tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-295702402011-08-02T11:06:17.219-07:00Various musings on social and political changes in America.Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.comBlogger9071100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-36549447389336337622010-08-24T15:56:00.000-07:002010-08-24T16:18:30.369-07:00

Is there anything left to criminalize?CLEVELAND, Ohio -- It would be a stretch to say that Big Brother will hang out in Clevelanders' trash cans, but the city plans to sort through curbside trash to make sure residents are recycling -- and fine them $100 if they don't.The move is part of a high-tech collection system the city will roll out next year with new trash and recycling carts embedded

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-32113143180953221762010-05-06T22:23:00.000-07:002010-05-06T22:26:17.233-07:00

From a blog about women's issues in crime.They're not knights in shining armor. Their fervor isn't building because they love and want to protect you. I don't care if you met them in a bar, in church or on a college campus. The first time he lifts a fist toward you, when he issues his first threat, or his behavior verges on stalking, get help. Don't explain it away. Don't think you can change him

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-74486322005418805672010-03-15T06:20:00.000-07:002010-03-15T06:22:25.036-07:00

When did we hear that one before?

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I was spending a week in Corpus Christi with my girlfriend and we took a day trip down to Brownsville the other day. We parked near the bridge and walked over the bridge into Matamoros without incident. We bought a few souvenirs that we brought back with no problems, including a bottle of Tequila that Texas collected their tax on at the Texas part of the border crossing. You pass through 3

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I had a beef with Wal-Mart last week, to the point I took the time to complain via their web-site.I had two complaints. The first was they were out of my favorite coffee, (Cafe Bustelo) which is the main reason I go to Wal-Mart in the first place. I went there 2 times in one week, and they were out both times. My second complaint was their self-check out registers, as well as their lines at the

Lynda Applegatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908522737974915594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-42337959804176816732010-02-15T00:58:00.000-08:002010-02-15T01:00:19.988-08:00

The smashwords edition, available in all ebook formats, is availableMemoir on being in the Navy and on the On the Naval Gun Line in the DMZ of Vietnam during 1968. A collection of personal stories of war and the people who wage war.

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-22564473319736926512010-01-30T07:30:00.000-08:002010-01-30T07:32:01.049-08:00

What kind of criminal defense attorney touts his support of victims rights? I don't think a competent one would. But Murray Newman does.

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D. A. Confidential has a post about a bookThis week's selection is a book that will make you glad to be you, and glad to be wherever the hell you are right now. It's called The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom, by Slavomir Rawicz. It's a true story, and here it is in a nutshell:A Polish Army officer, the author Rawicz, is captured and then tortured in the Soviet prison system and

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-28360388316696763802009-12-24T07:29:00.000-08:002009-12-24T07:41:52.212-08:00

Every state bar has a continuing education requirment for lawyers. It's a good idea to require lawyers to keep up with new developments in the law, but as Scott Greenfield of Simple Justice points out, it's not always so clearly of professional value.In talking about a mailer for a CLE course he recently got, the asksThere's no mention of who will be the instructor, and clearly this isn't a law

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-61154751866611236612009-12-21T09:04:00.000-08:002009-12-21T09:10:40.764-08:00

I don't check my sitemeter stats nearly as often as I should if I want to be a serious blogger but I did look at them this morning. Mostly I looked at where my referrals have been coming from.I rank second on google for the search phrase "8th grade texas history book" because of this post about a book that included what Larry L. King thought about the effect of 8th grade Texas History on LBJ and

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-48075986597153679252009-12-20T08:32:00.000-08:002009-12-20T08:36:39.921-08:00

26 attorneys general submitted a friend of the court brief to the US Supreme Court which basically argues that government convenience in fighting the war on drugs trumps the Bill of Rights. It's not reasonable for us to expect the government to follow the Rule of Law if it's too much trouble.

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-48001041526241437582009-12-20T08:10:00.000-08:002009-12-20T16:36:07.425-08:00

When there's a large snowstorm pretty much anywhere people often tend to take to the streets and play -- which involves things like throwing snowballs.In DC the requirement to show deference to police, even when you don't know they're police, takes precedence over any normal sense of human frivolity.UPDATE:The idiot law school teacher Althouse thinks the Reason description is inaccurate because

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-26822194588687641482009-12-06T13:27:00.000-08:002009-12-06T13:34:05.444-08:00

Having the jury sitting in judgement of a young American woman suspected of loose morals (and murder) as they stare at a fresco of the Virgin Mary tells us pretty much all we need to know about Italian justice.

