Relevant statistics are not kept. Why should we? That would only help the rabble. But sometimes you can put two and two together from different sources. Most of the time it’s not very good information – and that’s true of what we are about to note here – but then again it’s some indication. Better than nothing, we think. So the NYPD has an annual budget considerably north of $900 million, and we’ll just round…

Yes, we should really flesh out the numbers a bit more. It’s hard to convey just how dramatic they are. It’s like they defy description, pointing to a situation that is breathtakingly disingenuous when it isn’t simply incoherent. So the system’s statistical verdict is that actionable constitutional violations occur only .25% of the time in day to day law enforcement. What does that actually mean? If you got a grade in a course you took…

It’s been almost nine years since Casey Anthony’s “wrongful acquittal”.  The partisans are still so ginned up that when she gets a speeding ticket it’s national news. Why does she still live in Florida?  Or in the United States at all?  She probably doesn’t have the money to move away.  Our advice at the time still holds, though.  Obviously. We did a lot of posting about Ms. Anthony back in the day.  Such as …

Well, we wish things had been cleared up a bit by now. But of course we don’t run things at the SCOTUS. Or anywhere else, for that matter. Or even our own life, it often seems. Anyway, as our regular readers (all three of them!) are no doubt aware, we have been following a few cases in the SCOTUS that might, or might not, have something to do with an important issue the SCOTUS should…

Linda is taking note of the same case on which we offered our opinion, but she thinks Kavanaugh is doing the opposite of what we think Kavanaugh is doing. We can’t both be right.  Eventually we’ll see who’s who or what’s what, as the case may be. But there is much, much more going on with the SCOTUS, and we’re interested in this whole “overturn precedent” issue for reasons of our own having nothing…

We still lean libertarian here at LoS.  Lean. Because ultimately the dream of a world without government is utopian and silly.  The same actually applies to “democracy”, which is why we figure – in the end – monarchy.  But that’s a long discussion. No, this morning we are simply pondering the whole coronavirus thing, and how it all pans out in the longer term.  What have we learned?  Indeed, what have we done? There is…