Year: 2009
Thanks For My Friends
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 Thanksgiving would go. Fortunately, some… Read more
Keeping the Jury in the Dark
I’m guessing that most of you are neither lawyers nor career criminals, which means that, like me, your most significant role in the criminal justice system is probably going to be juror. As Norm Pattis explains, this means you’re going to be kept in the dark: When we refuse to let juries know the truth… Read more
Scattershot 2009-11-20
Random shots around the web: 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 the time, but their unions… Read more
The Public Option to Healthcare Reform is Stupid
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 I’m talking about. I’m… Read more
Blawg Review #238: Celebrating the International Day of Tolerance … and the NRA’s Birthday
“We tend to idealize tolerance, then wonder why we find ourselves infested with losers and nut cases. — Patrick Nielsen Hayden “I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.” — Coleridge Cue the music. The United Nations has proclaimed today, November 16, as the International Day of Tolerance. This came in the wake… Read more