Author: Mark Draughn
What’s The Real Bob Etheridge Story?
People complain about reporters asking asking crazy questions, but those are sometimes the ones that get the most interesting results. For example, in the video below, the reporter goes through the trouble of setting up an ambush interview on a Congressman, and then asks him a really dumb generic question: “Do you fully support the… Read more
Peter McWilliams, Ten Years Gone
Nick Gillespie notes that Peter McWilliams died ten years ago today. McWilliams was a resister of the War On Drugs. He was also one of its casualties. McWilliams was very sick with AIDS and cancer, and the medicines he used made him nauseated, which he was able to ameliorate by smoking marijuana. The DEA charged… Read more
Trial Lawyers and the Winner’s Curse
Chances are, you don’t enjoy movies as much as you think you will. That’s because movie tickets present us consumers with a tricky problem of incomplete knowledge. We want to buy tickets to movies we’ll enjoy, but the only sure way to know how much we’ll enjoy a movie is to watch it, and we… Read more
The METDI Defense
Jeff Gamso has a fascinating post about the probabilities behind a DNA match. If you do felony criminal law (from either side of the aisle) and I tell you the number is 6.17 quadrillion, you probably assume that I’m talking about DNA. The number will reflect just how unlikely it is that the DNA in… Read more
What’s Wrong With Selling Internships?
Some of the lawyers on my blogroll have been poking fun at a guy named Jack Marshall. He calls himself an “ethicist,” runs a consulting firm called ProEthics, and has a blog called Ethics Alarms. I don’t really know anything about him, but I thought his blog might make a good source of stuff for me… Read more