What about this "Duty to Retreat?"
"You either have the ability to defend yourself without the duty to retreat or you don't," explained Jacksonville attorney Mitch Stone.
How does that premise relate to this case? I believe the State could try to take it in potentially two differing directions.
First, they might argue that Zimmerman should have tried to disengage from the physical struggle with the teenager, but, in my opinion, this line of argument is a cul-de-sac, because Zimmerman's back was up against concrete which was being used by Trayvon Martin as a weapon, so that Zimmerman had no egress available to him.
A possible second direction the State may try to advance here could be the premise that Zimmerman was obliged (by the illusory Duty to Retreat) to stay in his vehicle and should not have questioned the teenager.
This is a fundamentally flawed line of polemic, I believe, because the encounter took place on private property, the owners and management of which have a right to know who goes on their property and what they are doing there.
Any prosecutor who expects to abrogate the rights of private property, including estate and shopping mall owners and management, in this way is headed toward doom, I am inclined to believe.
End of Part 3 of 3 Here.
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Wednesday, January 16
Trayvon Case: Backing Down (2 of 3) -
I have no interest in demonizing a juvenile minor; my point here is that there may have been overly lax supervision of a minor, which was evinced in the youngster's strange reaction to his encounter with a resident of the estate, George Zimmerman.
Instead of simply explaining to Zimmerman that his father left him there to babysit a younger child named Chad, Trayvon reacted by violently assaulting the resident Zimmerman.
On the face of it, Trayvon Martin's reaction doesn't make any sense, and we have struggled to figure out what Trayvon's state of mind could have been to motivate such a weird reaction. Over time I have come up with several tentative theories, but none of them satisfy me. Properly done, this is known as a psychological autopsy.
Wasn't Trayvon Martin just minding his own business at the time of the fatal encounter? Trayvon Martin was on someone else's private property. Speaking from practical experience, I would say: when you are on someone else's private property, your business very much becomes their business.
Do we have a right to wonder about someone's state of mind? Sure we do. If you ask someone whether they are lost, you don't expect them to punch you in the nose.
Attorney Jeralyn Merritt explains the legal aspect
of this issue in extensive detail in her blog post today.
Continued . . .
...
Instead of simply explaining to Zimmerman that his father left him there to babysit a younger child named Chad, Trayvon reacted by violently assaulting the resident Zimmerman.
On the face of it, Trayvon Martin's reaction doesn't make any sense, and we have struggled to figure out what Trayvon's state of mind could have been to motivate such a weird reaction. Over time I have come up with several tentative theories, but none of them satisfy me. Properly done, this is known as a psychological autopsy.
Wasn't Trayvon Martin just minding his own business at the time of the fatal encounter? Trayvon Martin was on someone else's private property. Speaking from practical experience, I would say: when you are on someone else's private property, your business very much becomes their business.
Do we have a right to wonder about someone's state of mind? Sure we do. If you ask someone whether they are lost, you don't expect them to punch you in the nose.
Attorney Jeralyn Merritt explains the legal aspect
of this issue in extensive detail in her blog post today.
Continued . . .
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Trayvon Case: Backing Down (1 of 3) -
The Birth Mother of slain juvenile Trayvon Martin has called for the repeal of Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law. Sybrina Fulton, accompanied by a group of state legislators, appeared at a press conference in Tallahassee earlier today.
The defense team for George Zimmerman has received Martin's school records, but won't release them to the public.
Despite that, it has come to light that the youth attended numerous schools, which is not even possible in other parts of the country under normal circumstances, where communities routinely send out detectives to verify the residence of parents in their district and may sue them for fraud or theft of services in order to recover expenses of student tuition.
To date, we do not know where Trayvon Martin was actually residing, who his legal guardian was, or what relationship - if any - Sybrina Fulton had with him. A different woman named Alicia Martin appeared on the Dr Phil TV Show as his stepmother and claimed to have raised him on an everyday basis for much of the teen's life.