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-82895389336329147312009-10-09T08:28:00.000-07:002009-10-09T08:43:55.743-07:00

When I was a kid I knew a guy who was arrested for having a screwdriver in his back pocket. He was actually arrested for Failure to Display Proper Respect to an ego deprived cop but the reason given was Possession of Burglary Tools -- a screwdriver.These days it would probably be a weapons charge, but back then it wasn't illegal to carry a knife.Now we have courts referring to cell phones as "

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-64219625836032324562009-10-02T14:26:00.000-07:002009-10-02T14:28:58.692-07:00

I have serious doubts about the competence of a criminal attorney (whether he's a defense attorney or a prosecutor) who doesn't know how unreliable eyewitness identification is.

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-31896635273373394422009-09-29T06:08:00.000-07:002009-09-29T06:11:39.640-07:00

At the G20 meeting last week when announcing the new nucluar weapons program in Iran, Gordon Brown, PM of GB, said the international community must draw a line in the sand over this.That phrase comes from a scence in John Wayne movie about the Alamo, when a the Texas defenders basically made a suicide pact.Is that what Gordon Brown has in mind? A suicide pact?

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-16593067944650539872009-09-28T18:44:00.000-07:002009-09-28T18:45:35.349-07:00

I didn't think that was really a surprise though. I am surprised that an economics degree ranks as high as it does on this list.

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then he starts shooting.In Austin a cop pulls up behind a car parked in an apartment complex with his gun pulled and ends up shooting (and killing) a sleeping passenger.

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-6085884727408240362009-09-27T13:40:00.000-07:002009-09-27T13:41:34.696-07:00

Kill an inmate, get demoted.

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-82267394123068287902009-09-27T12:52:00.001-07:002009-09-27T12:54:21.887-07:00

I have no idea why, but babies born to unwed teenage mothers tend to be conceived in April while babies born to married adult women tend to be conceived in August.

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-57112843839517783462009-09-26T10:02:00.000-07:002009-09-26T10:05:35.564-07:00

It makes her delusional and somewhat paranoid. In a post about the dead census workerCan we speculate about what happened here? If I had to guess, I'd say that Sparkman, doing his census work, encountered a criminal enterprise — perhaps a drug lab — out where people thought no one would — or should — be coming around.Because there's so much census work that takes place in remote areas of

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-71657247739039920242009-09-16T11:19:00.000-07:002009-09-16T11:37:30.949-07:00

The local paper in Wichita, Kansas has a series entitled "To The Stars; The Story of Kansas". So much of the history of the Wild West has been romanticized, it's nice to see something spelling out the stark realities of the times.This was how one of the articles begins:Town marshal had law-breaking past There was plenty about Henry Brown's past that could be considered unsavory:He had ridden

Lynda Applegatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908522737974915594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-51280781111357155932009-09-16T09:10:00.000-07:002009-09-16T09:13:51.366-07:00

They're going to have a new District Attorney, one who had actually been endorsed by the Innocence Project rather than the Police Union.They might actually start getting some justice from the prosecutors office in Manhattan.

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-38509108625228039192009-09-08T16:25:00.000-07:002009-09-08T16:29:09.606-07:00

This guy clearly did something to piss off the cop.An Indiana man has filed a lawsuit claiming that police forcibly withdrew urine from his body during a drunken driving arrest.According to the suit, police pulled over Jamie Lockard, 53, on suspicion of drunk driving in March. Police said he had driven through two stop signs.A Breathalyzer test showed Lockard was under the legal limit, but

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-29595861145923808152009-09-08T13:35:00.000-07:002009-09-08T13:36:18.215-07:00

Wow.

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-72270503905290381012009-09-08T07:42:00.000-07:002009-09-08T07:44:53.539-07:00

Simple Justice has a nice blog post on logical argument and the process of a law school education. I made a comment on the postLaw is about rhetoric, not logic. It can't be about logic because the axioms of law (the black letter part) doesn't form any kind of consistent system, the axioms themselves are self-contradictory.

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-14006580832025330622009-09-04T12:05:00.000-07:002009-09-04T12:07:47.652-07:00

In about 1937 or so Hitler spoke to my mother's elementary school. (My mother is a German native) She was chosen to present him with a bunch of flowers and he patted her on the head. She was thrilled.In his speech he encouraged the kids to be good students and good Germans. In fact he equated the two, he told them that the way for them to be Good Germans was to be good students and to mind

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-83630535740957525812009-09-04T09:11:00.000-07:002009-09-04T09:12:08.246-07:00

They have nothing to do but write tickets and shoot people.

