Sunday, July 15, 2012

Because We Care About You... and school sucks


Well I'm back again, I didn't intend to take this long to write again, but due to technological troubles, I was offline for awhile thus making it impossible to post more entries. This is not ideal because my lead in story in this post is now somewhat older news. Anyhow, what I hope to do in this entry is combine several possible posts that I have been planning to do in the past so hopefully despite my lack on consistency in writing here, I will partially make it up by killing several birds with one stone so to speak. 

Okay, I want to start this post with a story I originally came across on attackthesystem.com   about an incident in Montgomery County in the grand old State of Texas where a 17 year old high school student by the name of Diane Tran was sentenced to a day in jail and a fine for contempt of court (I believe) because of missing too many days of school. This despite the fact that the student in question was working two jobs to support her siblings because of her parents splitting up and despite missing some classes over being extremely tired from that out of school work (who wouldn't be) she apparently managed to make the honour roll. Anyhow this story became viral and spread around the world prompting outrage and leading to some donation campaign set up specifically for Tran with a website set up for that purpose. Anyhow, what eventually happened was that the charges were dropped with Mr. Judge Moriarty backing down from his hard line stance to some extent that he took earlier. Anyways, if you are curious about this story, there are more articles here   and probably even more if you care to search for them on the net. Now when I came across this story, I was immediately interested because I had read some articles about a county in Texas with a Judge who was well known for incarcerating students who were chronic truants from school and I had planned to write a blog post about two articles about this 12.

Sunday, June 17, 2012

FREE CHARLES MANSON!!


OK, now that I've got your attention, it's time to get down to business. This blog post is mostly going to be about what I will be up to on this blog in the coming months. First of all, it has been a long time since I've been on this blog,  and for that matter, looked at any of this google account including the email (that's directed to you MRDA if you are reading this). Mainly the reason I have not been on this blog is because of work, which because of its nature makes it harder to do what is already extremely difficult for me to do in the first place, which would be writing in this case. In some cases, it took me over a few hours to finish a blog post that was merely a few paragraphs. As a little aside here, I can't stand those right wing libertarians and objectivists (not all of them do this) who worship work and extol it's praises all day along. Obviously, some work can be very rewarding, but I think it's fair to say that a lot of it is just mindless bullshit. It's also a little odd that some of these types will eagerly point out how work is a form of social control to keep people in line (making the assumption that people need to be kept in line) while at the same time rejecting the authoritarian state to keep people in line.