Thursday, April 7th, 2011
- Okay, can we all now agree that this is starting to get pretty ridiculous? Ultimate election-year law: Come up with something that manages to give extra punishment to illegal immigrants, sex offenders, and tobacco companies at the same time.
- Puppycide. Cops chase suspected home burglar through a neighborhood, run into a private yard, shot and kill the owner’s dog.
- I write quite a bit about bad prosecutors here. So it’s worth noting and praising a DA who is doing things right.
- Drug dogs search two middle schools in Wisconsin. They alert 27 times, triggering searches of student lockers. All 27 were false alerts.
- Cop nearly takes out a cyclist with his car door, then chases her down and arrests her.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s greatest hits.
- Speaking of famous and funny libertarians, here’s an interview with Doug Stanhope in the British GQ. I saw him in Nashville a few months ago. Highly recommend his show. I still have this image in my head of a prostitute relaying the vulgar advice Milton Friedman once gave her about how to expand her repertoire when the economy takes a turn for the worse.
- San Francisco decides privacy, free assembly are quaint notions of a bygone era.
- I suggest you all send this video to your congress-critter. I’m thinking it might be able to keep them occupied—and thus, from passing crappy legislation—for a good three or four months.
- Headline of the day.
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Thursday, April 7th, 2011
- Okay, can we all now agree that this is starting to get pretty ridiculous? Ultimate election-year law: Come up with something that manages to give extra punishment to illegal immigrants, sex offenders, and tobacco companies at the same time.
- Puppycide. Cops chase suspected home burglar through a neighborhood, run into a private yard, shot and kill the owner’s dog.
- I write quite a bit about bad prosecutors here. So it’s worth noting and praising a DA who is doing things right.
- Drug dogs search two middle schools in Wisconsin. They alert 27 times, triggering searches of student lockers. All 27 were false alerts.
- Cop nearly takes out a cyclist with his car door, then chases her down and arrests her.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s greatest hits.
- Speaking of famous and funny libertarians, here’s an interview with Doug Stanhope in the British GQ. I saw him in Nashville a few months ago. Highly recommend his show. I still have this image in my head of a prostitute relaying the vulgar advice Milton Friedman once gave her about how to expand her repertoire when the economy takes a turn for the worse.
- San Francisco decides privacy, free assembly are quaint notions of a bygone era.
- I suggest you all send this video to your congress-critter. I’m thinking it might be able to keep them occupied—and thus, from passing crappy legislation—for a good three or four months.
- Headline of the day.
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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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Sunday, March 13th, 2011
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Friday, February 18th, 2011
- Another isolated incident. And this time, a particularly inept one.
- Long and stabby things.
- I’ll be writing about this in my column on Monday, but here’s another study showing problems with the use of police dogs. My favorite bit is how the tests designed to fool the handlers were twice as likely to produce false alerts as the tests designed to fool the dogs.
- Father gets a $275 ticket for not wearing a helmet at a skateboard park. It apparently doesn’t matter that he wasn’t skateboarding.
- Man convicted of murder despite no body, no physical evidence of a crime, and no proof the alleged victim is actually dead.
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
- Headline double entendres of the day, here and here.
- No indictment in the police killing of D.J. Henry.
- Smart piece by Christopher Beam on the disparity between the crime rate versus public perception of the crime rate.
- Skip Oliva on the NFL and crony capitalism.
- The public health fanatics who took down Four Loko now taking aim at non-alcoholic energy drinks. These idiots aren’t going to stop until they’ve childproofed everything.
- This is probably something to start worrying about, don’t you think?
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2011
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Saturday, January 15th, 2011
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