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So why did it take so long for the police to arrest Freddie Williams?

Everyone knew it was him all along, so what was the holdup? The good old boys protecting one of their own? I guess what they say is true it don’t matter what you know its who you know, right? [Editor’s Note: When you say 'Everyone knew it was him all along, so w’hat was the holdup?” what, exactly doyoumean?Doyou mean why didn’t the police release the name of the person they were investigating? What would that accomplish? Do you think you have a right to know w’hat the police are investigating? Look, I’m in the business of informing the public about what is going on in the community, and Em entitled to certain pieces of information as part of that whole Freedom of the Press” thing, but even I don’t have the right to free access to police investigation data until such time as the police department can release it in a manner in line with things like “due process” and “equalprotection under the law’. ”

Just because you read something on Facebook doesn ’t make it official (or even true). I would think that when you are investigating a high-ranking police official on suspicion of stealing drugs from the police station, you not only don’t get in a huny, you also don’t release any names until you’re ready to press charges. Sound reasonable, right? Even if the fabled Good Old Boys are running the show]

There have been so many new inventions and developments that it is easy to wonder where they are heading. Originally people walked everywhere. Then they rode horses… more convenient but a bit smelly. The next item was the car in its many forms…

convenient and not really that smelly. Cars worked well for over a century, slowly improving, getting more efficient, less energy consuming and ‘nicer’.

Then someone must have drunk too much and went silly — let’s have a car without a driver. There are now cars that do not need drivers and they work well and run over less people than cars with drivers.

People can work on the way to work and on the way home from work. The passengers are reasonably safe. The next stage will be the passengerless, driverless car so that these workers will be ever safer. The number of driver and passenger deaths and injuries is sure to drop. The last stage in the evolution of transport system will be the earless car or as it was originally called ‘walking’. The air will be fresher, people will be fitter and happier. The horses may start to panic though.

[Editor’s Note: You kind of went off the rails there at the end. You also skipped over covered wagons, trains and airplanes. But anyway, the best thing I heard recently about these se If-driving cars is that there are concerns that in large cities where parking is at a premium (and expensive) that folks might just opt to have their cars drop them off and then cruise around the block waiting for them to get done with their shopping or dinner or whatever So, picture dozens of empty cars just motoring around downtown Memphis, completely empty. As for me, Em still holding out for téléportation, as long as I don’t end up like Jeff Goldblum in “The Fly”] How long do you figure we’ll have that water tower “ART” project done before someone shoots it up or steals all the metal off of it for scrap? [Editor’s Note: My immediate response was going to be “as soon as it’s done, ” but hopefully not. Given the location in a well-traveled area and one with plenty of cameras around, I think it’s probably safe. I am a little disappointed they decided not to go with the little flickering medallions going down the guy-wires, because I saw that feature on an artsy piece over in Memphis recently and the effect was pretty cool]

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