cymbaljack

Today in my Comics as Literature class, I successfully said the name of every student. I then did some little celebratory fist-pump or something. This exchange followed:

Student: That was kind of geeky, there.
Me: What class do you think this is? I get paid to read Watchmen.

Nobody makes me defensive with calling me a geek. I get defensive easy, trust me, but not about that. I fully admitted my geekness a long, long time ago.

One: District 9 is awesome. That's science fiction, baby!

Realizing that upwards of three people read this blog each year, it's time to use my celebrity to push an important cause: Restorative Justice. Restorative Justice is an approach to wrongdoing that focuses on repairing the harm done and rebuilding broken relationships. I think if we were wise, we'd move away from our "lock 'em up" model of criminal justice and put restorative justice approaches in its place. (Granted, a few extreme cases might need to be removed completely from others. But the vast majority or our ridiculously enormous prison population don't require that. And no one is really benefitting from the current system.)