The Camera on the Corner Doesn't Know You're Innocent
Just The Facts is back — same commitment, a new chapter, and a story worth picking the blog back up for. It's been a long time since anything new showed up on this page. A lot has happened since the last post — life moved through a few more chapters, including retirement, and along the way I picked up an interest that would have seemed like science fiction when I started this blog. Some of you already knew this from Facebook back when I was cross-posting, but for anyone who didn't: I'm Dave Simmons. I spent this blog's early years writing under "Joe Friday" — the name stays, the facts don't change, and neither does the reason I started this in the first place. I'm picking it back up because I found a story that belongs here as much as anything I've written before. When the Machine Is Wrong, the Gun Is Still Real Picture this: you're driving home. Nothing unusual — groceries in the back, maybe a baby asleep in the car seat. Then the li...