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-69361672317533437512009-09-04T07:06:00.000-07:002009-09-04T17:47:55.988-07:00

In 2001 John Yoo wrote an internal DOJ memo reaching the legal conclusion that torture is a good thing.In subsequent years the administration lost Supreme Court decisions related to the right to do whatever they wanted to prisoners three times plus Congress passed some laws saying that torture was bad.Then in 2007 the DOJ prepares an updated memo using the same Yoo arguments and concluding that

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-42267032265475549132009-09-03T14:16:00.000-07:002009-09-04T06:30:51.520-07:00

Watch the video.TOCCOA - Surveillance video shows 28-year-old Jonathan Ayers entering a convenience store just minutes before he would be shot. Joe Joseph, who owns the Shell station on Currahee Street, says everything seemed normal when Ayers walked in around 2:30 Tuesday afternoon.During the short time that Ayers was in the convenience store, he came straight to an ATM and then he left.Joe

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-67542173389643240852009-09-02T16:17:00.000-07:002009-09-02T16:21:35.738-07:00

This should make the Darwin Awards list.WICHITA, Kansas – Two men attempting to steal rocks near the Keeper of the Plains statue overloaded their vehicle and it rolled into the river.Early Wednesday morning, police say two men began stealing some of the landscaping rocks near the statue.“They loaded the rocks into the back of this Ford Explorer,” said Gordon Bassham, Wichita Police Department

Lynda Applegatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908522737974915594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-24160764092133117892009-08-21T13:36:00.000-07:002009-08-21T13:41:28.976-07:00

Gary did a posting about a girl selling lemonade in a NYC park - she was issued a ticket for not having a vendor permit.Now we know why. From the NY TimesThe city once earned more than half a million dollars a year in vending rights from two hot dog carts in front of the museum. Then, two years ago, a third vendor, Dan Rossi, nosed his cart onto the property, saying that as a disabled veteran,

Lynda Applegatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908522737974915594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-75759701825991471092009-08-18T10:56:00.000-07:002009-08-18T11:01:39.947-07:00

This Spanish Read by Jumilla (2006 vintage) was on sale at a local wine shop so I thought I'd try a bottle and see if it was worth buying a case.I'm going to pass on the case purchase.It's okay as far as a cheap red wine goes, but there are better cheap reds. Most red jugs wines are better.It's just astringent with no fruity or woody taste of any kind. It's not terrible, it doesn't leave a

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-17145845611229432082009-08-18T07:49:00.000-07:002009-08-18T07:52:28.906-07:00

From Channel 2, NYC...To 10-year-old Clementine Lee, setting up a lemonade stand at Riverside Park on a hot Saturday afternoon seemed like a fun way to make money.Instead, she and her dad got slapped with a $50 fine....

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-29046024213746193742009-08-11T08:27:00.000-07:002009-08-11T08:32:34.787-07:00

. . . unless you just enjoy getting beat up....the officers concocted a story to explain the beating caught on dashcam video. The problem was that, when they huddled together to come up with a story, the discussion was also caught on tape.

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-64545118862240413002009-08-10T20:10:00.000-07:002009-08-10T20:41:06.261-07:00

In a speech the other day Palni complained that Obama wanted to kill her disabled infant and her parents by having a "death panel" ration health care according to "level of productivity in society". I'm not sure what all this whining about rationing is. We have to ration health care simply because we don't have unlimited health care resources. Flu shots go first to those at highest risk,

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-11164803525384527522009-08-08T07:46:00.000-07:002009-08-08T07:53:03.914-07:00

I found a copy of the new Health Care Bill and thought I'd try to read some of it.I didn't have to get far to discover I don't like it.On page 1The purpose of this divison is to provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spendingThis is not an acheivable goal, you cannot grow the number of people covered and also reduce the growth in health care

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-31382382932781215152009-07-26T16:19:00.001-07:002009-07-27T09:18:11.074-07:00

The Cash for Clunkers program is bringing out the stupid, the incompetent, and the crooked among the car dealers.I have a '94 Chevy Van that I was going to trade in via the Cash for Clunkers program. I might still do it, but it won't be the deal I orginally thought it would be.I had a deal in place with Schofield Hyundai in Wichita for a Hyundai Accent. It was a cash deal plus the Cash for

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-33032930160434072952009-07-26T09:58:00.000-07:002009-07-26T10:04:21.118-07:00

It's been my experience that having a couple of proven hotheads sitting around drinking beer does not tend to result in things calming down.From the Daily News"I am pleased that [Obama] is eager to use my experience as a teaching moment," the esteemed Harvard professor wrote on the Web site TheRoot.com late Friday."And if meeting Sgt. Crowley for a beer with the President will further that end,

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-7773417630034996682009-07-21T16:45:00.000-07:002009-07-21T17:16:08.051-07:00

I don't know who's dumber, Chris Matthews or Congressman John Campbell (R-CA).Matthews interviews Campbell about a bill he's sponsering to require future candidates for President to show a birth certificate. It's an appeasement to the nutcase birthers who are forming the base of the Republican party these days. Of course, such a bill is just insanity, but Matthews is just as stupid. Throughout

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-84991265507735893182009-07-18T05:58:00.000-07:002009-07-18T06:03:49.909-07:00

All I can say to this bit of Orwellian irony is "Wow".I'm a big fan of the Amazon Kindle, and think that electronic book readers are the future. But behavior such as that described on David Pogue's New York Times blog can do much to alienate prospective readers: This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a certain famous author had mysteriously disappeared

