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23AndMe DNA Sale
Posted on April 23, 2010Only $99; today only. (If you don't know, you'll want to know.) Sale ended.
Porn Actress Saves Wrongfully Accused (UPDATED)
Posted on April 23, 2010Be careful what you bring into Puerto Rico: New York native Carlos Simon-Timmerman bought a DVD of adult film star Lupe Fuentes at a flea market while vacationing in Venezuela, only to be stopped in San Juan, Puerto Rico on his way home where he was arrested and charged with illegal possession and transportation of images involving minors...
Valor Cannot Be Stolen
Posted on April 21, 2010In 2005, President George W. Bush signed the Stolen Valor Act. Under the Stolen Valor Act, it's illegal for a person to wear unearned military rank or medals. Since the law's enactment, about a dozen posers are indicted each year. The Stolen Valor Act sends the wrong message to soldiers...
Unethical Bedfellows: Goldman Sachs and the United States Department of Justice
Posted on April 21, 2010"If you don't want to disclose it, it's material." - Gentlemen's Code of Ethics. Goldman Sachs faces a civil lawsuit for failing to disclose a material fact to an investor. While Goldman's propaganda agents are attempting to confuse people with immaterial facts, the case against Goldman is crystal clear to anyone with a sense of ethics...
Is the Southern District of New York Wall Street's Patsy?
Posted on April 21, 2010For decades Bernard Madoff ripped off investors. He cost many retirees everything. Although the United States Department of Justice received conclusive proof that Madoff was cheating investors, they did nothing. They fiddled while old people had their savings burned...
Procreating is Narcissism
Posted on April 21, 2010Bryan Caplan is a weird dude who has the goofy-eye look. There's no doubt he has a character disorder. He wants to clone himself, because he loves himself: I confess that I take anti-cloning arguments personally. Not only do they insult the identical twin sons I already have; they insult a son I hope I live to meet...
Levi Johnston and the Myth of the Deadbeat Dad
Posted on April 19, 2010If you really want to witness injustice in America, spend a day in family court. As the blog's tagline reminds us: Everything you know about family law is a lie. Let's start with deadbeat dads. Levi Johnston sired a child with the white-trash daughter of Sarah Palin...
Is Sex Hysteria Anti-Male?
Posted on April 18, 2010I'd let the picture speak for itself, but suspect that most C&F readers are too sophisticated to know what Twilight is. Twilight is a book series about teenage boys who are vampires and werewolves. Grown women read these books. They stand in line for the latest release...
The Myth of Corporate Speech
Posted on April 18, 2010When Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (holding that corporations have the right to make campaign contributions) was announced, libertarians went "Wheeeeeeeeee! Corporations have free speech rights, too!" As with with most sentiments underlying modern-day libertarianism, the rejoicing was childish...
Sex Hysteria is Killing Mentorship
Posted on April 17, 2010I would never coach youth basketball. When a kid stops to pet my dog, Amicus, I cringe and step away. I simply want nothing to do with children. While I'd make a great mentor and would otherwise enjoy volunteering, I never will. Here's reason number #1,045 why: The evidence against a Port Authority bus driver accused of fondling a boy...
Feminists Encourage False Rape Accusations Against Men
Posted on April 17, 2010Many people roll their eyes at the idea that feminism is waging a war against men. Yet here is what one of the supporters of the Violence Against Women Act said about false rape accusations: Catherine Comins, assistant dean of student life at Vassar, also sees some value in this loose use of "rape...
No Class Issue in Coverage of Brown Rape Case?
Posted on April 16, 2010To call Richard Dresdale a prominent Brown alumnus would be an understatement. Richard Dresdale is Co-founder and Managing Director of Fenway Partners - a 2.1-billion-dollar private equity fund. He is the kind of man who can afford to make $118,000 in campaign contributions - in 2008 alone...
The New American Ethic: Don't Follow the Rules
Posted on April 16, 2010William McCormick III was poor kid from Wisconsin. He worked hard. He followed the rules. He earned straight-As while also becoming an all-star wrestling student. Because of his hard work, he found himself a long ways away from Wisconsin - at Brown University...
Teachers Prove Pedophilia Not Limited to Catholic Church
Posted on April 16, 2010This is probably the most disgusting thing you'll read today: The system that Lower Merion school officials used to track lost and stolen laptops wound up secretly capturing thousands of images, including photographs of students in their homes, Web sites they visited, and excerpts of their online chats, says a new motion filed in a suit against the district...
