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How Wall Street Makes Money
Posted on February 21, 2010Why is Wall Street making record profits when the rest of America is suffering? Why does no one care? The only reason such apathy exists, however, is because there's still a widespread misunderstanding of how exactly Wall Street "earns" its money, with emphasis on the quotation marks around "earns...
No, No, No. Don't Talk About Joe.
Posted on February 21, 2010Those who have studied revolutions and imagined starting their own have no doubt been following these types of stories: Even as the American economy shows tentative signs of a rebound, the human toll of the recession continues to mount, with millions of Americans remaining out of work, out of savings and nearing the end of their unemployment benefits...
Monogamy is a Mental Illness
Posted on February 19, 2010Psychologists claim that they are scientists. They brush aside its recent history of shock therapy; or of psychology's classification of homosexuality as a mental illness. Yet today Tiger Woods apologized to all for having a normal male sex drive. He is not a man; he is a sex addict...
The Joe Stacks Problem
Posted on February 19, 2010The problem with Joe Stacks is that even people who disagree with what he did, understand why he did it. When terrorists attacked the United States on 9/11, there was not just universal condemnation: There was universal confusion. "How could they attack us," Americans asked? How many children died because of revolutions the CIA started? How many Palestinian children died...
Prosecutors: Protecting Their Own
Posted on February 18, 2010Do prosecutors ever see an example of prosecutorial misconduct they don't like?
The Joe Stacks Sentiment
Posted on February 18, 2010I've been warning people for the past several months that America is desperate. The problem is that most of you are high earners. The "struggles" most of us have is earning low-six figures instead of mid- to high-six figures. We stare at our fattened navels, unaware that many Americans have nothing sticking to their ribs...
Iyanna Washington: Hate Criminal and Thief
Posted on February 17, 2010In this disturbing video, Oakland resident Iyanna Washington encourages her male companion to assault a 67-year-old man. Offering encouragement to all of us, the "old man" successfully defended himself. This really is a must-watch video (NSFW language)...
Nutrition for Lawyers
Posted on February 17, 2010Brian Tannebaum talks about his seventh year as a diabetic: I will have diabetes for the rest of my life. I was not born with it, like those that grew up with it as children, and wear insulin pumps full time (Type I), and I always keep that in perspective...
More on Iyanna Washington: Hate Criminal
Posted on February 17, 2010CBS is reporting about the notorious video depicting a college student's assault of near-septuagenarian. Iyanna Washington, a hate criminal, is attempting to downplay her role in inducing a college-aged male to assault a senior citizen: Washington admits she cheered on the younger man during the fight, as did several other people around her...
How the Mainstream Media Reports Iyanna Washington's Hate Crimes
Posted on February 17, 2010In this video, a young African American male attacks an elderly white man. You can hear Iyanna Washington make several racist comments including referring to the near-septuagenarian as "pinky" (slang for a white person), and encouraging the younger man to "Beat his white ass...
Stuff I've Read Today
Posted on February 16, 2010Bloomberg Media is seeking to uncover the Federal Reserve's coverup. The Judiciary is truly the only branch of government that can save the American people from tyranny. Wall Streets owns Congress and the President. Will the Second Circuit Court of Appeals stand up for open government, or go where angels fear to tread? How walkable is your neighborhood? I'm a...
What Does Quiet Desperation Look Like?
Posted on February 16, 2010"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."
"The Rape of American Prisoners"
Posted on February 16, 2010Claiming that the rape of children is wrong is low-hanging fruit. And yet children are being raped every day. Not just by other prisoners, but by the prison guards: Adults who want to have sex with children sometimes look for jobs that will make it easy...
Why Do Narcissists Kill?
Posted on February 15, 2010Here is a very interesting post answering that question.
California DUI Checkpoints: Profit-making Scam
Posted on February 14, 2010Check out this NY Times report.
You Are Not Merely Selling an Object: You Are Selling a Story
Posted on February 12, 2010This (hat tip) is an amazing illustration of the power of stories:. the Significant Objects Project, an experiment designed to test the hypothesis that ?narrative transforms the insignificant into the significant.? Or, put differently, the goal was to determine whether you could take an object worth very little and make it worth much more by giving it a story, by...
Sergey Aleynikov Indicted
Posted on February 12, 2010We'll have more on this false and malicious prosecution later: Federal prosecutors said Thursday that Sergey Aleynikov, a former computer programmer at Goldman Sachs, had been indicted on charges that he stole proprietary software that the firm uses to make rapid-fire trades in the financial markets...
New Year's Resolutions
Posted on February 09, 2010Do you make them? I don't, though I do seek improvement every year. Here are my before-and-after photographs - an 80-lb. weight loss. Here is one of my best friends, who turns 40 this year. He looks better at 40 than when I first met him - when he was 27...
You Are Who You Choose
Posted on February 08, 2010Over the past decade, Buddhism, Taoism, and Greek and Roman wisdom are all being scientifically validated. Probably there is little reason to read past Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. In general: You are who you choose to be. You become your actions. Epictetus said: "If you want to be a writer...
Virtue Doesn't Keep the Lights On
Posted on February 08, 2010Never expect compensation for a good deed. Rarely will those you help ever even bother to thank you - let alone pay you. Just ask Anne Danaher. Anne Danaher, Erin Brockovitch style, was a non-lawyer who spent thousands of hours fighting for a cause she believed was just...
Narcissism Watch: Spend Money to Look Like the "Working Man"
Posted on February 03, 2010I have worked at a junk yard and detasseled corn. I know something of the "working man." I made many sacrifices and worked very hard so that I would not end up like the working man. Indeed, my father and I got into a huge argument when I was young: He made me quit my job at the junk yard,...
See a Narcissist Blog
Posted on February 02, 2010Some guy who has a so-so blog and has been blogging for all of a few months has decided that blogging culture must change. This cultural shift, coincidentally, totally overlaps with his personal interests. In a perfectly sensible post, Scott Greenfeld noted that people new to the party might think about learning the culture before seeking to reform it: The...
Corrupt Cops and Prosecutors Lose Lawsuit Against John Grisham
Posted on February 01, 2010A bunch of corrupt and/or incompetent police and prosecutors had an innocent man sent to prison to rot for over a decade. John Grisham wrote a book about the police and prosecutors. What do you suppose happened? Did Scalia's new police professionals reflect on how they sent an innocent man to prison? Did they seek to improve police procedures in...
California Court of Appeal Carves Out "Low Value" Exception to First Amendment (Catsouras v. State of California Highway Patrol)
Posted on February 01, 2010Catsouras v. State of California Highway Patrol (opinion here; case discussion here), a newly-issued California Court of Appeal Opinion, raises important First Amendment issues. In Catsouras, two California Highway Patrol officers forwarded crime-scene photos of an 18-year old who died after crashing her father's stolen Porsche into a guide rail...
Nikki Catsouras: Elevating the Dead's Right to Privacy Over the Living's Right to Free Speech
Posted on January 31, 2010Nikki Catsouras was the product of an indulgent Orange County, California lifestyle. When she was 18, she took her father's car without his permission (he called 9-1-1 to report her) and took it on a joy ride. She got the Porsche up to 100 miles-per-hour and clipped another car, before crashing to her own death...
Old People Lack Wisdom
Posted on January 28, 2010One of the more troubling myths is that, "With age, comes reason." Aristotle did his best work at 37. Marcus Aurelius wrote Meditations in his 40s. Nevertheless, we all grow up being told to respect our elders, because they are so wise. I've received little wisdom from my elders, which is why I was reading Aristotle at 19 rather than...
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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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