Year: 2016
A Verdict of Innocence?
Over at Fault Lines, Andrew Fleischman has a post about the idea of letting a jury determine actual innocence. It’s an interesting post — worth a read — but when I read the headline I thought of something a bit different. Criminal defense attorneys complain about the difficulty of getting a jury to understand the… Read more
The Bouquet Of My New Suburban Life
I’m still recovering from my move to the new house. It turns out that packing all your stuff into boxes and then trying to reassemble it back into a working life is really time-consuming. I keep running into problems like wanting to put a piece of furniture together, which would be a lot easier with… Read more
Going Dark
I’m going dark in an hour or so. In preparation for the big move tomorrow, I’m about to shut down and pack up the home computers and tear down our internet connection. Shortly after posting this message, for the first time in over 15 years, my wife and I will no longer have broadband internet… Read more
Why Should Miss Lorelei Rivers Give a Shit What Other People Want?
I missed Maggie McNeill’s last Friday the 13th roundup, and it was the only one this year, but there’s something I want to get off my chest about a type of argument that really annoys me, and I figure she won’t mind. The problem, as it so often is for us libertarians, is the lack… Read more
What the Fuck Did I Do?
“What the fuck did I do?” That’s what Detective Jimmy McNulty asks Bunk at the end of the first season of The Wire as he contemplates all that he has set in motion. It’s a phrase that has been going through my head a lot over the past week. “What the fuck did I do?”… Read more