Public Defender - What People Think I Do

Joe is 90 today

Happy birthday to my father.

Joe is 10 today

Happy Birthday, son.

Friday cat blogging

Just because it's been a while since they've visited the blog.

Best friends

After that last post about an inanimate object, these two wanted me to remember who my real friends are:(from a Sunday drive to the new Centralia dog park)

Above Lawyer's Canyon

Back from Lawyer Creek

The story of the original Lawyer is here.

53 minutes left for Friday cat blogging

Someone noticed that these two hadn't made an appearance in the blog lately. Here they are.

"A very pleasant picture of a man who committed a very serious crime"

From Bryon Houlgrave's photojournalism blog:

Jailhouse portraits

Do you remember your best school picture pose? Today I shot the pretrial hearing of a man charged with sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl...

Click the link, then scroll down for the photo.

Dogs at work

Okay, so in all the excitement of the McChord air show, I went and took dog pictures, of this fine schutzhund in particular. This military working dog reminded me of some fine working pups I once met who are a little closer to my workplace.

They're the true Courthouse Dogs, and now they have their own Northwest - based website, dedicated to "support(ing) the use of well - trained assistance dogs that provide emotional support to all involved in the criminal justice system." They're good good good doggies.

The fabulous thunderbirds

Joe and I went to the local airbase today to take in the USAF Thunderbirds and a few other planes.

Joe is 9 today

Happy Birthday, my great kid.

Saludos de la frontera

Spent part of the day hoping the boy might learn gently what Benito Juárez taught,

Respect for the rights of others is peace.

(that, and introducing him to the homeland of paletas and licuados)

Never too far from the job

Greetings from Legoland!

As I was saying

We're on vacation.

Lazy Sunday

Plum and Al

Dogs run free, but not at DOC

Took Annie to the off-leash dog park in Lakewood today, then took the long way home. We drove through Steilacoom in time to watch the prison ferry arrive from McNeill Island, our own Puget Sound Alcatraz. I've always thought of the boats as an interesting form of prisoner transport; this was the first time I've stuck around to see who disembarked. Tonight it was DOC employees on their way home from the day shift, like any other commuters - it's a full-service flotilla.

Happy Valentine's Day

(since it's been a while since one of my fur family has been featured in the blog)

A day off at Northwest Trek

Getting to be a Martin Luther King Jr. day tradition:

Bonus link greetings of the day go to The Mountain Goat Report, In The Moment, and Feminist Mormon Housewife.

Let the bake-off begin!

Now that the counting's beginning, for all their vote - suppressing exclusionary tendencies, caucuses have it all over other more democratic means of choosing a nominee in one crucial area: cookies.At the end of all this, if it's Edwards, I'll very happily vote for Edwards.
If it's Obama, I'll happily vote for Obama.
If it's Kucinich, I'll happily vote for Kucinich, but I'll have to vote absentee, because before that happens, the mothership will have landed and taken Dennis and me away.
If it's Clinton, I'll dutifully vote for the candidate of my party.