tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9599422.post3162911950446541905..comments2023-10-20T06:51:55.948-04:00Comments on SeeingGreene: Girdling the GreenesDick Mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03485935634961545610noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9599422.post-48975943710101642002011-03-04T20:23:10.039-05:002011-03-04T20:23:10.039-05:00Ahhhh.....as a commenter, I should have read furth...Ahhhh.....as a commenter, I should have read further in the Blog and then would have encountered further instances of dubious goings on in "Greene County". The Blog's author later reveals:<br /><br />"<i>The foregoing items demonstrate a rhetorical trick: inviting a false inference by not explicitly forestalling it, when circumstances make it likely that respondents will otherwise draw it. The false inference is that the cited Greene County events occurred in Greene County, NEW YORK. Actually, they occurred, or were reported to have occurred, in the Greene counties of Ohio, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Illinois.</i>"<br /><br />I stand reprimanded.Chiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12302538471168640751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9599422.post-33615311455538094082011-03-04T20:15:22.251-05:002011-03-04T20:15:22.251-05:00Seeing Greene reports:
"A former high school...Seeing Greene reports:<br /><br />"<i>A former high school teacher who had been convicted of rape and sodomy, but was allowed to go free on probation as requested by her victim, may go to prison after all. According to Greene County’s district attorney, Alison Peck violated twice a condition of her probation, requiring that as a registered sex offender she give notice of changes of residence.</i>" <br /><br />Alas...the Alison M. Peck who faces these charges was a music teacher at Greenfield High School in <b>Greenfield, Missouri</b>, with no known connection to Greene County, NY, much less Greene County's District Attorney.Chiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12302538471168640751noreply@blogger.com