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I have posted before on sex-offender laws, and the issue was reopened for me by an article from the Economist. Below are the high points, though I highly recommend the whole article. Again, our American-style of harsh penalties and zero-tolerance clauses is resulting in not only an unforgiving national culture, but perhaps, and more importantly, [...]

Since 1976 (when the Supreme Court reversed its 1972 decision to ban the death penalty in the US), there have been “more than a hundred and thirty people on death row have been exonerated.”
There are heinous crimes for which I would have a hard time arguing against the death penalty (I doubt you will ever [...]

My first teaching experience (outside of the Missionary Training Center, which is a world unto itself) was at the Utah State Mental Hospital. I was in the Special Education program at BYU and one of my classmates was a teacher with the 9-12th grade girls (all of the 9-12th grade girls who fell in that [...]

In today’s society there are few groups of people reviled more than sexual predators, I understand from anecdotal stories that in prisons sexual predators, especially of children, are often harmed and harassed by the other convicts. Few would hesitate to label them “sinners,” and rightfully so, as such crimes are especially heinous and damaging to [...]

Amory Lovins at a recent TED talk explains how a gallon of gas is used by your car:

Is this a modus operandi we’re comfortable with?

In a study conducted by the Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger & Homelessness/National Coalition for the Homeless the followin statistics were discovered:
* Season: Winter claimed the most homeless deaths with 27% of the total deaths, followed by Summer [25%]; Spring [24%] and Fall [23%].
(I find it surprising the winter doesn’t claim a much higher [...]

Could it be that if we just had more time we would be more charitable people? In a brief clip, Ted Goleman discusses the story of theological students and a special test they underwent on the way to give a sermon. Perhaps if we could cut out a few superfluous to-dos from our day we [...]