I have recently been corresponding with a Mensan residing in a Texas prison. I am helping him publish a newsletter which I will eventually post on my website. The next issue concerns treatment of inmates. I invite anyone interested in learning about the “Prison Industrial Complex” to simply do a Google-search on those key words, you will be amazed.
The following is a satirical piece that will appear in M-Prisoned.
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by Sean Winthrop
What is happening in May 2003?
Some of the coverage about K.U. Basketball Coach Roy Williams this past week stated that his salary and benefits package was worth about $458,000 per year.
I wonder if any of the faculty at K.U. comes close to that figure — If not, isn’t that pretty convincing evidence that somewhere along the line the universities have lost sight of the fact that their purpose is education, rather than athletics?
Then again, I doubt that it would be front-page news for a week if a physics or math professor went to another institution.
What is happening in April 2003?
The shadows chased the failing light as the old man leveled the soil with his rake. Maybe it was old-fashioned, but he thought every grave should be dug by hand, even a pauper’s grave.
Outraged by American military intervention in the Philippines, Mark Twain wrote “The War Prayer” and submitted it to Harper’s Bazaar. This magazine rejected it for being too radical, and it wasn’t published until after Twain’s death, when World War I made it even timelier. It appeared in Harper’s Monthly, November 1916.
What is happening in March 2003?
What’s happening in February?
Even two years after leaving office, President Clinton is the target of the intellectually castrated. It is still common to hear Anne Coulter and her ilk reduce the former president’s erudite remarks to absurd aphorisms.
What is happening in January 2003?
