That's actually one of my favorite ride types EVER, but I guess I won't be riding the one in Sacramento...

(I've actually gotten emails from people I haven't really communicated with in years asking if I saw this story).

The Scandia fun park in Victorville has one of these rides as well, which I rode when it was originally at Gator Golf in Florida - with some fun ride ops who had Rose and I spinning for nearly 15 minutes.

I always wonder what happens in this kind of scenario... You know, where does this kind of thing go? Does the person get "set straight" and "put on the right path" - or do they become more bitter and angry? Is the attention enough to quell whatever thing they're in need of, or does it make them hunger for more? Do they keep him locked away forever, or do they let him go? Does he get treatment, and if so, will it work? If he does and it doesn't help him - he goes ballistic somewhere in the future - will we all be pointing fingers once again?

These are the F-d up things I end up thinking about. Questions, questions, questions.

Now I'm waiting for the followup story in which they discover further evidence which shows that the source of the noise problem in Sacramento was actually coming form Victorville.

Gravity Works Skyscraper - The most fun, fantastically scary ride experience anywhere.

I really spend most of my ride laughing, more than really screaming.

In high school a group of us used to engage in elaborate plotting of the murder (most frequently the poisoning of her ever present coffee) of a particularly hated teacher.

I can still spend hours plotting my suicide. But I've never been suicidal.

The great problem is that among a thousand people who say "I'll kill you" only one does it. Among hundreds of thousands of excluded, hateful, severely damaged children in the last 15 years who have had fantasies of mass revenge, only a dozen have acted on those fantasies.

The difficulty is that in this country we punish actions not thoughts. And, as much as we'd like to think otherwise, forced confinement to a hospital is still imprisonment. In watching this debate I am seeing a lot of people who are essentially saying that to avoid something like this it is better to "imprison" 100 innocent people to stop the one who would eventually be guilty.

Thinking back on that kid who went to court trying to reject traditional treatment for cancer. The general consensus is that it can't be forced. Does this apply to mental illness? What level of mental illness? What types? Does this have scary implications since we, as a society, seem to increasingly medicalize normal variation in mood, behavior, and characteristic?

So I sent a dude to the hospital with a nasty black eye yesterday.

When I was on the selection committee for articles to be published this year, there was just a few student articles that I thought were really awful. And lucky me, I get to S&C one of them!

I keep having to remind myself that I'm just checking their cites, and that there's nothing I can - or should - do about the fact that their writing is crap.

And it doesn't help that they're a total ass in person.

I just have to get through this process and I'll be done with Law Review forever. Less than a week....

He didn't hold the door for you?

Waiting for the other shoe . . .