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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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Immigration issues

March 3, 2022Local news, National news, Thursday postsBJP, CASA, Dual diagnosis, Immigration, Marriage, McDonald's #2763, Mental illness, Race, Racism, Segregation, Self-segregation, Ted CruzWilliam Tell

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Immigration issues • Ted Cruz, demagogue • What Happens When Mentally Ill People Have Children
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“Don’t believe her defenders. Amy Schumer’s jokes are racist.”

December 23, 2021National media, The William Tell Show, Thursday postsAmy Schumer, David J. Leonard, Free Speech Handbook, Jose Antonio Vargas, McDonald's #2763, MTV's "White People", Race, Racism, Stacey PattonWilliam Tell

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Stacey Patton, David J. Leonard • Camping at the cafe • Honest conversations about race?
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A solution for homelessness?

September 30, 2021Homelessness, Job search/Job prospects, Local news, National news, Thursday posts, World NewsCarter Scott, Crime, Dual diagnosis, Housing First, McDonald's, McDonald's #2763, Rapid rehousing, Terrence McCoyWilliam Tell

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Meet the outsider who accidentally solved chronic homelessness • McDonald’s issues again • Carter Scott update

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The omen

June 10, 2021Homelessness, Thursday postsCosmology, Dunkin' Donuts, Free will, McDonald's #2763, Michael Patterson, Omens, Omniscience, Precognition, Wave-particle dualityWilliam Tell

He might take me to some unknown location,
and zap out on me, and I’d become a statistic.

Tuesday 2015-03-31

This morning at Dunkin’ Donuts, about 8:45 I stood in line with my arms crossed behind my back, clenching a $5 bill in my left hand. It occurred to me that at McDonald’s, only 100 yards away, I’d never do that. If I did that at McDonald’s, someone would surely snatch the bill and run.

This thought proved to be an omen.

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The inevitability of evil

September 3, 2020Get on your feet, Justice, The Way of Peace, Thursday postsCharlie Sheen, Choosing feelings, Contrast theodicy, Cosmology, Denise Richards, McDonald's #2763, Prayer, Schizophrenia, Sublimation, Take things in strideWilliam Tell

Sooner or later, it had to happen.

Sunday, about 14:00, I had just bought my second coffee at McDonald’s. I put it on my table and, as they require me to do, took all my things with me to go out and smoke.

Outside, I took one more shot at trying to understand how evil — negativity, conflict — happens.

There are those who say that evil is necessary because without it, humans would never be able to appreciate joy. I have never found this believable.
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Does McDonald’s discriminate against the homeless?

March 5, 2020Get on your feet, Homelessness, Justice, Poverty, Squalor, Thursday postsFree Speech Handbook, McDonald's #2763, Serenity prayer, Take things in stride, The Homeless BloggerWilliam Tell

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Blogging experts tell us to give our posts dramatic titles. I might not tell the story at all, but on the one hand there is an expectation that (though I seldom do) a homeless blogger will tell about the difficulties homeless people face. On the other hand, it provides occasion for me to set forth William Tell’s current approach to injustice.

It will also let me model the principles of Free Speech Handbook.

This concerns an incident of October 7, 2014.
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Life in the outer darkness

February 27, 2020Audition files, Bible, Get on your feet, Justice, Motivations, Poverty, Squalor, Thursday postsMatthew 22:1-14, McDonald's #2763, Outer darkness, Parable of the Wedding Banquet, Self-love, The Homeless BloggerWilliam Tell

The appointed Gospel text for Sunday was Matthew’s Parable of the Wedding Banquet, Matthew 22:1-14.

I was struck by verses 11-14 —

¹¹“But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing a wedding robe, ¹²and he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding robe?’ And he was speechless. ¹³Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ ¹⁴For many are called, but few are chosen.”

— in that, last Tuesday at McDonald’s, I’m the one who got thrown into the outer darkness.
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Where trees thrive, people thrive

February 6, 2020Squalor, Thursday postsArrested development, Evangelism, Indulgence, McDonald's #2763, Our Daily Bread, The Homeless Blogger, Tikkun, Tohu, VandalismWilliam Tell

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 remarks left me incensed. More than that, whereas I’ve never been a conservative, it seemed to me that the ACLU and other, like-minded movements were bent on destroying all order in society. The family unit was under attack. Marriage was under attack. The schools were under attack. Change for its own sake, which seemed to be what these people were after, isn’t good. Nothing can be built on a foundation of chaos. A child needs to root oneself in earth that will be in the same place today as tomorrow. A tree can’t grow in quicksand.

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