The US has 5 percent of the world’s population and 25 percent of the world’s prisoners.*

http://www.wanttoknow.info/massmedia#akre

Ever play with numbers … you know, do things like compare how many people enroll in the Detroit school system in one year and how many graduate from it a few years later? Just fun stuff with statistics, nothing you need a college degree for. (Nor, fortunately, a HS diploma.)

For the Detroit public school system, the widely accepted graduation rate is 25%. That is, 3 out of 4 who enroll in 10th grade never receive a diploma. This statistic handily ignores the number who never made it to 10th grade. Click here to read on, my friend.

Did I read the news correctly? A country that cannot manage its own finances and is $3,000,000,000,000 or so in debt is going to write a bum check for $700,000,000,000, using money that simply doesn’t exist, to bail out an insurance company that cannot manage money?

Click here to read on, my friend.

I’m giving some Linux-based blog entry software a quick shake down but, for all its faults, I’m still happiest with Windows Live Writer (WLW). I don’t know who Microsoft bought that from, but it’s the best of the crop (so far). I hope they don’t mess it up too much. Click here to read on, my friend.

I don’t think that Catholics appreciate humor like this.

But, then again, lots of young boys didn’t much appreciate the local priest, either.

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I think I’ve found the reason why church attendance is dropping.

Sometimes when people ask me how I make my living, I tell them that I am a free-lance writer. It just seems more polite than telling them that, since I’m not hitting them up to pay my bills, how I make my living is none of their business.

If they weren’t such twits, I’d give them the URL to come here and see me at work. But they are. So I don’t. And that’s my contribution toward making the internet a safer place for all of us.

How do YOU keep the lambs out of the piranha pit? (Or do you just let natural selection run its course?

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I’m going to step out on a limb. It will leave me exposed to ridicule. But I think that I need to do this for my readers.

Some time back, Michael Landon starred in a television show about an angel. I didn’t watch very much of this show. I just wasn’t interested at the time and now, well, now I would have religious reasons for not viewing it.

But I do recall a vignette in which a homeless man, bereft of much of his senses, urged a political candidate to “Be nice.”. That’s all, just “be nice”.

As I consider the change in the political climate in America wrought by its bellicose excursions into the Middle East, I can’t help but wonder if being ‘nice’ wouldn’t have greatly reduced the number of body bags returning, filled, to the US each week.

Oh, I’ll concede that it may be too late to “be nice” today. Many generations will pass by before the Iraqi people forgive the United States for what is occurring today. Ditto for the people of Afghanistan, Korea, Iran, Venezuela … the list goes on.

But there are countries where the extent of American taint is not yet public knowledge. In those countries, it can still “be nice.”

But it won’t.

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I have some positive news to report: I am nearing beta status with one of my products and have already entered it with the other.

I am looking for a total of 10 beta testers to try out a RV tracker. I’ll ship the materials free to any English-speaking Brother or Sister in the world in exchange for your honest evaluation.  If you don’t know what an RV is or what a ‘1 day’, ‘2 day’, or ‘3 day’ are, you aren’t the sort of “Brother or Sister” I am looking for. You may be a very nice person, but you will have absolutely no use for what I have devised. Click here to read on, my friend.

Unless you thought that voting by individuals still mattered, you won’t be too surprised by the following information.

http://nightweed.com/printableusavotefacts.html

The above link is presently dead, but the owners of the site promise to re-institute it.

Until then, here is their Myspace.com blog entry of it:

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=5090388&blogID=9200001

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