http://www.kentucky.com/752/index.xml News, sports, and entertainment from Kentucky.com en-us Copyright 2008 Kentucky.com Columnist - Albom 60 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:03:20 EDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's Workbench webmaster@kentucky.com http://www.kentucky.com/752/story/541421.html http://www.kentucky.com/752/story/541421.html Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:08 EDT
"You reach a point," the expression goes, "where you just can't take it anymore."

Apparently, a woman in Omaha, Neb., reached that point with her teenage children last week. Her 14-year-old son was, according to her, smoking pot, sneaking out and beating up his younger brother without remorse.

So she drove him to her local police department.

And she left him there. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/752/story/525089.html http://www.kentucky.com/752/story/525089.html Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:36 EDT
Keep walking, Kwame Kilpatrick. Out the door, off the stage and into a jail cell. You had a chance, on what could have been the most honest night of your life, to truly stand up, to change the image of who you are and perhaps begin to change yourself.

Instead, you put cops at the door, blocked reporters you didn't like from coming in, then bathed in sycophantic applause before leaving in a gush of phony bravado, like an ego-mad athlete being tossed from the game.

"You done set me up for a comeback" were your final words, because you couldn't resist, as the curtain came down, one more grab of the spotlight.

Instead of 'fessing up to a series of lies that paralyzed this city, cost it millions and turned it into an international embarrassment, you exited like a poor victim, swinging at some vast, invisible conspiracy, as if people in this state had nothing better to do than to mount an exhausting, eight-month campaign against you . full of your own text messages. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/752/story/479810.html http://www.kentucky.com/752/story/479810.html Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:47 EDT
For the last six days, Carl Riggins has been getting up at 5 a.m. and driving through the streets of Detroit in a van that belongs to a homeless shelter.

He picked up a 6-year-old here, an 8-year-old there, from the east side, from the west side, from Highland Park.

At one point, he had 14 kids in that van.

He put on music. He told them to get comfortable. And he made the long drive out of the city to wider spaces, nicer views, down Interstate 94 to the campus of Eastern Michigan. It was an Olympic journey of sorts. The Junior Olympics. ]]> http://www.kentucky.com/752/story/475013.html http://www.kentucky.com/752/story/475013.html Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:08 EDT
I'm a very serious actor.

And I'm wearing a cape.

I've done Shakespeare in the Park. I've done experimental performance art workshops in which I played a half-eaten apple.

I'm a very serious actor. ]]>