R.R. Hicks's Blog, page 3
September 10, 2015
A Quick Confession …
I’m going to watch the Patriots – Steelers tonight. Despite the fact I know, deep down inside that it’s wrong … or at least abetting … or enabling … or a hundred other things. I mean giving the NFL money, no matter how indirectly, is akin to mailing a check to the Koch brothers.I mean, […]
September 8, 2015
End of Summer Thoughts
It’s a 196 in the shade today, so what better time than to catch up with stuff that has festered all summer. To wit: The 24/7 coverage of DeflateGate has dramatically illustrated a really, really scary point about today’s society that has nothing to do with cheating and football: the abysmal state of legal knowledge […]
September 5, 2015
Musical Notes From a Long Saturday Run
Getting ready for a half marathon in October and went out on 9 mile run this morning on the Farmington Canal Bike Trail … A big difference from my usual run-alone-in-the-woods route. The run wasn’t only a test of conditioning, it was also a test of my musical selections. Some observations: REM’s End of the World and […]
August 20, 2015
About Jared . . .
I’ve been reading and listening to a lot of speculation, baseless opinion, not so subtle hopes that Jared Fogle get the full prison experience, and many,many really bad memes about Fogle’s prison fate. None of them are remotely close to Jared’s impending reality. So, sorry everyone who took the time and effort to post all over […]
August 19, 2015
Innocent Until Investigated…
In this town, you’re innocent until investigated ~ Christopher Plummer to George Clooney in Syriana I listen to people (endlessly) talk about ‘Deflategate’ and I realise they have no conception of what an investigation is. They hear ‘investigation’ and immediately conjure up a team of unbiased, dedicated sleuths doggedly following leads, discarding the bad, following the […]
August 3, 2015
Catching Up
I haven’t written in a long while, I was off putting together a package for a literary agent for a non-fiction narrative about prison. Since she wanted a couple of chapters I was forced to go beyond the chapter outline, snatches of excerpts, quick character sketch minimum and dive back into my journals – just […]
June 26, 2015
Dignity
A sitting judge in the U.S. Supreme Court just wrote the following in his dissent in Obergefell v. Hodges: “Slaves did not lose their dignity (any more than they lost their humanity) because the government allowed them to be enslaved. Those held in internment camps did not lose their dignity because the government confined them. And […]
June 25, 2015
A Prologue from Pre-Trail Detention
My client pushed back on a protesting plastic chair until he leaned against a cinderblock wall the color of watered-down pea soup. He waved at the table in an ‘it’s all there’ motion, folded his arms and waited. I flipped open a tattered, coffee stained file folder, it contained a creased, equally stained police report. […]
May 20, 2015
The Box
Someone, somewhere, sometime last week asked me to explain ‘plea bargaining’. My first attempt was fairly pathetic and I was about to bag it with a ‘I can’t talk about it’ sigh of self pity when the perfect image hit … Continue reading →
May 2, 2015
Speaking of Royals . . .
In honor of the birth of yet another royal baby – a discussion between William Hanlin and General McClellan concerning the French princes on McClellan’s staff – and royalty in America: . . . the door swung open and three … Continue reading →
