Author: Mark Draughn
LEGAL DEPT.
Videoblog: Looking for Lawyers in All the Wrong Places
(Alternate title: The Return of Mumbles) I’m taking another shot at videoblogging. This is just a random story about some legal stuff on the web. (This was supposed to go up yesterday morning, but I had technical difficulties.) Here are some of the links mentioned: Gary’s review of Dollhouse. Joel’s story about his daughter. Million-dollar… Read more
FREEDOM DEPT.
Fourth Amendment Crazy Talk…Not
I just caught a video of a crazy Fox News guy ranting about the government. The sad thing is that he’s Judge Andrew Napolitano, and we need more crazy judges like him. He was speaking at a Reason conference and his speech is a good review of the decline and fall of the Fourth Amendment.… Read more
SCATTERSHOT DEPT.
Scattershot 2009-04-20
Some random shots around the web: I don’t know what this blog is all about, but The Broadview Blog has some cool art. Obama on Warrentless Wiretaping: Worse Than Bush? I can’t remember the movie Warning From Space, but I know I must have seen it because I remember the freaky starfish aliens. This reads… Read more
POLITICAL SCIENCE DEPT.
Texas Secessionism
(I’m not sure “secessionism” is really a word.) God, I hate partisan ranting. I’ve been listening to a lot of MSNBC lately, and the very liberal commentators are going nuts over Texas Governor Rick Perry’s talk of secession: Perry suggested Texans might at some point get so fed up they would want to secede from… Read more
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT DEPT.
Extortion and Lies in Melrose Park
About 20 years ago I was driving down Cermak Road in Cicero, Illinois, when I passed a Cicero police car that had pulled someone over for a traffic violation, and I thought, “Man, that’s got to suck!” Just imagine being that motorist: Cicero had been mobbed up since Al Capone took over and made it his… Read more