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Summer '08 container garden

I've been working on my container garden (is it plural if there are multiple containers?  Not sure.)

Pictures are in the folder marked "Summer 2008 garden".

Talk to the police? You'd have to be crazy.

This lesson is way off the usual subjects I post about - but it is too critical to overlook.

Remember that old TV line from the police dramas about "anything you say can and will be used against you"?  That may not be the exact text, but by golly, it's certainly the essence.  Innocent?  Doesn't matter, really.  Based on what I learned from this presentation, ANYTHING you say can be misconstrued, taken out of context, or flat out misrepresented to get you convicted of something you may not even have known was a crime.

I strongly suggest watching this law professor and policeman explain why, no matter how innocent you are, talking to the police is never, ever in your best interest.

HT:  NoodleFood, for posting it, and Orpheus_Sail, for pointing it out.

Funny if you get it.

If these came in a coffee cup or magnet, I'd send them to at least a dozen people.

">Controversy

You want to pretend teaching "intelligent design" in classrooms is just presenting all sides of an issue?  Ok.  Let's teach ALL sides...

">Yet another "side of the issue"

But wait! There's more!

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If you're going to bring superstitious peasantry into play, be sure you're prepared to have EVERYONE'S superstitions addressed.

Hat Tip to Orpheus_Sail for the pointer!

Long time no post

I haven't posted here in a long, long time.  It's not that there's been little to say - more like that there's been too much going on.

Mostly, I've been just tracking my goals & progress on 43_things ... dunno if I will post here as frequently as I used to, but I'm going to try.

Check out the photo albums (upper right corner) for a few pictures of the places I've been lately.