David Simon on Baltimore’s Anguish
Time to watch The Wire again, really one of the best shows ever.
Posts tagged 'society'
The Bystander Effect
An alternate viewpoint to this past linkview.
‘Free-range’ kids and our parenting police state
Welcome to the parenting police state. We don’t know each other beyond our next door neighbors (if that). We’re scared of everything. We don’t know our police; they don’t know us. Our (small, local) government employees can’t make common sense decisions with compassion. We live in an anonymous society. How are we going to create a better community to raise our kids in?
“What a horrible mother:” How a call from a “good samaritan” derailed these mothers’ lives
“I mean, what’s wrong with people?” she asked. “Has everyone in the world gone insane?” During the making of Toy Story, one of the cartoonists, exhausted and overworked, left his kid locked in the car, forgetting to drop him off at daycare. A nightmare for any parent, but should his boss have called the police on him? Or change the company culture?