Transitions Are A Part Of Life, Allowing

I've Never Met Anyone With A Perfect Upbringing. It Seems To Me That Life On Planet Earth Just Doesn't Work That Way. The Basic Challenges Of Getting Our Needs Met And Managing Boundaries Are Inherent In Growing Up Human.

One Of The Sad Things About Contemporary Journalism Is That It Actually Matters Very Little. The World Now Is Almost Inured To The Power Of Journalism. The Best Journalism Would Manage To Outrage People. And People Are Less And Less Inclined To Outrage.

In Baltimore They Can't Do Police Work To Save Their Lives. Now Because Of Freddie Gray They're Not Even Getting Out Of The Car And Policing Corners - They're On A Job Slowdown, Basically. Right Now If The Police Stopped Being Brutal, If We Got Police Shooting Under Control, And The Use Of Excessive Force, If We Have A Meaningful Societal Response To All That Stuff, And The Racism That Underlies It, The Question Still Remains: What Are They Policing, And Why?

Boiled Down To Its Core, The Truth Is Always A Simple, Solid Thing

Barack Obama's Understanding Of What The Drug War Had Cost The Country Was Meaningful. And Very Quietly In His Second Term, He And Eric Holder Did Make Some Adjustments In Terms Of The Use Of The Department Of Justice, On The Federal Level. You Saw Ratcheting Back Of Drug Prohibition, And Mass Incarceration. You Also Saw, On The Part Of Some Certain States, A Realization That They Followed The War On Drugs To A Useless Place, That They Were Only Doing Damage To Communities, And Bankrupting Budgets With Prison Construction.