From a post by Eugene Volokh on the subject of Texas's inane anti-sex toy laws: Probably no Justice accepts the libertarian constitutionalist notion that a broadranging liberty to do what one pleases so long as it doesn't directly enough hurt others is itself so important that it should be recognized as a constitutional right. That's pretty much a one-sentence summary of … [Read more...] about What I Don’t Like About the Supreme Court in One Sentence
What Hath Sitemeter Wrought?
If you've been trying to read this site (or probably hundreds of thousands of others) in Internet Explorer 6 or 7, you've probably been seeing the entire site load just fine, but when it finishes it pops up an error box that says "Internet Explorer cannot open the internet site." It took me a while to figure out what was happening, but I eventually traced it to the script from … [Read more...] about What Hath Sitemeter Wrought?
The Lima Raid – Why He Shot
Oh my God. I had no idea. I've been criticizing the Lima, Ohio SWAT team for killing Tarika Wilson, an unarmed woman who was holding her infant son as the team raided her house. In my last post on the subject, I mentioned that the cops also shot the family dogs, which seems to be a favorite sport of SWAT teams. In my very first post on the Lima raid, I wrote this: As SWAT … [Read more...] about The Lima Raid – Why He Shot
Anthrax, Puppicide, Howly’s Ova, Jor-Al-Gor, Key Web Content
Random shots around the web: Did the FBI find the real Anthrax killer? The drug war stupidity never ends. Morons want Kerry Howly to feel bad about donating her eggs. Al Gore reaches the logical conclusion. That would be like pizza without the cheese. … [Read more...] about Anthrax, Puppicide, Howly’s Ova, Jor-Al-Gor, Key Web Content
Without Provocation
I was a juror in a case where a man was accused of attacking a cop who had pulled him over for a traffic violation. We convicted him because his story wasn't believable for a number of reasons, one of which was his claim that the cop attacked him out of the blue without provocation. That just seemed unlikely. I wonder how we would have felt if we'd seen this video before the … [Read more...] about Without Provocation