Inspiring holiday stuff

Gainesville State School is located 75 miles north of Dallas, next to a town of 15,000.  It was originally a girls’ school, but became co-ed in1974 and eventually all-male in 1988.  The school offers courses in agriculture, horticulture, welding, and business in addition to the standard high school curriculum.
Gainesville State is also a maximum-security youth [...]

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Rampaging Japanese seniors

There have been a number of stories lately about the criminal proclivities of Japan’s senior citizens.  On the northern island of Hokkaido, arrests of seniors actually outnumbered arrests of teenagers in 2006.  Since then, the number of elder arrests has risen to three for every two bookings of teens.  Nationally, crimes by seniors have risen [...]

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Webcasting tragedy

Plain awful, from The Guardian:
“Police in Florida are investigating the death of an American teenager after he appeared to take an overdose and die while broadcasting on video website Justin.tv.”
The 19-year-old left a message on another website in which he described his mental anguish and was encouraged to end his life by a number of [...]

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Anthony Williams is Batman

Reliable Source reports on The Bowtied Crusader:
Tony Williams was on K Street yesterday afternoon when a thief grabbed a package from a UPS hand truck. The deliveryman, standing a few yards away, looked up and yelled, “Hey!” but the man kept walking.
Enter the former mayor, who asked the delivery guy if he was being robbed. [...]

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Don’t buy a Bulgarian football club

I know it’s on your to-do list, but I wouldn’t recommend it.  I also know you read the Sofia Echo, so you’ve seen this already:
Holding the presidency of a football club can be hazardous – even deadly – in Bulgaria. Dozens of examples over the past 19 years attest to this. The latest is that [...]

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Washington’s Finest

Via DCist, members of the Metropolitan Police Department use their in-car internet to watch Family Guy:

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Guest blogger: SVU = State violence unit

Once in a while, (for which, read: “When we’re lazy”) we’ll be stealing content from compelling guest posters. So today we have belle absente with some thoughts on Law & Order, SVU-flavor. A brief bio then we’re off:
Ghost blogger belle absente is a first year law student at Large State University, where [...]

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