http://www.dadi.org Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:39:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From Tennessee we go now to Canada on the continuing topic of equally shared parenting.  In both the state and the nation, there are bills pending before the legislatures that would establish the presumption of equally shared parenting.  And in both, the presumption could be rebutted by a showing that ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/glennsacks/~3/hVMm28pm_YQ/ Sometimes it seems that we just can't get away from outrageously bad "journalism."  In just the past two days I've been astonished at the frankly false data reported by the Bangor Daily News about child maltreatment.  The article completely ignored easy-to-find accurate data published yearly by the Administration for Children ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/glennsacks/~3/1h0wAfx_Juw/ Sometimes it seems that we just can't get away from outrageously bad "journalism."  In just the past two days I've been astonished at the frankly false data reported by the Bangor Daily News about child maltreatment.  The article completely ignored easy-to-find accurate data published yearly by the Administration for Children ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/glennsacks/~3/1h0wAfx_Juw/ No sooner have we finished with Santa Clara Deputy District Attorney Ben Field's suspension from the practice of law due to prosecutorial misconduct, but this comes across our desk (San Jose Mercury News, 3/11/10). Last year I reported on a Santa Clara Hospital that the county's prosecutors used to analyze evidence in ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/glennsacks/~3/xe-wuUNJxs8/ No sooner have we finished with Santa Clara Deputy District Attorney Ben Field's suspension from the practice of law due to prosecutorial misconduct, but this comes across our desk (San Jose Mercury News, 3/11/10). Last year I reported on a Santa Clara Hospital that the county's prosecutors used to analyze evidence in ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/glennsacks/~3/xe-wuUNJxs8/ To anyone familiar with the false allegations of rape levelled at three members of the Duke Lacrosse team in 2006, the following should be well-plowed ground.  One of the signal features of the Duke imbroglio was the fact that the prosecutor, Michael Nifong, ended up both losing the case and having the ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/glennsacks/~3/EcbsOhLtqw0/ This article weighed in with some disinformation about child abuse, neglect and death.  Its headline - "Most Often Children Die at the Hands of Young Men" - gives a taste of what's to come (Bangor Daily News, 3/6/10).  That is, the article itself contains some important misstatements of fact. The piece ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/glennsacks/~3/-dF2dmPmXSA/ India's upper house of Parliament has passed a bill that would amend the country's constitution to require that 30% of MPs be women.  Read about it here (New York Times, 3/9/10).  Just how that would be accomplished, I don't know; the logistics alone look either farcical or enraging depending on ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/glennsacks/~3/0BoEOZuyzyA/ In recent days, we've been treated to New York State NOW chapter president Marcia Pappas demanding that the governor resign.  I've written before about the antipathy so many public feminists feel for the concepts of democracy and due process of law.  When New York State Senator Hiram Monserrate was charged with assaulting his ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/glennsacks/~3/xy5mzqjOjwo/ Meanwhile, we have former super model Naomi Campbell once again assaulting an employee.  She seems to make a habit of it and has been sued several times by people on her payroll.  Sometimes she varies her routine by assaulting police officers instead of employees.   She's been convicted of criminal assault at ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/glennsacks/~3/eRBtrNmutW8/