Aug 18, 2025

The Noggin Where I Talk About True Crime and the Justice System

On a long drive recently I listened to one of those podcasts about an innocent man arrested for murder and it had me screaming at my radio. It's the popular story where a District Attorney, and police Investigators won't back down in the face of evidence, violate the constitution and refuse to lose a case... all while facing ZERO consequences for it.  The incredible racism in this one didn't help either. Listening to some of these jurors in a case from just 10 years ago. It's like they don't even know they're racist they've been racist so long. 


So many of these cases where the supposed "good guys" get tunnel vision on a suspect they blatantly ignore evidence or any other suspects that come up.  Some who straight up admit it, or even when there's DNA proving they did it.  In one case like this the cops just said "oh well they must have helped [the original suspect] do it".  They just can't admit they're wrong no matter what happens.  And then when it's been proven they violated rights and falsely sentenced an innocent person there is no punishment for them.  They just get to keep on doing their jobs and fuck people over. 

In so many of those true crime podcasts and documentaries there's a situation like I described above; bad DA's, crooked cops, favoritism from a judge. In most of those cases there's often an overworked, underpaid defense attorney from the Public Defender's office busting their ass, pouring their heart and soul into a client who will probably not appreciated it.  The shit that goes down in those true crime stories; regular people in bad situations getting their rights trampled... that shit happens every day in every county in the USA.  I have joked before that you could make a Public Defender reality show or weekly podcast by just throwing a dart at a map, find the nearest public defender office and just take a production crew there for a week and you'd be guaranteed to have an entertaining show.   

A big part of what is wrong with the justice system, aside from the racism which plays a major role in this particular case is prosecutors basically having no penalty or punishment for violating innocent people's rights and for generally putting them through hell.  Many times ruining their lives.  Technically there is a way to punish them, but no one realizes it because they're part of the problem.
In our current system what's supposed to happen when a DA gets caught being shitty and breaking the law repeatedly, letting cases get retried because of mistrials or appeals finding prosecutorial misconduct, wasting tax payer money and wasting jurors time and keeping an innocent person in jail for lengthy periods of time is that they should get the blame for all of that. They should get publicly shamed and not re-elected to that position. But they don't because it happens every damn day there's no single case to focus on.  Ultimately the general public doesn't understand how it works. They don't see the elected prosecutors doing a shitty job, they only see a criminal getting to have another case and blame it on a tricky defense attorney, a slick Public Defender finding loopholes or the Judge allowing them to get off on a technicality.  And they feel sorry for the DA who has to try the case again. They see a dangerous criminal getting set back onto the streets.  What the average asshole doesn't understand is that the cases were overturned because of PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT.   The alleged suspect was set free because the DA broke the law to get a conviction.  The everyday-stupids on the jury never saw the exculpatory evidence because they dirty cops destroyed it or the DA never turned it over.  So why are most people on their side?  If they cant get a conviction without being best friends with the judge or withholding evidence, then they shouldn't be doing this job.  VOTE THEM OUT.  They are after all elected officials.  But really if they get caught doing all of this shit they should get jail time or a sanction or a fine or something. We The People have this power that we seem to never properly wield. We have the ballot box and the public being educated on how the system is supposed to work.

No AI was used or has ever been used in my illustrations or writings.  


Aug 14, 2025

SkUnKeD!

my artist rendition of what it might have looked like. 
I'm sleeping soundly with the dogs. Cpap on, window open. woken up around 3:30 am with the half asleep memory of maybe hearing a woman shriek outside. I turn off my Cpap take a listen but don't hear anything and the dogs are not disturbed so I turn my machine back on and try to go to sleep. Then the overwhelming stench of skunk is being blasted straight into my nose through the Cpap. I get up to close the window and see my neighbors with their garage door open wondering what they're doing up and I notice they're frantically trying to wash their dog in the driveway. Must have been a late night pee walk and got skunked somewhere in front of my house and the shriek was my neighbor lady getting skunked.

My whole house smelled like skunk for an hour and I couldn't go back to sleep. Sorry, neighbors. That's gotta suck.

Also I'm not sure if I ever told this story here but I'm deathly afraid of skunks but not because of the above situation. It's totally irrational. I once had a dream where I was being chased by a wild pack of skunks through my old high school field. It was like 20 of them and they were angry. I was more afraid they were going to tear me up and eat me or something. Of course rationally I'm afraid of getting skunked too. I once hit a skunk with my car and my car smelled like skunk for like a year. Skunks, man. I hate em.

Aug 5, 2025

Apple Pencil Update. WTF, Apple Part 2.

Remember that free iPad I got from Optimum after they lied and said I wouldn't get it unless I paid for another month of service? Well it was cool using it to draw once I got the right Apple Pencil, and the right adapter and cord to make it work. I drew some stuff with it but haven't really had time to mess with it for a while.

I knew this would happen because I'm not one to carry a friggin tablet with me everywhere I go. That's why I love the built in sPen stylus of my galaxy phone. I've been using the Galaxy Note (now Galaxy S Ultra) line for like 10 years and now I hear they're going to discontinue the built in Spen. Fuck you, Samsung. But yea, since tablets are cumbersome it-along with the Apple Pencil have lived in a drawer for a few months.

I have a small project I wanted to use it on so I dusted it off. Of course the tablet was dead so I popped it on a charger. As expected the Apple Pencil is also dead. The iPad wont recognize it when plugged in and wont charge on a charger.


So I wen't to ask Uncle Google to see what to do. Apparently it needs a tiny amount of juice to tell the iPad it's plugged in but if the battery goes to full ZERO then it's basically useless and dead. Official recourse is to take it to an Apple store and they can repair it for $$. Great design, Apple. The answer Google AI search results is giving me is to heat it up. No seriously. Apparently someone made a video saying that if you wrap it in a hot towel for 20 mins it wakes up the internal battery enough to start charging. I haven't been able to try this yet and it's probably bullshit but.... What the actual fucking hot garbage, Apple? (Spoiler alert: it actually worked)

drawn with SPen on Galaxy phone.
(because it works)
Again, I'm trying to like you, Apple but you keep doing stupid shit. Why is Apple so god damn popular? So far in my experience it's overpriced trash.


UPDATE: OK so the heat 🔥 method fucking worked! 🤯🤯🤯 The bonkers part is that it had 20% battery when it finally paired.  What the fuck? I though it was totally bullshit. Holy crap.

PS:  this is still a piece of shit design. A $100 accessory shouldn't be disposable when you don't use it for 3 weeks.