September 18, 2015

The Alarming Clock

A few days ago, a high school student in Irving, Texas, brought a homemade digital clock to school to impress his technology teacher. The teacher was impressed by the aspiring inventor’s work. Later in the day, another teacher saw the contraption and, becoming concerned, alerted the principal. The police were called, and the 14-year-old was handcuffed (“for his safety and for the safety of the officers”), arrested and removed to a juvenile detention facility, and interrogated without an attorney present.

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March 4, 2015 - Featured

Years ago, when I was a young man just starting out in the world, a mentor of mine, incensed by news of current events, said that he wished he could attain one day the exalted title of “Commissioner of” – well, he used a word that my Irish grandmother always replaced with the more family-friendly expression “bushwa,” and I’ll do the same here. He then explained what this title would mean.

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