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Saturday, December 20, 2003

PBS had something worth stopping at last night by a Playwright, activist and Bedford Hills Correctional Facility writing workshop leader Eve Ensler. It was interviews with inmates, woman who killed, and tell about their guilt and efforts to atone. Very interesting, pathetic TV. http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2003/whatiwant/index.html

So Hinky went to the site, to see more about it:
http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2003/whatiwant/special_prison.html
Hinky voted, only to find that 18% of the PBS website watchers voted that Prisions should punish more than reform; while 81% voted that prisions should reform more than punish. This is a hinky false "either or-" type choice (since we are not in the mood to spell spell 'dicotamy' right now), something of a phoney choice between two things that are not, repeat NOT mutually exclusive.

The first order of Prision biz should be to keep the rest of society safe. They do not do that when they serve to train little fuckers to become great big Master Mind type FUCKERS!

Sure, Reform, rebirth, soul saving, reaching or whatever you want to call it is fine-- If it promises and delivers safety to society. But it does not. Punishment is also fine, for society has the right to have it's values redeemed (assuming they are the right values, which makes long sentences for non voilent drug dealing a bust. Those guys are little fuckers by definition, and should have special jails, away and apart from the great big Master Mind type FUCKERS. Why teach them such a trade?). Dante laid out circles of hell, but American did not catch on when Nelson Rocky uped the sentances to look tough on crime for the New York voters in the late 60s.

You beltway banditos should focus the prision debate on public safety, not sob stories and new schemes to reach those who act to do bad things that do society wrong. And if 81 percent feel reform is the best step, PBS totally missed the boat with this thing. America should worry first about how these little fuckers get to jail, where they go, and return to society; then it should worry about efforts to build programs to reform, or punish inside the jail. The problems are psychological, but the country is too broke to pay professionals to study and treat the inmate in each case, and why should it, when young people on the outside are struggling to pay pensions off on the jackasses who set it up and spent it all before them? So they pay semi pros just enough not to quit to do just enough to not get fired, and use the savings to pump these all the FUCKERS (little and great big master mind types) with new drugs that calm and relax. These Super Dooper Salt Peter classes of drugs keep might reach them, but they are not guarantee they are fixed for introduction back to society. Hinky writes: more's the better, and maybe never enough. Knock em out, and sleep it off suckas; if you did what you did, maybe you need to do what you need to do-- roll that sleeve up.

Inmate stories are like reading Dante's Inferno, but until they find a better way to manage violent criminals, it remains what it is, no? Focus on prevention outside the jail, in the next generation. Let me say that again: FOCUS ON PREVENTATIVE MEASURES BEFORE THE WOMAN GETS MAD ENOUGH TO STAB THE OLD WIDOWER MAN 27 TIMES in the neck; and before he HIRED HER FOR COMFORT 3 MONTHS AFTER HIS WIFE PASSED; and so maybe THE WOMAN INMATE DOESN'T HAVE SUCH A STORY TO TELL FOR PBS VIEWERS some day. The stories are ghoulish, and maybe this America is getting more hungry for them every day. The woman tells us she recalls the uncle who raped her and every other injustice she faced coming up. She recalls the reasons, after searching in a cool, dry place. That is not unique we'd bet. In fact, there are years and generations of studies where you'll find the reason for the unreason of killers.

Society does nothing because no politician leaves the money to spend on change. The deep pockets don't see the return. The Chairman is worried about trading out his Feb. calls, and his 401K, yes?

Bean counters are sociopaths when you really measure what's been going on for decades. Joe Kennedy didn't really do much, when you add it all up. Leaving preventative social work type programs broke, and prisions running on tight budgets are and have been the norm since the prisions and the nut houses were developed in the 1800s. It has been for years, since Nixon- and the Senator from New York from who Hillary took the wheel made the lines longer and the budgets less. We are not talking about hand outs either. We are talking about SOCIAL WORKERS WHO COULD HAVE STOPPED THOSE KIDS IN NJ FROM STARVING!

When we see something like the crimes these PBS inmates tell, every judge and policy maker should ask themselves: "Could better social work have stopped this crime." And if the answer is yes, which we think is the case, PBS should relay that message to the masses. Rather than trying to close the barn door after the fire type TV ask other questions of you viewers. Try that Cambridge. Could Tax incentives be used to provide better policy; to reach the 5 year old, before he or she is a 19 year old, with a knife, and a bag, and a 40, and a 9? Come on? What's hinky today? Ask the F-ing Brain Trust at PBS if you want a lot of hinky double talk, and jackassed josteling all hatched over Tall Extra Grande Laits delivered each morning at just after 10am!

