Scott Greenfield has a post up at Simple Justice talking about how often people get legal advice from sources other than lawyers. I'll skip to the ending: The law is hard to understand, hard to navigate and very hard to practice. If you are not a lawyer, you have no business giving legal advice because you don’t know what you’re talking about and someone, somewhere, will be … [Read more...] about Non-Lawyers Talking About the Law
Getting Important Information Out There
I don't normally write about the blog marketing annoyances, but this one deserves a comment. Mark Bennett received a request from someone (I'm guessing this guy) asking for permission to repost some of his stuff: I have recently started a blog and would like to cross pollinate with people such we yourself who obviously see the world the same as I do. So I’d like to start … [Read more...] about Getting Important Information Out There
New Terms and Conditions
In keeping with tradition, I wanted my blog to have the most severe and over-the-top Terms & Conditions possible, with robust protection against spammers, lawsuits, and intellectual property theft.I could have engaged a lawyer to write them for me, or I could have researched it on the web and tried to write my own, but those options seemed to be too expensive and too … [Read more...] about New Terms and Conditions
Knowing Harm When We See It
One of the themes I keep visiting here at Windypundit is that when you harm someone, the magnitude of the harm you do that person is not dependent on your reason for doing it. Punch a guy in the face, and it doesn't matter if he's an innocent stranger on the bus or a push-in robber trying to get into your home. You cause the same pain either way.I'm not saying there's no … [Read more...] about Knowing Harm When We See It
Rise of the Warrior Cop – Review Part 5 of 5: Reform
Bad cops are the product of bad policy. And policy is ultimately made by politicians. A bad system loaded with bad incentives will unfailingly produce bad cops. The good ones will never enter the field in the first place, or they will become frustrated and leave police work, or they’ll simply turn bad. At best, they’ll have unrewarding, unfulfilling jobs.-- Radley … [Read more...] about Rise of the Warrior Cop – Review Part 5 of 5: Reform