, suspicion, and dismissal – good for you. But you did it with a lot fewer people holding their breath. In other words, the numbers matter.</p> <p class="p2"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><em>So, consider these numbers...</em></strong></span></p> <ol> <li class="p2">When someone "grants entry" with a sincere apology or reversal, you may be too hardened to treat that with care, but <em>do</em> consider what it took for them to do so. Give a moment's thought to their fear.</li> <li class="p2">Turn a past experience where you definitely didn't perform well into an asset. With time, it will likely become an asset anyway, so why not use it to openly positioning yourself as having grown from it? The value of what you bring to the table isn't limited to your trophies.</li> <li class="p2">Watch for psychic clutter. No, don't watch out <em>for</em> it, you already know who the drain and drama cases are. I mean <em>study</em> it. Pay attention to the way people say more about themselves than they intend or want: it's fascinating.</li> <li class="p2"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Artist-Unknown_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-8168" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Artist-Unknown_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Artist Unknown_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="321" height="407" /></a>Good 'ol #2: second chances are where someone's really going to <em>get</em> character or <em>become</em> a character.</li> </ol> <p class="p2"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><em>Better By Mistake: The Unexpected Benefits of Being Wrong</em>,</strong></span> by journalist and researcher <a href="http://www.alinatugend.com/" target="_blank">Alina Tugend</a>, is a favorite recent read. In it, Tugend observes that we're all so busy trying to appear as though we don't make mistakes that when we do, we lose it and lie. We panic. We do cloddish stuff like blame others, whine, divert, and deny. We've been trained to do so, which is one of the book's most important points; Tugend's whole thing is "embracing mistakes."</p> <p class="p2">Mine is similar. I call it "second chance sexy."</p> 8134 2015-01-22 14:12:10 2015-01-22 21:12:10 2015-01-22 14:13:03 2015-01-22 21:13:03 closed open second-chance-sexy publish 0 0 post 0 Alina Tugend Better By Mistake Character Excuses excuses jail mistake second chance _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw second chance _yoast_wpseo_title Second Chance Sexy - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Someone's good traits might earn them a second chance, but a third or fourth? No way. Second chances are where the magic is. I call it "Second Chance Sexy." _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 80 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:6;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704787684;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11099;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:351;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7861;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/mindfulness-technology/ Tue, 03 Feb 2015 01:37:26 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=8193 <h2 class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Living-in-the-moment-it-doesnt-have-to-be-this-way_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8204" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Living-in-the-moment-it-doesnt-have-to-be-this-way_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Living in the moment - it doesn't have to be this way_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="332" height="423" /></a><span style="color: #000000;">Courtesy of a Sunday op-ed, "Mindfulness as Technology" might stick with me for a least a week!</span></h2> <p class="p1">Ok, so I still like to read newspapers. There's just something cathartic about being able to crumple up the stupidity I come across, and it takes a lot less time than entering a log-in to leave an angry comment. One is arguably empowering, the other simply self-aggrandizing. Besides, the Internet is great 'n all, but compared to 130 years of industrial age headline-induced anger, the web is still preoccupied with its own genitalia.</p> <p class="p1">For me, reading the paper is an exercise in delayed gratification. I first physically disassemble and reorder its parts from responsible to frivolous, from world affairs to the national scene, and from what's happening around the state to local news. I save the culture, arts, and entertainment bits for last. It's fairly meditative, so it fit to come across Teresa Jordan's op-ed, "Seizing a <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Stetson-does-not-make-foil-hats-but-it-should_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-8207" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Stetson-does-not-make-foil-hats-but-it-should_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Stetson does not make foil hats but it should_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="211" height="285" /></a>moment for mindfulness." (Don't ask me why titles are changed for <span class="s1"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-jordan-living-virtuously-mindfulness-20150201-story.html" target="_blank">online versions</a>, but it might be a good thing you can't crumple a laptop. Had I seen the online one first I would have skipped the piece</span>).</p> <p class="p1">Teresa Jordan is the <a href="http://www.teresajordan.com/" target="_blank">author</a> of <em>The Year of Living Virtuously (Weekends Off)</em>, which is essentially about surviving distraction and obliviousness. Self-help books are lame – <a href="http://working-copy.local/buy-the-book/" target="_blank"><em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em></a> once had a chapter called "Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Chuy" that mocked the ones you find in prison – but these days so many are being written by people who hate 'em too that at least their titles reflect the removal of an important stick, if you get my drift. That makes it much easier to fight the urge to laugh at the sight of one. Plus I'm getting older, so my decades-long diet of nonfiction treachery, high weirdness, and absurdity is beginning to require balance.<!--more--></p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/I-have-a-love-hate-relationship-with-Benjamin-Franklin-the-same-as-I-do-with-Elvis-Presley_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8205" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/I-have-a-love-hate-relationship-with-Benjamin-Franklin-the-same-as-I-do-with-Elvis-Presley_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="I have a love-hate relationship with Benjamin Franklin the same as I do with Elvis Presley_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="208" height="250" /></a>In the op-ed, Jordan claims she was moved by Ben Franklin's own charted route to moral perfection. Franklin never got there; he was actually surprised to find out how many faults he really had (sounds insufferable). But his journey was apparently inspiring, so Jordan sought to find the differences between how we see ourselves, who we want to be, and how we actually act.</p> <p class="p1">Jordan's biggest personal challenge turned out to be achieving presence of mind, i.e., being in the moment. She discovered she acted like a jerk when she became overwhelmed, was dismissive of simple responsibilities, and complicated things when her mind was elsewhere. Her takeaways had a lot to do with the pace of daily life, and I couldn't agree more: the sheer velocity of its visuals seem to be eroding our ability to find moments of calm, pause, and poise.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/M-39_ALUMINUM-FOIL-HEADGEAR_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8206" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/M-39_ALUMINUM-FOIL-HEADGEAR_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="362" height="407" /></a>Jordan reminds us of a "Good Samaritan" study undertaken by psychologists in 1973 in which tardy seminarian subjects rushed past a man needing help, some even viewing him as an obstacle. Precious few students stopped to help, and the results are <em>so</em> solid, the only plausible conclusion is that ethics become a luxury as life speeds up. Forty years later, most of us are hip to that fact in our fast-paced, digital world, but we do hide behind it. It's called "active laziness," and it means we're building a treehouse to live in, but the tree is made of sugar. So what'll happen when it rains?</p> <p class="p1">A well played case in point is Jordan's mention of <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/22/us/georgia-school-shooting-hero/" target="_blank">Antoinette Tuff</a>, the high school bookkeeper who sweet-talked an AK-47 from the hands of an active shooter. We live in a world of instant gratification, the antithesis of levelheadedness and the mother of knee-jerk reactions. Tuff, however, had been working her muscles of passivity and contemplation. She regularly meditated. She prayed. She studied the Bible. And this consistent personal reflection may be just what prepared her for the milliseconds of serenity that would save her life and the lives of others, giving her the presence of mind to talk the gunman into surrendering.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/A-TOUGH-PHOTO_©Antoinette-Tuff.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8211" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/A-TOUGH-PHOTO_©Antoinette-Tuff.jpg" alt="A TOUGH PHOTO_©Antoinette Tuff" width="255" height="340" /></a>Jordan says that an ability to "summon an internal calm," rather than react reflexively, doesn't require adherence to any particular religion. Corporations, the military, and treatment groups of all stripes effectively use non-religious programs designed to help their people find a center and stay grounded. Whether they're based in the spiritual or not, such pursuits not only prevent panic, anxiety, and depression, they help kill excuses dead, like bug spray. In fact, both failed <em>and</em> successful 12-steppers alike describe this element of recovery as its most crucial and creditable takeaway (and I'll consider the opinions of beat-up AA types before I listen to self-congratulatory yoga people any day).</p> <p class="p1">What it really comes down to for me is using <em>anything</em> that helps me raise a middle finger to the temptation of excuse making.</p> So is it possible to use "mindfulness" as just as much of a tech tool as the devices I depend on for distraction? No doubt it is. The hard part is blocking out all that other stuff (get out the foil hat!). But I do like the idea of developing it as a tool I can reach for (I hope I still like it next week). <p class="p1">It's funny that Jordan's concept found me via one of my more pedestrian literary diversions, the Sunday paper, but I guess messages tend to find those who seek them. And no matter how much information flows online, not everything will be electronic. That said, I'll probably buy the e-version of Jordan's book.</p> 8193 2015-02-02 18:37:26 2015-02-03 01:37:26 2015-02-02 21:36:24 2015-02-03 04:36:24 closed open mindfulness-technology publish 0 0 post 0 12-step AA active laziness active shooter AK-47 Antoinette Tuff Bible Culture meditation mindfulness No Excuses Book Review technology Teresa Jordan The Year of Living Virtuously Where Excuses Go to Die yoga _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw mindfulness _yoast_wpseo_title Mindfulness as Technology - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 90 _yoast_wpseo_metadesc "Active laziness" vs. mindfulness...I think I'll pick the one that will help me talk a loaded AK-47 of a school shooter's angry hands. Just sayin'. _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704767324;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:334;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4346;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9702;}}}} http://working-copy.local/celebrity/brian-williams-war-face/ Thu, 12 Feb 2015 04:51:08 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=8227 <h2><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/BRIANS-WORLD_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8230" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/BRIANS-WORLD_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="BRIANS WORLD_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="346" height="450" /></a>Brian “Get to the choppa!” Williams’s character lapse makes him one.</strong></span></h2> So much for Brian Williams’s war-face, eh? I don’t know if some of the Gonzo from his friendship with the late Hunter Thompson rubbed off, but it turns out the Whiskey Tango Foxtrot of Williams’s career may be his having forgotten that journalists aren't free to insert themselves in the stories they report. At least Williams had the sense to step away from his anchor desk before NBC could suspend him, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/11/business/media/brian-williams-suspended-by-nbc-news-for-six-months.html?_r=0">as it has</a>. The move separates him from lesser public figures who might busy themselves with all the attention or be convinced by others to turn it in their favor, something that rarely ends well. There’s also the fact that, as a passenger in a Chinook troop-transport helicopter, your visibility is extremely limited. Without the benefit of combat experience or theater of operations training, it’d be nearly impossible to differentiate which helicopter in any convoy was actually being aimed at. Think about it, amidst all the sounds of combat – automatic weapons fire, shouting, explosions – would <em>you</em> be able to distinguish between RPG rounds and the flash-bang orange glow of infrared countermeasures (ICMs) being released around you? ICMs <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/BRAIN-WILLIAMS_DEATH-OR-STORY_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-8233" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/BRAIN-WILLIAMS_DEATH-OR-STORY_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="BRAIN WILLIAMS_DEATH OR STORY_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="240" height="332" /></a>are, after all, designed to confuse missile optics and throw off rocket trajectories, and pilots navigating threat zones have to be specially trained for these potentially blinding and disorienting visuals. Besides, when you're in a convoy taking fire, it matters little whether the first helicopter is being shot at or the last: the <em>convoy</em> is taking fire. If one of its soldiers gets hit by a piece of shrapnel, he’ll be eligible for a Purple Heart. And we always hear soldiers claim to be all “in this together” and that they’re fighting for the guy next to them. So while embedded reporters certainly aren’t soldiers, the only real-world recognition they get is an unspoken eligibility to use the word “we.” Williams <em>was</em> in a convoy that took fire, and he technically faced the same danger as the other passengers, in uniform and out. He could've been killed. So, “we.” End of story.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/TRUE-BRIAN-WILLIAMS-ADVENTURES_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8234" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/TRUE-BRIAN-WILLIAMS-ADVENTURES_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="TRUE BRIAN WILLIAMS ADVENTURES_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="255" height="328" /></a>Except that Williams, perhaps suffering from a bout of malignant entitlement, had to go and inflate his mythology, setting aside the vigilance his position requires. In so doing, he surrendered control of his own narrative, of how people see and describe him and his actions. And if you’ve read this blog before, you know how that gets me thinking. In all the coverage, backlash and commentary covering this most pedestrian of journalistic faux pas, I have yet to see anyone point out a very humbling lesson Williams is no doubt learning. He played with the particulars and self aggrandized his place in an already harrowing encounter; he repeatedly exaggerated and reportedly lied; and in so doing, the NBC news anchor unwittingly opened doors through which hangers on and blabbermouths can (and will) enter to repurpose the fallout for their own gain. Here are a few such things Williams has had to face so far: <ul> <li>Fellow journalist Tom Brokaw has now <a href="http://www.thewrap.com/nbc-insider-tom-brokaw-absolutely-did-not-call-for-brian-williams-firing/">denied</a> reports he’d initially called for Williams to be fired. (Yeah right.)</li> <li>A forgotten weasel of a hotel employee has come forward to claim Williams couldn't have seen the human bodies he says he watched float past his Ritz-Carlton window during Hurricane Katrina.</li> <li>Despite <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/02/08/nbc-news-brian-williams-not-under-investigation/">claims to the contrary</a>, “investigators” for NBC-Universal-Comcast have been examining everything from footage of Williams’s various <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Brian-Williams-TRUE-ADVENTURE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8236" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Brian-Williams-TRUE-ADVENTURE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Brian Williams TRUE ADVENTURE_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="463" height="319" /></a>retellings to his statements and retraction. They also reportedly interviewed current and former military personnel, NBC news execs, camera guys, and others. How could they not? A well-liked celebrity newsreader with as many industry friends as Williams has doesn't get a 6-month suspension and a $5 mil haircut, without at least a few lawyers and questions. Never mind that many of Williams’s colleagues have called him a man of character and integrity: who in their right mind would do something to invite <em>Comcast’s</em> corporate ethics Gestapo to decide whether or not that’s true?</li> </ul> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Brian-Williams-Saved-Manhattan_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8241" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Brian-Williams-Saved-Manhattan_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Brian Williams Saved Manhattan_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="221" height="447" /></a>The list will go on, for sure. I know, because I did something similar to myself, and it was a mind-bendingly intense and painful life lesson that inspired both my personal motto (<em>Get character or become one</em>) and the triple award-winner memoir written around it. As one witness after another embellished their testimony during my pretrial hearing for armed robbery, I could do nothing more than frantically scribble, “Never happened – he just tacked that on!” and “No way did I do that!” and “She's lying! Why is she making this up?” Trying to be reassuring, I suppose, my attorney simply waved each testimony off as if it didn't matter. But it mattered to <em>me</em>, just too little, too late. Back inside the jail, and later on the prison yard, when I explained this travesty of justice to my fellow inmates, they yawned with boredom. I was the only one who was surprised. See, I may have chosen to rob only corporate-owned retail chains and pledged never to hit a family-owned business; I may have kept my cool and remained courteous, even during the Christmas rush; and I may never have threatened anyone, pointed a weapon, or shouted. But none of that mattered, because by my own actions, I’d surrendered my right to control the narrative. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Brian-Williams_Raconteur_Photo-by-Matthias-Clamer.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-8239" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Brian-Williams_Raconteur_Photo-by-Matthias-Clamer.jpg" alt="Brian Williams_Raconteur_Photo by Matthias Clamer" width="274" height="370" /></a>Instead, a parade of individuals looking to inflate <em>their</em> harrowing experiences would be free to decide who I was, what I’d done, and what should be done with me. I’d lacked the character to keep myself out of that situation, so I got funhouse mirrored into one: I became the guy who did the things they said – and what they said contributed to my judgment. State of California has it all on file somewhere. It’s perhaps the most important caution <em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em> offers its readers. So Brian Williams and I have something in common. He’s about to learn that once you cross that line – once you relinquish your character – how you see yourself (and even the truth) has little impact on the free reign that will be granted to those claiming they’ve been affected by your actions. This difficult lesson has shaped every moment of <em>my</em> life since; I’ll be curious to see what Williams does with it. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 8227 2015-02-11 21:51:08 2015-02-12 04:51:08 2015-02-11 21:58:44 2015-02-12 04:58:44 closed open brian-williams-war-face publish 0 0 post 0 Brian Williams Celebrity Character combat Comcast Hunter Thompson Hurricane Katrina ICM Iraq NBC RPG Tom Brokaw Universal Where Excuses Go to Die _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw brian williams _yoast_wpseo_title Brian Williams’ War-face - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Brian Williams, c mon! Who in their right mind would do something to invite NBC-Universal Comcast’s corporate ethics Gestapo to decide who you are? _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 88 _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1688533737;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1896;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2674;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6491;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:381;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10357;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:360;}}}} http://working-copy.local/incarceration-nation/8250/ Wed, 25 Feb 2015 19:19:02 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=8250 <h2><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Prison-Bacteria-for-Dummies-with-Excrement-Assault-Guide_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8258" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Prison-Bacteria-for-Dummies-with-Excrement-Assault-Guide_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Prison Bacteria for Dummies with Excrement Assault Guide_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="326" height="413" /></a></span><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Prison Survival Literature: where's the chapter on being hustled?</strong></span></h2> <p class="p1">"Two men enter – one man leaves!" It's all you need to know, right? Okay technically, sometimes, sure.</p> <p class="p1">My cellmate wanted to order a copy of <em>Put ‘Em Down, Take ‘Em Out! Knife Fighting Techniques From Folsom Prison</em>, but I was able to talk him out of it. Good thing, too, because the publisher’s catalog through which the order would’ve been placed belonged to me, and it was high contraband. Back then I was in possession of several such catalogs, which offered titles on everything from document falsification to improvised explosives; from contingency cannibalism (my favorite) to how to dispose of a dead body. I got the sense I’d exceeded the natural encyclopedia of criminal knowledge around me as a result, and that was nothing short of cross-eyed fabulous.</p> <p class="p1">Each catalog entry was accompanied by a book-jacket photo and lengthy summary. <em>Where Excuses Go to Die’s</em> chapter, “High Weirdness by Mail,” describes how reading snippets of these out loud to certain trusted inmates caused laughter so physically enfeebling that only a death rattle was left in the human body’s big bag of tricks.</p> <p class="p1">It seems crazy to recall being rendered sightless by tears of joy in the company of murderers, shot-callers, and stonehearted life-termers. But these “moments of genuine whimsy,” as I refer to ‘em in <em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em>, were what my own prison survival was made of. Sure, I’d read the titles and descriptions in a funny voice, but I allowed the absurdity of it all to do the heavy lifting. We didn’t actually need to possess the instructions for do-it-yourself blowguns; picturing blowgun wars in the chow hall was priceless enough. We'd <em>really</em> lose it when some badass piped up to correct, clarify, or corroborate. Such sessions turned tall tales into skyscrapers.</p> <p class="p1"><!--more--></p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Put-‘Em-Down_Take-‘Em-Out.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8261" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Put-‘Em-Down_Take-‘Em-Out.jpg" alt="Put ‘Em Down_Take ‘Em Out" width="183" height="302" /></a>To me, <i>Put ‘Em Down</i>, <i>Take ‘Em Out! </i>definitely counts as a prison survival book, despite its sensationalized premise and author Don Pentecost’s intended civilian audience. The man struck gold with that godless title, and all these years later, it’s hard to find even a worn copy for less than $80. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/0873644840/ref=rdr_ext_tmb#customerReviews" target="_blank">Reviewers</a> seem to take the book pretty seriously too, which, as you may expect, I find impossible. In <em>my</em> world, <i>Put ‘Em Down</i> will always represent learning -- early on -- that nobody behind bars will watch your back like a guy you can make cry with laughter. And that's just plain 'ol prison survival.</p> <p class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;">There are, however, author/entrepreneur/former inmates who will disagree with me. </span></p> <p class="p1">In the last few years, a bumper crop of prison survival literature has flooded the marketplace both online and off, finding shelf space in the homes of drunks, hackers, civil disobedients, and, of course, criminal defendants. Some of the books and websites are pretty slick; some are marketed far more effectively than others. The majority contain a couple of useful tips, several obvious answers, and mostly tough guy filler. People like me see ‘em as books written for suckers. (Rest assured I’m not offending anyone by saying that, since ex-felons and even the convicts putting ‘em out there speak the same language I do, and our secret handshake is “suckers.”)</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/APOCALYPSE-HOOSEGOW-By-Chato-Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-8274" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/APOCALYPSE-HOOSEGOW-By-Chato-Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="APOCALYPSE HOOSEGOW--By Chato--Where Excuses Go to Die" width="279" height="440" /></a>Nevertheless, the prison survival genre is growing, and if you want to learn more about it, Leon Neyfakh’s “How to Go to Jail” is a <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2015/02/prison_survival_guides_books_and_videos_for_navigating_life_on_the_inside.html" target="_blank">fun</a> place to start. The Slate author begins with a grim, if humble, <a href="http://www.lulu.com/us/en/shop/jesus-garcia/prison-survival-manual/ebook/product-20730054.html" target="_blank">$4 e-brochure</a>, perhaps created out of someone’s need to share a message. But fraidy-cat embezzlers facing federal custody might prefer to shell out $197 instead for an exhaustively calculated <a href="http://federal-prison.org/the-book/" target="_blank">top shelf option</a>, promoted in a bizarre “but wait, there’s more!” sales pitch. In it, obscured by satellite dish sunglasses and a low baseball cap, the book’s author talks while scary images of “prison life” crossfade over his shoulder. Dominated by photos of none other than the L.A. County Men’s Central Jail, and California State Penitentiaries, the visuals have nothing to do with the Federal Bureau of Prisons. It’s like a <a href="http://www.beachbody.com/product/fitness_programs/p90x3-workout.do?code=SEMB_P90X_GOOGLE_T1V2" target="_blank">P90-X</a> ad targeting failed counterfeiters and tax-cheats.</p> But as Neyfakh’s article points out, some of the titles alone will appeal to handcuff-tickled fans of <i>Orange Is the New Black</i> and other custody voyeurs. And the alarmist, up-sell selections are almost as rich with unintentional humor as <i>Put ‘Em Down, Take ‘Em Out! </i>(But I know they’ll never, ever be that good.) Either way, no prison survival book’s “insider” intel, no self-defense manual, and no FAQ can mask unearned knowledge; each can only warp a first-termer’s expectations. You won’t pick up an advantage by reading this stuff: you’ll paint a target on your back. Why? 'Cause if you didn’t learn something by experience, the fellas will smell it on you at the Inmate Reception Center. <p class="p2">That said, I <em>do</em> support the purchasing of literature, including (as you can imagine), books about prison. In fact, you’ll have to pick up a copy of <i>Where Excuses Go to Die</i> to learn what became of my contraband catalogs once their hiding place got offered up by a squealer as a bargaining chip. Let’s just say their confiscation kicked off my personal interest in prison survival literature.</p> 8250 2015-02-25 12:19:02 2015-02-25 19:19:02 2015-02-27 11:30:19 2015-02-27 18:30:19 closed open 8250 publish 0 0 post 0 Apocalypse Hoosegow blowguns cannibalism document falsification Don Pentecost Federal Bureau of Prisons Folsom Prison improvised explosives Incarceration Nation LA County Leon Neyfakh literature Men's Central Jail No Excuses Book Review Orange Is the New Black P90-X prison survival Put 'Em Down Take "em Out Where Excuses Go to Die _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw prison survival _yoast_wpseo_title Prison Survival Literature - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 87 _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Prison survival guides can't mask unearned knowledge. If you didn’t learn by experience, the fellas will smell it before you can say, "I don't belong here!" _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:2;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703737946;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6264;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:716;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8684;}}}} http://working-copy.local/incarceration-nation/relearning-reentry-issues/ Thu, 12 Mar 2015 18:28:24 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=8281 <h2><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/STAR-IN-YOUR-OWN-NETFLIX-SERIES_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8295" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/STAR-IN-YOUR-OWN-NETFLIX-SERIES_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="STAR IN YOUR OWN NETFLIX SERIES_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="494" height="360" /></a>Learning prisoner reentry issues means relearning prison.</span></h2> If we don't resist the manner in which we've been trained to recognize incarceration and the incarcerated, offenders will only continue to be recycled through the system rather than redirected. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Black-has-always-been-the-New-Orange_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8300" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Black-has-always-been-the-New-Orange_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Black has always been the New Orange_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="152" height="439" /></a>Americans need to unlearn prison and relearn life behind bars, but not because prison reform is a growing national dialogue: bandwagons produce hot exhaust already. We need to be reeducated because our understanding of the poor coping skills, pressure, and PTSD faced by those emerging from detention has been the stuff of movie jokes for as long as any of us can remember. Mutated by Hollywood and put off by unpleasantness, most Americans can't get past convict caricatures to see key subtleties that must become part of our awareness. And I do mean <em>ours:</em> taxpayers, you, me, and Law-abiding Larry -- not just the social workers we usually leave to resolve issues of recycling vs. redirecting. Following my own successful parole, I never expected to become a prison commentator or a conveyor belt of questions about confinement, but I can never seem to escape the little strings in life that lead back to my experiences behind bars. Each one returns me to lessons learned "inside" that now take civilian form on a daily basis. In fact, those lessons accompany me so doggedly, I'm constantly comparing in-custody versions to civilian values and principles. Witnessing inmates upholding the same rules they utterly failed to live by "outside" was and remains fascinating. At the same time, it makes sense that a closed culture like the one behind bars would enforce a rapid and uncompromising assimilation process.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Prison-rape-is-accepted-reality-in-a-system-that-dehumanizes-people-by-design.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7532" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Prison-rape-is-accepted-reality-in-a-system-that-dehumanizes-people-by-design.jpg" alt="Prison rape is an accepted reality in a system that dehumanizes people by design" width="609" height="264" /></a>Some of this is based on genuine similarities in life circumstances. Consider the absolute hatred convicts have for anyone accused of harming a child: it's the single deadliest collective aptitude I have ever known. And it stems, in part, from the reservoirs of familial damage behind prison walls, child abuse chief among them. The white noise of prison isn't limited to justifications and excuses; much of it includes unsolicited tales of neglect and abuse. <p class="p1">When some poor bastard is mistakenly (or not) housed in the general population wearing a molestation jacket, the mere suspicion of having been convicted of rape or kid touching causes the tension to palpably rise. And every guy in the room knows it's not gonna stop there. Not once did I see such a scenario "end well."</p> <p class="p1">But even among your average taxpayers and Bingo players, common courtesies and rules of politeness tend to be relied upon in prison. These include everything from opening the door for someone carrying something, to personal hygiene, and even to reaching over and handing some big tough guy a Kleenex.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/WELCOME-TO-COMCAST-NBC-UNIVERSAL-PRISON.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7148" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/WELCOME-TO-COMCAST-NBC-UNIVERSAL-PRISON.jpg" alt="WELCOME TO COMCAST NBC UNIVERSAL PRISON" width="373" height="358" /></a>Don't get me wrong; prison is <em>seize and shank you</em>, not please and thank you, but knuckleheads outnumber actual psychopaths 100-to-1. You'll find heightened manners, is all I'm saying, among arsonists, murderers and self proclaimed profits.</p> <p class="p1">Inmates formerly unable to live by basic civilities in the outside world not only face more immediate consequences inside, they are often better able to process the value of socially conscious behavior absent the pressure of society at large: there aren't nine or ten other things they also have to get right, avoid, or live up to in that same moment.</p> <p class="p1">Most folks I speak with can't imagine any other reason for inmates to treat each other politely than the fear of being raped. This is <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2561572/" target="_blank">what TV and movies teach us</a>, and where's the entertainment in drawing psychological distinctions?</p> <p class="p1">Yet this is precisely the stuff we need to unlearn before we can understand what second chances really mean to offenders who deserve them. Somebody, somewhere, said of those behind bars that "we are more than our worst mistake," and it's true. I'm a living, walking, mostly redeemed example of this, and during my incarceration I was not alone. Like many of the guys I met, I thought I was smarter than the average Joe and needed a serious wake-up call, which of course we all got.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/oooop.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-6363" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/oooop.jpg" alt="Hard day at the office_WHere Excuses Go to Die" width="433" height="303" /></a>The violence that occurs behind bars is unavoidable -- another aspect of this unique environment that can't be ignored if reentry is to be successful. I was able to leave prison proud that I'd never started a fight or bullied anyone, but I had been forced to defend myself several times. All these years later, I have to admit that took a toll.</p> <p class="p1">Besides, it's not so much what you participate in as what you're surrounded by day and night. I once saw a guy get slugged in the face so hard that an entire shower room tile floor was rendered invisible by blood. Sure the guy was a bit of a bleeder, but he was also a big dude. When the fellas got to mopping, it took a good 40 minutes to clean up (and these were pro- blood moppers, all).</p> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/THIS-IS-NOR-ABOUT-FEELING-SORRY-FOR-CRIMINALS.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-7146" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/THIS-IS-NOR-ABOUT-FEELING-SORRY-FOR-CRIMINALS.jpg" alt="THIS IS NOR ABOUT FEELING SORRY FOR CRIMINALS" width="243" height="251" /></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Black-has-always-been-the-New-Orange_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8300" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Black-has-always-been-the-New-Orange_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Black has always been the New Orange_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="166" height="479" /></a>I couldn't look away, and I don't really know why. A couple of guys next to me got grossed out and left, but I froze at the sink when two guys entered the room looking to settle a score. The blood I saw in the mirror's reflection made me think of Folsom, from which I'd recently been transferred. I thought of the acres of concrete flooring in Folsom's cell houses, and the fact that every square millimeter of that concrete has been doused in tears and blood over the prison's long history. You can feel that sort of atmosphere in the hairs on your arms: it's everywhere. And watching the blood being mopped up in the shower room that day, I realized that was the sort of thing that would affect me later no matter what. <p class="p1">Americans have been taught to see prison and prisoners very narrowly, and the result has been that, without blinking a collective eye, we've thrown away the key on many who could otherwise have a different sort of life on the outside.</p> <p class="p1">It's my mission to get people to understand that there's so much more to life behind bars than what is taught in movies and on TV. There's so much more to the psychological patterns of detention. If we'd just recognize that, there could also be so much more than just going to prison and "coming out worse."</p> <p class="p1">These are the things we need to consider when we talk about prisoner reentry. The issues are as old as punishment itself, and it's about time for an update.</p> &nbsp; 8281 2015-03-12 11:28:24 2015-03-12 18:28:24 2015-03-12 12:03:34 2015-03-12 19:03:34 closed open relearning-reentry-issues publish 0 0 post 0 convict custody Folsom Hollywood incarceration Incarceration Nation parole prison PTSD punishment recidivism reentry Reentry reform relearn stereotypes violence _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw reentry issues _yoast_wpseo_title RELEARNING REENTRY ISSUES - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Rendering prisoner reentry issues relatable, as well challenges parolees face upon release, is difficult, and why America really needs to unlearn prison. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 82 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705871953;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10046;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8684;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7740;}}}} http://working-copy.local/narcissist-richter-scale/theres-no-excuse-for-baby-tattoos/ Fri, 20 Mar 2015 20:48:54 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=8306 <h2 class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Notes-from-a-Non-parent-10_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><br /></a><img class="alignleft wp-image-11843" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/BAD-INK_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-300x198.jpg" alt="" width="410" height="271" />You wouldn’t have a picture of your tongue tattooed on your arm, would you?</span></h2> <h4 class="p1">Aren't we talking about something 80 days shy of looking like someone's tongue?</h4> <p class="p1"><em>Well, this</em> non-parent certainly is. </p> <p class="p1">The faces of most newborns don't have nearly enough character to justify placement under your Mötorhead tattoo. Fresh babies are rapidly evolving and for all intents and purposes, under cooked. You wouldn't want to look at it in a bowl, would you?  C'mon, even highly stylized baby tattoos are not an improvement.</p> <p class="p1">Don't kid yourself – when a child is breathing for the first time, he or she doesn't want to be there. He or she could care less about your discount at Creeper Ink on 30th and Piedmont, or your penchant for over-sentimentalizing mushy disruptions.<!--more--></p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/SPAWN-OF-THE-DEAD_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="alignright wp-image-8318 " src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/SPAWN-OF-THE-DEAD_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="SPAWN OF THE DEAD_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="268" height="214" /></a></p> <p class="p1"><img class="alignleft wp-image-11841" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/U559-300x265.jpg" alt="" width="184" height="163" />Let's get one thing clear: if anyone feels insulted in by this, it should be narcissistic parents, not babies. Babies don't have the mental capacity to weigh in on whether they might be best represented by tattoo shop portraiture. So I'll just say it: people who get tattoos of infants and toddlers on their bodies only to watch them mutate into Medusa do so because they have mistaken the birth of a child with self-expression. A big mistake in child rearing is child worship.</p> <p class="p1">Babies and children are not a form of expression. Now take that Ramones t-shirt off your kid at once!</p> <p><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/AFTERGLOOM_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8319 " src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/AFTERGLOOM_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="AFTERGLOOM_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="285" height="237" /></a>I certainly understand the affection behind such a woeful decision as trusting a tattoo artist with both your skin and the likeness of your as yet fully formed child, but that's where my acceptance runs aground. If you think about it, as a friend of mine pointed out, you're really just capturing the moment when your kid has the least identity as an individual that he or she will ever have, and what does <em>that</em> say?</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/THEY-NEVER-WORK_WHAT-IS-WRONG-WITH-YOU_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="alignright wp-image-8320" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/THEY-NEVER-WORK_WHAT-IS-WRONG-WITH-YOU_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="THEY NEVER WORK_WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="220" height="212" /></a>Maybe tattoos are very personal, blah blah blah. Great. Naturally, any criticism of them will be taken poorly, which is why cousins, fathers, sisters, and friends flat out lie to those seeking praise by showing off a picture of a frog and insisting it's actually little Jimmy.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Demon-Scenes-and-Joker-Smiles_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8323" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Demon-Scenes-and-Joker-Smiles_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Joker Smiles_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="143" height="126" /></a>Said entitled parents will <em>continue</em> to insist it's Jimmy, too, long past the point where they themselves believe the similarities they paid good money still apply. They'll endlessly proclaim their love for these often frightening ink jobs even as the perversity of deformation resulting from poor placement, injury, old age, botched ink-work, and personal blubber takes over.</p> <p class="p1">No, I've never seen a toddler tattoo that I wanted to look at twice, let alone help aggrandize.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/A-Nightmare-on-Asshole-Street_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8324" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/A-Nightmare-on-Asshole-Street_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="A Nightmare on Asshole Street_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="216" height="177" /></a>I'd rather look at a third degree burn scar, and frankly I find discussions of burn injuries more interesting thanks to the spirit of survival and personal fortitude required to live with them.</p> <p class="p1">I've also never been afraid to ask about a burn scar, and I have never offended a burn victim by inquiring. I will <em>never</em> ask about a baby tattoo. I already know the delusion behind it, so just shut up. <strong>I'm on the kid's team, not yours.</strong></p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Ornamental-Carnage-Mommy_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="alignright wp-image-8325" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Ornamental-Carnage-Mommy_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Ornamental Carnage Mommy_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="399" height="284" /></a>Again, I get <em>how</em> you can be so overwhelmed with adoration for your newborn as to have a needle jockey puncture its little monster face onto your back or bicep; I just can't see any excuse for the lack of foresight, or the daffy expectation that others won't be secretly disgusted.</p> <p class="p1">No amount of rationalization or denial will ever eliminate the fact that you've deliberately created a platform on which people will repeatedly lie to your face. Even grandparents, blindly supportive and smothering as they can be, will always walk away thinking, "I'm so glad <em>I</em> never inked a loaf of bread on my arm."</p> <p class="p1">When family members get a load of your Picasso and explain with a loving grin as they pick up your child that they "prefer the real thing," what they're really expressing is, "You got ripped off, Champ."</p> <p>You didn't think about stretch-marks did you? Nope! Like I said, I'm on the kid's team, not yours. You're the one who will eventually <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Nosferatu-–-Phantom-der-Nacht_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="alignright wp-image-8327" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Nosferatu-–-Phantom-der-Nacht_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Nosferatu – Phantom der Nacht_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="500" height="287" /></a>have to explain that your baby's faceshroom is no longer on your arm, but on your elbow. Talk about Nightmare on Asshole Street.</p> <p class="p1">In the meantime, do us a favor: cover the troll at swap meets and sporting events during the summer. The need to have us non-parents co-sign your weirdo self-indulgence is offensive.</p> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right"} --> <p class="has-text-align-right">.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> If anyone feels insulted by this, it should be narcissistic parents, not babies. 8306 2015-03-20 13:48:54 2015-03-20 20:48:54 2022-06-24 10:01:24 2022-06-24 17:01:24 closed open theres-no-excuse-for-baby-tattoos publish 0 0 post 0 babies baby tattoos birth burn scar child rearing child worship children denial excuses infants ink Medusa Mötorhead Narcissist Richter Scale newborns non-parent Notes from a Non-parent parents Picasso portraiture Ramones self-indulgence tattoo toddlers _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw baby tattoos _yoast_wpseo_title There's No Excuse for Baby Tattoos - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Baby tattoos on people's soon-to-be misshapen arms is dumb enough, why lionize a child's face looking the least like the person the world will come to know? _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 80 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:16;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1696470114;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1816;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1030;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:922;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7064;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:412;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:319;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor http://working-copy.local/comfort-zone-2/confessions-of-a-texas-taunter/ Mon, 06 Apr 2015 21:26:09 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=8331 <h2><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/TEXAS-HATE-LINE.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-8354" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/TEXAS-HATE-LINE.jpg" alt="TEXAS HATE LINE" width="500" height="375" /></a>For years I've sworn my epitaph will read, "...and he never set foot in Texas."</span></h2> <ul> <li>Texas is one of the worst states to be either a <a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20130624-texas-ranks-among-worst-10-states-to-be-a-kid.ece" target="_blank">child</a> or an <a href="http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Feds-rank-Texas-worst-healthcare-provider-3687193.php" target="_blank">old person</a>.</li> <li>Its high school dropout rate makes the Alamo look like the Iwo Jima flag raising.</li> <li>It seems fitting that this Lone Star of illiteracy is represented by a belt-buckle.</li> <li>Gun-loving Texas is <a href="http://healthblog.dallasnews.com/2013/06/from-the-nothing-to-be-proud-of-file-texas-ranks-last-in-country-in-mental-health-spending-one-in-five-dallas-county-kids-are-hungry.html/" target="_blank">ranked</a> last in the country in mental health spending and <a href="http://www.houstontomorrow.org/livability/story/texas-health-care-ranked-worst-in-the-nation/" target="_blank">worst</a> in health services, hospital care, and access to health insurance.</li> <li>Its big <a href="http://www.texasobserver.org/texas-on-the-brink-we-can-do-better/" target="_blank">#1</a> in carbon emissions and hazardous waste production is <a href="http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2013/jul/19/facebook-posts/gop-stoppers-say-texas-ranks-poorly-worker-deaths-/" target="_blank">justified</a> with claims of "per-resident emissions."</li> <li>Texans nearly top the list of <a href="http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/12/10/texas-drivers-ranked-third-worst-in-u-s/" target="_blank">most</a> careless, <a href="http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Hey-y-all-come-on-now-check-out-the-nation-s-5615175.php" target="_blank">worst</a> drivers in America, but Houston <a href="http://www.autovantage.com/roadrage.html" target="_blank">scored</a> 2014's "Least Courteous" award. #guns</li> <li>What's <em>not</em> big in Texas? <a href="http://amarillo.com/news/local-news/2013-10-20/study-texas-ranks-last-voter-turnout-close-last-registration" target="_blank">Voter turnout</a>, <a href="http://www.utexas.edu/news/2013/06/04/texas-ranks-among-lowest-in-nation-for-political-participation-and-civic-involvement/" target="_blank">civic involvement</a>, and political participation.</li> </ul> It's a bit nitpicky to add that the average credit score in Texas has been the <a href="http://www.demblognews.com/2011/08/texas-ranks-last-in-job-creation-among.html" target="_blank">lowest</a> in the country, because quality of life issues and countrified comedy gold are consequential, not illustrative. So instead, I'll choose the one thing I've most openly mocked Texans for over the years – defending their vulgar bravado with "Don't judge us 'til you hang with us."<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/PLEASE-DO-NOT-MOVE-TO-CALIFORNIA.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8356" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/PLEASE-DO-NOT-MOVE-TO-CALIFORNIA.jpg" alt="PLEASE DO NOT MOVE TO CALIFORNIA" width="204" height="260" /></a>Yeah, right. I've vowed, insisted, and taken oaths. I've shouted and waved my pious, left-leaning middle finger at the invitation. Too many bibles carried by too many bullies. Now I can't even remember which came first, the put downs or the mockery. I was either indignant over some fat-mouth Texan insulting California, or I'd overheard some general purpose redneck reference I found funny. Whoever was first to sneer doesn't matter. I've loathed the Lone Star State for a lifetime, but graduation day has arrived. It's time to let go of my primary resentment against Texas (its willful ignorance) and go make a friend. Don't get me wrong: I've enjoyed hating Texas, which I liken to the garish, Frito chip fingernail tips of America. I've made my comments about its residents. I've been less than courteous to drivers with Texas plates on their cars, and I've wished upon the state a period of collective guilt not unlike what Germany experienced when the Allies began their post-war denazification efforts. While I normally pride myself on my interest in other cultures, I've made it clear to anyone and everyone that Texas doesn't count. "It's an obnoxious state with an accusing, non-progressive stance toward everything" was my common guillotine for the neck of further debate. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/John-Espinosa-Nelson_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8358" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/John-Espinosa-Nelson_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="John Espinosa Nelson_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="172" height="232" /></a>But I did and said all of these things from a safe, chicken-shit distance where I wouldn't have to face the possibility of changing my opinion. Now I find I've outgrown the need for this particular grudge, and I've decided to accept the challenge to my assumptions, my attitudes, and my judgments. Besides, <a href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/snoap-standoffs-and-suckers/" target="_blank">Florida</a> has managed to outshine the Lone Star on almost every single measure of idiocy possible over the last decade, so it's not like I'm giving up all my easy-targets or excuses. I've been invited to support a friend who is coming out of something I wouldn't even wish on someone from Dallas: the suicide of a spouse. It's been almost <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Texas-Child-Support-Payments-By-the-Slice.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8365" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Texas-Child-Support-Payments-By-the-Slice.jpg" alt="Texas Child Support Payments By the Slice" width="254" height="190" /></a>a year, and my friend has a list. Not the kind one makes after a doctor's appointment: more like a newfound freedom agenda developed in the aftermath of a lengthy darkness. A "Fuck it List," you might call it. Just watching this friend check things off that list has been life affirming, though now that he wants me to accompany him to Texas as part of one of those items, I find myself wishing he wasn't suddenly so damned outgoing. I'm in, but I make no guarantees that my open-mindedness will extend to inch-thick pancake makeup melting in the Texas sun. And since this website is intended to also be an extension of the lessons I describe learning throughout <a href="http://working-copy.local/buy-the-book/" target="_blank"><em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em></a>, I'm sure I'll continue to make mistakes. Life will go on imperfectly – exactly the conclusion I came to at the end of the book. Despite having grown tremendously during my years in prison and applying that growth to the civilian world, I do keep having opportunities to pick up new knowledge and revise my beliefs, so long as I can get over myself first. <p style="text-align: center;">I leave for Texas this week, so stay tuned to learn about the crow I may eat (or the brisket-eating Klansmen I may meet).</p> <p class="p1" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Next up: THERE'S NO EXCUSE FOR MAN BUN </strong></span></p> <h2 class="p1" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>NO! <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Just-Say-NO-to-Man-Bun_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-8359 aligncenter" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Just-Say-NO-to-Man-Bun_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Just Say NO to Man Bun_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="152" height="453" /></a> </strong></span></h2> <p class="p1">. .</p> 8331 2015-04-06 14:26:09 2015-04-06 21:26:09 2016-12-01 10:43:38 2016-12-01 17:43:38 closed open confessions-of-a-texas-taunter publish 0 0 post 0 Alamo Allies America California Comfort Zone credit score Culture Dallas dropout firearms Fritos Germany guns illiteracy Iwo Jima Klan Lone Star State racist redneck Texas voter turnout Where Excuses Go to Die _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw texas _yoast_wpseo_title Confessions of a Texas Taunter - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc I often swear my epitaph will say, "...and he never set foot in Texas," but now it seems I'll have to get over myself long enough to be of use to a friend. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 96 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:21;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703527789;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11561;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10863;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9442;}}}} http://working-copy.local/uncategorized/rape-riots-and-rotten-food/ Fri, 24 Apr 2015 00:50:54 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=8371 <h2 class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Inmate-Cardboard-Standup_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8388" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Inmate-Cardboard-Standup_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Inmate Cardboard Standup_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die" width="360" height="344" /></a>Rape, Riots, and Rotten Food – Relearning Life Behind Bars</span></h2> <p class="p1">The sooner the public learns that it’s been <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Hard" target="_blank">chumped</a> by the media into thinking it knows what offenders look like, the sooner the heart and humanity that also exist behind bars can be tapped in an effort to redirect –not recycle– offenders. And whether it’s the people themselves that matter to you or the countless billions of taxpayer dollars we can save by fixing this problem, it's about time we get started.</p> <p class="p1">And what do I propose? As a former inmate of the California Department of Corrections myself, my mission is to help change the public's misperception that all inmates are illiterate, tattooed, Nazi-worshiping, meth-mouthed man-rapists. This is what <em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em> is all about, defying the caricatures and stereotypes that make it easier for us to believe that incarcerating our way out of crime is viable.<!--more--></p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/John-Espinosa-Nelson_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Photo-by-Katie-Ferguson.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-7787" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/John-Espinosa-Nelson_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Photo-by-Katie-Ferguson.jpg" alt="John Espinosa Nelson_Where Excuses Go to Die_Photo by Katie Ferguson" width="275" height="254" /></a>I enjoy public speaking commitments tremendously because my message is irrefutable: Prison is no longer just for "those" people, not with the numbers of Americans incarcerated in this country. Nearly everyone has a family criminal offender or parolee these days  –or knows someone who does– so engaging with the public to demonstrate how little it takes to relate to that person is the first step in reframing our outdated picture. Taking them by surprise helps: audiences don't expect to be entertained in a dialogue about prison, and they certainly don't expect to laugh (the fact that California has built one university but 31 prisons since 1980 is hardly funny, after all). But helping people understand disturbing facts about the criminal justice system or about how their money is being spent requires some levity, so talking about <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/JNelson_WEGTD-Shower_2013.pdf" target="_blank">what you <em>really</em> see in a prison shower </a>helps to offset the otherwise dark and harrowing environment. I should know –it's what got me and my family through the toughest four years of our lives.</p> <p class="p1">And if we can change how regular folks recognize incarceration and the incarcerated, we can start to talk about why an emphasis on milestone-based education is a better investment than flushing public funds down an inefficient, constitutionally noncompliant toilet of a penal system.</p> <p class="p1"><em>You</em> can help me get people's attention. If you're a California Librarian or CLA member, or if you know a California Librarian or CLA member, please consider either voting for my proposed 2015 California Library Association conference session or passing this on to a colleague or friend who might be interested in voting.</p> <p class="p1">Thank you.</p> <p class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;">*Photo by the wonderfully generous and talented, Katie Ferguson <a class="ProfileCard-screennameLink u-linkComplex js-nav" href="https://twitter.com/pocketofgreen" data-aria-label-part="">@<span class="u-linkComplex-target">pocketofgreen</span></a></span></p> <p class="p1">.</p> 8371 2015-04-23 17:50:54 2015-04-24 00:50:54 2016-12-01 10:43:39 2016-12-01 17:43:39 closed open rape-riots-and-rotten-food publish 0 0 post 0 California Department of Corrections California Library Association CLA crime incarceration librarian maximum security Nazi prison Prison prisoners public speaking stereotypes taxpayer dollars Uncategorized Where Excuses Go to Die _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw life behind bars _yoast_wpseo_title Rape, Riots, and Rotten Food - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Rape, Riots, and Rotten Food: Relearning life behind bars by focusing on the humor, heart, and humanity that exist behind our nation’s electric fences. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 75 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:4;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703669891;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10996;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8684;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1568;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/once-upon-a-time-in-atlanta-part-ii/ Sat, 02 May 2015 21:04:41 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=8404 <h2><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Atlanta-Public-Schools_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-8414" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Atlanta-Public-Schools_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die1.jpg" alt="Atlanta-Public-Schools_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die1" width="418" height="211" /></a><span style="color: #0000ff;">Further thoughts on running a school district like a criminal enterprise.</span></strong></span></h2> The Atlanta Cheating Scandal (or "APS Scandal" for Atlanta Public Schools) essentially began in 2009 after the Atlanta Journal Constitution published statistical anomalies in state competency tests that showed suspicious numbers of teacher corrections in 58 Atlanta schools. By 2011, the Georgia Professional Standards Commission had uncovered cheating by close to 178 educators in <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cheating-found-in-around-80-of-atlanta-schools/" target="_blank">44 of 56 Atlanta schools</a> that were investigated. Students were either directly provided with correct answers or teachers changed incorrect answers on tests after they’d been turned in. They did this, in short, to either collect bonuses or keep their jobs, and anyone who tried to shed light on the fraud reportedly lived in fear of retaliation.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Atlanta-Cheating-Scandal_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-8415" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Atlanta-Cheating-Scandal_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Atlanta-Cheating-Scandal_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die" width="218" height="213" /></a>On April 1, 6 years after it all began, 11 of the 35 educators accused of conspiring to cheat on state standardized tests, racketeering, theft, witness intimidation, and more were convicted and sentenced. Because the bunch consisted of lunch-bag teachers, testing coordinators, and school administrators (as opposed to the mobsters one typically associates with racketeering charges), they turned on each other faster than you can say, "But she parked in my designated spot!" Yet as the book closes on the APS scandal – considered the biggest school cheating scandal in American history – the argument that teachers were forced to cheat because they weren't given enough incentive <em>not</em> to remains in full effect. Here's the deal: In a 2013 <a href="http://www.aft.org/press-release/statement-aft-and-gft-presidents-atlanta-cheating-scandal-and-need-end" target="_blank">press release</a>, leaders of the American Federation of Teachers and the Georgia Federation of Teachers sought to take some heat off the accused with <a href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/once-upon-a-time-in-atlanta/" target="_blank">what I saw</a> as a kindergarden caliber excuse. The unions insisted the "test-crazed policies" mandated by <a href="http://www.nea.org/home/NoChildLeftBehindAct.html" target="_blank">No Child Left Behind</a> (NCLB) were to blame instead, because they dominate academic achievement and create a culture of endless assessment where more than 100 days each year can be eaten up by test prep (though not very effective test prep, it seems). <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ANSWERS-EQUAL-SANCTIONED-PAYDAYS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-8416" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ANSWERS-EQUAL-SANCTIONED-PAYDAYS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="ANSWERS EQUAL SANCTIONED PAYDAYS_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="209" height="118" /></a>Now, I'm willing to concede the likelihood that cheating "will proliferate as long as educators are evaluated on the basis of <a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/4/perverse-incentives-compel-teachers-to-cheat.html" target="_blank">deeply flawed</a> rating systems." And I'm no fan of NCLB (or much of anything W. accomplished as President); I think it's a vulgar blend of teacher evaluation and the dangled carrot of Federal funding in pursuit of multi-purpose and minimally effective standards, resulting in ratings that make test scores themselves a classroom destination. But needing to fix the system doesn't give license to use it as an excuse to alter reality. No matter what the <a href="http://www.nber.org/digest/jul03/w9413.html">National Bureau of Economic Research</a> says about the relationship between incentives and teacher behavior, I wasn't buying the union's excuse then, and I'm not buying it now. When a teacher falsifies test results to either enrich him or herself, circumvent procedure, or save his or her job, it's a matter of poor coping skills – period. For a different take on APS, who but Stewart &amp; Co. bullseye this topic better? <div style="background-color: #000000; width: 520px;"> <div style="padding: 4px;"><iframe src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/embed/mgid:arc:video:thedailyshow.com:08a8fa0d-4a11-404e-988a-7b40afda90f2" width="512" height="288" frameborder="0"></iframe> <p style="text-align: left; background-color: #ffffff; padding: 4px; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><b><a href="http://thedailyshow.cc.com/">The Daily Show</a></b> Get More: <a href="http://thedailyshow.cc.com/full-episodes/">Daily Show Full Episodes</a>,<a href="http://www.facebook.com/thedailyshow">The Daily Show on Facebook</a>,<a href="http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos">Daily Show Video Archive</a></p> </div> </div> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 8404 2015-05-02 14:04:41 2015-05-02 21:04:41 2016-12-01 10:39:57 2016-12-01 17:39:57 closed open once-upon-a-time-in-atlanta-part-ii publish 0 0 post 0 American Federation of Teachers APS scandal Atlanta Atlanta Journal Constitution Atlanta Public Schools cheating Cheating Teachers educators Excuses Georgia Georgia Professional Standards Commission NCLB No Child Left Behind state testing Your Adorable Child _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw aps scandal _yoast_wpseo_metadesc And so closes the book on the APS Scandal, considered the largest school cheating scandal in American history – until the published memoirs. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 75 _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703831185;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3738;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3878;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:293;}}}} http://working-copy.local/prison-2/upselling-prison-pt-3/ Thu, 14 May 2015 05:51:41 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=8424 <h2><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/JPAY_Appropriating-Copyrights_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8494" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/JPAY_Appropriating-Copyrights_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="JPAY_Appropriating Copyrights_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="218" height="299" /></a>A former inmate sizes up detention products, #3 in a casual series.</strong></span></h2> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Upselling Prison:</strong></span> accessories, upgrades, add-ons, telecoms, and salespersons of the detention supply industry. <p class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Prison-Monetization-Solutions_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8447" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Prison-Monetization-Solutions_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Prison Monetization Solutions_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="76" height="130" /></a>According to the Pew <span class="s1"><a href="http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/projects/public-safety-performance-project/about" target="_blank">Public Safety Performance Project</a> and the <a href="http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cpus13.pdf" target="_blank">Bureau of Justice Statistics</a></span>, 1 in 35 adult residents of the US are currently either incarcerated or under correctional supervision (parole or probation). In 1990, that number was 1 in 77. Nationally, America spends billions on corrections, and the money being made by detention profiteers is astronomical. One particularly golden calf has been inmate telecommunications, especially now that the corrections industry is undergoing a "technological renaissance." (Prison <a href="http://realtimedetention.com/products/inmate-telephones/" target="_blank">Voice Biometrics</a> anyone?)</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/This-is-a-Rehabilitation-Measurement-Device_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8446" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/This-is-a-Rehabilitation-Measurement-Device_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="This is a Rehabilitation Measurement Device_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="160" height="216" /></a>Much has been written about the contempt the prison telecom industry routinely demonstrates for families of the incarcerated by charging crushingly inflated rates for collect calls home. Still, in California, for example, the Public Utilities Commission lacks oversight of jail and prison phone contracts and nationwide the FCC is only now taking notice of high rates charged for calls originating in state and federal facilities. According to Prison Phone Justice.org, inmate phone contracts in all but 9 states are still based on a “commission” model where the <a href="https://prisonconnect.us/" target="_blank">service</a> provider pays a portion of its profits to the contracting facility as a kickback for accepting their bid (this <a href="https://www.prisonphonejustice.org/">chart</a> shows some of the worst offenders). I don't even want to <em>think</em> about private and corporate-owned detention centers, where the profits extracted from those in need of human contact is obscene.<!--more--></p> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Telewest_The-Future-of-Prison-Profiteering_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8450" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Telewest_The-Future-of-Prison-Profiteering_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Telewest_The Future of Prison Profiteering_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="244" height="137" /></a>The FCC reports that those behind bars are being charged as much as $1 per minute plus $3.95 per call to use phones provided by companies like <a href="http://www.legacyinmate.com/" target="_blank">Legacy Inmate Communications</a>, <a href="http://www.securustechnologies.com/" target="_blank">Securus Technologies</a>, Dynalec, MCI, <a href="http://www.texasinmatephones.com/#!thesafetip2000/c24vb" target="_blank">Texas Inmate Phones</a>, Telewest, <a href="http://realtimedetention.com/" target="_blank">Telmate</a>, JPay, AT&amp;T, NCIC, and <a href="http://www.gtl.net/correctional-facility-services/" target="_blank">GTL</a>, which says its mission is "driving higher levels of control and safety and enabling them to meet today’s and tomorrow’s operational challenges with confidence." Not surprisingly, GTL also claims to reduce recidivism rates and help with rehabilitation, two concepts that have become detention marketing buzzwords on steroids. <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/©-2014-by-Visual-Rhetoric-Designs.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8455" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/©-2014-by-Visual-Rhetoric-Designs.jpg" alt="© 2014 by Visual Rhetoric Designs" width="251" height="160" /></a>Georgetown University's <a href="http://www.law.georgetown.edu/academics/academic-programs/clinical-programs/our-clinics/ipr/index.cfm" target="_blank">Institute for Public Representation</a> has shown, in its pro bono representation of families asking the FCC for help, that "when families speak with an imprisoned loved one more frequently, prisoners are more likely to be successful upon reentry into the community and less likely to commit additional crimes." Yet as you might expect, the very telecoms claiming to support anti-recidivism are fighting new FCC rules that limit the cost of interstate phone calls from inmates and proposed caps on intra-state contact as well.</p> <h2 class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>But let's get to the real fireworks: </strong>For-profit email service and video visitation</span></h2> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Legacy-Inmate-Revenue-Generation_Where-Excuses-Go-To-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8452" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Legacy-Inmate-Revenue-Generation_Where-Excuses-Go-To-Die.jpg" alt="Legacy Inmate Revenue Generation_Where Excuses Go To Die" width="180" height="61" /></a>Video visitation is another technological marvel filling the coffers of its service providers, and the issues there go deeper than cost (not to mention even further from genuine rehabilitation). The <a href="http://www.prisonpolicy.org/" target="_blank">Prison Policy Initiative</a> found that, "in order to stimulate demand for their low-quality product, jails and video visitation <a href="http://www.visitphone.com/index-prime.html" target="_blank">companies</a> work together to shut down traditional in-person visitation rooms and instead require families to pay up to $1.50 per minute for visits via computer screen."</p> <p class="p1">Furthermore, companies like JPay are now offering correctional videogram and email services as an <a href="http://jpay.com/PEMessages.aspx" target="_blank">easy</a> alternative to that oldest and strongest of character-building pillars of prison life, the handwritten <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/The-handwritten-letter_the-creative-DNA-from-which-all-life-springs_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8488" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/The-handwritten-letter_the-creative-DNA-from-which-all-life-springs_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="The handwritten letter_the creative DNA from which all life springs_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="159" height="93" /></a>letter. Never mind that long form letters are a medium from which all life inside springs (and certainly the genesis of <em>Where Excuses Go to Die)</em>.</p> As many of you know, I'm a self-taught writer who once had his back against a cell wall. The power of the written word, the countless crumpled do-overs, and the chemistry of tears, ink, and paper pulp saved my life. I enjoyed writing about the things I saw in the cell house and laughing (at ourselves) with the other fellas when I read my observations aloud. Prison educators who saw potential in my scribbling before even I could made me swear up and down I wouldn't quit. <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/HomeWAV-likens-itself-to-Albert-Einstein_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8459" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/HomeWAV-likens-itself-to-Albert-Einstein_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="HomeWAV likens itself to Albert Einstein_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="331" height="65" /></a>My problem isn't with the technology, though: I don't fear or resent "out with the old, in with the new." My problem is with asshole companies like JPay who trade their service for exorbitant profit and now also the <em>ownership </em>of "all content, including any text, data, information, images, or other material, that you transmit through the Service." WTF?</p> <p class="p1"><span style="color: #333333;">I'm afraid this calls for a</span> <strong><span style="color: #800000;"><em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em> SPOILER ALERT:</span></strong></p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Prison-Liferaft-and-Survival-Equipment_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8467" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Prison-Liferaft-and-Survival-Equipment_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Prison Liferaft and Survival Equipment_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="174" height="116" /></a>See, when I was locked up, a civilian teacher named Chuck Hildebrant and I went back and forth over my entering a statewide prison writing competition. I thought it was a useless idea, but to get the man to shut up I pulled out a story I liked, put it in the mail, and forgot about it like he'd instructed. Many months later, after having been transferred to Folsom Prison, a desk sergeant pointed out an office phone extension he wanted me to pick up. I was suspicious but compliant. On the other end was the Warden, which, to suggest was a surprise in itself would be quite an understatement. He asked if I'd joined a writing competition some time before, which I immediately denied because that's what you do (as in, "I didn't see nuthin'!" "The man was dead when I got there!" etc.). The Warden told me to relax. He said I wasn't in trouble but that my short story had received an award. It was a life altering moment. Thanks to Chuck's nagging, I experienced the benefit of delayed gratification for the first time in my life. My perception of the world and what it expected of me, including my willingness to have a relationship <em>with</em> authority rather than <em>against</em> it, changed forever.</p> <p class="p1">So, using that statewide prison writing competition as an example, let's pick this apart:</p> <ol> <li class="p1">While incarcerated, one of the best things I could do for myself was associate with guys who could stay focused on the light at the end of the tunnel and do likewise myself. Discovering I had a voice and learning to use it helped me stay in that light.</li> <li class="p1">As mentioned, my roughest, earliest writing efforts caught the attention of my teacher.</li> <li class="p1">In order to actually <em>practice</em> the discipline Mr. H was trying to instill (his "put it in the mail and forget about it" = developing a relationship with delayed gratification = the seeds of true rehabilitation), I followed through.</li> <li class="p1"><em>Succeeding</em> while having truly forgotten about my submission offered a powerful underscore to Chuck's lesson. It also spawned a strong appreciation for professional encouragement (a leading cause of anti recidivism!)</li> <li class="p1">Years later I looked back, relieved to know I wasn't the kind of person who would reoffend and return to prison. I earned that. And I combined that winning submission with my other experiences, many of which were sketched in letters home, to produce an award-winning memoir.