Author: Mark Draughn
Fear and Loathing At the Airport
The Transportation Security Agency is training people to look carefully at people’s faces to detect signs of fear or anxiety that might indicate a terrorist. Fear and anxiety at the airport? In the security lines? My God, do you think they’ll find anybody like that? How about rage? If I’m trying to get through the… Read more
Working On a Fake Job
Our financial information research company is going to be temporarily adding 15 top tier legal minds to our staff in order to conduct an intensive due diligence and legal research project in Washington DC. We are hiring individuals who are independent and can work from their home office and local law libraries yet can still… Read more
The Taser Problem in a Nutshell
The increased use—and abuse—of Tasers by police has been the subject of some recent controversy. Kip Esquire sums it up perfectly: A big part of the problem with tasers is that they were originally marketed as a substitute for guns, but have become a substitute for exertion. Tasers are, increasingly, not used to save lives… Read more
Those Other People Should Pay Their Employees Better
Radley Balko discusses the hypocrisy of the living wage movement. Read more
Tremors of Terrors
I’m not sure what to make of this latest busted terrorist plot in Germany: BERLIN – Three suspected Islamic terrorists from an al-Qaida-influenced group nursing “profound hatred of U.S. citizens” were arrested on suspicious of plotting imminent, massive bomb attacks on U.S. facilities in Germany, prosecutors said Wednesday. … Sudwestfunk televison, citing unnamed security sources… Read more