I am reading Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon and really enjoying it. Throughout the book, Simon frequently refers to a set of 10 informal rules that apply in the majority of homicide cases, as detectives soon learn. They are as follows: Everyone lies. Murderers lie because they have to; witnesses [...]
October, 2010:
Binary Politics
Good article in the Globe and Mail about how both the Republicans and the Democrats hate the vast majority of Americans who are moderates and near the middle of the political spectrum. Republicans love America, The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart recently joked, but “hate about 50 per cent of the people living in it.” Democrats [...]
The World’s Most Popular Phone
Gizmodo has a fascinating article on the world’s most popular phone. It has been said that more of the world’s population has access to a cellphone than to a sanitary toilet. But of the planet’s estimated 5 billion cellphone users, a privileged minority have smartphones; a paltry few, iPhones. If you spend hours thumbing through [...]
Preston Manning was right
According to Warren Kinsella anyways The second lesson of that historic night is this: As long as the Bloc Québecois exists – and as long as vote-rich Ontario remains split between Tories, Grits and New Democrats – no party will be able to win a majority in the House of Commons. Prime Minister Stephen Harper [...]
What Will Future Generations Condemn Us For?
From the Washington Post …a look at the past suggests three signs that a particular practice is destined for future condemnation. First, people have already heard the arguments against the practice. The case against slavery didn’t emerge in a blinding moment of moral clarity, for instance; it had been around for centuries. Second, defenders of [...]
Make Inner City Schools More Like Law Firms
From Good This past weekend, The Daily Beast held its Innovators Summit in New Orleans, which gathered 300 leading thinkers to discuss big ideas for changing the world. One of the most interesting innovations, according to senior reporter Jacob Bernstein, came from a former lawyer named Rafiq Kalam Id-Din, who has a radical idea for [...]
Shooting in my neighborhood
A shooting on Friday night in our neighborhood The shooting happened Friday night near midnight on the 1800 block of Idylwyld Drive, outside a business. Police did not provide any more information about the location. The area includes a number of restaurants and stores. Police were told that four or five shots had been fired. [...]