</li> <li class="p1">I currently retain the rights to this memoir.</li> </ol> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/CONVICT-CREATIVE-CONTENT-SWEEP_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.gif"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8475" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/CONVICT-CREATIVE-CONTENT-SWEEP_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.gif" alt="CONVICT CREATIVE CONTENT SWEEP_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="253" height="172" /></a>How many of the above steps would never have happened had I been fearful that some service provider would see, own, and maybe even profit from the time I served? I mean, the first thing I ever started and finished was a prison sentence, and while that may be unfortunate, by the time I was released I'd become fiercely protective of the manner in which I'd done my time. This applies today, to other inmates hoping to turn things around.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/©PASCO-TRIBUNEPhoto-by-Andy-Jones.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8477" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/©PASCO-TRIBUNEPhoto-by-Andy-Jones.jpg" alt="©PASCO TRIBUNE:Photo by Andy Jones" width="254" height="169" /></a>So that's why it's critical to look at this issue of prison communications from all angles, including some that could lead to even more nefarious outcomes. Suppose JPay gets absorbed by a larger parent corporation, and in the process becomes connected to a media company reliant on the generation of audio, visual, and web content. Why not farm that content from what your service provider "cousin" is collecting, if indeed its creators don't retain their rights to it? Even better, why not commission civilian prison educators to give content-generating classroom assignments, or tie inmate work assignments to specific content creation needs?</p> <p class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>But wait, there's more!</strong></span></p> <p class="p1">I am still appreciative of the fact that, from the outside world, writer-performer <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/henry-rollins-new-way-to-release-the-rage-a-podcast-20150410" target="_blank">Henry Rollins</a> encouraged my efforts. Upon my release, I was given a chance to write some promotional copy and a couple of videos for his publishing company and for DreamWorks, which had recently signed his band.<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ACCESS-TO-YOUR-BABY-PICTURES-AND-PRIVATE-INFO_LIKE-IT-OR-NOT.gif"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-8485" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ACCESS-TO-YOUR-BABY-PICTURES-AND-PRIVATE-INFO_LIKE-IT-OR-NOT.gif" alt="ACCESS TO YOUR BABY PICTURES AND PRIVATE INFO_LIKE IT OR NOT" width="191" height="90" /></a></p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Lotus-Weinstock.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8482" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Lotus-Weinstock.jpg" alt="Lotus Weinstock" width="137" height="229" /></a>Through additional correspondence with the late comedienne <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXTDSGv4J8w&amp;feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">Lotus Weinstock</a>, I was encouraged to keep writing and given to understand that I actually had some business pursuing it. This sort of mentorship was hugely important to me: successful creatives on the outside had confirmed that my talent was legitimate and crazy Chuck Hildebrant wasn't just being nice. In other words, my rehabilitation was self-directed, but definitely not single-handed.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Jmail_.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-8486" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Jmail_.jpg" alt="With headquarters conveniently located on Sunset Boulevard between Greenblatt's deli and the Laugh Factory comedy club_ for real." width="215" height="145" /></a>Imagine what it would mean for ALL content sent into and out of penal institutions to belong to a third-party. Now some dickhead at Sucks2BU.Appisodes owns Rollins's stuff? And that same jackass gets to see whatever sentiment he or another successful person has expressed in support of a fellow human being -- PLUS has the option of <em>selling</em> this content to TMZ?</p> <p class="p1">Rehabilitation my ass: that's not likely to inspire the sort of connection that makes a difference to an inmate. And there's <em>no</em> excuse for pretending to help while milking people for every last drop of profit and dignity you can.</p> <p class="p1">.</p> <p class="p1">.</p> <p class="p1"><strong>For a view into</strong> the wild, wild west of <a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/3010670/this-is-what-innovation-in-the-prison-industry-looks-like" target="_blank">Fast Buck Prison Innovation</a> and the prison phone racket, check out:</p> <h4 class="p1"><span class="s1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/prison-2/upselling-prison/">Upselling Prison</a> </span></h4> <h4 class="p1"><span class="s1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/prison-2/upselling-prison-pt-2/">Upselling Prison Pt. 2</a> </span></h4> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><a href="http://www.prisonpolicy.org/phones/pleasedeposit.html">Please Deposit All of Your Money:</a> </span><a href="http://www.prisonpolicy.org/phones/pleasedeposit.html" target="_blank">Kickbacks, Rates, and Hidden Fees in the Jail Phone Industry </a>by Drew Kukorowski, Peter Wagner and Leah Sakala</p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><a href="http://www.prisonpolicy.org/phones/report.html">The Price To Call Home: State-Sanctioned Monopolization In The Prison Phone Industry </a></span>by Drew Kukorowski</p> <p class="p1">.</p> 8424 2015-05-13 22:51:41 2015-05-14 05:51:41 2015-10-27 12:45:30 2015-10-27 19:45:30 closed open upselling-prison-pt-3 publish 0 0 post 0 anti recidivism AT&amp;T Bureau of Justice Statistics collect call communications email FCC Folsom Prison GTL Henry Rollins Incarceration Nation Institute for Public Representation jail JPay Lotus Weinstock MCI Pew Public Safety Performance Project phone contract prison Prison Prison Policy Initiative Public Utilities Commission rehabilitation Securus Technologies telecom TMZ video visitation videogram Where Excuses Go to Die _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw Upselling Prison _yoast_wpseo_title Upselling Prison Pt. 3 - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc With inmate communications undergoing a "tech renaissance," ALL content sent in or out could now belong to a 3rd party. Welcome to Upselling Prison Pt. 3 _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 86 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:2;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704586000;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7896;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10134;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7479;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/no-excuses-for-cuba/ Wed, 27 May 2015 09:40:56 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=8514 <h3><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/CUBA_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8518" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/CUBA_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="CUBA_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="411" height="266" /></a>The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) named Cuba one of the ten most censored countries in the world. I make no excuses for needing to see what this looks and feels like. </span></h3> I'll be doing so as a woefully under-informed US tourist later this week, so I'm under no illusion I'll be able to see as deeply into the island's infrastructure as I'd like or be creased as deeply as I'd prefer the Cuban wrinkle to go. But as much as this Yanqui is eligible to absorb -- socially, culturally, and spiritually -- is as much as I hope my heart can handle.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Cuban-socialism-under-Fidel-Castro.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8522" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Cuban-socialism-under-Fidel-Castro.jpg" alt="Cuban socialism under Fidel Castro" width="319" height="217" /></a>Cuban socialism under Fidel Castro, combined with the pervasive influence of American organized crime and corporate meddling before the Revolution, has generated a mythology I find irresistible. I hope to find I'm both right and wrong about things, and I certainly expect to discover new things and be wholly consumed. I look forward to being corrected and humbled. I can't wait to dance. I'm going to take pictures of everything I see. For 53 years the Cuban people have endured vilification, isolation, misinterpretation, and repression, but also transformation, tradition, and romanticized social preoccupations like music and baseball in the face of <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Havana-Boat_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8519" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Havana-Boat_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Havana Boat_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="282" height="188" /></a>State-imposed electrical outages and food scarcity. I plan to bring thank you gifts for my hosts, in whose homes I'll stay. A friend with family there urged me to make sure I include some coffee, specifically espresso. "Oh, they <em>have</em> coffee there," she explained, "but it's rationed." So I look forward to having my expectations adjusted, as badly as if any further growth in my life would be ruled out otherwise. More to come... . &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <h3></h3> &nbsp; &nbsp; 8514 2015-05-27 02:40:56 2015-05-27 09:40:56 2015-06-18 09:36:12 2015-06-18 16:36:12 closed open no-excuses-for-cuba publish 0 0 post 0 baseball Cuba Culture Excuses Fidel Castro mythology organized crime revolution socialism tourist yanqui _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw cuba _yoast_wpseo_title NO EXCUSES FOR CUBA - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Cuba before the stampede: As much as this American is eligible to absorb; socially, culturally, and spiritually, is as much as I hope my heart can handle. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 84 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:19;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1702349372;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8525;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1125;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6908;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/no-excuses-for-cuba-pt-2/ Fri, 12 Jun 2015 15:52:51 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=8525 <h3><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Habana-Centro_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die5.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8529" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Habana-Centro_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die5.jpg" alt="Habana Centro_Where Excuses Go to Die5" width="344" height="260" /></a>I may have returned from Cuba a more informed tourist, but I remain a clumsy narrator, for I've experienced more than I know how to process at once.</span></h3> So, with my eye ever on excuses (and a reliance on my iPhone camera for more complete coverage), I’ll just jump right in. Our <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_particular" target="_blank">casa particular</a></em> was in Habana Centro, the most densely populated district in the city of Havana, where much of life is spent where the action is: right outside the building in which one lives. Street sports like handball, self-regulating pet and child care, gossip, singing merchants, colorful laundry <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Habana-Centro_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die3.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8536" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Habana-Centro_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die3.jpg" alt="Habana Centro_Where Excuses Go to Die3" width="198" height="250" /></a>being pinned to decaying balconies, inventive refuse repurposing, prostitution, championship dominoes, and, of course, more vintage Chevy tweaking than outside a Barrett-<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Revolutionary-Square_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8588" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Revolutionary-Square_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Revolutionary Square_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="213" height="170" /></a>Jackson auction are daily occurrences, rain or shine. Drivers use their horns in polite little taps to warn pedestrians, slower cars, and ubiquitous bicycle taxis that they’re approaching from behind, because walking in the middle of the narrow streets is necessary – and not because the city lacks sidewalks. <em>This</em> is about Darwinian natural selection: misshapen rebar barely clinging to crumbles of concrete isn’t just a photo op, it’s a reminder that falling chunks of rotting rooftops are common, especially following an afternoon downpour. Our local host was explaining this to my wife when a basketball sized slab of wall proved his point a few feet away. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Habana-Centro_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-8580" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Habana-Centro_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die1.jpg" alt="Habana Centro_Where Excuses Go to Die1" width="543" height="167" /></a> <!--more--> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gkszkUu-ASA" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> A curious observation was noting, after about three or four days, that I hadn't seen a single feral dog or cat fight. The dogs, which often travel in packs, weren't remotely aggressive toward the house pets sitting in doorways, alone or with their owners. The passivity and intermingling between residents and stray animals <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Habana-Centro_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die7-e1434225107213.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8531" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Habana-Centro_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die7-e1434225107213.jpg" alt="Strays in Viñales_Where Excuses Go to Die7" width="151" height="137" /></a>seemed almost magical. Random bow-wow behavior and righteous open-air bowel movements were <i>less</i> enchanting, so I'm not talkin' peting zoo here, but if you watch where you step, you'll start to suspect dog walkers back home are useless con artists. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Habana-Centro_Live-wire-with-empty-water-bottle-capping-exposed-copper_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8574" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Habana-Centro_Live-wire-with-empty-water-bottle-capping-exposed-copper_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-196x300.jpg" alt="Habana Centro_Live wire with empty water bottle capping exposed copper_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="105" height="161" /></a>Thin-skinned, protective stroller-pushers and dad-bods beware: If you're afraid hard-luck Havana may eat your hypertrophied children alive, I recommend sticking with the Sandals® resort one island over. (Live wires capped with empty water bottles anyone?) That, or send your kids to Cuba with a trusted guardian, as you'll just meddle with their learning curve and screw up a great thing. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Habana-Centro_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die2.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8537" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Habana-Centro_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die2.jpg" alt="Habana Centro_Where Excuses Go to Die2" width="214" height="152" /></a>Easily 90% of the Cubans we encountered were gracious, generous, patient, and curious – especially when they learned we were from California or<em> Estados Unidos</em>. To add that they were friendly and cheerful isn't necessary because those traits are standard-issue among the modest, but it’s still a bit surprising when you consider the steady state diet of anti-imperialism Cubans have been fed. Personal accountability and a glaring absence of excuses were as regular –and as notable– as the giant cracks of thunder and the billowing clouds above. <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/F3n3S-u3AkA" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Sandwich-Shop-Employee_Habana-Centro_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8538" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Sandwich-Shop-Employee_Habana-Centro_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Sandwich Shop Employee_Habana Centro_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="99" height="145" /></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Granma-Seller_Habana-Centro_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die10.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8539" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Granma-Seller_Habana-Centro_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die10.jpg" alt="Granma Seller_Habana Centro_Where Excuses Go to Die10" width="99" height="135" /></a>My biggest takeaway is embarrassment for the many resources we privileged Westerners have –and waste– mixed with gratitude for having witnessed one example after the next of life lived in the moment. Here on the continent, we pay money to see what presence of mind feels like: we sign up for yoga classes, buy motivational posters, take pre-packaged adventure vacations, subscribe to detoxes and cleanses, and lease new luxury vehicles annually because we believe we “deserve” a win. We apply bumper stickers urging us to randomly assert our interpretation of kindness on strangers, and we consider Burning Man a worthy pilgrimage. So take all of that away: take away the “values” provided to us by giant merchants of lethargy, and replace it with, well, <em>nothing</em>. What do you get? <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/The-Havana-Big-Pizza-Lady_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die20.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8548" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/The-Havana-Big-Pizza-Lady_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die20.jpg" alt="The Havana Big Pizza Lady_Where Excuses Go to Die20" width="105" height="127" /></a>It took me a day or two to recognize it. You get free-range self-esteem. You get to know your neighbors. Unless they're drunk and rambling, your eyes don't glaze over when the conversation turns to them and their lives, because they’re not telling you about their latest acquisition or grudge; they actually have something interesting or useful to share. You get unbridled enthusiasm for a game of soccer played with a rock, and you get the sense that people are secure in nothing save for who they are. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Calle-Virtudes_Centro-Havana_Where-Exuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8585" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Calle-Virtudes_Centro-Havana_Where-Exuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Calle Virtudes_Centro Havana_Where Exuses Go to Die" width="104" height="134" /></a>Too many Americans I know would view life in Habana Centro with utter terror. A truly jaw-dropping case in point would have to be a United States person who e-mailed the ex-pat New Yorker to say that she refuses to visit Cuba because she'd been told that African FGM is practiced on the island. But visiting Cuba and laughing at the woefully and willingly uninformed did not leave me with a sense of superiority; rather it left me with a sense of addition to my soul.<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Habana-Mercado_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die14.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8542" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Habana-Mercado_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die14.jpg" alt="Habana Mercado_Where Excuses Go to Die14" width="106" height="153" /></a> Don't get me wrong: pizza shops are popular in Havana because pizza is quick and cheap, so in the end, Walmart et al. just might do well there. And cell phones abound in the hands of young people, who may, like us, go hog wild <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Cuba" target="_blank">if given the chance</a>. For now, though, you don't see people walking around consumed by life on a tiny screen, measuring their emotional worth by comparisons to others on Facebook. Cubans no longer eat rats and cats, as many did in the darkest days of the 1990s when the US embargo was <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/My-Favorite-Storefront-Walkway-in-Havana_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8567" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/My-Favorite-Storefront-Walkway-in-Havana_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="My Favorite Storefront Walkway in Havana_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="149" height="199" /></a>strengthened by the collapse of the Soviet Union (80% of the island's imports vanished), but they are still subject to ration cards. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Habana-Centro_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die15.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8543" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Habana-Centro_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die15.jpg" alt="Habana Centro_Where Excuses Go to Die15" width="125" height="168" /></a>They stand in line on a daily basis for bread, rice, coffee, and other basics. When something gets thrown away in Cuba, it has lived far more lives than its manufacturer intended: <em>everything</em> is recycled, repaired, and renewed in one way or another. Garbage offends houseflies for its lack of substance. Once commanding department stores modeled after those in America in the 1940s and '50s are limited to staples like soap and shoes, which leaves a lot of empty floor space. <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/v7u9-4QSDR0" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Habana-Centro_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die19.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8547" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Habana-Centro_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die19.jpg" alt="Habana Centro_Where Excuses Go to Die19" width="130" height="173" /></a>You don't need to know much about Cuba to know that survival often means utilizing a ghost economy, what most of us movie-lovers would refer to as a black market. For instance, we were given a better exchange rate from a transaction that took place in a bedroom at the back of a dilapidated tenement than we would have received at a bank, though the numerous corridors and staircases made it feel like a drug deal where you hold your tongue as tightly as your cash. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Habana-Centro_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die17.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8544" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Habana-Centro_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die17.jpg" alt="Habana Centro_Where Excuses Go to Die17" width="138" height="185" /></a>Stepping into the young entrepreneur’s home one at a time, we traded $1000 for roughly 930 Cuban Convertible Pesos (CUC), and in one instance we purchased a brand-new stack of bills still sealed in their official banknote vault sleeves. Turns out this was all quite routine, as we'd go on to conduct several similar transactions, like purchasing Cohiba cigars from the son of a woman who worked in the factory to avoid the state’s markup. In fact, it took less than an hour on the ground to know we'd much rather our new friends have our dollars than out-in-the-open retailers – particularly foreign-affiliated ones. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Cementerio-de-Cristóbal-Colón-Havana.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8546" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Cementerio-de-Cristóbal-Colón-Havana.jpg" alt="Cementerio de Cristóbal Colón Havana" width="118" height="182" /></a>"Esto es Cuba," we often heard with a shrug, as survival tactics and tolerances under <em>socialismo</em> were revealed to us. But survival in today’s Cuba is hardly limited to enterprising youngsters. Irma, our assigned tour guide at the Cementerio Cristóbal Colón, is a university mathematics professor moonlighting where she can to make a decent living. Taxi drivers often earn more than cardiologists – an unintended consequence of the Revolution’s complex socio-economic fingerprint. The lack of excuses from people with such a perceptible right to make them made my own seem that much louder and less supportable. <p style="text-align: justify;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HHFYOmU5Gig" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Painting-Man-near-Casa-Ricci_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die30.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8550" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Painting-Man-near-Casa-Ricci_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die30.jpg" alt="Painting Man near Casa Ricci_Where Excuses Go to Die30" width="281" height="120" /></a>Visiting from a world crowded with crybabies bitching about not <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Centro-Havana_If-You-Lived-here-Youd-be-Home-by-Now_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die31.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8552" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Centro-Havana_If-You-Lived-here-Youd-be-Home-by-Now_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die31.jpg" alt="Centro Havana_If You Lived here You'd be Home by Now_Where Excuses Go to Die31" width="146" height="195" /></a>being recognized, I was transfixed for a solid hour one day by an older man painting away the afternoon. If he's lucky, he probably lives on about $24 a month, and with no evident delusions of applause or riches. I parked myself on a curb nearby to appreciate his need for self expression and (for me) the irony of his isolation behind security bars.</p> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Viñales-Tobaco-Farm_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die35.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8560" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Viñales-Tobaco-Farm_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die35.jpg" alt="Viñales Tobaco Farm_Where Excuses Go to Die35" width="217" height="291" /></a>Out in the heartbreakingly gorgeous <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi%C3%B1ales_Valley" target="_blank">Viñales Valley</a>, being driven around the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaniguanico" target="_blank">Cordillera de Guaniguanico</a> by Alexi, a Cuban gear-head who loves his '54 Buick, I heard a lot about the many uses Cubanos have for different trees and plants. The info was practical: there are no carbon footprint points or social rewards for making absolute maximum use of the environment. That’s survival too, in its most common sense. And all of it, for this Americano, was as humbling and eye opening as it gets. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Malecón-Centro-Habana_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die34.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8554" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Malecón-Centro-Habana_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die34.jpg" alt="Malecón Centro Habana_Where Excuses Go to Die34" width="242" height="166" /></a>Cuba isn't a utopia by any stretch, but it’s one of the best places on earth, possibly even <em>the</em> best, for an eye-opening view of America's and Americans' place in the world. And I fear that the window on this distinctive viewpoint is closing quickly, so proceed accordingly. When you do, if you do, be prepared ditch your comfort zones, see your entitlements in a funhouse mirror, evolve, and make friends. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Best-Looking-Stray-in-Viñales-Cuba_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8569" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Best-Looking-Stray-in-Viñales-Cuba_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-225x300.jpg" alt="Best Looking Stray in Viñales Cuba_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="96" height="129" /></a>P.S. A lot has been written about Cuba, and I expect that the floodgates are about to open even further on that front as well. But for my book-buying dollar, there's no more immersed or devoted Anglo voice than that of <a href="http://www.connergorry.com/" target="_blank">Conner Gorry</a>, a freelance journalist/writer/bike polo enthusiast who covers all things Cuba and owns an English-language bookstore in Havana’s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedado" target="_blank">Vedado</a> district. <h5 class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;"> From Conner's blog, <a href="http://hereishavana.com/" target="_blank">Here is Havana</a>, on her washing machine:</h5> <h5 style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #808080;">"It’s terrifically hard work keeping a Cuban household running (forget about smoothly); as you may imagine, laundry is a sticky bitch in the equation.</span></h5> <h5 style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #808080;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Baño-Bookshelf-in-Conner-Gorrys-Havana-bookstore-Cuba-Libro_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8591" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Baño-Bookshelf-in-Conner-Gorrys-Havana-bookstore-Cuba-Libro_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Baño Bookshelf in Conner Gorry's Havana bookstore Cuba Libro_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="165" height="85" /></a>Ah! To wash sheets at the touch of a button! To have jeans nearly extracted dry! I loved that machine even after it developed a high-pitched squeal like a Christmas pig having its throat cut. It was so loud and piercing, callers often asked: ‘what’s that sound in the background? Are you keeping pigs?!’ ‘No, just the rinse cycle.’"</span></h5> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;">What a happy coincidence to have been navigating the city, singing the praises of an app called <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/havana-good-time/id385663683?mt=8" target="_blank">Havana Good Time</a>, only to find its creator (Gorry) swinging in a hammock next door to a place where you can get a tasty and filling little pizza for about 50 cents…</p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px;">Finally...</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Viñales-Cuba_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die33.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-8553" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Viñales-Cuba_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die33.jpg" alt="Viñales Cuba_Where Excuses Go to Die33" width="637" height="358" /></a></p> <p class="p1">If there's any physical location on earth left where the song lyrics of Joe Strummer and Mick Jones are as applicable and relevant as the day they were written, it's Cuba. Listening to the Clash as I walked around Havana bought back Strummer's voice and the sociopolitical vibes of 1981 with such lucidity that I can, at long last, distance myself from the nostalgic aggrandizing of punk rock. For me, the planets will never align like that again. I no longer need remember "to kick it over."</p> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GAM7dnEcptg" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> <p class="p1">.</p> &nbsp; So take all of that away: take away the “values” provided to us by giant merchants of lethargy, and replace it with, well, nothing. What do you get? It took me a day or two to recognize it. You get free-range self-esteem. 8525 2015-06-12 08:52:51 2015-06-12 15:52:51 2015-10-27 12:42:57 2015-10-27 19:42:57 closed open no-excuses-for-cuba-pt-2 publish 0 0 post 0 Americans anti-imperialism Barrett-Jackson black market Buick Chevy Cohiba Conner Gorry Cuba Culture Darwin embargo environment Excuses Facebook gear-head Havana iPhone pizza recycled revolution Sandals socialism Soviet Union Vedado Vinales vintage Walmart _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw cuba _yoast_wpseo_title NO EXCUSES FOR CUBA Pt. 2 - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc When something gets thrown out in Cuba, it's had far more lives than its maker intended: one way or another, everything is recycled, repaired, and renewed. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 87 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:19;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1682025655;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6908;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8514;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1125;}}}} http://working-copy.local/cowardice/the-foolproof-confederate-flag/ Wed, 24 Jun 2015 17:16:28 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=8614 <h2 class="p2"><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/THE-CONFEDERATE-FLAG-IS-A-STRAIGHTJACKET_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8624" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/THE-CONFEDERATE-FLAG-IS-A-STRAIGHTJACKET_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="THE CONFEDERATE FLAG IS A STRAIGHTJACKET_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="510" height="285" /></a>The "Heritage not Hate" defense is dead. No more cautiously tolerated rationalizations.   </span> <span style="color: #000000;">No more excuses.</span></h2> <p class="p2">Nine people gave their lives so the Confederate flag could finally be rendered foolproof -- 'cause now even fools have a chance to drop its baggage and let it go.</p> <p class="p2">To people who pretend the Confederate flag is a symbol of freedom from government: let it go. To those who lament the slow bulldozing of Southern pride: read the writing on the 150-year-old wall and let it go. To anyone who claims the Confederate flag is not representative of racism: let it go. To people who say the Civil War was ages ago, Charleston church gunman Dylan Roof was last week: let it go. To cultural identifiers proud of Dixie, resistant to change and mad as hell: let it go. To Southerners who blame haters for turning people against their colors: give us a break and let it go.</p> <!--more--> <p class="p2">The Confederate flag is far more aligned in the national consciousness with hatred and murder than the Southern exceptionalism its champions insist it deserves, and now even misguided believers have a chance to let it go.</p> <p class="p2"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/I-SPIT-ON-YOUR-GRAVE__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8626" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/I-SPIT-ON-YOUR-GRAVE__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE__Where Excuses Go to Die" width="338" height="195" /></a>Some won't, of course, but they'll stick out like sore thumbs before they grow weary of being written off as subhuman. Holdouts will hang on and wither on the vine of hatred, leaving only monsters to defend it. And monsters can hide only in monstrous conditions.</p> <p class="p2"><em>Americans</em> are tired of the martyrdom claimed by crybabies who bemoan how much has been taken from them: (white) family values, the narrowest possible definition of marriage, sports team caricatures, jobs, First-world English, double standards, the ability to stereotype, etc. And it's encouraging to see those who defend the Confederate flag rapidly being replaced with wave after wave of better-informed youth. There will always be idiots, but suddenly the job of Confederate apologist just went <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/YOU-LOSE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8627" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/YOU-LOSE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="YOU LOSE_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="212" height="213" /></a>from difficult to dastardly.</p> <p class="p2">Distortions and pathology are the products of what was long ago made of the Confederate flag, colors stitched together with the least productive of American ideals.</p> <p class="p2">To anyone who has ever argued on behalf of that flag, its place in modern America, or in history, I say:</p> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>The Confederate flag is a straightjacket.</strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong> Let it go.</strong></span> &nbsp; &nbsp; 8614 2015-06-24 10:16:28 2015-06-24 17:16:28 2015-06-24 10:16:28 2015-06-24 17:16:28 closed open the-foolproof-confederate-flag publish 0 0 post 0 American Charleston Civil War Confederate flag Cowardice Culture Dixie Dylan Roof freedom hate racism Southern exceptionalism Southerners _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw confederate flag _yoast_wpseo_title The Foolproof Confederate Flag - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Nine people gave their lives so the Confederate flag could finally be rendered foolproof -- now even fools have a chance to drop its baggage and let it go. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 92 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:45;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1686724649;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9474;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1326;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8684;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9190;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:312;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9557;}}}} http://working-copy.local/prison-2/trump-to-produce-prison-tv/ Sun, 05 Jul 2015 18:14:36 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=8634 <h2 class="p1" style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/YOURE-ISOLATED_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8657" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/YOURE-ISOLATED_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="YOU'RE ISOLATED_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="388" height="261" /></a>C'mon, don't tell me Trump couldn't sell "Naked and Afraid: Lockdown" or "Teardrops 'n Tuckjobs."</span></h2> <p class="p1">The first of Donald Trump's programs<em> this</em> convicted felon would DVR is the inevitable cell house chef show, which would feature some of my personal favorites like <em>Brodo Libero Linguine </em><em>with Cilantro and Walnut Sweepings</em> (a.k.a. Top Ramen drained of its powdery broth-water and sprinkled with "green," plus a bag of Corn Nuts). Ooh, then there's <em>Dill-infused Retired Sashimi </em>and<em> Chocolat Petits Fours</em> (canned tuna on toothpicks with yesterday's pickle slices, and the other half of that 3 Musketeers bar). Many inmates pride themselves on concocting this fine "corridor cuisine," especially long-termer foodies who use bunk-side braising and contraband meats to keep themselves from making a suicide dash for the electric fence.</p> <p class="p1"><em>Iron Chef: Shackles &amp; Shortbread</em>. Trump could make millions exploiting this untapped goldmine.</p> And who better? Riding a widening <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/02/politics/donald-trump-republicans-latinos/index.html" target="_blank">blast radius</a> from publicly acknowledging the existence of a few good Mexicans among the Satanic death horde of sodomites and cartel assassins, Donald Trump has again demonstrated just how disconnected he is from the current national dialogue on criminal justice reform. Explaining to the Chicago Tribune's editorial board <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-donald-trump-chicago-met-20150629-story.html" target="_blank">what he'd do about</a> that city's street crime, he led off with, "You're not going to stop it by being nice." Hence The Donald's strategy of praising lockdown absolutism and shortsightedness despite the successful passage of sentencing reform in 35 states. <p class="p1">Because prison reform appeals to fiscal conservatives as much as social cause lefties, alternatives to "more prison" are on the table everywhere front-line custody personnel collect a paycheck. Across the country, Americans are finding value in redirecting criminal offenders rather than recycling them.<!--more--></p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/ARIZONA-FURANCE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8654" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/ARIZONA-FURANCE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="ARIZONA FURANCE_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="277" height="236" /></a>Yet Trump isn't a lone holdout. Arizona's corrections budget has increased 40% in <a href="http://azdailysun.com/news/local/as-other-states-seek-prison-alternatives-arizona-stays-tough-on/article_91bdc0b7-828d-50ce-b9cf-157fbb886b3d.html" target="_blank">the last seven years</a>, currently standing at $1 billion. In Arizona, 589 per every 100,000 residents are behind bars, not because the state is a thug-life battlefront, because it steadfastly clings to the idea that we can incarcerate our way out of crime. Never mind that the concept has been revealed in California to be a game of <a href="http://working-copy.local/prison-2/ccpoa-opposition/" target="_blank">three card monte</a>. (In fact, California is <a href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/colonel-kelso-heads-up-the-river/" target="_blank">patient zero</a> in the public safety plague of <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2013/sep/09/local/la-me-pc-california-prison-deadline-scramble-20130909" target="_blank">prison overcrowding</a>.)</p> <p class="p1" style="text-align: left;">It's possible that Donald Trump exists simply to sound off at press conferences and wherever else he sees opportunities to throw fish to panicky, wall-eyed sea lions. No one should confuse such appearances with an offer of viable crime-busting strategies or prisoner reentry solutions. The cartoon blowhard <em>definitely</em> has no business in presidential politics.</p> <p class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/CORRECTING-CORRECT_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8655" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/CORRECTING-CORRECT_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="CORRECTING CORRECT_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="142" height="164" /></a>Besides, I think Trump would sooner cash in on alarmism than offer programing that could make a difference: it's the savvier business call if all you care about is money. Long before depicting those in custody as capable of earning a second chance, he'd bring us prime time contestant shows like <em>Bloodsport in B-block</em>, <em>Prison Chef Showdown</em>, and a new, extreme bodybuilding competition called <em>American History Flex</em>. Why not? Arizona would no doubt oblige in casting the shows. After all, <a href="http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/09/27/americas-toughest-sheriff-takes-meat-off-jail-menu/" target="_blank">humiliation's just another tool</a> for warning folks not to (re)offend, right? If any supplier of warm bodies could sell that to taxpayers, it's <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tent-city-jail-where-prisoners-wear-pink-and-swelter-in-120-degree-heat/article/2546924" target="_blank">Arizona</a>.</p> <p class="p1" style="text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;">The possibilities are endless... <em>So You Think You Can Apologize?</em> <em> Wife Swap: Conjugal Visit</em> <em> Dancing Behind Bars</em></p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Hey-Fool-You-Fired-Fool_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8653" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Hey-Fool-You-Fired-Fool_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Hey Fool You Fired Fool_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="478" height="294" /></a><em>Bloodsport in B-block</em> would be an obvious sell: yard ape vs. yard ape in a leader board Battle Royale, just like the pudding-filled Van Damme movie franchise. (Also, <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2000/apr/12/news/mn-18579" target="_blank">it's nothing new</a>.) And Donald Trump could be sure to substantiate his views about Mexicans by having those taco-eaters represent the most savage and rapey of contestants. Every reality-style show needs a villain.</p> <p class="p1">How about <em>Gangbanger ThunderDome</em>? Two cartels enter, one cartel leaves. Or <em>Shotcaller SmackDown</em>? "Los Jefes Terribles" from Sacramento face off with "Las Pistolas of the Southside." Oh, audiences need comic guilt-relief, you say? Then who better than 5'1" Nicaraguan and Guatemalan men serving 85% of their Arizona state prison sentences for dragging an ATM behind a Nissan in a gladiator <em>Noche Súper Lucha</em>?</p> <p class="p1">Just think of the design shows. <em>House Beautiful</em> could spin off <em>Big House Beautiful</em>.</p> <p class="p1"><em>Million Dollar Decorators</em> could launch <em>Spider Says You're Movin', Fool!</em></p> Everyone wants to know how lifers freshen up the place after 17 years, but with creeping vines and Levolor blinds being a big surveillance no-no, how do you pull it off? Well I'm sorry HGTV, that smells like a Trump-style competition to me. Wardens are gonna need to be bribed and a few rules "overlooked," and while it's not likely <a href="http://www.homedepot.com/p/DEWALT-12-Amp-Reciprocating-Saw-DWE305/205580808?N=5yc1vZc2h7" target="_blank">Sawzall </a>will get the go-ahead for product placement, surely a few new place settings, lighting options, and custom shelving could be arranged. Drills and hammers aren't <em>that</em> dangerous, and anyway they'll lend that "edgy" feel to the show. The panel of judges could include celebrity jailbirds and prizes could be things like visits from Hannibal Lecter lookalikes (or should we save those for the cooking shows?). <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Trading-Spaces-While-You-Were-Out_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8659" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Trading-Spaces-While-You-Were-Out_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Trading Spaces While You Were Out_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="139" height="105" /></a>An elderly black dude we fellas knew at Folsom, probably 70 years-old, painted his cell walls and ceiling flat-black. He used a glue gun to affix broken pieces of mirror to everything, and the result was scary, <em>really</em> scary. It was the most psychotic personalization I'd seen up to that point, but no one could walk by without looking in. The badges loved the guy and let him get away with it: he certainly would've won <em>that</em> episode.</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;">And there're so many more options... <em>The Real Housewives of San Quentin</em> <em> How I Met Your Mother's Parole Officer</em> <em> The Amazing Race Riot</em> <em> America's Next Top Jail Lawyer</em></p> And as for the LGBT crowd? Sure there's the offensive and discriminatory potential of maximizing gender-variant awkwardness for profit, but in Trump-world there's only serving<em> up</em>, not serving, and Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner has made this a red meat hot topic. Greenlight! Plus it's a shoe-in for one of Trump's beauty contests. How 'bout <em>The Belle of the Cell</em>, or <em>The Swan: Solitary Edition</em>? <em>Ty Pennington's Teardrops 'n Tuckjobs</em>? <em>The Vishnu of State Issue</em> – anyone? <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Varicose-Vein-Treatment-in-Prison_Girl-do-not-get-me-started.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8663" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Varicose-Vein-Treatment-in-Prison_Girl-do-not-get-me-started.jpg" alt="Varicose Vein Treatment in Prison_Girl do not get me started" width="317" height="175" /></a>Of course the show's producers would need to include a healthy and repetitive dose of "beauty is in the eye of the beholder," especially if the beholder is doing 25 to life. Problem is, some of the best looking inmates facing gender issues behind bars are some of the ugliest <em>men</em> I've ever seen, and there would be no tiptoeing around others agreeing. So how 'bout a makeover show instead, where "displeasing is teasing" and "ugly is snuggly"? But as Trump made clear, you don't cure crime by "being nice": so let's watch The Donald guide a transgender inmate through the colorful rainbow of tolerance, acceptance, and beauty tips <em>his</em> way. Greenlight! Oh wait, that isn't new either, and when something similar was recently attempted it, uh, <a href="http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2015/04/27/op-ed-drag-races-prison-themed-challenge-raised-uncomfortable-question" target="_blank">failed to catch on</a>. In closing, there's no excuse for Donald Trump's babble about how this country should work, or his comments on crime or criminal justice reform. We need his view of corrections like we need more Kardashians. Some of the loudest laughing I did in prison is described in<em> Where Excuses Go to Die</em>, in a chapter called "I Played Prison Football and Lived to Write This." Watching a bunch of bad ass convicts argue over, then agree to let a transgender inmate umpire their game was great. This was one official who took <em>no</em> backtalk and she knew exactly what she was doing (I could tell, my dad's an adult league baseball umpire). In terms of how the public has been trained to view inmates so narrowly, this incident is what I come to call "a prison bitch by <a href="http://working-copy.local/culture/a-prison-bitch-by-another-name/" target="_blank">another name</a> – when someone at what most of us perceive to be "the bottom" defies our assumptions and surprises everyone. Give me <em>that</em> prison television show. <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>We'll call it, <em>Get Character or Become One</em>.</strong></span> &nbsp; &nbsp; . 8634 2015-07-05 11:14:36 2015-07-05 18:14:36 2016-03-03 11:00:37 2016-03-03 18:00:37 closed open trump-to-produce-prison-tv publish 0 0 post 0 America Arizona ATM beauty contest Bruce Jenner Caitlyn Jenner California Celebrity chef show corn nuts Donald Trump Hannibal Lecter HGTV Kardashians LGBT lockdown makeover Mexicans NBC Nissan overcrowding prime time Prison prison prison bitch reform Sawzall smackdown Top Ramen Tribune Trump TV Ty Pennington Where Excuses Go to Die _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw Trump _yoast_wpseo_title Trump to Produce Prison TV? - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Of course Trump wouldn't serve the public by reintroducing Americans to real people eager to earn a second chance –– because Bloodsport in B-block ya'll! _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 96 _wpas_done_all 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw_text_input Trump _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:7;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704665328;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3448;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9010;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1568;}}}} http://working-copy.local/incarceration-nation/obamas-prison-visit/ Fri, 17 Jul 2015 21:53:10 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=8684 <h3><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/THERE-BUT-FOR-THE-GRACE-OF-GOD-GOES-THE-PRESIDENT_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8700" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/THERE-BUT-FOR-THE-GRACE-OF-GOD-GOES-THE-PRESIDENT_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD GOES THE PRESIDENT_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="383" height="214" /></a></strong><strong>Never mind that President Obama’s prison visit was a public relations handshake event on par with a disaster relief stop by: I'll take it. </strong></span></h3> <span style="color: #000000;">The man did, after all, pull off a first-ever presidential prison tour without a GOP push-back accusing him of somehow assisting Mexican druglord 'El Chapo' Guzman's recent escape. With adversaries like Obama's, it's a downright miracle he hasn't been vilified for cozying up to his convict martyr buddies.</span><!--more--> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/These-modules-are-Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8702" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/These-modules-are-Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="These modules are Where Excuses Go to Die" width="377" height="251" /></a>Still, I think my own California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation inmate ID number (E-80604) qualifies me to wish for more, and I do wish Obama had visited an actual visiting <em>booth</em>. You know, the one with the glass, the short-cord handsets, and the steel stool: it would have been encouraging to see the politician conduct his inmate interview for the upcoming VICE HBO special from one, thereby aligning himself with the needs of the families who support those at the center of his current presidential focus on "second chances."</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/RIOT-BABY-TAKEDOWN_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7701" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/RIOT-BABY-TAKEDOWN_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="RIOT BABY TAKEDOWN_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="213" height="191" /></a>In California, for an unsurprising example, ever more <a href="http://capitolweekly.net/prisons-beard-visitors-families-draconian-measures/" target="_blank">restrictive visiting policies</a> alleged to stop the flow of drugs into facilities are making things tougher on family members, yet the very possibility of successful reentry rests largely on inmates maintaining positive contact with the outside world. <em>And</em> there are few results to speak of for all the money that's spent on security contractors, scanning technology, man-hours of custody training on strip searching mothers pushing baby strollers, and even German shepherds walking visitor entrance lines. I could go on, or I could just link to <a href="http://working-copy.local/prison-2/prison-visitor-hardball/" target="_blank">my own take</a> on the topic and move on to why Obama's prison visit, while imperfect, is a very good thing.</p> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Chicks-dont-hatch–they-parole_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8711" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Chicks-dont-hatch–they-parole_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Chicks don't hatch–they parole_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="204" height="137" /></a>You see, the more we joke about, complain about, or even argue the merits of a presidential prison reform publicity play, the more we're <em>talking</em> about incarceration and the incarcerated in ways we haven't before. And that's precisely my mission: getting people to understand the humor, heart, and humanity I found behind bars is how I use my prison number in the civilian world. So while I would've been bowled over had it gone down in a more hard-boiled facility like Folsom, Quentin, or Clinton (that number also has me handcuffed to higher standards), I applaud the President's historic (if slightly dorky) correctional institution visit. [caption id="attachment_8712" align="alignleft" width="134"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Americans-can-choose-to-either-educate-and-redirect-inmates-or-continue-to-pay-69-billion-a-year-to-maintain-its-prisons-and-recycle-offenders.jpg"><img class="wp-image-8712" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Americans-can-choose-to-either-educate-and-redirect-inmates-or-continue-to-pay-69-billion-a-year-to-maintain-its-prisons-and-recycle-offenders.jpg" alt="Educate and redirect inmates or continue to recycle offenders_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="134" height="170" /></a> America can choose to either educate and redirect inmates or continue to pay $69 billion a year to maintain its prisons and recycle offenders.[/caption] <p class="p1"><a href="http://www.bop.gov/locations/institutions/ere/" target="_blank">El Reno</a> is a fine beginning. If indeed, per a White House spokesperson, “the President believes that, at its heart, America is a nation of second chances, and the reentry programs and drug abuse programs housed at El Reno are vital to ensuring that inmates have a second chance to give back to the country they love,” I'm okay with using that wedge to pry open this door a little more. The more the public can see through that crack, the closer we'll get to policies that aim to redirect, not just recycle, juvenile and adult offenders. The more attention that's paid to what can <em>truly</em> reform our criminal justice system, the more taxpayers will understand how blindly and vengefully their money has been hijacked and maladministered over the years. And the more they'll force fiscal discipline and change.</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/The-New-Orange-Turned-Black.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8714" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/The-New-Orange-Turned-Black-300x283.jpg" alt="The New Orange Turned Black" width="109" height="103" /></a>Popular as it may be, <em><a href="http://www.salon.com/2015/07/11/dont_believe_the_orange_is_the_new_black_hype_how_the_netflix_series_misrepresents_life_behind_bars/" target="_blank">Orange Is the New Black</a></em> does little to broaden the public's ability to recognize what life behind bars really looks like, and only by countering such kitschy pop cultural interpretations of prison life will people start to realize how little genuine human potential they have been allowed to see so far.</p> <p class="p1">Oh, and if you happen to be among the dwindling population of Americans who don't think criminal justice reform is needed, I have just one question. Whose behavior is more criminal, the 18-year-old who sells weed or the fully grown adults <a href="http://www.salon.com/2015/07/15/confederate_lives_matter_flag_wavers_to_greet_president_obama_in_oklahoma/" target="_blank">who greeted</a> a black US President outside of his Oklahoma hotel by waving Confederate flags?</p> . . <p class="p1"></p> 8684 2015-07-17 14:53:10 2015-07-17 21:53:10 2015-07-31 07:45:32 2015-07-31 14:45:32 closed open obamas-prison-visit publish 0 0 post 0 "El Chapo" Guzman California California Department of Corrections Clinton disaster relief druglord El Reno Folsom History incarceration Incarceration Nation Obama Orange Is the New Black presidential prison visit prison prisoners reentry Vice Where Excuses Go to Die _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw Obama’s prison visit _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Obama’s prison visit was a PR handshake event on par with a disaster relief drop in, but we'll take it, especially those of us with prison numbers. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 81 _yoast_wpseo_title Obama’s Prison Visit - Where Excuses Go to Die _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1691476099;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7708;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1568;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4755;}}}} http://working-copy.local/los-angeles-county-sheriff/apocalypse-hoosegow-9/ Fri, 07 Aug 2015 05:59:27 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=8731 <h3><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Apocalypse-Hoosegow__9__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8760" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Apocalypse-Hoosegow__9__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Apocalypse-Hoosegow__9__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die" width="297" height="240" /></a>A newly-appointed federal monitor will now oversee the Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail and the wider LA jail system. <em>Finally</em>, movie nights –and maybe even civil rights– are back.</span></h3> Changes are afoot, and prisoners housed at 441 Bauchet St., LA's notorious Men's Central Jail, may soon be eligible for social skill-strengthening activities and other privileges that have been forbidden since...who knows? 1965? The year after the facility opened? Well, decades, at least. And that makes me wonder: <ul> <li><em>Might</em> newly elected Sheriff Jim McDonnell do away with the Fight Club free-for-all day rooms, with their non-running water, <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/MCJ-3000-Floor-Day-Room_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpeg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8749" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/MCJ-3000-Floor-Day-Room_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpeg" alt="MCJ 3000 Floor Day Room_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="447" height="371" /></a>backed up toilets, and rodent infestations?</li> <li>Will rampant abuse and neglect in this, the nation’s "<a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/articles/2014/7/25/l-a-county-jail-psychiatricward.html" target="_blank">largest care-taking facility</a>" for the mentally ill, finally start to slow?</li> <li>Will the Sheriff's Deputies and civilian jailers stop tossing decks of cards through the bars as a substitute for rehabilitation?</li> <li>Or will those same individuals continue to celebrate excessive force and use it with enthusiastic prejudice?</li> <li>Will the screams of men being sexually assaulted at <a href="http://shq.lasdnews.net/pages/tgen1.aspx?id=mcf" target="_blank">MCJ</a> no longer stomp bootprints of bad memories into the heads of those fortunate enough to only be plugging their ears?</li> <li>Will Badges finally start assigning chores or handing out mops and brooms to inmates other than those willing do "torpedo runs" and other scheming favors?</li> <li>Will visitors to the facility at last see an end to beat downs while handcuffed to a bench?</li> </ul> <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/3000-floor-of-MCJ_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8751" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/3000-floor-of-MCJ_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="3000 floor of MCJ_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="331" height="220" /></a>Referred to through the years as "the dungeon," "the house" and, more recently, "the snake pit" to denote its outrageous levels of corruption, the interior  chambers of Men's Central Jail feel like an older parking structure, sports stadium, or just about any architectural relic initially constructed for County business. And as we've seen, most recently throughout the reign of Sheriff Lee Baca, its employees treat it like one, too. Of course that isn't entirely fair to the new guy: McDonnell has already begun implementing systemwide reforms and has led his department to look past the plague years of <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sheriff-corruption-scandal-20150514-story.html" target="_blank">movie-like cover-ups</a>, <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/20/local/la-me-sheriff-clique-20120420" target="_blank">rouge subgroups</a>, <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/mar/21/local/la-me-jail-closure-20120321" target="_blank">allegations of brutality</a>, <a href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/apocalypse-hoosegow-4-of-heroin-burritos-and-dings-at-l-a-s-mens-central-jail/" target="_blank">scandals</a>, <a href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/la-county-sheriffs-christmas-special/" target="_blank">indictments</a>, <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/news/plagued-by-scandal-sheriff-lee-baca-resigns-to-avoid-bruising-re-election-battle-4288262" target="_blank">resignations</a>, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/25/us-usa-california-sheriffs-idUSKBN0P501W20150625" target="_blank">convictions</a>, and <a href="http://www.policeone.com/legal/articles/6734383-LA-County-Sheriffs-legal-settlements-rise-to-43M/" target="_blank">settlements</a> within his ranks. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/MCJ-Opening-October-1963.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8752" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/MCJ-Opening-October-1963.jpg" alt="MCJ Opening October 1963" width="334" height="217" /></a>But this giant beast, this politically difficult, money wasting, corruption-cursed, constitutionally insufficient labyrinth of corridors has long ago proven that it won't go down without a fight, without a wrecking ball, and without chewing up and spitting out more than a few lives and careers. I <a href="http://working-copy.local/buy-the-book/" target="_blank">chronicled</a> the nine months I spent in the interconnecting cavities of that windowless building because I needed to know, at the time, that someone was making an effort to oppose the departmental secrecy that ruled the day at MCJ. And while it may be that those days are almost over, without an open dialogue on whether or not the building, which lacks all trace of natural lighting, should be torn down (let alone <a href="http://working-copy.local/prison-2/mall-mens-central-jail/" target="_blank">what to do with the County's property</a>), it feels like we've seen all this before. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Jim-McDonnell_Sheriff-of-Los-Angeles-County.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8753" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Jim-McDonnell_Sheriff-of-Los-Angeles-County.jpg" alt="Jim McDonnell_Sheriff of Los Angeles County" width="120" height="114" /></a>I am, however, hoping for the best. Jim McDonnell was elected on his promise of change, and he has indeed taken some small steps in that direction. So for the time being, Sheriff, I'll wish you good luck with your challenges and your new federal babysitter. Now if I could just shed this feeling that my Apocalypse Hoosegow series is far from over... <p style="padding-left: 30px; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"> <a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://working-copy.local/los-angeles-county-sheriff/l-a-county-jail-my-yelp-review/" target="_blank">See also: L.A. County Jail – My Yelp Review</a></span></strong></p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;">.</p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;">.</p> 8731 2015-08-06 22:59:27 2015-08-07 05:59:27 2015-08-08 14:04:55 2015-08-08 21:04:55 closed open apocalypse-hoosegow-9 publish 0 0 post 0 deputies Fight Club handcuff inmates jail Jim McDonnell LA County Lee Baca Los Angeles County Sheriff Men's Central Jail Men's Central Jail mentally ill reform Sheriff deputies _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw Men's Central Jail _yoast_wpseo_title Apocalypse Hoosegow 9 - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc The Apocalypse Hoosegow series is one former inmate's take on the investigatory timeline of the LA Men's Central Jail and the countdown to its deactivation. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 81 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:7;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1698977829;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9916;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11224;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2309;}}}} http://working-copy.local/comfort-zone-2/the-sucker-factor/ Tue, 25 Aug 2015 03:38:49 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=8772 <h3><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/For-every-credibility-gap-there-is-a-gullibility-gap__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8812" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/For-every-credibility-gap-there-is-a-gullibility-gap__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap__Where Excuses Go to Die" width="290" height="272" /></a>The sucker factor is off the charts: mass consumption has seen to it that we all have oral fixations in one form or another. So how do you excuse yours – or the ones you're aware of, anyway?</h3> Before we proceed, let's get it out there that I know as much about Freudian psychosexual development of "oral character" and behavioral science in general as I do about piloting commercial aircraft. But we seem to be naturally equipped with onboard behavioral science labs, where finger-pointers in our heads tell us who pays retail, who doesn't, who's most likely to be struck by a bus crossing the street, and who will probably marry a drummer, speak the truth, or become a pain in the ass. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Designer-Water-Bottle-Worship_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8845" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Designer-Water-Bottle-Worship_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Designer Water Bottle Worship_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="326" height="137" /></a>So while I may have no "official" business offering my theories of the internal and external forces shaping our personalities, I'll feel free to ask, what's your excuse? How many bottles that look like toy spaceships do <em>you</em> purchase, maintain, nurse from, neglect, or collect? Of the seemingly endless choices, how do you decide which ones are right for you? <ul> <li class="p1">Capacity?<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Absurdly-Pretentious-Horseshit__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8834" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Absurdly-Pretentious-Horseshit__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Absurdly Pretentious Horseshit__Where Excuses Go to Die" width="384" height="271" /></a></li> <li class="p1">Innovative appearance?</li> <li class="p1">Important looking millimeter measurements up the side?</li> <li class="p1">iPhone connectivity?</li> <li class="p1">Spill proof-ness?</li> <li class="p1">Polymer resin construction per NASA specifications?</li> <li class="p1">Easy grip?</li> <li class="p1">Percentage of sales profits donated to eco-friendly charities?</li> </ul> How about the thermosy thing that tracks all of the disposable plastic bottles you're <em>not</em> buying (a self-important do-gooder tug job if there ever was one)? My favorite is the one that opens and closes for you, in case you're too fatigued to do it yourself. The point is, many of these impulse buys can go for $90 and up. What's <em>your</em> limit? <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/DYNAMICS-OF-SLURPING_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8849" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/DYNAMICS-OF-SLURPING_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="DYNAMICS OF SLURPING_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="578" height="419" /></a>Well, I wish I could get <em>that</em> far, but truly crippling is my disgust at the way people slobber, suck on, and and slurp at their Snapples, sippy cups, and sodas. I just can't bring myself to put my lips on any of those things. Hell, I remove and replace my Starbucks lids with every tilt, because first, I find it insulting to merely moisten my mouth with coffee, plus they splatter and leak the minute you pull away. Move too quickly, or bump the thing, and you've got a geyser. You know those cameras that capture shockwaves of bullets and other high-speed objects? What if a person breast feeding coffee through one of those lids was filmed at a super high frame rate? How much slow motion coffee would we see flying all over the place, like watching a sneeze travel grotesque distances? <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SLURPING-DYNAMICS-AND-YOU__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8810" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/SLURPING-DYNAMICS-AND-YOU__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="SLURPING-DYNAMICS-AND-YOU__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die" width="138" height="133" /></a>Secondly, I shudder at the "leavings" and "legs" of coffee dribbling down the sides of people's cups. Friends have asked what my problem is, and I have no answer other than to say, "I can't drink through a squirt-hole." So yes, people, I'll risk being scalded while driving and swerving into a bus bench full of children before I let one of those lids French kiss me.<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Hi-tech-Sport-Nipple_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-e1440430287334.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8797" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Hi-tech-Sport-Nipple_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-e1440430287334.jpg" alt="Hi-tech Sport Nipple_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="82" height="106" /></a> I will <em>not</em> drink out of those water bottles with the plastic pull-nipples for the sole reason that I'm an adult and can't wrap my head around carrying a personal baby bottle. I grimace when I see someone mouthing a blue stopper-plug as if they were starving but had no teeth. And never mind the landfills, if you're patting yourself on the back for your BPA-free plastic, a recent study from the University of Texas showed that most bottles <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/health/turns-out-even-bpa-free-products-could-be-harmful-108101413002.html" target="_blank">still have chemicals</a> that, just like BPA, can bring on puberty, lower sperm counts, and cause other reproductive changes – not to mention cancer. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/This-one-actually-closes-itself-in-case-you-dont-feel-like-it__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8838" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/This-one-actually-closes-itself-in-case-you-dont-feel-like-it__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="This one actually closes itself in case you don't feel like it__Where Excuses Go to Die" width="96" height="160" /></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/DEAR-GOD-NO_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8839" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/DEAR-GOD-NO_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="DEAR GOD NO_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="203" height="138" /></a>I don't care if your bottle is stainless steel or resembles a $70,000 Audi. No matter how slick the design and no matter how many designs there are, they're all infantile. (Who knows? Perhaps my damage is from childhood memories of seeing young zoo animals throating gross white slop-goo through jumbo feeders.) Either way, there's no dignity here. And how many times have I gotten into a friend's car to find one of 'em rolling around on the back seat with the dog hair and the running shoes? Watching people fumble with these things while keeping hold of their luggage, man-bags, purses, cell phones, keys, sunglasses, work materials, groceries, yoga mats, accessory infants and Chihuahuas or cigarettes makes me grateful I don't need a comfort item to nurse throughout the day. But then I don't require an <a href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/2014-golden-excuse-emo-pets/" target="_blank">emo pet when I travel</a>, either. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/The-Inconvenient-Truth-Behind-Maladaptive-Oral-Craving-in-Consumers_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-8836" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/The-Inconvenient-Truth-Behind-Maladaptive-Oral-Craving-in-Consumers_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="The-Inconvenient-Truth-Behind-Maladaptive-Oral-Craving-in-Consumers_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die" width="790" height="140" /></a> But let's get back to the absurdly designed little openings through which you're forced to suckle. For me, the sounds of adult lips engaging and disengaging in a vacuum seal with one of these bottles is louder than any other sound in my immediate environment. My <a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/23/please-stop-making-that-noise/?_r=0" target="_blank">misophonia</a> guarantees that outdoor events, gyms, and shopping malls are veritable symphonies of gargling, dripping, sloshing, sponging, licking, lapping, and sucking. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/FIRST-WORLD-PROBLEM_ORAL-FIXATION-HOLOCAUST_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8807" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/FIRST-WORLD-PROBLEM_ORAL-FIXATION-HOLOCAUST_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="FIRST WORLD PROBLEM_ORAL FIXATION HOLOCAUST_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="298" height="221" /></a>I've asked my friends to explain their collection of bottles and tumblers. Is it out of laziness that they fail to replace them in a timely manner, thereby avoiding a showcase of the bacteria and decay they're willing to live with? They don't seem to have a problem with the germs these things collect, yet when I offered my brother a gift of one that I found at a Goodwill store he recoiled in horror. He wouldn't even touch it, so I kept shoving it at him, assuring him it was just like the one I saw under the seat of his Jeep; what was the problem? <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/HYDRATION-HUMAN-CENTIPEDE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8808" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/HYDRATION-HUMAN-CENTIPEDE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="HYDRATION HUMAN CENTIPEDE_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="193" height="184" /></a>Yes, we all feel better when we know the germs are our own, but it's more than that. From vape pipes and e-cigarettes to cigars, nail biting, pill-popping, gum chewing, and the plastic barrels of Dr Pepper we carry around as though they were newborns, and even to beer cans engineered to change color when cold (wonder what chemicals we're sucking up there...), mass culture has created a full blown Oral Industrial Complex. Billions of dollars are made each <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Buffoonish-and-Delusional-Indulgence_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8842" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Buffoonish-and-Delusional-Indulgence_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Buffoonish and Delusional Indulgence_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="205" height="111" /></a>year off chug-jugs and ancillary products designed specifically for us to tongue. Yeah-yeah, I'm way ahead of you, so maybe the fixation is my own. But some of my friends and family could benefit from seeing a picture of themselves wrangling their multiple containers. (And they definitely could get rid of the more revolting ones.)<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Sigmund-Freud_Scholar_Psychiatrist_Oral-Weirdo-Specialist_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8840" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Sigmund-Freud_Scholar_Psychiatrist_Oral-Weirdo-Specialist_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-.jpg" alt="Sigmund Freud_Scholar_Psychiatrist_Oral Weirdo Specialist_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="116" height="110" /></a> There's just no excuse for sounding like a gurgling medical instrument while you lap up a little extra bacteria in public. Isn't it bad enough that you're drinking from something probably manufactured next to a poison river in the Zhujiang Delta? Aware of it or not, we're stuck in an orally-fixated society mired in mouth merchandizing, and too many of us use our discretionary income to buy more <a href="http://www.mygomount.com/products/mygo-mouth-mount-for-gopro" target="_blank">things</a> on which to slobber. Sorry, is "slobber" too much? Then let's review that high-speed footage, because the more we learn about the world, the more chances we'll have to laugh in its face. . 8772 2015-08-24 20:38:49 2015-08-25 03:38:49 2015-10-27 12:42:35 2015-10-27 19:42:35 closed open the-sucker-factor publish 0 0 post 0 Audi behavioral science coffee Comfort Zone Culture Dr Pepper e-cigarette emo pet emotional support animal Freud germs Goodwill Jeep oral fixation sippy cup Snapple Starbucks vape water bottle yoga _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw oral fixations _yoast_wpseo_title The Sucker Factor - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Oral fixations: I won't drink through tempermental coffee lids or water bottles with pull-nipples. I just can't wrap my head around carrying things to nurse _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 76 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:19;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1703528388;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3301;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9105;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7334;}}}} http://working-copy.local/idiots/lets-talk-about-package-thieves/ Sat, 03 Oct 2015 19:51:24 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=8863 <h2><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/WHITE-TRASH-CHILD-LABOR__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-8886" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/WHITE-TRASH-CHILD-LABOR__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="WHITE TRASH CHILD LABOR__Where Excuses Go to Die" width="434" height="461" /></a></span></h2> <h3 class="p1"></h3> <h3 class="p2"><span style="color: #000000;">Abandoning skanky mattresses and furniture are hate crimes, and package thieves are cut from the same cloth. These rats need skewering.