The Freddie Gray Case, Update #60: Spiraling Down

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In update 59 in November of 2019, I wrote of current Mayor Jack Young, who is taking no responsibility for Baltimore’s dubious distinction as a crime capital.  I also noted he thinks warring gang members should be given the opportunity to duke it out with boxing gloves.  Presumably, they would then become fast friends and give up their lives of crime rather than shooting up the surrounding neighborhood.  Young follows in the hapless footsteps of former Mayor Catherine Pugh, as NPR reports:

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The SMM Top 10: 2011-2019

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Just for fun, I thought I’d follow up the top 15 of 2019 with the top 11 to date.  I chose 11 rather than 10 because I wanted to include #11 on the list; I suspect you’ll see why.  Onward! Continue reading →

2019: The Top 15 SMM Articles

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Writing a blog is an exercise in joy and frustration.  I began this scruffy little blog when the late Bob Owens and I amiably agreed to go our separate blogging ways after several years working together at the old Confederate Yankee blog.  My first post was on October 09, 2011, and was little like the direction the interests of readers would eventually take me.  As this is written, SMM has surpassed more than 2.5 million hits/reads, however one would prefer to term it.  I suspect it’s actually more than that, but that’s how the software interprets things.

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Our Disarmed Military

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For many, the attack at the Pensacola Naval Air Station has already passed into the hazy company of terrorist attacks of the past.  But for those of us paying attention, particularly those who have served, it is yet another reminder of a deadly problem of long standing.  The Latest.com illustrates the issue:

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Sunday Funnies 12-29-19

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“Conan: What is best in life?”

“To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the women.”  I just love Christmas and all its traditions…

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Washington Post: Your All-Hate-Trump-All-The-Time Propaganda Source

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Perhaps there is a Japanese soldier from WWII still living in a cave on a remote, Pacific Island that is unaware of the Washington Post’s hatred for Donald Trump and Normal Americans, but if he exists, he’s probably about the only living being so shuttered.  Everyone else knows when one looks in the dictionary under “Fake news, “journalistic malpractice,” or “journalistic bias,” the photo accompanying the definition would look like the header photo of this brief article, illuminated by Mary Chastain at Legal Insurrection:

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July 10, 2019: Erik Scott–A Sad Anniversary

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In our connected world, we make previously unimaginable connections.  We make friends we will never meet, yet those friendships grow and are, in most ways, as real as those that enjoy personal contact.  We learn about the lives of others from far away, and their stories become a part of us.  Such was the case with Erik Scott and me.

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Backpack Security Theater

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The media, as always, misleads us to think the number of school attacks are on the rise, and America is uniquely dangerous.  Fortunately, this isn’t true.  School kids in America remain quite safe, but because such attacks are always possible and can happen anywhere at any time, school authorities rush to respond to public concerns.  Unfortunately, they virtually always engage in school security theater, which amounts to the illusion of safety rather than actual safety.  This is an updated version of an article I first posted in June of 2018.  The marketing of security theater is no less intense, and no less deceptive circa January of 2020.  Continue reading →

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