September 2011
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We are all Troy Davis...and we are Free!
If any of you are Facebook or Twitter users, you might have noticed a flurry of activity last night about a man named Troy Anthony Davis. Troy was an inmate on death row in Georgia for more than 20 years for the crime of killing a police officer in cold blood. I said Troy WAS an inmate because at 11:08pm last night, he was executed after US Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas denied Troy’s...
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This Day For Me...Ten Years Ago
When I was in high school, I loved wood shop class. I found something so comforting in the focus you had to have on the work you were doing. The attention to detail was not just a desirable quality, it was in fact a necessity when dealing with tools that could easily cause severe injury. I was often in my own little world in that class, completely cut off from everything going on outside of it....