</span></h3> Few things get under my skin as much as abandoned, <a href="http://working-copy.local/cowardice/abandoning-old-furniture-is-a-hate-crime/" target="_blank">humped-on furniture</a>, but package thieves come pretty close. And, 'tis the season for these losers to come out of their pain med stupors long enough to use what semblance of societal normalcy they possess as a cloak for their cowardice. Like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=96&amp;v=IOiHO2mq5-E" target="_blank">this guy</a>, who literally takes his toddler out of its stroller to make the kid grab someone's package. But guess what, dummies? Here's where your excuses go to die, 'cause what the hell will you have to say for yourselves when you get caught?<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Most-package-thieves-are-young-and-at-least-somewhat-nimble_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8864" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Most-package-thieves-are-young-and-at-least-somewhat-nimble_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Most package thieves are young and at least somewhat nimble_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="361" height="248" /></a>Oh, I'm sure you'll start yammering to the arresting badges about having the "wrong house" or doing a "favor" for a friend. They've heard it all before, so to them you're the least interesting of their shift-ending paperwork. The ball points of their writing utensils will press down a little harder when they sign your incident report, however, because drug dealers who sell to sixth-graders are respectable by comparison. And since the average penalty for theft or possession of stolen mail is 3-5 years in prison and up to $25,000 in fines, I recommend <em>not</em> yammering your way through custody: chances are good that someone's mom had her holidays ruined by your caliber of caper. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/When-the-most-exercise-you-get-stealing-from-someone_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die1.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8887" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/When-the-most-exercise-you-get-stealing-from-someone_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die1.jpg" alt="When the most exercise you get stealing from someone_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="220" height="154" /></a>As for the rest of us, local news producers love doorstep Grinch footage, so in the coming months we can expect to think often, "Wow! That loser is a real piece of garbage," or "If I could just get my hands on those a-holes," or even, "Now there's some quality surveillance footage! Where do I buy <em>that</em> camera?" If it wasn't for the universal disgust felt by homeowners and apartment dwellers imagining their own packages being carried off, these clips wouldn't be such a seasonal trend. Stuff <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Grinch-goes-BOOM_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8896" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Grinch-goes-BOOM_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Grinch goes BOOM_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="255" height="153" /></a>gets stolen every day, but the alarmism plays better around Black Friday. And that's just the viewing audience, the ones who gasp, shake their heads, and add this threat to a list of other worries. I tend to take things a bit further, imagining a whole range of booby-trapped bait boxes. Truthfully, I can't tell if I'm bothered because I'm an ex-felon who <em>courteously</em> interacted with his victims or if the mischievous part of me would just plain enjoy seeing dog shit detonate in the face of a scampering looter (or his kid). I've never even had anything stolen from my apartment building or front porch, so I guess I'll have to chalk this attitude up to my being, well, a better class of criminal. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/STOP-THIEF-YOURE-KILLING-MY-CHRISTMAS-ENTITLEMENTS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8894" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/STOP-THIEF-YOURE-KILLING-MY-CHRISTMAS-ENTITLEMENTS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="STOP THIEF YOU'RE KILLING MY CHRISTMAS ENTITLEMENTS_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="292" height="196" /></a>But there's always some fool who decides, after seeing one of these stories, that he can do it better, smarter, faster, or slicker. Never mind that awaiting him are increasingly sophisticated surveillance systems -- not to mention former and would-be victims willing to take matters into their own hands. From the couple who disguised animal feces as a phony delivery to the man who recently <a href="https://youtu.be/mXZD96s1ucA" target="_blank">yanked a woman's purse</a> from the front seat of a fleeing thief's car, regular folks don't seem to mind confronting jackasses who steal only under virtually zero-risk conditions. Which brings me to a major point of this blog: "Get Character or Become One." <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/The-homeowner-said-the-thief-also-stole-a-decorative-snowman-that-was-in-front-of-her-house_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8891" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/The-homeowner-said-the-thief-also-stole-a-decorative-snowman-that-was-in-front-of-her-house_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="The homeowner said the thief also stole a decorative snowman that was in front of her house_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="336" height="190" /></a>"Get Character or Become One" refers to willingly surrendering how people see you based on very limited information, because you were too stupid or careless to give anyone reason to decide otherwise. We are all in charge of our own narratives, but when we act with knee-jerk impatience or a sense of entitlement, we are often left with negative consequences. Once we realize we've allowed others to decide what our motives might have been, we often find ourselves in a panic, arguing defensively to justify our actions. So if you don't <em>get</em> character, you <em>become</em> a character; it's as simple as that. We're free to write you off and remember you with assessments like, "Oh yeah, that's the idiot with the laser pointer." <h5 style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/get-character-or-become-one/" target="_blank">(Here's how I came up with this truism.)</a></h5> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Nelms-said-he-is-homeless-after-being-kicked-out-of-his-parents’-house-following-his-release-from-jail_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8892" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Nelms-said-he-is-homeless-after-being-kicked-out-of-his-parents’-house-following-his-release-from-jail_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Nelms said he is homeless after being kicked out of his parents’ house following his release from jail_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="293" height="162" /></a>Given the relatively lazy nature of this particular crime, a lot of package thieves believe they can get away with excess flab and wearing garments held up by elastic. Yet this is absolutely the wrong kind of attire for residential fight or flight. What may be fine for a slouch over to the local yogurt trough risks biting them in the ass when the motion lights flick on and a tangle of rosebushes is waiting on the other side of that fence. For many of these geniuses, strategizing ends with the idea that blending into a community will <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/White-Privilege–Its-everywhere-you-want-to-be_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8889" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/White-Privilege–Its-everywhere-you-want-to-be_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="White Privilege–It's everywhere you want to be_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="241" height="142" /></a>automatically assure success, hence the typical use of their own vehicles. Very few consider preemptive steps like stealing a set of license plates, so they end up driving away with the forensic equivalent of their bare asses hanging out of the car. (Personally, I'd buy some solid-colored gift-wrap and scotch tape it to the car -- anywhere. It goes on easy; comes off fast, and it takes very little vehicle alteration to throw off dog-walking witnesses. If you don't believe me, put a shark fin on your roof. People won't remember the car. I say, the more absurd, the better. But maybe digressions into how I'd handle things isn't quite the way to go here...) <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Impulsive-Behavior-Scale__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8897" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Impulsive-Behavior-Scale__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Impulsive Behavior Scale__Where Excuses Go to Die" width="274" height="210" /></a>The point is, the <em>reason </em>so many of us are unafraid and even eager to confront package thieves is that the deliberation is similar to deciding whether to mash a filthy cockroach. Roaches are unsightly and unsanitary, and everyone is happy to see them get squished into yuck. And now we've all seen enough footage of package thieves to recognize a similar ugly skittishness and lack of anything worth appreciating. We've decided for them who they are, and we've concluded we have nothing to be afraid of. Just watch the footage of the homeowner who nabs the purse: Fatty the Waddling Thief has to hold up his own pants. A jury will eventually get to see that at least 20 times. Package thievery itself is synonymous with oblivion and indifference, and when you're as character challenged as that, it's easy to pretend someone receiving packages at home is wealthy, or luckier than you, <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/SPECIAL-SURPRISE-FOR-PACKAGE-THIEF_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8899" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/SPECIAL-SURPRISE-FOR-PACKAGE-THIEF_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="SPECIAL SURPRISE FOR PACKAGE THIEF_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="311" height="196" /></a>or someone who thinks they're better than everyone else. Never mind that, judging by the footage the Internet has to offer on this matter, most perpetrators appear accustomed to their own rather leisurely lifestyles. Some of them are probably homeowners themselves; many look like fairly well off (white) people driving pretty fancy cars. But no matter its degree, delusion is not an excuse. And it takes a <em>special</em> lack of character to steal books from someone working in the <a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/2588584-155/thief-takes-off-with-packages-meant" target="_blank">service of special needs children</a>. So package thieves? They're onto you, and they're gonna call you out every chance they get. Some might even be carrying baseball bats. &nbsp; . 8863 2015-10-03 12:51:24 2015-10-03 19:51:24 2015-10-04 09:23:06 2015-10-04 16:23:06 closed open lets-talk-about-package-thieves publish 0 0 post 0 badge Black Friday cockroaches Culture custody Grinch holidays Idiots mail package thieves pain med prison special needs Where Excuses Go to Die _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw Package Thieves _yoast_wpseo_title Let's Talk about Package Thieves _yoast_wpseo_metadesc 'Tis the season for package thieves to come out of their pain med stupors long enough to use their semblance of societal normalcy as a cloak for cowardice. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 88 _wpas_done_all 1 _wpsr-disable-template1 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1686881860;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:258;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1326;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3929;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4946;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4456;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:343;}}}} http://working-copy.local/character-2/capitalizing-on-inmate-firefighters/ Sun, 18 Oct 2015 16:49:15 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=8912 <h3><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Image_washingtonpost.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8925" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Image_washingtonpost.jpg" alt="Image_washingtonpost" width="574" height="424" /></a>There's no excuse for inmate firefighters becoming pawns of prison reform.</h3> <p class="p1">Inmate firefighters: it's an odd term, isn't it? "Firefighter" is a badge of honor, while "inmate" is a brand. Yet these particular convicted criminals are routinely sent on 16-mile marches to square off with raging wildfires for 24 hours at a time, carrying the mark of offenders while performing duties as honorable as they come. For about $2 an hour.</p> <p class="p1">These men (and women) are typically housed in a more congenial, campus-like setting. They eat better than their counterparts who are still behind prison walls, and they're addressed more cordially by both frontline custody personnel and the civilian training staffers who oversee their participation in California's esteemed Conservation Camp program.</p> <p class="p2">Most of these folks were convicted of non-violent crimes. But violent offenders have also swung picks and wielded shovels for the California Department of Forest and Fire Protection (CalFire) for decades, and a proposal to expand their participation was recently submitted by California corrections officials. Good thing it was withdrawn almost as soon as it was made public, as the plan <em>could</em> have been a disaster.</p> <p class="p2"><!--more--></p> <p class="p2"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Natasha-Geiling-for-thinkprogress.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8937" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Natasha-Geiling-for-thinkprogress.jpg" alt="Natasha Geiling for thinkprogress" width="482" height="229" /></a>California's severe drought is well documented, and as you might expect, there has been a serious uptick in wildfires as a result. This past summer, the CDCR and their artfully serpentine union masters at the CCPOA formed a committee to consider ways to keep their inmate firefighter program sufficiently populated, as participants have dwindled by about 600 since last year, due in part to realignment, sentencing reform, and the changes wrought by Prop 47. The proposed solution was to formally allow assault and robbery offenders into the cadre of 3800 non-violent offenders who support professional firefighters in the field.</p> "All it does is enlarge the pool of inmates we look at, but it doesn't change the nature of the inmate that we put in camp," Corrections spokesman Bill Sessa told the Associated Press. "We still are not going to put an inmate in camp that has a violent attitude." <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Rim-Fire_Inmate-Fighters_Jae-Hong-AP.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8926" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Rim-Fire_Inmate-Fighters_Jae-Hong-AP.jpg" alt="Rim Fire_Inmate Fighters_Jae Hong - AP" width="378" height="251" /></a>So while I may be speculating here, it seems as though, by way of a press release, the idea was really to grub for good PR that had been percolating into the ground before it could be utilized. Sort of a let's make it official and call it innovation approach to keeping pace with the national dialogue on prison reform, with a boost from California's wildfire epidemic. Classic <a href="http://working-copy.local/prison-2/ccpoa-opposition/" target="_blank">CCPOA</a>. <p class="p1">But here's the problem: CalFire's civilian training personnel –all professional firefighters– are ultimately responsible for producing results from this unique workforce. If these boots on the ground decide that Inmate Jones has the potential to excel in their program despite his robbery conviction, they should be able to greenlight him. In fact, we've trusted those "calls" for many years.<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/California-Department-of-Forestry-and-Fire-Protection_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8927" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/California-Department-of-Forestry-and-Fire-Protection_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="140" height="189" /></a></p> <p class="p1">There have <em>always</em> been standard CDCR classification processes that have been used as well, and no one is suggesting they shouldn't be. But there has been, for decades, a more important (and unacknowledged) personal level of screening undertaken by the very civilian-first-responders proposing to march shoulder to shoulder into a firefight with the inmates in question. The gut instinct of professional firemen and veteran corrections officers has been what makes these camps so successful and saves the state so much money. It isn't flawless –some bad apples do slip through the cracks– but attempts to bureaucratize that human element out of existence are absolutely the wrong course of action.</p> <p class="p1">Put another way, co-opting, and thereby materially altering, an effective practice in order to thrust it into the public spotlight for PR kudos does a disservice to everyone involved –especially the guys on the line. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Inmate-Firefighter-Crew__Photo-Credit-AP.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8940" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Inmate-Firefighter-Crew__Photo-Credit-AP.jpg" alt="Inmate Firefighter Crew__Photo Credit AP" width="331" height="205" /></a>Furthermore, as they are currently run, conservation camps are a privilege and an incentive for inmates who are given a chance to experience what it's like to accomplish something honorable through extremely hard work. Reverting solely to which inmates "qualify" based on a narrow, paper-pusher definition of violent versus non-violent offenses would likely have the very negative consequence of diluting the program's proven workforce. Candidates would suddenly run the gamut from excellent to idiotic, based on what's in their files. (Not to mention on the favors they've done, the information they've passed, or the deals they've made back on the Yard. Believe me, I've lived it.)</p> <p class="p1">Right now, CalFire conservation camp participants are separated from the main prison population because, regardless of where they started, they've earned the right to be seen climbing a higher road. Opening the floodgates and bringing the general population to them would diminish this, reversing opportunities for growth and encouraging many to revert to their old behaviors in order to survive.</p> <p class="p1">Mucking around with a program just so it can be publicly touted as the CDCR's way of keeping pace with the modern reform and <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/California-Conservation-Camp-Crew-Members.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8930" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/California-Conservation-Camp-Crew-Members.jpg" alt="California Conservation Camp Crew Members" width="629" height="134" /></a>rehabilitation movement would expose an otherwise successful and effective operational methodology to the same stifling bureaucracy that has brought the entire California penal system to its knees (see: <a href="http://itup.org/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2014/04/prison_health_timeline_final.pdf" target="_blank">inmate healthcare</a>).</p> <p class="p1">It didn't work this time. Let's hope, for the sake <em>and</em> safety of our state, CDCR business-as-usual won't get its way if this proposal returns.</p> <p class="p1">.</p> 8912 2015-10-18 09:49:15 2015-10-18 16:49:15 2015-10-18 21:13:06 2015-10-19 04:13:06 closed open capitalizing-on-inmate-firefighters publish 0 0 post 0 badges CalFire California California Department of Forest and Fire Protection CCPOA CDCR Character conservation camp drought firefighters inmate firefighters inmates national dialogue on prison reform prison Prop 47 reform rehabilitation Rehabilitation wildfire _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw Inmate Firefighters _yoast_wpseo_title Capitalizing on Inmate Firefighters _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Revealing and capitalizing on the civilian/corrections methodology behind California's success with Inmate Firefighters is CDCR business-as-usual bumbling. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 79 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:6;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704242167;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10865;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7132;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9274;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9105;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8684;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8424;}}}} http://working-copy.local/reentry/prisoner-re-entry-schools/ Wed, 11 Nov 2015 00:44:23 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=8961 <h2 class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Photo-by-Nick-Vedros.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8989" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Photo-by-Nick-Vedros.jpg" alt="Photo by Nick Vedros" width="437" height="327" /></a>The time is right for Prisoner Re-Entry Schools.</span></h2> <p class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Offenders must be redirected, not simply recycled, ideally through public-private partnerships. People who have earned a second chance need places to go where stock phrases like "new beginnings" aren't made into nonsense through endless repetition.</strong></span></p> In Boston, Massachusetts, inmates will soon have the option of applying for enrollment in a new prisoner re-entry school inside the 45-year old <a href="http://www.mass.gov/eopss/law-enforce-and-cj/prisons/doc-facilities/boston-pre-release-center.html" target="_blank">Boston Pre-Release Center</a>. In addition to a long list of programs that began in 1972, the new Re-entry School will help connect parolees with individual and community leaders confirmed to support them and, ultimately, to help reduce recidivism and crime.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Pre-Release-Schools-are-the-Future-of-Prison-Reform_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8980" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Pre-Release-Schools-are-the-Future-of-Prison-Reform_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Pre-Release Schools are the Future of Prison Reform_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="402" height="267" /></a>Among other skills, Ben Thompson, Massachusetts Assistant Undersecretary for Re-entry, considers the development of a moral compass in offenders a high curriculum priority. He's right. This plus a positive work ethic, in many individuals, is but a challenge or two away from fruition. Helping steer offenders toward something to believe in, rather than monitoring their compliance with <a href="http://www.rand.org/news/press/2013/08/22.html" target="_blank">obsolete mandates</a>, is the future. It's beyond cliche for parolees to be placed in low-level jobs, only to encounter the folded arms of employer expecting to be either impressed or dismissive. Helping individuals form partnerships and develop communication skills that defy old behaviors is the only way to give meaning to words like "persistence" and "rehabilitation." <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Pre-release-Classroom_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8983" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Pre-release-Classroom_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Pre-release Classroom_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="444" height="220" /></a>Besides, I know from experience that the prestige of any job takes a backseat to how much a person can grow via small, personal milestones that even reluctant mentors and good listeners can offer. I describe, in <em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em>, one of my assigned prison jobs as a pre-release teacher's assistant. This was an instructor who changed not only my life, but the lives of those he addressed in each cycle of students who passed through his classroom. How little he had to work with can be found among the book's pages, but I will never be able to thank him enough. I'm not alone. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/If-you-want-a-different-result-make-a-different-choice_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8991" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/If-you-want-a-different-result-make-a-different-choice_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="If you want a different result make a different choice_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="347" height="261" /></a>Since those years I spent behind bars, I’ve worked to defy the public’s proclivity for dismissing the incarcerated as “those people,” as scumbags who <i>must</i> deserve whatever they’re getting “or why else would they be locked up?” Inmates are easily and often blamed for <a href="http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2015/11/john-oliver-prisoner-re-entry-reform-hbo-last-week-tonight" target="_blank">poor public policy</a> decisions relating to criminal justice, overcrowding, and crappy conditions. But a lot less noise is made about milestone-based education and genuine rehabilitation. I’m not only <i>for</i> both, I’m a product <i>of</i> them. Prisoner Re-Entry Schools are the next obvious step because, for all the welcome attention being paid to criminal justice and prison reform these days, <em>prepared</em> receiving communities have the best chance at showing pre-release inmates and parolees potential that they cannot yet see in themselves. That's something they tend to want to keep. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Less-Friends-Less-Bullshit_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8992" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Less-Friends-Less-Bullshit_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Less Friends Less Bullshit_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="275" height="213" /></a>The decisions I make, the quality of my life, and the person I am today are largely owed to people like playwright, author, and former penitentiary writing instructor <a href="http://working-copy.local/murder/murderers-are-his-life/" target="_blank">David Scott Milton</a>; the aforementioned pre-release instructor, Chuck Hildebrandt; the late comedienne and my erstwhile mentor, <a href="http://youtu.be/yXTDSGv4J8w" target="_blank">Lotus Weinstock</a>; LA County Men’s Central Jail Chaplain William McKinley; jail hobby shop monitor Gary Palmer; two Associate Wardens; and about 15 career corrections officers who, sometimes without knowing it, encouraged me to push myself for the better. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/There-is-no-greater-agony-than-bearing-an-untold-story-inside-you_Maya-Angelou-.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8994" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/There-is-no-greater-agony-than-bearing-an-untold-story-inside-you_Maya-Angelou-.jpg" alt="There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you_Maya Angelou" width="169" height="128" /></a>These people didn't have a program or a curriculum. Most of their encouragement came from smart-ass remarks, stories, and making me face the truth about my situation. I knew how to use a shovel, but lacked what rehabilitation professionals call "soft skills," i.e., social intelligence, a strong work ethic, and so forth. I was taught to hear my own voice and not to isolate myself so severely in the future in order to do so.<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Unkown.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8996" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Unkown.jpg" alt="Unkown" width="317" height="381" /></a> The time is right for Prisoner Re-Entry Schools. Imagine what could be done with the right hearts, a progressive curriculum, relevant tools, a welcoming academic setting, and the power of philanthropic funding! Ben Thompson thinks it will reduce recidivism in his area of the country by about half. That's pretty significant. Hey, and speaking of bringing meaning to old stock nonsense, forget "offender" and "parolee": I like Thompson's use of "returning citizen" to refer to his future candidates. Having been one myself, I just think it fits better. &nbsp; <h5><span class="s1">Dog programs such as <a href="http://www.puppiesbehindbars.com/home">Puppies Behind</a></span> Bars and <a href="http://4pawsforability.org/mission-pawsible/"><span class="s2">Mission Pawsible</span></a> are a well-regarded approach to mentoring and soft skills, but hopefully aren't the ceiling of community re-entry innovation. For those unfamiliar with the language of community re-entry, here're a few other programs worthy of wider incorporation into emerging vocational and evidence-based pre-release curricula:</h5> <h5 class="p1"><a href="http://www.readperiodicals.com/201505/3678207671.html" target="_blank">The Ohio Prison Nursery</a>: Achieving Baby Care Success (ABC's) Reaching Out From Within <a href="https://www.govce.net/products-services/services/optical" target="_blank">The VCE Optical Lab at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women </a><span class="s1"><a href="http://www.prisonhonorprogram.org/"><span class="s2">The California Progressive Programming Facility </span></a></span><a href="http://www.secondchanceprogram.org/" target="_blank">Second Chance - Inspiring a Culture of Dignity</a> Our beloved, inglorious El Rey hotel – aka, <a href="http://www.investinla.org/" target="_blank">The Weingart Center Los Angeles</a></h5> <h5>While John Oliver's recent <em>Last Week Tonight</em> segment doesn't mention reentry schools, it does brilliantly cover the same ground, and contains Jean-Claude Van Damme references.</h5> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gJtYRxH5G2k" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> 8961 2015-11-10 17:44:23 2015-11-11 00:44:23 2016-12-01 10:43:39 2016-12-01 17:43:39 closed open prisoner-re-entry-schools publish 0 0 post 0 Ben Thompson Boston David Scott Milton John Oliver John Oliver: Prisoner Re-entry LA County Lotus Weinstock Massachusetts Men's Central Jail offender parolee pre-release prison prisoner re-entry prisoner reentry schools recidivism reentry Reentry rehabilitation Rehabilitation Where Excuses Go to Die _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw Prisoner Re-Entry _yoast_wpseo_title Prisoner Re-Entry Schools _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Prisoner Re-Entry Schools allow receiving communities to show pre-release inmates and parolees potential they cannot yet see in themselves. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 86 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:6;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704048566;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10046;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10357;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:351;}}}} http://working-copy.local/winner-excuse-of-the-year/2015-excuse-of-the-year/ Thu, 31 Dec 2015 23:14:47 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=9010 <h3><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/2015-Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_EXCUSE-OF-THE-YEAR.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9014" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/2015-Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_EXCUSE-OF-THE-YEAR.jpg" alt="2015 Where Excuses Go to Die_EXCUSE OF THE YEAR" width="274" height="240" /></a>2015 was a rough year, especially for those who believe in the absolutism of beat cops and badges, or that the bootstraps of hardworking Americans can't possibly snap. This was a difficult year for innocent bystanders, or anyone thinking they were safe. But it was, and remains, the most challenging yet for those convinced that guns are God-given. </strong></span></h3> At first I thought I'd go with the excuse offered by Subway Jared and his lawyers who, prior to his prison sentence for child-ruining, blamed his Subway diet for his pervert crimes. Essentially, these morally challenged morons <a href="http://nypost.com/2015/11/19/subways-jared-pleads-guilty-to-kiddie-porn-and-sex-crime-charges/" target="_blank">claimed</a> that, had Jared "received help," he wouldn't have “traded a horrible food addiction for a horrible sex addiction.” Subway Jared is about to find out <em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em>.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/TRUMP_Der-Furor.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-9100" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/TRUMP_Der-Furor.jpg" alt="TRUMP_Der Furor" width="281" height="252" /></a>Then, when I heard how many people were proclaiming <a href="https://www.donaldjtrump.com/" target="_blank">Donald Trump's</a> principal virtue as his being a "real" man who just "says it like it is," I became convinced Trump would steal the 2015 Golden Excuse from right under Fogel's formerly fat ass. 'Cause "the Donald" does <em>not</em> speak truth to power; he grubs for more and more and more of it. He does not, and <em>will</em> not, serve his country; he makes his country serve <em>him</em>. And he will continue to do so on the backs of those who believe the excuse that we somehow need his crass, self-aggrandizing insensitivities to better ourselves. But then came the post-shooting public analysis of <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/13/world/paris-shooting/" target="_blank">Paris</a> and <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-san-bernardino-shooting-live-updates-htmlstory.html" target="_blank">San Bernardino</a>... And with that, the 2015 Where Excuses Go to Die Golden Excuse of the Year had to go to the argument that guns suppress evil. That more guns are the path to ultimate safety. That guns are a God-given right for the righteous among us. The perpetrators of the San Bernardino massacre met their end at the hands of superior and overwhelming firepower, yes. But did that save a single innocent life? <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Jesus-prefers-Beretta-Firearms.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9102" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Jesus-prefers-Beretta-Firearms.jpg" alt="Jesus prefers Beretta Firearms" width="373" height="221" /></a>The argument has been put forth that, had those in the room (or the Paris cafes and concert) been themselves armed, the evildoers could have been taken down before tragic deaths occurred. That, my friends, is myopic denial to the nth degree. It's just as likely that such firepower would have long before been turned on non-terrorists, non-perpetrators – <em>the innocent themselves</em>. Anyone remember a guy named <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/19/us/charleston-church-shooting-suspect/" target="_blank">Dylann Roof</a>, just six months back? Or, for that matter, how <a href="http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/la-dodgers-fan-who-beat-sf-giants-fan-bryan-stow-faces-lengthy-federal-time1-050715" target="_blank">violent</a> people can be at stadiums even without guns? And let's not even open the worm can of <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/12/27/chicago-police-kill-mentally-ill-college-student-55-year-old-woman/" target="_blank">cops</a> "mistaking" regular people (<em>brown</em> people) for imminent threats to themselves and to those they "protect and serve." I don't have a beef with the <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/second_amendment" target="_blank">2nd Amendment</a>. But how far we're willing to take it, how <a href="http://working-copy.local/culture/the-high-of-handling-guns/" target="_blank">puffed up</a> and self-righteous we're eager to become by using it as a shield, is indeed worthy of being named 2015's Excuse of the Year. &nbsp; 9010 2015-12-31 16:14:47 2015-12-31 23:14:47 2016-12-15 20:46:27 2016-12-16 03:46:27 closed open 2015-excuse-of-the-year publish 0 0 post 0 2nd Amendment Americans badges cops Donald Trump Dylann Roof firepower guns Jared Paris San Bernardino Subway Where Excuses Go to Die Winner: EXCUSE OF THE YEAR _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw EXCUSE OF THE YEAR _yoast_wpseo_title 2015 EXCUSE OF THE YEAR - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Where Excuses Go to Die's 2015 Golden Excuse of the Year recipient is the argument that guns suppress evil. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 70 _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _yoast_wpseo_primary_category 1776 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw_text_input EXCUSE OF THE YEAR _yoast_wpseo_content_score 30 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1701887762;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11948;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4439;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:778;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/the-high-of-handling-guns/ Thu, 10 Dec 2015 05:58:08 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=9019 <h2><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Lola-Medina-conducting-product-demo-at-the-offices-of-Centre-Firearms-movie-prop-gun-manufacturer_circa-1955.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9055" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Lola-Medina-conducting-product-demo-at-the-offices-of-Centre-Firearms-movie-prop-gun-manufacturer_circa-1955.jpg" alt="Lola Medina conducting a product demo at the offices of Centre Firearms movie prop gun manufacturer_circa 1955" width="400" height="395" /></a>There's a bit of a rush when you get around guns, isn't there? </span></h2> You can feel an energy shift when someone brings out some newly purchased rifle or revolver. Yet we rarely talk about just what that shift means or how it affects us. Is it intimidation? The thrill of being in the presence of potential danger? Maybe it’s simply human nature to keep such things to ourselves. Whatever it is, some people –women as much as men– just plain enjoy handling, learning about, and shooting firearms. Doing so can be cathartic and spirit stirring, an exhilarating hobby to enjoy at gun ranges. For others, often regionally influenced, gun ownership is a rite of passage. Still others like the kick of ownership without the hassles of usage, and many of us don’t even own guns but get into their lore, power, and mythology.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/WHY-DO-GUN-NUTS-MAKE-IT-SO-EASY-TO-MOCK-THEM.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9059" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/WHY-DO-GUN-NUTS-MAKE-IT-SO-EASY-TO-MOCK-THEM.jpg" alt="WHY DO GUN NUTS MAKE IT SO EASY TO MOCK THEM!?" width="192" height="144" /></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/High-on-Handguns_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9060" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/High-on-Handguns_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="High on Handguns_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="152" height="138" /></a>Then there's the type for whom the hobby's customary teachable moments mean less than the thrill. The challenges of overcoming intimidation and learning curves matter little compared to the extra inch they grow around guns. This leads us to the dummies: the self-seeking, prideful, boastful fatheads who cherry-pick their gun-debate facts and cry victim like nobody’s business. For <em>or</em> against, red state or blue, they just want what they already know to be co-signed by like-minded crybabies. And let’s not even get into bottom-of-the-barrel ideologues who see firearms as the best path to, say, ethnic cleansing. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/National-Police-Competency-Day_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9050" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/National-Police-Competency-Day_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="National Police Competency Day_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="145" height="210" /></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/FlipFLOP.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9051" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/FlipFLOP.jpg" alt="FlipFLOP" width="211" height="156" /></a>For a lot of folks, gun fun wears off once we're reminded that we have to clean and oil the weapons we've been shooting. Others love the discipline of it, and even the mess, but especially the mentorship qualities such activities can take on. I prefer a little of each. And by “a little”, I mean I’ve enjoyed being taken out to the California desert to shoot World War II rifles and pistols, but I’m on the fence about the resulting cleanup. The U.S. Army taught me how and why to respect firearms, but they yelled at us a lot and that sucked the fun right outta' that. So I'm not a dedicated gun enthusiast or owner. (Full disclosure: as a convicted felon in California, firearm possession is out of the question anyway). I am, however, highly appreciative of discreet gun owners, especially ones who are casual, not bossy, safe and knowledgeable rather than self-aggrandizing. Besides, I'd much rather face the consequences of being caught unarmed than once again have to press my lips between cement and steel to plead for more toilet paper. Besides, I wasn't raised around firearms (or as a hunter), nor am I some constitutionally-driven defender of rights and property. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Things-dont-go-well-for-the-fat-man_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9062" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Things-dont-go-well-for-the-fat-man_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Things don't go well for the fat man_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="175" height="98" /></a>Most of my own experience with guns has come from the sheltered world of middle class, Caucasian homeowners showing off high-caliber blah-blah-blahs to their friends. Guns tend to come out during backyard barbecues, where a common scenario is ladies on the patio, dadbods inside, graduating from passing the TV remote to passing a Sig Sauer P226. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Harvey-Keitel-is-Bad-Lieutenant.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9063" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Harvey-Keitel-is-Bad-Lieutenant.jpg" alt="Harvey Keitel is Bad Lieutenant" width="165" height="115" /></a>On the opposite end of that domestic dork-fest, I once held a beat up .357 magnum with a scraped off serial number. Instead of being empowering, though, the thing felt like a hot rock. My imagination went wild. How many crimes had it been used to commit, and by whom? Had it ever been pried from someone's cold, dead hands? It outsized my capacity for aggression, so I was <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/All-in-the-Gun-Family.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9065" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/All-in-the-Gun-Family.jpg" alt="All in the Gun Family" width="155" height="209" /></a>happy to hand it back to its then current possessor. I mention this because anyone who can recognize a stop sign can also sense the changed energy in a room where firearms have been introduced. And here’s where the sexes tend to diverge. Guys will tease each other with jeopardy and certain alpha males will go from pesky to unbearable in an instant. ("Douchebag" is an untunable catchword I avoid, but it does come to mind.) <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Channel-12-News_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die1.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9068" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Channel-12-News_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die1.jpg" alt="Channel 12 News_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="286" height="160" /></a>Some men go too far and lose their grip on reality. They aggrandize and elevate their insecurities to kamikaze status. Among the predominantly white male list of these modern mass shooters, I wonder how many first experienced the high of handling guns with friends or family. But as I mentioned, I don't hear many people acknowledge what it feels like to be among men treating each other differently than they would if they were holding, say, turnips. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Bucket-Head.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9052" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Bucket-Head.jpg" alt="Iron Bucket Head_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="177" height="239" /></a> In the presence of guns, even the average guy will typically nod with conviction and say "I know" a lot. Spines tend to stiffen, like those of dogs with their ears shooting back. A lot of men copy each other's solemn formalities while struggling to suppress a desire to point the things and go "Bam-bam–bam-bam!" And guys hate being told where "the safety" is. Being barked at to keep a barrel pointed skyward in front of the others can be a fate worse than death. It was for me, anyway, and that motivated me to learn. I didn't want to be someone a gun owner had to delicately hand his weapon to, but the guy to whom <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/news/rampart-roller-coaster-2131277" target="_blank">he could toss it</a>. I've met precious few enthusiasts qualified to tell the difference, but I've watched platoons of bros and poseurs heft shotguns and collectible sidearms with exactly the same put-on bravado. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/God-Guts-Guns-and-Goons_Where-Excuses-Go-to-DIe.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9069" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/God-Guts-Guns-and-Goons_Where-Excuses-Go-to-DIe.jpg" alt="God Guts Guns and Goons_Where Excuses Go to DIe" width="214" height="160" /></a>And why does guy-talk so often include flesh-shredder bullets, the handguns most capable of penetrating car doors, which weapons appear in which movie shoot-outs, whether guns deter or increase crime, and, nowadays, the validity of stand-your-ground laws? We men are blowhards that's for sure. That’s not to say females don’t engage in such dialogue, but this post isn't about equality; it's about firearms being bigger than all of us, bigger than gun safety, and bigger than the cabbage heads with tactical apparel fetishes who amass (and dream of employing) their combat arsenals. Pulled straight from the pages of "What Could Possibly Go Wrong?" these are typically the folks insisting that if everyone were armed, crime would cease to exist.<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Golden-Girls-From-the-Bronx.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9074" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Golden-Girls-From-the-Bronx.jpg" alt="Golden Girls From the Bronx" width="211" height="136" /></a> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Osama-Bin-Nielsen.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9067" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Osama-Bin-Nielsen.jpg" alt="Osama Bin Nielsen" width="209" height="129" /></a>Nowadays, I can admit I've had many more guns pulled from my hands than thrown to 'em. Maybe that’s ‘cause I find it irresistible to push the boundaries of how men speak to each other while passing around their newest revolvers. I'm the smart-ass who makes penis enlargement references while caressing a rifle barrel. Some guys laugh, but a lot of others shrivel a little inside. Why? Because deep down, nearly everyone knows guns are bigger than they are, and certainly bigger than the 2nd Amendment debate itself. Still, many people resist and resent that which trivializes what they view as a sacred right to bear –or boastingly brandish– arms, especially in front of others. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/JINGLE-SHELLS___Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9073" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/JINGLE-SHELLS___Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="JINGLE SHELLS___Where Excuses Go to Die" width="203" height="280" /></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/GET-OFF-MY-LAWN__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9091" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/GET-OFF-MY-LAWN__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="GET OFF MY LAWN__Where Excuses Go to Die" width="317" height="241" /></a>A lot of Americans these days so desperately cling to comfort zones, entitlements, and a need for instant gratification that sound judgment has become secondary. And what's more tied to sound judgment than thinking for oneself? Yet by and large, men in the company of other swaggering men with guns is about as far away from that as you can get. Jennifer Carlson, author of "Citizen-Protectors: The Everyday Politics of Guns in an Age of Decline," sums it up well: "The gun rights platform is not just about guns. It's also about a crisis of confidence in the American dream. And this is one reason gun control efforts ignite such intense backlashes: Restrictions are received as a personal affront to men who find in guns a sense of duty, relevance and even dignity." My own conclusion is this: The pressure that men put on each other with regard to firearms is at least part of the reason why some are replacing civil diplomacy and social skills with "rampage" and payback shootings. The high of handling guns isn’t an excuse, but it can leave a lasting impression. <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>And peer acceptance, especially in an otherwise fearful world, is a principal birthplace of psychic satisfaction.</strong></span> &nbsp; &nbsp; <p class="p1">" I don't have to be careful, I got a gun!"  – Homer Simpson</p> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qhLdeaMWhcY" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> 9019 2015-12-09 22:58:08 2015-12-10 05:58:08 2015-12-10 09:13:57 2015-12-10 16:13:57 closed open the-high-of-handling-guns publish 0 0 post 0 .357 magnum .45 Americans arsenal combat Culture firearms guns high-caliber Homer instant gratification M15TAC18 men revolver rifle safety shotgun sidearm The Cartridge Family U.S. Army WWII _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw guns _yoast_wpseo_title The High of Handling Guns - Where Excuses Go to Die _yoast_wpseo_metadesc We rarely talk about how the high of handling guns affects us, which can lead some men to compensate for feeling wronged by shooting at innocent bystanders. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 96 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:9;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1704083586;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9010;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3665;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4439;}}}} http://working-copy.local/incarceration-nation/de-institutionalization-and-your-tax-dollars/ Sun, 17 Jan 2016 01:31:11 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=9105 <h3><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Mizuo-Shinonome_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9129" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Mizuo-Shinonome_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Mizuo Shinonome_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="440" height="308" /></a>Some see de-institutionalization as prison reform's black hole. We neither think about nor understand it much, until we see how much it can swallow.</h3> <p class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;">Yet redirecting, rather than just recycling, offenders begins and ends with the most common form of second chance behavioral therapy of all: showing individuals the potential in themselves they can't yet see. I'm certainly a product of it, and there are countless other second chance cases even more deserving of the right mentor than I was.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;">In such an inexcusably crowded prison system as California's, wringing Yard life from offenders can devour solar systems of resources, and profoundly institutionalized individuals are difficult people to be around on a <em>good</em> day. So for both plucky and grizzled corrections professionals working with offenders and parolees, resolve and past re-entry successes are crucial. So, too, are faith and funding – or at least the delivery of funds previously promised.<!--more--></span></p> <span style="color: #000000;"><a style="color: #000000;" href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/CA-Bars.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9125" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/CA-Bars.jpg" alt="CA-Bars" width="189" height="279" /></a>To that end, <em>Where's the beef?</em></span> <a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-de-incarceration-dividend-20160114-story.html" target="_blank">asks</a><span style="color: #000000;"> the Los Angeles Times on behalf of California's taxpayers and regarding the "Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act," a.k.a. Prop 47. Where are those re-entry programs that were supposed to have been paid for by monies saved from the proposition's reclassification of crimes and subsequent prison population drops?</span> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #000000;">Inmate rolls have decreased, but the projected fruits of that, per the ballot initiative's</span> <a href="http://www.lao.ca.gov/ballot/2014/prop-47-110414.aspx" target="_blank">fiscal impact</a><span style="color: #000000;"> statement as prepared by the California Legislative Analyst's Office, have yet to grow in line with the dividends that Prop 47's passage has yielded thus far. (These include funding for K-12 truancy and dropout prevention, inmate substance abuse treatment, vocational training, and inmate mental health services.) In fact, according to the Times, less than $30 million of the $100-$200 million in purported annual savings has actually been budgeted by Gov. Jerry Brown. Given that the paper itself pushed for Prop 47's success  –to say nothing of the supportive actions taken by civil rights organizations, labor unions, teacher federations, churches, coalitions, religious conferences, nonprofits, justice partnerships, the 504,760 Californians who qualified the initiative with their signatures, and</span> <a href="http://working-copy.local/prison-2/ccpoa-opposition/#more-7740" target="_blank">this former inmate turned author</a><span style="color: #000000;">– it has a solid stake in holding the Governor accountable to the voter mandate.</span></p> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Prop_47-Pie.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9126" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Prop_47-Pie.jpg" alt="Prop_47_Pie" width="353" height="266" /></a><span style="color: #000000;">Because Proposition 47 is indeed working.</span> <span style="color: #000000;">California's jail and prison populations are dropping. Sentence reclassifications have addressed over-incarceration head on <em>without</em> the "</span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2184339/" target="_blank">Purge</a><span style="color: #000000;">"-like scenarios of early-release offenders rampaging violently through affluent neighborhoods and outlet malls. According to</span> <a href="http://www.kcra.com/" target="_blank">KCRA</a><span style="color: #000000;">, in just 5 months following the initiative's passage in November, 2014, 3,068 California prison inmates were given early release, and only 14 wound up back in the system (a sample return rate of .005 percent).</span> <span style="color: #000000;">That itself is success, but I tend to look at the potential of Prop 47 and other reform measures from the frontline perspective of both those behind bars and the custody personnel and civilian faculty subjected to the small confines of prison life.</span> <span style="color: #000000;">Having once been assigned as an inmate assistant to civilian educator Chuck Hildebrandt, who'd essentially been hired to show about-to-parole inmates how to fill out job applications, I saw first</span> <span style="color: #000000;">hand how a</span> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Illustration-by-Todd-Wiseman.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9127" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Illustration-by-Todd-Wiseman.jpg" alt="Illustration_by_Todd_Wiseman" width="368" height="244" /></a><span style="color: #000000;">teacher had to <em>invent</em> his own pre-release program with no budget and extremely little support from prison administrators. And Chuck was no genius crusader, leaving a lucrative teaching position elsewhere to grace us offenders with his natural gift for challenging resistant, avoidant, and excuse-driven personalities. He simply showed up, smiling stupidly on day one, obviously (and maybe obliviously) happy to have been employed by his local corrections facility. The place was</span> <span style="color: #000000;">brand-new and in chaos. The suits and brass told him to just "do what teachers do – teach," while they dealt with the gangs establishing their territories.</span> <span style="color: #000000;">And against all odds, God bless him, that's exactly what Chuck did. He found his equilibrium and made it his mission to help fortify the decisive first days, weeks, and months after community reintroduction. He also caught grief from inmates and badges alike, but he <em>kept</em> smiling and saying, "I</span> <span style="color: #000000;">get paid to come back here. <a style="color: #000000;" href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Old-and-New_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-9124" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Old-and-New_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Old and New_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="287" height="272" /></a>Do you?" Hildebrandt took on some of the most perversely institutionalized assholes I've ever encountered, and he won more 'em over far more frequently than anyone ever would have expected (or bet on).</span> <span style="color: #000000;">Imagine what he could have done with a little help.</span> <span style="color: #000000;">Now, finally, we have the means to give him some. The savings, large or small, accrued by the state as a result of Prop 47's implementation can and <em>should</em> be used to create and develop effective</span> <a href="http://working-copy.local/reentry/prisoner-re-entry-schools/" target="_blank">re-entry schools</a> <span style="color: #000000;">and anti-recidivism programs, not be held back or siphoned off to address other state budget deficits.</span> <h5 style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #000000;">(Like, say, employee benefits and salaries, which Reuters reports account for the biggest slice of the cost-per-prisoner pie. But n</span><span style="color: #000000;">o surprise there: the</span> <a href="http://working-copy.local/prison-2/ccpoa-opposition/" target="_blank">CCPOA</a> <span style="color: #000000;"><em>always</em> wins.)</span></h5> <span style="color: #000000;">Redirecting, reorienting, and de-institutionalizing parolees is difficult in the best of circumstances: truly</span> <a href="http://working-copy.local/murder/murderers-are-his-life/" target="_blank">harrowing in the worst</a><span style="color: #000000;">. And they're damn near impossible tasks without a budget to secure even minimal academic materials or a meaningful curriculum. So now, more than a year's worth of savings after the passage of Prop 47, there's no excuse for letting other Chuck Hildebrandts flail about on their own.</span> &nbsp; 9105 2016-01-16 18:31:11 2016-01-17 01:31:11 2016-01-17 00:12:14 2016-01-17 07:12:14 closed open de-institutionalization-and-your-tax-dollars publish 0 0 post 0 anti recidivism badges behavioral therapy budget California prisons corrections curriculum deinstitutionalization Incarceration Nation inmate jail Jerry Brown Los Angeles Times mentor parole Prop 47 re-entry reclassification Rehabilitation second chance taxpayers _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw_text_input De-institutionalization _yoast_wpseo_focuskw De-institutionalization _yoast_wpseo_metadesc De-institutionalization is prison reform's black hole. We neither think about or understand it much, until we see how much it can swallow. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 76 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1702802790;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8961;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8684;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4755;}}}} http://working-copy.local/idiots/not-a-prison-escape-movie/ Sat, 30 Jan 2016 06:07:27 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=9141 <h2 class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/MANHUNT-HOTLINE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9149" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/MANHUNT-HOTLINE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="MANHUNT HOTLINE_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="343" height="414" /></a>Welcome to Apocalypse Hoosegow 10, the Lotto jackpot of potential prison escape movies (and the impossibly straight faces of the Orange County Sheriff's Department). </span></h2> <p class="p1"><strong>Man, this story has got it <span style="text-decoration: underline;">all</span> – <em>and </em>it ends in the parking lot of<em> </em>novelty grocery store, <a href="http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/01/30/57141/2-outstanding-inmates-from-orange-county-jail-now/" target="_blank">Whole Foods.</a></strong></p> <p class="p1">Killer convicts chipping their way through steel and concrete - check! Laughably low estimates of escaped prisoner capabilities - check! Brutal cellblock battle to distract guards - check! Cougar-teacher <a href="http://ktla.com/2016/01/28/no-sign-of-inmates-or-tools-used-in-o-c-jail-escape/" target="_blank">helping</a> misunderstood love interest - check! Tied together bed sheets and socks and stuff - check! Months in the making, mistake-free master plan - check! Violent terror-inmates on the loose in conservative county - check! FBI dudes elbowing local badge bumblers outta the way - check! <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam-12" target="_blank">Adam-12</a>-era hoosegow gettin' last laugh on OC budget dorks - check! Incredibly straight-faced cop brass asking for public help in catching <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/orangecounty/la-me-jail-inmate-20160126-story.html" target="_blank">penis-severing Muslim blowtorch monster</a> - check! check! check!</p> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Apocalypse-Hoosegow-10_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9154" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Apocalypse-Hoosegow-10_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Apocalypse Hoosegow 10_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="265" height="202" /></a>Ooh, and don't forget: District Attorney’s office infighting - check! <a href="http://www.ocregister.com/articles/jail-701469-officials-attorney.html" target="_blank">Unauthorized</a> D.A. office statements made public - check! Open criticism - check! Gorilla-goons <a href="http://www.ocregister.com/articles/inmates-701558-three-jail.html" target="_blank">scratching their heads</a> at escape hole - check! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c2NxzfnitI" target="_blank">Magic gnats</a> flying out of inmates mouths like in The Green Mile - ok, not that, but Range Rover-driving, Islamophobic blondes <a href="http://www.debbieschlussel.com/81162/who-is-hossein-nayeri-meet-the-muslim-hannibal-lecter-cuts-off-victims-penises/" target="_blank">blessed with new hero</a> - checkity check! <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Irfan-Khan-Los-Angeles-Times.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9167" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Irfan-Khan-Los-Angeles-Times.jpg" alt="Irfan Khan : Los Angeles Times" width="412" height="231" /></a> And of course there's an ACTUAL <a href="https://twitter.com/OCSD/status/692866467331575808" target="_blank">getaway van</a> (Sheriff's Dept. emphasis) and easily scapegoated foreign-sounding bad guy names - check! Bonus stereotypes of evil gangster youth, sneaky Vietcong guy, and bloodthirsty Iranian - check! check! check! The crown jewel of prison yard street cred: #ocjailescape - <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ocjailescape?vertical=news" target="_blank">check</a>! Catchy comparisons to movie <a href="http://www.nme.com/filmandtv/news/anthony-hopkins-regrets-silence-of-the-lambs-seque/396799" target="_blank">face-eater</a> Hannibal Lecter - check! A $50,000 reward doubled, and then<a href="http://www.ocregister.com/articles/reward-701435-board-nelson.html" target="_blank"> doubled again </a>- double check! <p class="p1">Who in the world is gonna get to direct this cornucopia of invigorated Hollywood custody cliches?</p> [caption id="attachment_9168" align="alignright" width="267"]<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/OC-Mens-Central-Jail.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-9168" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/OC-Mens-Central-Jail.jpg" alt="Photo circa 1968 from the Orange County Register archives. The Orange county Jail sits at the corner of N. Flower St. and W. 6th St. in Santa Ana." width="267" height="209" /></a> OC Jail – Orange County Register archives.[/caption] But what makes this the prison break to end all prison breaks is the sheer number of times the phrase, "What could possibly go wrong?" comes into play. The facility in question has a nearly nonexistent video surveillance system in a region of the country where most homeowners can afford to have Pentagon-compliant cameras pointed at their front doors. It's a crumbling, outdated jail with a <a href="http://www.ocregister.com/articles/jail-701404-jails-central.html" target="_blank">rich history</a> of rooftop escapes, whose leaders must assume (like most baby boomer cop brass) their prisoners are appropriately tyrannized. And this is all topped off by escapees with a <em>16 hour</em> head start – which is gonna roll a dozen heads. <p class="p1">From the dumbo deputy who, in the same week as the escape, drove off with his department-issue AR-15 assault rifle <a href="http://abc7.com/news/orange-county-sheriffs-deputy-loses-ar-15-assault-rifle/1176340/" target="_blank">on the trunk of his car</a> to a <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Hossein-Nayeri-and-Jonathan-Tieu-and-Bac-Duong.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9169" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Hossein-Nayeri-and-Jonathan-Tieu-and-Bac-Duong.jpg" alt="Hossein Nayeri and Jonathan Tieu and Bac Duong" width="203" height="230" /></a>blowtorch kidnapper being housed in the same drunk tank dorm as a guy who stole some cheese, this story is a fireworks display of County Jail incompetence.</p> The three escapees – Hossein Nayeri, Jonathan Tieu and Bac Duong, all accused of violent crimes – were not even noticed to be missing in multiple prisoner counts; they secured their van through an ad on <em>Craigslist;</em> and now they've found themselves a place in prison lore.The daily updates sound like they're coming from a very busy TV writers' room. Get ready for an avalanche of excuses and hopefully a really fun prison escape flick. Even with all three recaptured, his tale keeps on giving, doesn't it? Now what actors are gonna portray these freedom enthusiasts, I wonder? . 9141 2016-01-29 23:07:27 2016-01-30 06:07:27 2016-01-30 14:48:04 2016-01-30 21:48:04 closed open not-a-prison-escape-movie publish 0 0 post 0 AR-15 Bac Duong badges brass convict cops Craigslist District Attorney escape escapees FBI Hannibal Lecter Hossein Nayeri Idiots Incarceration Nation Isalmophobia jail Jonathan Tieu Lotto MURDER O.C. Sheriff Orange County Pentagon Powerball prisoner surveillance Vietcong violent crime _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw_text_input prison escape _yoast_wpseo_focuskw prison escape _yoast_wpseo_metadesc If the Orange County, California jailbreak was a prison escape movie, it would certainly fulfill all of Hollywood's salacious requirements. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 86 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1702377223;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8961;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:521;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8281;}}}} http://working-copy.local/character-2/a-felon-just-like-me/ Sun, 14 Feb 2016 00:52:13 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=9190 <h2 class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Former-LASD-Sheriff-Baca_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die__Photo-ABC-News.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9204" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Former-LASD-Sheriff-Baca_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die__Photo-ABC-News.jpg" alt="Former LASD Sheriff Baca_Where Excuses Go to Die__Photo ABC News" width="348" height="197" /></a>Having written fundraiser remarks for disgraced LA County Sheriff Lee Baca, and having been big-bro bear-hugged by him after confessing to teleprompter typos, it's hard to hate the man who ran a law enforcement mafia.</h2> <p class="p1">He hugged me because he was relieved to be offstage. Fifty-cent words weren't easy for Baca, I'd been warned, and this was a big night. Just before he'd taken the podium, I realized I'd failed to yank one word in particular, and sure enough he flubbed it. Regardless of how I felt about his Men's Central Jail deputies -- or anything else related to that American flag-wrapped night at the Beverly Hilton -- I was the show writer. I had to tell him it was my mistake, not his.<!--more--></p> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/LA-County-Sheriff-Lee-Baca-attends-the-celebrity-gala-honoring-Secretary-of-Veterans-Affairs-Anthony-Principi-at-the-Beverly-Hilton-Hotel-in-Beverly-Hills_Getty-Images_Frederick-M.-Brown.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9206" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/LA-County-Sheriff-Lee-Baca-attends-the-celebrity-gala-honoring-Secretary-of-Veterans-Affairs-Anthony-Principi-at-the-Beverly-Hilton-Hotel-in-Beverly-Hills_Getty-Images_Frederick-M.-Brown.jpg" alt="LA County Sheriff Lee Baca attends the celebrity gala honoring Secretary of Veterans' Affairs Anthony Principi at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills_Getty Images_Frederick M. Brown" width="157" height="224" /></a><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Actress-Sean-Young_Photo-Robert-Mora_Getty-Images.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9207" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Actress-Sean-Young_Photo-Robert-Mora_Getty-Images.jpg" alt="Actress Sean Young_Photo Robert Mora_Getty Images" width="278" height="219" /></a>How I'd been hired for that round of gigs, not to mention <a href="http://working-copy.local/celebrity/from-beat-downs-to-bear-hugs/" target="_blank">the events leading up to that evening</a>, is something I look back on fondly. Penning rousing rah-rah for an audience of <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/max_baucus/300005" target="_blank">senators</a>, <a href="http://www.metinbereketli.com/pages/c-usvets03.html" target="_blank">sycophants</a>, <a href="http://variety.com/2016/film/news/diane-ladd-slams-studios-greed-supporting-actress-category-1201703788/" target="_blank">celebrities</a>, <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/keyword/george-jaramillo" target="_blank">schemers</a>, military brass, soon-to-be-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Carona" target="_blank">indicted </a>badges and business <a href="http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20040218005212/en/DaimlerChrysler-Remarketing-Drove-Stars-Cars-Los-Angeles" target="_blank">types</a>, a <a href="http://www.courts.ca.gov/5763.htm" target="_blank">Chief Justice</a>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Cooley" target="_blank">District Attorney</a>, and one tantrum-throwing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Sterling" target="_blank">Donald Sterling</a> made me feel like a little lamb among <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Davis" target="_blank">big-ticket wolves</a>. That is, a lamb who had been convicted of, and imprisoned for, multiple armed robberies. At one point in the Green room were Red Buttons, Robert Stack, Norm Crosby, Diane Ladd, Shaq and Sean Young – all at the same time. My head was spinning at the Fear and Loathing of it all. I mean, I'm still wondering whether the elements of my own criminal spirit were glaring to those corrupt cops and con men or if God had personally lined up that psychic paycheck on my behalf. And it wasn't just a single event: I got asked to return and write the next one and the one after that as well. <p class="p1">A decade later, even Leroy Baca's legacy began to unravel. His star may be last to fall among a good number of sharks and cheaters in attendance that evening, though it wouldn't surprise me if that cursed night had one or two more careers to destroy.</p> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/THE-PRIDE-OF-LOS-ANGELES_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9213 size-full" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/THE-PRIDE-OF-LOS-ANGELES_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="THE PRIDE OF LOS ANGELES_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="201" height="215" /></a>These days, Los Angeles County deputies and their unscrupulous infrastructure are much better known for their intra-departmental <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynwood_Vikings" target="_blank">gangs</a>, <a href="http://abc7.com/news/2-ex-lasd-deputies-sentenced-to-prison-for-beating-jail-visitor/1104096/" target="_blank">excessive force</a>, inhumane <a href="http://abc7.com/news/los-angeles-mens-central-jail-inmates-live-in-squalid-conditions/567525/" target="_blank">custody</a> conditions, <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/restaurants/the-heroin-burrito-files-former-sheriffs-deputy-sentenced-to-two-years-2380001" target="_blank">heroin burritos</a>, and lawsuit <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-county-lawsuits-20140113-story.html" target="_blank">payouts</a> than they'll ever be for the "<a href="http://lasdcareers.org/" target="_blank">honesty, character, and compassion</a>" required of them today by <a href="http://sheriff.lacounty.gov/wps/portal/lasd" target="_blank">new</a> Sheriff Jim McDonnell. Now we know just how deep -- and high up -- that rot went.<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Robert-Conrad-whoops-Bernard-Kerik_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9211" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Robert-Conrad-whoops-Bernard-Kerik_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-211x300.jpg" alt="Robert Conrad--whoops--Bernard Kerik_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="196" height="282" /></a> But what about Baca himself? With Lionel Richie on stage singing his signature hit, "All Night Long," I witnessed the Sheriff leading a conga line of wealthy, right-leaning LA power-players across the ballroom where the Golden Globes are held. It was, frankly, adorable. Now he's a civilian, a defendant, a convicted felon. Will he, too, jump on the criminal justice and prison reform bandwagons? Will he soon be making money hand over fist promoting second chances for those who have made mistakes? Is he <em>my</em> competition now? He wouldn't be alone. Former New York Police Commissioner and one-time front runner for Homeland Security Chief <a href="http://working-copy.local/prison-2/bernard-kerik-the-wrong-man-to-talk-about-prison-reform/" target="_blank">Bernie Kerik</a> was among those I'd written for that night as well. Even then, you could smell the opportunistic hubris of the weasel variety off that guy. And what do you know? He's now a prison reform consultant and self-proclaimed counterterrorism expert who, if you read your Google alerts, sticks his "humble" nose into <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Bernard-Kerik-ISIS-US-terrorists/2014/08/13/id/588591/" target="_blank">anything</a> he can. As a disgraced cop/inmate/Bush-Cheney stooge/author, Kerik has learned better than most how <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Leroy-Bacas-honorary-gang-name-is-Chin-Check_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die__Photo-by-Ted-Soqui.jpg.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9209" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Leroy-Bacas-honorary-gang-name-is-Chin-Check_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die__Photo-by-Ted-Soqui.jpg-300x257.jpg" alt="Baca's honorary gang name is Chin Check_Where Excuses Go to Die_Photo by Ted Soqui.jpg" width="319" height="273" /></a>to milk his creepy talent for being all things to all people. After all, Lee Baca is highly susceptible to the same maneuvering. Case in point: <a href="http://working-copy.local/celebrity/from-beat-downs-to-bear-hugs/" target="_blank">the story of how I came to be hired</a> to write these events for Donald Sterling and others offers insight into the short-con environment in which the then-Sheriff thrived. <p class="p2">I have to say, though, having spent a smidgen of time with Baca, the two are not cut from the same cloth. Here's hoping Bernie doesn't come around again to inflict his slimy influence on the post-scandal Sheriff. 'Cause I <em>think</em> Baca has a better chance of living out the rest of his years without the excuses.</p> Admitting my soft spot for the man feels odd, but I do have one. And it's okay to humanize wrongdoers. <p class="p2">Hopefully he'll take it. Clearly not everyone who is arrested, charged, or sentenced comes to terms with their justifications and rationalizations. Yet I have a feeling Baca's going to do right by his own character. And I'm looking forward to keeping tabs on his journey, even if he does start his own blog.</p> &nbsp; . 9190 2016-02-13 17:52:13 2016-02-14 00:52:13 2016-09-14 09:31:33 2016-09-14 16:31:33 closed open a-felon-just-like-me publish 0 0 post 0 American flag Apocalypse Hoosegow Bernie Kerik Beverly Hilton celebrities Character corruption criminal justice custody Donald Sterling excessive force Golden Globes heroin burrito Homeland Security Jim McDonnell law enforcement Lee Baca Lionel Richie Los Angeles County Sheriff Los Angeles County Sheriff mafia Men's Central Jail Prison reform scandal _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw_text_input Felon _yoast_wpseo_focuskw Felon _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Former LA County Sheriff Baca is a now convicted felon, like me. His blog won't be as funny as mine. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 73 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:10;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _yoast_wpseo_primary_category _wpas_skip_14201560 1 _wpas_skip_14201569 1 _yoast_wpseo_content_score 30 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1687253669;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9916;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5616;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3469;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/apples-grapple/ Mon, 29 Feb 2016 21:13:37 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=9233 <h2><span style="color: #000000;"><strong> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/UNMAC_NELSON_WHERE-EXCUSES-GO-TO-DIE.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9251" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/UNMAC_NELSON_WHERE-EXCUSES-GO-TO-DIE.jpg" alt="UNMAC_NELSON_WHERE EXCUSES GO TO DIE" width="527" height="396" /></a><span style="color: #000000;">Creation of Homeland Security not enough? </span></strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"> <strong> Office of Total Information Awareness left for the day? </strong></span> <span style="color: #000000;"> <strong> Is the heart-shaped flower of police militarization wilting?</strong></span></h2> <h2><span style="color: #000000;">Did D.A.R.P.A. go dark?</span></h2> <h2><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Has the Patriot Act pooped out? </strong></span></h2> <h2><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Nope. </strong>Nor have the corporations and power brokers of the surveillance state yet tapped out American taxpayers. </span></h2> <h2><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>In other words, the FBI does not need the Genius Bar. </strong></span></h2> From Feds to street-corner cops and home security companies, law enforcement has more than enough control, technology, and boots-on-the-ground for continued counterterrorism success. And probably lots of fun civil liberties secrets, too. The FBI has all the tools it needs and plenty more to keep American citizens safe. And when I say "safe," I mean relatively safe, just as we've been since September, 2001. Stuff <em>will</em> happen; that's just the trajectory of history, especially when we've been messing around with it as much as we have. But in trying to force Apple to write new software that will help them unlock an iPhone belonging to the perpetrator of the San Bernardino terrorist attacks, the Bureau is overstepping its constitutional bounds. Apple worries that, if they comply, anyone who can grab or mimic their software will have access to every confidence Americans hope to keep <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/02/apple-court-dont-let-fbi-failure-undermine-global-security" target="_blank">electronically secure</a>.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/FBI-Director-James-Comey_Manuel-Balce-CenetaAP.