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“Video has changed everything.”  Finally.  How long has it been going on and how often has it happened?

If I were some high school kid or just about anyone else looking for a job and thinking about becoming a police employee, this would scare the s**t out of me.  Good.

But that doesn’t change the fact that it is broken.

EDIT:  This came out wrong.

I (still) believe it is a noble profession.  I think it shouldn’t necessarily be a career.  It definitely should not be a government handout.  It absolutely should not be a guaranteed job where you can do whatever you want (and be assisted in that).

I think it is a great job for a few years.  A little like being drafted.

It’ll be interesting to watch the numbers–the budgets, employment forecasts, and sheer numbers.  It is going to get more expensive, that’s for sure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manti_Te%27o#Girlfriend_hoax

http://deadspin.com/ronaiah-tuiasosopo-sued-over-the-one-true-thing-he-told-1440379017

This is a fascinating story.

Some of the participants made legitimate news because they are newsworthy, and in this case they are very respectable.  Others are seemingly from the other, or wrong, side of town.  They are different.

It is also one of those things that may very well happen hundreds of times a day, but the only time you hear about is when it happens to a celebrity and makes news.  The voices and messages and all that notwithstanding, this is a story about a young man falling in love with someone online.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqlE1nE-0Tk&index=3&list=RDTO3HATSPe4A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzeNAUOp17c

Forget it.  Forget everything.  I am just going to listen to New Order all day long.

“The knowledge of my innocence has given me strength in the darkest times of this ordeal,” the statement said, CNN reported. “And throughout this ordeal, I have received invaluable support from family, friends and strangers. To them, I say: Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Your kindness has sustained me. I only wish that I could thank each and every one of you in person.”  (link)

What a cool statement.

Go YouTube DJ!  Really great song, but isn’t the video just a bunch of people sitting around?

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-suge-knight-25-million-bail-hearing-20150320-story.html

I wish I knew how the subconscious works.  But I don’t think anyone does.  All we know is that it exists.

Customer satisfaction and the judicial system, does it exist?  I wonder if it is a concept that does not exist in the conscious but it is real nonetheless.  Probably it exists in a different way—there are very few last resorts after the legal system.  The people in the system know that.  Always remember it is just a different language and a different world.  They know this too.  It can be used for different purposes and in different ways.

I must read and write more.  I looked briefly at the link above and laughed.  That is not right.

It is another world and I just don’t know it.  I had never heard of Suge Knight until he made the headlines.  I had not heard about Suge Knight in about a month, until he made the front page again.

My embossed, engraved-in-stone theory is that people who play with guns…

Yes, it is a cliché that every day could be your last, but if you stand on the wrong corner waiting for a drive-by shooting the risk is higher.  This guy’s entire life is based on in-your-face promotion of that idea.  It is too simple to be right.

Montel Williams and all the others.  Avoiding the video isn’t the answer.

There are still a few loose ends here to tie up.

It is a good story because the producers have earned it.

Hercule Poirot said something like “If he murdered once perhaps he would do it again.”

“I saw the pictures of the cut up body,” she (the judge) said. “That body was cut up like it had been done by a surgeon. He knew what sort of tool to use for this bone and that muscle. It would have been impossible for someone to do that if it was their first murder attempt. That is a cold, calculating act.”

As is so often the case, he couldn’t leave it alone.  He should have left the country when he had a chance.  Did I write that?  It seems we should be pleased he is in jail.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/16/nyregion/robert-durst-subject-of-hbo-documentary-on-unsolved-killings-is-arrested.html?_r=0

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2015/03/15/did-an-hbo-show-solve-a-14-year-old-murder-case/

Many years later the police chief called to apologize.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/a-seven-year-search-for-justice/2015/03/12/b1cccb30-abe9-11e4-abe8-e1ef60ca26de_story.html