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We Are in the Second Great Depression
Posted on January 28, 2010Under the U-6 unemployment numbers, the United States is at 17.3% unemployment. Basically, we are living in the Great Depression. There are no bread lines because of unemployment benefits, welfare, a huge federal employment sector where the employee can print its down money, and greater aggregate wealth...
Calorie Restriction, Resveratrol, and Intermittent Fasting
Posted on January 24, 2010If I talk about narcissism often, it's because narcissism is everywhere. Let's talk health care. Want health care reform? I have a simple, scientifically-proven solution for you. Caloric restriction is an effective intervention for delaying age-related disease and extending good health into later ages of the mammalian lifespan...
Prop Trading: How Goldman Sachs Gambles With Your Money
Posted on January 21, 2010One of the most scandalously delicious ways in which Wall Street cheats taxpayers is through prop trading. This is good stuff, so stick around. The Federal Reserve loans money to Goldman Sachs at 0.25% interest. That's not a typo. Goldman Sachs borrows money interest free from the Federal Reserve...
Big Brother Strikes Back
Posted on January 20, 2010Many people feared digital technologies, especially the omnipresence of video cameras. Remembering the Cliff Notes of 1984, they screamed, "Big Brother is watching!" Yet videos actually worked to the benefit of the citizenry. Most of us have nothing to fear from surveillance...
Portrait of a Narcissist as a Killer
Posted on January 18, 2010The Last Psychiatrist has this interesting post about Christian Longo, who was recently profiled by a disgraced New York Times reporter in Esquire Magazine. Check it out. The post is interesting because it answers the typical, "How could someone do that?" question: Longo was not a violent or mean person...
"Stay Hungry" as Universal Principle?
Posted on January 18, 2010If you want to perceive the world differently, don't eat for a day - or eat very little. The world will appear differently. You'll sense new smells, new sights. Bland food will suddenly become delicious. If you want to force yourself to "eat healthier," don't eat for a day...
But For Video...
Posted on January 18, 2010But for this video, the citizen would have plead guilty to resisting arrest. When are judges going to start watching videos documenting police abuse?
Haiti Donations
Posted on January 13, 2010Around 500,000 people are dead. Bones are broken and skulls are crushed. People are suffering. What can you do? You can ease some suffering, that's for sure. Even a small donation to the right charity can go a long way. Partners in Health is an excellent charity...
Prosecutorial Misconduct in Rome
Posted on January 10, 2010In Rome, prosecutorial misconduct was a serious offense. Under the Remmian Law, a prosecutor who failed to prove his case would have his forehead branded with the letter, "K," for calumniator. Cicero, Murder Trials (Michael Grant). The laws of Rome read: Tit...
Troy Benson is an Unethical Prosecutor
Posted on January 09, 2010The Recorder is reporting: A Santa Clara County, Calif., Superior Court judge cited "grossly shocking" prosecutorial conduct in dismissing a child sexual assault case Wednesday. In a written order (pdf), Judge Andrea Bryan described a "rare and concerning case of egregious prosecutorial misconduct" following a reversal for a Brady violation in defendant Augustine Uribe's case...
How Police View Excessive Force Investigations
Posted on January 07, 2010If you want to know how police think, then you should read books marketed towards police. One book I just ordered, Deadly Force Encounters: What Cops Need To Know To Mentally And Physically Prepare For And Survive A Gunfight (here), says this about police shootings: In a cop's world it's kill or be killed, but the truth of the matter...
Most Interesting Man on the Internet?
Posted on January 07, 2010I don't know, but this guy (younish, I think) is definitely a contender: http://twitter.com/bakadesuyo He has intellectual curiosity and the time to read widely. I highly recommend that you follow him on Twitter; or if you don't use Twitter, that you bookmark his Twitter page as you would any other website...
Batza & Associates
Posted on January 05, 2010[Disclosure: I did not receive - directly or indirectly - any remuneration, discount, or thing of value for this review.] A couple of years ago, we hired Batza & Associates to handle a sensitive sexual-assault prosecution. They outperformed our expectations...
The Aging Brain and Cognitive Decline
Posted on January 04, 2010Cognitive enhancement is finally going mainstream. Yet another idea I was 15 years ahead of. Been a member of the Life Extension Foundation since my teens. You should join. It should be called Life Enhancement Foundation, since I'm really not trying to live to 100, but instead want to avoid the negative aspects of aging...
Crime Victims As Sociopaths
Posted on January 03, 2010Approximately 4% of Americans are sociopaths. In a country of 300 million, that's a lot of sociopaths. Why then is it to hard to imagine that many crime victims are sociopaths? One of the many myths of criminal law is that there exists "hard evidence" in most cases...
Fifteen Minutes
Posted on January 01, 2010Law is not quantum physics, but nonetheless requires some heavy lifting. Why then do lawyers check e-mail and phone messages constantly? In a recent study, a group of Microsoft workers took, on average, 15 minutes to return to serious mental tasks, like writing reports or computer code, after responding to incoming e-mail or instant messages...
Best Criminal Law Blog Post of 2009
Posted on January 01, 2010The contest is over, and the winner is here.
A Nation of Children
Posted on January 01, 2010David Brooks had the last must-read column of 2009. In, "The God That Fails" he wrote: During the middle third of the 20th century, Americans had impressive faith in their own institutions. It was not because these institutions always worked well. The Congress and the Federal Reserve exacerbated the Great Depression...
Media Ethics and Checkbook Journalism
Posted on December 30, 2009Most outrage results in an attack on the power structure. Thus, people are outraged that one of the men who subdued the Nigerian fire starter wants paid for his story. Paying someone for his story is "unethical," and is referred to as "checkbook journalism...
Terrorism and the Bailouts
Posted on December 29, 2009On September 10, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld appeared before Congress with some shocking news: [Military] auditors admit the military cannot account for 25 percent of what it spends. "According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," Rumsfeld admitted...
Is Monex a Fraud?
Posted on December 28, 2009Monex sued two web site proprietors for publishing truthful information, such as this: Under the injunction, the [web site] cannot publicize, for example, the accurate fact that the Better Business Bureau currently gives Monex a rating grade of F, which a BBB site says means, "We strongly question the company's reliability...
Nigerian Fire Starter Not Al-Qaeda
Posted on December 27, 2009Some idiot lights himself on fire. Must be Al-Qaeda. The Administration was willing to run with that theme. Scare everyone. It didn't work. On Facebook, the sentiment was mixed between eye-rolling and outrage...Am I supposed to believe this? How dare the government try to make this seem like a terrorist plot! Most everyone is realizing that terrorism is a lie...
Self-Reliance or Helplessness?
Posted on December 27, 2009What is the moral of the failed "terrorist" attack? The moral is simple: Take responsibility for your own life. Don't expect the police to help. Yet what message is actually being preached? More security! More government! Give the man who detained the Nigerian fire bomber a medal...
Christmas Presents
Posted on December 25, 2009The best presents we receive are spiritual gifts from people. Each year it's helpful to think of what others have done for you, and to thank them. Many people have trouble with this. Expressing sentiment is troublesome in our culture of narcissism. Expressing gratitude requires one to become in touch with her emotions - her true self...
Christmas Blogging
Posted on December 25, 2009When I was five years old, I told everyone on the school bus that Santa Claus did not exist. Everyone told me I was wrong, because their parents said that Santa Clause existed. Three decades later, and it seems my life hasn't changed. Thanks for reading, and Merry Christmas.
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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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