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-41762485975888419012009-07-15T19:25:00.000-07:002009-07-15T19:28:41.664-07:00

In small town West Texas, of all places, Nearly 30 defendants, including two Texas sheriff's deputies, have been charged with operating a methamphetamine trafficking ring in Texas, Arizona and California, authorities announced Friday.The 110-count indictment returned earlier this week in Lubbock charges members of the Aces and Eights Outlaw Motorcycle Gang, as well as two sheriff's deputies in

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-1837896571363610682009-07-15T08:49:00.000-07:002009-07-15T09:20:49.002-07:00

A not guilty verdict in a criminal trail means the state was unable to convince even one juror (out of 12) of guilt. If they can convince just one they get a hung jury, not a not guilty verdict, and they get another shot at trying to get a conviction.So, it's understandable that not guilty verdicts are rare.Paterico's Pontification seems to miss the point by a wide margin when they comment on

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-14094205374136651622009-06-17T21:03:00.000-07:002009-06-17T21:04:36.300-07:00

Cops who torture.

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-73128860138762325902009-06-12T20:58:00.001-07:002009-06-12T21:56:13.527-07:00

I'm sure her nomination will be approved, but I'm not thrilled by the idea of having her on the Supreme Court.I supposed she's a liberal, at least by Obama's standards, but she's a liberal who's a huge fan of powerful government and defers to government power of the rights of the individual whenever she has a chance.Deference to the power of authority seems to be a Catholic trait, and you'd think

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-73716220793836777352009-06-08T22:48:00.000-07:002009-06-08T22:56:51.546-07:00

When I was about 15 I took Vocational Agriculture in high school. We lived in town so I had to rent a stall at the school farm to raise my project for the year (pigs). It wasn't really a farm, just a large lot, fenced, with a barn and a couple dozen hog pens. We had a grain grinder in the barn so that we could buy whole grains (cheaper than buying the feed grains grounds).But there's a problem

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-23734474808033309512009-05-11T07:44:00.000-07:002009-05-11T07:49:54.138-07:00

What idiots. Don't they know that Oprah is the most influential woman in the U.S.?And free grilled chicken, in this economy? I downloaded the coupon and told my friends and family to do the same. KFC cancels free chicken deal after Oprah promo Roger Eaton, president of KFC in the United States said restaurants would no longer accept the free coupons for its new grilled chicken meal after

Lynda Applegatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908522737974915594noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-59046097053793219192009-05-10T00:55:00.000-07:002009-05-10T00:56:59.781-07:00

This guy thought he was specialA veteran lieutenant with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office has been fired for leading a squad of deputies to investigate a $16 theft from his wife’s car at an Humble carwash last year, the department confirmed Wednesday....Murray said Guthrie’s dismissal was the result of the department’s investigation of an incident in July when Guthrie and a number of deputies

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-74803460466181642922009-05-08T09:30:00.000-07:002009-05-08T09:38:39.819-07:00

From Findlay, Ohio, A senior at Heritage Christian School will be suspended Monday for attending Findlay High School's prom because the event involves dancing and rock music.According to the school handbook, rock music “is part of the counterculture which seeks to implant seeds of rebellion in young people's hearts and minds.”

Lynda Applegatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908522737974915594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-27548479173225687642009-05-07T16:45:00.000-07:002009-05-07T16:55:31.789-07:00

A heifer escaped from a slaughterhouse in New York.The police said the slaughterhouse from which the heifer came was in the area of 158th Street and Beaver Road. There are several slaughterhouses in that area, but none came forward immediately to claim the heifer, Mr. Gentles said.There were a few things I found interesting, the first being that the NY Times knew enough to call it a heifer and

Lynda Applegatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908522737974915594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-55682719735825854102009-05-05T15:14:00.000-07:002009-05-05T15:17:38.782-07:00

Texas police shake down drivers

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-52261408674299592922009-05-03T22:19:00.000-07:002009-05-03T22:22:25.544-07:00

--- is an idiotC.

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-3791128421232232092009-05-02T11:47:00.000-07:002009-05-02T11:50:39.083-07:00

We need to hire more copsMore than $135 million is set aside for Florida (police) agencies as part of a White House initiative to enhance state and local law enforcement.President Obama announced today that $2 billion from the ongoing Recovery Act is designated for law enforcement.The Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant program, known as JAG, supports: hiring law enforcement officers;

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-221753173033011762009-05-01T21:34:00.000-07:002009-05-01T21:36:44.827-07:00

It only took almost 7 years of enhanced interregation to get this guy to confess.