The father appears to be an itinerant truck driver, who may or may not have been Trayvon's legal guardian. The peripatetic Tracy Martin dumped Trayvon on an alien private estate in a universe far from home without instructions, rendering his son a possible Youth in Need of Adult Supervision.
Sometimes it seems like the more
we read about this case, the less we know.
Continued . . .
...
The defense team for George Zimmerman has received Martin's school records, but won't release them to the public.
Despite that, it has come to light that the youth attended numerous schools, which is not even possible in other parts of the country under normal circumstances, where communities routinely send out detectives to verify the residence of parents in their district and may sue them for fraud or theft of services in order to recover expenses of student tuition.
To date, we do not know where Trayvon Martin was actually residing, who his legal guardian was, or what relationship - if any - Sybrina Fulton had with him. A different woman named Alicia Martin appeared on the Dr Phil TV Show as his stepmother and claimed to have raised him on an everyday basis for much of the teen's life.
The father appears to be an itinerant truck driver, who may or may not have been Trayvon's legal guardian. The peripatetic Tracy Martin dumped Trayvon on an alien private estate in a universe far from home without instructions, rendering his son a possible Youth in Need of Adult Supervision.
Sometimes it seems like the more
we read about this case, the less we know.
Continued . . .
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Sunday, January 13
Browsing Around -
Murder off Miami by Dennis Wheatley was originally published in 1936 and then reprinted in the 1970s. Today, it has become a collector’s item. Christopher Fowler wrote about it recently on his blog.
# Anyone miss Max and Freddy, the bicker team of Cologne detectives, from the German Tatort TV series shown here on the MHz Network? Alexandra Alter reviews Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus, newly translated from German.
# Adam Woog's Mystery column this month includes the return of the precocious detective Flavia de Luce.
# British author Warren Ellis debuts his novel Gun Machine which Douglas Wolk reviews at LAT.
# Hatchet Job of the Year: "searching for the angriest, funniest, most trenchant book review of the past twelve months." Shortlist of nominees for the past year revealed.
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# Anyone miss Max and Freddy, the bicker team of Cologne detectives, from the German Tatort TV series shown here on the MHz Network? Alexandra Alter reviews Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus, newly translated from German.
# Adam Woog's Mystery column this month includes the return of the precocious detective Flavia de Luce.
# British author Warren Ellis debuts his novel Gun Machine which Douglas Wolk reviews at LAT.
# Hatchet Job of the Year: "searching for the angriest, funniest, most trenchant book review of the past twelve months." Shortlist of nominees for the past year revealed.
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Friday, January 11
New Spree Groupies -
Serial and Spree Killers
have attracted groupies before . . .
Such a retinue or fanbase has emerged around the accused Colorado movie theater shooter James Holmes called the Holmies, which is beginning to attract attention from the Mainstream Media.
Trench Reynolds gives his picks of Best and Worst for the past year, including the new teen group called the Holmies, which he has blogged about before.
# The Watson Computer
couldn't cope with the Urban Dictionary.
# Dan Kennedy in Boston blogs an entry
about the ongoing collapse of corporate radio.
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have attracted groupies before . . .
Such a retinue or fanbase has emerged around the accused Colorado movie theater shooter James Holmes called the Holmies, which is beginning to attract attention from the Mainstream Media.
Trench Reynolds gives his picks of Best and Worst for the past year, including the new teen group called the Holmies, which he has blogged about before.
# The Watson Computer
couldn't cope with the Urban Dictionary.
# Dan Kennedy in Boston blogs an entry
about the ongoing collapse of corporate radio.
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Thursday, January 10
Firestorm Over Boca U -
James Tracy is a tenured Media and
Communications professor at FAU in the
land of the shopping zombies, Boca Loca . . .
Apparently, Tracy has dared to suggest on his blog that alternate theories of what happened in the Sandy Hook mass shooting are possible. Moreover, he has allegedly asserted that there are: Unanswered Questions and Missing Information. OMG!
