Category Archives: Justice

Podcast — Contrasts and justice (Part 2)

September 6, 2022Justice, Podcast, Poverty, The William Tell ShowDisinvestment, Lumpen, McDonald's #2763, Need, Political correctness, Reincarnation, Stabucks, Takers v. Makers, The cosmic compost heap, Tyrone Morris, Urban blightWilliam Tell

Choices and inevitability

Contrasts and justice (Part 2)

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Diseases you can’t see

August 20, 2022Justice, OUR BEST POSTSCosmology, Diabetes, Diabetic shock, Evil, Hypoglycemia, Insulin shock, Irritability, Self-management, Theodicy, What IsWilliam Tell

The cosmos stands accused.

It’s one thing if someone uses a wheelchair or a blind man’s cane, or has cerebral palsy. Other diseases can be just as serious, but unseen.

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Bootstraps

August 18, 2022Bible, Get on your feet, Homelessness, Justice, Thursday postsBootstraps, Choosing feelings, Marriage, Prayer, Psalm 150:6, PsiWilliam Tell

Psalm 150:6: “Let all things that have breath praise the Lord.”

At the homeless shelter where I stay, we’re required to attend chapel every night. Monday, for the first time in months, Jervis Ray preached. His text was Psalm 23. However, he was soon enough back to his same old same old, haranguing us that we’re not grateful enough for our “blessings.” “God woke you up in your right mind,” with the use of two arms and two legs.

He calls us to praise God that our bootstraps aren’t like others’. “There are lots of people in hospitals who don’t know where they are.”

That stung me, as my oldest brother will be soon enough in just that state.

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Podcast — Contrasts and justice in downtown Baltimore

August 2, 2022Homelessness, Justice, Podcast, The William Tell ShowDisinvestment, Harborplace, Inner Harbor, Lexington Market, Lumpen, Racism, Susan K. Smith, Takers v. Makers, Urban blightWilliam Tell

You get what you choose, whether you want it or not.

Contrasts and justice in downtown Baltimore

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5. Serotonin and society

May 25, 2022Justice, Poverty, The Way of PeaceCaste system, Fruit of the Spirit, Galatians 5:19-23, Harmony, Paul, Pecking order, Serotonin, Shalom, Social hierarchies, Social mobility, Upward mobility, Works of the fleshWilliam Tell

THE WAY OF PEACE

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The serotonin levels of the members of a community profoundly affect the degree of harmony and prosperity (shalom) in that community. Continue reading 5. Serotonin and society →

Why racism no longer matters to me

March 24, 2022Justice, Local news, National news, Thursday postsBlackness, Bootstraps, Brittney Cooper, Jenée Desmond-Harris, Julia Craven, Presence, Race, Racism, Self-love, Stacey Patton, Ta-Nehisi CoatesWilliam Tell

The last straw for certain things came with a Baltimore Sun front page banner headline:

Skepticism, despair as killings continue
Residents question city response; Four day death toll stands at 12.

I anticipate no response from Julia Craven, Jenee Desmond-Harris, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Stacey Patton, or Brittney Cooper.[*]

What was the last straw?

In short, it’s time for me to stop concerning myself with racism and race.

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Life course persistent offenders, …

March 12, 2022Clippings, Justice, National newsCrime, Early release, Ellis Jamal Gray, Heather Weeden, Nathan Stephens, Nathan Winston Stephens, PsychopathsWilliam Tell

… also known as psychopaths.

These individuals account for 1% of the general population, 25% of the prison population, and 50% of all crime. Put differently, 10% of the population commit 90% of the crime; but this one tenth of the criminals, commit five times as much crime.

Related: Loving the psychopath

Heather Weeden

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This teen won’t go to prison, even after he hacked 50,700 computers

January 27, 2022Justice, Local news, National politics, Thursday posts, World NewsChild abuse, Finland, Hackers, Hacking, Hilary Clinton, Incarceration, Middle class, Political correctness, Prisons, Sandra McClaryWilliam Tell

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This teen won’t go to prison • No one cares what black folk think. • A thumbs-up for Hilary • Maryland mom ditches baby — literally
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A landmark study

November 18, 2021Justice, National news, Poverty, Science, Thursday postsArrested development, Chaos, Chaos and order, Chaos overwhelms the poor, Developmental psychology, Tohu, University of RochesterWilliam Tell

Stress in low-income families can affect children’s learning

I am very excited about this.

This is, as far as I know, the first study to attempt to measure the degree of chaos in the home.

The researchers in an earlier-mentioned study (Related: Poor children have smaller brains) speculated that “poor families tend to live more chaotic lives, and that stress could inhibit healthy brain development.” The current study seems to indicate that it is directly so.

As of this writing, my hypothesis has become as follows: the chaos of a growing child’s environment causes comparatively more resources to be devoted to the limbic system and less to the cerebral cortex, resulting in a body with reduced capacity to learn.

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(Originally posted 2015-07-08; reblogged 10/13/16.)

Norms exist. Get over it.

August 21, 2021Justice, OUR BEST POSTSAbleism, Acceptance, Delayed sleep phase disorder, Delayed sleep phase syndrome, Marginalization, Normal, Normalcy, Norms, Obsessive-compulsive disorder, Peanut allergies, Political correctness, Racism, WhitenessWilliam Tell

Isn’t the expression, “differently abled” — ableist?

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