constant struggle http://www.flawdlogic.org/logic/ it was exploding when i got here. en Copyright 2008 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:34:51 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Platon "I feel strongly about this particular point because of a picture I saw in a magazine. It was a photo essay about troops who were serving in Iraq and Afganistan. And one picture at the tail end of this photo essay was a mother in Arlington Cemetry, and she had her head on the headstone of her son's grave. And as the picture focused in, you could see the writing on the headstone. And it gave his awards, Purple Heart, Bronze Star, showed that he died in Iraq, gave his date of birth, date of death. He was 20 years old. And then at the very top of the headstone, it didn't have a Christian Cross. It didn't have a Star of David. It had a crescent and a star of the Islamic faith. And his name was Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan. And he was an American." The photo is here.]]> http://www.flawdlogic.org/logic/2008/10/platon.html http://www.flawdlogic.org/logic/2008/10/platon.html Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:34:51 -0500 Being Tasered is a Seizure FourthAmendment.com: Being Tasered is a seizure. Wilson v. City of Lafayette, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 72384 (D. Colo. September 10, 2008). There was question on this point? Also, 11th Circuit? You're kidding, right? ]]> http://www.flawdlogic.org/logic/2008/09/being_tasered_is_a_seizure.html http://www.flawdlogic.org/logic/2008/09/being_tasered_is_a_seizure.html Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:54:44 -0500 Tips on Choosing a Criminal Defense Lawyer right. If you've been arrested, you're on your way to being screwed. Maybe your PD is good. Many are. Many are not. If you're going to hire a 'paid lawyer,' don't hire some guy your buddy knows or the guy who handled your speeding ticket. You need a good lawyer, and good lawyers cost money. It's not right, it's not fair, but that's the way it is.]]> http://www.flawdlogic.org/logic/2008/09/tips_on_choosing_a_criminal_de.html http://www.flawdlogic.org/logic/2008/09/tips_on_choosing_a_criminal_de.html Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:17:01 -0500 Musical Interlude You got me Moby + Heather Nova - Straight to Hell]]> http://www.flawdlogic.org/logic/2008/09/musical_interlude.html http://www.flawdlogic.org/logic/2008/09/musical_interlude.html Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:49:27 -0500 Marijuana Arrests Up, Again Police arrested a record 872,721 persons for marijuana violations in 2007, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's annual Uniform Crime Report, released today. This is the largest total number of annual arrests for cannabis ever recorded by the FBI. Cannabis arrests now comprise nearly 47.5 percent of all drug arrests in the United States. Link. Almost 90% were for possession only. This is mind-bogglingly awful policy from nearly every perspective.]]> http://www.flawdlogic.org/logic/2008/09/marijuana_arrests_up_again_1.html http://www.flawdlogic.org/logic/2008/09/marijuana_arrests_up_again_1.html Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:34:05 -0500 Forty Seven MCO: Orlando International Airport, Orlando, Florida, United States. (no, i wasn't visiting the mouse.)]]> http://www.flawdlogic.org/logic/2008/08/forty_seven.html http://www.flawdlogic.org/logic/2008/08/forty_seven.html Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:11:57 -0500 College this, but my perpetually sleep-addled brain can't seem to express them in anything resembling coherency. Essentially, though, you have to believe either that a) vast numbers of Americans are somehow genetically incapable of completing college-level work or b) something is seriously wrong with our primary and secondary educational system: vast numbers of Americans receive compulsory education that is so shabby that by the time they get to college they have neither the skills nor the socialization to actually complete the work. Cue Bowles and Gintis.]]> http://www.flawdlogic.org/logic/2008/05/college.html http://www.flawdlogic.org/logic/2008/05/college.html Sun, 18 May 2008 23:51:25 -0500 Forty Six HOU: William P. Hobby Airport, Houston, Texas, United States.]]> http://www.flawdlogic.org/logic/2008/05/forty_six.html http://www.flawdlogic.org/logic/2008/05/forty_six.html Mon, 12 May 2008 18:06:02 -0500 Earned Disillusionment There are wise people who talk ever so knowingly and complacently about "the working classes," and satisfy themselves that a day's hard intellectual work is very much harder than a day's hard manual toil, and is righteously entitled to much bigger pay. Why, they really think that, you know, because they know all about the one, but haven't tried the other. But I know all about both; and so far as I am concerned, there isn't money enough in the universe to hire me to swing a pickaxe thirty days, but I will do the hardest kind of intellectual work for just as near nothing as you can cipher it down—and I will be satisfied, too. -Mark Twain http://www.flawdlogic.org/logic/2008/04/earned_disillusionment.html http://www.flawdlogic.org/logic/2008/04/earned_disillusionment.html Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:54:49 -0500 That Sounds About Right. Karelis, a professor at George Washington University, has a simpler but far more radical argument to make: traditional economics just doesn't apply to the poor. When we're poor, Karelis argues, our economic worldview is shaped by deprivation, and we see the world around us not in terms of goods to be consumed but as problems to be alleviated. This is where the bee stings come in: A person with one bee sting is highly motivated to get it treated. But a person with multiple bee stings does not have much incentive to get one sting treated, because the others will still throb. The more of a painful or undesirable thing one has (i.e. the poorer one is) the less likely one is to do anything about any one problem. Poverty is less a matter of having few goods than having lots of problems.
Link. ]]> http://www.flawdlogic.org/logic/2008/04/that_sounds_about_right.html http://www.flawdlogic.org/logic/2008/04/that_sounds_about_right.html Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:04:24 -0500 Health in America reports that:
Two widely prescribed cholesterol-lowering drugs, Vytorin and Zetia, may not work and should be used only as a last resort, The New England Journal of Medicine said in an editorial published on Sunday. Merck and Schering-Plough, the companies that make Vytorin and Zetia, said on Sunday that despite the results of the trial, they would continue to promote their medicines as first-line treatments for high cholesterol.
2. AP reports that:
[O]ut of 168 nations in a Harvard University study last year, 163 had some form of paid maternity leave, leaving the United States in the company of Lesotho, Papua New Guinea and Swaziland.
]]> http://www.flawdlogic.org/logic/2008/03/health_in_america_1.html http://www.flawdlogic.org/logic/2008/03/health_in_america_1.html Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:10:14 -0500 Eight ]]> http://www.flawdlogic.org/logic/2008/03/eight.html http://www.flawdlogic.org/logic/2008/03/eight.html Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:19:49 -0500 Forty Five VIE: Vienna International Airport, Vienna, Austria.]]> http://www.flawdlogic.org/logic/2008/03/forty_five.html http://www.flawdlogic.org/logic/2008/03/forty_five.html Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:11:50 -0500 Forty Four RDU: Raleigh-Durham International Airport, Wake County, North Carolina, United States.]]> http://www.flawdlogic.org/logic/2008/03/forty_four.html http://www.flawdlogic.org/logic/2008/03/forty_four.html Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:09:35 -0500 Forty Three IAD: Washington Dulles International Airport,Loudoun County and Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.]]> http://www.flawdlogic.org/logic/2008/03/forty_three.html http://www.flawdlogic.org/logic/2008/03/forty_three.html Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:07:05 -0500