Blog Posts in 2015

By now, it’s no news that a “grand jury” refused to indict the killers of Tamir Rice. This happened because the killers were murderous cops, and for no other reason. If anyone else other than a ...

As the New York Times notes, When the nation’s long-running war against drugs was defined by the crack epidemic and based in poor, predominantly black urban areas, the public response was defined by ...

“[K]illing sprees are specifically targeted to generate the most fear and uncertainty from the public, because the more fear and uncertainty they generate, the more attention they get. They then use ...

It might seem, since so many of my posts start by referring to Scott Greenfield’s blog posts, that I’m an acolyte, or that his stuff is all I ever read. Not true. But he’s posting up to two or three ...

Some months ago, as part of my morning reading ritual, I ran across “The Ghost Rapes of Bolivia.” The Bolivian story begins with a perhaps requisite, under the circumstances, nod to evil: For a while, ...

Though my post title of “And Then They Came For Me” clearly invokes the memory of pastor Martin Niemöller’s famous quotation, I’m not going to repeat it here. Sadly, to do so is to descend into the ...