Ex-cons face hurdles landing a job, frequently suffer from PTSD and other social and psychological disorders, and must come to terms with how the outside world has changed while they were locked up on the inside.
HARNESSING INTUITION Woman's Day, putting a new twist on the old advice of drawing up a list of pros and cons when facing a difficult decision, offers a simple way to tap into your intuition.
"We forget how just a year ago neo-cons were facing the problems in the world in terms of the clash of civilizations".
I figured that desire the willingness to work hard would earn me a job, but failed to account for the discrimination ex-cons face.
Illustrating the struggles some ex-cons face, The Washington Post is profiling a convicted murder and former drug dealer trying to find more stable work now that he's served his time.
The parallels between the Petit murders and "In Cold Blood" have been drawn many times in the past three years, but they are still startling: the town, the family, and, of course, the accused, who, like Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, are ex-cons who face the death penalty if convicted.
Back in the day when big box retail started to explode upon the American landscape like a raging economic scrofula, I attended many a town planning board meeting where the pro and con factions faced off over the permitting hurdle.
We face the most unpredictable election outcome of my lifetime, a potential four-way split, the three stable parties of the century past – Con, Lib and Lab – facing disruptive, populist challengers in a variety of nationalist clothing in all four home countries.
For me, though, Comic Con has been like facing my own brand of crippling Kryptonite -- divorce.
Over the last five years, while I've been tentatively debating the pros and cons of face-lifts -- wondering whether I would look restored to my younger self if I opted to go under the knife or whether I'd look like an overstretched canvas with misplaced details -- a quiet revolution has been taking place in facial cosmetic surgery.
"Forged," directed by William Wedig from a story he wrote with Mr. Perez, might have focused just on the difficulties and temptations facing an ex-con, in the tradition of "Straight Time" or "Carlito's Way".
