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January 2016

January 21, 2016

“The Art of Toilet Cleanliness”: Lucky Peach

life lessons: ...The first option, the win-the-lotto option, was jam a coat hanger down in...

January 20, 2016

Don’t Medicalize My Eschaton: Five Links from a Criminal Justice System

Let's start with an op-ed in the Gotham Gazette showing how easy it is to...

December 2015

December 28, 2015

I’m Coming to Houston! Can I Crash With You (And/Or Speak to Your Parish)?

I'm presenting at the Gay Christian Network conference (see my report from last year) and...

December 08, 2015

“Can Prison Help Convicts?”: A Panel Answers a Lot of Questions (But Not the One It Asked)

So a couple weeks ago I watched this video and it's an interesting intro to...

December 08, 2015

“In Single Moms’ Households, Two Heads Are Often Better Than One”: Washington Post

on finding vocation, and new paths of love, in hard circumstances: When Kimberly Taylor separated...

December 06, 2015

In the Year of the Dragon: Ross Douthat Writes About Guns

so I don't have to. He makes his point in his characteristically careful, suggestive style,...

December 02, 2015

Five Links from a Criminal Justice System: Better DAs, Union vs. Heroism, Divisive Forgiveness, The Treatment-Industrial Complex, And What About the Crime Problem?

"How to Run Against a Tough-on-Crime District Attorney--And Win": District attorneys and the prosecutors who...

December 02, 2015

“Married, With Roommates: Why My Wife and I Choose to Live in a Group House”: Vox

voxes: ...Once we saved up enough money to buy a house of our own in...

November 2015

November 18, 2015

From Dick Button, “Push Dick’s Button”–Skating Behind the Iron Curtain

Otto and Maria Jelinek had left Prague with their parents, settling in Canada when the...

November 16, 2015

Three Long-Term Projects: Amends/Forgiveness, Humiliation, Friendship & Homosexuality

aka my to-do list, am I right? Anyway, this is a request for help with...

November 12, 2015

Prison Photos and Pepper Spray in Schools: Five Links from a Criminal Justice System

"Photos of 1960s US Prison System Attempt to Show that Inmates Are Us": Lyon's images...

November 02, 2015

Five Links from a Criminal Justice System: Meeting Your Kidnappers, Keeping Mothers Out of Prison, Putting Cops in Schools, And Gullah Amends

Most of these links have a theme of "aftermath," I guess. "What Happened After My...

October 2015

October 19, 2015

Five Links from a Criminal Justice System

These are fairly random, a grab-bag of the things that caught my attention from the...

October 15, 2015

Kitchen Adventures: Fall Omelet

Today's lunch. Ingredients: butter, two eggs, splash of milk, maybe a quarter of a large...

October 10, 2015

Five Links from a Criminal Justice System

I'm gonna do this so it gets progressively cheerier as it goes on. The last...

October 10, 2015

“Don’t Stop Kids from Playing Rough”: Virginia Postrel

writes: ...Some kids are indeed prone to hurt others. “If you’ve ever watched a group...

October 08, 2015

Five Links from a Criminal Justice System: Mississippi’s Hope, Gun Control and the Prison Industrial Complex, And More

"How Mississippi Slashed Its Prison Population and Embraced Criminal Justice Reform": If Mississippi were a...

October 02, 2015

Five Links from a Criminal Justice System

I have a ton of these lying around so you'll be getting them in small...

October 02, 2015

Kitchen Adventures: “Samosa” “Stuffed” Potatoes

They are really potatoes! This is my lunch today. It is extremely straightforward but it's...

October 02, 2015

“When to Control for X”: Gabriel Rossman on Self-Justification Through #science

At Vox, Ezra Klein raises an important meta-theoretical point in social science analysis, which is...

September 2015

September 29, 2015

The Pope and the Prison System: Two Links

"Some Inmates Who Met Pope Francis Are Only in Jail Because They're Poor": PHILADELPHIA --...

September 21, 2015

“Why Transgender Kids Should Wait to Transition”: Pacific Standard

short essay: ...But research has shown that most gender dysphoric children outgrow their dysphoria, and...

September 21, 2015

“Married or Not, All Families Deserve Equal Benefits”: WaPo

I would frame this in terms of supporting caregiving--framing things in terms of "equality" just...

September 09, 2015

“I Reviewed Jail on Yelp Because I Couldn’t Afford a Therapist”: The Marshall Project

with many and varied windows into the human condition: ...User-review sites have become an unlikely...

September 07, 2015

“Redesigning a Prison Town”: Next City

magazine: ...Ionia is a prison town. That is its primary industry. That’s why there’s a...

September 07, 2015

The Long, Hot Summer: Jesse Walker on Rising Crime in US Cities

at Reason: ...On top of all that, there's the simple fact that we don't know...

September 06, 2015

“Selling Plasma to Survive: How Over a Million American Families Live on $2 a Day”: New Book from Kathryn Edin

coauthor of the excellent Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage...

September 01, 2015

Fake SVU Screencaps: Your Tuesday Amusement

There's something in this link about the delectation-of-shock narratives we tell ourselves about drugs and...

August 2015

August 29, 2015

“The True Story of Kudzu, The Vine That Never Truly Ate the South”: Smithsonian Magazine

ruminates: ...The hype didn’t come out of nowhere. Kudzu has appeared larger than life because...

August 29, 2015

A Practical Agenda on Police Violence: Radley Balko

writes: ...As a whole, these proposals are well-argued, practical and smart. For the most part,...