by Leif Jensen | Sep 22, 2021 | Rant |
I have to admit I was surprised to find that there are no parole hearings in Illinois. There is no place for the victims or family to make their pleas and pitches, to keep the incarcerated in prison. I am aware of a case where the prisoner perjured themselves...
by Leif Jensen | Sep 21, 2021 | Rant |
The Illinois Prison system has a program to get prisoners back into the work force once released; it is their work release program. Work release is a program in which non-violent offenders are allowed to maintain a full or part-time job in the community but spend the...
by Leif Jensen | Sep 13, 2021 | Rant |
“Most career criminals were losers, lazy men and women who lacked impulse control and who sometimes got lucky. Criminal Masterminds were for tv and books. Movies to probably” -Reed Farrel Coleman – Hangman’s Sonnet I struggle with the validity of this...
by Leif Jensen | Sep 8, 2021 | Rant |
I have written in the past of my enjoyment of Terry O’Reilly’s podcasts “Under the Influence” and “Age of Persuasion”. One Under the Influence podcast dealt with the shape of the packaging where he quoted: “Fast Company Magazine cites University of Toronto research,...
by Leif Jensen | Aug 23, 2021 | Rant |
We the United States are failing by every measure in public education. According to one study; federal, state, and local governments spend $720.9 billion, or $14,840 per pupil, to fund K-12 public education. This gets the US to 26th in Total scores, looking at...
by Leif Jensen | Jul 5, 2021 | Rant |
School districts around the country have banned dodgeball, according to Fox News, “researchers argue that there is a ‘hidden curriculum’ of dodgeball that reinforces the oppression of those ‘perceived as weaker individuals through the exercise of...
