Scott Greenfield has a couple of interesting items up over at Simple Justice. First of all, there's the case of the Jew with suspicious objects on board a plane, as originally reported in the New York Daily News: A US Airways crew panicked by a Jewish teen's prayer ritual aborted a flight from LaGuardia Airport on Thursday, landing in Philadelphia amid unfounded fears of a … [Read more...] about Explain or Clam Up?
Haiti
I really have nothing to say. I blog about justice and economics and freedom and government perfidy, but the disaster in Haiti right now has little to do with any of those things. I could probably find a way to link the disaster or the relief effort to one or more of my favorite topics, and soon I probably will. But for now... For now I think we just let the governments and aid … [Read more...] about Haiti
Adventures in Avvo: Scene 2 – Take 2
Yesterday I started another one of my Avvo Answers experiments, in which I asked the free advice service the following question: Is it legal to own lock picks in Illinois? Chicago, IL And it it's legal, are there places where you're not supposed to have them? In particular, does Chicago have different laws? [typos in my original question] This morning I got my first answer … [Read more...] about Adventures in Avvo: Scene 2 – Take 2
Adventures in Avvo: Scene 2 – Take 1
This post at D.A. Confidential includes a link to a list of "The 6 Most Badass Skills You Can Learn in Under a Week." Skill number 4 is lock picking, and the article refers to a Lock Picking School In A Box. which sounds like something you could make yourself by taking a lock apart. I've always been fascinated by things like lock picking and safe cracking, and maybe some … [Read more...] about Adventures in Avvo: Scene 2 – Take 1
Illinois’s Crazy Ex-Governor…
...is still crazy: Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says he's "blacker than Barack Obama" and tells Esquire magazine that he was a real person in a political arena dominated by phonies. Blagojevich, referring to the president as "this guy," says Obama was elected based simply on hope. "What the (expletive)? Everything he's saying's on the teleprompter," Blagojevich told … [Read more...] about Illinois’s Crazy Ex-Governor…