Some very good Halloween pics from Baltimore by photojournalist Martha Cooper. (Though it’s titled “Halloween in da Hood” and from what I can tell — occupied blocks and well maintained buildings — she’s in a pretty decent neighborhood.) [thanks to A.H.]
The key is to un-learn the academic habit of treating every proposition and argument offered as needing to be taken seriously and requiring a refutation, if false. Note to self: Making sh*t up is a valuable research technique. Must use it more often. So says Mark Kleiman. [thanks to Jay]
“No one can get a straight answer on how many cops are patrolling the streets,” Vallone said. In other cases, he added: “They just don’t want to provide the statistics. I don’t understand why, because when they do, it always shows the N.Y.P.D. is doing what they are supposed to do.” Just FYI, I don’t…
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In the UK. According to the BBC. Something about “human rights,” sez the E.U. Bunch of socialists.
Cop Blocks Bike Lane To Ticket Cyclists For Not Using Lane. I’d like to think there’s more to this story.
Do you ever see a headline that says “Gang Membership Down”? I’m suspicious. Gang membership did not increase 25% in one year. That I can guarantee.
It’s not too often supporters of the 2nd Amendment and supporters of immigrant rights can find common political ground. But here’s a case. Whatever happened to discretion? Immigration officials are always on the lookout to deport “criminal aliens,” and it appears that last week, Mr. Valerio’s name came up. … He had been a legal…
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Timothy “So I can’t call you no more?” West was acquitted despite, best I can tell, admitting to it. According the Daily News: Privately, several jurors interviewed after the verdict said they didn’t buy the victim’s story because there were no signs of forced entry into her home. One juror said the panel believed the…
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From Doonsbury.
National Public Radio says an investigation revealed a “quiet, behind-the-scenes effort to help draft and pass Arizona Senate Bill 1070 by an industry that stands to benefit from it: the private prison industry.” . . . The anti-immigration law amounted to “a new business model to lock up illegal immigrants.”