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"Was this good? Or a misstep?" This was you doing what you can with the tools you have.
Oh! Well then, thank you for clarifying, and sorry to be a bit defensive.
@Watcher: I meant that as agreement to your statement, "What I doubt is that it was anywhere near complete, let…
"The number is more like 72 years, since the US and the UK overthrew an elected government and replaced it…
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Category Archives: Prisons and Justice and Police
Texas Executed An Innocent Man
Strictly speaking, you can’t prove that Cameron Todd Willingham was innocent. All we can say is that there’s absolutely no plausible evidence that he set his house on fire and burned his three kids to death. But the fire investigation … Continue reading
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Baliksambayanan: Day 1, "You are surrounded by Victims."
Cross-posted from The Mustard Seed. Latter on when I got back to the BAYAN office, after the noise barrage (and after having lunch with the Secretary-General of Bayan, Nato Reyes, in where I had a soft drink, rice, curry chicken, … Continue reading
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Cop chastises 911 caller for potty mouth, hangs up on her, then arrests her
Via Rad Geek, the transcript of the first of a few 911 calls, made by a 17-year-old girl attempting to get an ambulance for her father, who had suffered a bad fall. McFarlan did eventually send help, but lied about … Continue reading
The Worst Thing in the World
When I was ten years old, I read 1984. It wasn’t typical fare for someone between fourth and fifth grades, but I’d always been ahead of the curve in reading ability, and the straightforward prose of Orwell was not beyond … Continue reading
Criticism as Punishment: Retribution, Utility, and Outrage
In the field of criminal law, there are two main philosophical schools on how society is allowed to punish offenders. The first is the retributive school — basically arguing that we can punish people solely based on how much they … Continue reading
An experiment
So I haven’t posted much. That much is obvious. I think of posts occasionally. My friend texted me ‘if we can’t trust celebrities to fight the class war, who can we trust?’ and it’d make a great title for a … Continue reading
Dreidel: "I don’t see it as a big moral issue — that’s just the way war works." Whether or not…