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9247" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/FBI-Director-James-Comey_Manuel-Balce-CenetaAP.jpg" alt="FBI Director James Comey_Manuel Balce Ceneta:AP" width="301" height="203" /></a>Psh. If only we'd stop thinking about "extras" like privacy. FBI Director James Comey, according to the <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-director-comments-on-san-bernardino-matter">text of a letter</a> posted to the Lawfare blog on February 21, would prefer to keep this whole thing simple enough to wish away into the cornfield. After all, it's not “about trying to set a precedent or send any kind of message,” and the relief sought by the Bureau would be “limited…its value increasingly obsolete.” Law enforcement just wants to do what we expect of them: they “simply want the chance” to take a stab at a terrorists’ passcode. Nobody is looking "to break anyone’s encryption or set a master key loose on the land.” <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Norebbo_Apple_Logos.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9248" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Norebbo_Apple_Logos-1024x768.jpg" alt="Norebbo_Apple_Logos" width="237" height="178" /></a>Yet four days later, Comey <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/director-comey-dispute-between-fbi-apple-hardest-question-ive-seen-in-government/">testified</a> before the House Intelligence Committee that the Apple issue was “the hardest question [he’s] seen in government.” And this guy signed off on the use of <a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/02/25/fbi-director-james-comey-who-signed-off-on-waterboarding-is-now-losing-sleep-over-an-iphone/">waterboarding</a>. He also helped block a shady Bush Administration attempt to reauthorize illegal <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/15/AR2007051500864.html">NSA surveillance</a> via a hospitalized John Ashcroft. So Comey is no stranger to matters of government reach. And he just oozes reasonableness as he insists the FBI shouldn’t get into the policy-making business. <strong>03/01/16 update:</strong> <em>That</em> was contradicted again today when Comey told a congressional panel that the Apple case <em>would</em> be “potentially precedential.” In other words, future (tech?) companies from which the FBI wants similar cooperation from would be more likely to immediately fall in line. How handy. And even as he talks all folksey-like about how we should join hands in sober conversation to weigh the pros and cons of this unimportant/critically important issue, Comey is recklessly tossing the baby out with the bathwater. If you listen carefully to <em>what</em> he says, it's almost as if ruling in Apple’s favor would somehow roll us back to pre-2001 and eliminate all the FBI’s since-gained access to privacy-limiting counterterrorism measures. It really sounds like he's asking: “Do you like the safety of the world we live in? 'Cause that’s all out the window if you stop us from taking this further.” Or: “We all like privacy, but anyone against the FBI in doing this clearly hates safety.” <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/TIM-COOK_UNMAC_WHERE-EXCUSES-GO-TO-DIE.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9253" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/TIM-COOK_UNMAC_WHERE-EXCUSES-GO-TO-DIE.jpg" alt="TIM COOK_UNMAC_WHERE EXCUSES GO TO DIE" width="587" height="301" /></a>What happened to reasoned and sober? According to the Pew Research Center, 51% of Americans side with the Justice Department and the FBI over Apple CEO Tim Cook's decision to defy the court-ordered unlock. But then another Pew survey shows that less than 60% of us can correctly answer questions about modern American politics, so... We live in a country where half of us are suspicious or dismissive of the other half. And we can't explain why. Instead, we either mimic others or cherry pick our news to suit our groupthink. We're simply <em>entitled</em> to stuff. So it's a bit difficult for me to jump in with the 51% consensus, and a lot easier to see an excuse in the FBI's claim of technological hardship: Calling it like I see it, I say <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>this is a law enforcement land grab.</strong></span> &nbsp; &nbsp; 9233 2016-02-29 14:13:37 2016-02-29 21:13:37 2016-09-14 09:30:21 2016-09-14 16:30:21 closed open apples-grapple publish 0 0 post 0 American Apple Bush administration Corporate counterterrorism Culture FBI G3 Genius Bar Homeland Security iPhone James Coomey John Ashcroft justice department law enforcement NSA Office Total Information Awareness Patriot Act politics San Bernardino surveillance technology terrorism Tim Cook waterboarding _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw_text_input Apple _yoast_wpseo_focuskw Apple _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Apple's grapple with the Feds makes one thing clear: The FBI doesn't need the Genius Bar.  _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 77 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:9;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _yoast_wpseo_content_score 30 _yoast_wpseo_primary_category _wpas_skip_14201560 1 _wpas_skip_14201569 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705607815;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4262;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10346;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3878;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5289;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9190;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9141;}}}} http://working-copy.local/incarceration-nation/life-in-prison-classroom/ Tue, 29 Mar 2016 20:32:58 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=9274 <h3 class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Pre-Release-Classrooms-are-the-Future-of-Prison-Reform_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8979" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Pre-Release-Classrooms-are-the-Future-of-Prison-Reform_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Pre-Release Classrooms are the Future of Prison Reform_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="484" height="322" /></a>I know life in a prison classroom, and the learning environment you may or may not find once you've taken a seat. </strong></span></h3> <p class="p1">A brief click-through of "<a href="http://www.correctionalnews.com/articles/2016/03/16/5-projects-watch-in-2016" target="_blank">5 Projects to Watch in 2016</a>" from <em><a href="http://www.correctionalnews.com/" target="_blank">Correctional News</a></em> leaves me wondering how much prison officials really know about the obstacles inmates face just getting through a detention facility's classroom door. What does it matter, you ask? Well, in an era where words like "reform," "rehabilitation," and "recidivism" are on everyone's lips, it's important to know when a component as critical as education is simply being given lip <em>service</em>.</p> <p class="p1"><em>Correctional News</em> covers prison operations, design, and construction. It celebrates grand openings and groundbreakings because imminent completion dates tend to matter to rubber mattress merchants, vendors of detection products, and shower flooring suppliers.</p> <p class="p1">Currently showcased are the <a href="https://www.clarkconstruction.com/news/clark-build-east-county-detention-center" target="_blank">East County Detention Center</a> near Palm Springs, for example, which is set to open in 2017, the <a href="http://bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/kern-county-sheriff-unveils-plan-for-110m-new-jail" target="_blank">Kern County justice facility</a> in Bakersfield, and the new Utah State Prison, among others. California being where I paid my debt to society, I tend to monitor its prison system more closely than I do others. But all of these entries have something in common, and that's my point: they feature anemic descriptions of the education facilities also under construction.<em> Rehabilitation-as-footnote</em> here, will eventually make corrections administrators and state officials look as though they're simply hanging wreaths of rehabilitation on freshly painted classroom doors and leaving it at that.<!--more--></p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/WASCO-STAYCATION_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9303" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/WASCO-STAYCATION_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="WASCO STAYCATION_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="363" height="215" /></a>After Wasco State Prison's grand opening, I spent 18-months as a teacher's assistant in <em>its</em> new "education building." The instructor for whom I clerked was told to come up with a pre-release curriculum that would prepare soon-to-parole inmates for apartment rentals, job applications, check writing, filling out California driver's license forms, and so forth. No help, no direction, just: "Here's a blackboard and some chalk: now go teach." In other words, "You figure out all this rehab stuff so we can focus on the electrical output of the perimeter fences." (Lucky for me, he was brilliant despite these obstacles.)</p> Now, at a time when the public and policymakers are presumably paying a lot more attention to the issues that communities and inmates face upon their release, it's surprising how recognizable that dismissive vibe still is. In the face of renewed interest in what may actually work to reduce recidivism (life and job training, parenting classes, and programs that teach parolees how to live), inmate education innovation is still challenged by tokenism. In California, at least, it really makes the "R" in "CDCR" feel tacked on. Behind those aforementioned perimeter fences, newly minted facilities may house pristine prison classrooms, but there's still far too little attention paid to what goes on in them. Unsupported faculty still stand at blackboards (or maybe dry erase boards), at the mercy of day-to-day operations just as inmates are at the mercy of guards to give them access (and no, Yard bullies aren't the only ones who charge "rent" just because they can). It's easy to blame outdated prison facilities for a lack of success: there's fodder galore throughout the country, and it reads well in the media. But brand new desks and chairs are no guarantee of attendance or results. I don't blame prison wardens and other facility administrators for this directly, and I didn't even while I was at Wasco. They're not (typically) evil people out to secure their jobs or avoid the guard union's wrath. Security will always be priority number one for these folks, and it should be. I'm simply suggesting there should be a number two. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/If-you-want-a-different-result-make-a-different-choice_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-8991" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/If-you-want-a-different-result-make-a-different-choice_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="If you want a different result make a different choice_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="324" height="243" /></a>Yes, back at Wasco, teachers and other civilian employees <em>were </em>thoroughly screened – but as security risks, not for their academic character. In fact, I doubt their interviews were as extensively designed as the inmate classification process. (Sacramento was desperate for bed space and opened the facility an arguable two months too soon, allowing territory-claiming troublemakers and high-level shot-callers to breach the inaugural A-yard. That first batch of teachers was either extremely misled, or brave, or both.) And since I owe my own subsequent success directly to the lengths a civilian prison educator will go to in order to set a good example  –despite preoccupied, inadequate leadership–  I <em>do</em> want to see more comprehensive measures in place. Moreover, what assurances do we, as taxpayers, have that steps are actually being taken to ensure prison classrooms are offering the sorts of effective learning strategies we're paying for? <p class="p1">And this brings me back to <em>Correctional News.</em> If educational and vocational training facilities aren't described more purposefully to builders, vendors, and administrators, how can we expect them to support an emphasis on genuine rehabilitation? I mean, congratulations to the soon-to-open facility with 105,000 square feet of glass walls, but learning environments are special too. Education wings should be described like the V8 engines we (ostensibly) want them to be, not as the chromed plastic trim surrounding our modern day rear bumpers. Are they being built and equipped for performance, or simply to look good?</p> <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Room-M-59-is-for-Closers-Only_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9296" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Room-M-59-is-for-Closers-Only_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Room M-59 is for Closers Only_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="491" height="294" /></a>Because that matters. From construction to action, when it comes to redirecting offenders rather than just recycling them, what messages are we sending? We know that boots, bars, and badasses will always come first, but do those working in penitentiary education buildings feel like islands left to fend for themselves? How do we encourage our teachers to measure success by inmate progress and parolee preparedness rather than simply by compliance? How do we, from the general public to prison administrators, set expectations – and provide appropriate environments to support those expectations – that allow educators to distinguish themselves from any other baton-wielding goons?</p> I'm not suggesting we forget that prison teachers walk a fine line between requiring obedience and encouraging the abandonment of old behaviors: I'm simply saying it <em>can</em> be done, especially if we start at the beginning. Corrections industry professionals researching which bids are being awarded to which architectural firms, joint-venture executives, and contractors need to know about more than just expansion possibilities for companies who sell steel beds, video visitation booths, and razor wire. I say it starts with builders; it starts with designing the true intended purpose of "corrections and rehabilitation" facilities into the walls themselves. They may still be made of concrete, but what speaks louder or carries more messages to inmates than the walls of a prison corridor? <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Doing-Time-Behind-the-Desk_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9297" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Doing-Time-Behind-the-Desk_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Doing Time Behind the Desk_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="345" height="254" /></a>Looking at these "5 Projects to Watch," I remember how long Wasco's classrooms sat empty. In the first year, custody brass and administrators were pulling their hair out trying to get the place to run right, but by the end of the second year the joint was so packed with bodies that education building desks were replaced with three-tiered bunks. Certainly the space was (eventually) re-converted to classrooms, but think of all the individual opportunities for growth and personal change that were lost when the Whack-A-Mole of impromptu bed space took over. Had there been better planning for and a stronger commitment to such things from the start, this might have been avoided.</p> <p class="p1">In sum, there's a lot of talk these days – in addition to good intentions and expanded education policies, reentry programs, and reform proposals – but real change starts at the top, and it starts at <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/WELCOME-TO-YOUR-COLLEGE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die1.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9299" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/WELCOME-TO-YOUR-COLLEGE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die1.jpg" alt="WELCOME TO YOUR COLLEGE_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="435" height="288" /></a>the beginning. It starts with corrections officials making deliberate design and building choices vis a vis inmate rehabilitation, recruiting committed and qualified education professionals, and ensuring that the sense of urgency for genuinely reforming inmates and preparing them for successful reentry trickles down to associate wardens, sergeants, and lieutenants.</p> Yes, keeping things calm and safe for guards, civilian employees, and even inmates is critical. But so is stepping out of the blinder-guided "jailer" role long enough for the roots of education to take hold. True anti-recidivism depends on it. And if that doesn't work? Then hard-boiled union officials, administrators, and prison guards need to recognize that those calling (and paying) for prison reform have won the big arm wrestling match for the time being. So unlock the doors, will 'ya? . 9274 2016-03-29 13:32:58 2016-03-29 20:32:58 2016-09-14 09:29:11 2016-09-14 16:29:11 closed open life-in-prison-classroom publish 0 0 post 0 badge brass California CDCR classroom Correctional News corrections industry custody detention education Incarceration Nation inspirational national dialogue on prison reform parolee prison Prison reform prisoner recidivism reentry rehabilitation Rehabilitation security taxpayers Wasco State Prison Whack-A-Mole _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw_text_input classroom _yoast_wpseo_focuskw classroom _yoast_wpseo_metadesc At a time when policymakers are paying more attention to the issues inmates face upon their release – prison education is still challenged by tokenism. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 80 _wpas_done_all 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:6;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _yoast_wpseo_primary_category _wpas_skip_14201560 1 _wpas_skip_14201569 1 _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _yoast_wpseo_content_score 30 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705607815;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7708;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8424;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7896;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10134;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7132;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8684;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/control-issues-my-ass/ Fri, 15 Apr 2016 18:55:59 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=9413 <h3 class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/HELPFUL-PARKING-INSTRUCTIONS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9365" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/HELPFUL-PARKING-INSTRUCTIONS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="HELPFUL PARKING INSTRUCTIONS_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="466" height="250" /></a><span style="color: #000000;">Yours, mine, or theirs: citing “control issues” to justify bad behavior is just another excuse. It's nonsense, too, because we don't have control issues; we have irritation reflexes, entitlements, and a need for instant gratification. These form a perfect storm in our compulsion to influence the world around us – an Achilles' heel like no other. And where do go with it? Behind the wheel. </span></h3> <h6 class="p1"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #ffcc99;">.</span> </span><!--more--></h6> <p class="p2"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Living-in-the-moment-it-doesnt-have-to-be-this-way_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8204" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Living-in-the-moment-it-doesnt-have-to-be-this-way_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Living in the moment - it doesn't have to be this way_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="203" height="258" /></a></strong></span></p> Oh, we all <em>claim</em> to know what little control we have over things, but we sure don't act like it. We don't act like it when we gripe loudly enough that others know we saw the jerk who cut in line. We don't act like it when we play up our annoyance at someone as if collecting an accountability tax. We don't act like it with wait staff or store employees we think are moving too slowly. We don't act like it when we score-keep friends' or loved ones' missteps. ...when we make charity, acceptance, affection, or forgiveness <em>conditional</em>. ...when we make a 19th-century opera out of the relocation of our lunch in the office fridge. ...when we squirm with resentment as our efforts go unrecognized.<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/NOT-ALL-PARENTS-ARE-LIKE-THIS-YES-THEY-ARE.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-7069" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/NOT-ALL-PARENTS-ARE-LIKE-THIS-YES-THEY-ARE.jpg" alt="NOT ALL PARENTS ARE LIKE THIS YES THEY ARE" width="275" height="337" /></a> ...when we wield guilt like a Lightsaber. If there's one thing in life that contradicts just about every good intention in which we can take pride, it's how we behave at our <em>perception</em> of a loss of control. We finger point, we spy on people, and we lie when faced with powerlessness. I know, I know, that's pretty grave stuff. We're not a bunch of Hitlers running around, but don't we tend to lose it when little things don't go our way?<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Courtesy-Motherlode_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9355" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Courtesy-Motherlode_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Courtesy Motherlode_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="221" height="147" /></a> And don't we gloss over our poor reactions and inability to surrender with petty excuses? You know, <em>petty</em>, <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/01/04/adhd-does-not-exist/" target="_blank">like saying we "have" ADHD</a> when we're really just too lazy or undisciplined to pay attention, or bother trying. I say it's the same with using "control issues" to justify self centered, or entitled behavior. The unattractive coping mechanism that inspired this blog –middle fingers flying in traffic– is not something I'm above: let me get that right out. But I'm drawn to the unintended messages we send when we treat each other so badly on the road. We signal to others the shortage of influence we feel we have in our lives as we seek to leave an impression on the lives of fellow motorists. In Southern California, and I'm sure elsewhere, the language of speeding up or slowing down to prevent another driver from merging toward an exit lane is common. Think about it for second. Take a mental inventory of the things you pay attention to before changing lanes. I bet it includes stuff like what you think the driver to your left might pull because of the car he or she is driving, as well as whether or not the other drivers around you remember your lack of consideration three blocks back. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/YOU-CONTROL-EVERYTHING_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9348" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/YOU-CONTROL-EVERYTHING_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="YOU CONTROL EVERYTHING_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="179" height="162" /></a>Being rude, on the road, playing dumb, and acting passive aggressive is such a pervasive phenomenon in Los Angeles that I sometimes catch myself casually faking out other control enthusiasts around me by using exactly opposite turn-signal indicators. Actually, scratch that. "Catch myself " is a little soft. This is something I practice frequently, and it works. When they flinch as if to counter, I've avoided a thwarter. I can even convince myself I've just taken a higher road for having chosen not to hang back and match their response. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/A-LIFE-WITHOUT-THREATENING-A-FEW-LAWSUITS-IS-A-LIFE-UNLIVED_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9386" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/A-LIFE-WITHOUT-THREATENING-A-FEW-LAWSUITS-IS-A-LIFE-UNLIVED_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="A LIFE WITHOUT THREATENING A FEW LAWSUITS IS A LIFE UNLIVED_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="270" height="173" /></a>Over the years, I've seen an increase in these flagrantly obstructionist and defensive tactics. It's as if more and more of us are crying out from the pain of living with some kind of short-person's syndrome. For just 5 seconds we want to matter, and we want to matter to <em>you</em>. We need to make you recognize our say in things, and our steering wheel can help us do that. We're gonna influence the way <em>someone's</em> day is playing out, by God, even in a short little burst. We have the power to make you speed up, slow down, swerve, hit the brakes, or wave your middle finger and surrender your dignity. Ha! We won! We inserted ourselves into your interests, your schedule, and your course of travel. We live in fear of <em>not</em> mattering elsewhere in our lives. But we sure mattered on that one stretch before the interchange didn't we? <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/ALL-DADBODS-GO-TO-HEAVEN_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9387" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/ALL-DADBODS-GO-TO-HEAVEN_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="ALL DADBODS GO TO HEAVEN_Control Issues_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="213" height="264" /></a>And <em>some</em> of us – lookout! It's as if the road itself were a chess board, awaiting the next unsurpassably bullying maneuver. Things get <em>really</em> out of hand when motorists engage in that form of reckless brinksmanship where the "winner" is the one who best conveys how little he or she has to lose. How asinine is <em>that</em> in light of the money Angelenos spend on their expensive (leased) Range Rovers, Audis, and BMWs? Not to mention auto insurance. And now you want to tempt bodily injury, or wind up with a manslaughter charge? Good plan. Despite all we could lose, we play as if this is some version of "bling," this ability to flaunt willful neglect at each other. The rage was first kicked off, of course, by our sense that another person has more control over their lives than we do, or a general need to compensate for our own lack of daily self-determination. The point is, we drive like an assholes on a bath salt high 'cause we can't allow someone to get over on us when the light turns green. Cut us off? We'll cut <em>you</em> off! How many of us have dismissed or rationalized these (and other) dumb-ass moves with, " I have control issues." <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-presents__Handy-Justifiers-for-Driver-No-Nos.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9390" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-presents__Handy-Justifiers-for-Driver-No-Nos.jpg" alt="Where Excuses Go to Die presents__Handy Justifiers for Driver No-Nos" width="675" height="281" /></a>In the end, where our excuses <em>will</em> go to die is at the scene of an accident we've caused, where cops are cuffing us or where we can watch paramedics give CPR to the guy in the Ford truck upon whom we've exacted revenge <em>on behalf of the rest of "us"</em> (those who drive more responsibly than he). You're welcome. Crazy, isn't it? Yeah, and, as we all know – increasingly <em>criminal</em>. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Severe-Third-Reich-Anxiety_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9395" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Severe-Third-Reich-Anxiety_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Severe Third Reich Anxiety_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="190" height="242" /></a>Today's blog is dedicated to the conversation I overheard in a restaurant last weekend. Two diners were sitting a booth over; I eavesdropped as one confessed they'd essentially intimidated another driver to the point of forcing a near collision. But that other driver had wrangled their way <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/WHEN-MOE-HOWARD-ATTACKS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9392" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/WHEN-MOE-HOWARD-ATTACKS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Control Issues and MOE HOWARD_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="261" height="255" /></a>back up through the gridlock to pull alongside this person and throw a heavy metallic object, which shattered the confessor's windshield and provided a genuine wakeup call. Why did they allow themselves to be caught up in such an absurdly counterproductive game in the first place? You guessed it: "I dunno. I obviously have control issues." [The icing on this cupcake of hypocrisy is: "And it happened in a school zone! Can you believe it!?" Ha! More like YOU happened in the school zone.] It wasn't even the wholly transparent control issue excuse that got me thinking, either. It was how <em>accepting</em> of it the dinner companion had been in response. Is the idiotic behavior inspired by a lack of control <em>so</em> relatable it only rates a shrug? Then God help us, for we really don't know the <em>nonsense</em> we do. . &nbsp; I eavesdropped as one confessed they'd essentially intimidated another driver to the point of forcing a near collision. "I dunno. "I have control issues." 9413 2016-04-15 11:55:59 2016-04-15 18:55:59 2016-09-14 09:27:24 2016-09-14 16:27:24 closed open control-issues-my-ass publish 0 0 post 0 Achilles' heel ADHD Audi bath salt bling BMW control issues CPR Culture entitlement Excuses Ford Hitler instant gratification insurance lightsaber Los Angeles Range Rover Southern California traffic Volvo _edit_last 1 _flare_counts a:6:{s:7:"twitter";i:0;s:8:"facebook";i:0;s:10:"googleplus";i:0;s:8:"linkedin";i:0;s:9:"pinterest";i:0;s:5:"email";b:0;} _wpas_done_all 1 _wpas_skip_14201569 1 _yoast_wpseo_primary_category _wpas_skip_14201560 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw_text_input control issues _yoast_wpseo_focuskw control issues _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 78 _yoast_wpseo_content_score 30 _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706630122;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9019;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2233;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:283;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/terror-gender-neutral-toilets/ Mon, 30 May 2016 17:00:03 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=9442 <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/All-Gender-All-Spendor_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9439" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/All-Gender-All-Spendor_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="All Gender Splendor_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="298" height="298" /></a></b></span></p> <h3 class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: #000000;">Not since the <i>Satanic Panic </i>of the 1980s have we seen as much moral alarmism and fear mongering as we're now enduring, with today's terror over gender-neutral toilets.</span></span></h3> Texas and 10 other states filed suit last week challenging the U.S. Justice and Education Departments' <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/file/850986/download">issuance</a> of an Obama directive instructing public schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms matching their gender identity. <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Supporters of the lawsuit, filed in a Texas federal court, say the move is designed to protect women and children (presumably from "unemployed homosexuals, deviants, rapists, transgenders, and other sodomites from every state"). Though the <em>actual</em> threat from these jobless homo-nazis is practically nonexistent, according to the Justice Department and others, Texas says it will <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-tennessee-alabama-states-suing-obama-transgender-directive/">forfeit</a> $10 billion in federal funding for education rather than carry out the so-called "bathroom law." BTW, asked</span> if he knows of any instances in which a child's safety has been threatened by transgender bathroom rights, Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has replied, "there's not a lot of research."</p> But foot-stomping is so much more fun (and vote-garnering!) than adaptive social functioning, isn't it? <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/MOBILIZED-MORAL-ARMY_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9460" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/MOBILIZED-MORAL-ARMY_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="MOBILIZED MORAL ARMY_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="445" height="139" /></a>Just ask those groups that tend to be miserly in their allocation of civil rights (naturally named for truth, justice, and family values), such as the American Family Association. In response to Target's embrace of the new guidelines, the AFA has encouraged “Boycott Target” pledges that have reportedly been signed by more than <a href="https://www.afa.net/action-alerts/sign-the-boycott-target-pledge/">1.2 million people</a>. <a href="http://www.f2a.org/">Faith2Action</a>, a “pro-active launching pad for the pro-family movement,” is going a step further and organizing a “Don’t Target Our Daughters Day” on June 4 (4 days before Target’s annual shareholders’ meeting). Not surprisingly, they’re calling it “a moment to stand together” and warn shoppers, via sidewalk protest, about Target’s policy of allowing “predators and sex offenders” into women’s restrooms and fitting rooms. But safety seems to be little more than pretext for these folks, whose real message is that civil rights are just not for everyone. <p class="p3"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Lili-Von-Shtupp_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9461" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Lili-Von-Shtupp_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Lili Von Shtupp_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="208" height="169" /></a>There's also the fact that Euro-Western science has traditionally viewed sperm as determined, forceful, and self directed: a treasure the male body cranks out by the millions. (<em>"<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUspLVStPbk">Every sperm is sacred...</a>"</em>) Not so much with their counterpart, women’s eggs, described passively in textbooks as laying there like Lili Von Shtupp from <em>Blazing Saddles</em>, waiting for purpose to be provided by men.</p> <p class="p3"><span class="s1">Even after sperm were <a href="http://web.stanford.edu/~eckert/PDF/Martin1991.pdf"><span class="s2">exposed</span></a> for the bad swimmers they really are, this thinking persisted. Despite the molecular magnetism of sperm and eggs being very much equal, the biochemistry we’re taught is predisposed to belittle and objectify femininity (<em>how womantic).</em> So we wind up attempting to educate and enlighten, but only after climbing the walls of absolutism, aggression, and assumption that men and boys are taught to build around the “weaker” sex.</span></p> Gender empowerment and equal rights for transgender students means pushing past such a culturally conditional education. Transcending compliance-based teachings is a hard lesson for everyone, yet here we are. <p class="p3"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Scuse-me-while-I-hike-up-my-skirt_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9463" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Scuse-me-while-I-hike-up-my-skirt_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="Scuse me while I hike up my skirt_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="236" height="140" /></a>Personally, I don't care who uses which restroom, 'cause when I've gotta pee, I've gotta <em>pee</em>! That's my priority. My job is to be courteous, not critical, and quick, not controversial (or conversational, for that matter). I wanna get in, get it done, and get out. If eliminating urinals makes someone feel better about the whole thing, be my guest. But Fox News-inspired Twitter chatter of the day has me wary of Potty Karate Dadbods patrolling toilets and deciding who's too girly lookin' (i.e. <em>weak</em>) to use a men's room. And why? Has someone encountered waves of teeth-grinding sodomites? Are packs of perverts in mini-skirts organizing <em>right now</em> to prey on straight dudes and kids? Please. You watch: before these vigilantes find their evildoers, a number of 'em will "accidentally" find blow jobs.</p> <p class="p3"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/PERVERTS-ARE-WAITING-FOR-YOU-TO-DROP-YOUR-GUARD_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9464" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/PERVERTS-ARE-WAITING-FOR-YOU-TO-DROP-YOUR-GUARD_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="PERVERTS ARE WAITING FOR YOU TO DROP YOUR GUARD_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="249" height="142" /></a>As for those who fear the hordes of rapists in maternity wear who've just been given license to haunt ladies' rooms in search of unsuspecting victims: I'd like to redirect your attention to a social problem that <em>actually</em> exists: perhaps sexual assault or domestic abuse. Childhood poverty's a good one too. My point is, there are so many to choose from that I wonder why anyone would need this trendy new outrage by which to draw attention to him or herself.</p> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/THE-JAWS-OF-HOMOPHOBIA_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9471" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/THE-JAWS-OF-HOMOPHOBIA_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="THE JAWS OF HOMOPHOBIA_Where Excuses Go to Die" width="212" height="171" /></a>In terms of education, the reality is this: The best school there is requires only that students put their feet in other people's shoes. Class over. At the heart of the matter – be it transgender, LGBT, or <em>any</em> other individual – everyone just wants to feel "a part of" our human community. What's so terrible about greeting social uncertainty with kindness? There's no real terror in gender-neutral toilets if we can <a href="http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/291971/evangelist-heckler-high-school-transgender-bathroom-rights/">get over ourselves</a> and our trained prejudices. <p class="p3">I, for one, vow not use superficial unease as an excuse to declare someone else's gender empowerment evil, distasteful, biologically wrong, or against the Bible. Who am I to say? And no, I don't care if transgender persons <em>are</em> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/target-preacher-new-york-school_us_57472debe4b055bb11717982">breaking Jesus' heart</a>: I'm not wasting my brainpower on the sidewalk court of moral justice.</p> <p class="p3">Because<em> I've gotta pee!</em></p> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Media-Matters.jpg"><img class="aligncenter wp-image-9467 size-full" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Media-Matters.jpg" alt="Media Matters" width="800" height="824" /></a> 9442 2016-05-30 10:00:03 2016-05-30 17:00:03 2017-04-24 12:16:13 2017-04-24 19:16:13 closed open terror-gender-neutral-toilets publish 0 0 post 0 "bathroom law" alarmism Bible Blazing Saddles Culture Education Department every sperm is sacred fear Fox News gender identity Gender Neutral Gender-Neutral Toilets Homophobia justice department LGBT Lili Von Shtupp Obama restrooms satanic panic terror Texas Transgender Twitter weaker sex _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw_text_input Gender-Neutral Toilets _yoast_wpseo_focuskw Gender-Neutral Toilets _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Not since the Satanic Panic of the 1980s have we seen as much moral alarmism and fear mongering as with today's terror over gender-neutral toilets. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 84 _yoast_wpseo_primary_category 132 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _wpas_done_all 1 _wpas_skip_14201560 1 _wpas_skip_14201569 1 _yoast_wpseo_content_score 30 _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706466142;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8634;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10880;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2757;}}}} http://working-copy.local/comfort-zone-2/to-stand-or-not-to-stand/ Thu, 08 Sep 2016 00:56:04 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=9474 <h2 class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/TO-STAND-OR-NOT-STAND_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9511" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/TO-STAND-OR-NOT-STAND_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="to-stand-or-not-stand_where-excuses-go-to-die" width="270" height="362" /></a>In high school I stitched an American flag to the seat of my pants and marched onto campus. Just before 3rd period a friend said, "You've gotta get out of here: the whole football team's looking for you!”</span></strong></span></h2> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">I was beaming as I headed down the hallway, but the Vice Principal caught me on my way out. He calmly escorted me to his office, then locked the door, shoved me against his desk, and threatened my life. The pain and anger in his eyes as he described guys my age who'd died in his arms in Vietnam showed me far better than any lecture that I'd bitten off more than I could chew.</span></p> <span class="s1">That began a lifelong need to understand the American flag. All these years later I can't say I have any real answers, but I do have a relationship with the Stars &amp; Stripes that's filled with regrets, worry, and growth. The last one is what I'm most proud of. </span><span class="s1"> </span><!--more--> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/THIS-IS-A-PROTEST-SYMBOL-POWERED-BY-YOUR-PERCEPTION_where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-e1473722595814.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9504" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/THIS-IS-A-PROTEST-SYMBOL-POWERED-BY-YOUR-PERCEPTION_where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-e1473722595814.jpg" alt="this-is-a-protest-symbol-powered-by-your-perception_where-excuses-go-to-die" width="497" height="254" /></a>A few years went by before I chose to stay seated during the national anthem, just as San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, Seattle Seahawks' Jeremy Lane, and soccer star Megan Rapinoe have controversially done. When questioned, I rattled off a number of domestic and international grievances to support my protest. The incident with the Vice Principal was of course on my mind, so I also felt compelled to distinguish these issues from the men and women like him who'd lost or sacrificed something under the colors in question. </span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">And even though my actions were still met with widespread agreement that I just didn't "get it,” <em>I</em> knew I'd grown up a bit. I wasn't anti-American: I was just resistant to blind allegiance. Weren't most people? I felt like t</span>he statement I was making was less dismissible.</p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Yet almost without exception I was isolated whenever I stayed seated. So the hell with it: I began standing again, occasionally by giving a protest-adjacent groan when I rose to my feet. I spent years like that; on one hand disappointed in myself for acquiescing to mediocrity, but on the other – jump-starting arguments elsewhere in order to scratch that itch. </span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">I do recall standing on the fire escape of Hollywood's Palace Theater in 1990. Public Enemy was on stage, mid-encore. I had a view of the audience at the foot of the stage, Chuck D on the mic, and of the north parking lot beneath and behind me. Beyond that, rolling down the Vine Street hill, were hook-and-ladder firetrucks, next to which marched two columns of LAPD officers in what was then considered "full riot gear".</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/It-Takes-a-Nation-of-Matches_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9528" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/It-Takes-a-Nation-of-Matches_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="it-takes-a-nation-of-matches_where-excuses-go-to-die" width="416" height="259" /></a>Below me, entrance, exit, balcony, and fire escape doors had all been opened in advance of the performance's ending and the crowd's dispersal. The LAPD helicopter hovered low overhead, invading everything with its spotlight. The band launched into "Fight the Power" as the fire trucks lined up to funnel the soon-to-be-exiting audience directly into the police batons. Someone tossed a small American flag at Chuck D's feet, which he picked up</span><span class="s1"> and showed to the audience, turning it upside down in a maritime signal of distress. </span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">“Burn it! Burn it! Burn it!” many in the audience began to chant. But Chuck wouldn't do it. I'll never forget how his shoulders slumped in disappointment or watching him shake his head because <em>they just didn't get it</em>. It was an important milestone for me. </span><span class="s1">The man had the social, political, and certainly theatrical motivation to give in, but'd stood strong for his principles and his own interpretation of the flag's merit and meaning. </span> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/PROTEST-SYMBOL__Where_Excuses_Go_to_Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9475" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/PROTEST-SYMBOL__Where_Excuses_Go_to_Die.jpg" alt="PROTEST SYMBOL__Where_Excuses_Go_to_Die" width="150" height="338" /></a>Sometimes I wish I'd been born less demanding of flexibility from Old Glory. That night, I learned that the flag's flexibility comes from <em>me</em>. It's not the flag's job (or America's) to understand how I interpret my patriotism. It's <i>my</i> job to explain my interpretation – and to not do so in a self-congratulating or dismissive way.</p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Sure, there are moments when I’m overtaken by good ‘ol fashioned <a href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/making-room-for-goosebumps/">sidewalk gratitude</a> for the accomplishments the flag represents, but I'm the sort to view actions like Chuck's that night as some of the most patriotic I've seen (certainly from non-vets in the public eye). </span><span class="s1">I'm proud of this country when I see it catching up to the rest of the world in certain ways, but try explaining <em>that</em>. </span></p> <p class="p1">We could also all stand to remember that the American flag was designed to be a big fat middle finger to the British Empire. First and foremost, it <em>is</em> a protest symbol. I can't help but think that Chuck D knew this and was bummed his audience didn't recognize the act of burning an American flag as actually <em>redundant. </em>Why burn it when you can use it?</p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">What the American flag is <em>not</em> is a banner for jingoistic saber-rattling. It's not an excuse to avoid making an honest effort to understand positions and beliefs other than our own. Because without that effort, you can stand up, puff out your chest, remove your hat...and your tribute to <em>this</em> protest symbol will be no less hollow. </span></p> . <p class="p1"><span style="color: #800000;"><strong><span class="s1"><a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2016/09/colin_kaepernick_s_protest_is_working.html" target="_blank">Colin Kaepernick’s Protest Is Working </a></span></strong></span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="s1">Critics of the quarterback dismissed his national anthem of protest and called him an idiot. Who's the idiot now?</span></span></p> <p class="p1">.</p> <p class="p1"><span style="color: #800000;"><strong><span class="s1"> </span></strong></span></p> <p class="p1"></p> 9474 2016-09-07 17:56:04 2016-09-08 00:56:04 2016-12-02 11:32:07 2016-12-02 18:32:07 closed open to-stand-or-not-to-stand publish 0 0 post 0 "Fight the Power" American flag British Empire Chuck D Colin Kaepernick Comfort Zone Culture high school Hollywood Jeremy Lane LAPD Megan Rapinoe national anthem old glory Palace Theater patriotism police power protest Public Enemy San Francisco 49ers Seattle Seahawks Stars &amp; Stripes symbol taxpayers United States veterans Vietnam _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_content_score 30 _yoast_wpseo_primary_category 122 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _yoast_wpseo_focuskw_text_input American flag _yoast_wpseo_focuskw American flag _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Stitching an American flag to the seat of my pants and marching onto campus began a lifelong need to understand the flag. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 79 _wpas_done_all 1 _wpas_skip_14201560 1 _wpas_skip_14201569 1 _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705607814;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8614;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1262;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9190;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1502;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:362;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10799;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/its-just-words-folks/ Mon, 17 Oct 2016 05:32:53 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=9557 <h2 class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;"><span class="s1"><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/NOTES-FROM-A-NON-PARENT-11.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9558" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/NOTES-FROM-A-NON-PARENT-11.jpg" alt="notes-from-a-non-parent-11" width="416" height="266" /></a>I called my mom a "bitch" once. She spun and dropped as if to shoulder my head against the stove.</strong> </span></span></h2> <p class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span class="s1">"Don't ever call a woman that," she warned, her finger in my face. "It means you hate women. Only idiots use that word." </span></strong></span></p> <p class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span class="s1">I panicked and thought <em>Wait, I don't hate women!</em></span></strong></span></p> <strong><span class="s1"><span style="color: #000000;">Her signature door-slammer, "idiot," was always effective too. A</span><span style="color: #000000;">s in, "If you stick a needle in your arm – you're an idiot." </span></span></strong> <p class="p1"><strong><span class="s1"><span style="color: #000000;">And my mom's lesson had legs: I soon learned it also applied to the other words boys around me were using to describe women and their parts. </span></span></strong><span class="s1"> </span><!--more--></p> <h3 class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/PUSSY.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9583" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/PUSSY.jpg" alt="pussy" width="214" height="217" /></a>Words to live by...  </strong></span></span></h3> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><em><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Pussy</strong></span></em>, the gateway-word to objectification. </span><span class="s1">For most boys, "development" demands indoctrination into a largely bullying culture where this early groupthink standard serves as the definition of weakness and fear. </span></p> Of course "pussy" –the whole psycho-linguistic package– makes it an uphill climb for boys to relate to girls despite offering expediency within their own gender. This is the essence of so-called "locker room talk," which some defend as harmless and others, like me, associate with difficult-to-avoid roasting of girls. High school locker rooms can be meat grinders, as we know, which makes locker room talk apologists and back-peddlers that much more ignorant. <span class="s1"><img class="alignright wp-image-9587" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Adolescent-Liferaft_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="adolescent-liferaft_where-excuses-go-to-die" width="535" height="151" />When young boys gather, they become their own little life raft floating atop approaching waves of adolescence and the world's countless uncertainties. They trade boasts about pussy and assure each other of fantastic, pussy-related things. Girls, on the other hand, are groomed to be on the receiving end of emotions neither sex yet comprehends, <em>and</em> they're expected to process their own changes at the same time (after all, girls "mature faster"). The resulting anxiety forces girls to act tougher, i.e. more masculine.</span> <strong><img class="alignleft wp-image-9588" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LORD-OF-THE-GUYS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="lord-of-the-guys_where-excuses-go-to-die" width="172" height="247" /></strong>You've gotta get 'em early if you want to help boys understand that, although use of such vulgarities may be exciting and directing such words at male peers seems harmless – it reinforces a devaluation of girl/womanhood. Whether the raw material of leaders and followers can be traced back to childhood, it's early on that the risk-averse discover safety in mimicry. In a group of men or boys, the copycats always cackle the loudest, while the curious look outside the circle and the noble question the bossy. <em>That</em><em>'s</em> a pattern you can count on. My gut has always told me to avoid guys standing around talking about pussy, but I wasn't born knowing that <em>none of us is as dumb as all of us.</em> W<span class="s1">hen it comes to my own, mostly discerning application of the word, I'm a rationalizing hypocrite with no excuses to offer. Nor am I exempt from the saying, <em>when we argue for our limitations, we get to keep 'em</em>. </span> <span style="color: #000000;"><em><strong><img class="alignright wp-image-9582" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/THE-CURE-FOR-CUNT.jpg" alt="the-cure-for-cunt" width="112" height="119" />Cunt</strong> </em></span>appropriately rhymes with <em>blunt</em> and is a next-stage sorta deal for latent and blatant misogynists. "Cunt" is <em>aggressive</em> objectification. (For me it also carries a connotation of bad luck. I can't say why; it just does.) Uncouth American men usually bumble its delivery, making it come off as hostile and pea-brained. Yes, it's colloquial in England and they can get away with it. So what? Let 'em have it <em>and</em> their kidney pudding. For the Brits, "cunt" is informal. For us, it's informative. <span class="s1"><span style="color: #000000;"><em><strong><img class="alignleft wp-image-9593" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/F.jpg" alt="f" width="114" height="97" />Faggot</strong></em></span> is another prize of boys and young men. "Faggot" lent my mom's warning some perspective, too, since</span><span class="s1"> it was shouted at me from passing cars and growled into my face when I got cornered by jocks at school. This was back when open hostility toward kids in torn jeans, colored hair, Converse All-Stars, safety pins, and studded wristbands was an accepted defense of family values. What's my point? <em>Privilege.</em> It didn't matter that I'm straight: desensitization to the word was so pervasive that those of us <em>not</em> peering out at the world from a closet had the luxury of taking "faggot" as a challenge to fight, rather than letting the word isolate and torment us.</span> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><img class="alignright wp-image-9597" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Wire-Cutters_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="wire-cutters_where-excuses-go-to-die" width="106" height="107" />The first time I heard the word <em><strong>d</strong><strong>yke</strong></em> I understood it to be a loser's impotent venom, 'cause it always seemed to be spat at girls who declined a guy's advances. If it's also used by women who dig other women, I’ve never heard any of <em>them</em> punch each with it across a bar. </span>Plus, here on the west coast, I'm pretty sure the slur fell out of favor somewhere in the 80s. Maybe it's still popular to accuse an aloof woman of being a lesbian by way of "dyke" in some regions: I freely admit to being out of the lexicon loop on verbal assault in the suburbs of Buffalo and Ft Lauderdale.</p> <em><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Tomboy</strong></span></em> didn't <em>seem</em> to be intended as an insult when I was a kid, but it's arguably "dyke junior" in retrospect. I usually liked girls <img class="alignleft wp-image-9599" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Photo-Courtesy-LInda-Daniels_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="photo-courtesy-linda-daniels_where-excuses-go-to-die" width="121" height="125" />described this way: assertive girls who weren't handcuffed to what the other girls were into, <em>Hell</em> yeah. Linda Daniels, an eighth-grade hero of mine and still a friend , met this criteria. She skateboarded to school and happened to sport blue hair, barbed bracelets, big boots, and Black Flag bars. Outside the gymnasium one day, I was surrounded by some boys targeting me for my own attire. Linda came out of nowhere and jumped in front of me, swinging her skateboard back 'n forth, yelling for them to leave us alone. "You wanna get slapped around, <em>bitch</em>?" demanded the lead dummy, but it was he and his friends who backed off. This has nothing to do with "tomboy" or mannish qualities, but <em>everything</em> to do with mistaking female for frail.<img class="alignright wp-image-9602" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Frito-Ban-Fuck-You_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="frito-ban-fuck-you_where-excuses-go-to-die" width="172" height="202" /> <em><strong><span style="color: #000000;">Mexican</span></strong></em> was personal 'cause my dad is white and my mom isn't; I'd committed to making my attitude and appearance louder than my heritage in order to compensate for the mixed bag of messages. At St. Bernardine's Catholic School, I heard "beaner" and <span class="s1">"<a href="https://youtu.be/_jfthrlClew?t=4s">Frito Bandito</a>," but</span> my brothers and I were #blessed. From what must've been kindergarten on, <em>our</em> acquaintances were subject to my mom's observations and opinions, and it's clear she enjoyed suggesting who among our classmates and neighbors may have been idiots. <img class="alignleft wp-image-9603" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Cyanide-Happiness.jpg" alt="cyanide-happiness" width="276" height="119" />I never personally heard adults using <span style="color: #000000;"><strong><em>Jew</em></strong></span> in a derogatory manner. In our neighborhood, Jewish kids ran around with the rest of us fortunate enough to live in a diverse LA suburb. I remember very clearly, however, what I felt or pieced together as a five-year-old, and every once in a while the conversational tones of some adults would drop when certain moms and dads were referenced. On each occasion it seemed harder to dismiss. As a family, we attended a dozen bar and bat mitzvahs, and I can still picture who, from our community, <em>wasn't</em> there. Some children may not be good at math, but a lot of us excelled at social calculus. <img class="alignleft wp-image-9615" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/PeckerWoods-on-Parade_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="peckerwoods-on-parade_where-excuses-go-to-die" width="89" height="89" />I hate the word <strong><em>nigger</em></strong> because it whispers its right to be among us, forcing users to make excuses for it. It’s a chunk of broken cement that has, for too many people, disguised itself as a Fabergé egg. No need to guess how often the word was thrown around at <em>our</em> family dinner table. Instead, here's <a href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/hate-word-nigger/">a previous post</a>, which describes what it feels like to hear that word 300 times a day, morning noon and night, for years.<img class="alignright wp-image-9626" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Douchebag-Venn-diagram.jpg" alt="douchebag-venn-diagram" width="254" height="299" /> Nowadays, everyone likes to call everyone <span style="color: #000000;"><strong><em>douchebag,</em></strong></span> and I just can't do it. The word pronounces weird. (I don't trust it either, in the same way "cunt" feels cursed.) And there are so many variances! <span class="s1">Douche-wad, Douche-burp, Douche-knuckle, Douche-hole, Douche-nugget, Douche-kabob, Douche-waffle, Douche-pocalypse, and so on. To each and every one</span> of 'em, all I can say is "Eew." I do use <em><strong>dick-bag</strong></em> occasionally instead, though it's not without flaws. Why you'd refer to a person as an actual <em>bag of dicks</em>, I don't know. It only makes sense if they're <em>such</em> a dick that you need multiple and varying sized dicks to represent how much of a dick they are. One word that I can't seem to shake is <span style="color: #000000;"><em><strong>retard</strong></em></span>. Retard <em>can</em> be hurtful and I recognize that, but of God's many insult-options, (John 1:1:3) this is the most applicable to, "If the shoe fits..." I know we're not <img class="alignleft wp-image-9609" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Retarded-God.jpg" alt="retarded-god" width="93" height="141" />supposed to use it anymore, and I need to check my privilege here, but if <em>ever</em> there was a word beaten into my brain growing up, it's "retard." It's nearly impossible to be a good example to my young nephews and choose the "higher road" when faced with the opportunity of tell their father his sons are retarded. And while I finally know for sure that Tommy, my friend of 42 years, isn't technically mentally disabled, just last week he was being <em>totally</em> retarded and I was forced to tell him so. We're not currently speaking, and I think the simple fool unfriended me, so next time I'll just mail him some literature on helping those we love who are afflicted with mental retardation. But in the meantime: <ul> <li><a title="Category:Sexism" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sexism">Sexism</a></li> <li><a title="Category:Homophobia" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Homophobia">Homophobia</a></li> <li><a title="Category:Transphobia" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Transphobia">Transphobia</a></li> </ul> <span class="s1">...are ones the world needs us to understand better, to navigate more intelligently, and to bring to the attention of children immediately. Sometimes I listen as parent friends justify delaying an explanation of where lines involving others' dignity should be drawn. You know, like claiming it's too soon for little Graydon to be exposed to stress or "village anxiety." </span>When that comes back to haunt 'em, an excuse way too frequently used is "It's just words..." Now <em>that's</em> idiotic. <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>This has been <em>Notes from a Non-parent #11</em></strong></span> . 9557 2016-10-16 22:32:53 2016-10-17 05:32:53 2016-12-04 10:30:20 2016-12-04 17:30:20 closed open its-just-words-folks publish 0 0 post 0 adolescence American Black Flag boys Converse All-Stars Culture desensitization dignity family values Frito Bandito Ft Lauderdale girls Homophobia locker room talk men misogynist Notes from a Non-Parent Notes from a Non-parent objectification pussy sexism Southern California transphobia women words _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_content_score 30 _yoast_wpseo_primary_category 1142 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _yoast_wpseo_focuskw_text_input Words _yoast_wpseo_focuskw Words _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Boys teach each other to use words that make it an uphill climb for them to relate to girls. This is the essence of so-called "locker room talk." _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 81 _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _wpas_skip_14201560 1 _wpas_skip_14201569 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705607814;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7064;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:922;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:412;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1816;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1030;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10799;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/time-to-stop-making-excuses/ Sun, 04 Dec 2016 17:39:47 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=9702 <h2><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Unfortunate-Person-Comics_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9723" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Unfortunate-Person-Comics_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="unfortunate-person-comics_where-excuses-go-to-die" width="445" height="571" /></a>Oh, there are plenty of reasons to be frustrated with the world around us. And I <em>do</em> care who you voted for: I'm just not making excuses for letting it live on my shoulder and whisper in my ear.</span></h2> I'm tired of tolerating increasingly thin justifications from friends and family to be – and remain – outraged. Never mind that I, too, am offended, righteously indignant, morally and socially insulted and feeling betrayed (I mean, <a href="http://www.badsanta2.com"><em>Bad Santa 2</em></a>? Really?). Why contribute to the stream of bitterness that's become a raging river? Yes, rationalizing has gotten hyper-stupid. After this year, our cop-outs have developed an overlapping quality where contexts mingle because we offer so many. It's as though we need Venn diagrams or flow charts to see them clearly. How many excuses do<em> I</em> make in a day? Well shit, I'm afraid to ask, for fear of being shown self-awarded behavior exemptions I don't even know I'm making. But whether on a community level, a national level, or by ourselves in line at the grocery store, too many people seem to think they're entitled to comfort zones in which their irritation reflexes and rude or hurtful antics can't be called out for the warm-fart coping skills they are. <!--more--> <h2 class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Small-minded-maladjusted-shortsighted-and-really-stupid__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9726" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Small-minded-maladjusted-shortsighted-and-really-stupid__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="small-minded-maladjusted-shortsighted-and-really-stupid__where-excuses-go-to-die" width="252" height="230" /></a><span style="color: #000000;">And this is all compounded by the fact that:</span></h2> <p class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Social and broadcast media lock us into an asinine, counterintuitive spectrum of emotions and empathies. </strong></span><span style="color: #000000;">It's time to stop making excuses for thinking your victimhood or martyrdom (or exercise regimen) is more valuable than someone else's. Whoever is right, wrong, or just plain dumb will be revealed in time, when fate gets the last laugh. Until then, prepare for the second coming of Christ. (I'm kidding. Just be good to yourself and stop making excuses for rubbing your perceptions of loss, gain, or guilt in other people's faces.) </span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Not-Being-Watched_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9737" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Not-Being-Watched_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="not-being-watched_where-excuses-go-to-die" width="315" height="251" /></a>The Internet pushes us to be all things to all people – not to mention grounded, principled, confident, invigorated and pretty.</strong></span> It's definitely time to stop making excuses for grazing on Anxiety Grass*. Have friends or co-workers who won't shut up about nuclear winters and civilization's downfall and government moon theft? Lead by example and change the dialogue. Don't run and hide, just actively choose more productive conversations. And let people <em>hear</em> you "going high when others go low." Grounded, principled, confident, invigorated and pretty will latch on to you before you know it.</span></p> <p class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>We tell each other not to fall for materialism but yearn to show we're comfortable and lucky (at least compared to the next guy).</strong></span> It's time to stop making excuses for ignoring that homeless person at the bottom of the exit ramp. Challenge yourself. Keep your precious two dollars if you must, but look him or her in the eye and wish 'em well. Get a spine and get kind – you can share that for free.</p> <p class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/THE-UNIVERSE-IS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9730" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/THE-UNIVERSE-IS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="the-universe-is_where-excuses-go-to-die" width="434" height="346" /></a>We're pulled in more directions than our practical spirituality can handle; ideologically and culturally we're short-circuiting like bad toasters. </strong></span> It's time to stop making excuses for not meditating. There, I said it. Go meditate. Find a rock in the park and stare at it. Write a poem; make it funny. The struggle for the right words is hard and wonderful, solitary and important. Paint something; build something; learn something. Find a reason and find a way to carve alone-time into your schedule. Then defend it. And whether it's about listening to God or listening to yourself, the point is the listening. 'Cause when you're listening, you're not fucking talking. Now <em>that's</em> practical spirituality.</p> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Sore winners, sore losers...it's getting to where you can't tell the immature from the spoiled.</strong></span> It's time to stop making excuses for being willingly captive to a collective, hysterical impatience that robs us of both dignity<em> and</em> potential. Start with you. Be teachable first and then make the changes you want to see in the world. In other words, <em>"Get character or become one.</em>" And if we're serious about doing <em>that</em>, it's time to stop making excuses<span class="s1">. </span> <h6>*A collaborative effort from <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/">DARPA</a> and <a href="http://www.monsanto.com/">Monsanto</a>.</h6> . 9702 2016-12-04 10:39:47 2016-12-04 17:39:47 2016-12-16 19:50:25 2016-12-17 02:50:25 closed open time-to-stop-making-excuses publish 0 0 post 0 anxiety Bad Santa 2 comfort zone coping skills crybaby Culture DARPA Excuses excuses get character or become one God meditate Monsanto Rapture spirituality _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_content_score 60 _yoast_wpseo_primary_category 3 _publicize_twitter_user @defcon_john _yoast_wpseo_focuskw_text_input making excuses _yoast_wpseo_focuskw making excuses _yoast_wpseo_metadesc It's time to stop making excuses for being willingly captive to a collective, hysterical impatience that robs us of both dignity and potential. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 85 _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705607813;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5800;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2444;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:298;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3809;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4346;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4866;}}}} http://working-copy.local/winner-excuse-of-the-year/2016-excuse-of-the-year/ Sat, 17 Dec 2016 02:49:51 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=9750 <h1 class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/2016_Excuse-of-theYear_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9784" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/2016_Excuse-of-theYear_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="2016_excuse-of-the-year_where-excuses-go-to-die" width="446" height="416" /></a><span style="color: #000000;">And the 2016 Golden Excuse is:</span></h1> <h2 class="p1"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em><span class="s1">"He just calls it like he sees it."</span></em></span></h2> <h2 class="p1"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em><span class="s1">"He says what we're thinking.”</span></em></span></h2> <h2 class="p1"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><em><span class="s1">"He tells it like it is."</span></em></span></h2> <h2 class="p1"><span class="s1" style="color: #000000;">Three versions of the same excuse-to-pulverize, now a political allegory, courtesy of the charisma of crude. </span></h2> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">If "blunt" is a merit by which sincerity, mental acuity, and humor can be measured, it's also an appraisal of manners. Because for those of grace, wit, or old age, plain speaking <em>can</em> be charming. </span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">But... </span></p> <p class="p1" style="text-align: right;">.<!--more--></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Inverted-Animals-by-Kent-Rogowski__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.png"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9787" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Inverted-Animals-by-Kent-Rogowski__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.png" alt="Inverted-animals-by-kent-rogowski__where-excuses-go-to-die" width="386" height="302" /></a>...2016 saw the art of frankness reduced to a sort of collateral damage score, showing others how many you've browbeaten. “Blunt" is now a body count, a badge of honor for barnyard farts. So this year's winner just wouldn't be denied. Not even when stacked upside the convenient claim of early onset Alzheimer's by disgraced former LA Sheriff Lee Baca prior to his federal corruption trial (and he and I <a href="http://working-copy.local/character-2/a-felon-just-like-me/">go <em>way</em> back</a>).</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Of all the justifications and rationale we've heard this year from media mouthpieces involving ethnicity, sexuality, global security, excessive force, parenting, education, the environment, personal accountability, and so forth, not one emboldens our collective narcissism more than this one. The proud handshake Americans are so fond of has now become an elbow. Soon we'll be distinguishing ourselves by how effectively we can trash talk each other outta the way. </span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/A-people-that-values-its-privileges-above-its-principles-soon-loses-both_Eisenhower_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9793 " src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/A-people-that-values-its-privileges-above-its-principles-soon-loses-both_Eisenhower_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="a-people-that-values-its-privileges-above-its-principles-soon-loses-both_eisenhower_where-excuses-go-to-die" width="214" height="216" /></a>Oh how it makes me long for 2015, when the American identity ran more along the lines of entitlement syndrome and sue-happy grovelers, menacing each other in court. However petty and self-serving we made civil litigation, if we're not mindful, it'll be nothing compared to what we're about to do to each others' sense of security.</span></p> <p class="p1">The great American pastime is mutating into calling it like we see it, or saying it like it is, or just plain blurting out whatever it is we may believe others are thinking. Not too smart. None of us will be safe from the red-eyed roid-rage of verbal abuse soon to fill every middle school corridor, every sports stadium, every museum, hospital, restaurant, and phony-baloney Main Street outdoor mall. I mean c'mon, swastikas are being spray-painted in communities across the United States. Is that "calling it like you see it" too? What possible good can come of the intersection between "your truth" and Black Friday-level riots?</p> <p class="p1">Move over snark, here comes fucking <em>primitive</em>.</p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Hey-There-Hero__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9794" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Hey-There-Hero__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="hey-there-hero__where-excuses-go-to-die" width="433" height="301" /></a>So yeah, the enemy is you 'n me, not the self admiring degenerates soon to fill the White House. I've watched <em>that</em> pirate ship <a href="http://working-copy.local/celebrity/from-beat-downs-to-bear-hugs/">go down</a> before; for me it’ll be a joy to see the Trump gang get picked off, shamed back to the sewers of the private sector, indicted, and put on trial one by one.</span></p> <p class="p1">So what's the good news? The good news is you can reject the excuse to fart whatever's on your mind into someone else's face and then boast that you're doing the right thing. The good news is you can lead by example. You can choose <em>not</em> to disguise your attack on others as just being "blunt."</p> Blunt, honest, stark, forthright communication requires humility, and you haven't got any if you believe Americans were just given license to intimidate others and call it patriotism. <p class="p1" style="text-align: right;"><span style="color: #993300;">.</span></p> <p class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #993300;"><strong><a style="color: #993300;" href="http://working-copy.local/winner-excuse-of-the-year/2015-excuse-of-the-year/">2015 EXCUSE OF THE YEAR</a></strong></span></p> <p class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #993300;"><strong><a style="color: #993300;" href="http://working-copy.local/winner-excuse-of-the-year/2014-golden-excuse-emo-pets/">2014 EXCUSE OF THE YEAR</a></strong></span></p> <p class="p1" style="text-align: right;">.</p> 9750 2016-12-16 19:49:51 2016-12-17 02:49:51 2017-01-11 11:05:34 2017-01-11 18:05:34 closed open 2016-excuse-of-the-year publish 0 0 post 0 American Black Friday Donald Trump excuses narcissism patriotism Sheriff Lee Baca White House Winner: EXCUSE OF THE YEAR _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_content_score 30 _yoast_wpseo_primary_category 1776 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw_text_input blunt _yoast_wpseo_focuskw blunt _yoast_wpseo_metadesc "He just calls it like he sees it." "He says what we're thinking.” "He tells it like it is." Three ways to use being blunt as an excuse to pulverize. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 81 _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705607813;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1054;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9010;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:753;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10346;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1524;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4439;}}}} http://working-copy.local/food/therere-many-excuses-eating-mcdonalds-mine/ Wed, 11 Jan 2017 18:04:49 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=9833 <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Fear-and-Loathing-at-McDonalds_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9807 " src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Fear-and-Loathing-at-McDonalds_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="222" height="301" /></a><span style="color: #000000;">I don’t have to chew as much.</span></strong> Because what’s chewing when I can chimney-slide it down? From the second my McDonald’s Double Quarter Pounder is unsheathed to when I squish 'n toss the wrapper, I barely have to work my jaw. It's a true metaphor for American cultural identity: <em>less chewing/more swallowing</em>. And whoever thought up printing "nutritional" information on something with such a limited hand-to-mouth life is a genius! <span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span class="s1"><span style="color: #000000;">Don't look at me; I'm hideous.</span> </span></strong></span>Even as I decry such privileged attributes as lazy eating, I'm occasionally swayed by food-matter that requires neither fork nor self-respect. Never mind that I'm hunched in my car, windshield angled at a hedge to hide my <a href="http://laist.com/2012/01/16/woman_arrested_for_offering_sexual.php" target="_blank">private shame</a>. Kookiest part is, the way I wipe my mouth, use my napkin, or react when a chunk falls from my fingers or face is <em>very</em> different than what I exhibit at my own dinner table or in an actual restaurant. It's the Jekyll and Hyde of posture and manners: as if it would feel right somehow to take off my shirt to eat a Big Mac. <!--more--> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/WHY-GOD-WHY_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9820 " src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/WHY-GOD-WHY_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="296" height="228" /></a><span style="color: #000000;">Fast food is often for people who waited too long.</span></strong> </span></span><span class="s1">When I’m suddenly dizzy and using words like “fuck,” "goddamn,” and "shit-for-brains” to describe my recent attendance at a child's birthday party, I realize I need to eat -- NOW. Parking the car where it won't be towed or ticketed, navigating crosswalks, and remembering to lock away my valuables are all things the McDonald’s drive-thru eliminates.</span></p> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>They have to take $4.43 in change and lint.