Author: wildninja

Someone like you. Someone who'll rattle the cages. B.A. Criminal Justice, M.A. Forensic Psychology.

Are You a Lost Cause?

Do you ever feel like a lost cause? When we consider the totality of our selfishness, our patterns of wrong choices, our use of our gifts and talents for the wrong reasons, it’s easy to feel like God could never use us or forgive us. Perhaps you have conflict hidden deep inside, or you find […]

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ADTA

http://armeddefense.org/ For awhile I’ve been wanting to say hey to my friends at the Armed Defense Training Association. Armed defense has rarely been a partisan issue in my circles; both liberals and conservatives I know exercise their Second Amendment rights. None of us think it’s radical or weird to defend our families, our property, and […]

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Happy Towel Day!

May 25th is Towel Day. Have your towels readily available and display them proudly! http://www.towelday.org/ A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical value – you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of […]

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OpenCourt

Those who’ve read my article on police records might be interested to check out an experiment in Massachusetts called OpenCourt. Here’s an explanation of it from their site: OpenCourt is an experimental project run by WBUR, Boston’s NPR news station, that uses digital technology to make Quincy District Court more accessible to the public. Anyone […]

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The Rapture– Really?!

Great. Another opportunity for Christians to be portrayed as lunatic nut jobs obsessed with the damnation of others. Today, May 21st, 2011, is said to be the day of the Rapture by Harold Camping, a Christian radio broadcaster. Some people are taking this so seriously that they are packed and ready to go on the […]

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The Classic Crime

You know the kind of music that you crank up and sing along with when you’re driving? The type that has you playing air drums at a stoplight and other people look over in awe of your percussion skills? I’m proud to say that one of my favorite “crank it up” bands is Seattle’s own […]

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The Questionable State of Police Records

In 2006, King County, Washington Councilmember Reagan Dunn was roundly panned for drawing attention to an issue with county records that were accessible to anyone via the Internet. His constituents’ social security numbers and signatures were displayed on many documents that were considered public record. Obviously such information could be misused for identity theft or […]

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