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Re: The New York Times Story on False Confessions (The Real Reason the FBI Won't Record Interrogations)
Posted on September 15, 2010Back when the legal blogsophere was a magical place (the early days of the blogosphere really were something special), the excellent Appellate Law & Practice pointed out why FBI agents do not record confessions. This is straight from the United State Department of Justice's mouth: "Perfectly lawful and acceptable interviewing techniques do not always come across in recorded fashion to...
Male Threats and Male Speech
Posted on September 14, 2010This video exposes feminism for the evil, anti-male, anti-civil rights movement that it is. The man in the video is being obnoxious - but more so than the other protesters? In a public park, I don't want to listen to anyone screaming. Why are the man's screams somehow of lesser value than the harpies'? Not, too, how mere words becomes...
Vacation Reading
Posted on September 05, 2010I won't be blogging for the next week, but instead will be finishing these half-finished books. Bonfire of the Vanities: This is an excellent book because you can impose your own meaning onto it. Is it about race in New York? The unfairness of the criminal system? Or is it about the mid-life crisis of the 38-year old protagonist? Or...
Male Disposability
Posted on September 04, 2010The young man in this video was acting like an idiot. Then again, since when was being loud at a tennis match a crime? And I'm sure the fine young lady in the video politely asked him to muffle his enthusiasm. Since when does that entitle a woman and an old man to lay hands on him? Note the crowd's...
You've Made Sallie Mae Rich By Co-Signing Student Loans
Posted on September 03, 2010Man, some things are much easier to explain using a graphic rather than words. Here are the words, but do not miss out on this graphic. Sallie Mae pays its executives hundreds-of-millions each year. For doing what? For making loans that you, the taxpayer, have co-signed...
Fighting and Masculinity
Posted on September 02, 2010A good post with a lot of insight, but long-winded. I'd put it this way: Blah-blah-blah if you look like a target, people are going to shoot at you. I was once walking down a street with a woman. There were two guys standing in a door way, heckling people who walked by on the sidewalk...
Why Are People Bad Friends?
Posted on August 30, 2010Outside of romantic love, friendship is the most important aspect of a person's life. To men, friendship is as important as erotic love - which is why a wife's first goal is separating her husband from his lifelong friends. Yet we don't spend much time thinking about friendship...
People Who Don't Need to Diet, Diet
Posted on August 29, 2010Going out for business lunches is always a ridiculous experience. "Why are you eating like that?" - where that refers to something other than french fries and fatty meat. "I'm on a diet." "You don't look like you need to be on a diet." Well, no shit, right? Isn't that sort of the point? Imagine how stupid that conversation would...
Predicting America's Future
Posted on August 28, 2010There is much to disagree with about this set of predictions. It's certainly a plausible hypothesis, though: Okay, listen up. Here's how the real estate market and the economy will unfold after 2010: 1. The housing market continues to crumble. More sob stories about fucked boomers who can't sell...
News v. Knowledge
Posted on August 28, 2010During college I did something that I wish I had the will to do today - I did not follow any of the news. Any of it. When a classmate told me that the World Trade Center buildings had been hit, I assumed it was eco-terrorists. When he said, "Bin Laden," I had no response...
Perception
Posted on August 23, 2010A pop song that has been slowed down by 800%, this is perhaps the most beautiful music I've heard. Probably this is what music in outer space sounds like. J. BIEBZ - U SMILE 800% SLOWER by Shamantis Because we don't move through time 800% more slowly, this is the original song: The song is the same...
Free Will
Posted on August 22, 2010I believe it was William James who said something like: "I do not believe that free will exists. You will be better off living your life as it does exist." In other words, live as if you have a choice. Some would say that this is living in a fool's paradise, but there isn't any proof that free will does...
Adolescence Extends to 40
Posted on August 22, 2010Scott Greenfield links to and comments on a New York Times article describing the unwillingness of young people to "grow up." Adolescence is extending well into a person's 30s. It's not hard to explain while: Lifespans are increasing. Any Fantasy literature fan would tell you that elves are the most playful species because of their long life cycles...
Charisma
Posted on August 20, 2010Lately I've been buying flowers for my apartment. It adds color and aroma to the living room. I bought a bouquet where only half of the flowers had blossomed. I added water, and left the curtain open during the afternoon. As expected, all of the flowers soon blossomed...
Complete Summary of the Roger Clemens Prosecution
Posted on August 19, 2010Everything you need to know.
