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Are You Hanging Out With Crows?

Posted on October 08, 2010

"Tested: How Twelve Wrongly Imprisoned Men Held Onto Hope"

Posted on October 07, 2010
Released October 12th, Tested: How Twelve Wrongly Imprisoned Men Held Onto Hope (book here) traces the imprisonment and liberation of 12 wrongfully accused men: Smith was arrested in 1986 at age 35 and charged with aggravated sexual assault. The girlfriend of the building manager of Smith's Dallas, Texas-area apartment had accused Smith of robbing and raping her...

Catfish

Posted on October 06, 2010
The problem of this movie-- which perfectly encapsulates the most basic problem with America-- is that it doesn't occur to the audience either. We've tricked ourselves into thinking that it's a completely expected that people will see us the way we want to be seen...

Why My Kids Will Wrestle

Posted on October 06, 2010
If I have kids, they will not play football. They will wrestle. I could type several reasons why; but in a YouTube era, why not just see for yourself? Double leg FTW:

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Did Janis Joplin Predict "Fight Club"?

Posted on October 04, 2010
You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed...

Why Men's Rights Advocates Must Remain Anonymous

Posted on October 04, 2010
The The Legal Satyricon's Jay Devoy defends anonymous speech at The Spearhead: A little over a year ago, The Spearhead was created by writers and a community of readers who primarily participated anonymously or pseudononymously, using online monikers instead of their real names...

Who Killed Tyler Clementi?

Posted on October 03, 2010
In George Orwell's 1984, the people mediated daily on the State's declared enemies. During the Two Minute Hate, party members would scream at enemies flashed before them. Tyler Clementi's suicide is our latest Two Minute Hate. We hate his roommate, an 18-year-old who turned on the webcam in Clementi's room...

A Week Without the Internet?

Posted on October 02, 2010
An NYU professor wasn't able to go a week with only a limited use of the Internet: I like to think of myself as only moderately, ordinarily addicted to the internet. I don?t have an iPhone. I don?t have a BlackBerry. I don?t have an iPad. I am barely involved with Facebook, and can?t stand Twitter...

Added to the Blogroll: False Rape Society

Posted on October 01, 2010
This is a really good blog. (Hat tip to Ferdinand Bardamu.)

How Much Do You Make?

Posted on September 29, 2010

Karma Catches Up to Unethical Prosecutors

Posted on September 28, 2010
There may not be a Lord, but vengeance is often the universe's. This week has been a bad one for unethical prosecutors. All of these prosecutors have graced the pages of Crime & Federalism. Correlation does not prove causation, but it's damned strong evidence of it...

Bill Clinton Goes Vegan

Posted on September 28, 2010

Is Federal Prosecutor, Sean Cronin, a Child Molester?

Posted on September 27, 2010
Last year, Sean Cronin was was identified as an unethical prosecutor. This year, he was charged with Lewd and Lascivious Assault on a Child. Some criminal defense lawyers are giving him the benefit of the doubt, blaming his arrest on overzealous soccer mom...

Inside Job

Posted on September 26, 2010
It's been almost three years, and none of the people who stole your money were indicted. Why not? Because it was an inside job:

Ethos and Persuasion

Posted on September 26, 2010
A successful plaintiffs' lawyer friend describes trying cases against big firm lawyers as being "taking candy from a baby." He is right, of course. University of Chicago law professor Todd Henderson illustrates why. Todd Henderson's Ethos. [If you're not familiar with Todd Henderson, the rest of post won't make any sense...

What About the Kids?

Posted on September 24, 2010
Usually someone is trying to rob or trick you when they ask, "Think about the children?!" Sometimes, though, they have a point. Children didn't ask to be born - and they certainly didn't ask to be born to poor families. So...What about the kids? And there's an obvious political punchline: Republicans demand that children be born inoto families that don't...

Status is the Happiness Killer

Posted on September 23, 2010
I would bartend or wait tables before being a document review lawyer. Both jobs are more fun than reviewing documents, and the pay is about the same. How many "lawyers" would make that choice? Few would, because being a lawyer is "high status." Many lawyers even choose to review documents rather than work in traffic court...

