Windypundit

Classical liberalism, criminal laws, the war on drugs, economics, free speech, technology, photography, sex work, cats, and whatever else comes to mind.

Year: 2013

  • Don’t Blame the TSA Shooting on TSA Critics

    Saw this from Steve Marmel: Marmel’s contribution is these parts: Ginning up hate against the TSA and the government has consequences. Thanks, Tea Party. This blood is on your hands. Fuck you, Steve. I’m not in the Tea Party (whatever that is these days), but I do believe the TSA routinely violates our rights, and… Read more

  • Once More With Feeling

    To honor the passing of “Ed,” the anonymous editor of Blawg Review, several blawgers have banded together to assemble one last Blawg Review. The chain starts at Blawg Review and continues around through all the usual suspects. I never got around to doing a Blawg Review — it always seemed like too much responsibility —… Read more

  • Ender’s Game…Meh

    I’m not sure whether I’m going to see the new Ender’s Game movie. I’m not alone in facing this decision. The big-budget movie is based on the much beloved science fiction book of the same name, which won both the Hugo and Nebula awards. However, a lot of people are reluctant to see it because… Read more

  • No Jury Duty

    I dodged a…not a bullet, more like a slow-lobbed softball…today. I was a standby juror for the Cook County courtroom in Skokie today, but when I called in, only people with last names beginning H through S had to report. I’m relieved. Somehow, this time it just seemed like a drag. Although at least they’ve… Read more

  • Physical Reality and the Federal Rules of Evidence

    Jamison Koehler has a short post quoting from the Federal Rules of Evidence: According to Federal Rule of Evidence 401, the test for relevance is whether the evidence has a “tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it… Read more