Me. At 2:45pm Eastern Time. Stream Team with Fredricka Whitfield. A mega 5-minute segment.
Month: June 2011
John McAndrew Sr.
Western District Officer McAndrew retires after 50 years of service. From the Sun: He had no idea that he would carry this passion for 50 years of service. Asked how many police commissioners he had served under, McAndrew smiled, and said: Everyone. (anybody know his sequence number!?)
“Real Men Get Their Facts Straight”
From the Village Voice, debunking everybody from Ashton Kutcher to CNN and the New York Timeswho repeat the absurd claim that there are “between 100,000 and 300,000 child sex slaves in the United States today!” We examined arrests for juvenile prostitution in the nation’s 37 largest cities during a 10-year period. … Law enforcement records show that there were only…
Really?
Generally I support the goals of prison reformers. Prisons are not supposed to be torture chambers that destroy the lives of all who enter. So I support efforts to make them better. But in my book I compare that to asking for comfier seats on the train to Auschwitz. It’s kind of missing the big picture. But this guy seems…
Research Methods
“Come now, E.B.! It’s time for us to venture out and continue our study of early 21st century society…” “Aww. Can’t we just stay in and do our research online?” “I’m afraid not… to truly understand a people and culture, we must walk among them! Document their daily routines and observe them in direct face to fact interactions.” Fine advice…
Retribution on Bernie Madoff
The New York Timeshas an article about the absurd sentence (150 years) Madoff received. Why is absurd? Not because he doesn’t deserve it. It’s absurd because Madoff was then 71 years old! Seems to me a good defense of flogging: Judge Chin’s recollections resurrect all the anger, shock and confusion that surrounded Mr. Madoff’s crimes, and provide a rare peek…
Don’t “Come Here!”
One cop I worked with would constantly get into foot pursuits. For the rest of us, it was kind of annoying, especially for those of us who hated running. What frustrated me was that these pursuits were entirely preventable. The problem was this officer would see a kid he wanted to stop and say, “Come here!” Naturally, not being a…
“Whoop whoop whoop”
That’s the bullshit detector going off after seeing this: Expert: 40,000 – 50,000 slaves currently in U.S. How much you wanna bet he just made up that number? Being exploited for cheap labor does not automatically mean you’re a slave. Have we forgotten what slavery was?
You live a jackass, you die a jackass
“Police: ‘Jackass’ star Ryan Dunn was drunk and driving over 132 mph.” I guess it’s not surprising. But it is sad. I love Jackass!
Kill Kill Kill (part 2)
The decisionjust seems to be just a general free-speech issue. They compare video games to books: Reading Dante is unquestionably more cultured and intellectually edifying than playing Mortal Kombat. But these cultural and intellectual differences are not constitutional ones. Just because there’s a new media doesn’t mean there’s a new exception to be carved out of the 1st Amendment. I…