One or a few people shot up a Mothers’ Day Parade in New Orleans — nobody was killed, but 17 were injured. It’s strangely quiet out there. The news has been non-stop “Boston terrorism!”, “Lone wolf terrorism!”, “Oh, woe, what shall we do about terrorism?” for the last few weeks, but guns blasting a parade, …
Category Archive: Crime
May 08 2013
If the air force wants to recruit rapists, they’re off to a great start
A man, Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski, who was in charge of a branch of the Air Force’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response program, was arrested after groping and assaulting a woman in a parking lot. How can that be? Didn’t he read his own specialty’s literature on sexual assault? Maybe he did. You should take …
May 07 2013
“…a pretty little white girl ran into a black man’s arms…something is wrong here”
It was a horrific story out of Cleveland: three brothers have been arrested for imprisoning three women for over a decade in their home. I can’t even imagine the nightmare those women lived through. Charles Ramsey, the neighbor who helped break them out, at least provides a little light-hearted relief. And right now we’re starting …
Apr 27 2013
Yankee brainlessness
The craven tools in congress can’t get up the nerve to increase gun control so our kids won’t be as likely to be shot in school, but that just creates opportunity for capitalists. You can now buy bulletproof backpacks. Lined with ballistic material that can stop a 9mm bullet travelling at 400 metres per second, …
Apr 23 2013
How do we reduce crime?
Increasingly, this is the image we have of the police. Terrifying, isn’t it? Once again, America reduces an abstract problem to the metaphor of war, and proposes armored vehicles and armored men with big guns as the solution. All we have to do is go in and kill crime, and we’ll be victorious! Maybe, instead, …
Apr 23 2013
Steubenville hasn’t learned a thing
The football coach who reportedly joked to his team members about the sexual assault on an unconscious girl, who the team trusted to cover up any problems their behavior might cause, who threatened a reporter and her family if they pursued the case, has had his coaching contract extended another two years. Symbolic of this …
Apr 19 2013
Occidental College President Jonathan Veitch must resign
Occidental College is a small school in northeastern Los Angeles. It’s got about 2,000 students at any one time. And it’s got a huge sexual assault problem: yesterday, 38 students and alumnae of Occidental filed a Title IX complaint with the Federal Department of Education claiming that the college violated civil rights law in its …
Apr 18 2013
Ars Technica on Dunning
It’s just looking worse and worse. Ars Technica discusses the Dunning widget to stuff cookies, and reveals something damning. It was coded to avoid planting cookies in computers in San Jose or Santa Barbara, where the eBay headquarters are located. If he considered this perfectly acceptable behavior in eBay’s eyes, why did he need to …
Apr 17 2013
Skeptoid slapped down
Brian Dunning, the voice behind the Skeptoid podcast, has pled guilty to wire fraud. In a clever scheme to essentially defraud eBay, visitors to his site had a cookie planted on their computers that did no harm to the visitors, but was recognized by eBay as a flag to credit Dunning as an affiliate referrer. …
Apr 15 2013
Boston terror
Explosions, severely wounded bystanders, evacuations: the Boston Marathon has been marred by some kind of catastrophe at the finish line. New Englanders, report — we’re all wondering what happened, and I’m mainly getting just brief blips in between classes and meetings.
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