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“Father Ratigan was arrested in May and has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of taking indecent photographs of young girls, most recently during an Easter egg hunt last spring.”
Armed Robbery Arrest of the Day: Michael Todd, bass player for Coheed and Cambria, was arrested at the Comcast Center in Mansfield, MA, moments before he was due on stage with the band to open for Soundgarden, and charged with robbing a Walgreens to obtain OxyContin.
According to a police report, Todd claimed he had a bomb and demanded six bottles of the prescription painkiller. He then left the store and took a cab to the concert.
Huh. Clearly he should have used the Limbaugh method….
Apparently in Texas it’s OK for the state to execute 471 people since 1982, but it’s not OK for them to curse about it.
Notes from the Dept. of Hyperbole
O.J. Simpson prosecutor Marcia Clark on the Casey Anthony verdict:
Sick, shaken, in disbelief. As I listened to the verdicts in the Casey Anthony case, acquitting her of the homicide of her baby girl, I relived what I felt back when court clerk Deirdre Robertson read the verdicts in the Simpson case. But this case is different. The verdict is far more shocking.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704132204576285471510530398.html
via TAP, “California Prison Academy: Better Than a Harvard Degree”:
As a California prison guard, you can make six figures in overtime and bonuses alone. While Harvard-educated lawyers and consultants often have to work long hours with little recompense besides Chinese take-out, prison guards receive time-and-a-half whenever they work more than 40 hours a week. One sergeant with a base salary of $81,683 collected $114,334 in overtime and $8,648 in bonuses last year, and he’s not even the highest paid.
Sure, Harvard grads working in the private sector get bonuses, too, but only if they’re good at what they do. Prison guards receive a $1,560 “fitness” bonus just for getting an annual check-up.
Most Harvard grads only get three weeks of vacation each year, even after working for 20 years—and they’re often too busy to take a long trip. Prison guards, on the other hand, get seven weeks of vacation, five of them paid. If they’re too busy racking up overtime to use their vacation days, they can cash the days in when they retire. There’s no cap on how many vacation days they can cash in! Eighty officers last year cashed in over $100,000 at retirement.
This grave injustice against Harvard grads MUST NOT STAND. DOWN WITH CALIFORNIA PRISON GUARDS.
(nb: There probably is a really interesting discussion to be had about Cailfornia’s prison-industrial complex, employment rates, and the work situation of prison guards. Too bad that discussion wasn’t even hinted at. WEEP FOR THE HARVARD GRADS.)
THere are a lot of things wrong with this piece, for sure, but its the underlying assumption, that Harvard grads are somehow providing more worth to society than prison guards, that’s the most troubling.
Because, honestly, why shouldn’t prison guards make a lot of money? It’s not a particularly pleasant or rewarding job, and yet, as long as our society insists on locking up every drug offender (from the lower economic classes, anyway) it can find, it’s a necessary one.
Meanwhile in Juarez
Some unbelievable carnage, right next door: 53 people killed in the past three days in Ciudad Juarez.
Jesse Ventura sues TSA for 'unlawful sexual assault'
No one pats down the Body, unless the Body wants to be patted down.
One thing that’s weird about this: Is there such thing as “lawful sexual assault”?
Besides Gitmo, I mean?
“I’ve heard district attorneys say something like “Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, we are going to ask you for the death penalty, because that is the only way to show how much we respect the innocent life that’s been taken.” Most people who make those kinds of rhetorical statements have never been there in the final hours and watched what it means to take people who are alive and strap them down to a gurney or in a chair and kill them. They are removed from the results of their actions.”
“Hitler Tamed By Prison” (New York Times, 1924). Apparently not true.
I really would love to see a movie about Hitler’s parole officer. Can someone get on that?
Whaddya wanna bet someone at customer service suggested that to her when she called to complain?
Damn…I hope they catch the bastard!
Interesting. This may be the first documented case of electronic Capgras delusion…
