Sundance
Yeah I don’t know but my hands are starting to hurt 00:04 Yeah I feel you 00:12 MYASSHURT 00:14 You’re a hustler now baby 00:21 Man, my calf muscles are killin’ me 00:23 Yeah, mine too 00:25 That was...
View ArticleParagraph 145(d) – Beijing Platform for Action. Chapter IV
— Strategic objective E.2. Reduce excessive military expenditures and control the availability of armaments Actions to be taken 145. By Governments and international and regional organizations: d....
View ArticleButtered and Salty: ‘The Irishman’
R, 3hr 29min, Biography, Crime, Drama Now streaming on Netflix and playing in select theaters Back in 2004 I had the pleasure of attending a screening of Martin Scorsese’s “The Aviator” at the...
View ArticleThe Provocative True Story ‘Hustlers’ is Coming to Blu-Ray
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View ArticleWhen You Come Open Armed to a Knife Fight
Twenty years of studying Aikido finally came in handy. Luckily, some of that study trained me to defend against a knife. Knife attacks up close are, in many ways, scarier than guns. They can also be...
View ArticleMany California Cops Have Kept Their Jobs After Convicted of DUI, Other Crimes
— Over 80 police officers working in California are lawbreakers, says Voice of Sangiego writers, Robert Lewis and David DeBolt. Most of these officers committed serious DUI offenses such as harming...
View ArticleMissing the Target
Twenty years after the carnage at Columbine seared the image of mass school shootings into the national consciousness, and after several similar high profile shootings have occurred in other schools,...
View ArticleThe Untold Stories of Bonnie & Clyde
Cutting through the soft Louisiana breeze, a beige Ford V8 turns onto the dusty road. The driver is well-dressed. Blue shirt, brown jacket. So is his lady. Red dress, braided hair. First approaching...
View ArticleIt Took Just One Massacre
April 28, 1996. For all Australians, it is a day that will live on in infamy. Brandishing a semi-automatic AR-15 rifle with a 30-shot magazine, a man named Martin Bryant entered the Broad Arrow Cafe...
View ArticleThe Strange Film ‘Uncut Gems’ is Available now on Blu-Ray
The hard to follow film ‘Uncut Gems’ is out now on Blu-Ray I have seen many of Adam Sandler’s movies. He shines quite well most of the time in romantic comedies. Some of his earlier films were also...
View ArticleLittle Snitch
I’m going to share a secret with you, one that I’m sure you will find shocking, if not completely unbelievable, but that I swear is the truth. I was never one of the “popular” kids growing up. I had...
View Article2 Books White People Need to Read
I am white. My paternal great grandparents were immigrants from Ireland, and my maternal great grandparents immigrants from Germany. I have a large family (30+ relatives) and we are all white. I grew...
View ArticleInnocence Lost
When asked what an actor should do to develop his craft, on “In the Actor’s Studio” guest Actor/ Director Clint Eastwood said that one should master “the art of listening.” Watching Eastwood’s “Mystic...
View ArticleBringing Up ‘Black on Black’ Crime Is Racist
Whenever there are protests and riots sparked from police kill unarmed black men, women and children, different recurrent discourses come up. One rebuttal against the movement for black lives is “black...
View Article‘Pirates With Black Magic’ Attack Shipping in Indonesian Waters
— By Eric Frécon At 4.20am, 3 perpetrators climbed up tug boat by using rope and hook at about 3 miles from South Perasi Island. (…) Later perpetrators tied up a machinist (…). Perpetrators consist of...
View ArticleWe Need a Lot More Lady Cops
They are ALL men Having been in the volatile, but normally peaceful, Seattle area for over a month now, I have observed tons of cops tooling about in cruisers. They have all been men. Although I know...
View ArticleIs It Wrong to Feel Compassion Towards Cops?
I recently bonded with a friend over the work of meditation teacher and psychologist Tara Brach, who just published a new book called “Radical Compassion.” We kept coming back to the same question:...
View ArticleFavoritism in California Clemency
Thomas is 69-years-old and has been in prison more than 40 years. An insulin-dependent diabetic, he miraculously survived a recent bout with COVID-19. Thomas is serving a sentence of life without...
View ArticleWhy ‘De-Policing’ Isn’t as Mad as It Sounds
I get it. You hear racial justice protesters calling for “de-funding police,” and you think they are advocating a society without any protection from violence. You worry about what will happen if law...
View ArticleWhy Not Use Machine Learning To Crack Down on Money Laundering?
An interesting article in the MIT Tech Review, “The pandemic has changed how criminals hide their cash — and AI tools are trying to sniff it out”, describes how the coronavirus pandemic, with its...
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