Child labor is illegal

10-year old C. came over and made us dynamite carbonara, and even though the prep was not perfect (she did not mention she needed heavy cream). We also made a mean chili con carne together. I can recommend her as a cook for hire.

"However," says C., "I am a child, and child labor is illegal. But you know what? I can pretend to be cooking just because I enjoy cooking, and you can pretend that you are giving me the money a gift, as adults give kids gifts. So you are really paying me, but we pretend it's all for fun, OK?"

Child labor injury - as she was mincing jalapeno, a drop of jalapeno fluid flew into her eye. Ouch! and a red eye.

Scott Locklin on the death of Marty Halpern

In his blog, Scott Locklin reminisces about the death of his buddy Marty Halpern. A sweet manly friendship. The only thing I can add is that to the best of my knowledge,  I do not tell jokes. That must have been the famous Cvitanović.

Now that I'm on Scott: Scott finds Mussolini a more talented writer than Hitler. I dunno, but that's a low threshold. I believe every thinking person should read Mein Kampf not for its literary value, but to understand that he wrote down everything he would eventually do when he was still just another freak in the Weimar Republic freak show. And still, the moron industrialists put him in the position of total power. They clearly did not read Das Buch.

Killing of Scout Schultz, 2 years later

(continued from my post of  Sept 20, 2017)

I found nothing new the status of killing of Scout Schultz investigation (wiki) since September. Do not know anyone at Georgia Tech other than Andrea in School of Physics who cares.  Georgia is high even for United States in the number of police homicides. Historically zero in indicting policemen who kill, though in recent years a few especially nasty killing have led to indictments.

Casey Miles interviewed Hallie Lieberman about the death of Scout Schultz and the aftermath: getlively.podbean.com (Media link;  podcastrepublic.net, 18 Oct 2018)

Hallie Lieberman: "The Trigger Effect" (magazine.atavist.com,  Aug 2018)

A tribute from a friend, written as Anonymous: Scout Schultz was a burning flare maskmagazine.com (Sept 2017)

Officer Tyler Beck who killed Schultz (see the ajc.com article of Sept 25, 2017) rejoined Georgia Tech’s police force in December 2017 in an administrative capacity after being placed on paid leave pending the outcome of the investigation.. The investigation was completed March 2020, see my post of March 12, 2020, so I presume officer Beck is again patrolling the campus.

The family has a civil suit against him and GTPD: cbs46.com (Sept 19, 2018); ajc.com (Sept 11, 2019). I do not know whether the prosecutor decision of March 2020 (see above) vacates the suit.

This Oct 11, 2017 ajc.com article appears informative.

PS
 
On Sept 17, 2019, the 2nd anniversary of the murder, Scout's friends pasted stickers around Georgia Tech's campus in their memory.

Technique: One year later memorial and vigil remember Scout (Sept 22, 2018) 

The Contemporaries Project: It’s A Sin To Kill A Mockingbird - Writings on Scout Schultz (Sept 17, 2018)

Technique: Schultz death sparks outrage, promises, change (Sept 17, 2019) The Technique filed an Open Records Act request on Aug. 27 for information on Beck’s employment status. At the time of publishing, Institute’s legal team had not complied with the request.

11alive.com: 'Scout was a literal genius' (Sept 12, 2019)

GoFundMe (March 21, 2019): Help JT sue cops who lied to falsely arrest him

A tribute from Anonymous: Scout Schultz was a burning flare maskmagazine.com (Sept 2017)

And did I mention how important it is to have independent journalism? Were it not for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, all news would be controlled by the State of Georgia, be it through Georgia Tech administration or Georgia State police, and we would have never even known that a student in a moment of mental crises was killed in front of his dorm, to the horror of students watching the killing through dorm windows.

(continued in my post of March 12, 2020)