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-27418896854493668022009-05-01T10:16:00.000-07:002009-05-01T10:26:48.495-07:00

This is the list of locations for study abroad, at George Mason University, International Commerce and Policy program. Study abroad opportunities are provided throughout the world, including in Oxford, Mexico, China, South Africa, and Southeast Asia.Of these locations, 1 is a town, 3 are countries, and one is an area of collective countries. I guess they want to give themselves some "wiggle room"

Lynda Applegatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908522737974915594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-11114071458416736162009-04-26T01:00:00.000-07:002009-04-26T01:13:46.024-07:00

David Duke gets himself arrested in Prague just for being David Duke.A former US Ku Klux Klan chief arrested here on a speaking tour was freed during the night but will be forced to leave the country later Saturday, Czech police said.David Duke, the former Grand Wizard of the Louisiana-founded Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, arrived in Prague on Friday at the invitation of a local far-right group,

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-14368393164198692162009-04-25T09:38:00.000-07:002009-04-25T09:50:39.530-07:00

Just what every woman wants, an audience witnessing her giving birth.A pregnant woman successfully gave birth to a baby girl on Fifth Avenue across from Central Park Friday as cheering well-wishers applauded the doctors who delivered the child. Well-wishers applauded??!!Pleaazzzeee. It's not a sporting event.Only in New York.

Lynda Applegatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908522737974915594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-24584711446877970652009-04-18T19:00:00.000-07:002009-04-18T19:00:00.462-07:00

In these days of needing to saving money, I thought this was a great idea for a wedding. Hold it at your local VFW. (Veteran of Foreign Wars hall)4/25/09-Saturday) – Wedding Ceremony of ALR 256 Members Bob*(Director) and Laurie* (Secretary) at Post 256 (Wichita) - The wedding will take place at Post 256 at 4:30 pm. The couple will provide a smoked hog and a keg of beer. All other condiments

Lynda Applegatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908522737974915594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-56977268909110911062009-04-17T01:59:00.000-07:002009-04-17T02:18:39.680-07:00

He wrote this song the year I was born, 1949. I grew up listening to my Daddy playing it over and over again. Entertainment Weekly calls it the Most Heartbreaking Song of all Time.h/t Althouse

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-22936997709657692522009-04-16T05:01:00.000-07:002009-04-16T05:01:00.732-07:00

While reading an article in allafrica.com, regarding the killing of the Somali pirates by the U.S., this comment posted caught my eye. Author: ThomTue Apr 14 14:49:38 2009The pirates and Somalia really need to examine the lessons of Afghanistan before targeting the United States. The Taliban had a pretty good deal. It ran a nation, dominated its residents, and had full access to a national

Lynda Applegatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908522737974915594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-80425937738078328472009-04-15T06:34:00.000-07:002009-04-15T06:35:28.875-07:00

I'm not sure about this.

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-60144279033564629642009-04-08T17:38:00.000-07:002009-04-08T17:41:59.264-07:00

An example of why health care costs are so expensive in the U.S.From a respiratory therapist. My next work task will be to make a "round" and administer breathing treatments to people. Also, I will write down numbers from mechanical ventilators.The breathing treatments are totally unindicated in about 98% of cases. Doctors order them for non-respiratory problems such as kidney failure or a broken

Lynda Applegatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908522737974915594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-40252461887451855092009-04-08T15:22:00.001-07:002009-04-12T13:25:30.266-07:00

Well, the African pirates finally did it, they boarded an American flagged ship. They woke the sleeping giant. Or did they?President Barack Obama was following the situation closely, foreign policy adviser Denis McDonough said.Following the situation?What about the cavalry? How about sending the Navy with a few big guns, missiles, airplanes, and marines? Then follow that situation.I'll grant

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-37837595344701457032009-03-31T22:20:00.000-07:002009-03-31T22:44:45.066-07:00

Is the DEA trying to make us think that Muslim terrorists are funding themselves by smuggling drugs into the US? What does this story mean?Hezbollah is using the same southern narcotics routes that Mexican drug kingpins do to smuggle drugs and people into the United States, reaping money to finance its operations and threatening U.S. national security, current and former U.S. law enforcement,

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-18007979590450740452009-03-31T19:52:00.000-07:002009-03-31T19:57:56.532-07:00

Why do we lock so many people up?The United States has less than 5 percent of the world's population. But it has almost a quarter of the world's prisoners.Indeed, the United States leads the world in producing prisoners, a reflection of a relatively recent and now entirely distinctive American approach to crime and punishment. Americans are locked up for crimes — from writing bad checks to using

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-36219164228700011682009-03-30T07:58:00.000-07:002009-03-30T08:09:09.599-07:00

We used Agent Orange to kill off foliage in Vietnam. It also created a generation of vets with diabetes and other major health problems.Now we want to do the same thing to consumers of grapefruit from the Rio Grande Valley.The U.S. Border Patrol plans to poison the plant life along a 1.1-mile stretch of the Rio Grande riverbank as soon as Wednesday to get rid of the hiding places used by