Did Marcella Beth Dresdale Falsely Accuse a Student of Rape?
Posted on April 15, 2010A young man was thrown out of college without any due process after a woman allegedly falsely accused him of rape: A former student has sued Brown University in federal court, saying university officials interfered with his efforts to clear his name after another student, the daughter of a prominent Brown alumnus and donor, accused him of rape...
Feminism's War Against Young Men
Posted on April 15, 2010Brown University, although it receives billions in federal funds, does not guarantee its students procedural due process - well, at least not if you're a young white male: A former student has sued Brown University in federal court, saying university officials interfered with his efforts to clear his name after another student, the daughter of a prominent Brown alumnus and...
Ben Roethlisberger: Guilty of Being a Beta
Posted on April 14, 2010What is the difference between flirtatious and creepy? When a football player stares at a woman, he's being aggressive. When a computer programmer stares at a woman, he is being creepy. When Bill Clinton puts his hands all over a woman, he is being aggressive...
Reason Magazine is Goldman Sachs' Patsy?
Posted on April 13, 2010There are some very good points in this video - and one very bad one. The video emphasizes how much in taxes the top 1% of Americans pay. Wall Street executies like Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein will pay a lot of money in taxes. Is this unfair? Wall Street executives should be out of work...
Too Many Doctors, Not Enough Medicine
Posted on April 13, 2010In order to totally freak out the American public about Obamacare, the media is now reporting a doctor shortage: Experts warn there won't be enough doctors to treat the millions of people newly insured under the law. At current graduation and training rates, the nation could face a shortage of as many as 150,000 doctors in the next 15 years,...
Papal Thought Experiment: II
Posted on April 12, 2010If thirty years ago you wanted to rape children could you have named a better organization to feed your voracious appetite for children - than the Catholic Church? Other than the Russian mafia, would there have been a more superior place? This thought experiment is serious: What organization would have been better for an aspiring pedophile to join?
The Average American Male
Posted on April 12, 2010Read this fictional account as a work of non-fiction, and you'll have an understanding of Generations X and Y, and the Millennials. You probably won't like what you see, and if you already found young people distasteful: You'll hate them even more. I laughed out loud repeatedly, as the degenerate and abnormal - though one is left wondering if the...
More on the Narcissistic Generation of Oldsters
Posted on April 12, 2010This is poetic: When the nest must be defended, its eldest residents ? with the least long-term utility remaining to them ? become the most suicidally aggressive, ?obedient to a simple truth that separates our two species: Where humans send their young men to war, ants send their old ladies...
IRS Adopts Corporatocracy's Policy of "Too Small to Succeed"
Posted on April 12, 2010Does anyone remain in denial that the United States is currently owned and operated by large corporations? If you are still in denial, consider this: The IRS is auditing small businesses rather than large corporations. Details here.
Papal Thought Experiment
Posted on April 09, 2010If instead of being The Pope, Joseph Ratzinger were the CEO of Enron: Would anyone oppose prosecuting him for obstruction of justice and violations of the RICO Act? If the Pope were head of a country, would anyone oppose an assassination attempt on him? If the Pope were my next-door neighbor, would you want me arrested for walking over with...
Executive Compensation and Libertarianism's Slave Morality
Posted on April 08, 2010As CEO of AOL, Randy Falco purchased Bebo for $850 million. Bebo was a disastrous purchase, and is going to be sold at a substantial loss. For all of his hard work in costing AOL billions, Randy Falco was given an $8.5 million bonus. CEOs are hugely compensated through acts of fraud and dishonesty...
Pathological Narcissism
Posted on April 08, 2010Narcissism gets thrown around a lot - as it should, because it's everywhere. Yet most narcissism is not pathological. Self-love and feelings of entitlement are weaknesses, but one can be overcome them. Your boss yells at you; you go cry; then you start to learn that there are lines that other people set; you put your toes up to them;...
Jack Marshall of ProEthics Flunked Legal Ethics
Posted on April 07, 2010What is ethics? Or is it Ethics? Does ethics come from God or man? Are ethics a social construct? Who decides what is unethical? Ethics is a rich philosophical subject. That said, there is ethics; and then there is legal ethics. These are not the same subjects...
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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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