The Elite v. Everyone Else

Posted on September 20, 2010
Christine O'Donnell is apparently stupid. Is that the real reason you're being told to hate her? In terms of overt qualifications for Senate, consider Ted Kennedy: When Ted Kennedy was Christine Oconnell?s age he?d already been kicked out of Law School, Served 7 years in the Senate, and left a young woman to asphyxiate...

Politics-as-Acting

Posted on September 20, 2010
This is phenomenal work, and if you were a moron, you would take him sincerely. Instead, imagine it's a Hollywood actor in Wall Street 2. Viewed that way, this is remarkable:

ADHD Scam

Posted on September 19, 2010
Boring things are boring, and interesting things are interesting. If you give a child - or an adult - speed, then the person will be able to power through mundane tasks. Why call this a disease? Because if ADHD didn't exist, then neither would doctors who study ADHD...

The Unified Theory of Gender Differences

Posted on September 17, 2010
Several former female Goldman Sachs employees have filed a lawsuit against Goldman. The lawsuit and related commentary illustrate that one can believe there are gender differences, and that men are pretty revolting and spiritually empty. In an essay at The Daily Beast, Nomi Prins states that she left Goldman because she was sick of the soulless pursuit of pay and...

The Truth About Owning Your Own Business

Posted on September 16, 2010
Thinking about starting a business? Read this post first.

Perverted Prosecutor's Text Messages

Posted on September 16, 2010
Wisconsin District Attorney Kenneth R. Kratz sexually harassed a domestic violence crime victim. Via Mark Bennett comes his text messages. It's clear from the text messages that the woman is not interested in him. Here's a sampling: Kratz: Still wondering if I'm worth it? Kratz: Can I help you answer any questions? Kratz: You don't say much, do you? Kratz:...

Calumet County District Attorney Ken Kratz: Perverted Justice

Posted on September 16, 2010
What happens when prosecutors commit misconduct? What happens when a prosecutor seeks to have sex with a crime victim half his age? We're about to find out: A prosecutor who sent sexually suggestive text messages to a domestic abuse victim downplayed the seriousness of their content and urged state officials to keep them from the public, his peers and state...

Shapiro & Fishman and JP Morgan, Judge Says, "committed fraud on this Court"

Posted on September 16, 2010
I've been meaning to do a post on the rampant fraud in the foreclosure industry. Lawyers, on behalf of their bank clients, are lying about the ownership of a home. Often banks do not hold the mortgages to your homes. Nevertheless, banks and law firms know they can exploit the legal system...

If Catholics Were Muslims

Posted on September 15, 2010
Dear Catholics: Why are you not protesting in the streets? PARIS ? The former leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Belgium urged a victim of serial sexual abuse by a bishop to keep silent for a year, until the bishop ? the victim?s own uncle ? could retire, according to tapes made by the victim last April and published...

Islamophobia is a Myth: Part 3

Posted on September 15, 2010
Let's perform a thought experiment. Is Islam a religion, or an ideology? For purposes of the thought experiment, let's call it an ideology. Islam, like democracy, feminism, environmentalism, liberalism, conservatism, or communism is merely a collection of beliefs or values that has adherents...

Islamophobia is a Myth: Part 2

Posted on September 15, 2010
Is someone who is smarter than 80% of the population extremely smart? What does it mean to say something is extreme? When I hear extreme, I imagine a probability distribution. Extreme would be at least three deviations from the norm. An extremely smart person would be, say, 1-in-100, or 1-in-1,000...

Islamophobia is a Myth: Part 1

Posted on September 15, 2010
I have no respect for Islam, and my contempt is not based on fear. I would love to be on an airplane with Muslim terrorists. I would kill them, write a book, give a few speeches, and retire with millions. While I have no fear of Islam, I do view it contemptibly - as should every civilized person...

Your Complete Guide to Elizabeth Warren

Posted on September 15, 2010
Although I give feminists grief, my current favorite living person is a woman. Her name is Elizabeth Warren, and you can judge her by her enemies. She is going to receive a lot of power. Because of that, people are muddying her. They are lying about her...

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