22 January 2019 – Tuesday

481 down, 249 to go.

It’s freezing today in Hell. Several work detail crews were called off for weather. I sure hope Susan gets mangled in a horrible 10-car pile-up today. I’m sure I’d never be so lucky here in this unholy land.

There was a granola and yogurt in the vending machines yesterday and today. Yum. I wiped both of them out. I miss granola for breakfast. I need to cut back on spending a bit so I can survive until work release without asking mom & dad for more money.

Two more days until a Barnes and Noble trip. Chances are good with my luck and this Hellish nightmare place, it’ll be cancelled for some reason, maybe weather.

When I get to writing the chapter on justice, check out the “Justice” and “Morality” sections of Aquinas. There was lots of material there that I wanted to use. Aquinas has a lot of great philosophy and methodological systems/language that is helpful for discourse and thinking. He has a lot of problematic ideas too, like those of women and contradictory support for slavery, etc.

Delivering justice is hard work. Nebraskans are inherently lazy; they like to talk about them as if they are hard working, but they’re really extremely lazy and entitled – and nowhere is that more apparent than their approach to justice. They lie, cheat (didn’t follow rules about unreasonable intrusions; use fake drug-dog techniques, etc.) to avoid hard work. They also water-down the standard of proof (reasonable doubt of actual guilt) so they only need to say “we think this happened” and “it could have happened”; therefore, we will lazily more forward with assumption that it did happen. I will call this the Nebraska could-have-happened standard. They’re lazy in their policing activities; lazy in their legislative activities; lazy in their civic responsibilities; and extremely lazy in their practice of law and justice (e.g. Inquisitor Susan’s monotonal and lazy reading from her script).