Rest assured, there are a lot of difficulties to be overcome in order to abolish the death penalty. We've got to convince a law and order culture to choose life over death. We need to deconstruct the myths surrounding capital punishment, that the death penalty is a deterrent, that it's good for families of murder victims, that it's cost effective, etc. But also, we have to get around, and at TCASK that has been a little bit of a problem in the past months.

You see, there are two of us on staff here, but TCASK only has one car. This can get pretty awkward when the traveling Jesuit is expected to be away all week in McKenzie, Memphis, and Chattanooga, and the Tennessee Dude still needs to get around Nashville and do presentations in Murfreesboro and Knoxville.

So, Ginger Eades to the rescue. A few months ago, Ginger donated her old car to TCASK. Now the cars brakes were in pretty horrible shape (the sound they made when applied led to the pet name the deathmobile for the car), but we just got it back from the shop and I drove it to the office and no sounds of suffering came from its interior when I approached red lights. We're thinking of renaming it the resurrectionmobile now.

So soon we'll be able to not only have two full-time staffers, but two full-time traveling staffers. So, anyone else who has an old car, keep us in mind. We'll be adding more staff soon and we all need to get a move on, so we can git 'er done.


postscript... the above hotrod is what the "new" car looks like in the lil' jesuit dude's young mind's eye - this is what she actually looks like ...