It looks like Seattle police may think the Sunday morning shooting deaths of four Lakewood police officers was the work of a guy who was reportedly out on $150,000 bail from another couple of crimes. However, the thing that everyone's going to be talking about is the fact that [...]
For the last twenty years or so, my wife and I have spent every Thanksgiving with my parents. However, my parents both passed away this year. Everyone says the holidays are hard times after a loss, and I've had two of them, so I've been a bit concerned about how this [...]
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The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has been returning overhead photos of the Apollo landing sites. Cory Maye is getting a new trial. Steve Landsburg slams Krugman and then praises Krugman. Sounds right to me in both cases. It just kills me that teachers grade students all [...]Putting a public option in the comprehensive healthcare reform bill is a stupid idea.
Note that I'm not saying that the public option is a stupid idea, nor am I saying that comprehensive reform is a stupid idea. Either or both of those things could be stupid, but that's not what' [...]
The anonymous multi-author blog Popehat has a lot of good stuff, but earlier this week, blogger "Patrick" posted some irresponsible alarmist claptrap that I cannot in good conscience allow to remain unanswered. I'm talking, of course, about his long-winded and poorly-reasoned discourse on the so-called "zombie apocalypse."
Patrick tries to frame the' [...]
What happens when a bunch of students at Danvers High School in Massachusetts have fun at school by saying "Meep" like Beaker on The Muppet Show?
Principal Thomas Murray bans it and threatens them with suspension.
Then, when a smart-ass lawyer sends an email to school officials saying, in its [...]
Looks like the Fox network killed off yet another show I like, adding Dollhouse to a list that includes Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Drive, John Doe, Strange Luck, Profit, Millenium, The Adventures of Briscoe County Jr., and of course Firefly.
Special note to Joss Whedon, Tim [...]
Veteran's Day always made me think proudly of my father. Now that he's passed on, it's kind of a sad day. I've got nothing else to say, really.
' [...]At the end of a plodding news conference, Politburo spokesman Guenter Schabowski offhandedly said East Germany was lifting restrictions on travel across its border with West Germany.
Pressed on when the regulation would take effect, he looked down at his notes and stammered: "As far as I" [...]
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Economist Steven Landsburg is blogging to promote his new book. Another example of using civil forfeiture to turn a police force into a theft ring. The war on people in pain continues.(Hit tip: Pete Guither)
[...]Radley Balko explains why she was one of the worst prosecutors in the country.
This was one of the items on my Obama freedom scorecard, although I don't know how to tell if he gets full points for forcing her out or if she's just' [...]
Miami Criminal Defense Lawyer Brian Tannebaum asks us "Why do conservatives apologize for the government?"
But there is a more disturbing trend in conservative thought when it comes to criminal justice. Maybe it's not a trend, just more visible with the advent of blogs and online comments on newspaper websites, but [...]
