Here are the last few comments on the blog. Please remember to read the comments and privacy policy for the blog before jumping into a discussion.
- Comment on Two Weeks to Go by Wzrd1 June 12, 2018 01:20Good to hear it! We're back in Pennsylvania, working in New Cumberland.
- Comment on Understanding What You Can’t Understand by John Kane May 16, 2018 21:51If the town manages to avoid segregation in the schools, in a generation the kids will probably be fairly well integrated in to some kind of mixed culture. Often seems that way here in Canada anyway though our immigrant mix is different.
- Comment on Understanding What You Can’t Understand by wzrd1 May 15, 2018 12:58Something you said touched on a historical note - religious strife. It wasn't all that long ago that the US had religious warfare in our city streets during the Nativist Riots. They were severe enough to have the Army patrolling city streets!
- Comment on EpiRen’s Journal Club: Firearm-Related Hospitalization and Risk of Bad Stuff Thereafter, in Washington State, Between 2006 and 2011 by Rene Najera May 13, 2018 18:49Even the “unsinkable” Titanic dunk. So I chuckle when gun enthusiasts say that they’re safe because they practice safety with guns. The only safe gun is the one that doesn’t exist.
- Comment on EpiRen’s Journal Club: Firearm-Related Hospitalization and Risk of Bad Stuff Thereafter, in Washington State, Between 2006 and 2011 by Chris May 13, 2018 04:50Yikes! I know I live in a high gun state, I try not to think about it. Though last week I was waiting at a bus stop and some guy walked by me displaying his 2nd Amendment open carry right. He had a handgun shoved in his belt. Except is was in the "traumatic castration" position. I made sure to not react in any way until he was out of sight. I grew up around guns, and my dad told me how to be safe with guns. But I am dismayed how often both he and my brother broke those rules. I chose to not own a weapon.
- Comment on The sad story of Mr. Greene by Rene Najera May 11, 2018 23:39The problem is that there is a split on who should be doing the studying. Should it be the criminologists? Should it be the sociologists? The psychologists? The epidemiologists? Of course, the answer is that it should be all of us. Much like a multi-disciplinary team comes together to study plane crashes and have made flying one of the safest ways to travel, we should study the hell out of violence and forcefully attack its origins. (The biggest of which is poverty. Even Aristotle knew that: https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21613303-disturbing-study-link-between-incomes-and-criminal-behaviour-have-and)
- Comment on The sad story of Mr. Greene by Kausik May 3, 2018 18:01This is a sad story indeed. To me, it is even more disturbing because it doesn't appear (pardon me if my impression is inaccurate and/or incomplete) that there is/was any effort to study and understand the key factors that took a promising young man of good academic standing and converted him into a violent, recidivist criminal. Without that understanding, I think it's impossible to stop the same from happening to other young minds in this city.
- Comment on Anonymous Me? by wzrd1 April 2, 2018 17:40Careful! I am *quite* close to Texas. 😉
- Comment on Anonymous Me? by Rene Najera April 2, 2018 15:05One could try?
- Comment on Anonymous Me? by wzrd1 April 2, 2018 14:27I can't speak to the closed fist of truth, but it seems that a certain Texan could use the open slap of common sense inducement! Alas, one cannot knock sense into a stone.
