https://www.isegoria.net/2009/09/rich-black-flunking/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:08:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 https://www.isegoria.net/2009/09/rich-black-flunking/comment-page-1/#comment-2606999 David Whitewolf Sun, 21 Jan 2018 21:18:44 +0000 http://isegoria.net/isegoria/?p=4245#comment-2606999 Ages ago when interning in the California Governor’s office, I attended a legislative hearing of some sort at which an Assemblyman or Senator (name of House, IIRC) made an aside about a constituent who’d called up his office demanding that they help her son, who’d been convicted of a felony axe murder of an old lady down the street whose stereo he wanted to steal. The mother’s complaint was that the high school had failed to teach him that it was wrong to do that.

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