Thus, Tracy has committed an American version of blasphemy by challenging the self-appointed high priesthood of the Mainstream Media who have now whipped up a hysteria about him.
...
Communications professor at FAU in the
land of the shopping zombies, Boca Loca . . .
Apparently, Tracy has dared to suggest on his blog that alternate theories of what happened in the Sandy Hook mass shooting are possible. Moreover, he has allegedly asserted that there are: Unanswered Questions and Missing Information. OMG!
Thus, Tracy has committed an American version of blasphemy by challenging the self-appointed high priesthood of the Mainstream Media who have now whipped up a hysteria about him.
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Sunday, January 6
A Breezy Browse -
Alex Harvey has written a feature piece about singer/song writer Tom Waits for the LA Review of Books describing the life Waits once had in Los Angeles which informed the kind of songs he was writing.
# Thomas Pynchon will debut his new novel called Bleeding Edge this fall via Penguin Press, according to Jason Boog.
# Amy Wilentz revisits Haiti in her new book Farewell, Fred Voodoo, which is reviewed by Hector Tobar at LAT.
# Tom Slater reviews Sam Thompson's Communion Town, a story which unfolds via multiple points of view in a post-modern construction.
# Alex Hern writes that the graphic
novel Scene of the Crime is back in print.
# Sarah Ward reviews Bed of Nails by
French Mystery author Antonin Varenne.
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# Thomas Pynchon will debut his new novel called Bleeding Edge this fall via Penguin Press, according to Jason Boog.
# Amy Wilentz revisits Haiti in her new book Farewell, Fred Voodoo, which is reviewed by Hector Tobar at LAT.
# Tom Slater reviews Sam Thompson's Communion Town, a story which unfolds via multiple points of view in a post-modern construction.
# Alex Hern writes that the graphic
novel Scene of the Crime is back in print.
# Sarah Ward reviews Bed of Nails by
French Mystery author Antonin Varenne.
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Friday, January 4
Strangers In The Night -
. . . shoobee shoobee doo . . .
Some of the people you see on the streets here in South Florida may be your neighbors, but some may be just passing through. Some may be roofless, while others may be enslaved. Appearances can be misleading.
An elderly man was catching a bite to eat one evening at a Wendy's branch in Fort Lauderdale when he met a young couple there. They all got to chatting during which it emerged that the couple needed a place to stay.
The elderly gent impulsively offered to put them up in his apartment, whereupon the trio was observed leaving the restaurant together. The seventy-year-old man was never seen in public again. That was on Oct 15th.
At the beginning of November, police were called to his apartment complex because a foul odor was detected there. It was only then that the body was discovered. Arrest warrants were issued.
The hold-back and big reveal turned out to be that no gun or knife was used to commit this homicide; instead, a plastic bag was allegedly used by the young couple to suffocate their host.
* * * * *
A young woman enrolled in a drug rehab program disappeared. The ensuing investigation into her fate yielded the information that she had found a dubious benefactor. It was only then that the entire sinister pattern began to emerge.
She had become ensnared in a sex slavery racket. Sadly, this is not a unique case. A higher than average percentage of transients in the area permits this kind of traffic to blend in with more conventional guests. And don't be misled by the dreadlocks - this is a multi-ethnic problem.
* * * * *
American medical schools customarily locate many of their training facilities in urban areas because the population density there affords more of a concentration of opportunities for physicians to acquire experiences which will develop their skills.
Thus, a young Canadian physician who wanted to specialize in trauma surgery moved from her relatively sedate environment in Toronto to South Florida.
She writes a muddled-minded Op Ed piece in The Miami Herald in which she laments that she has encountered a level of Cruelty here among her patients, who are often the victims, which she was unprepared to deal with.
Maybe she picked the wrong specialty.
How about switching to Dermatology?
If we reduce the numbers of guns on the streets, the psychopaths will probably use knives instead. Or maybe even plastic bags.
