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A funny thing. I mentioned a couple of days ago that I saw a car speed through a red light right in front of a cop, who didn't bother to follow said car to write him a ticket. I have had enough experiences in Lexington with the city's awful drivers to believe that that's the norm - in fact, & this is absolutely true, the only people I've met in Lexington who've been stopped by the police for traffic offenses have been people of color. But I digress.
The radio station, WRFL, is located on campus, & to get to the station, you have to come into campus a particular way & drive down a one-way street. Not surprisingly, I very often see people going the wrong way down that street, & have never seen a cop stop them, & have only heard of one person being ticketed for doing so. But as I walked to the station yesterday - I was walking from the other side, so walking the other way up the one-way street - I saw a campus police officer standing at the parking lot at the end of the one-way street writing tickets for people traveling the wrong way up the street. & to the cop's credit, the dumb person I saw getting the ticket was not a person of color. Or rather, the color of that person was white.
Wouldn't it be a weird turn of events if Lexington was the city where the campus cops were better police than the city cops? Or to put it in the idiom of the show, if they enforced the law better than the city cops? Undoubtedly both get paid terribly; but surely campus cops (I have to resist calling them kampus kops) get paid less.
Oh! I just thought of something! At the University of Texas, parking tickets were giving out like crazy because the campus police were funded in part by the moneys brought in by parking fines. Maybe that's the case at UK too. Ah well.
Not a funny thing, then. & speaking of not funny things, this week's show about laws has been place under arrest & forcibly imprisoned at the Self Help Radio Maximum Security Website. You'll need a password to get in! It broke so many laws this week - in fact, I list them below.
You can't visit, either. Naturally, the show's in solitary confinement.
(part one)
"The Law" John Maus _A Collection Of Rarities & Previously Unreleased Material_
"The Law Of Things" The Bats _The Law Of Things_
"The Law" Leonard Cohen _Various Positions_
"I'm Just A Bill" Jack Sheldon _Schoolhouse Rock: America Rock_
"There Oughta Be A Law" Mickey & Sylvia _Love Is Strange_
"There Oughta Be A Law ('Bout The Stuff I Saw)" The Newbeats _Bread & Butter_
"I Am The Law" Momus _Reproductions: Songs Of The Human League_
"Advice On Arrest" Desperate Bicycles _Another Commercial Venture_
"Against The Law" Billy Bragg _'Til We Outnumber 'Em (The Songs Of Woody Guthrie)_
"I Fought The Law (live)" The Clash _On Broadway_
"All Of The Law" The Psychedelic Furs _Midnight To Midnight_
"This Side Of The Law" Johnny Cash _I Walk The Line_
"Knock Out The Lights (& Call The Law)" Jack Hart _MGM Hillbilly, Vol. 2_
"Where's The Law" Dee-Dee Gaudet _Hot Boppin' Girls, Vol. 4_
(part two)
"It Is The Law" The Envelopes _Demon_
"Breaking The Law" The Meteors _These Evil Things_
"Breakin' The Law" The Babies _The Babies_
"The Whole Of The Law" The Only Ones _The Only Ones_
"One Law For Them" The 4 Skins _The Good, The Bad, & The 4 Skins_
"Law & Order" John Mulaney _The Top Part_
"Law" Mighty Mighty _A Band From Birmingham_
"It's A Law" Natural History _Beat Beat Heartbeat_
"New Law" Gloria Cycles _Campsite Discotheque_
"Laws Of Physics" Charming Hostess _Eat_
"Law Of The Jungle" Richard Barone _Clouds Over Eden_
"Wheel Of The Law" Kendra Smith _The Guild Of Temporal Adventurers_
"Squid Law" The Fall _Seminal Live_
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