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-46324426857886492102009-03-30T07:28:00.001-07:002009-03-30T07:34:52.998-07:00

The liberal approach to the drug problem is that "You have a problem with drugs and the government will help you fix it." They call this reducing demand.The conservative approach to the drug problem is that "You have a problem with drugs and if you don't fix it the government will come down on your head". They call this going after supply.The rational approach to the drug problem is that the

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-74847254198318931162009-03-26T10:47:00.000-07:002009-03-26T10:50:37.904-07:00

In a post about parental whuspping of unruly kids, Simple Justice saysWhat is not at all clear is how to develop a rule for parents to understand where the line is drawn between good and responsible parenting and child abuse. Do we want to leave it up to the nearest Schandelmeier-Bartels, making the determination of whether one happens to have a zealot close at hand to call the cops any time a

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-59398260330568534382009-03-25T22:33:00.001-07:002009-03-25T22:36:24.269-07:00

I thought that evidence of crime was supposed to be evaulated with a "defense spin". That's what burden of proof and presumption of innoncence means. But if we actually did that prosecutors wouldn't get to put as many people in prison as they do now (more than any other country in the world). And what would be the fun in that?

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-22112062781953769192009-03-25T12:27:00.000-07:002009-03-25T12:31:36.444-07:00

An Okie got away with murder for over 30 years was foiled by his religious beleive in an afterlife.A US man who thought he was dying and confessed to having killed a neighbour in 1977 has been charged with murder after making a recovery, US media say.James Brewer could now face the death penalty over the unsolved killing in Tennessee 32 years ago, reports say.Convinced he was dying after a stroke

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-77774989060798578492009-03-24T20:03:00.000-07:002009-03-24T20:16:53.761-07:00

This just outLOS ANGELES (Reuters Life!) – Smart or thin? Rich or ugly?Women still have a complex and contradictory relationship with their own image according to a poll released on Tuesday that found 25 percent of those questioned would rather win the "America's Next Top Model" TV show than the Nobel Peace Prize.Really? Is this what it illustrates?Why don't they ask guys a similar question, and

Lynda Applegatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908522737974915594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-79540462218878652492009-03-22T08:15:00.000-07:002009-03-22T08:28:10.625-07:00

This car is cheap, with not a lot of extras. The body style is similar to the Smart Car, but with 4 doors, not 2.From BBCIndia's Tata Motors will launch its extra-cheap 10 feet (3 metres) long Nano car in Mumbai on Monday, selling for 100,000 rupees or $1,979 (£1,366).The four-door five-seater car has a 33bhp, 624cc engine at the rear. It has no airbags, air conditioning, radio, or power

Lynda Applegatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908522737974915594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-38186646443127186452009-03-12T11:20:00.000-07:002009-03-12T12:43:46.180-07:00

Kitchen Table Math reports on a conflict with the local school administratorsI've just learned that the principal has faulted our Continental Math League for "widening the achievement gap."It's been suggested that, instead of running a math club for gifted students, I instead run one for struggling students.Maybe I'm being unreasonable, but I tend to think that it's the school's job, not mine, to

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-51019710026740816742009-03-11T08:48:00.000-07:002009-03-11T08:57:08.040-07:00

I have been a little surprised no one has mentioned "Stockholm Syndrome" in reference to our interrogation methods of suspected terrorists.Apparently, some of the actual interrogators know, being kind is the best way to obtain information. I can only guess, as usual, no one in the military paid attention to them.This from a New York Times Op-Ed..none of the methods contained in the current Army

Lynda Applegatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908522737974915594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-8236898158510685482009-03-09T21:41:00.000-07:002009-03-09T22:17:34.212-07:00

Scott Greenfield, at Simple Justice, asksdoes promoting oneself as an expert make you one? Well, yes, pretty much. That 24 hour news cycle thing has caused a huge jump in demand for self-declared experts.

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-90584031803711778282009-03-08T09:14:00.000-07:002009-03-08T09:27:15.863-07:00

The BBC has an article about the (as they call it) unusual custom in the U.S. of tipping certain service providers. I know from socializing with Australians in particular, they believe this concept of tipping to be totally absurd. I kind of agree with them, but, that's the way it is.However, one thing that caught my eye, is this writer claims the standard amount of a tip in a full service

Lynda Applegatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908522737974915594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-72908460385455220902009-03-07T17:23:00.000-08:002009-03-07T17:44:51.769-08:00

It's early March and already we had our first tornadoes here in Kansas. On the TV they say the latest one spotted is an "elephant trunk" tornado. It's not where I live, so I am not too concerned.I have never seen a tornado. My mother lived in Kansas almost her entire life and only saw one when she was in her 60's. However, last year one of my cousins was picked up by a tornado when driving a

Lynda Applegatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908522737974915594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-52972735164813246702009-03-04T13:21:00.000-08:002009-03-05T02:19:45.530-08:00