</strong></span> Now that I'm frenzied and possibly hypoglycemic, <em>of course</em> I'm willing to claw for console coins and risk <a href="http://triblocal.com/glen-ellyn/2010/10/18/loose-change-sparks-car-fire-in-mcdonalds-lot/" target="_blank">learning the hard way</a> why it’s a good idea to have some folding money or plastic on you. For now, the McDonald’s kid is gonna have to cup his hands through Window #1 to avoid a short register. <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/YES-McDONALDS-IS__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9814 " src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/YES-McDONALDS-IS__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="298" height="161" /></a><span style="color: #000000;">I can't win anyway, so why not?</span></strong> McDonald's franchises require that their "fresh leaf lettuce" be treated with 10 different chemicals just to keep it the right color at the right crispness for the right length of time. Not only is that an extraordinary attention to detail, it matches the polypropylene environment of my car's interior, the berserk toxicity of my yoga mat, and all of the resin compounds I inhale while sitting in just about any movie theater. Hey, if <a href="https://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/index.htm">my pen</a> finds my mouth while I'm jotting something down, am I not essentially teething a Chinese smokestack? Right. Back to my McCrispy Bacon Squeezer. <strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Jesus-Died-For-Your-McDonalds__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9822" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Jesus-Died-For-Your-McDonalds__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" width="160" height="204" /></a><span style="color: #000000;">McDonald’s French fries can’t be beat.</span> </strong>Actually they can, but I repeat this to myself as I witness customer after customer struggle with their pants coming through the doorway. (Seriously, watch how many people yank determinedly at their drawstrings and elastic waistbands <em>right before</em> entering.) My own visit is mentally justified by the fact that I “only” make 8-10 McDonald’s runs a year. But I also pretend McNuggets are healthy 'cause they’re chicken. If I'm <em>really</em> smarter than <a href="http://www.bridgingthegapresearch.org/_asset/7kn84a/btg_child_directed_marketing_in_fast_food_12-18-12-final.pdf">child-directed marketing</a>, what am I doing? Do these fries taste better than my own dignity? Apparently they do. When Joan Didion wrote, "Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price," she may have been pulling up to Window #2 herself. <p style="text-align: left;"><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/FAT-ELVIS-IS_Where-Excuses-Went-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9823" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/FAT-ELVIS-IS_Where-Excuses-Went-to-Die.jpg" width="154" height="146" /></a><span style="color: #000000;">"Last call" says it all.</span> </strong>The "<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38608272">McNugget Mugget</a>" and the "<a href="https://youtu.be/dkGUI4bnQbQ">Hoff Burger</a>" are great equalizers. Club-wreckage, shit-faced frats, your own neighbors and co-workers...there are an awful lot of us who hear that 2:20 am siren song coaxing us to shove gobs of meat-paste and vegetable protein into our gullets and/or smear them across a friend's car door. This is as close to being Elvis Presley that any of us rock 'n rollers are ever gonna get, so my drive-thru D.U.I. soundtrack always includes "And the Grass Won't Pay No Mind":</p> <p class="p1" style="text-align: center;"><em><span class="s1" style="color: #000000;">"The moment we're living is now now now now now now now now..."</span></em></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/You-bring-the-kids_We’ll-bring-the-party.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9825 " src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/You-bring-the-kids_We’ll-bring-the-party.jpg" width="396" height="297" /></a><span style="color: #000000;">Superior f-f-fullness f-f-factor.</span> </strong>This part's not so good. Far from “lovin’ it,” I actually feel <em>injured</em> after eating McDonald’s. It wouldn't feel so awful if I wasn't able to push so much of it into my mouth in one shot. It's as if it dissolves before my jaw even moves, making my pie hole feel capable of larger loads. What <em>is</em> it about these meal products that compel me to consume them like a trash compactor? Oh, I can enjoy <span class="s1">Blanquette de Veau or </span>pan seared Moulard Foie Gras with foodie high-rollers any 'ol day, but as soon I get a taste of  McDonald’s? I wanna take off my shirt.<span style="color: #000000;">*</span></p> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Lesson learned, excuses made.</strong></span> But hey, I got what I came for, didn’t I? I picked the place so I could feel full without delay and without leaving the car. I pay in pennies if necessary and decrease the burden of mastication. Since I'd let my own self grow straightjacket-starving, I could retrieve no memory of how well my <em>last</em> full-term Mickey D pregnancy worked out. So it serves me right to be left with the sensation of being 100% USDA embalmed with no one –not even the clown– to blame. &nbsp; &nbsp; <h6 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333300;"><span style="color: #000000;">*</span> In the last 24 hours I've been asked by five people  –three of 'em blood relatives– if I really take off my shirt when eating McDonald's. C'mon mom, I'm just being sarcastic. I don't take off my clothes to eat fast food!</span></h6> <p style="text-align: right;">.</p> 9833 2017-01-11 11:04:49 2017-01-11 18:04:49 2017-03-08 14:46:56 2017-03-08 21:46:56 closed open therere-many-excuses-eating-mcdonalds-mine publish 0 0 post 0 Big Mac blood sugar drive-thru DUI Elvis fast food Food french fries GUILTY PLEASURES Joan Didion McDonald's McNuggets polypropylene Quarter Pounder toxic USDA yoga _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw_text_input McDonald's _yoast_wpseo_focuskw McDonald's _yoast_wpseo_metadesc My McDonald's manners are very different than what I exhibit at my own dinner table or in an actual restaurant. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 76 _yoast_wpseo_content_score 90 _yoast_wpseo_primary_category 908 _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705607813;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:778;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4994;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3782;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:808;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5716;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2309;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/fulfillment-before-fury/ Wed, 08 Mar 2017 21:45:19 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=9883 <h2><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/GRUDGE-BURN-KILLS_Where-Excuses-go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9897" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/GRUDGE-BURN-KILLS_Where-Excuses-go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="460" height="310" /></a>There's no excuse for getting all angst ridden over the day's headlines before first accomplishing something meaningful. </strong></span></h2> And there’s no excuse for partaking in America's new national pastime –scratching the outrage itch– without first empowering yourself through personal performance. Fulfillment before fury! Why? Because we live in a world that encourages us to agree with ourselves every chance we get. Because the strength we get from knowing that we put ourselves first has the power to declutter our thinking and make us feel as though we've <em>earned</em> something. Examine the back end of any hard, successful day and track how much your sense of completion downgraded your anxiety. By comparison, how does a morning of social media feel, or reading articles from your preferred news outlets?<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Today-Makes-Sense_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9905" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Today-Makes-Sense_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="348" height="231" /></a>People out there are short-circuiting like bad toasters, so much so that we're hearing about things like "<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/21/politics-to-blame-as-stress-levels-rise">headline stress disorder</a>" and companies having to navigate the productivity impact of <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/02/26/politics-prejudice-pose-problems-workplace/PFYwLVNarljwv2QGmuYdAI/story.html">employees' sociopolitical anxieties</a>. From now on, for me, it's <em>got</em> to be fulfillment before fury. We may roll our eyes at a coworker or friend complaining about how sore they are from a good workout, but we do so out of grudging respect (skeezy gym rats excluded). They've managed to get over themselves enough to <em>do</em> something, and we get that. They struggle to put themselves ahead of ramped up national fear and loathing same as us, but they've changed their brain chemistry and given themselves an edge. This example helped me realize that, if I <em>must</em> veer off course into anxiety porn, I'll need to accomplish a sizable daily goal (or a number of smaller ones) first. Hanging out on Argument Street will have to be a reward, 'cause it eats up time the same way any other unproductive distraction can. Worse, maybe, the Internet has a way of convincing us it's offering support when really it's just a drinking buddy.<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Go-Ahead-Hero_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9910" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Go-Ahead-Hero_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="310" height="215" /></a> When I do manage to keep myself in check, engaging with the day's news or headlines feels less like a last laugh that my esteem depends on and more like I'm demonstrating some emotional intelligence. Fulfillment before fury puts me in a better position to see the difference between staying informed and aggrandizing my misery, which is what happens when we empower dread and fear with inaction. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Upset-or-Relief_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9912" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Upset-or-Relief_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="241" height="186" /></a>Once I’m operating in a deserving headspace, I pick smarter battles, improve my comebacks and zingers, and offer a better debate. I also walk away feeling clean, grateful even, rather than like the world is going to end. If you have a hard decision to make, sometimes it's helpful to sleep on it, right? Same thing here, just no pillows. Facebook is fun because it allows me to antagonize my cousins and brothers. Fulfillment before fury keeps me from bellyaching about deactivating my social media accounts and crying that I just can't take it anymore. To those whiners I say, shut it! Work out really hard before you check your profile. Pick up that To-Do list and knock some stuff off before you marinate in the many negative <em>what ifs</em>. Push <em>yourself</em> before you try to tackle the world's problems, make something great again, or have a roll in the dirt. No matter what you choose, you’ll be doing it with an edge. You’ll be winning. You'll be pushing yourself toward the light. And you'll be setting an example for those around you. Doubtful? Rolling your eyes? That's fine. But <em>this</em> is where excuses go to die. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 9883 2017-03-08 14:45:19 2017-03-08 21:45:19 2017-03-16 14:04:40 2017-03-16 21:04:40 closed open fulfillment-before-fury publish 0 0 post 0 anxiety Culture emotional intelligence esteem Excuses excuses Facebook fulfillment fury headline stress disorder headlines news outrage social media Where Excuses Go to Die _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_content_score 60 _yoast_wpseo_primary_category 3 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw_text_input fulfillment _yoast_wpseo_focuskw fulfillment _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 90 _yoast_wpseo_metadesc There's no excuse for getting all angst ridden over the day's headlines before first accomplishing something meaningful. I choose fulfillment over fury. _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705607812;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10346;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4439;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1524;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:357;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1254;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9010;}}}} http://working-copy.local/los-angeles-county-sheriff/brass-tacky/ Thu, 16 Mar 2017 21:05:07 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=9916 <h2 class="p1"></h2> <h2 class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/APOCALYPSE-HOOSEGOW_10_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9919" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/APOCALYPSE-HOOSEGOW_10_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="452" height="163" /></a>This week, former L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca was convicted of <span class="s1">obstructing an FBI corruption investigation of the jails he oversaw. But despite having once been <a href="http://working-copy.local/celebrity/from-beat-downs-to-bear-hugs/">a part of </a>his fundraising machine, all I can think about is the Department's new belt buckles.</span></span></h2> <p class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span class="s1">I can go two ways here: ask what the hell these guys are thinking spending $300,000 on new belt buckles to give their uniforms more shock and awe, or write off new-guy Jim McDonnell as meddling and distracted.</span></strong></span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Isn’t this the controlling, big spender schtick that the newly formed, McDonnell-supported Civilian Oversight Commission is supposed to question? </span><!--more--></p> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/LA-County-Sheriff-Action-Man__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9949" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/LA-County-Sheriff-Action-Man__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="339" height="576" /></a>You'd think so, but educated guesses say larger themed issues like excessive force payouts, lack of transparency, and <a href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/apocalypse-hoosegow-4-of-heroin-burritos-and-dings-at-l-a-s-mens-central-jail/">heroin burritos</a> are what the at-first-glance toothless <a href="http://coc.lacounty.gov/">civilian committee</a> will be prioritizing. In fact, I'm told that, at <a href="http://portal.lacounty.gov/wps/portal/compub?querytext=*&amp;deptType=com&amp;department=Civilian+Oversight+Commission&amp;agendas=on&amp;date-from=01%2F01%2F2016&amp;date-to=01%2F01%2F2020&amp;Go=Commission+Publications">its last public meeting</a>, McDonnell 's perceived wardrobe malfunctions didn't even make the Commission's agenda. With "overtime for everyone!" on the minds of its 9000+ deputies, as well as the Department's persistently thin ranks, annual budget shortfalls, and the sort of image problems that make Kellyanne Conway seem like Emma Stone, it's tough to see belt buckles as just what the rank and file needed. I mean, how many public engagement and sensitivity training courses would that kind of money buy? Maybe we should've started there. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/THAT-DAMN-BIKER-CHROME__Photo-Credit-Unknown.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9933" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/THAT-DAMN-BIKER-CHROME__Photo-Credit-Unknown.jpg" alt="" width="204" height="205" /></a>Especially given the timing. Baca's <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-baca-verdict-20170314-story.html">guilty verdict</a> isn't even off the wires yet and McDonnell is concerning himself with cosmetic issues? Yet <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-sheriff-belt-buckle-20170313-story.html">cosmetic changes</a> to deputy uniforms are exactly what's on order. Apparently, regulation baton holders, key rings, tie clips, name pins, and badges are making a sore thumb of the old silver belt buckles, and <em>that</em> is just plain destroying the look of an otherwise well-accented ensemble. McDonnell says it all needs to match, that continuity is required to remind suspects that his deputies are in charge. Okay, so the silver buckle isn't on the same page with the rest of the uniform's brass. Does anyone outside of the Department – other than <a href="http://toyhaven.blogspot.com/2008/09/los-angeles-county-sheriff.html">toy manufacturers</a> who will now be forced to make the change as well – care?<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/SHORT-ROUND__Joe-Shalmoni_Associated-Press.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9934" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/SHORT-ROUND__Joe-Shalmoni_Associated-Press.jpg" alt="" width="328" height="196" /></a> Three years ago this week, I attended the first of several public campaign debates in the race to replace Sheriff Baca. The fast movers were out, some more shamelessly than others (one even asked me for my public endorsement). But all of their talking points sounded the same. Each man came off a little too Fifth Amendment in their desperation to avoid being linked to the Department's cartoonish scandals. I placed bets that <span class="s1">Undersheriff </span>Paul Tanaka would be convicted and "the Long Beach guy," Jim McDonnell, would get elected. I went to the Arclight with my winnings. To be fair, ineptly-timed uniform tweaks are but a mere hint of LASD Mission Creep under Jim McDonnell, b<span class="s1">ut as a <a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-baca-20170315-story.html">related</a> LA Times piece opined, his house cleaning and the theoretical solution of the Oversight Commission may not be enough to hold the Department accountable.</span> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/LETS-PLAY-FIND-THE-HOOKER__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9939" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/LETS-PLAY-FIND-THE-HOOKER__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="425" height="370" /></a>For McDonnell to use the conveyance of a deputy's command presence on the street as an excuse to justify a $300k expenditure is baffling to <a href="http://www.dailynews.com/general-news/20170314/300k-on-belt-buckles-la-sheriffs-union-says-there-are-more-important-priorities">many</a> and downright worrisome to others. The LASD is one of the largest law enforcement operations in the United States, with eight geographically distinct facilities employing roughly 17,000 people. Jim McDonnell took over for a dismissive geezer who ran a law enforcement mafia and attracted hundreds of <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/oct/14/local/la-me-kassel-20121014">pseudo-philanthropic cop-groupie power brokers</a>. Remember Baca's response to being called out on all that before he finally declined to run again? <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2013/feb/27/opinion/la-ed-sheriff-baca-20130227">"Don't elect me."</a> I'm not insinuating that McDonnell is following <a href="http://working-copy.local/character-2/a-felon-just-like-me/">Baca's path</a>. But I <em>am</em> fearing the worst, as the issuance of inefficient, abstract, and executive order type commands seems to be a phenomenon these days. The LASD can't afford to go there. It needs that old McDonnell equanimity we saw and heard during the campaign debates. So c'mon, Jim. Point your elected power at something more useful than what suspects will think of your belt buckles. I get that we can all be a little OCD with what matches our shoes, pants, satchels, and so forth, but four inmate deaths in <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-jail-deaths-20170310-story.html">ten days</a>? Let's leave the uniforms alone 'till the Department is out of the woods. <p style="text-align: right;">.</p> &nbsp; 9916 2017-03-16 14:05:07 2017-03-16 21:05:07 2017-04-28 18:03:52 2017-04-29 01:03:52 closed open brass-tacky publish 0 0 post 0 Apocalypse Hoosegow Arclight belt buckles deputies Emma Stone excessive force Fifth Amendment guilty heroin burrito Jim McDonnell Kellyanne Conway L.A. County Sheriff LASD law enforcement mafia Lee Baca Los Angeles County Sheriff Los Angeles County Sheriff Men's Central Jail Paul Tanaka Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission verdict _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_content_score 30 _yoast_wpseo_primary_category 348 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw_text_input belt buckles _yoast_wpseo_focuskw belt buckles _yoast_wpseo_metadesc L.A. County Sheriff Jim McDonnell spends $300k on new belt buckles as Lee Baca gets convicted. More promises of reform down the drain? _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 83 _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706765484;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8731;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10498;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3469;}}}} http://working-copy.local/incarceration-nation/la-riots-as-seen-from-maximum-security-prison/ Sat, 29 Apr 2017 23:52:07 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=9976 <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Yard-A__WASCO-PRISON__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-e1493500894407.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-10004" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Yard-A__WASCO-PRISON__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-e1493500894407.jpg" alt="" width="900" height="213" /></a> <h2><span style="color: #000000;">You'd think someone would have covered what it was like to experience the LA riots behind bars in the past 25 years. Something. <em>Anything</em>. But nope.</span></h2> <h2><span style="color: #000000;">Then again, with Netflix's Orange is the New Black ranking just below LA LA Land in grounded reality, such coverage probably would have been twisted into the taffy of a Broadway musical anyway.</span></h2> <h2><span style="color: #000000;">So while a mention would've been interesting, I have my own view...</span></h2> <h3><!--more--></h3> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Wasco-Prison-in-Progress-Coutesy-of-Caddell-Construction_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_1.png"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9987" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Wasco-Prison-in-Progress-Coutesy-of-Caddell-Construction_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_1.png" alt="" width="294" height="168" /></a>Wasco State Prison opened in February, 1991. With California's severe overcrowding problem, the facility was filled faster than inmate classification procedures could keep up. (The prison was "populated" before construction was complete.) Having been the 75th inmate to in-process, I can tell you it was already preposterously bloody: verbalizations of assaults and stabbings began on the busses. And they weren't over pride and payback –this was about all that virgin prison yard territory. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/George-Holiday-Video_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9988" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/George-Holiday-Video_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="267" height="189" /></a>Thirty days later, in early March, the “outside world” learned the name Rodney King. So, too, did the inmates of Wasco. When local KTLA 5 began airing George Holiday’s video footage of King’s beating at the hands of the LAPD, the facility was placed on an immediate lockdown, which lasted for four days. Talk of law enforcement inequality –constant penitentiary chatter in its own right– became louder and angrier. As in the rest of the world, there was no escaping growing resentment as Holiday's camcorder footage became a national dialog. But our world was crammed into what's basically a parking structure with electric fences. Not much room for growth there. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Rounding-Up-the-Ususal-Suspects_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9990" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Rounding-Up-the-Ususal-Suspects_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="234" height="132" /></a>And the staff had it tough as it was, ridding the Yard of its territorial influences and flat out murderers. California's corrections higher-ups made their jobs harder, too, determined as they were to flaunt the newfound bed space, ready or not. Visible tours of suits and politicians back then were frequent, so the increase in racial tension following the King beating couldn’t have come at a worse time.<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Room-M-59-is-for-Closers-Only_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-9296" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Room-M-59-is-for-Closers-Only_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-300x179.jpg" alt="" width="241" height="144" /></a> I'd managed to finagle myself relative sanctuary during that first year by serving as a library clerk, and then as an aid for a civilian teacher in the education building. When a lockdown occurred, that teacher would often request that I be issued a pass and escorted to his classroom. Badges patrolled the education building constantly, but none cared if we graded papers while watching movies on VHS. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/LAPD-Piece-of-Shit-Patrol_Koon_Powell_Wind_Breseno__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-9993" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/LAPD-Piece-of-Shit-Patrol_Koon_Powell_Wind_Breseno__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1024x461.jpg" alt="" width="286" height="129" /></a>During that year, the teacher and I filled a large bulletin board with newspaper clippings related to the King investigation and trial. I was lucky to participate in many conversations and learn from the perspectives of men who inhabited a South Central world under the boots of inequality, led by LAPD Chief Daryl F. Gates (aka "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Gates">Chief Chokehold</a>"). Twenty-five years ago this month, the warden’s office didn’t have any more of a clue than we did when the King verdict would be announced, but the guy was smart enough to have everyone in their cells when it came down. On April 29 at 3-something in the afternoon, those who’d purchased mail-order televisions started screaming. For the next seven straight hours, inmates of all ethnicities either cheered angrily <em>for</em> the verdict or railed angrily against it. It was as black 'n white as anything I'd ever encountered.<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Image-by-Joseph-Sohm__FIGHT-THE-POWER_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-10016" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Image-by-Joseph-Sohm__FIGHT-THE-POWER_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1024x593.jpg" alt="" width="237" height="137" /></a> In anticipation of hand-to-hand genocide, the number of Badges was tripled in each unit. Crisis Response Goons stood around <a href="http://www.insidecdcr.ca.gov/2016/08/pelican-bay-crisis-response-team-helps-eliminate-marijuana-garden/">in their tactical finery</a>, looking like warnings against steroid abuse. We were fed in our cells. I found I couldn’t talk my way into a work pass if blood had been streaming from the center of my palms. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/LA-Times-Photo-April-30-1992_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-10010" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/LA-Times-Photo-April-30-1992_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1024x649.jpg" alt="" width="243" height="154" /></a>So we stayed in our cages and saw Los Angeles burn. We watched Reginald Denny’s head get cracked open by that cinder block, followed by Chief Chokehold's announcement that he’d bring it all under control in one night. We saw everything that you did, except behind bars meant being enveloped by what sounded like horses frightened by fire, thrashing violently, desperate to stampede. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Los-Angeles-Times-Front-Page_May-1-1992__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-10014" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Los-Angeles-Times-Front-Page_May-1-1992__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="298" height="204" /></a>I listened carefully at my cell door as inmates from South Central relayed news copter play-by-play to those without TVs. As they shouted the locations of rioters and looters in relation to their own 'hoods and homes, I compared what I was hearing to what I saw on my own tiny black ‘n white screen. For five full days, the men around me went to work at the front of their cells, yelling and pounding and punching in a relentless and deafening cacophony. The guards' use of the PA system alone was its own psychotic, 80 decibel soundtrack to KTLA's footage. I began separating squares of toilet paper from my roll, softening ‘em up with saliva, and stuffing ‘em into my ears. Every time I caught a glimpse of myself in the polished steel “mirror” it looked like rabbit ears were jutting from my head. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/12-gauge-Bean-Bag-Shotgun-Round_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-10013" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/12-gauge-Bean-Bag-Shotgun-Round_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-366x1024.jpg" alt="" width="80" height="224" /></a>We heard that in housing Unit 2, inmates were being released one by one for solo trips to the showers: in fact, those assholes had been allowed to shower from day three. Then some idiot used his time to turn a mop into a lance and charge the communal television, screaming at the cops back at home. He broke the screen after four solid hits before the Control Booth Badges nailed him with bean bag rounds. As he ran around the otherwise empty common areas, cursing, he was cheered on. Thanks to him, <em>our</em> unit wasn’t approved for single shower rotation 'til day seven. Medication was brought to our cells like in every other lockdown, except that none of the caucasian Kern County civilian medical employees would come to work, which meant there was a serious shortage of licensed staff to distribute prescriptions. “So you Charlie-white cops rule the hospital department too, huh!?” said my "neighbor" every time his blood pressure medication was dispensed by an unauthorized Badge.<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Korean-Store-Owners-Were-NOT-Messing-Around.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-10018" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Korean-Store-Owners-Were-NOT-Messing-Around.jpg" alt="" width="244" height="136" /></a> On television, there were the fires, beatings and pride with which hate had been weaponized... All of it was straight out of the <a href="http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/05/13/everyones-into-weirdness-penitentiary-1979">prison exploitation flicks</a> of the 1970s, a real Roger Corman fever dream in which the Koreans almost steal the show. (Three months later, in fact, I'd be sharing a cell with a Korean-American my age who used the chaos to burglarize the stores his own family and friends were trying to protect. Not TVs, though: cash, from illegal card games held in those very shops.) Front-line Badges faced their own MIA personnel issues, and it would take the crybaby guards who called in sick more than a year to live it down. During that year, there was no escaping speculative whispers of "chickenshit" among guards and inmates alike (because "we're all in here together<i>"</i> does indeed seep into the day-to-day grind).<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Cant-We-All-Just-Get-Along.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-10020" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Cant-We-All-Just-Get-Along-1024x384.jpg" alt="" width="597" height="224" /></a> Twenty-seven days after the riots began, we’d been so thoroughly marinated in seclusion and lack of fresh air that we were deemed unlikely to “jump off” over what had by then become old news. The warden’s office was right again; they let us out and there <em>was</em> relative peace. I live today, happy to have been there, and paying attention. <p style="text-align: left;">I offer no in-depth analysis of the riots, Rodney King, or what the ensuing 25 years means culturally or politically. I find I'm still just as cynical as I was back then. "How far we've come" isn't as socio-culturally rosy as some would have us believe – period.</p> But we <em>can</em> stay aware of how our actions affect those around us. Looking back, I don't think I can recall a time when how we treat others has been more important than it is today. That’s where the good dialog lives – in that one little hard to reach spot where we only look to see if our side of the street is clean. &nbsp; <h4><span style="color: #000000;">Be sure 'n check out director Sacha Jenkins' fist-in-the-air examination of the Los Angeles Police Department's relationship with African-Americans via his Showtime documentary <span style="color: #0000ff;"><a style="color: #0000ff;" href="http://www.sho.com/titles/3445958/burn-motherf-cker-burn">Burn Motherfucker, Burn!</a>  </span></span></h4> &nbsp; <p style="text-align: right;">.</p> 9976 2017-04-29 16:52:07 2017-04-29 23:52:07 2017-05-04 23:53:35 2017-05-05 06:53:35 closed open la-riots-as-seen-from-maximum-security-prison publish 0 0 post 0 badges Chief Daryl Gates George Holiday guards History Incarceration Nation inmates Roger Corman King verdict KTLA La La Land LA riots LAPD lockdown Netflix Orange Is the New Black Reginald Denny Rodney King South Central VHS Wasco State Prison _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_content_score 30 _yoast_wpseo_primary_category 284 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw_text_input LA riots _yoast_wpseo_focuskw LA riots _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 77 _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Ever wonder what it was like to experience the LA riots from behind bars? Twenty-five years later, no one's yet covered that angle. So here goes. _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706278173;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8371;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3561;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7132;}}}} http://working-copy.local/incarceration-nation/__trashed/ Thu, 04 May 2017 22:50:53 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=10046 <h2><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Outside-of-the-box-is_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-10050" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Outside-of-the-box-is_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-955x1024.jpg" alt="" width="287" height="306" /></a><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">The double-edged-sword of getting out of prison.</span></strong></h2> <h3>For those of us who follow incarceration and reentry issues, the inmate-created, inmate-run, prerelease program in Cumberland, Maryland, that was just approved by the Federal Bureau of Prisons will be something to keep an eye on.</h3> Ideally, <a href="http://sfbayview.com/2017/04/bop-approves-prisoner-created-and-run-rehabilitation-and-reentry-program/">Young Men Incorporated</a> (YMI), as the program is known, will prove that switching from curriculum enforcement to the much more coercive power of wisdom and teachable moments is the <em>right</em> way to reinvent prisoner reentry methodology. <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Hitting your release date and getting out is a trip.</strong></span> Individual results may vary, but when it comes to civilian employees, frontline custody personnel, and prison administrators, soon-to-parole inmates often face disparagement and placating attitudes. The way some Badges see it, you're still a criminal, soon to be protected by rights that weren't there a couple of weeks ago. More than a few are just waitin' for you to act special, by which I mean <em>individual</em>.<!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/The-Jangling-Keys-of-Detenion.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-10060" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/The-Jangling-Keys-of-Detenion-1024x574.jpg" alt="" width="398" height="223" /></a>The well-intentioned are represented too, of course. Some of the guards and staffers who spoke down to you one day actually demonstrate a slightly higher regard for you the week before you leave. Others see you as merely transferring from punishment to welfare. Some acknowledge they're <em>supposed</em> to recognize that a milestone of some sort has been achieved, but they can't seem to go further. Even having Badges and brass treat you a little better highlights an formidable aspect of prisoner reentry: the awkwardness of having been disqualified from society and now returning to it – but you haven't left yet. Again, there are exceptions, but the reentry process typically contains some pretty discouraging social booby-traps. And naturally, some navigate the transition better than others, fraught as it is with negative reinforcement, posture, and pride. <p class="p1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Prison-Education-Chamber_Where-Excuses-Go-Die--e1493949425486.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-10061" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Prison-Education-Chamber_Where-Excuses-Go-Die--e1493949425486-1024x768.jpg" alt="" width="402" height="302" /></a>As a former teaching assistant to the civilian educator running Wasco's reentry program, <span class="s1">I saw how frustrated that teacher was </span><span class="s1">when his efforts got obstructed, fiscally isolated, and marginalized amidst larger prison programing. To some administrators and staff, his inmate advocacy represented puppies, rainbows, little red wagons, and other things that criminals simply didn't deserve.  </span></p> <p class="p1">Most facility personnel don't think about you much beyond “undeserving.” And<em> all</em> are trained to remain emotionally remote, which means that even their congratulatory sentiments can come off like sour grapes. Undercurrents of doubt and dismissal are inescapable (and where <em>you’re</em> going, you’d better get used to that).</p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Once you’re out, you find that larger society has the same struggle. It knows where you came from and often doesn't quite know what to do with you. With America's prison systems traditionally recycling offenders rather than rehabilitating them, truly effective reentry policies and practices have too long been viewed as "bleeding heart."</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">YMI, however, is not designed to make it easier for inmates and guards to navigate their feelings. Instead, it's intended to relax the custody-over-your-shoulder mandate, allowing inmates to follow a tailored-for-them prerelease curriculum. The idea is to lessen the specter of detention and the learned defensive mindset that accompanies it to make room for what the program is teaching to sink in.<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Parole-Puppies-and-Rainbows_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-10066" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Parole-Puppies-and-Rainbows_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="306" height="279" /></a></span></p> It's mission-critical to make that room, and I can say from experience that<em> any</em> de-escalation in resentment and poor custody coping skills will help.<span class="s1"> Besides, i</span><span class="s1">nmates teaching inmates to fill out apartment rental and job applications or get through the day without drinking is an idea that's been on the shelf too long. Seeing what improved reentry outcomes might be achieved by allowing<span style="color: #000000;"> inmates to interpret for other inmates</span> the whys of social values is a crucially important experiment. </span> <p class="p1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="s1">With mass incarceration and the private prison industry no longer on the defensive, as they were under the Obama administration, some say the national dialogue on prison reform is over. So it's not surprising that mainstream news outlets are failing to pick up on this story. (My own primary source was the black online newspaper, the <a href="http://sfbayview.com/">San Francisco Bay View,</a> though stylish Vice Media, Inc. supposedly has something in the works.) In the meantime, this is where we prison reform and criminal justice advocates come in, as we return to our blogs –amid renewed War on Crime rhetoric– in hopes of having our voices heard. </span></p> <p class="p1" style="text-align: center;">Many of us have the same thing to say as the men of YMI:</p> <p class="p1" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Sometimes you have to have been in the box to think outside of it. </strong></span></p> <p class="p1" style="text-align: right;">.</p> 10046 2017-05-04 15:50:53 2017-05-04 22:50:53 2017-06-07 07:46:01 2017-06-07 14:46:01 closed open __trashed publish 0 0 post 0 badges custody Federal Bureau of Prisons frontline custody personnel guards Incarceration Nation inmates mainstream news national dialogue on prison reform Obama prerelease program prison prisoner re-entry reentry Reentry San Francisco Bay View War on Crime YMI Young Men Incorporated _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_content_score 30 _yoast_wpseo_primary_category 1429 _wp_desired_post_slug _yoast_wpseo_focuskw_text_input reentry _yoast_wpseo_focuskw reentry _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Young Men Incorporated aims to show how the coercive power of wisdom and teachable moments is the right way to reinvent prisoner reentry methodology. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 81 _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705607812;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8684;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10865;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8281;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9274;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1568;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8961;}}}} http://working-copy.local/celebrity/kathy-griffin-empathy-panhandler-pts-i-ii/ Wed, 07 Jun 2017 14:47:33 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=10082 <h2 class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/ILL-HAVE-A-SIDE-OF-SAMENESS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-10099" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/ILL-HAVE-A-SIDE-OF-SAMENESS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="443" height="248" /></a></strong></span><span class="s1" style="color: #000000;"><strong>PART I</strong> – It's as simple as both Griffin and Trump having mastered reality television, where “drama" is processed to the point of becoming doublespeak and insecurities and pettiness are aggrandized. In this way, and probably others, they're similar. Both claw at their own skin for our attention, and both are so accustomed to having a national media platform from which address the public that it's the first thing they reach for to solve their problems.</span><span class="s1"> </span><!--more--></h2> <h3 class="p1"><strong><span style="color: #000000;"> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Profiles-in-Foresight-Scarcity_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-10113" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Profiles-in-Foresight-Scarcity_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="456" height="256" /></a><em>"Blame-splaining"</em> It's like this: apologize, but don't turn around and justify your action or insist on being understood. When you do, you’re  just arguing to keep your limitations. </span></strong></h3> Griffin’s recent <a href="https://youtu.be/WCPYZ0jU9WQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">press conference</a> called attention to the death threats she's getting, as well as to the many male artists who have produced “far more disturbing” anti-Trump content. But <span class="s1">“unlike these male artists, Kathy apologized,” read attorney Lisa Bloom, adding that Griffin has nonetheless "endured the most powerful man in America and his family using their power to target her and her employers" after doing so.</span> By drawing that red circle around Griffin's apology, Bloom implied it should have had the power to maximize sincerity, absolve her client, stop Presidents, and even hop the great wall of gender bias that suppresses all women. Then <span class="s1">Griffin herself took the mic and careened from empathy panhandling and self-pity to indignation, excuses and defiance. First, she dampened her worth with tears, then she doubled down, essentially vowing to mock Trump even more.</span> <span class="s1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/George-Carlin__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-10121" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/George-Carlin__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="347" height="287" /></a>Now, I’m not saying the woman hasn’t been picked on, nor am I reducing inequality to the producer selling points used keep reality shows on the air. But come <em>on</em>. That press conference was a going-through-the motions performance piece if there ever was one, and a sloppy one at that. It all seems arranged for actors Trump and Griffin to call in their Twitter <a href="http://www.thewrap.com/kathy-griffin-trump-images-support/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">support strikes</a> from other players and for alt-bootlickers <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/06/gop-super-pac-tries-to-tie-ossoff-to-kathy-griffin-video.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">to do their thing</a> (i.e. turn Griffin into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Horton" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Willie Horton</a>). And then the two will go right on being each other's (topical-temporary) best friend. </span> And while Americans have become increasingly desensitized to blood and guts and bombs and bullets, Griffin's prop Trump-head may still have been too realistic for the darkly funny workaday distraction she thought she was offering. Perhaps if it had been more cartoon-like and less accurately representative of the tissue traumas associated with real severed heads, t<span class="s1">he stunt might not have cost her sponsorships and jobs, including her lucrative co-hosting duties related to CNN's New Year's Eve programing.</span> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">To those like me who couldn’t care less about the fate of Griffin’s career, she has likely rendered herself permanently summed up in eight words: the lady with the chopped off Trump-head. </span></p> <strong><span style="color: #000000;">But because this is where excuses go to die, I'm always happy to pick the fly shit out of the pepper in the name of character. So for Part II...</span></strong> &nbsp; <p style="text-align: right;">.</p> <p style="text-align: right;">. <!--more--></p> <h2 class="p1"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/THE-UNIVERSE-IS-RIPPING-ME-OFF_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-10107" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/THE-UNIVERSE-IS-RIPPING-ME-OFF_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="469" height="374" /></a><span style="color: #000000;">PART II – <span class="s1">Get character or become one.</span></span></strong></span></h2> <p class="p1">Yes-yes, 1st Amendment, I know, but the Constitution doesn't protect people from the court of public opinion, nor does it shield those who solve problems with problems. Griffin failed to demonstrate the judgment required of public figures, particularly those with the media spotlight that she enjoys, and her "solution" came off as blaming, asinine, and foot-stomping.</p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">All too often we allow others to decide who we are. When we reflexively surrender to our <a href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/time-to-stop-making-excuses/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">warm fart coping skills</a>, we act hastily and often choose foolishly as a result. Things get even worse when we immediately claim we're victims of something, because we probably landed on that designation as quickly as we reacted in the first place. This leaves us open to those who would use our knee-jerk responses to hang a crude signs around our necks for all to see. Griffin's might read: "Went Too Far," </span><span class="s1">"Short-circuiting Like Bad Toaster," or "Profiles In Foresight Scarcity.”</span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/EMOTIONAL-INTELLIGENCE-–-IT’S-A-THING_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-10110" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/EMOTIONAL-INTELLIGENCE-–-IT’S-A-THING_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="494" height="259" /></a>Griffin may have assumed that her stature in the community, the aforementioned protections afforded by the 1st Amendment, and her sense of righteous indignation would be understood, accepted and, if necessary, forgiven. She does claim, after all, to be an "in-your-face comedian." But she took the tenuous nature of celebrity for granted and exposed herself to a classic "just because you can, doesn't mean you should” moment. </span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">The point here is not to discount the years Griffin has worked to survive in an industry slanted against age, minorities, and women. But Griffin's post guillotine pleading has been a monumental failure in terms of accepting responsibility for making a dumb move. Anything she did accept was drowned out by her crybaby tone. Even if the President <em>is</em> out to get her, if the death threats she's receiving <em>are </em>coming fast and furiously, she still should've taken time to consider ways to address those challenges that don't involve grabbing her bullhorn to blame-splain.</span></p> Coping skills are a character thing: there's no getting around it. And speaking of legacies... <strong>Coming Soon: </strong> <em>Bill Maher, You've Become Disoriented, Entitled, and Catty, plus You Look Embalmed. Time to Quit? </em> <h3></h3> <p class="p1" style="text-align: right;">.</p> 10082 2017-06-07 07:47:33 2017-06-07 14:47:33 2017-07-14 18:36:12 2017-07-15 01:36:12 closed open kathy-griffin-empathy-panhandler-pts-i-ii publish 0 0 post 0 1st Amendment Americans Celebrity Character CNN Constitution Donald Trump get character or become one Kathy Griffin media New Year's President press conference responsibility Trump-head Twitter Where Excuses Go to Die Willie Horton _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_content_score 30 _yoast_wpseo_primary_category 111 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw_text_input Griffin _yoast_wpseo_focuskw Griffin _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Whether or not Kathy Griffin's career winds up spared or repaired is secondary to her being forever associated with a self-inflicted nosedive. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 89 _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705607812;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8634;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11948;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10966;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10863;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10826;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9750;}}}} http://working-copy.local/prison-2/upselling-prison-4/ Sat, 15 Jul 2017 02:26:18 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=10134 <h2><strong><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/CHOP_CHOP_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die04.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-10137" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/CHOP_CHOP_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die04.jpg" alt="" width="427" height="238" /></a>A former inmate sizes up detention products, #4 in a casual series.</strong></h2> <strong>Accessories, upgrades, add-ons, telecoms, toilets, and the first responders of the detention supply industry.</strong> It’s a dubious distinction, I know, but I’ve been among the first 75 inmates to populate a brand new prison. The place hadn’t even been “officially” opened and it wasn’t entirely complete; it took months for the technological marvel it was said to be to actually function as designed. But while <em>Where Excuses Go to Die</em> (the book) can tell you a lot more about <em>that</em> story, today we return to those particular design elements and specialized detention products that represent modern mass incarceration in America. Unlike <a href="https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/upselling-prisons-who-comes-up-with-this-sit-kt/">previous</a> <a href="https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/kt-upselling-prison-pt-2/">editions</a>, this time we'll look at just one pressing problem: inmates who stop up cell house toilets and the wastewater control systems that swallow every dinner, document, dictionary, and domino thrown at 'em. <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/CHOP_CHOP_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-10141" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/CHOP_CHOP_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="353" height="197" /></a>You name it, and prison toilets have probably gagged on it. See, when a fella does <em>everything</em> in the immediate vicinity of his toilet, it becomes the most abused, most improperly modified instrument around. It's even a phone: just scoop out the water, get your face in there, and yell. Once you've gotten over yourself enough to wash your underwear in a cell toilet, a degree in prison plumbing is really just around the corner. I wasn't personally too keen on shoving an orange down there to make mine a laundry basin (<em>Orange is the New Block</em>), but an extended lockdown with limited laundry service forced me to recalibrate my expectations. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/CHOP_CHOP_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die14.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-10142" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/CHOP_CHOP_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die14.jpg" alt="" width="322" height="177" /></a>Now, frontline custody personnel are constantly being hounded about vandalism costs, so you definitely won't want to get caught repurposing your crapper. That means waiting to wash your pillowcase 'till after the badges have completed their rounds is a smart idea. It lets 'em know you're not one of those bad apples who'd punch a deflated soccer ball down there just to create the kind of godless chaos only 20 clogged commodes can produce. Being the observant sort, I learned a number of other pro toilet tips and techniques as well, such as how to tie your heroin and stabbing implements to strings just long enough that you can pull 'em up when needed. Given that <em>flushing</em> also occurs between withdrawals and gang retaliations, you do <em>not</em> want to go cheap in obtaining contraband plastic wrap.<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/CHOP_CHOP_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die15.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-10144" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/CHOP_CHOP_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die15.jpg" alt="" width="347" height="189" /></a> And still, strings stretch, snap, and erode, so your imported and handcrafted goods may very well join last night's beef loaf, along with the other items being impulsively or angrily crammed down the rest of the pinch pipes on your tier. Understand, too, that we're talking about 90-100 high-pressure, super-flow toilets per housing unit, all simultaneously "active" with shit and shoes, all leading to lagoons of the frothiest filth imaginable. When an inmate kicks an entire mop head down his toilet in order to interrupt service on his tier and create some sort of planned diversion, the chorus of cursing and screaming that will inevitably occur an hour later could indicate his success. But <em>really,</em> it's the "chewers" he's trying to beat – centrifugal pumps that help eliminate plugs and clogs caused by hair, headphones, and Hell. And not all pumps and grinders are <a href="http://pitbullpumps.com/">created equal</a>. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/CHOP_CHOP_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die17.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-10152" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/CHOP_CHOP_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die17.jpg" alt="" width="361" height="204" /></a>Sure their internal blades are all designed to shred anything and everything that comes through. Some are just better than others. And it's not only inmates relying on the fortitude of a given facility's wastewater system, it's every swingin' colon this side of the electric fence. I've heard guards say they could hear the shrieking from the highway, at which point they'd u-turn their F-150s for a day off. It's almost an art form, toilet killing. Scratch that: in prison, it <em>is</em> an art form. Which is why every single thing behind bars has to be designed and manufactured as though a grunting Minotaur might mount it – or worse. That's where the Vaughan® Chopper Pump comes in. This thing looks like such an effective product it's probably worth every penny of upsell. But don't take my word for it: Vaughan's promo video'll bring it home much better than I can. It's clearly aimed at prison procurement professionals, but it's mesmerizing. On the other hand, if the idea of suddenly wanting to buy a big goddamned monster truck unnerves you, definitely don't watch it. <h2><span style="color: #000000;">Next time, inmate</span> <a href="http://www.handcuffwarehouse.com/Spit-Mask.html?gclid=CjwKEAjw16HLBRDF9L2UmOCH7U8SJAASVESoh8od9_17OaSezA1CRG27oYYFkknehA99o9zFYHe8zxoCe-7w_wcB">spit hoods</a> <span style="color: #000000;">- elastic or drawstring? You call the upsell!</span></h2> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Hzu2IaiHo-8" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> <p style="text-align: right;">.</p> 10134 2017-07-14 19:26:18 2017-07-15 02:26:18 2017-08-02 15:10:03 2017-08-02 22:10:03 closed open upselling-prison-4 publish 0 0 post 0 centrifugal pump contraband custody detention detention supply industry frontline custody personnel guards incarceration Incarceration Nation Orange Is the New Black plumbing prison Prison reform rehabilitation sewage toilet upsell Vaughan Where Excuses Go to Die _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_content_score 30 _yoast_wpseo_primary_category 276 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw_text_input toilets _yoast_wpseo_focuskw toilets _yoast_wpseo_metadesc A former inmate sizes up the accessories, upgrades, add-ons, telecoms, toilets, and first responders of the detention supply industry. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 79 _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705607811;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7896;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7479;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4931;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10046;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11187;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5039;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/then-you-recognize-that-homeless-person/ Wed, 02 Aug 2017 22:49:46 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=10163 <h2><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/SHAME-TREE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-.jpeg"><img class="alignright wp-image-10164" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/SHAME-TREE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-.jpeg" alt="" width="479" height="360" /></a>Jogging around a neighborhood park, I realized the homeless woman sleeping under a tree is someone I've known most of my life. </span></h2> <span style="color: #000000;"><strong>We were 15 once, and proud. She liked girls and I liked outcasts. Her Army buzzcut was black, blue, and brave, her sarcasm like a flamethrower. Pointed at you or not, it was dangerous to be near. She had an enviable wit I tried to emulate, and she could be as prickly and poker-faced as she was fast and funny. Being able to speak to her in ways others couldn't was great.</strong></span> All these years later and approaching the tree on my first lap, I saw only a female shape sleeping atop assorted backpacks and grocery bags. That particular bit of shade was usually occupied by sweethearts, fútbol hombres, or shadowboxing stroller-pushers, but I didn't think much about it other than to mentally note the woman's (relative) luck for claiming it first. Staring straight ahead while I run helps me convey ultimate Kenyan focus, allowing me to mask the fact that I hate running and am actually dying inside. But the second time I passed the tree, I broke my gaze and glanced over. This woman was wearing Capri-style leggings, sunglasses, and a driver's cap over her face. What I could see of it was weary. <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Slightly-Out-of-Focus__Where-Excuses-Got-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-10184" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Slightly-Out-of-Focus__Where-Excuses-Got-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="179" height="109" /></a>Not wanting to bother her with my eyeballing, on lap three I kept my eyes forward, people slightly out of focus, my breathing centered. Privileged a-holes who gawk at others' misfortune or shame the homeless should be made to wear armbands. My fourth time around I did the same, though I did wonder about that driver's cap. I've seen lots of homeless people retain a sense of style as far as their irrepressibility can hold out, but there was just something about way this one was cocked...<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/We-Got-Punks-in-the-Trunk_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die__Photograph_Jim-Jocoy.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-10186" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/We-Got-Punks-in-the-Trunk_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die__Photograph_Jim-Jocoy-300x180.jpg" alt="" width="206" height="124" /></a> Back in junior high and high school, my friends and I had gone nuts with our hair –mohawks, blue dye, you name it. We wore boots and jeans adorned with ink-marker hieroglyphics; self- inflicted wardrobe malfunctions were resolved with safety pins. Our t-shirts were screened with every alarmist urgency imaginable. We were vain and creative and believed in this defiant new identity with all our hearts.<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Special-Hysterical-Report_Where-excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-10203" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Special-Hysterical-Report_Where-excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="185" height="138" /></a> We were the weirdos who'd militarized our family dysfunctions and propped each other up in response. Great lyrics did the rest. We got our asses kicked for it, too, by the jocks and longhairs who refused to share the era. But my non-girlfriend girl friend had stood right alongside us. She wasn't just a hundred watt wise-ass in funeral attire. Nailing a moving target with an empty beer bottle was easy for her.<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/PUNK-CRISIS-2.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-10189" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/PUNK-CRISIS-2.jpg" alt="" width="198" height="134" /></a> It wasn't until we were in our 20s that our legions splintered, but even then, life hardly separated us. When we got even older –some outgrowing the cheap thrills and chips on our shoulders more successfully than others– the shards of trauma we'd brought to the parade began to take over. From socioeconomics to stupidity, the who, when, and why of what creates a fuck-up eventually became a part of our lives. For some it was laughable. Until it wasn't. Decades later, starting my run, there was no reason for any of this to be on my mind. Not being a quitter on my fifth lap was all I could think about, and I'd finally made it. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/The-Ah-Ha-Moment_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-10190" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/The-Ah-Ha-Moment_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="197" height="148" /></a>On my sixth and last pass, though, the driver's cap clicked. <em>BAM! </em> And I ran faster. The hat was perched just as we'd known her to wear them, pushed forward like she was in line at the track, studying a racing form with a fist full of twenties. This <i>was </i>my old friend from back in the day. It made sense on some level, as subsequent <span class="s1">encounters had gone from </span>happy, to hopeful, to awkward, to cheerless. But this recognition kicked hard and humbled me nonetheless. Who was I to be so comparatively lucky in life –I who am so often ungrateful for what I have? <span class="s1">We'd grown apart, of course, as young friends do. S</span>he'd been in and out of relationships, jobs, and focus. She'd outlived her parents, gone up-and-down with addiction, been diagnosed as bi-polar, and more. She no longer had a platform from which to launch her own advocacy, or the material consistency that helps people give a shit. Others had tried and failed to help; some simply threw up their hands. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Profound-Words-Aboout-The-Past__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-10192" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Profound-Words-Aboout-The-Past__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="369" height="206" /></a>Naturally, I don't know her whole story. I only have updates, stretched out over decades. Accounts of her decreasing stability, worsening health, and propensity for shooting herself in the foot have always come from friends and family members with whom I've stayed in touch. I remember being told much later that, during those early years of middle class rebellion, she'd struggled with agonies no young woman should have had to face. She'd been repeatedly rejected by someone who I suspect was the love of her life. The relationship was volatile and in no short supply of regretful incidents and bad habits. But regardless of fault, <em>any</em> angry end to joy, trust, comfort, and forgiveness can keep wounds open until we die. And such things add up, in her case billboarding themselves across her face with the aid of nicotine and drugs. I kept up my pace, feeling about two inches tall. What, I wondered, was I supposed to do with this realization? If nothing, then, why? What's the point? <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/The-Mighty-GUILT-SWEEPER_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-10194" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/The-Mighty-GUILT-SWEEPER_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="299" height="187" /></a>Should I retrieve the $100 I knew was in my wallet back in the car? The other times we'd encountered one another –once in an ER, once in a store, another time in line for a movie– we'd been simply old friends, still supportive despite the awkwardness of the intervening years. I may have walked away hurting for her, but I'd done so without having rubbed it in her face. Jesus <em>no</em> was I gonna give her pity money. But neither did I have the guts to turn around and let her know I wasn't far away, that she still had a friend. Does she? I didn't know how to process what I was feeling, so I allowed myself to use the day's busy schedule as an excuse. Why, I wondered, must excuses and gratitude too frequently be knocked into the side of my head for me to recognize them? <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/GONE-GONE-GONE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-10196" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/GONE-GONE-GONE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="458" height="210" /></a>When I run, I'm often angry at God while simultaneously begging for help to finish. Running is simple: it shuts me up. And it's about as close as this blasphemer's gonna get to prayer. But it doesn't mean I'm always open to whatever the world or God or Allah or the Overlook Hotel is trying to tell me. So what's the takeaway here, be nice to homeless people 'cause you might know them? No. It's this: don't make weak-ass excuses like I did. Don't make excuses for failing to let the friends, fellow travelers, firsts, and fuck-ups in your personal history know they touched you, that they meant something to you, changed you, saved you, or inspired you. Yes, go back. Yeah-yeah, make all the safe-word noise you want about "boundaries," but damnit, go back. People just want to be heard, so hear them. Listening is giving. Refuse to hide in the machine. &nbsp; <p style="text-align: right;">.</p> &nbsp; 10163 2017-08-02 15:49:46 2017-08-02 22:49:46 2017-08-02 16:12:21 2017-08-02 23:12:21 closed open then-you-recognize-that-homeless-person publish 0 0 post 0 '80s Addiction anti-American Army bi-polar Comfort Zone Excuses excuses God gratitude homeless middle class nicotine Overlook Hotel punk rock running _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_content_score 60 _yoast_wpseo_primary_category 122 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw_text_input homeless _yoast_wpseo_focuskw homeless _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 77 _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Jogging around a neighborhood park, I realized the homeless woman sleeping under a tree is someone I've known most of my life. We were 15 once, and proud. _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706894949;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1946;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1326;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4035;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/welcome-to-the-focus-group/ Thu, 16 Nov 2017 02:26:31 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=10277 <h2><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/TWELVE-ANGRY-HENS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-10294" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/TWELVE-ANGRY-HENS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="453" height="303"></a><strong>The first rule of Focus Club is – you do not talk about Focus Club.</strong></span></h2> <h3><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Sitting around a table with strangers and snacks provided me with a glimpse of the higher levels of emotional pollution we live with today.</strong></span></h3> Before focus group attendance required a reference and the best paying research firms became fodder for Yelp, back when the topic of extra cash was still "light” conversation, my school-teacher mom enjoyed bragging about the extra $40, $60 or $90 she'd nabbed just for sitting around talking cars or cooking utensils.&nbsp;Her exaggerated enthusiasm made my brother and I feel like idiots if we failed to grab our own piece of this windfall. So I signed up. Phone interviews asking after household budgets, TV time, annual electronics expenditures and so forth were the first step. Screeners frequently came off like car salesmen –as if the only thing between them and a&nbsp;three-day weekend was filling a late afternoon quota– but it was difficult not to play along. Answers that were a degree or three off elicited a disappointed sigh and a more "accurate" response. <!--more--> <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/The-Official-Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-Periscope.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-10305" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/The-Official-Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-Periscope.jpg" alt="" width="290" height="276"></a>As long as you were semi-articulate, a lot of leeway was given. It felt like lying your way through a job interview. You were rewarded for talking like a big spender. I once said I’d just purchased a periscope. The person on the other end ate it up. Being invited to sessions where clients watched from behind mirrored glass and where compensation could exceed $200 for 90 minutes was a real score. Why <em>not</em> agree you frequently bought scuba crap? <em>Of course</em>, you flew first class, especially if it meant your cell phone bill could get covered in one visit. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Financial-Services_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-10311" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Financial-Services_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="209" height="140"></a>You learned to game your annual income, too. Most of the time, $70,000 a year seemed right. Going too high risked betraying the working-privileged persona they were seeking, or the chatty retiree type for whom the whole apparatus seemed built. Sometimes, though, you needed to say you drove a Range Rover, like when your screener dropped hints of the coming crème de la crème of focus groups: Financial Services. Even hot-air artists had a difficult time being accepted to <em>those</em> panels. But at $300 dollar an hour,&nbsp;it was worth the embarrassment of them finding out mid-session that your financial literacy really came from late fees and layaways. Besides, the&nbsp;<em>going-through-the-motions</em> vibe extended well past the phone screeners to fatigue-afflicted receptionists, assistants, supervisors, and the potatoes hired to moderate the groups themselves – actor burnouts, the disbarred, the newly sober, someone who got deputized once. Not even chipper handwringing, tour guide voices, and Payless Shoe Store magnetism could mask the fact that no one <em>really</em> wanted to spend 40 hours a week in front of two-way mirrors.&nbsp;<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Crockpot-Hotdogs_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-10314" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Crockpot-Hotdogs_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1024x683.jpg" alt="" width="303" height="203"></a> As a participant, you were also promised coffee and sandwiches, but such pledges were subject to oversight, like cleanliness on an airplane. At morning sessions, you might score a continental breakfast, but more often “refreshments” turned into stiff-cornered cheese trays and Chewy Chips Ahoy. Might as well have been crockpot hotdogs. Kinda' insulting after an hour of traffic, and not exactly an inducement to <em>help you&nbsp;help them</em>. But visions of <em>your</em> cash-filled envelope recharged that increasingly false smile and encouraged you to numbly parrot what they wanted to hear. By the time you were expected to comment on an expensively produced commercial promoting&nbsp;the philanthropic arm of Campbell’s Soup, you yourself were going through the motions like a champ. You laughed, winced, and you thoughtfully tapped your chin on cue with the confidence of knowing your TPS reports had been filed on time. Meanwhile, you wished for something to shake things up, say an epileptic seizure or a King Henry VIII-sized fart, but you nodded and agreed enthusiastically that your dream vacation would be to a Sandals® Resort.<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Beer-Chips-and-Salsa__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-10318" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Beer-Chips-and-Salsa__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1024x741.jpg" alt="" width="384" height="278"></a> Lip service at its finest. Those research firms may have sold their corporate client dupes “honest” answers from real people, but the procurement of such data was irretrievably poisoned by&nbsp;organizational bare minimums, catatonia, and patronizing encouragement. Still, that going-through-the-motions vibe extended upward as well. Companies seemed <em>satisfied</em> by the appearance of getting their money's worth. And as long as the research firms pleased the people behind mirrors, they got to keep the taps open, the managers got their orderly cattle calls, and the session hosts never had to return to dinner theatre. Even the receptionists and assistants got to put out the Ritz crackers and call it “good enough.” But then something shifted. Looking back, I believe we’d glimpsed the future. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Plastic-Plastic-and-More-Plastic_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-10321" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Plastic-Plastic-and-More-Plastic_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="138" height="208"></a>It was one thing to become invested in an outcome because for once you’d been asked to consider a product you really did use. I recall being presented once with a new design for bottled water, its plastic so flimsy and thin that the crinkle noises it made were unbearable. I was vociferously against it and convinced my superior argument would sway the manufacturing of two billion bottles of Arrowhead. Ha! Today it’s a standard, capped off by an equally ludicrous oral squirt-top. I won’t touch the things. <a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Do-Not-Talk-Abuot-Focus-Club_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-10328" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Do-Not-Talk-Abuot-Focus-Club_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="339" height="226"></a>But not long after that, I noticed that people –myself included– were starting to care whether they were being heard <em>regardless</em> of their having an actual stake in the product. Once a participant made a good point or offered a pertinent zinger, the others felt compelled to one-up it. If the host started to take Laker Jersey seriously, Stroller Pusher sat up straighter. If Buick Driver started taking notes, Wallet Chain grabbed for a pad and pencil. People started squirming to be more relevant than their fellows. On more than one occasion I found myself side-eying the two-way mirror as I spoke eloquently about cloth&nbsp;vs. paper restaurant napkins. Sure we’d come for the Benjamins, but we stayed for the boasts. Now it was all about how much more your opinion mattered than anyone else’s. Verbally jockeying for a host’s attention –and of course upping your perceived value to the unseen mirror people– was what counted most. Who cared if you had to interrupt someone or come off a little catty in the process.&nbsp;You were channeling your inner&nbsp;<a href="http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Lydia_Rodarte-Quayle">Lydia Rodarte-Quayle</a>&nbsp;in under an hour.<a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Harmsworth-Focus-Group-Fatigue-Chart__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-10326" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Harmsworth-Focus-Group-Fatigue-Chart__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" width="381" height="348"></a> By the time you were thinking, “Pick me! Pick me!” they had us all right where they wanted us. Everything was out the window except for our ridiculous, blathering viewpoints, which we gave and gave and gave. Duh! It was our <em>egos</em>&nbsp;they were after. We were <em>bwoking</em> chickens. Giving it away was justified by the cash being waved at us in exchange. Today, however, "they"&nbsp;already<em> have</em> our consumer perceptions and opinions. Focus Club is increasingly obsolete. At least back then, when it was over, it was over. We were given our envelopes and returned to the normal world, the world before the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Narcissism-Epidemic-Living-Age-Entitlement/dp/1416575995">epidemic of narcissism</a>&nbsp;, before trolling, and distorted&nbsp;<a href="http://working-copy.local/winner-excuse-of-the-year/2014-golden-excuse-emo-pets/">perceptions of unfairness</a>. But maybe the&nbsp;$200 for 90 minutes was just an excuse. Maybe we were the forerunners of a world in which turning on each other to inflate our own egos <em>is</em> the new normal. No need for a focus group to tell us how well <em>that’s</em> working out. &nbsp; <p style="text-align: right;">.</p> Meanwhile, you wished for something to shake things up, say an epileptic seizure or a King Henry VIII-sized fart, but you nodded and agreed enthusiastically that your dream vacation would be to a Sandals® Resort. Lip service at its finest. 10277 2017-11-15 19:26:31 2017-11-16 02:26:31 2019-04-15 21:44:59 2019-04-16 04:44:59 closed open welcome-to-the-focus-group publish 0 0 post 0 annual income Arrowhead Buick Campbell's Soup Chips Ahoy consumer Corporate corporate Culture ego financial services focus group King Henry VIII Laker jersey lip service Lydia Rodarte-Quayle narcissism opinions Payless Range Rover research firm Ritz crackers Sandals TPS report two-way mirror water bottle _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_content_score 30 _yoast_wpseo_primary_category 132 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw_text_input Focus group _yoast_wpseo_focuskw Focus group _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Today, big companies don’t have to pay for focus groups. They already have your opinions. And they’re selling ‘em three times over. