The Honorable Thing
Things are a bit tough at the moment. You’re telling a young woman who at the moment thinks far too much of you that you think it would be best for everybody involved if you went your separate ways. Everything… Continue Reading
Month: June 2013
Linky Friday #29
Mating: [M1] I’ve written a couple of times about the way our society is structured against early marriage and parenthood. Jacoba Urist thinks we should do something about it. [M2] Hugo Schwyzer explains why men need to find women their… Continue Reading
Adjusting to the surveillance state
For whatever reason, this has not been shared on any of the blogs I frequent despite it being instructive on the future of the surveillance state. The Wall Street Journal notes the gobsmacking ineffectiveness of our efforts to stop terrorism:… Continue Reading
Unlocking Smartphones: Just a Start
I was quite pleasantly surprised when the Obama administration responded quickly for allowing cell phone users to unlock their phones. There has been some misunderstanding about what unlocking a cell phone means. It basically only means that you can prevent… Continue Reading
For The Cold Case Files
Does the Fourth Amendment allow law enforcement to gather an arrestee’s genetic sequence and compare it with a large FBI database of genetic material gathered from old, unsolved crimes? A reader asked me to do an analysis of Maryland v. King, a… Continue Reading
Monday Trivia No. 118 [Alan Scott and Mike Schilling win!]
In descending order, from within the three NAFTA jurisdictions and United States protectorates, with ties listed in parenthesis: California, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Texas, Massachusetts, Ontario, Florida, New Jersey, (Michigan, Ohio), Missouri, Quebec, (Colorado, D.C.*, Maryland, North Carolina, Nevada, Washington), (Georgia,… Continue Reading
Linky Friday #28
World Economy: [WE1] In investigating why America can’t be Sweden, Thomas Edsall lays down the case that in globalism, we’re sacrificing our poor for our wealthy and the wealthy and poor abroad, and that may just be how it has… Continue Reading
SheZow, Wow?
One of the first anime I got into was Ranma 1/2. It was all the rage at the time. The basic premise is that Ranma Saotome fell into an accursed spring and now he turns into a she any time… Continue Reading
Anniversary Day
On this day back in 2005, I began blogging after reviewing a photograph of a gangrenous foot. I was still working at a personal injury firm in Knoxville, Tennessee. The blogging bug bit hard, and I found a pleasure I’ve… Continue Reading
Hockey, Wine, and Ice Cream
I had two grueling depositions today. In between I made some of that microwave soup as a quick meal and managed to pour boiling water all over my left hand. I said a very bad word and did the second… Continue Reading