Some Thoughts from a Critical Theory PhD

 Each of these men are not only felons but they are on death row usually in California State Prisons (and when a state abolishes the death penalty then the felons invited have “Life in Prison wihout the Possibility of Parole.”  Our men, especially in California out of the LA Branch of the Mankind Project and sometimes other centers (San Diego, San Franciso, e.g.) will enter the prisons by way of a specially designated area set aside  so that the wardens can release these new iniates who are either “Lifers” or “Death Rowers” into this special section of the prsion where they meet our staff  and then become the Inside Man branch of the Mankind Project. MKP Staff can then certifiy “Lifers” & “Death Rowers” to become  Inside Staff in their own right.  During the next retreat these certified MKP Inside Staff then rejoin our “Outside MKP Staff” before  the initiates enter this separation space (other “Lifers” & “Death Rowers” who have yet to attend the retreat). Outside Staff are mor

 Several years ago, by reading Tolkien, Rowling, Martin that novels ought not to be put on the silver screen because two and a half hours (even three) leaves too little time.  For example, in Harry Potter 4 the writers skip the entire narrative about the house elves’ revolt.  We can view these side plots as smaller than the main arcs, sure, but should Tom Bombadill have appeared in the Hobbit?  Granted Tolkien stated with the Hobbit  that he simply wanted to write a long novel to see whether he could do it and thus the Hobbit  rambles like the Picareque novels of the late Renaissance with which, as a professor of Old English, Tolkien would have familiarized himself and may have taught. Meanwhile, then we have two television shows about serial killers Dr. Hannibal Lecter and (nearly a physician who left medical school top of his class) Dexter Morgan.  In both shows we observe the TV writers going off script of the novels.  For example, in one of the later Dexter  novels, once Jeff Linds