...
Some of the people you see on the streets here in South Florida may be your neighbors, but some may be just passing through. Some may be roofless, while others may be enslaved. Appearances can be misleading.
An elderly man was catching a bite to eat one evening at a Wendy's branch in Fort Lauderdale when he met a young couple there. They all got to chatting during which it emerged that the couple needed a place to stay.
The elderly gent impulsively offered to put them up in his apartment, whereupon the trio was observed leaving the restaurant together. The seventy-year-old man was never seen in public again. That was on Oct 15th.
At the beginning of November, police were called to his apartment complex because a foul odor was detected there. It was only then that the body was discovered. Arrest warrants were issued.
The hold-back and big reveal turned out to be that no gun or knife was used to commit this homicide; instead, a plastic bag was allegedly used by the young couple to suffocate their host.
* * * * *
A young woman enrolled in a drug rehab program disappeared. The ensuing investigation into her fate yielded the information that she had found a dubious benefactor. It was only then that the entire sinister pattern began to emerge.
She had become ensnared in a sex slavery racket. Sadly, this is not a unique case. A higher than average percentage of transients in the area permits this kind of traffic to blend in with more conventional guests. And don't be misled by the dreadlocks - this is a multi-ethnic problem.
* * * * *
American medical schools customarily locate many of their training facilities in urban areas because the population density there affords more of a concentration of opportunities for physicians to acquire experiences which will develop their skills.
Thus, a young Canadian physician who wanted to specialize in trauma surgery moved from her relatively sedate environment in Toronto to South Florida.
She writes a muddled-minded Op Ed piece in The Miami Herald in which she laments that she has encountered a level of Cruelty here among her patients, who are often the victims, which she was unprepared to deal with.
Maybe she picked the wrong specialty.
How about switching to Dermatology?
If we reduce the numbers of guns on the streets, the psychopaths will probably use knives instead. Or maybe even plastic bags.
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Thursday, January 3
Novelist Gets Slammed -
The Saudi novelist Turki al-Hamad has been arrested by KSA authorities for emitting provocative tweets.
It appears (albeit at long distance) that Prince Nayef, who has been serving as Interior Minister lately, may have been pressured by prickly religious elements to go after Perceived Insults to Islam.
Well, you know how it is with Perceived Insults:
The color Aqua can be perceived as Blueish Green or Greenish Blue. But then you have to choose how you will interpret it.
You have to choose to be insulted. Then, on second thought or review, you can make a different choice that maybe you were not insulted.
For what purpose do you choose to be insulted?
"His novels have dealt with political and social matters long considered taboo in the religiously conservative kingdom."
What happened to the approach of convening a panel of scholars to discuss these issues with those who deviate from the Kingdom's official interpretations? Where is the shura on this matter? Looks like a lot of intermediate process is missing here.
Was this arrest the result of one individual's personal grudge or vendetta?
Saudi intellectuals have accumulated at least 500 signatures on a petition for Al Hamad's release, according to the latest AFP report.
:: GlobalVoices :: - - - :: Volokh ::
...
It appears (albeit at long distance) that Prince Nayef, who has been serving as Interior Minister lately, may have been pressured by prickly religious elements to go after Perceived Insults to Islam.
Well, you know how it is with Perceived Insults:
The color Aqua can be perceived as Blueish Green or Greenish Blue. But then you have to choose how you will interpret it.
You have to choose to be insulted. Then, on second thought or review, you can make a different choice that maybe you were not insulted.
For what purpose do you choose to be insulted?
"His novels have dealt with political and social matters long considered taboo in the religiously conservative kingdom."
What happened to the approach of convening a panel of scholars to discuss these issues with those who deviate from the Kingdom's official interpretations? Where is the shura on this matter? Looks like a lot of intermediate process is missing here.
Was this arrest the result of one individual's personal grudge or vendetta?
Saudi intellectuals have accumulated at least 500 signatures on a petition for Al Hamad's release, according to the latest AFP report.
