Year: 2013
Non-Lawyers Talking About the Law
Scott Greenfield has a post up at Simple Justice talking about how often people get legal advice from sources other than lawyers. I’ll skip to the ending: The law is hard to understand, hard to navigate and very hard to practice. If you are not a lawyer, you have no business giving legal advice because… Read more
Getting Important Information Out There
I don’t normally write about the blog marketing annoyances, but this one deserves a comment. Mark Bennett received a request from someone (I’m guessing this guy) asking for permission to repost some of his stuff: I have recently started a blog and would like to cross pollinate with people such we yourself who obviously see… Read more
New Terms and Conditions
In keeping with tradition, I wanted my blog to have the most severe and over-the-top Terms & Conditions possible, with robust protection against spammers, lawsuits, and intellectual property theft. I could have engaged a lawyer to write them for me, or I could have researched it on the web and tried to write my own,… Read more
Knowing Harm When We See It
One of the themes I keep visiting here at Windypundit is that when you harm someone, the magnitude of the harm you do that person is not dependent on your reason for doing it. Punch a guy in the face, and it doesn’t matter if he’s an innocent stranger on the bus or a push-in… Read more
Rise of the Warrior Cop – Review Part 5 of 5: Reform
Bad cops are the product of bad policy. And policy is ultimately made by politicians. A bad system loaded with bad incentives will unfailingly produce bad cops. The good ones will never enter the field in the first place, or they will become frustrated and leave police work, or they’ll simply turn bad. At best,… Read more