There is a popular expression — among the sort of unimaginative types who continually recycle "witticisms" until any acuity they may once have had has…
Posts published by “Flynn Washburne”
Prison is a young man's game. Or woman's; I don't want to take a sexist position here, but I will take an ageist one in…
The CDCR — that's the $12 billion per annum state human warehousing agency that is, was, and will be gobbling up the General Fund every…
You know the feeling you get when you casually flip on a light switch—the manner in which all of us nearly always do it, nonchalantly…
I'm not in the habit of issuing disclaimers here; way I sees it, you pays your money, you takes your chances. Life is a crapshoot…
There are probably settings more dismal than a Fort Bragg (northern latitude, coastal proximity) bus "shelter" on a late Sunday afternoon in mid-November during a…
“OOOOO-eeeeeeeeee!” I shouted, coming down hard on the second syllable and giving it some real verve and brio, the pitch steadily rising into the sensory…
Prisoners, like the elderly and latter-day Luddites, are traveling way, way off the information superhighway. Me even employing a zero-currency term like “information superhighway” tells…
I thought long and hard about it, and I eventually concluded that yes, it was time to start those bells a-ringing again. No, not those…