Tag: history

JUST KICKIN HISTORY

The store of cain and abel takes up just sixteen lines of the bible. It is arguable history’s most famous murder. But the store is silent about one key detail : The weapon cain used to kill his brother. was it a rock ? or a sharpened stone […]

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A DAY OF REGRET

In my introduction I said I had done some bad things in my past. I feel its only right that I share some of my past history that lead me to come to prison. First and formost I want to tell you that I had wonderful parents, who […]

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Black Lives Matter

Really ? And why now ? All of a sudden there’s camaras’ all over the place and the police are getting airplay daily in the media or social media wih the wrong doing they do , now black lives matter . ” WE ” been trying to tell […]

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PSEUDO-INTELLECTUALISM IN PRISON

It’s part and parcel. Yesterday I was sitting at a table where two guys were talking about ancient alien astronauts or whatever the latest show on the History channel is touting. I tried to bring in some actual history and anthropology, but it wasn’t wanted. The same day, […]

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RELIGION IN PRISON

There’s always the cliched expectation that religion can make a con’s life better. The first time I ever went to the Hole, shortly after I arrived in prison in 1997, it was exactly as I expected: a bare cell, metal toilet, mattress, and blanket, and you were there […]

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EDUCATION IN PRISON

It never fails in this place; there is always a chorus of anti-intellectual nonsense, people saying, “What’s the point of that, I’m never going to need it in my life.” Yes, because education is very underrated. All of those successful people in life got that way by spurning […]

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