If you’re having a hard time telling what this photo is of, it’s of a homeless man shortly before he died after a police beating that left him looking like this.
His name is Kelly Thomas and he is the face of violence visited upon the homeless by the police, and of the homeless by the homeless.
I have seen worse, but not many. Scenes like this are why people live in fear of becoming homeless and living on the street. It is why those who live in boxes, or under viaducts, …

I just watched the movie, “The Lovely Bones.” I think what I liked about it was that the pedophile gets his in the end, but not in the way we expect. It’s proof that vengeance is God’s to carry out. It may take longer than we’d like, and not be the same as we’d have done if it were up to us - but that ultimately there is justice in the universe.
For all the victims of pedophiles, child molesters, rapists, murderers and others, alive or dead - know that the …

Today is the first day of the 30-day Self-Reliance project started by Seth Godin’s “The Domino Project.” It’s a plan to celebrate Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 208 birthday and his essay on Self Reliance.
The goal is to blog, write or create something new every day for 30 days. I committed to do it. You don’t *win* anything and I think that’s what I like about it. You just do it. You do it for yourself. Life is supposed to be all about just doing it for yourself, doing what you love, …

UPDATE: I’ve received several comments about this being “An old law.” But I also know that a friend of mine from Tennessee has a daughter attending VCU. The girl moved back home after her last semester and was caught speeding - doing about 18 miles over the speed limit. She found an attorney who told her about this law - or one very very similar to it and told her that the fine could not be reduced, that she could go to jail, lose her license - everything stated below. …