To read about it on social media is to be deluged with the belief that Missouri put to death an innocent man. The reason, they contend, is that finality matters more than innocence. As long as a defendant received the
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The Only Thing Worse Than The Filibuster
It’s totally understandable that Kamala Harris wants to run for president on the issue of abortion. It’s just as understandable that Harris is proposing a national law protecting the right to choose. But to get there, she’s proposed what may
Tuesday Talk*: Can California Dictate Parody?
They did it. Again. After some guy named Musk retwitted a deepfake video of Kamala Harris that made her look…not good, California snapped into action and enacted AB 2839, a law prohibiting materially deceptive election advertisements.
(1) California is entering
Bombs or Bricks, Technology Owns Us
Perhaps the funniest (in the weird sense, not the humorous sense) reaction to Bruce Schneier’s apocryphal op-ed is that the small minds can’t get past his use of Israel’s exploding pagers and walkie-talkies to grasp the magnitude of what Schneier
Crimes Of The Wealthy
Forget the twinkie defense. The new hip defense is the “family man defense,” raised according to Jessica Grouse in the New York Times to sanitize Sean “Puff Daddy,” etc., Combs’ crimes because he’s rich.
On Monday, Sean Combs was
A Farebeater, A Knife And Cops With Bad Aim
From the cries of outrage on social media, you would have believed that two NYPD officers shot a man because he failed to pay the subway fare. The problem was that the man, Derrell Mickles, not only tried to beat
Seaton: Sheriff Roy’s Sooner Gambit
Fall had set upon the quiet town of Mud Lick, Alabama. In most years, this meant the turn of the air from oppressively muggy to somewhat pleasant, the first signs of leaves changing color, and the Alabama Crimson Tide returning
Even Libraries Have Weeds
A thought experiment. You have 100 feet of shelving in a public library and 1,000 feet of books, with more coming every day. What do you, the librarian, do? You pick and choose which books to put on your shelf
Battle For The Babies’ Bias
District of Maryland Judge Paula Xinis denied a motion to dismiss as to a school district’s “official” twitter “StaffPride” account. Why, you may wonder, would a school district have an official Pride account. That was at the heart of the
Pardon Me, Joe
For most of us, the only time we consider the propriety of a sentence is when it applies to some outlier conviction we read about in the funny pages. What never quite makes it to our radar is the tens