Year: 2006
Too Much SWAT, Part 1
In response to an article I wrote last month about Police Shootings that Make You Go Hmmmm…, a commenter named Erick writes: I’ve been on the Chicago Police SWAT team now without incident for over a year. SWAT teams don’t just take random phone calls from anonymous callers, gear up and go smashing in peoples… Read more
The Value of Land Under Eminent Domain
Radley Balko says this: In Tacoma, Washington, the “Sound Transit,” a government agency, offered a landowner $439,000 for a piece of property in 2004. Finding the offer low, the landowner sued, and eventually lost in the State Supreme Court. Now, the Sound Transit is offering just $240,000, citing a “reassessment” of the property’s value. That’s… Read more
Zombie Dance Party
You don’t really need to know the rest of this story about a “zombie dance party” to appreciate this paragraph: Police say the group was uncooperative and intimidated passersby with their “ghoulish” makeup at a time when officers were on high alert in reaction to a bulletin about men in other states who wear clown… Read more
No Trackbacks Here
I’ve never really understood how trackbacks work. In fact, for over a year now, trackbacks haven’t been working. I get lots of notices of spam trackbacks, but not a single legitimate trackback ever. I assume something in my Movable Type blogging software is swallowing them up, but I don’t know where it happens. I’m giving… Read more
Windypundit 2.0.01
Earlier I pointed out the exciting changes to Windypundit when it became Windypundit 2.0 (summary: rounded corners). Now I bring you the next step: AJAX. That’s right, the hottest new trend in web site technology. The Windypundit page now makes background queries back to the Windypundit server to update its content. In keeping with the… Read more