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Misapplied ‘sex offender’ status impossible to remove, places John in danger

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Not only do I not agree with the suffix being added to John’s prison record, I think there are now hundreds of people who are being listed as sex offenders incorrectly. If a college student participates in a streaking episode as a stunt in hazing, she or he is now a sex offender? If a group of young adults decides to dive into the ocean in California au natural while drinking, they are all going to be required to register as sex offenders throughout their adult lives? If adolescents act up by removing their clothes or by stealing someone’s towel, the naked teenager is going to register as a sex offender as an adult? Really?

Hey, is that a fire in your eyes for me, or are you just spontaneously combusting?

read more…: Hey, is that a fire in your eyes for me, or are you just spontaneously combusting?

Depending upon whose statistics you believe, there are as many as 300 or as few as 100 cases of spontaneous human combustion on record. As for me, unless you count an inflamed appendix or the time I ordered the ”911 Pasta from Hell” at Shorty’s, I have only had one small brush with spontaneous human combustion.

‘You’ll shoot your eye out,’ and other battle-cries lost to the dangers of Christmas toys past

read more…: ‘You’ll shoot your eye out,’ and other battle-cries lost to the dangers of Christmas toys past

Watching that movie makes me a little nostalgic for all the other reckless and certifiably dangerous toys of my youth. These days everything is so safe, so sanitized. My flammable Christmas morning nightgowns are just a misty memory.

Pearl Harbor Day: Tribute to Walter Welch and the weighty memories carried in his heart

read more…: Pearl Harbor Day: Tribute to Walter Welch and the weighty memories carried in his heart

Knowing their big guns had been rendered useless, Walter Welch led his four-man detail below deck where they were able to grab four Browning automatic rifles. They hefted boxes of ammo, bolted topside and started firing at the bombers overhead. The memory made Walter shake his head. ”Firing at a bomber with a BAR,” he said softly before looking away.

Behind the ‘Eightball’: On solitary confinement, loss and letters from prison

read more…: Behind the ‘Eightball’: On solitary confinement, loss and letters from prison

When John was 17 he was in juvenile detention due to an assault he made on his sister’s boyfriend. John was in the bathroom taking a shower. A friend snatched John’s towel off the rack while the water was running and ran off down the hall with it. John jumped out of the shower and ran after him to get the towel back. As he says, they were just kids goofing off, and he got his towel back. Later he was arrested for indecent exposure and taken to jail.

Thanks and giving: Mere words that fail us in the aftermath of ISIS terror strike

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Feasting around harvest time is also something humans have been doing forever, contrary to popular lore. Giving thanks for sustenance was not a ritual invented 400 years ago by a boatload of Puritan refugees fleeing unrest in their home country, seeking safe harbor and a new beginning on Wampanoag shores.

Inmate John, Part 2: ‘It’s about time I put my big-boy pants on’ and work toward parole

read more…: Inmate John, Part 2: ‘It’s about time I put my big-boy pants on’ and work toward parole

After John’s parole was denied, I encouraged him to put effort into creating art that he could sell in order to pay off his restitution, which he had managed to pay down from $,5000 to about $1,500 in the 25 years he has been incarcerated. I have paid to have six of his pieces properly mounted, matted and framed, including this one called “Evil Ways.”

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