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Lanyard Nation

| April 10, 2008

The last time I had an ID on a lan­yard was the sum­mer of 1988, when I was work­ing at CIA’s Office of Tech­ni­cal Ser­vices and had a green badge that had to be exposed at all times at work. For rea­sons that are per­haps obvi­ous, I would remove the badge and lan­yard when I […]

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Chaos and the “Official Woman”

| July 1, 2007

Scott Hen­son (Grits For Break­fast) gives us this post describ­ing Twila Hug­ley Earle’s speech to the Restora­tive Jus­tice Con­fer­ence in Ker­rville. Earle spoke of the appli­ca­tion (or, maybe more accu­rately, analo­giza­tion) of chaos the­ory (Scott defines it as “the study of how tur­bu­lence trans­forms into order organ­i­cally”) to crim­i­nal jus­tice: The New­ton­ian world­view sees both […]

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