http://clicknation.com/wordpress Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 07 May 2009 05:01:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Despite vast public indifference, I am blogging again. Time goes by. I stopped after I got a new job a while ago and that became all-consuming. But I have a need to write to focus my ideas. And to write something other than endless write-only progress notes. http://clicknation.com/wordpress/?p=27 ExtraTV called it a Britney Spears's "foul-mothed tirade," but I think they're missing the point. "Eat it, lick it, snort it, f*%k it!" isn't a tirade, it's a life philosophy. When Britney first came on the scene, people said she was too slickly produced. Now she seems to have gotten past ... http://clicknation.com/wordpress/?p=26 A beautiful slide show on a young woman dealing with Kentucky treatment court. The articles are the result of 4 years of reporting on the woman's case by Lexington Herald-Leader reporters. The Herald-Leader has gone all out with the multimedia show, pdfs of the articles available, and plenty of data and ... http://clicknation.com/wordpress/?p=25 Brennan Center for Justice (NYU) Bureau of Justice Statistics Criminal Justice/Mental Health Consensus Project Psychology and the Prison System (American Psychological Association) Stanford Prison Experiment The Sentencing Project http://clicknation.com/wordpress/?p=24 Tonight is a two-hour Ted Koppel presentation on prison (Discovery Channel 9pm). I'm hoping for some in-depth discussion of the issues, but I worry that it will be just more blah, blah, blah about overcrowding, lack of vocational services, racial segregation. We've seen all this before, as MSNBC seems to ... http://clicknation.com/wordpress/?p=23 I had a chance on Friday to spend the day in a therapeutic community for substance abusers as part of my training. It was an intriguing experience. The idea was that we (8 counselors) would come in as new residents, participate in a meeting, work on a crew, observe an ... http://clicknation.com/wordpress/?p=22 Video podcasts available. Of particular interest is the 2006 McNaughton lecture: Brazilian biochemist Sergio Pena talks about racial diversity. http://clicknation.com/wordpress/?p=21 Built in 1858, "this institution owes its origin mainly to the energy of Dr. J. Edward Turner, and is the first of the kind ever established in the world. It is founded on the theory that inebriety, like insanity, is a disease, requiring like that, for its cure, medical and ... http://clicknation.com/wordpress/?p=19 http://clicknation.com/wordpress/?p=18 A series of short articles on the reconceptualization of drunkenness into addiction in the 19th century. Including an interesting gloss on the Victorian terms for addiction, including my favorite: dipsomania. http://clicknation.com/wordpress/?p=16