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 82 _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705988923;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4262;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3448;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4931;}}}} http://working-copy.local/winner-excuse-of-the-year/no-excuse-for-insufficient-backups/ Fri, 28 Dec 2018 15:22:05 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=10346 <h3><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Data-Loss__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-10352" src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Data-Loss__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1024x878.jpg" alt="" width="361" height="309"></a><strong>Between my hosting company, WordPress, and yours truly, every last one of this year's blog entries went missing about two weeks ago and has yet to be recovered. Have I been fed a string of "complicated" excuses? Yes, but...</strong></h3> This is due in part to my not having backed things up for a while, so in terms of returning the missing content to the&nbsp;site, I have only myself to blame. I have no excuses, but neither do I have any reason not to continue. So I'm working to&nbsp;redesign and update the site for 2019 in the hope that whereexcusesgotodie.com may remain a worthwhile visit. I was recently bitten by a dog for no discernible reason: nasty one too. I went to the hospital and everything. I'd just been cruising down the&nbsp;sidewalk when a big retriever shredded my pants and started gnawing my thigh before its owner even realized what was going on. If only its leash&nbsp;had been a little shorter. When I encountered a similar looking dog few days later, synapses in my brain fired in the direction of my crossing the&nbsp;street, but I didn't. I forced myself to walk past the dog despite the pinch of anxiety I felt. Data loss feels like an existentially inexcusable dog bite. I was mad at first, then self-pitying, but in no way do I intend to surrender this humble platform. Now then! As far as 2018's Excuse of the Year, well, here 'ya go: <p style="text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;">"Our system has been pushed to a breaking point by those who seek open borders...Smugglers, traffickers, and their own parents put these minors at risk by embarking on the dangerous and arduous journey north.” Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, after 2nd child dies in U.S. Border Patrol custody. No way, Nielsen. Regardless of how they came to be in the custody of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, a law enforcement agency <em>you</em> oversee, Homeland Security is responsible for the care of its detainees. There's no excuse for negligent healthcare anywhere in the American penal system, whether through ICE or in privately owned jails and prisons funded by American taxpayers. <p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Enjoy, and I'll see you in 2019 with an Excuses site revamped and ready to rout chintzy rationalizations.</strong></p> 10346 2018-12-28 08:22:05 2018-12-28 15:22:05 2019-02-27 22:06:16 2019-02-28 05:06:16 closed open no-excuse-for-insufficient-backups publish 0 0 post 0 Border Patrol custody data loss detainees excuses Homeland Security ICE Kirstjen Nielsen taxpayers U.S. Customs and Border Protection Where Excuses Go to Die Winner: EXCUSE OF THE YEAR WordPress _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_content_score 90 _yoast_wpseo_primary_category 1776 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw No excuse _yoast_wpseo_metadesc I'm working to redesign and update the site for 2019, in the hope that whereexcusesgotodie.com may remain a worthwhile visit. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 81 _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705607811;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4439;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:274;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:293;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1524;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1326;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2572;}}}} http://working-copy.local/reentry/homeboy-electronics/ Thu, 28 Feb 2019 05:04:07 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=10357 <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Hanging at the back of a recent </strong><em><a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/"><strong>Atlas Obscura</strong></a></em><strong> tour of </strong><a href="https://homeboyindustries.org"><strong>Homeboy Electronics</strong></a><strong>, an outgrowth of offender re-entry nonprofit </strong><a href="https://homeboyindustries.org"><strong>Homeboy Industries</strong></a><strong>, I learned that I'm as likely as anyone to lose sight of how good I have it while choosing from my 3,397 flat screen TV options. </strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":10373,"width":244,"height":183,"linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Homeboy-Electronics_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die2.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Homeboy-Electronics_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die2.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-10373" width="244" height="183"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The reminder came from those we met along the way: former offenders and gang members. As they explained the presence of poisonous lead, mercury, cadmium, and chromium in the plastics and metals of e-waste to those of us likely to upgrade their smart gadgetry just because the sky is blue, I couldn't help but enjoy the role reversal. Who's the "environmental" one here?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":10374,"width":256,"height":191,"linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Homeboy-Electronics_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die5-1.jpg"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Homeboy-Electronics_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die5-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-10374" width="256" height="191"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Director of Operations Brian Fox was our host and guide. Brian could not have been more energetic, knowledgeable, and passionate about the importance of educating the public on both the destructive potential of America's<a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label=" (opens in a new tab)" href="http://collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:6341/Global-E-waste_Monitor_2017__electronic_single_pages_.pdf" target="_blank"> 6.3 million annual tons</a> of e-waste -and the power of second chances. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":10376,"width":249,"height":186,"linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Homeboy-Electronics_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die4-1.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Homeboy-Electronics_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die4-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-10376" width="249" height="186"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>So when a discussion arose among those touring about whether or not recycling was even enough to <em>combat </em>such incredible overconsumption, I was glad when we decided we'd be of significantly better service by simply listening and tabling the debate for another time.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":10378,"width":186,"height":260,"linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Homeboy-Electronics_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die6-1.jpg"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Homeboy-Electronics_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die6-1-731x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-10378" width="186" height="260"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I'm glad we did, because it's one thing to throw out your old printer. It's another thing entirely to learn (and see!) just <em>what</em> escorting so many Epsons to the trash actually means to our presence on the planet. An electronics recycling facility is where those numbers take on real perspective, and that perspective makes you feel like you just encountered a fat black widow spider. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>If I had to pick two key takeaways from Brian's burn for us to grasp e-waste, I'd finger both <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label=" (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/09/the-global-cost-of-electronic-waste/502019/" target="_blank">throwaway culture</a> and <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label=" (opens in a new tab)" href="https://ifixit.org/blog/11590/10-reasons-to-support-right-to-repair/" target="_blank">Right to Repair legislation</a>. Educating oneself in these areas and discovering the value of refurbished tech are ways in which we can counter <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label=" (opens in a new tab)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence" target="_blank">planned obsolescence.</a> There are some pretty ingenious ways to give our smart gear "second and third lives," which might actually be what it takes to make that gear truly "smart" in the first place.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center"} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><strong>And Homeboy Electronics is where do-overs dare</strong>. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":10404,"width":244,"height":236} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft is-resized"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/The-Treasure-of-eWaste_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-10404" width="244" height="236"/></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>It was in 1988 that Homeboy's founder, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label=" (opens in a new tab)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Boyle" target="_blank">Father&nbsp;Gregory Boyle</a>, wrote "Nothing stops a bullet like a job." On his own, he began learning by doing and leading by learning. It's the position of this blog (i.e. my view) that Homeboy Industries is re-entry and community reintegration at its best. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":10379,"width":248,"height":186,"linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Homeboy-Electronics_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die3.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Homeboy-Electronics_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die3.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-10379" width="248" height="186"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Now, through Homeboy Industries' Workforce Development Department (known for years as "Jobs not Jails"), ex-gang members and formerly incarcerated men and women become Homeboy and Homegirl candidates. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":10380,"width":294,"height":220,"linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Homeboy-Electronics_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die7.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Homeboy-Electronics_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die7.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-10380" width="294" height="220"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>And what started as a bakery now includes a solar panel program, Homeboy Groceries (for damn good chips and salsa), silk screen and embroidery, catering, and more (including an expanded bakery and <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Homegirl Cafe (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.homeboyfoods.com/Homegirl-Cafe-s/1514.htm" target="_blank">Homegirl Cafe</a>). Most importantly, what we saw on our tour of Homeboy Electronics was the key to all of this: former offenders <em>doing</em> the recycling rather than being themselves recycled through the criminal justice system.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":10381,"width":282,"height":211,"linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Homeboy-Electronics_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die8.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Homeboy-Electronics_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die8.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-10381" width="282" height="211"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>But each Homeboy training and job placement program offers even so-called "high risk" individuals the opportunity to learn marketable skills, become environmentally aware and, in the case of used inkjets or iPhones, help bring the rest of us up to speed as well. Above all, Homeboy is a peer-to-peer network in the<em> least</em> technological sense, and it doesn't offer its second chances in terms of a marketing agenda.<strong> </strong><br></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":10382,"width":366,"height":276,"linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Homeboy-Electronics_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die9.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Homeboy-Electronics_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die9.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-10382" width="366" height="276"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Homeboy Electronics has its own support store right at their facility. If you're in the area, check out the selection of vintage electronic equipment, including reconditioned audio, video, and computers of every stripe. Why pay an eBay mark-up, do the flea market shuffle, or suffer through collector snobbery when you could support such a genuine example of post-incarceration rehabilitation? </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Never mind what you'll be saving. </strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right"} --> <p class="has-text-align-right">.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right"} --> <p class="has-text-align-right">.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> 10357 2019-02-27 22:04:07 2019-02-28 05:04:07 2020-08-14 14:22:16 2020-08-14 21:22:16 closed open homeboy-electronics publish 0 0 post 0 Atlas Obscura e-waste Father Gregory Boyle Homeboy Electronics Homeboy Industries Homegirl Cafe iPhone planned obsolescence re-entry Reentry rehabilitation Rehabilitation reintegration second chance throwaway culture _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_primary_category 1429 _yoast_wpseo_content_score 30 _thumbnail_id 10363 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw Homeboy _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Hanging at the back of a recent tour of Homeboy Electronics, I learned I'm as likely as anyone to lose sight of how good I have it. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 90 _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706859677;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8961;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4503;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7708;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/united-states-of-until-you-get-caught/ Tue, 23 Apr 2019 19:42:04 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=10410 <!-- wp:image {"id":10438,"align":"center","width":514,"height":308,"linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Real-Americans-are-debtors__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-2.jpg"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Real-Americans-are-debtors__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-2-1024x614.jpg" alt="Diverse Crowd of Debtor-Americans eyes skyward" class="wp-image-10438" width="514" height="308"/></a><figcaption>Real Americans are debtors</figcaption></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>It hit me 20 years ago: personal debt was becoming the real "bling." And the question was, how much debt can a person carry </strong><em><strong>without breaking a sweat? </strong></em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>It was a notion that pertained to those of us down here on the ground, of course, not to the swells in private jets. The wealthy had a whole different set of horribly mutating pressures, which have only worsened. This was more of a proletarian thing, based on principles left to dogs that are forced to fight over scraps and dead things. Forget the season tickets, the gold, and the Benz. Flaunting how you'd scored access to a back door in order to <em>procure</em> them was what was important.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Parading around in rich people's material accessories and mocking "what rich people do” is time-honored comedy. What suggested something different was that Mercedes itself started <a href="https://autoexpert.com.au/posts/top-10-mercedes-benz-myths">diluting</a> its brand, offering more models at lower prices and cranking out upgrades and redesigns so frequently that their acquisition required fewer and fewer of the principles behind delayed gratification. We were being met halfway.<br></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"id":10440,"align":"right","width":168,"height":127,"linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Your-Mercedes-Benz__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Your-Mercedes-Benz__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1024x776.jpg" alt="Man crying behind the wheel" class="wp-image-10440" width="168" height="127"/></a><figcaption>Mercedes Benz: over-engineered and sprinkled with rhinestones</figcaption></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Shortly after the twin towers fell, I sensed an increased flippancy and cynicism being expressed in regular folks’ spending. Since average people don't <em>have</em> a lot of disposable income, blurring the line between disposable and borrowed was already pretty common. But when that peculiarity grew so prevalent so quickly, I wondered if building a personal fashion runway on which to strut ––on credit–– had actually surpassed the glint of jewelry or the glamour of that luxury car. <br></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"id":10446,"align":"left","width":179,"height":176,"linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/P311.jpg"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/P311.jpg" alt="International symbol representing carelessness" class="wp-image-10446" width="179" height="176"/></a><figcaption>Where's your credit score now Flanders?</figcaption></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>We watched as increasing numbers of our fellows lived stupidly beyond their means, but we shrugged and tried to keep up. Such was today's epidemic of narcissism and entitlement while it was still using training wheels. I filed it all under: "Wealth is quiet. Rich is loud. Fake is flashy."</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The kicker was an ability to show emotional resilience and a light heart in the face of crushing personal debt. It was the United States of Credit Scores, the run up to the 2008 financial collapse that was promulgated by contempt-filled men set on selling a million homes to those who couldn't afford them.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>And then came the New Normal...</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"id":10467,"align":"right","width":223,"height":150,"linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Elizabeth-Holmes-IS-COMING-FOR-YOUR-SOUL_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Elizabeth-Holmes-IS-COMING-FOR-YOUR-SOUL_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1024x692.jpg" alt="he Scary Eyes of Elizabeth Holmes " class="wp-image-10467" width="223" height="150"/></a><figcaption>Elizabeth Holmes wants you to donate your soul for science.</figcaption></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The update to <em>debt-as-bling</em> is far uglier, and now it's also impossible to ignore. Just look to <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Elizabeth (opens in a new tab)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes" target="_blank">Elizabeth</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Holmes"> Holmes and Theranos</a>, or the FBI's inquiry into <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Jussie Smollet's dropped criminal charges (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/jussie-smollett-federal-officials-fbi-doj-chicago-charges" target="_blank">Jussie Smollet's dropped criminal charges</a>. The government calling the college admissions scandal a "criminal conspiracy" means little when conventional wisdom routinely waters cheating down to “hacks" and “tricks." Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli may have refused to plead guilty like the others because maybe it's not really <em>cheating</em> after all.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>All around us, there's a growing sense that if you’re not “connected," if you don't know the secret handshake or the hack (a.k.a. how to <em>cheat)</em>, you matter less. Because in 2019, if you're not engaged in an eye bleeding panic to position your assets, your money, and your bling so they can substitute for merit, well...you're almost not even American.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"id":10454,"align":"center","width":261,"height":113} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Transparency-International_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1024x446.jpg" alt="Transparency international graphic" class="wp-image-10454" width="261" height="113"/><figcaption>Government corruption hates your vote.</figcaption></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I used to think I could survive just about anything. Now I wonder how to keep a healthy outlook when the values and principles I was taught as a child ––which were heavily reinforced when I was a parolee–– are being rejected every time the news catches my attention. As someone who served prison time, I fought like hell to re-embrace the norms, laws, regulations, taboos, and customs that <em>used</em> to be important in civic expectation, not to mention everyday humanities. So <em>now</em> what?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"id":10430,"align":"center","width":347,"height":84,"linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/The-United-States-of-Until-You-Get-Caught__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/The-United-States-of-Until-You-Get-Caught__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1024x250.jpg" alt="Ace of Spades Hidden in Sleeve" class="wp-image-10430" width="347" height="84"/></a><figcaption>I Pledge Allegiance to Aces up My Sleeve </figcaption></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The criminal record is mine forever, as is the knowledge that I have no one to blame but myself. I’ve made peace with and built on that. But for someone whose actions made detention and stigma a necessary part of a difficult learning curve, it's absolutely heartbreaking ––and frankly confusing–– to see those lessons, values, and principles <a href="https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2011/05/22/are-americans-becoming-less-ethical/ideas/up-for-discussion/">being blown off </a><a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="from (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2011/05/22/are-americans-becoming-less-ethical/ideas/up-for-discussion/" target="_blank">from</a><a href="https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2011/05/22/are-americans-becoming-less-ethical/ideas/up-for-discussion/"> the top down</a>. What's worse is the feeling we're being told these ARE the new upright values and principles.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>Is America's moral courage in a fight for its life?</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"id":10466,"align":"left","width":99,"height":117,"linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Courtesy_Dan-Tague-Studio.jpg"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Courtesy_Dan-Tague-Studio-864x1024.jpg" alt="Dan Tague folded money artwork" class="wp-image-10466" width="99" height="117"/></a><figcaption>Artist Dan Tague's Easter Eggs are in the folds</figcaption></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>So the question is, what do those of us feeling this dread (we <a href="https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_in_the_usa_the_difference_a_year_makes">74% of Americans </a>who believe ordinary people can make a difference in the fight against corruption) <em>do </em>about it? How do we go forth believing the values we were raised to protect are still worth protecting ––or even adhering to? If we’re outnumbered and surrounded by those who demonstrate emotional resilience and a light heart in the face of actual criminal activity, what's the point? What's "Post-Truth America," and how in the world would I answer these questions if a 14-year-old were asking them?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>These days, it feels more like we live in the United States of Until You Get Caught. Take, exploit, exclude, and profit as much as possible, without concern for what could happen when the whole house of cards collapses. By burying our heads in the sand once again, we do nothing but make excuses for the fact that this is all <em>really fucking happening. </em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right"} --> <p style="text-align:right">.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"left"} --> <p style="text-align:left"><strong>If you'd like to stay on top of where this is going, check out the newly launched Mother Jones</strong> <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Corruption Project (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.motherjones.com/media/2019/04/mother-jones-corruption-project/?list_source=7H94EA1A&amp;term=XX.1.35.00.DON.D.0.19130" target="_blank">Corruption Project</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right"} --> <p style="text-align:right">.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right"} --> <p style="text-align:right">.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> 10410 2019-04-23 12:42:04 2019-04-23 19:42:04 2019-04-25 08:48:48 2019-04-25 15:48:48 closed open united-states-of-until-you-get-caught publish 0 0 post 1 bling cheating college admissions scandal Culture debt Elizabeth Holmes emotional resilience epidemic excuses Jussie Smollett Lori Loughlin Mercedes Mossimo Mother Jones narcissism principles prison Theranos twin towers United States _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_primary_category 132 _yoast_wpseo_content_score 30 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw debt-as-bling _yoast_wpseo_metadesc In 2019, every "real" American should be engaged in an eye bleeding panic to position assets, money, and even debt-as-bling so it can be accepted as merit. _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 74 _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705607810;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:341;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:303;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6175;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:377;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9413;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:716;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor http://working-copy.local/uncategorized/hold-the-sheriff-accountable-event-8-24/ Fri, 23 Aug 2019 00:39:36 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=10498 <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>If you’re like me and you suffer from severe voter's remorse for having chosen Alex Villanueva to <a href="https://laist.com/2018/11/16/alex_villanueva_declares_victory_over_jim_mcdonnell_in_la_county_sheriffs_race.php">replace</a> Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell – or if you’d like to learn why so many Angelenos do – join us on <strong>Saturday, August 24, from 1–3:30 pm</strong>, at the Immanuel Presbyterian Church.<br></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>ACLU SoCal, Black Lives Matter Los Angeles, Community Coalition, LA Voice, Youth Justice Coalition, and others, are hosting a community discussion on the 33rd Sheriff of LA County. It will be an informative, thought-provoking forum on Villanueva, the country's largest sheriff's department and its attendant controversies. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>And that sure is putting it<a href="http://working-copy.local/los-angeles-county-sheriff/making-excuses-for-incompetence-l-a-county-sheriffs-edition/"> mildly</a> for a department referred to as the largest mafia in the U.S.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department - A Tradition of Controversy 10498 2019-08-22 17:39:36 2019-08-23 00:39:36 2020-08-14 14:40:41 2020-08-14 21:40:41 closed open hold-the-sheriff-accountable-event-8-24 publish 0 0 post 0 ACLU SoCal Alex Villanueva Black Lives Matter Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Sheriff McDonnell Uncategorized Youth Justice Coalition _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_primary_category 1 _wpas_done_all 1 _yoast_wpseo_content_score 30 _thumbnail_id 10500 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"040791d20713cd4267183a8bfb7a7a8a";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706801959;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11224;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8731;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2309;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/could-accountability-on-social-media-begin-with-fart-humor/ Sun, 08 Sep 2019 00:13:41 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=10509 <!-- wp:quote {"align":"center"} --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote has-text-align-center"><p><strong><em>"Each of us is becoming more confident about our own world</em></strong><br><strong><em>just as it drifts farther from the worlds of others." </em></strong><br>The Technology of Kindness, by Jamil Zaki</p></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>If we don't have shared truths we can't co-exist, we can't protect ourselves, and we can't set healthy examples for – anyone. That's my take-away from a truly empowering article for <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-technology-of-kindness/">Scientific American</a> by Jamil Zaki, author of The War for Kindness. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":10514,"width":367,"height":244,"linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/TEXT-MORE-TRUST-LESS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1.jpg"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/TEXT-MORE-TRUST-LESS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1-1024x683.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-10514" width="367" height="244"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The Stanford professor of psychology observes that merely leaving a phone <em>turned off</em> between two people will result in their trusting each other less. Sounds right to me, given how many times I've wondered if the conversation I'm having with someone is worth maintaining, since they've apparently abandoned our exchange for the "tiny, addictive affirmations” of a text/Twitter/Facebook alert. And I can't begin to count how many times I've resented a passenger in my car for burying their face in their phone rather than joining me in making fun of other drivers. P.S. it's not attention I crave, but the value of someone's presence. Communal silence or even lazy, mutual daydreaming is just as much of a life-affirming treasure as mockery. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>And while we're on the subject, here's another such "treasure": farts. Now before you judge, stay with me a minute.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":10515,"width":167,"height":128,"linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Accountability-on-Social-Media-Begins-With-Fart-Humor_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Accountability-on-Social-Media-Begins-With-Fart-Humor_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-10515" width="167" height="128"/></a><figcaption>Shared truth. Common ground. <br>(Do NOT You Tube "Fart Humor" )</figcaption></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I've found that one of the easiest strategies for overcoming how separate we are from each other these days is to quickly find even a sliver of common ground. I contend that fart humor fits that bill. I mean, come on! If ever there was a platform we could agree on across every ethnicity, nation-state, class, and rank, it’s that <em>farts are funny</em>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>My work here is done (you're welcome), but I do encourage you to read Zaki's full article for yourself. It’s a terrific piece, and not nearly as disruptive as ripping one in the car. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> 10509 2019-09-07 17:13:41 2019-09-08 00:13:41 2020-08-14 15:25:12 2020-08-14 22:25:12 closed open could-accountability-on-social-media-begin-with-fart-humor publish 0 0 post 1 Culture empathy fart humor farts Jamil Zaki phones Scientific American social media Stanford technology _edit_last 1 _yoast_wpseo_primary_category 132 _yoast_wpseo_focuskw social media _yoast_wpseo_linkdex 78 _yoast_wpseo_content_score 30 _yoast_wpseo_metadesc Fart humor! It's the fastest -- and funniest -- way out of the empathy-limiting social separation caused by social media _wpas_done_all 1 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705607809;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9750;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9702;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:764;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4084;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10082;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10277;}}}} http://working-copy.local/celebrity/giannulli_loughlin/ Mon, 24 Aug 2020 05:07:57 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=10799 <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center"} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><strong>Welcome to Notes From a Non-parent #12</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":10804,"width":302,"height":267,"sizeSlug":"large"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Giannulli_Loughlin_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Photo-Credit-CBS8.com_-1-e1598218619746.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-10804" width="302" height="267"/><figcaption>_{Unaltered photo credit CBS8.com}</figcaption></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Hey, it’s not like&nbsp;celebrity-felon parents Mossimo Giannulli and Lori Loughlin’s <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lori-loughlin-college-admissions-scandal-two-months-prison-sentence-giannulli-mossimo-5-months/">choices</a> were about their daughters’ academic goals, let alone the ascension of their character through a journey in studies. Greedy schmucks got their daughters kicked out of school. &nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>According to U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel Gorton, Giannulli’s and Loughlin’s part in the so-called college admissions scandal was all about an “inexplicable desire to grasp even more.”&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Sounds right. As for the five- and two-month (respective) staycations in federal custody? Works for me. After all, the minimal confinement isn’t the zinger.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>After recounting the celebrity-felon parents’ “fairy tale life,” Judge Gorton handed down their real punishment: “Get Character or Become One.” In other words, they’re gonna have to work pretty hard to reverse their now intimate association with the worst element in American society.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":10854,"width":294,"height":262,"sizeSlug":"large"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Notes-From-a-Non-parent_12.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-10854" width="294" height="262"/></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Oh, I don’t mean the drug dealers, gun runners, and violent criminals who routinely stand before the same judge. I mean the vulgar cheaters of 2020: the scum of high office; the chips off the old systemic block of wealth; the suited, self-centered, swampy wall-building <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/private-border-wall-fundraisers-have-been-arrested-on-fraud-charges">con-artists</a> who bilked their own base.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>For Giannulli and Loughlin, the real penalty is being seen as parents who used their own daughters to further their status,&nbsp;prestige, and entitlement. Their prison number is the side-eye they can expect both in person and on social media.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Gorton insisted the crimes here were made even less excusable by how unnecessary they were. “You’re not stealing bread to feed your family,” he said to Gianulli. “You certainly did know better.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Ouch. As someone who also had to stand before a sentencing judge to&nbsp;truly&nbsp;“know better,” I’d say those words are likely to last a lot longer than 5 months.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> Hey, it’s not like celebrity-felon parents Mossimo Giannulli and Lori Loughlin’s choices were about their daughters’ academic goals, let alone the ascension of their character through a journey in studies. Greedy schmucks got their daughters kicked out of school. 10799 2020-08-23 22:07:57 2020-08-24 05:07:57 2020-09-08 13:47:09 2020-09-08 20:47:09 closed giannulli_loughlin publish 0 0 post 1 Celebrity celebrity character Character college admissions scandal fairy tale Judge Nathaniel Gorton Lori Loughlin Mossimo Mossimo Giannulli _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705607809;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10410;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1088;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9190;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:360;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7041;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:663;}}}} http://working-copy.local/election-politics/jon-ponder-pardon/ Wed, 26 Aug 2020 21:12:40 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=10826 <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"left"} --> <p class="has-text-align-left">Hi, I’m a convicted American. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>As a convicted American, I know what it’s like to be formally and publicly disqualified from society –– to accept the consequesnces and their impact.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I know what it's like to slam a book shut with the realization of what it means to lose the right to vote.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":10845,"width":166,"height":209,"sizeSlug":"large"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CONVICTED-AMERICAN_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-10845" width="166" height="209"/></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Human dignity isn’t something a sentencing judge extracts from a defendant in the courtroom, and its surrender isn’t part of any plea bargain. The loss of dignity occurs informally, away from the public, in places where cruelty, rage, and fear are picked from one’s eye like dust.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>As a convicted American, I know what it is to witness a man’s dignity being taken from him. In describing one of the pillars of prison life, I often say it’s not so much the savagery you witness as the&nbsp;savagery you're forced to silently bury.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I’ll never be free of those memories: they will always return to haunt me — and also to recharge my values.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I know the feeling of begging a Corrections Officer (or worse, a prison guard) for toilet paper and soap. No lubricating&nbsp;eye-contact, my lips squished into a gap between steel and concrete. I remember smiling a survivor’s smile, too, at the freedom from having to swallow my pride, the first punch line of prison life.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>And I remember official documentation. For every little thing, one needs papers, signature proof, double verification, a case file, a blue copy, a&nbsp;white copy, a canary yellow copy, and so on. Life behind bars is like living inside a Department of Motor Vehicles office&nbsp;located in a parking structure.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>But here’s what else I know:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>As a convicted American, I know the life-affirming relief of chatting about fighter jets or lighting or even God with the man locking you in for the night.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>And I know what it feels like to have <a href="http://working-copy.local/prison-2/restore-voting-rights-re-enfranchise/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">my voting rights restored</a>.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>“I've paid my debt to society” sounds like a cliché from the movies until you're the one saying it. And when you're no longer nibbling at meals through an annual split lip, goddamn it feels good to say.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":10827,"width":558,"height":314,"sizeSlug":"full"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-full is-resized"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Jon-Ponder-Pardon_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-10827" width="558" height="314"/></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Last night, I watched Trump pardon Jon Ponder. Ponder stood in humility as the entirety of the government’s power was summoned to declare him re-fit for anything American, even elected office or a shotgun collection.<br />Staged as the ceremony may have been, I wondered if Ponder was thinking, “Just keep being nice to the man. It's just like back on the row. You know this drill. You want your issue, right? Keep it cool. Get that paper. Play along. Hi, nice lady.”&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em>I</em> certainly would have been, 'cause as a convicted American, I know a lot about dangled carrots, false hopes, and the journey of becoming my own man with my own principles based on hard won lessons. I know what it feels like to slam a book shut with the realization that dignity and self direction have gradually been <a href="http://working-copy.local/celebrity/from-beat-downs-to-bear-hugs/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">inching back</a>.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>This morning, there are probably equal numbers of Trump campaign strategists patting themselves on the back for proposing the Ponder presidential pardon as there are critics questioning its timing, politics, the RNC, or that Ponder pled guilty and has no right to a pardon. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>None of that matters when you're holding the bearer bond, and Jon Ponder just walked away with one. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>And as a convicted American, he knows the value of official documentation.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Good for you Jon, my friend in restored dignity.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Take a minute to check out Jon Ponder's <a href="https://hopeforprisoners.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Hope&nbsp;for Prisoners</a> &nbsp;–– &nbsp;building and strengthening skills "necessary for employment&nbsp;readiness,&nbsp;leadership development and success throughout the reintegration process.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> Ponder stood in humility as the entirety of the government’s power was summoned to declare him re-fit for anything American, even elected office or a shotgun collection. 10826 2020-08-26 14:12:40 2020-08-26 21:12:40 2020-09-08 13:46:41 2020-09-08 20:46:41 closed jon-ponder-pardon publish 0 0 post 1 Americans convicted Election Politics Inspirational Jon Ponder RNC Trump voting rights _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705607809;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6175;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1896;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9019;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:312;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4084;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4697;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/stormtrumpers/ Sun, 01 Nov 2020 19:35:32 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=10863 <!-- wp:paragraph {"textColor":"black","fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-black-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size"><strong>Truck Dicks are old news that's been kicked upstairs. </strong><br /><strong>As of this week, they're no less than Shock Troops.</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"center","id":11093,"sizeSlug":"full"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter size-full"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ROYAL-KNIGHTS-of-TRUCK-DICKS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-3.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11093"/></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"normal"} --> <p class="has-normal-font-size">The armed Texas Trump Train that reportedly outnumbered police 50-1 while surrounding a Biden campaign bus on a Texas highway has received their leader's <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/i-love-texas-president-trump-cheers-on-supporters-as-they-swarm-biden-bus-now-the-fbi-is-involved-11604252830" target="_blank">eager endorsement</a>. Drivers of giant pick-ups, particularly those with confrontational or tantrum-like adornments, will now be lumped in with political vultures who have essentially become a <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung" target="_blank">Storm Division</a>. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The galloping neuroses of men in monster trucks has never been more conspicuous or weaponized. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Already at ease with their cartoonish potency, Truck Dicks have achieved hero status of the "stand back and stand by" variety. Also, they're probably relieved to have found purpose for their Ford Platinum Super Duty F-350 MSRP of $87,110. What third wife is gonna nag her celtic-tattooed mid-lifer about that monthly $967 insurance/car payment combo while they're leading the most American parade since the Lafayette Welcoming of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafayette_Welcoming_Parade_of_1824_(Philadelphia)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">1824</a>?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Yup. Trump's magic wand again, the meatball stick waved over empty heads. POOF! Knighthood!&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Oh, I don't mean every mega-truck owner is susceptible, but aren't the cop groupies who yammer on about law enforcement (as though it were a life form) the easiest of Trump's recruits? You know, the Dave &amp; Buster's dadbods whose rigs are too clean to be hauling America-building payloads like in the commercials? </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I'm talking about the aging flat brimmers who mansplain about the bells 'n whistles of doom survival. They swear that 700 pounds per foot of rear-wheel torque&nbsp;and a 40-gallon diesel gas tank are the only things standing between their families and any number of possible human extinction scenarios. Yeah, those 5'5" fuckers whose flip flops dangle out the door when they fence-hop themselves into the cab.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Not so much guys with the shipyard cred: I mean the haters with the Heineken spread. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>It's almost as if Truck Dicks blossomed at the discovery that they've been driving <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_(vehicle)" target="_blank">Somali Technicals</a> to Lowes and the bullet store. Their 18-guage steel tiger-cobra-rhino-dominators are now platforms for select historical celebrations, looter hunting, and ideological policing of all sorts. It doesn't help with their child support payments, but hey, "blood purge." USA! USA! USA! </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>If it weren't for Donald Trump, some of these men might be relegated to the usual parking lot small-penis appraisals. But after ganging up on and endangering the passengers of an election campaign bus, who knows? There may be an Executive Order in their future, one mandating that "Intimidation Performance" be considered in the assessment of full-size pick-up resale value.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center"} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><strong>Here is our Where Excuses Go to Die screen-grab tribute to the men</strong>, <strong>trucks, and flags of MAGA enforcement. </strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:gallery {"ids":[11056,11070,11069,11068,11067,11063,11064,11065,11066,11062,11061,11060,11059,11055,11057,11058,11054,11053]} --> <figure class="wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped"><ul class="blocks-gallery-grid"><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/TRUCKS-FLAGS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die05.jpg" alt="" data-id="11056" data-full-url="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/TRUCKS-FLAGS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die05.jpg" 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data-full-url="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/TRUCKS-FLAGS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die02.jpg" data-link="http://working-copy.local/trucks-flags_where-excuses-go-to-die02/" class="wp-image-11053"/></figure></li></ul></figure> <!-- /wp:gallery --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> 10863 2020-11-01 12:35:32 2020-11-01 19:35:32 2020-11-01 20:25:20 2020-11-02 03:25:20 closed stormtrumpers publish 0 0 post 1 Biden bus Culture Donald Trump election Election Politics Executive Order Ford Heineken human extinction scenarios Stormtrumpers Super Duty F-350 Texas truck dicks Trump trucks _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706739283;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10966;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10826;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8331;}}}} http://working-copy.local/reentry/in-support-of-ab-2147/ Tue, 01 Sep 2020 23:26:48 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=10865 <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"small"} --> <p class="has-small-font-size"><em>UPDATE: AB-2147 is now law.&nbsp;Each year, more than 2,000 inmate&nbsp;firefighters&nbsp;battle California wildfires for less than what we civilians pay for a cup of coffee. These current and formerly incarcerated offenders will remember 2020 as the year their hard work was finally recognized and their professional skills ratified.&nbsp;</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center"} --> <p class="has-text-align-center">–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>If Governor Gavin Newsom signs California AB-2147, former inmates who have successfully participated in the state’s Conservation Camp program may soon see employment barriers related to their past criminal records lifted.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":10868,"width":368,"height":208,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/AB-2147_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/AB-2147_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1024x576.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-10868" width="368" height="208"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>These ex-inmates would be able to request accelerated expungements and apply for a number of state emergency technician licenses, all of which would put to use the training, experience, bravery, and heroic skills they honed during incarceration, but which have so far been deemed valueless outside the perimeter walls.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>AB-2147 would acknowledge the contributions Conservation Camp inmates make each season in assisting professional firefighters, including the danger they put themselves in to defend the life and property of Californians like you and me. That includes finger pointers who'd prefer to keep them locked up forever as well as people who say things to "relate" to ex-felons, such as, "Heh-heh. The only difference between me and you is I never got caught." And finally, it would mean <em>de facto</em> recognition for the three inmates who have died containing our state's wildfires.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":10870,"width":307,"height":227,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SPECIAL-FORCES_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SPECIAL-FORCES_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-10870" width="307" height="227"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>But maybe you're not quite ready to call these guys "heroes." Fine then. Call 'em "survivors," as in, California wildfire containment survivors. If even <em>that</em> makes you grit your teeth, I'd like to see you stand up to a wall of flame for between $2.90 and $5.12 per day. Assemblywoman Eloise Gomez Reyes, one of the key sponsors of AB-2147, put it clearly: "I would hope that most of us would agree that an individual willing to face down a fire and smoke is much more than the sum of their previous mistakes."</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I last addressed the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://working-copy.local/character-2/capitalizing-on-inmate-firefighters/" target="_blank">misadventures</a> of inmate firefighters as they were being bureaucratically bounced between the California Correctional Peace Officers Association (the <a href="http://working-copy.local/prison-2/ccpoa-opposition/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">crafty union</a> representing prison guards) and the professional firefighters relied upon by California's prison system to select and train volunteer inmate-applicants.&nbsp;The passage of this new bill would send a needed and powerful signal about the sorts of sacrifices we truly value.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":10871,"width":203,"height":203,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CALIFORNIA-CONSERVATION-CAMP.jpg"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CALIFORNIA-CONSERVATION-CAMP.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-10871" width="203" height="203"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>For a fresh take on AB-2147's promise for both Camp program graduates <em>and</em> California taxpayers, check out Los Angeles Times columnist, Erika D. Smith's relevant <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-31/firefighter-inmate-prison-wildfire-california-coronavirus" target="_blank">reckoning</a>.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>There's a reason why some call Conservation Camp participants the "special forces" of California inmates. Here are some of the questions and qualifications <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.gerstenzanglaw.com/blog/fire-camp-california" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.gerstenzanglaw.com/blog/fire-camp-california" target="_blank">offender-applicants</a> are expected to meet.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>And of course, here's <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB2147" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AB-2147</a> for your perusal. <br /><br /></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> 10865 2020-09-01 16:26:48 2020-09-01 23:26:48 2020-09-08 13:46:01 2020-09-08 20:46:01 closed in-support-of-ab-2147 publish 0 0 post 1 AB-2147 Assemblywoman Eloise Gomez Reyes California Correctional Peace Officers Association California wildfires conservation camp Erika D. Smith expungement firefighters Gavin Newsom Reentry Rehabilitation taxpayers volunteer _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706749838;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8912;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11152;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:334;}}}} http://working-copy.local/excuses/the-soft-spot-of-exemption/ Tue, 08 Sep 2020 02:24:05 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=10880 <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":10963,"width":325,"height":321,"sizeSlug":"large"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Avob-Comics-1024x1015.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-10963" width="325" height="321"/></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>A pathological adherence to: "It's okay if I do it because I’m a good person" is America's worst curse. </strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>It's hard to fathom the conscious human brain hemorrhaging <a href="https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/09/07/homes-destroyed-evacuations-remain-for-el-dorado-fire-sparked-by-pyrotechnic-device/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">the idiocy</a> required to esentially set off fireworks on a 118° day in one of the few California forests not already engulfed in a sea of flame, but here we are. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>And I say "we," of course, because the assumption that we're not, at times, idiots, criminals, or racists applies to everyone. It's a delusion arising from the same soft spot in our psyches that produces the two things we deny the most: stubbornness and cowardice. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p id="gender-reveal-idiocy">A "gender reveal" smoke bomb ignited the 8700+ acre El Dorado fire because some asshole simply assumed safety would accompany their self-congratulatory antics. The fire rages because a "good person" believed this "goodness" was the totality of their identity.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>It's a line of thinking reminiscent of:<br /><em>Well, I've have <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/16/racial-inequality-niceness-white-people" target="_blank">NEVER</a> been mean to a person of color, so...</em><br />Or <br /><em>...but it's a <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/gender-reveal-party-turns-tragic-iowa-woman-killed/story?id=66567086" target="_blank">pipe bomb</a> in honor </em>of <em>MY baby!</em> <br />And now, of course,<br /><em>Bikes are freedom! Nobody's telling me to </em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://jalopnik.com/results-are-in-sturgis-motorcycle-rally-was-a-covid-su-1844982613" target="_blank"><em>wear a mask at </em><i>Sturgi</i>Con</a><em>!</em> </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":10889,"width":323,"height":215,"sizeSlug":"medium"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-medium is-resized"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/El-Dorado-Fire_is_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-300x200.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-10889" width="323" height="215"/></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>If you'll pardon a little excuse theory, what's hiding <em>behind</em> an excuse is often the most interesting part, because it says something about all of us. We spend our lives buying and selling justifications, training ourselves to&nbsp;accept various levels of self deception, leaning on more shades of gray than there are rain clouds. We cite mitigating&nbsp;circumstances before we can damn near walk.&nbsp;In every conceivable aspect of our behavior we allow ourselves to escape consequences whenever we can.&nbsp;When we take things too far and wind up pulling something illegal or stupid, we even feel betrayed by these &nbsp;pillars of rationalization, because somehow they don't save us. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>And to think, gender reveal parties were lame as hell <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/jun/29/jenna-karvunidis-i-started-gender-reveal-party-trend-regret" target="_blank">before</a> this.<br /><br />Whatever amount of restitution this family is expected to pay, they'll never escape the fact that their monsterous entitlement resulted in the<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.sbsun.com/2020/09/21/officials-identify-firefighter-killed-while-battling-el-dorado-fire-charlie-morton-called-a-respected-leader/" target="_blank"> death</a> of a career-skilled firefighter, the destruction of 20 homes, and 22,600+ burned acres of forest.<br /><br />That's a lot to own for such a frivolous gratification. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> And gender reveal parties were lame as hell BEFORE this. 10880 2020-09-07 19:24:05 2020-09-08 02:24:05 2020-09-27 21:33:57 2020-09-28 04:33:57 closed the-soft-spot-of-exemption publish 0 0 post 1 Character El Dorado fire excuse Excuses fire fireworks gender reveal gender reveal parties racist smoke bomb soft spot _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705607808;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9442;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11737;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11152;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:293;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:549;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9141;}}}} http://working-copy.local/character-2/little-boomerang-that-could/ Wed, 23 Sep 2020 00:44:10 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=10921 <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong><em>People take misinformation seriously.&nbsp;</em></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":10950,"width":334,"height":236,"sizeSlug":"large"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/BOOMERANGS_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-10950" width="334" height="236"/></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"textColor":"vivid-red","fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size"><strong>A friend’s intellectually disabled son was recently caught gargling with liquid dish soap as mouthwash. “I'm trying to fight the Coronavirus,”&nbsp;the young man told his supervisor.&nbsp;</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>She reached for the bathroom door frame when she heard his answer.</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Going without a mask for portions of the day had been approved, since he interacts only with her. Apparently he was trying to “make up” for the security that covering his face had provided.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Coworkers ran through her mind. Had any of them made jokes that might have been overheard? Would any be so monstrous as to&nbsp;tell&nbsp;the young man to do this?&nbsp; Those answers would have to wait. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Informing his father would be a grueling experience.  <br /><br />“Riley,” diagnosed with cerebral palsy as a child, is affected by accompanying health issues which, unlike CP itself, are progressive. His dad is a single father who manages care and medical treatment for both his son and his elderly mother. Despite these and other challenges, my friend’s dedication and focus are almost insect-like. He exists for his family, for the next day, the next bill, the next appointment. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":10943,"width":291,"height":440,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/EVERYTHING-IS-OPAQUE-NOW.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/EVERYTHING-IS-OPAQUE-NOW-e1600879835485-676x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-10943" width="291" height="440"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"left"} --> <p class="has-text-align-left">Fortunately, by all accounts, Riley is an easygoing employee. He may not be a workplace dynamo, but cheerfully doing what he can with what he’s been given is definitely his thing. Riley’s most unfavorable report involved his devouring a coworker's tortellini from the lunchroom fridge. I enjoy imagining he did that as payback for being called “slow.”&nbsp;<br /><br />Because Riley can be defiant, sure. Who isn’t? And despite supervision being a mainstay of his life, he isn’t without sense. His father’s surprise is warranted. His confusion, disappointment, and fear are immediate and tangible, whereas his anger and what to do with it will either have to wait or simply be let go.&nbsp;<br /><br />I would find that difficult to do, myself. And this is as close as I’ve come to witnessing the boomeranging consequences of the laughable, dangerous, proposals being floated as solutions to the pandemic. I’m unsure of what to do with this other than scream it from the rooftops.&nbsp;<br /><br />The good news is that Riley is okay. He has been gently counseled. He goes a little less solo these days, but Riley is no different than the rest of us facing the domineering sway of misinformation and the vulnerabilities it exploits.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Being thankful that Riley only used dish soap creates a lot of what ifs.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right"} --> <p class="has-text-align-right">.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> A friend’s intellectually disabled son was recently caught gargling with liquid dish soap as mouthwash. “I’m trying to fight the Coronavirus,” 10921 2020-09-22 17:44:10 2020-09-23 00:44:10 2020-09-24 15:40:48 2020-09-24 22:40:48 closed little-boomerang-that-could publish 0 0 post 1 boomerang cerebral palsy Character disabled Election Politics mask medical treatment misinformation pandemic _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706032978;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11152;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11128;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8772;}}}} http://working-copy.local/election-politics/now-that-he-has-shut-up/ Fri, 02 Oct 2020 21:50:17 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=10966 <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong><em>Be careful what you wish for</em> </strong>can be interpreted in many ways.<strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>I’m inclined to resist “I hope he dies!” and “It’s about time!”</strong><br /><br />But my not seeking solace in vindictiveness and <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude" target="_blank">Schadenfreude</a> has nothing to do with being a good example. That's Michelle Obama’s “When they go low, we go high," thing.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":10970,"width":319,"height":450,"sizeSlug":"large"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/He-Did-Shut-Up-Man_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-10970" width="319" height="450"/></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I’m thinking more like, “be careful what you wish for.” And not just because Vice President Handmaid's Tale could take Trump’s place.<br /><br />No, the facepalm I’m afraid of is right outta the 2020 Twilight Zone: What if we get a POTUS turnaround “like the world has never seen”?&nbsp;<br /><br />What if the guy comes back from a nutty near-death experience and suddenly stops being a walking obstruction of justice? What if the oaf wakes up and fires Bill Barr, pays his back taxes, resolves Trump family business conflicts, and outlaws private prisons? What if - POOF! he renews the Spanish translation option at WhiteHouse.gov, starts singing Hallelujah while abolishing ICE, counts America’s immigrants among its most valuable assets, drops Amy Coney Barrett for her <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/barrett-s-participation-2006-ad-calling-overturn-roe-U-turn-wade-n1241738" target="_blank">non-disclosure</a> issues, and has the Proud Boys slapped with the RICO Act? What if he renames the Green New Deal “TRUMP’S Green New Deal,” then Executive Orders it right into existence? After America picks itself up off the floor, will it let the name change pass? I would.<br /><br />The thought of what would be required of&nbsp;us&nbsp;if Trump somehow got a clue is the scary part.&nbsp;Are we too self-admiring? Would we come together and pull it off?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I know…this is silly fantasy, and “crazier things have happened” doesn’t apply because nothing crazier ever could or has.&nbsp;<br /><br />But this guy catching COVID indeed makes him eligible for hitting a bottom, and that’s a far more imaginable and down to earth way to phrase it.&nbsp;<br /><br /> Trump <em>has</em>, as Biden now famously asked, "...just shut up, man." </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em>Be careful what you wish for</em> are powerful words...</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><br /></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:media-text {"mediaPosition":"right","mediaId":10984,"mediaLink":"http://working-copy.local/election-politics/now-that-he-has-shut-up/attachment/sad-face-2/","linkDestination":"media","mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":25} --> <div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile" style="grid-template-columns:auto 25%"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/SAD-FACE-2.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/SAD-FACE-2.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-10984"/></a></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right","placeholder":"Content…","fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-text-align-right has-medium-font-size"> 10/8/2020 <strong>Follow up:</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div> <!-- /wp:media-text --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right"} --> <p class="has-text-align-right">.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"large"} --> <p class="has-large-font-size"> </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> The facepalm I’m afraid of is right outta the 2020 Twilight Zone: What if we get a POTUS turnaround “like the world has never seen”? 10966 2020-10-02 14:50:17 2020-10-02 21:50:17 2020-10-08 08:57:37 2020-10-08 15:57:37 closed now-that-he-has-shut-up publish 0 0 post 1 Amy Coney Barrett Biden Bill Barr COVID Election Politics Green New Deal ICE immigrants Michelle Obama Narcissist Richter Scale POTUS Proud Boys Schadenfreude shut up Trump White House _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705607808;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7795;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6798;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10826;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:269;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5948;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2309;}}}} http://working-copy.local/character-2/on-bonus-justice/ Wed, 14 Oct 2020 05:08:06 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=10996 <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":11007,"sizeSlug":"large"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/NATIONAL-DIALOG-ON-PRISON-REFORM_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11007"/></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>The national dialog on prison reform exists on a steep,&nbsp;30° hill. Engaging a public taught by film and television to recognize life behind bars only as&nbsp;rape, riots and rotten food makes it a difficult climb. </strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"left"} --> <p class="has-text-align-left">Once started, the conversation is always in danger of sliding downward into, “Well, they should have thought of that before they went to prison.” And this, in itself, is a trained reaction. It’s an octopus arm of what I’ve long defined as “bonus justice.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":11027,"width":201,"height":125,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Custody-themed-Miseducation_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Custody-themed-Miseducation_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11027" width="201" height="125"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Some maintain that prisoners, while serving their time, shouldn’t be allowed to vote. I disagree, but regardless of where one sides in that debate, the continued denial of voting rights for parolees and ex-felons –– in some cases for life –– is <em>inarguably</em> bonus justice. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"left"} --> <p class="has-text-align-left">A prison guard inventing infractions to punish an unwelcome or shunned inmate is another good example. So, too, are the actions of jailers who believe they've been called upon to represent the public interest through the spirit of <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/Cleaning-up-the-yard-by-Alleycatsgarden/2713769.EHVJB" target="_blank">vengeance</a>.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":11023,"width":176,"height":169,"sizeSlug":"large"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CHOSEN-WARRIORS-of-DISCIPLINE-_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11023" width="176" height="169"/></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"left"} --> <p class="has-text-align-left">"Justice is for the courtroom," inmates often remind their keepers, and they're right. Still, show me a corrections professional and I'll show you someone forced to navigate the ideations of state-sponsored payback on an inhuman level. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"left"} --> <p class="has-text-align-left">It's one thing to lean on the mantra, "If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime." But frontline custody personnel who take bribes or embolden gang values while making statements like, "He should'a thought of that before he got sent to <em>my</em> Yard” –– ?<br /><br />Yep, bonus justice. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"left"} --> <p class="has-text-align-left">But maybe that's too cliché. Fine. Say your boozy cousin gets 18 months for his fifth DUI and winds up in a minimum security facility, the one with the cow fence around it. Score, right? No gang warfare in <em>his</em>&nbsp;future. He might even earn himself a welder’s certification. But he’s incarcerated during one of California prisons' <a href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/prison-diseases-will-kill-your-pets/">recurring </a><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/prison-diseases-will-kill-your-pets/" target="_blank">outbreaks</a> of Valley Fever. On laundry day, he's handed&nbsp;an infected pillow case. With the state's (very) long history of failing to provide <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/colonel-kelso-heads-up-the-river/" target="_blank">even minimal</a> constitutional levels of healthcare in its prisons, his illness can be viewed as bonus justice.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":11030,"width":224,"height":178,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Corrections-Officer-Duvet-Covers_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Corrections-Officer-Duvet-Covers_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11030" width="224" height="178"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"left"} --> <p class="has-text-align-left"><br />Or how about an assigned caseworker administratively burdening an offender whose crime is personally&nbsp;disagreeable? What about a Watch Commander who protects, rather than questions, facility practices that steer certain ethnicities toward or away from favored work assignments? Bonus justice is right there for all to see, but it's often obscured by conditioning, casual neglect, and indifference.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Interested in seeing if you yourself are as un-progressive</strong> <strong>as all that?</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":11002,"width":231,"height":279,"sizeSlug":"large"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/LAT3.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11002" width="231" height="279"/></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"left"} --> <p class="has-text-align-left">Read Los Angeles Times investigative reporter Kiera Feldman's harrowing <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-11/california-prison-factories-inmates-covid-19" target="_blank">front page account</a> of what the March-to-May pandemic period was like for female inmates forced to make 3,500 masks per week, many of whom were prohibited from wearing one themselves.<br /><br />And as you're reading, if at any point did you decide, “They should have thought of that before...,” take note of it. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Because despite my own former incarceration, this learned, punitive, and bitter convention flashed itself at me as well. And while it may be an uphill climb, we can ––in fact we <em>must</em>–– be better than bonus justice.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right","style":{"typography":{"fontSize":11}}} --> <p class="has-text-align-right" style="font-size:11px">.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right","style":{"typography":{"fontSize":10}}} --> <p class="has-text-align-right" style="font-size:10px">.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> "Justice is for the courtroom," inmates often remind their keepers, and they're right. 10996 2020-10-13 22:08:06 2020-10-14 05:08:06 2020-10-15 20:34:03 2020-10-16 03:34:03 closed on-bonus-justice publish 0 0 post 1 bonus justice California prisons Character DUI frontline custody personnel healthcare incarceration Incarceration Nation inmates Kiera Feldman Los Angeles Times masks pandemic prison guard Prison reform Valley Fever _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706741591;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10046;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8684;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1568;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/felony-disenfranchisement-2020/ Sun, 18 Oct 2020 05:15:15 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=11042 <!-- wp:paragraph {"textColor":"vivid-cyan-blue","fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size">"Disparities in the criminal justice system are linked to disparities in political representation."</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The cartograms and maps created by The Sentencing Project's incredible researchers say a lot about who we are –and how far we have to go– as a country. Even a cursory glance at "<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/locked-out-2020-estimates-of-people-denied-voting-rights-due-to-a-felony-conviction/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/locked-out-2020-estimates-of-people-denied-voting-rights-due-to-a-felony-conviction/" target="_blank">Locked Out 2020</a>" should have you questioning how so many Americans have come to think the way they do about fairness and opportunity. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Hopefully, it will also spur some thinking on what we can do about it.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Please vote accordingly. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"center","id":11043,"width":611,"height":516,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Image-10-17-20-at-4.25-PM.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Image-10-17-20-at-4.25-PM-1024x867.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11043" width="611" height="516"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"left"} --> <p class="has-text-align-left">For more, visit <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/locked-out-2020-estimates-of-people-denied-voting-rights-due-to-a-felony-conviction/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosam-hard-truths&amp;stream=top" target="_blank">sentencingproject.org</a></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right"} --> <p class="has-text-align-right">.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> 11042 2020-10-17 22:15:15 2020-10-18 05:15:15 2020-10-17 22:15:15 2020-10-18 05:15:15 closed felony-disenfranchisement-2020 publish 0 0 post 1 2020 Americans Culture disenfranchised fairness Incarceration Nation Locked Out opportunity parole prison probation The Sentencing Project voting rights _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705607807;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6759;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4697;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4755;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:764;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10799;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10826;}}}} _wp_old_slug felony-disenfranchisement-rates-2020 http://working-copy.local/incarceration-nation/tarra-simmons-modern-americas-first-ex-con-elected-official/ Fri, 06 Nov 2020 04:27:46 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=11099 <!-- wp:image {"align":"center","id":11102,"width":654,"height":481,"sizeSlug":"large"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/LARRY-STEAGALL_KITSAP-SUN_WhereExcusesGotoDie.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11102" width="654" height="481"/></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"textColor":"black","style":{"typography":{"fontSize":23}}} --> <p class="has-black-color has-text-color" style="font-size:23px"><strong>The future is...second chances.</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The emergence of the United States' first formerly incarcerated member of a state legislature defies the conventionally held view that ex-cons can’t become elected officials.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>And when I say, “conventionally held,” I'm referring to the one, two, <em>and</em> three people covered by the fact that one in three American adults has a criminal record, according to the FBI. And if 30% of adults have a criminal record, just about every American is likely familiar with the hard truths, impressions, and clichés of mass incarceration*.