:: GlobalVoices :: - - - :: Volokh ::
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Wednesday, January 2
The Case of The Naked Roofer -
It's raining men!
Hallelujah! It's raining men!
Daytona Beach Police Chief Mike Chitwood is seeking TIPS concerning the beating death of Dylan Thomas Tharp, whose nude body was found on top of the Peabody Auditorium on November 3rd.
Chitwood is convinced that somebody out there knows something, so a $5,000 reward is being offered for any information leading to the arrest of Tharp's killer.
Anyone with information on this case is asked to call detective Dale Detter at #386-671-5218.
:: It's Raining Men ::
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Hallelujah! It's raining men!
Daytona Beach Police Chief Mike Chitwood is seeking TIPS concerning the beating death of Dylan Thomas Tharp, whose nude body was found on top of the Peabody Auditorium on November 3rd.
Chitwood is convinced that somebody out there knows something, so a $5,000 reward is being offered for any information leading to the arrest of Tharp's killer.
Anyone with information on this case is asked to call detective Dale Detter at #386-671-5218.
:: It's Raining Men ::
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Tuesday, January 1
SoFlo Paper To Be Orphaned?
Sun Sentinel parent company, Chicago-based Tribune, is undergoing a makeover as a TV organization poised to sell off its newspapers, according to Reuters.
It's anyone's guess whether a prospective buyer would be interested in buying the Broward-oriented print publication set in the context of a literacy rate reputed to be comparable to that of backwoods rural Mississippi.
If Tribune cannot find a buyer for its Broward outlet, will the orphan newspaper have any future at all?
:: Reuters ::
...
It's anyone's guess whether a prospective buyer would be interested in buying the Broward-oriented print publication set in the context of a literacy rate reputed to be comparable to that of backwoods rural Mississippi.
If Tribune cannot find a buyer for its Broward outlet, will the orphan newspaper have any future at all?
:: Reuters ::
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Monday, December 31
End of Year Browse -
If you've sensibly decided to stay off the roads tonight and safely away from erratic drivers, you can curl up somewhere cosy and enjoy a bit of literary lagniappe . . .
# Rachel Arons has compiled some of the
most notable Literary Feuds of the past year.
# The Spectator's Best Book Picks of 2012:
:: Part One :: and :: Part Two ::
# Emily Temple gives us a peek at some
books scheduled to make their debuts in 2013.
# Murder at Locker 02-069 - one of
America's first school shooters - written by
Susan Taylor Martin - via Gangrey Blog.
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# Rachel Arons has compiled some of the
most notable Literary Feuds of the past year.
# The Spectator's Best Book Picks of 2012:
:: Part One :: and :: Part Two ::
# Emily Temple gives us a peek at some
books scheduled to make their debuts in 2013.
# Murder at Locker 02-069 - one of
America's first school shooters - written by
Susan Taylor Martin - via Gangrey Blog.
...
FL Top of the Pop 2012 -
Florida's top news story of this past
year according to the vox pop around
here was the Causeway Cannibal Attack . . .
A Haitian man, who had been circulating in an outdoor social gathering where someone could have slipped a strange mickey into his drink, attacked a homeless man who was sleeping on the MacArthur Causeway and then gnawed off most of his victim's facial features. Even Carl Kolchak couldn't have made it up!
In sharp contrast, newspaper members of the Associated Press chose the Sanford Shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman as Florida's top news story.
That story may have been distinctive because it had the worst quality reportage of any American news story over the year.
...
year according to the vox pop around
here was the Causeway Cannibal Attack . . .
A Haitian man, who had been circulating in an outdoor social gathering where someone could have slipped a strange mickey into his drink, attacked a homeless man who was sleeping on the MacArthur Causeway and then gnawed off most of his victim's facial features. Even Carl Kolchak couldn't have made it up!
In sharp contrast, newspaper members of the Associated Press chose the Sanford Shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman as Florida's top news story.
