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Showing posts with label Texas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Texas. Show all posts
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Glenn Beck's Selected Poems is thankfully not real
I've never quite forgiven "The Boiling Point" by Mikhaela Reid for replaced my beloved This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow in The Metro Times. Granted, it isn't her fault. But it's kind of like how when you don't like the woman your ex starts dating after you, even though she may be a perfectly nice person. But this week's comic (which is also Reid's last) is quite good. It deals with the Texas text book fiasco. And it includes a (thankfully fictitious) book of poems by Glenn Beck.
For more on the Texas school text book fiasco, The Daily Show did a great segment on it.
And for good measure, there's a This Modern World comic that also addresses the idiots in Texas.
For more on the Texas school text book fiasco, The Daily Show did a great segment on it.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Lethally inject first, ask questions later in Texas
Ever wonder if the justice system in this country has ever put an innocent man to death? After you read "Trial By Fire" by David Grann in The New Yorker you won't have to wonder any more.
Todd Willingham was sentenced to death for the supposed arson death of his three little girls. It turns out, he didn't do it, but junk science and egos made sure he was put to death any way.
While in prison he wrote poems (because poetry is the respite of the desperate)
"Willingham was held in isolation in a sixty-square-foot cell, twenty-three hours a day," Grann writes. "He tried to distract himself by drawing--'amateur stuff,' as he put it--and writing poems. In a poem about his children, he wrote, 'There is nothing more beautiful than you on this earth.' When [a friend] once suggested some possible revisions to his poems, he explained that he wrote them simply as expressions, however crude, of his feelings. 'So to me to cut them up and try to improve on them just for creative-writing purposes would be to destroy what I was doing to start with,' he said."
UPDATE: Is Texas Gov. Rick Perry trying to cover up the current investigation into Willingham's execution? It sure seems like it.
Todd Willingham was sentenced to death for the supposed arson death of his three little girls. It turns out, he didn't do it, but junk science and egos made sure he was put to death any way.
While in prison he wrote poems (because poetry is the respite of the desperate)
"Willingham was held in isolation in a sixty-square-foot cell, twenty-three hours a day," Grann writes. "He tried to distract himself by drawing--'amateur stuff,' as he put it--and writing poems. In a poem about his children, he wrote, 'There is nothing more beautiful than you on this earth.' When [a friend] once suggested some possible revisions to his poems, he explained that he wrote them simply as expressions, however crude, of his feelings. 'So to me to cut them up and try to improve on them just for creative-writing purposes would be to destroy what I was doing to start with,' he said."
UPDATE: Is Texas Gov. Rick Perry trying to cover up the current investigation into Willingham's execution? It sure seems like it.
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