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Yet almost all of us believe that people with records are permanently disqualified from post-conviction opportunities. Former inmate Tarra Simmons is a reminder to check that belief.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>And sure, there have been a number of other cases where ex-cons have successfully sought office. The difference is, those stories usually involve a privileged, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.kivitv.com/news/the-scandal-that-rocked-city-hall-a-timeline-of-brent-coles-time-in-office" target="_blank">corrupt suit</a> who wants back in the game. Simmons is anything but. She did time for drug delivery, sales, and firearm possession. Then she attended Seattle University School of Law, graduating with honors in 2017.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>When the Washington State Bar Association voted against admitting Tarra Simmons, a former bank-robber-turned-lawyer, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/shon-hopwood/" target="_blank">Shon Hopwood</a>, brought her fight to the State Supreme Court - and won. By mid- 2018, Simmons had been sworn in as an attorney. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Although she had no political aspirations prior to 2019, Simmons ran as a Democrat this year in an effort to "give people a first chance, so they won’t need a second chance later on in life."</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>You might say she was provoked. With some encouragement, she announced her candidacy for a seat in Washington’s 23rd Legislative District after Republicans gave her state bar victory the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdJ97qWHOxo" target="_blank">Willie Horton</a> treatment: a snail-mail attack used in a state Senate race called Simmons a "drug addicted ex-con.” </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>She just took her district by 63.32% of the vote.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>But no more spoilers. Simmons's <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/centered-on-criminal-justice-reform-lawyer-with-record-wins-state-legislature-race" target="_blank">story</a> is a fun, inspired tapestry. You'll be hearing about her a lot in the coming years, I suspect. After all, she has seen the future, and it looks like criminal justice reform.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right","style":{"typography":{"fontSize":1}}} --> <p class="has-text-align-right" style="font-size:1px">.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right","style":{"typography":{"fontSize":1}}} --> <p class="has-text-align-right" style="font-size:1px">.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"left","fontSize":"normal"} --> <p class="has-text-align-left has-normal-font-size">*<em>Convicted or not, employment and other forms of discrimination are still a thing.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right","style":{"typography":{"fontSize":1}}} --> <p class="has-text-align-right" style="font-size:1px">.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right","style":{"typography":{"fontSize":1}}} --> <p class="has-text-align-right" style="font-size:1px">.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p> </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> Tarra Simmons has seen the future, and it looks like criminal justice reform. 11099 2020-11-05 21:27:46 2020-11-06 04:27:46 2020-11-06 11:25:47 2020-11-06 18:25:47 closed tarra-simmons-modern-americas-first-ex-con-elected-official publish 0 0 post 1 criminal record Democrat elected official ex-con future Incarceration Nation inmate Inspirational reform Seattle second chance Shon Hopwood State Bar Association Tarra Simmons Trump Washington _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705607807;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6759;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11224;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6175;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7861;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8684;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8634;}}}} http://working-copy.local/culture/covid-19-fatigue-licenses-sold-here/ Tue, 24 Nov 2020 22:48:53 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=11128 <!-- wp:image {"align":"center","id":11138,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter size-large"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/COVID-19-Disorder-License_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/COVID-19-Disorder-License_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11138"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Are you grinding your teeth due to Coronavirus-related stress? COVID-19 FATIGUE is real. And so is your self-respect.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","textColor":"vivid-red"} --> <p class="has-text-align-center has-vivid-red-color has-text-color"><strong>REGISTER NOW FOR A COVID-19 FATIGUE LICENSE</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Are you:<br />•&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;traumatized by supermarket hostilities?<br />•&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;upset at new-fangled telecommunications?<br />•&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;disappointed over lost vacations?<br />•&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;triggered by eyewear fog?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Health Medical Groups nationwide now recognize COVID-19 FATIGUE syndrome as a debilitating condition on par with Generalized Anxiety Disorder and other serious conditions&nbsp;such as Backward Retention and Panic Swirl.&nbsp;<br /><br />The American Oral League says the coronavirus pandemic is causing “an epidemic of jaw pain” due to “New Normals” compelling Americans to adapt to high-handed&nbsp;procedures despite their better judgment – and at levels never before seen in a “free” country!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Treatment for COVID-19 FATIGUE may include counseling, medications such as antidepressants, and lobotomy. But now, for just two easy payments of $169.99, YOU can get&nbsp;your certified COVID-19 FATIGUE LICENSE right away!&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","textColor":"vivid-red","fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-text-align-center has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-medium-font-size"><strong>SCIENTISTS CLAIM THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IS PROOF THAT HUMAN HABITATION HAS DESTABILIZED ECOLOGICAL BOUNDARIES, LOOSENING EARTH’S GRIP ON DISEASES WORLDWIDE. DON’T LET SOME GROCERY STORE CLERK BLAME THE EXISTENTIAL THREAT OF OUR TIME ON YOU!</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>If you are:<br />•&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;dismayed at closed sports-bars and movie theaters,<br />•&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;angry at having to teach your child math, or<br />•&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;sick of waiting in lines…<br /><br />…this is the card to play!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Your anxiety over washing hands, wearing masks, and maintaining physical distance can now be recognized as the debilitating, psychosocial illness it is. Just present your&nbsp;COVID-19 FATIGUE LICENSE in casinos, airports, post offices, gas stations, and many more places of business!&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Finally, you can carry identifying documentation that designates YOU as a sufferer of COVID-19 FATIGUE, the symptoms of which are <strong>recognized by medical professionals&nbsp;and government authorities</strong> around the world.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","textColor":"vivid-red","fontSize":"normal"} --> <p class="has-text-align-center has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-normal-font-size"><strong>Your COVID-19 LICENSE will allow you the freedom to be recognized </strong><br /><strong>– NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO.</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","textColor":"vivid-red","fontSize":"large"} --> <p class="has-text-align-center has-vivid-red-color has-text-color has-large-font-size">REGISTER NOW! </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right","style":{"typography":{"fontSize":1}}} --> <p class="has-text-align-right" style="font-size:1px">.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> 11128 2020-11-24 15:48:53 2020-11-24 22:48:53 2020-12-09 15:38:27 2020-12-09 22:38:27 closed covid-19-fatigue-licenses-sold-here publish 0 0 post 1 Americans antidepressants Coronavirus COVID-19 Culture disorder fatigue GUILTY PLEASURES health license lobotomy mask pandemic panic stress syndrome _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705607807;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11187;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11777;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:764;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11484;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2703;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11697;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor http://working-copy.local/excuses/freedom-2020-excuse-of-the-year/ Wed, 09 Dec 2020 22:26:59 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=11152 <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":11156,"width":371,"height":552,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media","className":"is-style-rounded"} --> <div class="wp-block-image is-style-rounded"><figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2020-EXCUSE-OF-THE-YEAR__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2020-EXCUSE-OF-THE-YEAR__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11156" width="371" height="552"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>Of all the con jobs we've witnessed this year, "freedom," as both a behavioral exemption and grounds for radicalization</strong>, <strong>is by far the most repulsive.</strong> </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>From rationalizing hysterical self-centeredness to racism, betrayal, co-signing cowardice, gas-lighting, and willful ignorance, 2020 offered too many candidates for this decision to have come easily.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Oceans of petulant finger-pointers, neo-Nazis, and&nbsp;applauders of&nbsp;malice (on both sides) gave us a perfect storm; a Category 5 from which Americans sought moral shelter in those crude dwellings of justification. Welcome to the shantytown.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Which shack appeared the least structurally sound? Or so went my criteria, until the examples of our taking freedom for granted simply flooded the competition. Take this one, for instance:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:quote --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p>The Uniformed Firefighters Association (UFA) survey of 2,000 members of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) showed that 55% of participants said they would not bother to get inoculated.</p><cite>ABC News - 12/7/2020</cite></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Call me crazy, but don't NYC's first responders have arguably the best health care options in the United States? Isn't their not wanting "to be looked at <a href="https://www.firehouse.com/safety-health/news/21165341/poll-more-than-half-of-fdny-firefighters-will-refuse-vaccine">as test </a><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.firehouse.com/safety-health/news/21165341/poll-more-than-half-of-fdny-firefighters-will-refuse-vaccine" target="_blank">subjects</a>" just a tad spoiled? How is this <em>not</em> like Trump refusing to wear a mask with the assurance of top-notch medical treatment? </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>"As&nbsp;a union," says Andrew&nbsp;Ansbro, president of the UFA, "we are&nbsp;defending the right to make that choice." Defending it from what, suspicion? Responsibility? <em>This</em> is the heroism we're constantly told to revere?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Elsewhere, California governor Gavin Newsom and other suits – whose failures to practice Coronavirus safety protocols seemingly put them above their own decrees – have the "freedom" to be two-faced while they kiss my ass. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Likewise, the "freedom" not to wear a mask despite their proven ability to help protect others from our personal respiratory exhaust is not self-government. It's a selfish distortion of independence.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Refusing to refer to Joe Biden &amp; Kamala Harris as "President and Vice President Elect" is the "freedom" to show disdain for leadership and professionalism. It's choosing to exhibit bad sportsmanship before the eyes of young people. It leaves adherents in the self-righteous and&nbsp;phony position of <em>telling</em> others to respect them and their institutions rather than demonstrating why. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I myself am a fan of comedians Doug Stanhope and Dave Chappelle, but both could stand to realize that "freedom" from the boogeyman of political correctness isn't found in belittling gender identity. Instead of re-purposing "faggot" as a comedic garnish could you maybe <em>free</em> your progressive audience from <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.newnownext.com/is-dave-chappelle-transphobic-in-stick-and-stones-netflix-special/09/2019/" target="_blank">second guessing you</a>? </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Showing hatred toward those of different cultures or expressing&nbsp;immigrant xenophobia ––and calling it patriotism–– is "freedom" as well. So is beating your dog with a stick and calling it "correcting". </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Kyle Rittenhouse, the&nbsp;17-year-old charged with shooting and killing two people during a civil disturbance in Wisconsin (itself the exercise of varying degrees of "freedom"), went <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.npr.org/2020/12/03/942355778/kyle-rittenhouse-the-kenosha-shooting-suspect-ordered-to-stand-trial" target="_blank">looking for a fight</a>, yet some call him a patriot for allegedly defending the "freedom" of entitled others. Either way, Rittenhouse's own "freedom" will likely go as far as OJ Simpson's, in that he'll never be anything other than a murderer too young to legally purchase a gun, who traded a trigger for his own narrative. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"left"} --> <p class="has-text-align-left">As 2020 drags to a close, it's high time we drop "freedom" from the all-time American short list of excuses for bad behavior. In too many ways, we've already lost the "freedom" of a last laugh. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"left"} --> <p class="has-text-align-left"> </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right"} --> <p class="has-text-align-right">. <br /></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><br /></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right"} --> <p class="has-text-align-right">.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> 11152 2020-12-09 15:26:59 2020-12-09 22:26:59 2020-12-20 09:16:27 2020-12-20 16:16:27 closed freedom-2020-excuse-of-the-year publish 0 0 post 1 California Coronavirus Dave Chappelle Doug Stanhope Excuses FDNY firefighters first responders freedom Gavin Newsom Joe Biden Kamala Harris Kyle Rittenhouse mask neo-Nazis NYC OJ Simpson racism Winner: EXCUSE OF THE YEAR _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705607806;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8614;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6798;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6118;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10880;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7041;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1054;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor http://working-copy.local/excuses/nursing-covid-19-in-prison/ Mon, 11 Jan 2021 18:13:22 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=11187 <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>Couldn't care less about "criminal scum"? Then how about one of your heroes – of the frontline healthcare variety?</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"id":11191,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Maximum-Security-Coronavirus_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Maximum-Security-Coronavirus_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1024x576.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11191"/></a></figure> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Among the key findings&nbsp;in a September 2020 <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://cdn.ymaws.com/counciloncj.org/resource/resmgr/covid_commission/FINAL_Schnepel_Design.pdf" target="_blank">report</a> from The Council on&nbsp;Criminal Justice is that COVID-19 infection rates for inmates are four times&nbsp;higher than for the general public. Mortality&nbsp;rates are double. As of last summer, prisons in America accounted for 19 of the top 20 clusters&nbsp;of confirmed Coronavirus cases in the United States. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>For real time California numbers, check out the Los Angeles Times' Coronavirus&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-cases-tracking-outbreak/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-cases-tracking-outbreak/" target="_blank">tracker</a>, currently providing updates of cumulative cases, new&nbsp;cases, and deaths&nbsp;by day. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>As one who envisions the redirection of adult offenders rather than the mere recycling of them, I urge you to absorb the statistics, detention hotspots, and death counts while imagining the heart and hope that is suspended amidst the ongoing disqualification of those in custody. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The world is a place where nothing is guaranteed, clearly. But since prison is a smaller, simpler microcosm of society, the loss of goal-oriented trajectories, guidance, and rewards in custody is intensified. For many prisoners and detainees with hampered coping skills and emotional and self-management challenges, there are little or no real diversions as exist elsewhere. Coronavirus kills these aspirational programs even quicker than people as infection safeguards are enacted.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Adding insult to injury is what I call <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://working-copy.local/character-2/on-bonus-justice/" target="_blank">bonus justice</a>, by which the incarcerated are treated as eligible for <em>additional</em> hardship and dismay just because, "You're here, aren't you?" </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>But maybe you see the incarcerated as "criminal scum," and these things don't offend your humanity. Fine. How 'bout healthcare workers? You like frontline heroes? Think they're worth something? Then let's talk about a prison nurse, one who's been a friend of mine for years. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>This particular nurse earned her credentials with the tenacity and dedication of an astronaut in training. I remember her long hours and that pain-in-the-ass car in which her commute was endured. I was surprised when she announced just over a year ago that she'd accepted a nursing position in a men's prison, and I admire her for putting need above judgment.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>At present, my friend is facing the risk of COVID-19 transmission every single day, and she does so in an atmosphere of fiercely elevated&nbsp;environmental, personal, and psychological vigilance. The emotional and cognitive burden she carries would simply snap many of the rest of us -- and that's without Coronavirus-related fears. Prison is a minefield of rules to remember, and protocols are substituted as abruptly as security requires. Sure, my friend can leave each night, but she's no less subjected to the righteousness of an amped-up military chain-of-command than are the badges and bad guys. How "at home" could she be with barbed wire, gate buzzers and barking men in her head? </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Additionally, as citizens, we use our values and principles to judge each other, with courtesy and manners acting as referees. On the prison yard, philosophies and integrity just square off. In the aftermath, it's up to whoever's left standing to pester someone behind a fortified walk-up window for a band-aid. Meanwhile the dread and the aggressive energy of gang ideation never lets up. The cartoonish yet unfunny macho posturing is woven into her work-language, as are minute-to-minute suspicions and charity-killing levels of bureaucracy.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>On an average day, this is just some of what my nurse friend has to shake off during her (long) drives home. Now she has the danger of bringing COVID home with her, too. How many of these tensions have morphed, I wonder, into corrosive strains of their own by the time she pulls into the driveway? </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>There have been 139 <em>reported</em> Coronavirus deaths among prison staff, but since testing information is sporadic and not all states release info on prison employees tested for COVID-19 – these critical frontline workers are forced to speculate, trade rumors, and hope they're being given the straight story. In that way, at least, they're just like inmates they serve. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>“The nurses are so behind because there are soo many medical emergencies,”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>UPDATE</strong>:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Los Angeles Times front page&nbsp;– January 13th, 2021:<br />“The nurses are so behind <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=5c12fedf-5fa7-473e-b51b-6971dc91e298" target="_blank">because there are soo many</a> medical emergencies...”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"textColor":"vivid-cyan-blue","fontSize":"normal"} --> <p class="has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color has-normal-font-size"><br /></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right","style":{"typography":{"fontSize":1}}} --> <p class="has-text-align-right" style="font-size:1px">.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> Adding insult to injury is Bonus Justice, which dictates that you're already treated as though eligible for additional hardship and dismay because, "You're here aren't you?" 11187 2021-01-11 11:13:22 2021-01-11 18:13:22 2021-01-31 21:45:02 2021-02-01 04:45:02 closed nursing-covid-19-in-prison publish 0 0 post 0 badges bonus justice California cases Coronavirus Council on Criminal Justice COVID-19 criminal custody death detention Excuses frontline healthcare Incarceration Nation infection rate Los Angeles Times mortality rate nurse nursing prison transmission _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706839105;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10996;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10046;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4931;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor http://working-copy.local/excuses/the-l-a-county-mens-central-jail-day-zero/ Mon, 01 Feb 2021 04:53:56 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=11224 <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>The on again, off again initiative toward bulldozing this&nbsp;municipal black site might finally be realized.</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"center","id":11232,"width":615,"height":401,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/MCJ-1963_LASD.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/MCJ-1963_LASD.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11232" width="615" height="401"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>In 2014, when the LA County Board of Supervisors turned their attention back to the city's contemptible Men's Central Jail (MCJ), demolishing it was a given. A civic corner had been turned, taking all plans to update and expand the existing structure off the table. There could be no escaping the curse of a bloodthirsty culture of <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.aclusocal.org/en/publications/sheriff-bacas-strike-force-deputy-violence-and-head-injuries-of-inmates-in-la-county-jails" target="_blank">deputy-on-inmate violence</a> that lived deep in the building's bones: the miserable concrete labyrinth <em>had</em> to come down. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":11252,"width":327,"height":246,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Four-Man-Cell-MCJ_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Four-Man-Cell-MCJ_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11252" width="327" height="246"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Yawn.<br />The lockup built in 1962, and often referred to as "the old side," continues to rot in place. Former <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://working-copy.local/los-angeles-county-sheriff/brass-tacky/" target="_blank">Sheriff Lee Baca has since been convicted</a>, but the facility itself is still overseen by the Custody Operations Division as atrociously as ever. Equally troubled <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.dailynews.com/2021/01/26/la-county-formally-outlines-ways-supervisors-could-remove-sheriff/" target="_blank">Alex Villanueva</a> likely runs it with as much “Us vs. Them” spite than during my own 10-month stay as a pre-trial prisoner under then-Sheriff <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-nov-05-me-30253-story.html" target="_blank">Sherman Block</a> (at the time America's highest paid public official). </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>But as Americans rethink their positions on criminal justice, LA's Men's Central Jail should be seen as <em>both</em> worst-case and day zero. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":11286,"width":312,"height":200,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Cell-Module_Los-Angeles-Mens-Central-Jail-1.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Cell-Module_Los-Angeles-Mens-Central-Jail-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11286" width="312" height="200"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>First, the worst.<br />Secrecy has long permeated the ranks of LA Sheriff's Brass and enshrouds MCJ. It's such an organizationally controlled fortress, only touring an aircraft carrier can compare. Murals, tributes, trophy cases, banners, badges, and memorials force feed visitors&nbsp;law enforcement martyrdom to the point where one can’t sense how much it’s all spinning until reunited with fresh air and sunlight.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":11283,"width":229,"height":161,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Mel-Melcon-LAT.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Mel-Melcon-LAT.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11283" width="229" height="161"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The Department has managed for decades a kind of denial sleight-of-hand involving its <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://witnessla.com/defunding-2020-yes-the-la-county-supes-cut-145-5-million-from-the-la-sheriffs-budget-49-1-million-from-probation-then-they-killed-the-probation-oversight-commission-unless/" target="_blank">budgets</a>, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://theappeal.org/claims-of-racism-brutality-dog-los-angeles-county-sheriff-deputy-gangs/" target="_blank">bad apples</a>, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://witnessla.com/la-county-pays-81-5-million-for-lasd-litigation-costs-and-payouts/" target="_blank">excessive force settlements</a>, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://working-copy.local/celebrity/from-beat-downs-to-bear-hugs/" target="_blank">corruption scandals</a>, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://laist.com/latest/post/20210120/la-county-sheriff-deputy-cliques-gangs-report-loyola-18-subgroups" target="_blank">secret deputy gangs</a>, and a conveyor belt of <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-becerra-launches-civil-rights-investigation-los-angeles-county" target="_blank">civil rights violations</a> and <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.aclusocal.org/en/publications/sheriff-bacas-strike-force-deputy-violence-and-head-injuries-of-inmates-in-la-county" target="_blank">allegations of misconduct</a>. There's always an excuse as to why it's "not the right time" to close MCJ's old side, hold the LASD accountable, or discuss ways to reduce corruption, even as <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://abc7.com/police-misconduct-lawsuit-department/6247311/" target="_blank">539 of 606 lawsuits</a> against the city in fiscal year 2018-19 were filed against the Sheriff's Department alone. (And to the tune of $81.5 million). In the end, this shell game of postures and pushback has prolonged the life of their beloved Men's Central <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.aclusocal.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/107082827-Sheriff-Baca-s-Strike-Force-Deputy-Violence-and-Head-Injuries-of-Inmates-in-LA-County-Jails.pdf" target="_blank">Fight Club</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:media-text {"mediaPosition":"right","mediaId":11248,"mediaLink":"http://working-copy.local/?attachment_id=11248","mediaType":"image","mediaWidth":34} --> <div class="wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile" style="grid-template-columns:auto 34%"><figure class="wp-block-media-text__media"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Oversight-Findings.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11248 size-full"/></figure><div class="wp-block-media-text__content"><!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"normal"} --> <p class="has-normal-font-size">• Department Leaders had a lax attitude towards deputy&nbsp;aggression and discouraged deputy discipline<br />•&nbsp;Department was aware of deputy cliques&nbsp;present at MCJ and known to high level&nbsp;management as far back as 2004<br />•&nbsp;The Sheriff allowed his Undersheriff and Assistant Sheriff&nbsp;to run&nbsp;the Custody Division without effective oversight<br />•&nbsp;Deputies Have Enabled Inmates to Use Force Against&nbsp;Other Inmates<br />• Witnesses have told the Commission that deputies enabled&nbsp;inmates to&nbsp;attack other rival inmates by opening the doors to several cells at&nbsp;once,&nbsp;which inmates refer to as “racking the gates.”<br />• The Commission also heard&nbsp;about deputies who have intentionally placed&nbsp;inmates in dangerous situations,&nbsp;such as placing high-security inmates in&nbsp;the general population and announcing&nbsp;their crimes to the other inmates. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --></div></div> <!-- /wp:media-text --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":11271,"width":336,"height":278,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/MCJ-3000-Floor-Day-Room_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1.jpeg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/MCJ-3000-Floor-Day-Room_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1.jpeg" alt="" class="wp-image-11271" width="336" height="278"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>In the current climate, the future for reform looks a bit brighter. Still, it's unclear what will actually become of MCJ. Zócalo's Joe Matthews <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2021/01/12/los-angeles-county-mens-central-jail-museum/ideas/connecting-california/" target="_blank">makes a case</a> for keeping the old dungeon around, perhaps as a museum of mass incarceration or a center for democratic principles in action. "To tear down Men’s Central Jail would be to risk forgetting what the place has meant, and to miss a historic opportunity to turn this torture chamber into a vital center for California’s future," he writes. Conversely, there is an optimistic view among many Angelenos that the very act of destroying MCJ could usher in a new era of transparency for the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://theappeal.org/claims-of-racism-brutality-dog-los-angeles-county-sheriff-deputy-gangs/" target="_blank">historically corrupt</a> Sheriff's Department. Perhaps by reclaiming the vital downtown real estate MCJ occupies, the thinking goes, the LASD can be shaken of its <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/01/abu-ghraib-los-angeles-county-jail-abuses/" target="_blank">worst impulses and elements</a>, allowing its more reform-hungry and youthful professionals to elbow their way to the fore.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>At minimum, the County Supervisors voted last year to cancel a $1.7 billion expansion of the facility into a Supermax on steroids. That little project–– now thankfully also off the table–– was being referred to as the "mental health jail" (talk about a jinx). Sights are now set on a sprawling campus of support housing, drug diversion and reentry programing, and the critical mental health and addiction recovery services that would comprise a true&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://witnessla.com/moving-toward-the-closure-of-mens-central-jail-la-county-supes-to-consider-plan-for-restorative-justice-village/" target="_blank">Restorative Justice Village</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":11287,"width":422,"height":221,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Vignes-Street-Project-Rendering-_Credit-Los-Angeles-County.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Vignes-Street-Project-Rendering-_Credit-Los-Angeles-County-1024x538.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11287" width="422" height="221"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Phase One was approved in September and includes the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://urbanize.city/la/post/big-interim-housing-facility-coming-vacant-lot-near-union-station" target="_blank">Vignes </a><a href="https://www.latimes.com/homeless-housing/story/2021-01-18/los-angeles-homeless-housing-project-vignes-street" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Project</a>, aka "Hope Village," a predominantly CARES Act-funded $48-million bridge housing facility artfully made of shipping containers. Planned for rapid construction in MCJ's industrial backyard, the idea is to begin diverting the city's growing homeless population away from incarceration, where it's 60-100% more expensive to detain those with mental health or substance use disorders.&nbsp;A second Chinatown property once intended for MCJ parking is also slated for an affordable or supportive housing development. As part of the LA Board of Supervisors’ new <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://justicelanow.org/carefirst/" target="_blank">“care first, jail last”</a> policy, Hope Village may someday swallow the LASD complex altogether. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>So<em> could</em> MCJ, the "The Abu Ghraib of Los Angeles," home of the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/apocalypse-hoosegow-4-of-heroin-burritos-and-dings-at-l-a-s-mens-central-jail/" target="_blank">heroin burrito</a>, be swapped out for a recovery university and support shelter?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Ha! It's better than <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://working-copy.local/prison-2/mall-mens-central-jail/" target="_blank">the idea I had</a> back in 2014, when I proposed&nbsp;that the whole karmic Superfund site be turned into a mall. Hey, I'm optimistic too, but with how little we thought of criminal justice reform, disenfranchised and forgotten citizens, immigrants, and any further legwork to achieve racial justice, a custody-themed Cellblock Shopping Town is what I thought we deserved.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center"} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><strong> It still will be if we ––and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors–– let this chance to turn a corner pass us by</strong>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>For a historical perspective on the LASD's excessive use-of-force in its jails and failure to discipline rogue officers, check out: <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll114/id/2602" target="_blank">L.A. County Sheriff's Department:&nbsp;A Report&nbsp;by Special Counsel James G. Kolts &amp; staff, 1992</a> –– and this <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-jails-sg-storygallery.html" target="_blank">Los Angeles Times Story Gallery</a></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right"} --> <p class="has-text-align-right">.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> But as Americans rethink their positions on criminal justice, LA's Men's Central Jail should be seen as both worst-case scenario and day zero. 11224 2021-01-31 21:53:56 2021-02-01 04:53:56 2021-02-02 11:53:56 2021-02-02 18:53:56 closed the-l-a-county-mens-central-jail-day-zero publish 0 0 post 1 Alex Villanueva corruption criminal justice custody excessive force Excuses heroin burrito homeless Hope Village L.A. County Board of Supervisors LA County LASD Los Angeles County Sheriff Los Angeles County Sheriff mass incarceration MCJ Men's Central Jail Men's Central Jail mental health Sheriff Lee Baca Sherman Block transparency Vignes Shelter Project _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706893883;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1180;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8731;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3929;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor http://working-copy.local/character-2/you-are-chuck-stone/ Sat, 27 Feb 2021 23:19:42 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=11310 <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":11315,"width":384,"height":287,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/YOU-ARE-CHUCK-STONE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Photo_G.W.-Miller.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/YOU-ARE-CHUCK-STONE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Photo_G.W.-Miller.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11315" width="384" height="287"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"style":{"typography":{"fontSize":18}}} --> <p style="font-size:18px"><strong>A disturbed man is waiting for you on line two. The person who answered was told that your office’s best people won't do; it’s you, or it’s nobody.</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The caller refuses to reveal his location. He’s tired, alternately weeping and cursing.&nbsp;He can’t run anymore. It was self-defense, he insists, the murder he's suspected of committing. In police hands, he knows he’s in for beatings and probably&nbsp;death.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":11316,"width":251,"height":188,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/AP-PHOTO_Chuck-Stone_Newsroom-of-the-Philadelphia-Daily-News.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/AP-PHOTO_Chuck-Stone_Newsroom-of-the-Philadelphia-Daily-News.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11316" width="251" height="188"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Terrific. You’ve got enough hassles. Hell, down the hall, above the restrooms, the words “COLORED” and “WHITE” live under scant few of coats of paint, and<em> you</em> remember when the first had been applied. In an all white newsroom, you stick out enough.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Explicit racial segregation may have been recently outlawed, but <em>implicit </em>segregation is everywhere. While your colleagues don't openly question why you’d been given the job, it's clear many of them don't want you to lose sight of their doubts. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":11317,"width":317,"height":271,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/THE-NEWSROOM.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/THE-NEWSROOM.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11317" width="317" height="271"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>You’re one of maybe three&nbsp;black journalists in America working for a major metropolitan newspaper –white owned, of course– and your next story is being personally handed to you. No competing for the lead. No hunting down witnesses for lengthy interviews, no knocking on doors and being told to get lost. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>On the other hand, agreeing to take this call will put you in the path of 20 seething beat cops, each one rattling&nbsp;the starting gate for a run at your new friend. And controlling the narrative of an apprehension is one thing law enforcement officers hate the most. No <em>way</em> will your intrusion be easily be forgotten. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right"} --> <p class="has-text-align-right">Well, let 'em remember. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right"} --> <p class="has-text-align-right">You’ve got this. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right"} --> <p class="has-text-align-right"><em>You</em> are Chuck Stone.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Your place in journalism and in the media has been controversial long before now. As the former editor of the black-owned newspaper, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Age" target="_blank">New York Age</a>, you once put a white dude on staff, gave him a page-one&nbsp;column, and let him fend for himself in your newsroom.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":11356,"width":384,"height":260,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Chuck-Stone-and-Hotage-Taker-James-Knight_-Photo-Susan-Winters.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11356" width="384" height="260"/></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The obstacles you’ve overcome and the powerful agendas you’ve battled have prepared you to take the news as it comes, without compromise. Remember how you were once fired as editor-in-chief of the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://chicagodefender.com" data-type="URL" data-id="https://chicagodefender.com" target="_blank">Chicago Daily Defender</a> for refusing to back off of Chicago’s “<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.amazon.com/Boss-Richard-J-Daley-Chicago/dp/0452261678" target="_blank">Boss</a>,” the infamous Mayor Richard Daley?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":11322,"width":383,"height":300,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/68-DNC_Boss-Daley.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/68-DNC_Boss-Daley.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11322" width="383" height="300"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>You’d been right on the heels of this "<a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/11/15/21565497/richard-j-daley-letter-racism-bobby-vanecko-daley-family" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">committed</a> white supremacist," a public official who said to a sitting US Senator without blinking an eye, “Fuck you, you Jew son-of-a-bitch, you lousy motherfucker – go home.”* As the Senator addressed the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1968-democratic-convention-931079/?no-ist" target="_blank">1968 Democratic National Convention</a>, uttering things Daley didn’t want heard, the Boss drew a finger in a slicing motion over his throat signaling to cut the Senator’s microphone. You, Chuck Stone, stuck with the story. You had to be thrown out before you’d be intimidated into leaving.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":11323,"width":362,"height":163,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Mayor-Daleys-Throat-Slice.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11323" width="362" height="163"/></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Hell of a time in America then, eh? Hmph...Hell of a time now.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>And you didn't attack Daley’s leg-breaker public persona: you stayed focused on what he was doing while no one was looking, like playing dumb about a long-running <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/11/15/21565497/richard-j-daley-letter-racism-bobby-vanecko-daley-family" target="_blank">Chicago Police torture ring</a>. Or diverting millions in city funds to a firm that employed his son. “If a man can’t put his arms around his sons and help&nbsp;them," was Daley’s retort, "what’s the world coming to?”&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":11329,"width":287,"height":230,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Chuck-Stone-and-Malcom-X_Photo-Gene-Seymour-.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Chuck-Stone-and-Malcom-X_Photo-Gene-Seymour-.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11329" width="287" height="230"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>For pushing for change; for what and who you chose to tackle in print; for standing up to men like Daley; and for your friendships with Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Stokely Carmichael you were labeled “the angry man of the Negro press.” It was a nickname you brushed aside before&nbsp;entering electoral politics yourself, rolling up your sleeves as a special assistant for Congressman<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Clayton_Powell_Jr." target="_blank"> Clayton Powell Jr</a>. Your time on The Hill was short-lived, but that may have been for the best given Powell's <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/powell-adam-clayton-jr" target="_blank">controversial trajectory</a>. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":11333,"width":155,"height":231,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Black-Political-Power-in-America-by-Chuck-Stone-2.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Black-Political-Power-in-America-by-Chuck-Stone-2.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11333" width="155" height="231"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>And either way you, Chuck Stone, were just getting started. Many of your articles would soon be published under the title, "Tell It Like It Is." Shortly after that came <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.amazon.com/Black-political-power-America-Chuck/dp/B0006BW47U" target="_blank">Black Political Power in America</a>, a spotlight on black exclusion from government jobs, policy-making, and essentially any position within which jobs&nbsp;could be created or dispensed.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":11347,"width":393,"height":228,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TESTING-MAFIA_Chuck-Stone.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/TESTING-MAFIA_Chuck-Stone.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11347" width="393" height="228"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>You took on <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1891&amp;dat=19860313&amp;id=O7QfAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=R9cEAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=4364,2302930&amp;hl=en" target="_blank">what you called</a> “the testing mafia” as well, arguing that SATs and ACTs are virtually pointless since, “in an unequal society, standardized test scores only reflect inequality.” If that wasn’t enough (and because you are&nbsp;Chuck Stone), you <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.fairtest.org/" target="_blank">founded</a> the Cambridge-based National Center for Fair and Open Testing. Finally, you became the Philadelphia Daily News’s first black columnist, which is the desk <em>your</em> fugitive has just demanded.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":11337,"width":292,"height":212,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Chuck-Stone-with-Robert-Bowman_Philadelphia-Daily-News.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Chuck-Stone-with-Robert-Bowman_Philadelphia-Daily-News.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11337" width="292" height="212"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>So those 20 plus street cops waiting to pounce can just keep on sitting tight until you’re ready. You will first meet secretly with the murder suspect on the phone. You will calm him down and prepare him. You will take pictures of his&nbsp;face from multiple angles, just in case the police decide to go to town on it.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>It isn’t your first time at their rodeo, no sir. At this point, this is maybe the<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://chuckstonethemix2018.web.unc.edu/about-chuck-stone/" target="_blank"> 75th</a> African-American fugitive suspect to call you. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":11339,"width":191,"height":189,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/The-Sayings-of-Chairman-Frank-or-I-Never-Saw-My-Mother-Naked.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/The-Sayings-of-Chairman-Frank-or-I-Never-Saw-My-Mother-Naked.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11339" width="191" height="189"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>And why? Because you can handle walking into dark rooms with fearful, desperate men&nbsp; – murderers in most instances – &nbsp;and still maintain professional equilibrium. You’re known for snapping pre-surrender mug shots, collecting details the cops will have to wait for.&nbsp;What are your thoughts when you do this? Are you mentally back at your desk, drafting invective for alternately thuggish and fatally bumbling Philadelphia mayors, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/kwxp3m/remembering-frank-rizzo-the-most-notorious-cop-in-philadelphia-history-1022" target="_blank">Frank "The General" Rizzo</a> and <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Goode" target="_blank">Wilson&nbsp;Goode</a>? (They were desperate men too – desperate to get away from you!)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":11358,"width":316,"height":222,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Chuck-Stone-reads-his-childrens-book_Photo-by-Sha-Donna-Howell-1.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Chuck-Stone-reads-his-childrens-book_Photo-by-Sha-Donna-Howell-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11358" width="316" height="222"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Your writing is informative, scathing, funny, and even safe for kids. (A <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.amazon.com/Squizzy-Black-Squirrel-Fabulous-Friendship/dp/0940880717" target="_blank">children's book</a>?) Newsroom doubters and biggots may think you’re an ornament, another bow-tied militant ready to take on Whitey. But they <em>wish</em> they could come up with&nbsp;zingers like yours.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":11342,"width":274,"height":219,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Chuck-Stone-and-Chris-Pasucci_Philadelphia-Daily-News-3.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Chuck-Stone-and-Chris-Pasucci_Philadelphia-Daily-News-3.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11342" width="274" height="219"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>And you, Chuck Stone, are not one of those people to climb a ladder only to pull it up behind him. You taught students to do what you do, though perhaps less controversially. You became an English professor at the University of Delaware. And&nbsp;leave it to you to win the city’s Excellence in Teaching award, then go to earn another just like it from North Carolina’s School of Journalism.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":11344,"width":140,"height":287,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Chuck-Stone_Tuskegee-Red-Tail-Navigator-1.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Chuck-Stone_Tuskegee-Red-Tail-Navigator-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11344" width="140" height="287"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Did I mention your days in Tuskegee, Alabama during World War II? You were a <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.tuskegeemuseum.org" target="_blank">Tuskegee Red Tail navigator</a>. You were also a husband and a father of three. You were a White House correspondent and editor of the Washington Afro-American.&nbsp;You were an NBC-TV news commentator for the Today show, and before that a distributor of food and farm equipment to forgotten farmers in Egypt and India. You invented “Stone’s <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://chuckstone.web.unc.edu/about-chuck-stone/" target="_blank">Index of Proportional Equality</a>,” a tool used&nbsp;to measure an ethnic group’s percentage in the population against its percentage of elected officials.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>And all the while, you’ve been exposing police brutality, corrupt college placement, political heavies and their goons…and you still aren’t satisfied! You’re Chuck Stone, and you don’t let your bow-tie or flat-top fool anyone, not even the inmates at&nbsp;Pennsylvania’s Graterford Prison, who’ve just taken 39 hostages under the leadership of <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-1989-10-28-2719211-story.html" target="_blank">Joe-Joe Bowen</a>, a man who, while at his last penitentiary, stabbed to death the Deputy Warden and then did the same thing to the Warden. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":11354,"width":316,"height":373,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/1981-Graterford-Prison-Riot_Philadelphia-Daily-News-1.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/1981-Graterford-Prison-Riot_Philadelphia-Daily-News-1-858x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11354" width="316" height="373"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>You think little of walking into such a “riot-torn hellhole” to square off with Joe-Joe, the hostage-taker with the shotgun. Was your mind still calmly back on the papers you had to grade when they told you Bowen had shot an elderly couple, killed a cop, and could kill you?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Whatever it was, you helped negotiate to free the Graterford hostages, then worked a deal for the Bowen gang’s surrender. Pennsylvania’s governor himself <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/88092NCJRS.pdf" target="_blank">asked for you</a>. He'd been told that anyone agreeing to meet with Bowen couldn’t be some plain-clothed cop or&nbsp;corrections mediator; it would have to be the real deal. It would have to be Chuck Stone, the black journalist known as “the surrender middleman.” </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":11350,"width":308,"height":211,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Chuck-Stone-at-Graterford-Prison-Press-Conference_AP.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Chuck-Stone-at-Graterford-Prison-Press-Conference_AP-1024x706.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11350" width="308" height="211"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Negotiations ended with Bowen telling you, “Everything here is cool,” and it was. You probably thought Joe-Joe was a cupcake compared to Mayor Daley. And you robbed the guards of possible reprisals by maneuvering Bowen's transfer from state to federal custody. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>You <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/04/07/300277869/chuck-stone-pioneering-black-journalist-and-professor-dies-at-89" target="_blank">died</a> almost seven years ago now, but you lived an incredible life, always finding opportunities, promoting equity, outliving doubters, and speaking truth to men of power at every step of your career.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":11351,"width":373,"height":259,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Chuck-Stone-and-Santa-with-Helper_Photo-Philadelphia-Daily-News.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Chuck-Stone-and-Santa-with-Helper_Photo-Philadelphia-Daily-News.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11351" width="373" height="259"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Today, your legacy is the push for media diversity and rests at the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://nabjonline.org/" target="_blank">National Association of Black Journalists</a>, the institution you served as founding President. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Whoever’s up next to speak to the fugitive on line two, we can only hope he’ll live up to your standards. (Literally, the ones you called “FEAT” for <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.spj.org/news.asp?ref=698" target="_blank">Fairness, Even-Handedness, Accuracy and Thoroughness</a>.)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Charles “Chuck” Stone, Jr., you were a true first responder to fires set by arsonists hoping to burn facts and build false narratives.&nbsp;I wish you were here today.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right","style":{"typography":{"fontSize":1}}} --> <p class="has-text-align-right" style="font-size:1px">.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"small"} --> <p class="has-small-font-size"><br /><strong>* Allegedly said to Senator Abe Ribicoff of Connecticut, when the Senator challenged Daley’s use of force during the ’68 DNC &nbsp;(Source: Wikiquote)</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p> &nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> Hell, down the hall, above the restrooms, the words “COLORED” and “WHITE” live under scant few of coats of paint, and you remember when the first was applied. 11310 2021-02-27 16:19:42 2021-02-27 23:19:42 2021-02-27 16:20:43 2021-02-27 23:20:43 closed you-are-chuck-stone publish 0 0 post 1 Black Political Power in America Character Chicago Chuck Stone first responder Frank Rizzo Graterford Prison hostage Index of Proportional Equality Joe-Joe Bowen Joseph Bowen Malcolm X Mayor Richard Daley Media Diversity Media Diversity National Center for Fair and Open Testing Philadelphia Red Tail segregation Stokely Carmichael Tuskegee Wilson Goode World War II _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706769553;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6599;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:351;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9474;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor http://working-copy.local/comfort-zone-2/in-each-others-shoes/ Fri, 12 Mar 2021 20:35:40 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=11377 <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>Walking in each other's shoes is not about how <em>you </em>would feel dealing with <em>their</em> circumstances. It's about seeing how the other person feels dealing with their <em>own</em> circumstances.</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":11387,"width":415,"height":280,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Shoes-on-a-Wire_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Shoes-on-a-Wire_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11387" width="415" height="280"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"normal"} --> <p class="has-normal-font-size">Inmates and guards betray their respective roles more often than one might imagine, and more often than custody comportment will allow either to admit. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"normal"} --> <p class="has-normal-font-size">In fact, even aside from 12-step support stuff, so-called emotional safes zones <em>do</em> exist on maximum security prison yards. They feel as odd as they are accidental, and God help the fool who utters a phrase like "emotional safe zone" out loud. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Capitalizing on this all too human need to be heard and understood is a program modeled on the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.insideoutcenter.org/" target="_blank">Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program</a>, which places college&nbsp;students in classrooms with inmates for semester-long, full-credit courses. Today more than 150 institutions of higher education have successfully sponsored courses in more than 200 correctional institutions. Even more notable, since 2016, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0032258X19860421" target="_blank">Police Training Inside-Out (PTI-O</a>) has been explored as a way to better train <em>cops</em>.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>A partnership between Duquesne University (and founder <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4uEGe5AAAAAJ&amp;hl=en" target="_blank">Norman Conti</a>), the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police, and the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, PTI-O was designed to bring cadets and cons together once a week in an academic seminar held behind prison walls. The idea was to supplement traditional police academy training with a way for law enforcement officers to develop a more nuanced professional vision than “us versus them.” Based on the depth of the interaction, a similar mindset shift is expected to occur among participating inmates as well.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":11400,"width":414,"height":348,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Prison-Unit-Night-Watch-Desk_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Prison-Unit-Night-Watch-Desk_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11400" width="414" height="348"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>During my own incarceration, one particular Corrections Officer worked our unit's lonely "lights out shift" quite frequently. He was a schlub who basically listened to the fellas snore, pray, and turn the pages of books. The warning about him went, "Pretend you're asleep when Officer X does his rounds: that dude'll talk your ear off." </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"normal"} --> <p class="has-normal-font-size">Guys shuffling to and from the toilets during the night would report his conversations with various inmates, but it was less a matter of, "What's that rat-snitch blabbing to the badge about?" and more, "Ha! That dummy forgot to tip-toe!" <em>I</em> was that dummy once or twice myself. Returning from the can, I'd been waved over to his desk, only to endure mindless blather about his crappy vacation or doc-ordered dietary changes. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>And this guy wasn't alone. I encountered or heard about several prison guards who took psychic hostages this way, though most of us were at least begrudgingly charitable. They'd roll <em>their</em> eyes when we talked about our big post-custody plans, and we'd roll <em>our</em> eyes when they trotted out the obligatory (though likely part-true): "Believe me: I could just as well have wound up in your shoes." Never mind the similarities of our breathing the same prison air, burying much of the same PTSD, or the burdens of secrets and stereotypes. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>There was relief and humanity found in such truces, and I know many of the men on both sides of those exchanges felt it. Sometimes those fleeting moments –mundane as they may have been– were even slightly charming. But the <em>very</em> best were the exchanges in which we got into each other's heads just a little, and then disclosed our findings. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>For a few days I repeatedly dropped, "The sergeant with the missing finger told me how he lost it!" I hadn't been the only person he told, but for a minute I proudly thought otherwise. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":11390,"width":401,"height":304,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Inside-Out-Prison-1.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Inside-Out-Prison-1-1024x776.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11390" width="401" height="304"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>A typical PTI-O class puts police and inmates in small groups, discussing questions like: “What are prisons for?”; “Why do people commit crimes?”; “What are some things that prisons do well/poorly?”; and “What would you say to the assertion that prisons are now our country’s principal government program for the poor?”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Conti, the program's founder, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.gazettenet.com/Columnist-Razvan-Sibii-37771690" target="_blank">says</a> he still deals with reluctance on both sides. To get them to sign up, some inmates have to be reminded that it's better for their communities back home to deal with a cop who knows how to do more than divide the world into “citizens” and “predators.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>On all fronts, the police training version of Inside-Out represents cutting edge criminal justice reform and offers a true hand in reversing mass incarceration. It validates a small but valuable prison souvenir/takeaway of my own: "Sometimes you have to get in the box to think outside of it." </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Check out <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://leb.fbi.gov/articles/featured-articles/officer-training-behind-prison-walls" target="_blank">Officer Training Behind Prison Walls</a> to learn more about how the program works. Maybe bring it up to cop you know and see if they roll their eyes. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right"} --> <p class="has-text-align-right">.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right"} --> <p class="has-text-align-right">.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> Law Enforcement and Inmates learning together, about each other, behind prison walls. 11377 2021-03-12 13:35:40 2021-03-12 20:35:40 2021-03-25 09:04:30 2021-03-25 16:04:30 closed in-each-others-shoes publish 0 0 post 1 12-step badge Comfort Zone criminal justice Duquesne University emotional safe zone guards higher education incarceration inmates Inside-Out Inspirational Norman Conti officer Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Pittsburgh Bureau of Police Police Training Inside-Out prison prison exhange program PTI-O reform _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706860095;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10046;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7896;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2089;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor http://working-copy.local/culture/opening-day-privilege/ Thu, 01 Apr 2021 23:58:47 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=11419 <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":11434,"width":204,"height":226,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/IMG_0791-1.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/IMG_0791-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11434" width="204" height="226"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>My grandfather was hired by Gene Autry in 1961 to engineer-produce radio broadcasts for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Angels">Los Angeles Angels</a>. The privilege of his world was easy to see, even as a kid.</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I remember many&nbsp;drives out to Angel Stadium: my mom, my dad, my brother and I. We usually left the car a drunk-crawl away from the entrance turnstiles, but once or twice we'd get directed to spaces&nbsp;“far away,” like 20 or so cars further than our usual guest spot.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>We, too, entered the stadium through the turnstiles but soon left the public promenade through a hip-high gate that was opened for us. I remember climbing exterior stairs and avoiding golf carts down a wide corridor, then going up more stairs. Finally we'd reach press-box row,&nbsp;which was constructed almost entirely of steel. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":11437,"width":314,"height":208,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Rich-Pilling_MLB-Photos-via-Getty-Images.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Rich-Pilling_MLB-Photos-via-Getty-Images.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11437" width="314" height="208"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Whichever grown-ups were leading the way --my dad, grandparents, uncles or “friends"-- niceties were exchanged with familiar employees, including the middle-aged woman who usually guarded the boxes and who made cheery eye contact with everyone. Then we'd follow that lady down a wonderfully curved hallway, under what seemed like countless fluorescent light tubes. Mini-skirted cocktail waitresses streamed in and out of doors, carefully eyeballing their drink trays and backing against the cold steel as we passed. The rising and falling, roaring angry joy of the crowd was, of course, the acoustic backdrop for this journey. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":11441,"width":264,"height":208,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MLB-Photo-Rod-Carew-2.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/MLB-Photo-Rod-Carew-2-1024x808.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11441" width="264" height="208"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Insider associations with Major League Baseball had much more&nbsp;cultural cachet back then than they do today: they were less political, but more powerful for it. Every now and then when we walked through that middle door, former President Nixon, Nolan Ryan, or some other luminary would be in there and we'd be told not to point or talk. Foul balls were the only exception to red light rule, since they'd fire right into the unprotected box and nail the back wall. My grandfather would be sitting next to announcers&nbsp;Dick Enberg and former Dodgers pitcher Don Drysdale, the only one in the room tall enough to flinch when those fouls came in.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":11444,"width":336,"height":212,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Nolan-Rylan.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Nolan-Rylan.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11444" width="336" height="212"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>With his patent leather shoes and cardigan sweaters, my grandfather often appeared as though he’d&nbsp;just come from a golf course lunch or NASA briefing. I never once saw that man sweaty, sloppy, or demanding.&nbsp;Fans in the stands dressed like fans,&nbsp;but we dressed like for church or for the airport. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I revisit these memories each Opening Day (or during the first hour of "<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_(1995_film)" target="_blank">Casino</a>"). To me, the very best times were when we accompanied my grandmother to say goodbye when my grandfather was boarding the bus with the team to hit the road. It was always late at night, right outside the Disneyland Hotel, and the whole club would be there, along with the player’s wives and kids. Talk about a hug fest. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":11447,"width":232,"height":232,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/REGGIE-JACKSON-BrouilletGetty-Images-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11447" width="232" height="232"/></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em>My</em> privilege was in being free to enjoy the unity I saw there for what it was, without being branded by the cultural significance of those memories to the point of relying on an imperfect era to define the way the world should be.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>When I'd finally grown old enough to sit in the dugout, my <em>honor</em> came the day I exchanged hellos with <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/jackson-reggie" target="_blank">Reggie Jackson</a>, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/carew-rod" target="_blank">Rod Carew</a>, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.halosheaven.com/2020/6/29/21307277/no-74-greatest-angels-of-all-time-don-baylor" target="_blank">Don Baylor</a> and <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.halosheaven.com/2014/3/23/5538496/brian-downing-top-100-angels-4" target="_blank">Brian Downing</a> during what is considered to be the best Opening Day lineup in Angels history. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right","style":{"typography":{"fontSize":1}}} --> <p class="has-text-align-right" style="font-size:1px">.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> The privilege of insider associations with Major League Baseball was easy to see, even as a kid. 11419 2021-04-01 16:58:47 2021-04-01 23:58:47 2021-04-01 17:16:50 2021-04-02 00:16:50 closed opening-day-privilege publish 0 0 post 1 baseball Brian Downing broadcast casino Culture Dick Enberg Disneyland Dodgers Don Baylor Don Drysdale Gene Autry Los Angeles Angels Major League Baseball NASA Nixon Nolan Ryan Opening Day press-box privilege Reggie Jackson Rod Carew _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706355870;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:379;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4562;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1986;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor http://working-copy.local/excuses/haunted-house-usa/ Sat, 17 Apr 2021 20:03:59 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=11462 <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Word of the day: <strong>PALIMPSEST</strong><br />pal·imp·sest<br />noun<br />noun: palimpsest; plural noun: palimpsests<br />• something reused or altered still bearing visible traces of its earlier form.<br />• a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center"} --> <p class="has-text-align-center"><em>"Whites Only" and other racist palimpsests endure throughout America</em>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Rich Frishman’s photography can be both meditative and empowering. Meditative, because it inspires self-examination, and empowering, because it's created to show and tell. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Frishman's <em>Ghosts of Segregation</em> project offers us a contemplative and quiet study of America's racist past, a practical exhibition of photographic evidence in which images are captioned most poignantly by their place in history. It's also an incredibly useful, "when they go low, you go high" answer for when you've taken the bait of that family bigot or folks activated by the politics of ethno-nationalism (formerly known as "old friends").</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Personally, I want <em>Ghosts of Segregation</em> open on my laptop whenever I'm rejecting "woke" as an insult, explaining equity vs. equality, and discussing the difference between canceled and accountability. Not as some sort of a mic drop though; more like finding a common emotional truth. These powerful palimpsests can't help but force a needed pause in such an exchange ––and could even offer an escalator up.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>See what you think:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"center","fontSize":"large"} --> <p class="has-text-align-center has-large-font-size"><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.ghostsofsegregation.com/portfolio.html?folio=GALLERY" target="_blank">Ghosts of Segregation</a></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"center","id":11463,"width":666,"height":658,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Rich-Frishman.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Rich-Frishman.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11463" width="666" height="658"/></a><figcaption><strong>SLAVE EXCHANGE – NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – PHOTOGRAPHED: 2019</strong><br />The enigmatic inscription "change," floating above Chartres Street in New Orleans' French Quarter, largely goes unnoticed. It is the vestige of the sign over the St. Louis Hotel Slave Exchange. The luxurious hotel included a bank, ballroom, shopping arcade and trading exchange. Six days each week from 1838-1862, under the hotel's domed rotunda, auctioneers sold off land and goods as well as thousands of enslaved people.<br /></figcaption></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"center","id":11468,"width":703,"height":358,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Rich-Frishman2-2.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Rich-Frishman2-2-1024x521.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11468" width="703" height="358"/></a><figcaption><strong>REDLINING WALL – DETROIT, MICHIGAN – PHOTOGRAPHED: 2018</strong><br />When the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) was founded in 1934, the process of "redlining," the act of denying loans and financial services to black neighborhoods while granting them for white neighborhoods, was codified. The Detroit neighborhood of Wyoming was a redlined black neighborhood for nearly a decade until the early 1940s, when developers wanted to build a white development in the area. They were denied by the FHA because their plan placed the white neighborhood "too close" to the black neighborhood. Thinking quickly, the developers responded by building a half-mile long wall directly between Mendota Street and Birwood Avenue for a full three blocks. This was enough to be given the nod of approval from the U.S. government. The wall, now known as 8 Mile Wall, was the official racial divider for over 20 years, until the Fair Housing Act supposedly abolished such racist policies in 1968.<br /></figcaption></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"center","id":11471,"width":787,"height":498,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Rich-Frishman3.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Rich-Frishman3-1024x649.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11471" width="787" height="498"/></a><figcaption><strong>NEGRO LEAGUE STADIUM – HAMTRAMCK, MICHIGAN – PHOTOGRAPHED: 2019</strong><br />Built in 1930, Hamtramck Stadium was home to the Negro National League Detroit Stars in 1930-1931 and again in 1933. The field was also home to the Detroit Wolves of the Negro East-West League in 1932, and to the Negro American League Detroit Stars in 1937.</figcaption></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Visit:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"large"} --> <p class="has-large-font-size"><strong><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.ghostsofsegregation.com/portfolio.html?folio=GALLERY" target="_blank">Ghosts of Segregation</a></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> 11462 2021-04-17 13:03:59 2021-04-17 20:03:59 2021-04-20 10:02:54 2021-04-20 17:02:54 closed haunted-house-usa publish 0 0 post 1 &quot;Whites only&quot; Culture ethno-nationalism Excuses Frishman Ghosts of Segregation palimpsests photography racist _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"8f6677c9d6b0f903e98ad32ec61f8deb";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1705727347;s:7:"payload";a:3:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6140;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1309;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7041;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor http://working-copy.local/comfort-zone-2/its-the-abuse-stupid/ Fri, 21 May 2021 19:11:29 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=11484 <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><br /><strong>Increased benefits or not, the past 15 months have exposed what little regard Americans have for waitstaff and retail help. </strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The entitlement of the Paid Not to Work <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/labor-shortage-solution-stop-paying-people-not-to-work-economics-professor" target="_blank">narrative</a> pales in comparison to clip after clip of retail and restaurant employees being yelled at and assaulted. Whether due to COVID protocols or the public’s general lack of coping skills, no wonder strip mall manpower <a href="https://fair.org/home/we-need-to-stop-taking-employers-viewpoint-as-gospel/" data-type="URL" data-id="https://fair.org/home/we-need-to-stop-taking-employers-viewpoint-as-gospel/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">isn't rushing back</a> to fill these domestic abuse scenarios disguised as employment.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I know a few hireable candidates who couldn't care less about their old gigs, and it isn't because Biden bought 'em a piece of Easy Street.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"id":11539,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"none"} --> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Fox-News-4-1024x148.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11539"/></figure> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Relocation and career changes play a part, as do schooling, childcare, eldercare, and job applicants who remain unvaccinated. Clips of customer tantrums are the new <em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.cops.com" target="_blank">Cops!</a></em>, and all that viral phone footage plays an arguably bigger part in why <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://assets.nfib.com/nfibcom/2021-March-Jobs-Report-FINAL.pdf" target="_blank">42%</a> of restaurants and small businesses report an inability to fill job openings. Tik-Toks showing rage and verbal harassment reinforced the service-business dread of countless grocery workers. Infrared depictions of how our <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://youtu.be/QFMy_-ffseI" target="_blank">sneezes</a> end up in Alaska don't help.