Reflections

“What the hell just happened?”

July 25, 2011

“What the hell just happened?” That’s what I was asking myself as I drove away from the bank building in downtown Abilene this afternoon. My day had taken a pretty weird turn about 15 minutes earlier, and I was still trying to figure it out. I had gotten to my office, and was talking with [...]

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The Wheels of Justice?

February 18, 2011

I don’t like this picture. The second one doesn’t bother me as much, though. I’ve only been covering cops and crime for a few months now. We’ve had a few big things happen since then: a murder-suicide, a missing child, high-speed chases, a 16-year-old kid shot and killed by his 17-year-old friend, now a road-rage [...]

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We’re all in this together

October 6, 2010
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I had lunch with my wife today. We stopped off at Wendy’s. There were several tables full of college students, gossiping about this and that. There was a middle-aged couple, both Wal-Mart employees, she in the pharmacy, he in the automotive department. Two men, brothers perhaps, judging by their looks, but both workers at the [...]

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Top 7 Things I Don’t Like Today

June 30, 2010
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In which I construct a list: Item #1: HDR. “High-Dynamic-Range.” I’m sorry, I just don’t like it. Maybe that’s because I’ve only seen the seven bajillion poor examples of it. I’ve been told there are good examples of HDR, but I have yet to come across them. They must be hiding in a secret corner [...]

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“Our job is to report on them with no obligations, none whatsoever.”

June 26, 2010
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First of all, I’ve never been embedded. I’ve never covered combat, foreign or domestic. I did walk through a part of Northern Uganda that I later discovered had an assortment of land mines, but I don’t think that counts. It might have counted if I had known there were landmines around *before* I went traipsing [...]

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