Jesse Friedman's Moral Victory is a Defeat
Posted on August 18, 2010Ted Frank has passed along happy news for Jesse Friedman, who was wrongfully convicted of child molestation. (Watch Capturing the Friedmans.) There's no question that Jessee Friedman was innocent, that he was wrongfully prosecuted, and that the trial court conspired with the prosecution to convict him...
There is No Social Contract
Posted on August 18, 2010What would Goldman Sachs say? But if the government is just another shark in the marketplace, if the government just follows the law of the jungle, shouldn?t we teach children to obey the government out of fear, and for no other reason? Unless of course, they can get away with it? That doing the right thing is for suckers and...
Department of Justice Sells Licenses to Trade with Iran
Posted on August 18, 2010Today the United States Department of Justice issued a press release praising its work in the non-prosecution of Barclay's: Barclays Bank PLC, a United Kingdom corporation headquartered in London, has agreed to forfeit $298 million to the United States and to the New York County District Attorney?s Office in connection with violations of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA)...
Is Gulf Seafood Safe to Eat?
Posted on August 17, 2010From Washington's Blog: The Centers of Disease Control (CDC) just announced: For the seafood to pose a health risk, the food would have to be heavily contaminated with oil, and would therefore have a strong odor and taste of oil. That is patently untrue...
Department of Justice Decriminalizes Banking With Terrorists
Posted on August 16, 2010Last month the United States Department of Justice decriminalized money laundering. Today Justice [sic] announced that trading with terrorists is now legal. As with money laundering, you must be a bank in order to receive an exception from the law: WASHINGTON?Barclays Bank PLC has reached a $298 million agreement with U...
Department of Justice Decriminalizes Money Laundering
Posted on August 14, 2010There are billions to be made in laundering money for drug cartels. No doubt many of you have asked yourselves, "How can I get into the money laundering business?" Like me, you no doubt concluded that the risk of imprisonment was too great a risk. You may have even heard of J...
Attitude: The Difference Between Prison and Jail
Posted on August 13, 2010Telling this audience that attitude is often the difference between state prison and county jail is preaching to the choir. Lest you have wayward clients, be sure to pass this story along: SAN DIEGO ? A San Diego judge postponed a sentencing hearing Thursday for a former mixed-martial arts championship fighter, saying his behavior inside and outside the courtroom warranted...
KGB Agent: "How To Brainwash A Nation"
Posted on August 12, 2010In this remarkable video, a KGB agent explains how the popular media is able to brainwash an entire nation. Demoralization Destabolization Crisis Normalization I have grown less interested in talking to people, because they are unable to comprehend the truth...
Politics is Sports
Posted on August 10, 2010Nothing will change, so I do not endorse the substance of the video. As a matter of style, it's moving. It's exciting. It's like an ad campaign for Monday Night Football. That the video communicates nothing concrete is what makes it interesting. The viewer thinks, "This is exciting! I'm pumped...
Wall Street and the Declaration of Independence
Posted on August 10, 2010In light of the bailouts, we should re-read the Declaration of Independence: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness...
Links: Wall Street Edition
Posted on August 10, 2010Main Street continues boycott of Wall Street. Only a fool trades into the current market. The ordinary investor can't trade on insider information, manipulate the market with high-frequency-trading robots, or front run clients. Hopefully more bankers will lose their jobs because of the boycott...
Why is Losing Weight so Difficult?
Posted on August 09, 2010Sixty-thousand dollars wasn't enough to inspire two guys to lose 60 pounds. Why not? Food is a drug. Once you start from the working premise that food is a drug, everything about the difficulties of weight loss makes sense. Fat people are addicted to food...
American Rage
Posted on August 07, 2010Hewett Packard's CEO Mark Hurd was fired for stealing company funds. He stole company funds by falsifying expense reports. What would happen to an ordinary employee who falsified expense reports? Think for a minute. Might police be called? Might he be sued? I can think of many negative possibilities...
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Do parents have the right to NOT turn in a sexual offender?
No. The offender should be turned in regardless of any disability (1), or reason...
Can someone detained in a search w/ warrant, be charged with a crime related to the search if they were not arrested at the time of the search?
The police have fairly wide discretion on when they can make an arrest so long a...
I was a bookkeeper for a recreation center. The Center Director left and a new director took over. I went to work one day and some of my files were missing. I called our computer tech and her restored the files (I had ma
In order for a crime to be established you need to conclusively prove that the D...
If I was detained by citizens unlawfully, and then the police showed up...is everything they charged me with in-admissable?
Probably depends on the law of the state in which you live. Many states allow fo...
If I pay restitution, can I still be charged with a crime?
It sounds like the law in your area is treating it as a civil matter. That being...
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