Year: 2008
Operational Justice
A few days ago, Gideon at a public defender posted a very thoughful response to my post discussing whether criminal defense lawyers help their clients get away with crimes: We fight. We fight tooth and nail. Not because we absolutely believe that our client is innocent—in fact, most of the time we don’t care whether the… Read more
Midwest Airlines Center in Milwaukee
It’s been a while since I did any photoblogging—just posting a photo for no reason other than to look at a photo. I was up in Milwaukee a couple of weeks ago, so here’s a photo I took of the Midwest Airlines Center. Midwest Airlines Center Read more
Plumbers and Police
We had a plumber come in today to replace the toilet in our master bathroom. He was from the same company that does a lot of the plumbing work for our condo association, so I figured they’d be reasonably professional about it. I left him alone to get the job done while I worked on… Read more
Oregon Woman Plans to Parade Topless on July 4
And somehow that’s national news. Read more
The Rolling Meadows Police State
Last week I wrote about the plans of D.C. police to impose checkpoints on residents. That fell through. However, the innovative folks who run things in Rolling Meadows here in Illinois have been getting away with it for a whole week: The owners of a Rolling Meadows apartment complex filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday charging that their… Read more