That story may have been distinctive because it had the worst quality reportage of any American news story over the year.
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Tuesday, December 25
Paper or Virtual Elves -
It's Christmas Eve 2012 as I write this entry
or, as the Cuban Spaniards call it, Nochebuena . . .
Newsweek Magazine is saying goodbye to its print
artifact. And the Tribune newspapers are dropping the Associated Press.
Tribune is the parent company of the Sun Sentinel newspaper in the Broward County area, but it is not a local company. The Tribune company is based in Chicago.
Meanwhile . . .
The Miami Herald has just put up a paywall.
According to their website,
today their special holiday feature was:
It's all about the pig.
How to roast a pig, Cuban-style.
Their central photo above the (virtual) fold looked more like a Three Kings Day religious drama than an American-style holiday, but perhaps that's just quibbling.
The Miami Herald has a Spanish language edition which is reported to be doing very well. It also has an English language edition which is like an atrophying vestigial organ.
Locally, the situation is complicated. Many people in South Florida get much of their news from TV. Although many of them have so-called smart phones, a large percentage of the population seem to be borderline or completely illiterate.
I don't want to get nostalgic.
Have a Merry Christmas!
:: PandoDaily :: - - :: BrowardBeat ::
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or, as the Cuban Spaniards call it, Nochebuena . . .
Newsweek Magazine is saying goodbye to its print
artifact. And the Tribune newspapers are dropping the Associated Press.
Tribune is the parent company of the Sun Sentinel newspaper in the Broward County area, but it is not a local company. The Tribune company is based in Chicago.
Meanwhile . . .
The Miami Herald has just put up a paywall.
According to their website,
today their special holiday feature was:
It's all about the pig.
How to roast a pig, Cuban-style.
Their central photo above the (virtual) fold looked more like a Three Kings Day religious drama than an American-style holiday, but perhaps that's just quibbling.
The Miami Herald has a Spanish language edition which is reported to be doing very well. It also has an English language edition which is like an atrophying vestigial organ.
Locally, the situation is complicated. Many people in South Florida get much of their news from TV. Although many of them have so-called smart phones, a large percentage of the population seem to be borderline or completely illiterate.
I don't want to get nostalgic.
Have a Merry Christmas!
:: PandoDaily :: - - :: BrowardBeat ::
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Sunday, December 23
Browsing Around -
An informal chat
with writer Michael Chabon . . .
about some of his favorite pop culture this past year. He is currently engaged in creating a project for HBO Cable TV about a team of charlatans who are recruited by British intelligence to perpetrate deceptions against the Nazis.
# Toby Keats is the Paris reporter for a fictional American newspaper in the 1920s when he becomes involved in some kind of mysterious intrigue and a competitive chase for strange automatons. Peter Lewis reviews The Paris Deadline by Max Byrd.
# Maureen Corrigan shares her picks of the Best Mysteries of the past year with an emphasis on the female perspective.
# Tom Nolan shares almost a dozen of his favorite Mystery reads from the past year with a brief but effective description of each one.
# A Gothic Tale: The Beautiful Child by
Emma Tennant is reviewed by Frances Wilson.
# Alison Flood at The Guardian reviews
Harbour Nocturne by Joseph Wambaugh.
# Willie Nelson has a new book of memoirs.
# Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, Jeff Buckley,
Alan Light and more at Our Man in Boston.
...
with writer Michael Chabon . . .
about some of his favorite pop culture this past year. He is currently engaged in creating a project for HBO Cable TV about a team of charlatans who are recruited by British intelligence to perpetrate deceptions against the Nazis.
# Toby Keats is the Paris reporter for a fictional American newspaper in the 1920s when he becomes involved in some kind of mysterious intrigue and a competitive chase for strange automatons. Peter Lewis reviews The Paris Deadline by Max Byrd.