Although it was broadcast about 3 years ago, I just got around to watching PBS's Texas Ranch House on DVD. It's 8 episodes and gets off to a slow start but quickly becomes engrossing. After the last episode I got so obsessed with it that I watched the whole thing all over from the beginning.Then I went to the internet and found a number of old discussions of the show. Watch the whole show, all

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-51308745365190556172009-02-27T07:26:00.000-08:002009-02-27T07:31:49.963-08:00

Finally, there might be a change to stop this nonsense of raiding medical marijuana clinics in California.With the budget crisis, doing so is certainly a waste of money. Well, actually even without the budget crisis it's a waste of tax payer dollars. No wonder we are in trouble. U.S. to yield marijuana jurisdiction to states

Lynda Applegatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908522737974915594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-72748431993583065342009-02-23T20:24:00.000-08:002009-02-23T20:28:11.985-08:00

In 1957 the marginal income tax rate in the US was 91% and most people think that economic growth thing and worker productivity was doing pretty good even though they think over 90% is pretty high taxationActual facts is one thing. Economic theory is another. the top marginal federal income tax rate in the United States was 91% (beginning at taxable income of $400,000). This is an unimaginably

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-53547759634627080782009-02-16T07:54:00.000-08:002009-02-16T08:14:47.086-08:00

My grandfather grew up on a West Texas ranch, SouthWest of Lubbock, in the early 20th century. He learned enough about ranching to know that cowboying was not his idea of a rational way to make a living.So he became a cook.Om the kitchen he was kind of a cowboy hothead, so he changed jobs a lot. He ran a lot of restaurants -- Mexican food in tourist hotels, a french restaurant, a chicken and

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-9259957746483535072009-02-06T16:53:00.000-08:002009-02-06T17:11:09.818-08:00

Great movie.From 1951. With Kirk Douglas. It's like a long version of a dramatic episode of "Barney Miller". And it doesn't get better than that.The movie was adapted from a Broadway play and is entirely set in the detective bullpen area of a Manhattan police precinct. (a couple of scenes are set in the Lieutenant's office, the rear of a paddy wagon, the roof of the precinct station, and on

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-36482979006625312422009-02-06T09:49:00.000-08:002009-02-06T09:54:45.436-08:00

Some jobs never disappearNAIROBI, Kenya - There's at least one job these days that's recession-proof, if you can handle shark-infested seas, outrun some of the world's most powerful navies, and keep your cool when your hostages get antsy.

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-28455289537869501942009-02-04T07:57:00.000-08:002009-02-04T08:05:37.813-08:00

A frowny face is not what most electric customers expect to see on their utility statements, but Greg Dyer got one.He earned it, the utility said, by using a lot more energy than his neighbors. The district had been trying for years to prod customers into using less energy with tactics like rebates for energy-saving appliances. But the traditional approaches were not meeting the energy reduction

Lynda Applegatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908522737974915594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-79428446513208689262009-01-30T07:59:00.000-08:002009-01-30T08:02:35.946-08:00

Scott Adams gives us an example of a life theme.If your name is Kennedy, you might have good luck with love and money and power, but bad luck with transportation. Stay away from PT boats, convertibles in Dallas, cars in rivers, and small aircraft. That's a theme.I thought it was funny.

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-9221945147451772052009-01-29T14:16:00.001-08:002009-01-29T14:19:49.548-08:00

The parking ticket twits in Corpus Christi, TX drive around the downtown streets in unregistered electric golf carts. If you lived in Corpus and tried to use one of those to save gas money on your grocery store trips you'd end up in jail eventually (after the 4th or 5th ticket).But cops are special, laws don't apply to government agents raising revenue for the state.

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-13622930582581047872009-01-22T13:54:00.000-08:002009-01-22T13:57:37.658-08:00

Some Oakland cops are trying to anew defense for their criminal behavior -- their training never included specific instruction that it's wrong to sign a false affidavit to present to a judge and that it's wrong to intentionally violate the 4th amendment.Will better training really solve this problem?

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-39801249326882153222009-01-11T10:19:00.000-08:002009-01-11T10:34:15.800-08:00

It seems there's a sheriff in Alabama that's making money from providing frugal (very frugal) diets for jail residents. When I first read about it my reaction was that the sheriff is a bad guy. That's pretty much my initial reaction to any cop – that he's a bad guy. It seems the State of Alabama gives $1.75 per inmate per day to sheriffs to feed inmates and they allow the Sheriff to keep any

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-82891712670248429592009-01-06T11:30:00.000-08:002009-01-06T11:45:21.352-08:00

The US Senate is corrupt. All of them are corrupt, completely corrupt. All you have to do is look at the current nonsense about the Governor of Illinois appointing a replacement Senator and compare that to the current nonsense about the Governor of New York appointing a replacement Senator.The difference in the two processes has nothing to do with high minded ethical considerations but does

