We got hit with a hailstorm late this afternoon. I was too slow to get a picture while it was falling, but this is what the parking lot looked like minutes later. No damage to the car, as far as I can tell, but the alarm went off. Update: And another: … [Read more...] about Hail Blogging
Intelligence Please
Wow. I have got to start reading the Weekly Standard more often. Heather Mac Donald has an editorial there titled "Information Please." It's a defense of the NSA collection of phone records, and it is both self-righteous and misinformed at the same time. I thought only us bloggers were supposed to post stuff like that. I stumbled across this editorial thanks to Lindsay … [Read more...] about Intelligence Please
Why Do They Hate Us?
I've slacked off on the blogging over the past couple of months because I've been kind of busy, but I'll try to speed up again. Google Analytics claims that I have about a dozen or so regular readers, so to you folks, I apologize. Unfortunately, the story that the NSA is getting all our call records has me nearly speechless. I fully support government surveilance of known or … [Read more...] about Why Do They Hate Us?
A Letter To ATT
One of the big stories in the news these days is that the National Security Agency (NSA) is apparently collecting information about millions of telephone calls made by Americans since 9/11. They're apparently trying to get source and destination phone numbers as well as call time and duration for every phone call made in the United States, presumably to do some kind of data … [Read more...] about A Letter To ATT
Indigence Incentives
Ken Lammers is discussing the conflict of interest that exists between a criminal defendant and his court-appointed attorney when there is a cap on the fee for the case. Put simply, once the attorney has worked enough on the case to hit the cap, he's working for free. That gives him a strong incentive to bring the case to a swift close by mounting a weak defense or … [Read more...] about Indigence Incentives