# Maureen Corrigan shares her picks of the Best Mysteries of the past year with an emphasis on the female perspective.
# Tom Nolan shares almost a dozen of his favorite Mystery reads from the past year with a brief but effective description of each one.
# A Gothic Tale: The Beautiful Child by
Emma Tennant is reviewed by Frances Wilson.
# Alison Flood at The Guardian reviews
Harbour Nocturne by Joseph Wambaugh.
# Willie Nelson has a new book of memoirs.
# Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah, Jeff Buckley,
Alan Light and more at Our Man in Boston.
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Saturday, December 22
Sneakerhead Uproar -
There's big money in celebrity athlete sneakers,
especially when a limited edition is issued . . .
In Miami Gardens many youngsters who are fans of Air Jordan were disappointed because burglars got to the available sneaker supply of Air Jordan XI "Breds" before the kids could take them home.
:: ABC Local 10 ::
:: BizJournal ::
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especially when a limited edition is issued . . .
In Miami Gardens many youngsters who are fans of Air Jordan were disappointed because burglars got to the available sneaker supply of Air Jordan XI "Breds" before the kids could take them home.
:: ABC Local 10 ::
:: BizJournal ::
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Sunday, December 16
Spoofing on Tragedy -
William Henderson is reporting that there are fraudsters posting fake messages on the Internet who are pretending to be the Sandy Hook school shooter.
I have lived through a number of these school shootings, shopping mall shootings, and similar events. The Mainstream American Media has settled into a formula for covering these events which I often find distasteful by now. In an effort to avoid glorifying the shooter and turning him into a celebrity they have tried to create a hagiography of the victims.
It would be interesting to learn more about the shooter and his mother, his activities on the Internet, and other circumstances surrounding this event, but people need to be patient and give the detectives some time to investigate.
:: The Telegraph ::
...
I have lived through a number of these school shootings, shopping mall shootings, and similar events. The Mainstream American Media has settled into a formula for covering these events which I often find distasteful by now. In an effort to avoid glorifying the shooter and turning him into a celebrity they have tried to create a hagiography of the victims.
It would be interesting to learn more about the shooter and his mother, his activities on the Internet, and other circumstances surrounding this event, but people need to be patient and give the detectives some time to investigate.
:: The Telegraph ::
...
Wednesday, December 12
Witness #8 Speaks -
A Discovery Hearing was held yesterday morning in the Sanford Shooting Case which I watched on the InSession TV program. The most interesting part of their coverage for me was the material about Dee Dee.
First, they played the recording which was given to Defense; it was unintelligible and almost inaudible. Then they played an excerpt from an interview she did with the Prosecution. In the latter excerpt, the person identified as Dee Dee could be heard, but her voice did not seem like that of a 16-year-old; she sounded older.
We have no way of easily ascertaining if the Dee Dee character on the first recording is the same as the Dee Dee character on the second recording. Even so, I was quite intrigued.
What did Dee Dee have to say?
The 2nd Dee Dee claimed that Trayvon said "Get off!"
Sorry, but that didn't make any sense to me.
*************************
:: Refer to 8:59am and 9:03am on
their blog entry for this court session.
It emerged during the court proceedings that someone from ABC News was present during Mr Crump's interview with one of the possible Dee Dee characters. I assume the reporter was Matt Gutman who once bragged about getting this exclusive:
"ABC News was there exclusively as the 16-year-old girl told Crump about the last moments of the teenager's life."
I'm just guessing that either his recording of the occasion could get subpoenaed or he may have involved himself as a witness. Has this ever happened to a reporter before?
Yes, it has. The most famous case that comes to mind, off the top of my head, was the Son of Sam Case, which Jimmy Breslin got sucked into. Breslin received a note which became part of the news coverage.
Sometimes, reporters can get sucked into
these cases - whether they like it or not!
...
First, they played the recording which was given to Defense; it was unintelligible and almost inaudible. Then they played an excerpt from an interview she did with the Prosecution. In the latter excerpt, the person identified as Dee Dee could be heard, but her voice did not seem like that of a 16-year-old; she sounded older.
