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, but those options seemed to be too expensive and too … [Read more...] about New Terms and Conditions
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 robber trying to get into your home. You cause the same pain either way.I'm not saying there's no … [Read more...] about Knowing Harm When We See It
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, they’ll have unrewarding, unfulfilling jobs.-- Radley … [Read more...] about Rise of the Warrior Cop – Review Part 5 of 5: Reform
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 that internal checkpoints are a hallmark of an … [Read more...] about Don’t Blame the TSA Shooting on TSA Critics
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 -- but my co-blogger, Joel Rosenberg (also gone too soon) … [Read more...] about Once More With Feeling