Based on my vast legal experience---reading crime novels and surfing the legal blogosphere---I have occasionally come up with a few radical ideas for criminal justice reform. As with my previous effort, this idea is probably unworkable, unconstitutional, and a sure election loss for any politician who proposes them. But what's a blog for? When a cop wants to search your private … [Read more...] about Motion Juries – Another Radical Idea for Criminal Justice Reform
Creed Of the Legislative Tyrant
From the U.K. comes a new law that its backers claim will ban violent pornography: Five years ago Jane Longhurst, a teacher from Brighton, was murdered. It later emerged her killer had been compulsively accessing websites such as Club Dead and Rape Action, which contained images of women being abused and violated. The victim's mother has been campaigning for a law that would … [Read more...] about Creed Of the Legislative Tyrant
Driven To Suicide For a Victimless Crime
In prostitution, everybody involved gets something they want. It's a victimless crime. That doesn't stop cops and prosecutors from going after it anyway. From the AP wire: TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. - A woman convicted two weeks ago of being the "D.C. Madam" hanged herself Thursday, apparently making good on her vow never to go to prison for running a high-end Washington … [Read more...] about Driven To Suicide For a Victimless Crime
Photoshop Disasters
One of my new favorite sites is Photoshop Disasters, which features actual commercial photoshop work that is bad or stupid. Check out, for example, this ad for Elizabeth Arden lipstick, where they've gone to the trouble to hire Catherine Zeta-Jones, and then photoshopped away all her actual facial features. Or how about this impossibly thin babe? Or this jaw-dropping horror? Or … [Read more...] about Photoshop Disasters
New! Big! Photos!
As the resolution of computer monitors creeps up, the visual size of pixel-dimensioned page content has been shrinking, and web designers have been tweaking pages to compensate for the changes. For example, when I first started posting my photography on this site, I would size the images to have a maximum dimension of 400 pixels. A while ago, I resized photos to 450 … [Read more...] about New! Big! Photos!