Over at Fault Lines, Andrew Fleischman has a post about the idea of letting a jury determine actual innocence. It's an interesting post -- worth a read -- but when I read the headline I thought of something a bit different.Criminal defense attorneys complain about the difficulty of getting a jury to understand the degree of proof necessary for a criminal conviction. They … [Read more...] about A Verdict of Innocence?
The Bouquet Of My New Suburban Life
I'm still recovering from my move to the new house. It turns out that packing all your stuff into boxes and then trying to reassemble it back into a working life is really time-consuming. I keep running into problems like wanting to put a piece of furniture together, which would be a lot easier with the right tools, which are all in boxes, and I'd like to unpack the tools back … [Read more...] about The Bouquet Of My New Suburban Life
Going Dark
I'm going dark in an hour or so. In preparation for the big move tomorrow, I'm about to shut down and pack up the home computers and tear down our internet connection. Shortly after posting this message, for the first time in over 15 years, my wife and I will no longer have broadband internet access.Except for an iPad and both our iPhones with LTE, along with the Kindle … [Read more...] about Going Dark
Why Should Miss Lorelei Rivers Give a Shit What Other People Want?
I missed Maggie McNeill's last Friday the 13th roundup, and it was the only one this year, but there's something I want to get off my chest about a type of argument that really annoys me, and I figure she won't mind.The problem, as it so often is for us libertarians, is the lack of respect for freedom of choice. Here's the recent Twitter exchange that triggered this post, … [Read more...] about Why Should Miss Lorelei Rivers Give a Shit What Other People Want?
What the Fuck Did I Do?
"What the fuck did I do?"That's what Detective Jimmy McNulty asks Bunk at the end of the first season of The Wire as he contemplates all that he has set in motion. It's a phrase that has been going through my head a lot over the past week."What the fuck did I do?"I bought a house, that's what I did.After 26 years of living in a condo, my wife and I decided … [Read more...] about What the Fuck Did I Do?