We have no way of easily ascertaining if the Dee Dee character on the first recording is the same as the Dee Dee character on the second recording. Even so, I was quite intrigued.
What did Dee Dee have to say?
The 2nd Dee Dee claimed that Trayvon said "Get off!"
Sorry, but that didn't make any sense to me.
*************************
:: Refer to 8:59am and 9:03am on
their blog entry for this court session.
It emerged during the court proceedings that someone from ABC News was present during Mr Crump's interview with one of the possible Dee Dee characters. I assume the reporter was Matt Gutman who once bragged about getting this exclusive:
"ABC News was there exclusively as the 16-year-old girl told Crump about the last moments of the teenager's life."
I'm just guessing that either his recording of the occasion could get subpoenaed or he may have involved himself as a witness. Has this ever happened to a reporter before?
Yes, it has. The most famous case that comes to mind, off the top of my head, was the Son of Sam Case, which Jimmy Breslin got sucked into. Breslin received a note which became part of the news coverage.
Sometimes, reporters can get sucked into
these cases - whether they like it or not!
...
Monday, December 10
Miami: Chasing Bygone Lights -
The Miami Herald building has been denied landmark preservation status; it will be demolished. The property was sold by McClatchy to the Genting Group.
"The building became home to The Miami Herald when the newspaper outgrew its original building, and it became the birthplace of El Nuevo Herald, the second largest Spanish publication in the country, which again is significant because of how Miami's demographics have changed."
This coming spring the Herald's personnel are expected to move into a building located in Doral.
Meanwhile, LED lights across the face of a building in Miami portray a suggestively wriggling woman reminiscent of ads for seedy Times Square peep shows of a previous era.
The display looks terribly tawdry and seems to be inaugurating a Red Light District which Miami doesn't need.
I wish they'd change the display to a pouncing big cat silhouette or a Pac-Man type video game chase - anything but the tacky eyesore they've just introduced.
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"The building became home to The Miami Herald when the newspaper outgrew its original building, and it became the birthplace of El Nuevo Herald, the second largest Spanish publication in the country, which again is significant because of how Miami's demographics have changed."
This coming spring the Herald's personnel are expected to move into a building located in Doral.
Meanwhile, LED lights across the face of a building in Miami portray a suggestively wriggling woman reminiscent of ads for seedy Times Square peep shows of a previous era.
The display looks terribly tawdry and seems to be inaugurating a Red Light District which Miami doesn't need.
I wish they'd change the display to a pouncing big cat silhouette or a Pac-Man type video game chase - anything but the tacky eyesore they've just introduced.
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Sunday, December 9
SoFlo Local Notes -
For the rest of us . . .
Some people have become fed up with the over-commercialization of the winter holidays, while others have become antagonized by the proliferation of cultural diversity gestures lately. For the sake of those who are disgruntled, disaffected or just plain grumpy, one gutsy rebel has installed a Festivus Pole in Deerfield Beach.
Victim Disempowerment: Residents of Trayvon Martin's neighborhood, Miami Gardens, are marching to protest senseless and excessive violence in their community, which, they claim, can be prevented through education.
The Wrong Write: Here's a daffy preoccupation to get your knickers in a twist: Is Nathan Fillion really Richard Castle, the character he portrays on TV?
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Some people have become fed up with the over-commercialization of the winter holidays, while others have become antagonized by the proliferation of cultural diversity gestures lately. For the sake of those who are disgruntled, disaffected or just plain grumpy, one gutsy rebel has installed a Festivus Pole in Deerfield Beach.
Victim Disempowerment: Residents of Trayvon Martin's neighborhood, Miami Gardens, are marching to protest senseless and excessive violence in their community, which, they claim, can be prevented through education.
The Wrong Write: Here's a daffy preoccupation to get your knickers in a twist: Is Nathan Fillion really Richard Castle, the character he portrays on TV?
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