Doakes Sunday: Urban Planning
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Registered sex offenders to live on Charles Avenue [A street a few block north of University, through the Midway, Frogtown and the North End of Saint Paul – Ed]. On the new bike-and-pedestrian-friendly part of the street.
Seems odd to be slowing down potential victims just in front of the predator’s house but then, I‘m not an urban planner.
Joe Doakes
June 16th, 2013 at 11:11 am
George Orwell – “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”
Urban planners are all intellectuals, aren’t they?
June 16th, 2013 at 11:13 pm
Liberal #1: “I think that we need to place these discharged sex offenders with single women living with young children. I read just read a study by some sociologists who say that it will help the sex offender reintegrate with society and reduce his feelings of alienation.”
Liberal #2: “Was that study peer-reviewed?”
Liberal #1: “Yes. It came from the Humphrey Center!”
Liberal #2: “Will we try this out on public housing inmates first?”
Liberal #1 “Yes.”
Liberal #2 “It’s a go then! I’ll contact my friend at the capital and see if we can get a grant to make this happen! I just hope those Republicans in legislature don’t find out about this and shut us down.”
Liberal #1 “Darn those anti-science republicans!”