DAVID DEAN MENZIES

By David Dean Menzies This past weekend my wife and I were enjoying a lazy Sunday afternoon, watching an ABC News 20/20 program. The story was about a young man incarcerated for shooting someone, and by all accounts he certainly seemed railroaded. Toward the end of the program, a few seconds of video showed a high-ranking state official going on the record at a highly visible press conference about the case, doubling-down on the jury’s guilty verdict, claiming that celebrities and other individuals advocating for the young man’s innocence were being fed inaccurate information. Soon after, the program wrapped-up, with the young man still in prison and his case gaining notoriety. For some reason, the press conference shown toward the end of the program – for lack of a better term – bothered me. It just seemed out of place for a high-ranking official to take the extreme measure of holding a press conference and putting forth such a bold statement, in the face of the information I had abso

By David Dean Menzies I saw something new at work that I have never seen before. Anywhere. Someone had taken one of those little wooden door stops and wedged it in between a door frame and inside of the door, almost at about eye-level. Prior to this I had only ever seen them used between the bottom of a door and the floor. Taking a step back and looking at this particular situation, it made perfect sense – the floor underneath the door, when open, is made of some type of marble. The door stop didn’t have any type of rubber on it, just pure wood, so it would slide on the marble and prove ineffective, hence the jerry-rigged solution. Brilliant, right? Or maybe you don’t think it’s brilliant. Perhaps your thinking has you going in a different direction, like why not just use a rubber-soled door stop, or I bet that looks silly. Who knows. Your perspective is your own, and the solution itself is open to interpretation. At the end of the day, the result is that the door is propped