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Earlier in the week, I received the following YouTube from one of your spouses. Said spouse claims to not read Tiny Cat Pants, but has apparently heard enough about it to know I would love this video.

Jackie Dowd, over at the 13th Juror, is reporting some disturbing news on Sanford Florida's Project Homeless Connect.

This is exactly why Microsoft SHOULD buy Yahoo. They are both farked up in the way their treat me.

I don’t want to say that I never speed, but I very seldom speed–not even within that mythical 5 mph buffer police supposedly give you.  It’s not that I’m worried about getting a ticket, I just don’t get in a hurry that often.  Not saying I’m never late for anything either, but I don’t get in a hurry that often.

The U.S. Supreme Court has released its opinion in Kennedy v. Louisiana, regarding the constitutionality of sentencing a person to death for the rape of a child in which no murder occurs. Patrick Kennedy is the first person in the country in the modern era of the death penalty to receive such a sentence.

We received word yesterday from the Tennessee Department of Correction that Richard Austin, the state's oldest and longest serving death row inmate, died at DeBerry Special Needs Facility in Nashville on Sunday. Austin was sentenced to death in 1978 after a conviction in Shelby County of accessory before the fact to murder.

The best "death penalty" execution of all....
Tennessee's oldest death row inmate dies

ASSOCIATED PRESS • June 9, 2008

We felt as if we were throwing him every possible lifeline, yet he simply refused to grab hold. Because of his suggestion that the problem was geographical -- and because of his disruptive behavior at home -- we put him on a bus to Santa Barbara in March.

That is what happened. That is how Jake became part of the "homeless problem."