Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
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Friday, March 30th, 2012
- Police respond to man’s medical alert bracelet accidentally going off, and end up killing him.
- ” . . . the total amount of uncompensated care provided in America currently adds up to only $40.7 billion annually or about 3 percent of our total health care spending.”
- New doubts about yet another shaken baby conviction.
- In 1951, the CIA spiked the bread in a small French town with LSD.
- You learned something today: Larry Hagman once drunkenly swung an ax at a group of nuns.
- Duke Sucks, the book.
- Over at the Economist, Bruce Schneier debates former TSA director Kip Hawley.
- The surprising thing is how little FLA found in its investigation of Foxconn. Workers sometimes worked more hours than are allowed under Chinese law, but wished they could work more. Interns don’t get health insurance. Migrant workers can’t get social security. This hardly seems like the vision of a sweatshop critics describe.
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Sunday, March 18th, 2012
- A point that can’t be made often enough when discussing labor in the developing wrold.
- Jeffrey Havard again denied by the Mississippi Supreme Court. I’ve written about Havard’s case several times, but here’s a good summary. The only real evidence against him was now-disputed testimony from Steven Hayne. Yet he’s now perilously close to an execution date. I’ll have more on this later.
- Jacob Sullum on the injustice in the Dharun Ravi verdict. It’s disappointing to see people normally skeptical of the criminal justice system celebrating Ravi’s possible imprisonment.
- NPR asks three people who want to go to war with Syria what we should do about Syria.
- Senators say if they could tell you how the PATRIOT Act is being used, you’d be appalled.
- Police officer accused of sexual battery, rape while in uniform offered deal to plead guilty to extortion. He’ll get probation and the chance to clear his record entirely.
- State politicians aren’t using money from the mortgage settlement to help out homeowners. So basically, politicians used desperate homeowners as a prop to punish banks in order to get funding to help pay down budget deficits created by politicians. If you’re surprised by this, you haven’t been paying attention.
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Thursday, March 15th, 2012
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Thursday, January 19th, 2012
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Friday, January 6th, 2012
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Monday, August 15th, 2011
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Monday, July 4th, 2011
- Tennessee legislature takes on the dangerous threat posed by raunchy bumper stickers.
LAPD L.A. Sheriff’s Department to stop suspending cops who “have used excessive force, driven while intoxicated, falsely imprisoned people or committed other serious misconduct.” Instead, they’ll now get a stern warning.- Speaking of L.A., the city will settle with the family of a teen shot and killed by an LAPD cop after video evidence shows the cop lied about the incident. It’s the second time video has contradicted his testimony. Yes, the cop is still on active duty.
- Really fantastic ProPublica investigation into how the criminal justice system handles the deaths of children. Answer: Not very well.
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Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
- Never leave your kid in the car, even for 30 seconds. Not because it’s dangerous, but because someone may call the cops on you.
- I blame gay marriage.
- “Patrol officers in some police agencies and the state highway patrol were evaluated and given pay increases, in part, according to how many traffic violations they issued to motorists. That can no longer be a basis for performance evaluation under the new law.” Rather unfortunate that this needs to be codified into law in the first place.
- The “bite-mark experts” fight back.
- The column itself is just inane. The police responses to it in the comments section are horrifying.
- Sheriff’s deputy resigns after shooting, killing a vicious chihuahua.
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