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-35819562253639250652008-12-30T19:25:00.000-08:002008-12-30T19:28:48.622-08:00

Ford is running TV ads claiming price discounts they describe as Employee Pricing Plus.The idea seams to be that they offer special pricing to employees as an employee benefit but the general public gets a better deal than that. So they are trying to tell us that I can buy a Ford at a better price than the UAW was able to negotiate for union members.I'm sorry, but I just think they're

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-1608696265349122562008-12-30T19:04:00.000-08:002008-12-30T19:35:40.951-08:00

When I moved from Kansas to New Jersey, my first job was in sales, calling on clothing importers, mainly in mid-town Manhattan (AKA The Garment District).This was a rough crowd. I found out later, the reason I got the job was because this was the client base no one wanted. Being the naive girl from Kansas, I thought it would be great fun. It was, but it was pretty tough. Definitely sink or

Lynda Applegatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908522737974915594noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-38039860218495660012008-12-27T07:01:00.000-08:002008-12-27T07:01:00.903-08:00

I was a business school undergrad and had taken an intro to operations research. The IE department offered an intro to operations research and because of campus politics neither department could claim the courses where the same (official university poilicy would have been to eliminate one of the courses if the departments claimed the course was the same).So I took the IE course. I'm made an A

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-55851570184869470362008-12-26T08:26:00.000-08:002008-12-26T08:26:01.038-08:00

The first course I taught was a sophomore level stat methods course forbusiness school undergrads.Our department also taught a graduate course in Stat Methods for SocialWelfare Students as a service course for MSW students.MSW students who had a stat course as an undergrad were exempted from thegraduate state methods course. It was taught by our department head.A graduating senior wanted to take

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-3650134948441492542008-12-26T08:14:00.000-08:002008-12-23T08:23:59.084-08:00

When I was a first year grad student at LSU the fledging computer sciencedepartment offered an upper level undergrad control theory course for thefirst time. I was in quantitative business analysis and enrolled. Therewere nine students in the class -- three CS undergrads, 2 grad studentsfrom QBA, 2 grad students from math, and 2 grad students from EE.When he posted grades I saw 3 A's and 6 B's

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-64574068996151390492008-12-25T08:05:00.000-08:002008-12-25T08:05:00.419-08:00

I took an undergraduate math course from an old Polish guy who'd beenteaching in Moscow for 25 years or so and had just moved to the US. Hestarted at LSU in the summer term and he taught the course without tests.Just homework assignments and then he'd call us to the board -- he wouldgrade us on our blackboard performance. If we screwed up at the boardhe'd call on us again next day to see if

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-22975057752991870792008-12-24T08:02:00.000-08:002008-12-24T08:02:00.865-08:00

My first semester in college I had an option to opt out of college algegrabut I went ahead and took it anyway -- I'd been out of high school acouple of years and thought I could use the review plus thought it wouldbe an easy grade.Pretty early in the course I figured out I didn't need to go to class,just show up for the exams. So I did that. I wasn't making an A, a B orC, but that was fine with

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-4183632964204728562008-12-23T15:09:00.000-08:002008-12-23T15:28:31.332-08:00

I don't know why American's don't celebrate Boxing Day. Probably the same reason we don't drink hot tea.I doubt too many U.S. residents have heard of Boxing Day. They celebrate this holiday (Dec. 26th) in the U.K., Canada and Australia, and probably other places.This site explainsBoxing Day takes place on December 26th and is only celebrated in a few countries. It was started in the UK about

Lynda Applegatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16908522737974915594noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-69426578034472888972008-12-23T08:24:00.000-08:002008-12-23T08:25:06.471-08:00

When I was in grade school whenever my father yelled at me about my gradesI'd show him where they defined C as average and pointed out that one Band 6 C's was an above average performance.Then he'd through a beer bottle at me and I'd duck and go hide in thewoods for a couple of hours.In a 10th grade science class we had a 100 question multiple choice final. I figured out that I needed a 46 on the

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-46129391452618891312008-12-23T07:06:00.000-08:002008-12-23T07:20:48.257-08:00

I don't remember how old I was when I tried out for Little League Baseball. Either 7 or 9.They were real try outs. This was beforethe day that everyone gets a medal, even before the day's of everyone gets to play. It was not only possible to not make it through the Little League selection process, it wasn't all that uncommon to fail in the first tryout.They were really mean to us kids back in

Gary Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353561351308596608noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29570240.post-88444010585457149762008-12-18T19:53:00.000-08:002008-12-18T20:02:06.760-08:00

Inside Higher Ed has a story about age discrimination in faculty hiring at universities.A lawyer at the AARP views academe as a sector of society with a serious age discrimination problem — and not just in employment. Dan Korhman, who works on employment discrimination cases, said he has received several inquiries from people who were either rejected from graduate programs or admitted but denied

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