First on 12: Neighborhood wins “war” to keep homeless vets off their street. “You know,” said Susan Chick. “That’s not who you want living in your front yard.” Somebody is building, gasp, a housing complex for homeless veterans near the VA hospital. So the neighborhood got the convenient entrance to a housing project scrapped, leaving [...]

Last year during the golf tournament that millions seem to enjoy, I lived about a quarter mile from the course. It took me over two hours to get to the grocery store one night when I forgot it was going on. I ended up all the way across town avoiding detours and bullshit. It was [...]

BWAHAHAHAHA… I go to a public university in GA. The comments on the Augusta Chronicle’s page are, as always, worth the read. One of the commentrs sounds suspiciously like one of my professors from last semester (and the fact that he hints at the fact that he has his doctorate). Chapters 6 & 7 of [...]

Here’s an article that basically spells out why privately contracted probation is wrong: She described the case of Hills McGee, a man who was originally charged with public drunkenness and obstruction of a law enforcement officer back in October 2008. After spending the night in jail after his arrest, McGee appeared in state court to [...]

Cracked has a humourous little piece up called 7 Bullshit Police Myths Everyone Believes (Thanks to Movies), but I find myself knowing better for all of them (in part from interactions with the judicial system, sadly). In regards to #5 — not talking to the police is obstruction of justice — you don’t have to [...]

Just to put things into perspective: the world doesn’t stop being shitty just because it’s the holidays.  A couple of local things and one from afar. Jerry Oliver, founder of Mercy Ministries in Augusta dies. He was tough as nails.  Watching him recover from the stroke he had last year was inspiring.  He will certainly [...]

My cable went out for most of last week, leaving me without the distraction of the internet. I actually managed to get some reading done. I also got out of the house more. I met some very interesting people and interacted with a few I hadn’t seen in a while. The way people see me [...]

Which means I can hear a blues band playing on the corner and smell what I’m guessing to be a low-country boil somewhere in proximity. The LP usually sets up a table of some sort within a block of me, too. I’ll stop by and shake hands, as usual.

I’m taking a basic macroeconomics course over the summer (gotta raise that GPA, eh) and I’ve become more and more amazed about how pro-free trade it is. There has not been one positive statement regarding tariffs, quotas, embargoes or taxes. In fact, taxes and trade restrictions have been the primary target for criticism. Which makes [...]

That guy might have been right. He might have been a fucking genius. Technology isn’t bad, but widespread access to it is. Despite how much I enjoy you internet people, it’s just not human. It’s masturbation. I really am a philosophy major, aren’t I? And a drunk philosophy major, too boot. If I could express [...]