Oh, the opportunity to do nothing – it just like doing something, but it sounds so much prettier.
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Event Review: Treklanta 2017, Atlanta GA, April 28-30
This is a convention by and for 'Star Trek' fans of all ages.
Read More »Inmates at Ohio Prison Secretly Built Computers, Used Them for Crimes
Investigators eventually found the jerry-rigged computers, which inmates had used to commit identity and credit card theft, hidden on pieces of plywood stashed above the ceiling tiles of a conveniently located storage closet.
Read More »Supreme Court Rejects Intellectual Disability Test Methods in Texas Death Penalty Cases
In a 5-3 decision March 28,2017, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the methods that Texas has been using to gauge whether a defendant’s intellectual ability should spare them the death penalty.
Read More »Common Sense About Auto Loans (and How Delinquent Subprime Loans Raise Rates for Everyone)
When you first take out your car loan, if you have a low credit score, your interest rate will be fairly high but as you make your monthly payments on time, that consistency contributes to building your credit. What this means is that as you make your payments and your credit score rises, you start to qualify for better interest rates.
Read More »Theater Review: ‘HEDY! The Life and Inventions of Hedy Lamarr’ by Heather Massie
Heather Massie resurrects the screen legend to gratefully address an audience that's finally asking "the right questions" – not about Hedy Lamarr's legendary beauty, her many marriages, the sex and nudity in her controversial 1933 film Ecstasy, or her post-career arrests for shoplifting, but about her mind.
Read More »Theater Review (London): ‘Don Juan in Soho’ Starring David Tennant
David Tennant returns to the West End in Patrick Marber's contemporary take on the famous womanizer.
Read More »Justice Department Maps New Course on Forensic Science Review
The new Attorney General’s announcement made clear the National Commission on Forensic Science will be allowed to expire April 23, at the end of its current term.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘The Emperor Jones’ at the Irish Repertory Theatre
Oppressive rulers are often first the oppressed who never overcome their own former states of torment and abuse.
Read More »What Happens in Schools With No Report Card Grades – True Learning Begins!
The education system continues to fail students because of this folly of expectation that has resulted in reliance on standardized test scores that have no meaning in relation to what a child knows and retains.
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