I thought everyone should watch this video and reflect a little.  I’ve passed it on to a few people, but would rather as many folk see it as possible.

And lest we forget, when Jesus was asked what the greatest of the Commandments was, he gave two new ones: to love God, and to love your neighbor as you love yourself.  Which, in reality, were just summations of the other Commandments.  But everyone seems to conveniently forget that those two are supposed to be the most important when it comes to prosecuting and persecuting others.

I am proud to announce my latest project - hopefully before our ethical directors learn about it and shut us down!  I present to you: Incorrigible Dicta, the Unofficial Public Defender Blog for Massachusetts Public Defenders.  If you’ve ever wondered why I never write about work… well, now you don’t have to wonder anymore!  You can just go there and check it out for yourself.  There you’ll find stories from me, as well as some of my coworkers, as we fight the good fight on behalf of the indigent, those poor souls that get stuck under the wheels of the great machine we call the Criminal Justice System.

Please, don’t feed the animals.

Something new is coming.  I’m excited.  No peeking under the curtains, now!

I just had the following conversation at work.

Me: What do you call a person who carves wood?
Lee: A wood carver.
Me: …Ok, I feel stupid now.

I need to sleep, and yet I’ve the bug to write.  I have a pretrial conference tomorrow - my first - and I’m hoping to get this kid a good deal so he can go off and be with his family.  But that’s not really what’s got me still up - a strange feat, given I’ve been sleeping a lot earlier this week.  (Seriously - I think I fell asleep at 9:30 on Monday night.  I haven’t done a bed time that early since… I can’t actually remember.  So probably around elementary or middle school.)

I watched Almost Famous again today, and that is a seriously great movie.  It was just playing on TV when I flipped by and, not really expecting to sit through the whole thing, I sat and watched for a few minutes (the initial meeting between Penny Lane and young William, o brave Sir William the Betrayed…) and then next thing I know the credits are rolling.

I keep thinking about Penny Lane, though - the character, or the archetype I suppose.  Something just bothers me, not in the sense that there’s something not right but… I dunno.  I can’t quite put my finger on the trigger, which is I guess why the whole point of this little exercise anyhow.

“The only currency that’s worth anything in this bankrupt world is what we say to each other when we’re uncool.”