Archive for the ‘Law’ Category
In defense of fighting
by Mike Dob A few months ago (December I think) Esquire Magazine published an article in which the author promoted the practice of punching assholes in the face as a mechanism for maintaining a mannerly society. In a subsequent issue of the same magazine, Chuck Klosterman wrote a piggyback piece putting forward his theory that [...]
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“But what if it just slips?”
by achitophel In all fairness to Texas, I think the legal code’s been updated or invalidated since this program aired. But it remains educational (and at times hilarious) nonetheless. And let me also say that I don’t blame this malicious nonsense on Texas, relgion, or the Republican party per se. Rather, I blame it all [...]
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Obama’s Speech on Race Relations
OBAMA SPEECH IN FULL: A MORE PERFECT UNION Tuesday, March 18th, 2008/ 10:17:53 ET Philadelphia, Pennsylvania“We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.”Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America’s improbable experiment [...]
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We are devout optimists (Vol. 2)
by Josh 2) In classical economics, there are three factors of production: land, labor, capital. These distinctions are carried through liberal and Marxist philosophies. Economic progress was thought to come only through more efficient exploitation of these factors …irrigation improves agricultural output, crushing organized labor improves productivity, increased investment in the means of production yields [...]
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by Josh Eventually every aspiring intellectual has to author a political treatise. Politics are a consumer product like any other; they allow you to brand yourself, as do movies, the contents of your iPod, favorite books, likes/dislikes, turn-ons/turn-offs. So, here, now, I distill all of my primitive understanding of political economy, (situational) ethics, the dynamics [...]
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Babbitt’s conundrum
by achitophel I absolutely support crime prevention programs that work in communities and especially for youth; especially when these initiatives act to build up communities through their own initiative and accountability. But I also think that the crime statistics which are often put forward to make the case for building more prisons, or for passing [...]
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by Josh I’ve brazenly stolen this from the March 2008 Harper’s. All the wrangling about privacy, 1st amendment issues, etc. regarding a national database of DNA has already played out in Britain. To make things easier, British authorities have compiled a handy list of 5,000 crimes for which you are liable to be probed. Some [...]
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