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"center","id":11528,"width":723,"height":406,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Woman-assaulted-at-Taco-Bell-drive-thru.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Woman-assaulted-at-Taco-Bell-drive-thru-1024x576.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11528" width="723" height="406"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>From fast food to gourmet and everything in between, no food service employee is free from questioning whether or not it's worth going back.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>According to a server-friend at a popular LA eatery, neither do efforts&nbsp;to match pre-COVID efficiency while being met with insults and accusations of laziness -- including from one's own employer or corporate overlord.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Even the energy of those thrilled to finally be out and about can contribute to a lack of awareness about the&nbsp;many new obstacles to rapid service waitstaff now face. With a longer journey from grill to street table, this includes taking steps to ensure dishes remain piping hot for as long as possible. Says my friend, “If the food's not hot, forget a decent tip.” </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Ditto when a customer whose starting pointing is mask resistance instructs you to "go tell the chef to," and you try to explain why you're no longer allowed to do that. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>There was also the post-Covid discovery that waitstaff had been assigned additional duties like busing their own tables (this was once the job of a bus staff). Wiping down the walls was a new one, and in between seatings, it's now mandatory. So far the employees agree: this new "side work" eats up the time it would take to serve a full table, effectively eliminating at least one potential tip. "And when you don’t have a lot, you count on your tips – a lot." </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":11537,"width":460,"height":240,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/x75.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/x75.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11537" width="460" height="240"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Welcome to Restauranting, post-COVID. For my friend and colleagues, being spoken to contemptuously has been yet another bonus, especially when managing the line of patrons waiting to enter an establishment. All staffers now get to help with this cattle call. “And out there,” I was told, "the insults are quicker, louder, and fueled by a mob.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Further fun add-on expectations include:&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list --> <ul><li>Filling to-go orders, which have exploded in number for most restaurants </li><li>Prepping to-go condiment and utensil packets with all the usual landfill waste; never to exclude card-stock event promos and specials</li><li>Preparing bins of pre-wrapped table settings </li><li>Napkin folding and the resetting of street tables and fake plants</li><li>Answering phones using approved post-COVID etiquette</li><li>Navigating client demands related to food allergies and the substitutions the restaurant is no longer willing to make (all while car exhaust wafts across the "patio").</li></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":11545,"width":326,"height":242,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Ryan-German-2.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Ryan-German-2.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11545" width="326" height="242"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>It's a post-COVID world, after all, and if the "<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://jacobinmag.com/2021/05/gop-unemployment-covid-reagan-welfare-queen" data-type="URL" data-id="https://jacobinmag.com/2021/05/gop-unemployment-covid-reagan-welfare-queen" target="_blank">undeserving poor</a>" would just put down the Netflix and get back into their low wage boxes, everything would be so much better for everyone else's 401k. Besides, some employers are even paying <em>more than minimum wage</em>, you greedy shirkers, and others are offering a handful of benefits. Not, like, sick days or paid family leave, but beggars can't be choosers! </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.brookings.edu/research/reopening-america-low-wage-workers-have-suffered-badly-from-covid-19-so-policymakers-should-focus-on-equity/" target="_blank">Or <em>can</em> they</a>?? <strong>Can even underpaid people dare to dream that the supply and demand magic of capitalism might one day work for them, too? That the high demand for their labor might command a higher price paid in the form of livable wages and better working conditions?</strong> </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Veteran waiters learn to take a lot in stride, like patrons who leave their dentures on the table, or a full diaper. Stuck ay home at the height of the pandemic, they may have even begun miss cranky regulars known for sending orders back, but <em>that</em> will sure disappear fast!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Of course some of these realities were present before the pandemic, but c’mon.&nbsp;After a year away from waiting tables and given the current climate, wouldn't <em>you</em> be looking elsewhere, looking higher, or cozying up to connected friends and family? Wouldn't <em>you</em> be digging at the dirt for a better environment to work in than a slop-trough with 16 televisions and a bunch of sniping customers?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:embed {"url":"https://www.tiktok.com/@padi.thomas8/video/6962984760519970054?_d=secCgYIASAHKAESMgowWQxW0ujOaRFEQtJwlWISs8miksChx3iBmYejUZI7j8maXg5cdzfvvNICtfkbjnOdGgA%3D\u0026enable_clips=1\u0026language=en\u0026preview_pb=0\u0026sec_user_id=MS4wLjABAAAAbfdQGj1or7Gcg9ezQi4ZHhG5dZbHx8IDlMs8aMftVrVPaQBBMEt9ZGybLdz_DTTX\u0026share_app_id=1233\u0026share_item_id=6962984760519970054\u0026share_link_id=D13820CF-777F-4CBE-97F0-6C88473E832C\u0026source=h5_m\u0026timestamp=1621619814\u0026tt_from=sms\u0026u_code=dc6k5lemmm6c8j\u0026user_id=6822004288496256006\u0026utm_campaign=client_share\u0026utm_medium=ios\u0026utm_source=sms\u0026_r=1\u0026is_copy_url=1\u0026is_from_webapp=v1","type":"video","providerNameSlug":"tiktok","responsive":true,"className":""} --> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-tiktok wp-block-embed-tiktok"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> https://www.tiktok.com/@padi.thomas8/video/6962984760519970054?_d=secCgYIASAHKAESMgowWQxW0ujOaRFEQtJwlWISs8miksChx3iBmYejUZI7j8maXg5cdzfvvNICtfkbjnOdGgA%3D&amp;enable_clips=1&amp;language=en&amp;preview_pb=0&amp;sec_user_id=MS4wLjABAAAAbfdQGj1or7Gcg9ezQi4ZHhG5dZbHx8IDlMs8aMftVrVPaQBBMEt9ZGybLdz_DTTX&amp;share_app_id=1233&amp;share_item_id=6962984760519970054&amp;share_link_id=D13820CF-777F-4CBE-97F0-6C88473E832C&amp;source=h5_m&amp;timestamp=1621619814&amp;tt_from=sms&amp;u_code=dc6k5lemmm6c8j&amp;user_id=6822004288496256006&amp;utm_campaign=client_share&amp;utm_medium=ios&amp;utm_source=sms&amp;_r=1&amp;is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1 </div></figure> <!-- /wp:embed --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>So some are slow to go back. Duh. Many others are hesitant to put a target on their backs as first-timer restaurant employees. People <em>do</em> request interviews and then don't show up. Is that because they're on the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://tobin.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/C-19%20Articles/CARES-UI_identification_vF(1).pdf" data-type="URL" data-id="https://tobin.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/C-19%20Articles/CARES-UI_identification_vF(1).pdf" target="_blank">white water rafting trip</a> Congress gifted them, or did something better become possible?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Sure, there are those out there collecting and coasting on the government’s dime, middle fingers held high at this nation of chokehold apologists, oligarchs, sex-crime politicians, and groveling, racist swine. But it's not the free ride the American way of life is paying for that's keeping you from your bacon burger: in no small part, it's the abuse, stupid.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Shaming someone back to your sports bar isn't gonna work. But if you think it will,&nbsp;bring that burger over here so I can lift the lettuce myself and hock one for my friend. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right","style":{"typography":{"fontSize":1}}} --> <p class="has-text-align-right" style="font-size:1px">.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> Wouldn't you be digging at the dirt for a better environment to work in than a slop-trough with 16 televisions? 11484 2021-05-21 12:11:29 2021-05-21 19:11:29 2021-05-21 13:15:32 2021-05-21 20:15:32 closed its-the-abuse-stupid publish 0 0 post 1 401k abuse benefits Biden capitalism Comfort Zone Congress COVID Culture employees employers employment government minimum wage Netflix Paid Not to Work post-COVID restaurant retail help Tik-Tok tip to-go undeserving poor waiters waitstaff _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706886507;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1986;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11187;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11128;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5425;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9105;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:778;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor _thumbnail_id 11522 _oembed_9fe6e56b3c59c549e25c30b0627b3739 <blockquote class="tiktok-embed" cite="https://www.tiktok.com/@padi.thomas8/video/6962984760519970054" data-video-id="6962984760519970054" data-embed-from="oembed" style="max-width:605px; min-width:325px;"> <section> <a target="_blank" title="@padi.thomas8" href="https://www.tiktok.com/@padi.thomas8?refer=embed">@padi.thomas8</a> <p>Please watch this I’m sorry stressed <a title="ROMWEGetGraphic" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/ROMWEGetGraphic?refer=embed">#ROMWEGetGraphic</a> <a title="PonderWithZion" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/PonderWithZion?refer=embed">#PonderWithZion</a> <a title="fyp" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/fyp?refer=embed">#fyp</a> <a title="overworkedunderpaid" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/overworkedunderpaid?refer=embed">#overworkedunderpaid</a></p> <a target="_blank" title="? original sound - Padi.thomas" href="https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-6962984720875539206?refer=embed">? original sound - Padi.thomas</a> </section> </blockquote> <script async src="https://www.tiktok.com/embed.js"></script> _oembed_time_9fe6e56b3c59c549e25c30b0627b3739 1738220943 http://working-copy.local/comfort-zone-2/the-story-of-everybody/ Sat, 26 Jun 2021 04:23:40 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=11561 <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>How a story makes us feel should not be the measure of its historical worth.</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"center","id":11590,"width":730,"height":389,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Remeber-Rondo_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Remeber-Rondo_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11590" width="730" height="389"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>America's Interstate Highway System, constructed from the 1950's through the 1970s, saw massive multi-lane middle fingers run through poor neighborhoods and communities of color. These were districts lacking tourism, valuable land, and political power. In many instances, like in Oak Park, Alabama, they had targets on their backs. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Obliterated in the late 1950s to make way for Interstate 94, Rondo was the backbone of the Black community in St. Paul, Minnesota. By the time I-94 opened in '68, Rondo had lost “homes, churches, schools, neighbors, and valued social&nbsp;contracts." With 15% of its population displaced, 300-400 Black-owned homes destroyed, and the loss of its chapter of the NAACP, Rondo would never see its <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.mnopedia.org/place/rondo-neighborhood-st-paul" target="_blank">diverse and thriving</a> trajectory fulfilled as it might have.&nbsp; </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":11592,"width":302,"height":251,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Sam-Engelhardt_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Sam-Engelhardt_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11592" width="302" height="251"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Alabama's Highway Director <a href="https://segregationinamerica.eji.org/report/segregation-forever-leaders.html">Sam </a><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://segregationinamerica.eji.org/report/segregation-forever-leaders.html" target="_blank">Engelhardt</a>, whose State Senate campaign cards read, "I STAND FOR WHITE SUPREMACY SEGREGATION," ensured that&nbsp;Interstate 85 would wipe Oak Park, a neighborhood of Black civil rights leaders <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/2019/01/25/how-montgomery-highway-sought-disrupt-heart-civil-rights-movement" data-type="URL" data-id="https://kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/2019/01/25/how-montgomery-highway-sought-disrupt-heart-civil-rights-movement" target="_blank">and its active voters, right off the map</a>.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>In other states, transportation infrastructure indiscriminately zigzags where it could have continued along a straight path, flattening Black neighborhoods despite the availability of alternate routes. So went the <a href="https://www.planetizen.com/news/2020/06/109744-when-discussing-racist-monuments-dont-forget-urban-freeways" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">golden age</a> of American road building.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":11597,"width":417,"height":334,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/INTERSTATE-94_Saint-Paul-Minnesota-1.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/INTERSTATE-94_Saint-Paul-Minnesota-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11597" width="417" height="334"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Yet today, "Remember Rondo!" hardly has the same ring of social acceptance as other historical reminiscences about harm caused, like "Remember Pearl Harbor" or even "Remember the Alamo."</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>And why should <em>Remember Rondo</em> —despite its grounding in historical fact—be considered by so many these days to be anti-American blasphemy? Does its viability make <em>you</em> hate America, as <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/try-critical-race-theory-checklist" target="_blank">The Heritage Foundation</a>, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.tpusa.com/culture-war" target="_blank">Turning Point Academy</a>, and GOP Senator <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://thehill.com/homenews/news/559208-ted-cruz-says-critical-race-theory-is-as-racist-as-klansmen-in-white-sheets" target="_blank">Ted Cruz</a> all insist it will? Is it really an "attack on white people," such that teaching history of this sort is, in the words of radio talk show host <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://twitter.com/i/status/1407334052835774464" target="_blank">Michael Savage</a>, "exactly what was done to the Jews in Germany in the 1930s...the road to the death camps”?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Yikes! Here I thought it might inspire someone to help protect us from future historical offenses. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Critical Race Theory and culturally responsive education aren’t the same, but they <em>are</em> under attack by those intent on misrepresenting them. And enemies of either would have you reject unheard voices and believe that racial equity is anti-American. <strong>It's not.</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Cruz’s recent claim that&nbsp;Critical Race Theory, originally conceived as a framework for understanding the relationship between race and American law*, "is every bit as racist as the Klansmen in white sheets,” is idiotic. Lawyer Cruz well knows this. In its broader conception (also never shamefully hidden behind white robes) CRT provides a path to addressing the inequalities that are historically embedded in our political, social, economic systems—because only by acknowledging them can we work to change them. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":8979,"width":494,"height":328,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Pre-Release-Classrooms-are-the-Future-of-Prison-Reform_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Pre-Release-Classrooms-are-the-Future-of-Prison-Reform_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-8979" width="494" height="328"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Former economics professor Michael Harriot puts it this way: "A complete understanding of economics includes the laws of supply and demand, why certain metals are considered 'precious,' or why paper money has value. But we can’t do that without critically interrogating who made these constructs and who benefited from them." And he's not even talking about changing those constructs. Neither, for that matter, is enlightening students about the <em>literally</em> structural racism found in the Interstate Highway System a) a statement about individual racism or b) necessarily a demand for change. It's really just <strong>an acknowledgement of</strong> <strong>a more complete historical truth. </strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>But for the record, it's <em>highly</em> unlikely that Critical Race Theory is being taught to your precious child: it's rarely even taught to undergraduates for all its complexity. What <em>is</em> hopefully part of junior's upbringing is culturally responsive education, which is less a <em>thing</em> than an overdue recognition that kids learn best when they have ways to connect what they learn to their own lived experiences. <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.brown.edu/academics/education-alliance/teaching-diverse-learners/strategies-0/culturally-responsive-teaching-0" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.brown.edu/academics/education-alliance/teaching-diverse-learners/strategies-0/culturally-responsive-teaching-0" target="_blank">Brown University</a> calls culturally responsive education, which was conceived in <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.brown.edu/academics/education-alliance/teaching-diverse-learners/strategies-0/culturally-responsive-teaching-0#ladson-billings" data-type="URL" data-id="https://www.brown.edu/academics/education-alliance/teaching-diverse-learners/strategies-0/culturally-responsive-teaching-0#ladson-billings" target="_blank">1994</a>, BTW, "a pedagogy that acknowledges, responds to, and celebrates fundamental cultures [to] offer full, equitable access to education for students from all cultures."</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Equitable access is muy anti-Americano, no?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":11634,"width":298,"height":419,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/CENSORSHIP_Where-Excuses-go-to-Die.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/CENSORSHIP_Where-Excuses-go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11634" width="298" height="419"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>And again, neither Critical Race Theory nor culturally responsive education explicitly advocate for, for example, calling out a Texas Legislature that threatens to withhold state funding to state universities refusing to "Remember the Alamo" the 'right' way, though it turns out, according to a <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.npr.org/2021/06/16/1006907140/forget-the-alamo-texas-history-bryan-burrough" target="_blank">consensus of historians</a>, that the&nbsp;13-day siege wasn’t about the mean old&nbsp;Mexican army after all. The Texians defending the Alamo—alongside their Tejano brethren, who have since been written out of the story—were fighting to preserve the slavery they depended upon for their cotton trade. When the Mexican government told ‘em to pay up in taxes and/or free their slaves, the ranchers turned to a carpetbagging former congressmen, a Louisiana con artist and knife-welding crackpot named Jim Bowie, for help. And they were defeated handily by the army of General Antonio López de Santa Anna.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Despite this defeat, and despite the widespread theory that Davy Crockett might have actually surrendered before he was executed, Texas lore demands fealty to the false narrative of white heroes who single handedly took on those dirty Mexicans and fought valiantly to the death. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Now look, I know everyone and their mother omits things from and/or embellishes their favorite personal stories. But when it’s a matter of a historical record on which the future gets built and funds get allocated, it's not okay for the “natural” or “patriotic” way of seeing things to minimize the contributions of one group while inflating and celebrating the contributions of another. And if you care about truth in history, you'll want to correct that record. Do we really want a government that deliberately stands in the way of that? &nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":11609,"width":373,"height":287,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Eric-Hoffer-1.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Eric-Hoffer-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11609" width="373" height="287"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Of course, not everyone is interested in complex truths, which both CRT and culturally responsive education enable. Us-versus-them is <em>much</em> easier of a narrative to create, promote, and consume. The worst part is that recent politics, fake news, and <a href="https://patriotfront.us/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">American social trends</a> all demonstrate that truth itself is beside the point these days. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>But once more, how a story makes us feel shouldn't be the measure of its historical worth.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right","style":{"typography":{"fontSize":1}}} --> <p class="has-text-align-right" style="font-size:1px">.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right","style":{"typography":{"fontSize":1}}} --> <p class="has-text-align-right" style="font-size:1px">.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>*Should you take issue with the contention that race and American law <em>are </em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.pnas.org/content/116/34/16793" target="_blank">intertwined</a>, may I direct you to: <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3231372247892780026&amp;q=dred+scott+v+sandford&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=2006" data-type="URL" data-id="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3231372247892780026&amp;q=dred+scott+v+sandford&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=2006" target="_blank">Dred Scott v Sanford</a>, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=16038751515555215717&amp;q=plessy+v+ferguson&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=2006" data-type="URL" data-id="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=16038751515555215717&amp;q=plessy+v+ferguson&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=2006" target="_blank">Plessy v Ferguson</a>, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=12120372216939101759&amp;q=brown+v+board+of+education&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=2006" data-type="URL" data-id="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=12120372216939101759&amp;q=brown+v+board+of+education&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=2006" target="_blank">Brown v Board of Education</a>, and many, many other cases illustrating the U.S. Supreme Court's evolving thoughts on that very matter.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"id":11626,"width":493,"height":478,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <figure class="wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/The-10-405-interchange-in-1964_Courtesy-of-the-Los-Angeles-Times-Photographic-Archive.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/The-10-405-interchange-in-1964_Courtesy-of-the-Los-Angeles-Times-Photographic-Archive.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11626" width="493" height="478"/></a><figcaption>The completed 10-405 interchange in 1964. Courtesy of the<br />Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive, UCLA Library.</figcaption></figure> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><br /></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> How a story makes us feel should not be the measure of its historical worth. 11561 2021-06-25 21:23:40 2021-06-26 04:23:40 2021-09-24 13:36:22 2021-09-24 20:36:22 closed the-story-of-everybody publish 0 0 post 0 Alabama America Brown v Board of Education Comfort Zone critical race theory CRT culturally responsive education Culture Davy Crockett Dred Scott history infrastructure Interstate Jim Bowie Klansmen Mexicans Michael Harriot Michael Savage Minnesota Oak Park patriotic pedagogy Plessy v Ferguson race Rondo Sam Engelhardt Santa Anna segregation St Paul Ted Cruz Tejanos Texas Texians The Alamo The Heritage Foundation transportation Turning Point Academy white supremacy _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706886507;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4346;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:360;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:880;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:351;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3044;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:733;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor http://working-copy.local/culture/inmate-convict-felon-guest/ Fri, 24 Sep 2021 20:40:37 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=11637 <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":11654,"width":200,"height":349,"sizeSlug":"full","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-full is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Toni-Morrison_Function-of-Freedome_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1.jpg"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Toni-Morrison_Function-of-Freedome_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11654" width="200" height="349"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>“What’s in a name?”&nbsp;isn’t a trick question.</strong><br /><strong>It’s a dumpster for opinions.</strong>&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Before Andrew Cuomo walked out the door, the 56th Governor&nbsp;of New York signed Senate Bill S3332, amending the language of New York state law to replace all instances of the words "inmate” or “inmates” with the words “incarcerated individual” or “incarcerated individuals.” </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Our national dialog on the power of names, be they for sports teams or co-worker pronouns, gave rise to SB S3332 and its approval. To those who wonder what purpose the bill might serve, the idea is to leave no stone unturned in seeking ways to lift negative reinforcement, terminology, and training. And considering how indelibly the American public <em>has</em> been trained to recognize those behind bars, it's no surprise that some are crying, "Them too? What, they're <span style="text-decoration: underline;">guests</span> now?" </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>As if the premise of recognizing humanity wouldn't include people who have broken the law. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>But yes, widening the front lines of the identity war to include the incarcerated is already goading some into throwing up their hands. "New York lawmakers must have tortillas for brains,” whistles a <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/gov-cuomo-who-is-under-criminal-investigation-signs-bill-removing-the-word-inmate-from-ny-laws/" target="_blank">Law Enforcement Today</a> editorial, "because that’s the&nbsp;only way someone could wrap their mind&nbsp;around this legislation and think&nbsp;it actually is going to somehow make attaining gainful employment and&nbsp;housing&nbsp;easier after someone is released from prison." The piece goes on to call the legislation dumb and pointless.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Which it might be, if SB S3332's aim was to make those things easier. Instead it's an attempt––finally––to limit the countless ways in which we make it unnecessarily <em>harder</em> to prevent recidivism and promote post-incarceration success. The same dismissive article also quotes the text of the bill: </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><em>"Studies have shown these terminologies have an inadvertent and adverse impact on individuals’ employment, housing and other communal opportunities.&nbsp; This can impact one’s transition from incarceration, potential for recidivism, and societal perception. As a result, this bill seeks to correct outdated terminology used to refer to incarcerated individuals.”</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Since humanitarian acknowledgement isn't revoked at sentencing, what's so objectionable about putting it on paper? When you live in a concrete box, simple gestures are magnified. <strong>Encouraging offenders to see their bottom as a bounce is a matter of life-and-death. It's something that starts with correction's leadership and lives in the very paperwork of confinement. </strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":11657,"width":301,"height":503,"sizeSlug":"full","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-full is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Paperwork-and-Concrete__-Photograph-Guardian__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1.jpg"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Paperwork-and-Concrete__-Photograph-Guardian__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11657" width="301" height="503"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Imagine living inside a Department of Motor Vehicles, say, one that's located inside of a parking structure. If you can picture this, you have a good grasp of what it's like to live in prison. Forget about having a visitor or buying Chapstick without the right authorization: white, blue or canary. And 20 to 40 times a day, you identify yourself using only your last name and inmate number, a number technically assigned to a case file, not a person. But nobody knows the difference after a while. We've gotten used to thinking of inmates as numbers, and the narrowness of this thinking is reinforced with every "Inmate, wait here!" and "Inmate, where's your permission slip?"</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>"If you can't do the time..." yeah-yeah-yeah. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>This continual degradation or any of the other downsides to human warehousing is not actually a part of the punishment to which one is sentenced in a courtroom. One is sentenced to a period of confinement and/or time during which one is disqualified from fully participating in society. Everything else––including the dehumanization that we enable by allowing it to persist beyond the perimeter walls––is “bonus justice." I’ve written about that before <a href="http://working-copy.local/character-2/on-bonus-justice/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a> and <a href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/nursing-covid-19-in-prison/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a>, and it’s just as true for names as it is for actions.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>What do we civilians know&nbsp;about the soul grinding effects of this genericized use of “inmate,” “felon,” and “convict,” be these “names” spoken or documented in court transcripts, work assignment evaluations, or in the language of&nbsp;social services law, county and&nbsp;general municipal law, civil rights, election, and labor law? It's long <em>past</em> time we end this bonus justice.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Personally, I favor “adult offender,” because one can stop offending, whereas one can’t stop inmating or feloning. It can be damaging to conflate one’s actions with who they are, and downright damming to assign that misnomer linguistic permanence.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":10845,"width":221,"height":278,"sizeSlug":"full","linkDestination":"none"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-full is-resized"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CONVICTED-AMERICAN_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-10845" width="221" height="278"/></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Yet some folks still can’t or won’t see past a name. There will be those who hear about the NY legislation and insist, “They did something wrong: No special treatment for inmates!” These taxpaying geniuses couldn’t care less about how a reduction in denigrating terminology can serve the ultimate goal of&nbsp;redirecting offenders rather than simply recycling them. But if they don’t care what certain names <em>can</em> do to a person, could they grasp what their continued use <em>will</em> do? </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Because:</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>-They <em>will</em> reduce self-direction, until “follow the yellow line to the showers” becomes the only way to live.<br />-They <em>will</em> reduce self-image to the point where scoring oneself a roll of toilet paper (or a fix) = a good day.<br />-They <em>will </em>reduce self-esteem in such a way that it can only be regenerated via prison codes and&nbsp;philosophy.<br />-They <em>will </em>reduce a need for self-expression and replace it with a need to enforce.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The question is, then, are we so unwilling to let go of our preconceived ideas of what others "deserve" that we're ok with such a cost?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>“I confused things with their names: that is belief.”&nbsp;<br />&nbsp; ––Jean-Paul Sartre, The Words </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right"} --> <p class="has-text-align-right">.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> As if the premise of recognizing humanity wouldn't include people who have broken the law. 11637 2021-09-24 13:40:37 2021-09-24 20:40:37 2021-12-24 00:37:12 2021-12-24 07:37:12 closed inmate-convict-felon-guest publish 0 0 post 0 Andrew Cuomo bonus justice Culture guests humanity incarcerated inmates language lawmakers legislation names national dialog New York Rehabilitation reinforcement SB S3332 Senate Bill S3332 _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706886507;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10865;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7132;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:331;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2266;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8371;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8684;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor http://working-copy.local/culture/2021-excuse-of-the-year-moving-goal-posts/ Fri, 24 Dec 2021 07:37:47 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=11697 <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":8025,"width":285,"height":289,"sizeSlug":"full","linkDestination":"none"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-full is-resized"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/THE-GOLDEN-EXCUSE_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die296x300.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-8025" width="285" height="289"/></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Expect an answer, get an accusation. Request specifics, get whataboutism. Ask for sources, listen to the claims of invalidated media. Try and catch even a <em>hint</em> of responsibility, and reach the end of the discussion hearing none. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"normal"} --> <p class="has-normal-font-size"><strong>We zig-zag, rather than discuss. </strong>We dodge debate like an NFL quarterback running for the end zone.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Sharing information is less about reading, considering, and proposing than about tossing headlines and social media posts at one another. We might as well bestow “Blame” and “Me” with special interest group status.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>This has been the experience of many Americans lately, whether discussing restaurants, mandates, or Covid common sense. Co-workers, family, friends, and every other swingin' TikTok in between argue over justifications and resentments, all of which leap from a narrow "yes" or "no." </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Agreeing to disagree isn't what it used to be. Rarely are so many so proud of being so obstinate. It's as if someone started a rewards programs for foot stomping and blindfolding. Trying to get a straight answer from a devout anti-vaxxer, for example, is like debating a barking dog. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Why?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Maybe we're lazier now. It's easier to follow a politician who exists on Likes, baiting, and tantrums than to read policy, and maybe frequently renewed health and science data has normalized our being unable to keep up. But someone's got to, and too many Americans seem tired of caring: about public health and safety, about equity, and frankly, about each other. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Such a degeneration of discourse has worsened one of America's current perfect storms. It has enabled our individual-obsessed, consumer natures, making it easier to anticipate less, expect more, and attach conditions to rare concessions. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>"Yeah but.."</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>"Yeah but.."</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>"Yeah but.." </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>It's no way to get anywhere and there's no excuse for it, but such is the result of becoming a calculating, self-congratulatory, sound bite society.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I can only separate myself from the obscuring of accountability and the grinding down of fellowship when I remember to <strong>ge</strong><em><strong>t character or become one</strong>. </em> </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> 11697 2021-12-24 00:37:47 2021-12-24 07:37:47 2021-12-24 10:31:36 2021-12-24 17:31:36 closed 2021-excuse-of-the-year-moving-goal-posts publish 0 0 post 1 America American anti-vaxxer consumer COVID Culture excuse Likes public health science TikTok Winner: EXCUSE OF THE YEAR _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706886506;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1054;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9010;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11905;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:9750;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4828;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2572;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor _wp_old_date 2021-12-23 http://working-copy.local/excuses/wp-global-styles-ns-minimal/ Fri, 28 Jan 2022 17:05:34 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/excuses/wp-global-styles-ns-minimal/ {"version": 2, "isGlobalStylesUserThemeJSON": true } 11725 2022-01-28 10:05:34 2022-01-28 17:05:34 2022-01-28 10:05:34 2022-01-28 17:05:34 closed closed wp-global-styles-ns-minimal publish 0 0 wp_global_styles 0 ns-minimal http://working-copy.local/character-2/westway-to-the-world-ukraine-calling/ Tue, 01 Mar 2022 20:37:08 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=11737 <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>With the Swiss having <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/neutral-swiss-adopt-sanctions-against-russia-2022-02-28/">dropped their treasured neutrality</a> to join sanctions against Moscow, events in Europe are feeling more like lyrics to a CLASH song every day.</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The last time average people coming together made my chest swell this much was when we Angelenos gathered to watch a Space Shuttle fight LA traffic following the <strong>Endeavour</strong>'s 2012 goodbye aerial tour of the Southland. (Out on the sidewalk, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://working-copy.local/excuses/making-room-for-goosebumps/" target="_blank">the unity was breathtaking, trust me</a>.) </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>And now I'm feeling inspired, uneasy, and thrilled to see organizations, executives, soldiers, civilians, and nations showing character in the world despite countless excuses to turn away. The global outpouring of support for Ukraine is a true marvel. The roar of crowds in world-wide protest of anti-democratic aggression is filling my heart the way Clash frontman Joe Strummer's conflict-romanticizing lyrics have for decades. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Turkey is closing off strategic <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/turkey-takes-first-step-towards-closing-the-bosporus-to-russia" target="_blank">access points to the Black Sea</a>. Ballets and concert halls are <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/01/the-show-cant-go-on-russian-arts-cancelled-worldwide" target="_blank">shunning pro-Putin conductors</a> and dancers. The EU and Canada have closed their airspace to Russian aircraft. Brexit Europe is collectively <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2022/02/can-ukraine-really-use-donated-fighter-jets-depends/362505/" target="_blank">buying</a> Russian-made jets to give to Ukraine's air force pilots. Berlin is <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/02/26/germany-weapons-ukraine-russia-war-anti-tank-stinger/" target="_blank">sending weapons</a> to Ukraine knowing they well may be used by accountants, taxi drivers, dentists, teachers, and teenagers (talk about playing with fireworks!). <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://twitter.com/LatestAnonPress/status/1497786715783798785?s=20&amp;t=9MExqPnpr339akRksmp2OQ" target="_blank">Anonymous</a> is threatening to expose Putin's secrets and target Russian infrastructure. Oligarch <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/28/russian-oligarchs-move-yachts-as-us-moves-to-hunt-down-and-freeze-assets.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">jets and super yachts</a> are being tracked and seized. Energy conglomerates are divesting, and in Moscow a hacked car-charging&nbsp;station blinks, "Out of Service.&nbsp;Glory to Ukraine. Glory to&nbsp;Heroes." </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":11757,"width":211,"height":211,"sizeSlug":"full","linkDestination":"none"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignleft size-full is-resized"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/JOE-STRUMMER_ANTIFASCIST.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11757" width="211" height="211"/></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"left"} --> <p class="has-text-align-left">Because big banks can freeze all the funds they want, Strummer was right: <em>"Without people you're nothing." </em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>So the world is now conducting its first-ever plutocrat guerrilla war, turning off the Russian economy like a light switch. Risking retaliatory cyber strikes, the collapse of its own markets, and even a nuclear temper-tantrum, it has made a ground zero of the Russian Central Bank. As of this writing, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-asks-china-make-russia-stop-war-foreign-ministry-2022-03-01/" target="_blank">even China</a> has agreed to serve as mediator in talks between Russia and Ukraine, an important hub in their own <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/chinas-massive-belt-and-road-initiative" target="_blank">Belt and Road</a> Initiative.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":11755,"width":365,"height":486,"sizeSlug":"large","linkDestination":"media"} --> <div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="alignright size-large is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/MayorOfLA.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/MayorOfLA-768x1024.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11755" width="365" height="486"/></a></figure></div> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Political tablecloths in nearly every nation are being ripped from under dinner plates. As <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://twitter.com/apmassaro3/status/1497706941191278594" target="_blank">Paul Massaro</a>, Senior Policy Advisor at the US Helsinki Commission&nbsp;for Security and Cooperation (and human Russian corruption alarm) observed, "It’s a weird feeling to see almost every policy recommendation you’ve ever made implemented within the span of a week." </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>This stopped being a David and Goliath tale as soon as it began, instead becoming Goliath versus <em>all </em>the Davids. It has galvanized the globe in a way even COVID couldn't, for the time being even relegating our own neo-Nazis to their <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://lailluminator.com/2022/03/01/marjorie-taylor-greene-spoke-at-an-event-led-by-a-white-nationalist-and-has-no-regrets-2/" target="_blank">Florida sandbox</a> to chant support for authoritarian dictators amongst themselves. We don't even know yet how huge this is, but as with all lessons, "knowing" comes after feeling, and today we're feelin' it like I'm feelin' the Ukrainian woman who <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/t3mi94/tutorial_ukrainian_woman_posts_instructions_on/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web2x&amp;context=3" target="_blank">posted instructions</a> on how to pilot Russian armored vehicles captured (or <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/t3d998/that_farmer_is_building_quite_a_collection/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web2x&amp;context=3" target="_blank">towed</a> away by farm tractors). If he hadn't died in 2001, Joe Strummer would already be singing about her (and the discrimination <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-africans-and-asians-fleeing-ukraine-subjected-to-racial-discrimination/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">reportedly</a> on display at refugee checkpoints.) </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>In the early days of the Clash, the band metaphorically referred to London's elevated highway, The Westway, as a means to reach out to the world. Ukraine is reaching out today, reminding us of how precious and worthy democracy is. Thankfully there are road signs to help America find the way <em>she</em> has lost.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>And speaking of the United States, where is America in all of this? For the most part, right where the world needs her, in the passenger seat, using her mad coordination skills, kickin' down big cash as well as "those Washington bullets," and enjoying her favorite pastime, rooting for the underdog.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right"} --> <p class="has-text-align-right">.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"style":{"typography":{"fontSize":"29px"}}} --> <p style="font-size:29px"><strong>For your consideration…</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"justify"} --> <p class="has-text-align-justify">1. Want to support the people in Ukraine? <a href="https://give.internationalmedicalcorps.org/page/99837/donate/1?ea.tracking.id=DP~UA22~DPLBU2202&amp;_ga=2.210267413.160117339.1646165526-1884400970.1646165526">International Medical Corps is on the ground in Ukraine</a><br />2. <a href="https://crisisrelief.un.org/ukraine-crisis">Ukraine Humanitarian Fund</a><br />3. <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4908644/" target="_blank">Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom</a><br />4. <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0321711/" target="_blank">The Clash: Westway to the World</a></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><br /><br /></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> Political tablecloths in nearly every nation are being ripped from under dinner plates. 11737 2022-03-01 13:37:08 2022-03-01 20:37:08 2022-03-02 12:11:02 2022-03-02 19:11:02 closed westway-to-the-world-ukraine-calling publish 0 0 post 1 aircraft Anonymous Belt and Road Black Sea Brexit Character China COVID David and Goliath democracy economy Endeavor EU Europe Florida History infrastructure International Medical Corps jets Joe Strummer neo-Nazi Putin Russia sanctions Strummer the Clash Ukraine Ukranian Washington bullets weapons Westway Westway to the World Winter on Fire: Ukraine&#039;s Fight for Freedom yachts _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706886506;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:5746;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2809;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8525;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2266;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8731;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10410;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor _thumbnail_id 11751 http://working-copy.local/excuses/arnold-schwarzeneggers-grace-muscles/ Sat, 19 Mar 2022 00:44:53 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=11777 <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>Once a laughable Hollywood nobody turned Ambassador of Masculinity,&nbsp;The Terminator&nbsp;now pep-talks whole nations... </strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:embed {"url":"https://twitter.com/attn/status/1504423551717163008?s=20\u0026t=6_3j5TM0wloLLm7N8nFtLg","type":"rich","providerNameSlug":"twitter","responsive":true,"align":"right"} --> <figure class="wp-block-embed alignright is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> https://twitter.com/attn/status/1504423551717163008?s=20&amp;t=6_3j5TM0wloLLm7N8nFtLg </div></figure> <!-- /wp:embed --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The cloying earnestness Schwarzenegger’s personal message to everyday Russians&nbsp;made me feel:&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:list --> <ul><li>Clumsy, because he’s so sincere it’s hard to watch.</li><li>Charmed, because his self-worship is infuriatingly courteous.</li><li>Silly, because his accent has gone from Rubik's Cube to heart-shaped box of chocolates.</li><li>Stupefied, because he's made some of the world’s dumbest movies, yet here we are…</li></ul> <!-- /wp:list --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>We could've lost two minutes here, but that's montage fatigue – and forgetting I'm not the one being addressed. He begins by referencing bodybuilding because of course he does! From there however, I could neither look away or roll my eyes. This clip is a solid example of what one can do with a platform big or small: be real, and be of some use to others. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":11787,"width":131,"height":191,"sizeSlug":"full","linkDestination":"none"} --> <figure class="wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Arnies.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11787" width="131" height="191"/></figure> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>If we are to be remembered not for what we say, but for how we make others feel, this video reminded me of what personal grace looks like. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>...all the better coming from Governor <strong>Barbarian</strong> McRobot&nbsp; </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right","fontSize":"small"} --> <p class="has-text-align-right has-small-font-size">. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> The cloying earnestness Schwarzenegger’s personal message to everyday Russians made me feel: 11777 2022-03-18 17:44:53 2022-03-19 00:44:53 2022-06-24 08:48:25 2022-06-24 15:48:25 closed arnold-schwarzeneggers-grace-muscles publish 0 0 post 0 Celebrity Conan Excuses grace Hollywood Rubik&#039;s cube Russians Schwarzenegger _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706886506;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3408;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1134;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:347;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:265;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:381;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:2635;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor http://working-copy.local/excuses/the-supreme-court-operationalized/ Fri, 24 Jun 2022 15:53:55 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=11819 <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>"Follow the money" applies to everything, most of all to Supreme Court Justices. </strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":11825,"width":574,"height":331,"sizeSlug":"full","linkDestination":"none"} --> <figure class="wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Negative-Supreme-Court_Where-Excuses-Got-to-Die.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11825" width="574" height="331"/></figure> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>CAR GUY 101: knowing the parts in the machine –any machine– is essential to comprehending how it can be affected by the elements. </strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I just took in this <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.creators.com/read/jim-hightower/06/22/the-corporate-conspiracy-on-the-court" target="_blank">excellent piece</a> by the award-winning publisher of "The Hightower Lowdown," <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://jimhightower.com/" target="_blank">Jim Hightower</a>. The guy is funny, and I wish I could say it made me laugh. It didn't. But it did offer me insight that went beyond what I already knew about <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/" target="_blank">SCOTUS</a>, and it reminds me to take less pleasure in the disintegration of norms and barometers (which laughs tend to abet).</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The notorious "<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/powellmemo/" target="_blank">Powell Memo</a>" (a.k.a. "Attack on the American Free Enterprise System") was drafted in 1971 by Lewis F. Powell, Jr., and it's a good example of something about which I knew previously zilch. Yet from it, Hightower notes, SCOTUS' current conservative majority has drawn, uh, <em>major</em> inspiration. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>In keeping with the period, corporate attorney Powell was not unlike Robert Duvall's <em>Godfather </em>character, Tom Hagen, head lawyer for the Corleone family. As a Phillip Morris board member, Powell's own "family" was Big Tobacco. In fact he represented the Tobacco Institute, the notorious research arm of the tobacco industry. This is important background info.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Powell's so-called "memorandum" was a confidential letter to the Chairman of the Education Committee at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In it, he discussed what he termed the "Neglected Opportunity in the Courts" and proposed that corporate cash could and should lead to more corporate-friendly rulings by SCOTUS. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The heading itself is scary enough, given how little room it leaves for misinterpretation, but the memo actively urges "weaponiz[ing] the courts to serve business interests." Powell wanted to use the courts as a tool to save capitalism. By rewarding Powell with a Supreme Court nomination just two months after writing his memo, Richard Nixon showed he was a man who also knew how to use a tool. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":11827,"width":386,"height":396,"sizeSlug":"full","linkDestination":"media"} --> <figure class="wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Lewis-F.-Powell-Jr.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Lewis-F.-Powell-Jr.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11827" width="386" height="396"/></a><figcaption> </figcaption></figure> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>And so began the "operationalization" of the Court that brings us to the present day. From the 12+ year old <a href="https://www.oyez.org/cases/2008/08-205"><em>Citizens United v. FEC</em></a> ruling that allows unlimited corporate funding of campaigns and elections to <em><a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/13-354_olp1.pdf">Burwell v. Hobby Lobby</a></em>, in which corporations were portrayed as rights bearers for “the humans who own and control [them]” and beyond, Powell's dream of a <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.scotusblog.com/2018/08/empirical-scotus-the-big-business-court/" target="_blank">pro-business court</a> was coming true even in opinions by presumably "liberal" justices (though hardly to the same extent as those on the other side of the political aisle). </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>So now, with a super solid and uber conservative majority, why limit judicial activism to just pro-business decisions? As they lingered over the wording of their destruction of a woman's right to privacy around her so-called private parts, SCOTUS made it virtually impossible for inmates to win release <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://thecrimereport.org/2022/05/24/state-prisoners-denied-right-to-challenge-verdicts-based-on-poor-representation/" target="_blank">as a result of ineffective lawyering</a> (see <em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/20-1009_19m2.pdf" target="_blank">Shinn v. Ramirez</a></em>), it effectively removed all prohibitions against the use of excessive force by federal law enforcement in violation of the 4th Amendment (see <em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/20-1009_19m2.pdf" target="_blank">Egbert v. Boule</a></em>), and with <em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/20-1088_dbfi.pdf" target="_blank">Carson v. Makin</a></em> it achieved a trifecta of rulings that support the union of religious schools and federal money.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Did I mention that all of the above came down during June alone? </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Now that <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://jezebel.com/roe-v-wade-dead-supreme-court-decision-dobbs-abortion-r-1849062441" target="_blank"><em>Roe</em> is dead</a>, it's easy to envision many people feeling both empowered and powerless. I fear modern day adherents to the Powell doctrine. I fear we'll use our rapidly changing nation as a continued <strong>excuse</strong> to take our anxieties out on each other. If any part of <em>you</em> agrees that Americans are being pushed into an every-man-for-himself/herself society, then <em>no</em> moving part is more critical than your informed vote.  </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Do not give into despair. <br />Find out where your excuses go to die. <br />Learn the machine. <br />Arm yourself with <em>yourself</em>. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right"} --> <p class="has-text-align-right">.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"level":1} --> <h1>Further Reading: </h1> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://billmoyers.com/content/the-powell-memo-a-call-to-arms-for-corporations/" target="_blank">The Powell Memo: A call to Arms for Corporations</a></strong> by Bill Moyers</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <h2 class="has-medium-font-size"><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.acslaw.org/analysis/reports/dark-money/" target="_blank">Dark Money and the Courts<br />The Right-Wing Takeover of the Judiciary</a></h2> <!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> "Follow the money" applies to everything, most of all to Supreme Court Justices. 11819 2022-06-24 08:53:55 2022-06-24 15:53:55 2022-06-24 16:08:52 2022-06-24 23:08:52 closed the-supreme-court-operationalized publish 0 0 post 1 &quot;operationalization&quot; Big Tobacco Carson v Makin Citizens United corporations Egbert v Boule Election Politics excuse Excuses Hightower Hobby Lobby ineffective lawyering judicial activism justices Louis F. Powell Phillip Morris Powell memo pro-business Richard Nixon Roe v. Wade SCOTUS Shinn v Ramirez Supreme Court U.S. Chamber of Commerce vote Where Excuses Go to Die _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706886506;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6118;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6491;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6044;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:334;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11099;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1568;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor http://working-copy.local/culture/open-thank-you-to-author-historian-mike-davis/ Wed, 07 Sep 2022 17:15:00 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=11869 <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Dear Mike, <br /><br />I moped for a minute when I learned of your esophageal cancer and transition to quality of life care, then swiveled from the keyboard to my view of downtown Los Angeles. It’s a romantic, rent controlled, southeast panorama you might appreciate, stretching from Griffith Park all the way to wonderful, ill-favored Vernon. As the street elevation rises, this 96-year-old brownstone is a last stop before the Tesla Hills, allowing me to joke about living “at the feet of the snobs.”</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":11872,"width":318,"height":339,"sizeSlug":"full","linkDestination":"media"} --> <figure class="wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Mike-Davis-at-the-Los-Angeles-Sixth-Street-Viaduct-Entrance.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Mike-Davis-at-the-Los-Angeles-Sixth-Street-Viaduct-Entrance.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11872" width="318" height="339"/></a><figcaption><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Mike Davis at the Los Angeles Sixth Street Viaduct Entrance</span></em></figcaption></figure> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>It seems fitting writing you on a 104° day, but despite my window capturing so much of LA’s heat dome, it isn’t big enough to hold my gratitude for raising your critical theorist’s fist high in the air.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Thank you, Mike, for&nbsp;<em>City of Quartz</em>, a treasure of tormented topographies and asshole suits. That book warned me of “lurking cyber-fascism” at a time when “cyber” seemed strictly limited to William Gibson. While I admittedly struggled to understand some of it, it still felt like holding a road flare.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>My dawning awareness of the "spatial apartheid" of private and pseudo-public spaces through the lens of LA redevelopment –Bunker Hill and Century City most alarmingly–&nbsp;was as perception-altering as any figurative burning bush I’ve encountered. Although to me, your work is more akin to witnessing a burning bank.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>And thank you for that&nbsp;<em>Ecology of Fear</em>&nbsp;chapter, "Beyond Blade Runner.” What a fun and horrifying read! There’s no better narration of the ominous social organization of urban environments. Your all-too brief look at Columbia Savings and Loan CEO Thomas Spiegel’s office-turned-Alamo-war-bunker alone was worth the 1998 dollars I spent to own a copy. I imagine you smiling as you wrote it, so here’s where I'll also thank you for your humor. It runs rampant through your darkest of examinations of anti-utopia. No, you’re not exactly known for Chavez Ravine zingers, but to those who say Mike Davis isn’t funny I ask, uh, “In Praise of Barbarians,” anyone? Also, I call you oppressors.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":11876,"width":304,"height":405,"sizeSlug":"full","linkDestination":"media"} --> <figure class="wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/LA-Sixth-Street-Viaduct-Before-2016-Demolition_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Author-Photo.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/LA-Sixth-Street-Viaduct-Before-2016-Demolition_Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die_Author-Photo.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11876" width="304" height="405"/></a><figcaption>6th St. Viaduct pre-2016 Demolition • Author Photo</figcaption></figure> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Speaking of oppression, thank you, Mike, for affirming that my indignant rejection of bread and circuses is neither sick nor wrong. I’ve faced the fallout from questioning mass consumption since my fellow sixth graders were writhing and squealing over Rod Stewart’s 1978 radio hit,&nbsp;“Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?” (gross, no).&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Further, thank you for corroborating –in spirit at least– that it isn’t mentally deranged to envision oneself dying a worthy death at the hands of the state. Try explaining&nbsp;that&nbsp;one to the nuns (and then family therapists).&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Thank you, Mike Davis, for wondering aloud why the American working class has no political party of its own.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Thank you for inspiring me to graduate from my post-punk, Generation X naiveté by revealing enemies far more insidious than Daryl F. Gates, Tipper Gore, and Pete Wilson.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":11880,"width":278,"height":394,"sizeSlug":"full","linkDestination":"none"} --> <figure class="wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/City-of-Quartz-by-Mike-Davis.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11880" width="278" height="394"/></figure> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Finally, thank you for whatever input you had in choosing LA’s Metropolitan Detention Center as the&nbsp;<em>City of Quartz</em>&nbsp;cover photo: I read a copy machine bundle of the&nbsp;<em>LA Weekly's</em>&nbsp;lengthy excerpt of the book during my stay at MDC, as well as while confined to the modules of Men’s Central Jail. You connected me to resistance, yes, and to municipal and policy wrongdoing, which were helpful to my understanding of the city I love. You insisted I learn civic responsibility, too. But finding MDC on that cover just as I was learning the value of human endorsement no less than&nbsp;anointed&nbsp;my own pencil-on-yellow-legal-pad observations. As a pretrial prisoner facing the wake-up call of a lifetime, your work made me feel recognized. What I and those around me endured at the hands of our LA Sheriff’s jailers was authenticated by the presence of that image.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Goodbye and thank you Mike Davis, Urban Theorist–Activist–Scholar, for this lump in my throat. <br />Mine is just one of the many Los Angeles minds you’ve enlivened.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>John </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.marcuse.org/herbert/scholars-activists/mike-davis.html" target="_blank">Mike Davis Bio</a></strong> <br />(marcuse.org)</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right"} --> <p class="has-text-align-right">.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"large"} --> <p class="has-large-font-size">^{<strong>UPDATE: </strong>} ^10/26/2022</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>Mike Davis • March 10, 1946 – October 25, 2022</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"style":{"typography":{"fontSize":"30px"}}} --> <p style="font-size:30px"><strong><a href="https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2022-10-25/mike-davis-writer-who-chronicled-the-forces-that-shaped-l-a-dies" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mike Davis, ‘City of Quartz’ author who <br />chronicled the forces that shaped L.A., dies </a></strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"large"} --> <p class="has-large-font-size"><br /></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right"} --> <p class="has-text-align-right">.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"large"} --> <p class="has-large-font-size"><br /></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> Although to me, Mike Davis, your work is more akin to witnessing a burning bank. 11869 2022-09-07 10:15:00 2022-09-07 17:15:00 2022-10-26 09:35:46 2022-10-26 16:35:46 closed open-thank-you-to-author-historian-mike-davis publish 0 0 post 1 Blade Runner Bunker Hill Century City City of Quartz Culture cyber-fascism Daryl F. Gates Ecology of Fear Generation X Griffith Park Inspirational LA LA Weekly Los Angeles MDC Men's Central Jail Metropolitan Detention Center Mike Davis nuns Pete Wilson Rod Stewart Tesla Tipper Gore working class _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706886505;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7097;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1233;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:841;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:3507;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:7475;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:269;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor http://working-copy.local/excuses/2022-excuse-of-the-year-doubling-down/ Thu, 22 Dec 2022 22:24:53 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=11905 <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":11923,"width":463,"height":453,"sizeSlug":"full","linkDestination":"media"} --> <figure class="wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DOUBLE-DOWN__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DOUBLE-DOWN__Where-Excuses-Go-to-Die.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11923" width="463" height="453"/></a></figure> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>Putting out fire with fire --mentally mitigating a bad&nbsp;choice with bad&nbsp;choices 2, 3, and 4-- is Where Excuses Go to Die's "Excuse of 2022</strong>." </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size">Our new <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Enlightenment" target="_blank">Counter-Enlightenment</a> American Moral Culture confuses foot-stomping with tenacity and self-congratulatory ethics with fairness. Personally, I see an inhospitable ocean of tangled and misled self-interest. Here are but a few examples that exclude Kanye, Elon, Putin, and Maggie Haberman.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>• LA City Council member Kevin DeLeon ––scandalized, despised, and stigmatized–– refuses to relinquish his seat despite leaked audio of his racist views, calls for his resignation, recall attempts, walk-outs by fellow council members upon his arrival at meetings, and now <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/10/politics/kevin-de-len-la-councilmember-altercation-video/index.html" target="_blank">physical altercations</a> with constituents protesting his occupancy. Me, I see a double down that reveals a man-child in need of attention, mistaking that attention for position and position for integrity. &nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>• Referring to Maricopa County’s election system, Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/kari-lake-arizona-republican-deplorable-speech-b2248256.html" target="_blank">Kari Lake</a> recently told a Turning Point USA gathering, "I’m not going to just knock that house of cards over. We’re going to burn it&nbsp;to the ground.” Me, I see a person mistaking craven for inspiring and populist for decent.&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>• Like someone in sneakers on an ice rink, newly minted Republican Congressman-elect George Santos seems to be slipping all over career freezing <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyregion/george-santos-ny-republicans.html" target="_blank">contradictions</a> regarding his claims of Jewish-Ukrainian lineage, his alleged descent from Holocaust survivors, his education, his employment history (is <em>anything</em> this guy claims true??). Backed into a corner, his accounts and renditions are all over the explanatory map. Here, I see a double down on par with a prison snitch or at minimum a proud citizen of the&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://working-copy.local/culture/united-states-of-until-you-get-caught/" target="_blank">The United States Of Until You Get Caught</a>.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>• Tanner Horner, a FedEx driver with no previous criminal history, recently backed his delivery van into 7-year-old Athena Strand on or near the driveway&nbsp;of&nbsp;her family's home.&nbsp;Reportedly, she was not seriously injured, but Horner later admitted to authorities that he'd "panicked” and pulled&nbsp;the girl into his van, killing her to keep her from telling her dad. And as if choosing to cover up vehicular negligence with murder isn't bad enough, Horner is now also facing three <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article270302682.html" target="_blank">unrelated charges</a> of sexual assault of a minor. So I think we <em>all</em> see the double down of extraordinarily poor decision making happening here.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I admit these example are blousy, media-driven, and bat-shit. But when's the last time <em>you</em> doubled-down, say, while driving? Maybe you made a lane change with a little less room than you thought you had, and you got honked at in return. I'm sure a bunch of you Ghandis out there just ignored that honk, but those of us who aren't so evolved <em>may</em> have middle-fingered our way into some version of payback. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Who among us hasn't, at some point, admitted to ourselves or others, “I don’t know what I was thinking”? Who hasn't heard themselves trying to justify a solution that was worse than the problem? Who hasn't doubled down? For that matter, who hasn't experienced dismay over a double-down that's backfired? The darker side of doubling down can be quite humbling. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I'm certainly guilty of going too far in the name of saving face. When it came back to haunt me, my guilt, ego, principles, good intentions, and a bunch of other things all collided to cause an embarrassing end result, one in which my credibility drained at my feet. With nothing I could do to stop it and no wealth to throw at it, only anger remained --which guaranteed a bad end. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>We've all put ourselves through this sawmill. And while individual results clearly vary, doubling down is the Excuse of the Year because of how far we've taken it, or where, in this entitled age of poor coping skills, <strong>it has taken us</strong>. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p> &nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right"} --> <p class="has-text-align-right">.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> 11905 2022-12-22 15:24:53 2022-12-22 22:24:53 2022-12-23 11:59:18 2022-12-23 18:59:18 closed 2022-excuse-of-the-year-doubling-down publish 0 0 post 1 Athena Strand Congressman coping skills double down excuse Excuses FedEx George Santos Holocaust Jewish Kanye Kari Lake Kevin DeLeon LA City Council MURDER payback Putin Republican vehicular negligence Winner: EXCUSE OF THE YEAR _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706886505;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1524;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:4439;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:1054;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10346;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:11152;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10880;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor http://working-copy.local/excuses/motorcade-to-miranda/ Tue, 04 Apr 2023 20:52:05 +0000 Excuses http://working-copy.local/?p=11948 <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":11958,"width":559,"height":316,"sizeSlug":"full","linkDestination":"media"} --> <figure class="wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/4C-1.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/4C-1.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11958" width="559" height="316"/></a></figure> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>I don't know any Secret Service agents, do you? So I wonder: Are Trump's protectors scratching their heads here, or are they constipated by&nbsp;commitment, courage,&nbsp;and back-up plans?&nbsp;</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>On the drive over from Trump Tower, were any lost in the mind-expansion of checking corners for blind spots vs. bail bondsmen? </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>During the arraignment itself, in that crowded corridor and beyond, was a kaleidoscope of Law &amp; Order characters among the jailers, journalists, U.S. Marshals, FBI, Trump staffers, lawyers, indicted&nbsp;officeholders, real estate groupies,&nbsp;and celebrity gossipers. So many doors, so many suits and ties!&nbsp;How were they able to tell the cops from the crooks or the Bozo's from the Serpicos?&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>What did their earpieces confirm, that Agent Larry had just cracked, stripping off his suit like a Chippendale to sing atop one of the bulletproof Escalades?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"left","id":11953,"width":416,"height":255,"sizeSlug":"full","linkDestination":"none"} --> <figure class="wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/1C.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11953" width="416" height="255"/></figure> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>And all that standing around time! Were agents eavesdropping on slouchy beat cops, lipreading for lunch ideas? Did Hernandez show up sportin’ floods again? Best thousand-yard stare anyone? Was Trump's close knit group of operatives ostracized by ordinary officers? </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Between the badges, body armor, and batons, who coveted whose utility belts? Was there insecurity among the tactically secure? How were female personnel able to withstand this gravity crushing, time-bending black hole of mansplaining? </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>What sabotaged the straightfaced? In this patriotastic vortex of professional protectors, how did the jokers keep from messing with their workmates? Who elbowed their neighbor when the Lieutenant gave in and scratched his balls? Who sneezed when the former President walked by? Who wondered if their, a-hem, secret "service" smelled as badly as they feared? </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"align":"right","id":11954,"width":478,"height":282,"sizeSlug":"full","linkDestination":"none"} --> <figure class="wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2C-2.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11954" width="478" height="282"/></figure> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Were there convos on contradictions among Trump's bullet-catchers? Would any admit to being curious about consequences for the rich and well-connected?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>As each who swore an oath to "protect and defend" stood by their professional honor and obligations, how many feared an impending end to what inspired their pledge? </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Finally, with all that heavyweight allegiance to law and order, what were their excuses for any lack of curiosity? <br /></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><br />All images: </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"id":11955,"width":160,"height":31,"sizeSlug":"full","linkDestination":"media"} --> <figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><a href="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/5C.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><img src="http://working-copy.local/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/5C.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-11955" width="160" height="31"/></a></figure> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p> <br /></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"align":"right","fontSize":"small"} --> <p class="has-text-align-right has-small-font-size">..</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image --> <figure class="wp-block-image"><img alt=""/></figure> <!-- /wp:image --> 11948 2023-04-04 13:52:05 2023-04-04 20:52:05 2023-04-04 14:45:19 2023-04-04 21:45:19 closed motorcade-to-miranda publish 0 0 post 1 arraignment badges bail Celebrity celebrity consequences Excuses FBI former President jailers journalists Law &amp; Order miranda Narcissist Richter Scale protect and defend Secret Service Trump Trump Tower _jetpack_related_posts_cache a:1:{s:32:"37550b67d263a3ce789993dc25046c5f";a:2:{s:7:"expires";i:1706886505;s:7:"payload";a:6:{i:0;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10082;}i:1;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8634;}i:2;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10863;}i:3;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:10996;}i:4;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:6993;}i:5;a:1:{s:2:"id";i:8731;}}}} _last_editor_used_jetpack block-editor 1.2