No teenage rebellion in Thailand!

If you’re in Thailand, better stand up when you’re supposed to!

Thai student accused of king insult
from AL JAZEERA

Failure to stand for king’s anthem could land student with 15 year jail term.

On Prisons and Prisoners

I write about prisons and prisoners a lot, so you might never know that it’s a really hard subject for me to write about, but it is. It’s not just numbers and statistics and information; it’s family. My mom is in prison, on drug charges, and would be much better off in a drug treatment […]

Happy Valentine’s Day

Open post to see sparkly valentines.

 
  

Texas prisoners and the telephone

This is only good news AFTER I figure out how to block calls. But I guess it is good for other people.

Texas the last state to give inmates regular phone privileges
from HoustonChronicle
For the first time ever, Texas prison inmates will soon be able to pick up a phone and reach out to family and […]

discrimination at hospitals

Well THIS is hardly fair!
ER docs give whites narcotics more often
from Yahoo! News
AP - Emergency room doctors are prescribing strong narcotics more often to patients who complain of pain, but minorities are less likely to get them than whites, a new study finds. Even for the severe pain of kidney stones, minorities were prescribed […]

cool vocabulary game for charity

This is a great game that helps teach vocabulary and also raises money for giving rice to hungry people. I’ll be ready for the SAT’s in no time!
Click here to play.

Random Poll

Okay, I have a random Poll

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Letters to the editor

Sorry I have been absent the past weeks. I have been writing letters to my local paper in an attempt to help correct the American Public’s ignorance. My latest letter was in response to this letter published on October 1st:
William O. Stephens seems to be as misguided […]

Miss South Carolina denied her scholarship

I HATE beauty pageants. Big time hate. But I know I will need a scholarship to go to college and I support girls that do the beauty pageant thing in order to get a scholarship. So reading stories like this bothers me. They’re combining to try to keep her from collecting. […]