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Garden: Not a Total Loss

September 29th, 2008 · No Comments

Some of you, my dear readers, may have wondered what ever happened to my garden.  The short answer is I stopped paying it much attention after the first week of July, when I started caring about the bar.
I had assumed it was a total loss.  When I moved to Massachusetts I showed the plot to [...]

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Tags: Outdoors · Tasty Food

Sexually-Exploited Youth Court

March 31st, 2008 · 1 Comment

Regardless of how you feel about adult prostitution, I think we all agree that child prostitution is a Bad Thing (TM) and is inherently an inherently abusive practice. If that’s the case, it doesn’t make sense to treat it as a crime and punish the children involved. They are the victims, not the offenders. On the other hand, it would be clearly inappropriate for the system not to do something to stop it–every bit as repulsive as sending a battered child back to live with the abusive parents (something that our system does regularly).

And now, a Las Vegas Judge is working on a solution.

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Tags: On the Legal System