This thinking goes back to 1973. I was a senior in high school, running an errand in the family car. I must have been listening to WKSU. This 5- or 15-minute segment came on. A female spokesperson for the ACLU said that, under the compulsory school attendance law, a minor can only be in one of two places: a school, or a penal facility. In her view there was no real difference. I was an honors student and deeply convicted that education is the answer to poverty. Thus her

———— ♦ ———— Man’s name change dramatically improves job hunt ———— ♦ ———— Jamarion Lawhorn update Previous post: In playground murder, 12-year-old boy charged as an adult Next post: Jamarion Lawhorn update It has since become clear that (1) at the time of the murder, the suspect was suicidal, and (2) he had been subject to years of severe child abuse. Articles not included in the links below mention that, immediately before the murder, he had swallowed a handful of “pink pills

Some news sites cracking down on over-the-top comments • Obama suggests sense of powerlessness in confronting the world’s evils • Scary people downtown • An angry young man, and divine intervention

Supreme Court to decide what constitutes pomegranate juice • Free speech means freedom to lie • “I’m not changing my lifestyle.”

McDonald’s commercials have changed ● The crazies and the stupids ● Creation vs. the Big Bang? ● Julius Henson in the news again