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Category Archives: crime & punishment

The Revolution.

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Two Problems
If you haven’t read the comments on the Paris post, they are interesting reading. There are two things that come out in the things people wrote.
First, there is the problem of the ‘media’. Money is best [...]

Paris

Paris Hilton is in jail, again. A few weeks ago, I used her as an example of Pride. Her words during sentencing struck me as sufficiently vain to illustrate my ideas.
Complicated, actually
So yeah, picking Hilton’s courtroom quote was easy. However, it also simplified her situation in the same way that the media [...]

Hi, Mom.

Flashing back to the past…
In my last year of college, Bill lived in the dorm room next to me. I was sitting at my desk studying (well, probably I was playing a video game, but whatever) and he starts yelling “Matt! Come here! Your house is on TV!”
I run over and there, [...]

Root Cause Analysis & Your Sidearm

I love you too!
…because, at least the way a couple of email read, some folk don’t “get” the gist of Root Cause Analysis. Let me elaborate about my earlier post.
In root cause analysis, nothing gets a free pass. This means you must consider all reasonable components that are collected together to define an “incident”.
“Incidents” [...]

What is an isolated incident?

Isolated Incident
If you Google the term “isolated incident”, you get dozens of hits. Many are related to the terrible shooting that occurred yesterday at Virgina Tech but there are literally pages of hits unrelated to this. “Isolated incident” is a commonly used term in the news.
Tragic shooting
On the ABC News website, they have [...]