Hinky 12:38 PM

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Friday, December 19, 2003

Hinky was looking at the Upromise.com account today that he set up for potential children when he got an email from a jackassed associate explaining that the department of Homeland Security thinks that there is a female suicide bomber walking around nyc. Hinky's first thought: Symbol: INVN. Hinky's second thought-- is this creditable, like say the sulphuric acid rain that killed all the fish and all the white Birtch trees in Vermont and upstate new york?

But Hinky's third thought was most hinky: is that all there is my friends? You know, I could be sitting there, looking at my I promise account online, watching the tax free dollars grow (or NOT), as Strong funds are removed from the program for playing dirty fucking pool and selling American's out for chicken change, and in the next minute a woman suicide bomber could walk by and take out half the block, including my desk and me. Dirt knaps for everyone. One minute, you are worrying what to get this one or that one for Christmas, and the next, some hinky twist takes you along on the express train to what she feels is a better place, and one that will teach those left behind how to live better lives, in preparation for that better place.

Hinky's 4th thought: that fucking dessert is too hot to raise children. Their brains must get cooked in the sun. Sure, it's oil rich, but everyone seems so pissed off. The sun must do it.

Who could talk to a woman who bombs herself? Then again, who knows if there is such a thing until...
Boom. You see, it could have been that fast.

So forget your pensions, and IRAs, and 529 college savings plans. Drink up, for in the morning we could die, but alas, we never do.

But someday we must; just not yet we hope. And with hope, as with everything humans do (even female suicide bombers in manhattan), we blog on.

Hinky 11:06 PM

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Wednesday, December 17, 2003

Merry christmas, can you feel the spirit of the thing?

Saddam is in a cell, under a bright light and the oil market is locked up, with the price supports in place, provided they can rope in those Wild Cat Baith party leftovers with nothing to lose. Maybe make them a posse, or a secret police department to watch over the other police department. Maybe they can train them to operate roller coasters and other rides for Iraq's transition to a Middle Eastern Disney World.

Wild cats need wages too, so they have something to lose, and Hinky thinks they should pay them with France and Germany's share of credit; but what do I know, right?

The American Pres. wants cleptocratic Saddam hangin high. Is that hinky? Let's just say he should cut the Gene Autry routine. America is roped in; no need to tighten up the knoose. Just give Saddam to the Kurds, in the North, and televise it.

Hinky 7:40 PM

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Tuesday, December 16, 2003

Prior to 2000, the Bass brothers of texas put a lot of money into Max Capital, which invests in NYC real estate. Why does that bug me?

Hinky 6:43 PM

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Monday, December 15, 2003

Finally, something hinky worth writing about (apart from Dizzy Lizzie and her SUV): That rabbit they pulled from the hat in the dessert over the weekend, with the gray beard, which they took no time at all chopping away so as not to confuse us with Osamma or Fidel. Hell no; he can keep the stash, like Adolph, but the beard had to go. It was a good choice.

But what's hinky was what Saddam said when offered water. He said he doesn't want water while his people are in bondage. That takes the cake, even if you try to appreciate the wry sense of humor he was going for with that line. Hinky can understand a cleptocrat selling his people out along with the rest of those paradoxially poor people of those other oil rich countries for the vast windfall profits he grabbed selling oil out from under OPEC on the black markets. And maybe Hinky would expect him to use the old ways to keep the arrangement as simple and cost effective as he could get away with. And maybe, when faced with 600 American troops-- actually faced with them, not just talking shit about them out of anger or imagination-- you'd expect that he would be a bust out chicken, holding still while they check his teeth, which he will need for all that good Federal prision food while the US completes the management shakeout and capping of wildcat rigging in the middle east.

But to hear this Rabbit of Bagdad joke about refusing water for his people who are in bondage was a bit of a suprise. It was as though he were making a joke at a dinner party to another cleptocratic bandit from one of those other country where selling out the poor is a greater passtime than soccer for that 1 out of 2.7 million who are born to the ruling trade.

Here is a guy that they take the trouble to reach down and scoop up like Bugs Bunny at a time when the rich stock and bond holders of the world could use the capital gains in their portfolios and also a time when we could use a little Christmas cheer before election year, and all Saddam has to say to the world is this bad UN dinner joke.

It goes to show that Fame, like Youth, Beauty and outsized, WINDFALL profits are often wasted on the wrong people. At least Dennis the menace, the former currupt CEO of Tyco past had the good sense to shut up and take his lumps, yes?

Maybe the really hinky thing are the other 200,000 plus Baths who are out of a job with nothing to lose in Iraq, as they weigh the costs and benefits of strapping on some C4 and running toward US troops. How do you shake those monkies down from the trees to go to jail and break rock in the hot sun without a lot of out sized risk?

Hinky 5:25 PM

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