I'm sure you've all heard that Geraldo Rivera has diagnosed the problem in the Trevon Martin shoooting: He wore a hoodie! Geraldo's case is, well, not entirely insane. People do react to the symbols you wear. Ask any ex-hippie from the '60's if he was harassed about his long hair. That's not an entirely crazy response to long hair either: Hippies wore long hair as a statement, … [Read more...] about Take Off the Hoodie!
And Now Some News From the Alabama Judicial Races
Imagine how awesome it must be to live in Alabama, where voters get to choose their next Chief Justice on the Alabama Supreme Court. On the one hand, there's the Republican candidate, Roy Moore. He had the job before, at least until a few years ago when he was kicked off the bench. He's the judge who insisted on having a copy of the Ten Commandments displayed in his … [Read more...] about And Now Some News From the Alabama Judicial Races
I Feel a Bit Funny About This
Today I did something that probably would have disappointed my father if he were still alive: I voted in the Republican primary. My father was a yellow dog Democrat. Oh, there were a few Democrats he wouldn't vote for -- such as Tip O'Neill, whom he considered corrupt -- but he would never have voted for a Republican. In his declining years, he hated George W. Bush most of all. … [Read more...] about I Feel a Bit Funny About This
Statistical Quality Control Meets the NYPD
I once heard a story -- I'm not sure where, but it seemed reputable at the time -- about a Ford automotive plant where one of the assembly line workers realized, after some time assembling cars, that he had been doing it wrong. He told his boss, and Ford had to pull hundreds of cars from the delivery process and re-work them to fix his mistake, at a cost of over a million … [Read more...] about Statistical Quality Control Meets the NYPD
Marc Randazza – First Amendment Badass
I think I first heard of Marc Randazza when one of the other bloggers around here started calling him a "First Amendment Badass," and that's how I always think of him. I didn't really encounter him, however, until Jon Katz posted this bit about Randazza a few years ago. I took the opportunity to poke fun at Marc in the comments about the absurdist severity of his blog's terms … [Read more...] about Marc Randazza – First Amendment Badass