Organizing Genius
on Nov 20, 2009An engineer meets a frog who offers the engineer anything he wants if he will kiss the frog."No," says the engineer."Come on," says the frog. "Kiss me, and I'll turn into a beautiful woman.""Nah," says the engineer. "I don't have time for a girlfrien...

Pulp Diction
on Nov 18, 2009Jon Stewart "goes Tarantino" on Nancy GraceCheck it out, beginning on or about 07:00.Enjoy.

Child Safety Zones Work
on Nov 16, 2009Take a few moments today to read Dr. Jill Levenson's 11/14/2009 op-ed over at the Miami Herald here.(Many thanks to Eye on Miami (11/15/2009) for posting the following comments by a self-described child advocate who has yet to conduct one research-b...

Breaker! Breaker! Education Discrimination?
on Nov 14, 2009Question to ponder this weekend.Can a private vo-tech--conducting CDL training here in Florida--discriminate against acceptance of an ex-felon for training solely on the basis that the school cannot guarantee job placement upon course completion?

Obama's Low-End Option
on Nov 12, 2009Will we stay or will we go?The NYT (11/11/09):(...)General Eikenberry sent his reservations to Washington in a cable last week, the officials said. In that same period, President Obama and his national security advisers have begun examining an option...

Howard Cosell Here...And That Man Can Sing
on Nov 11, 2009Throwing a dedication out to all America's vets.Marvin Gaye. 1979Thank you for your service to our country.

The Rothstein Hot Seat
on Nov 9, 2009When it comes to ill-gotten gains, no one scatters faster than the recipients (or the perceived recipient of).The Palm Beach Post (11/8/09):(...)Revelations that Fort Lauderdale lawyer Scott Rothstein's nearly $1.4 million in political contributions...

Filling the Void
on Nov 4, 2009The void over at the Florida House Public Safety & Domestic Security Committee is beginning to fill with education.The Miami Herald (11/4/09):(...)Marti Harkness, a criminal-justice analyst, told the House Public Safety & Domestic Security Committee...

300 Feet
on Nov 2, 2009What does a 300 foot buffer zone look like to you?For St. Johns County, Florida, a child safety zone looks a little something like this:"...County Commission adopted a Child Safety Zone ordinance prohibiting registered sexual offenders and predators...

How Safe Are Trick-or-Treaters?: An Analysis of Child Sex Crime Rates on Halloween
on Oct 31, 2009Halloween has never proved one of my favorite holidays.Certainly as a kid, yes. But I must be one of the few adults who prefers a movie over the macabre because over the years, the true October surprise (IMHO) is the morphing of this larger than lif...