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I’ve been surprised that the current housing bust has not brought a wave of arson behind it. But apparently some boat owners have figured out that they can “sell” their unaffordable and unsaleable craft to the insurance company by scuttling them. And some of them are getting caught.
Archive for March, 2009
March 31st, 2009
Category: Drug Policy
Robert Gibbs was right to blow the question off: as a policy idea, it’s a complete non-starter.
March 31st, 2009
Category: Torture
When it’s done by us instead of by our enemies, of course. Ask the Washington Post.
March 31st, 2009
Category: Torture
What else can you call people who support war crimes as long as the criminal is one of their own?
March 30th, 2009
Category: Crime Control
On Saturday, we took our kids to a movie. The long trail of coming attractions featured a throbbing promo for Dillinger, the latest Michael Mann flick. The five-minute sex, guns, and rock-and-roll preview featured Johnny Depp in fine style, a submachine gun in each hand blasting away at his pursuers after a succession of bank [...]
March 29th, 2009
Category: Torture
Richard Painter:
“The fact that cruel and degrading treatment of human beings is wrong has already been conclusively established, for example in a best selling book available free of charge in most motel rooms.”
March 29th, 2009
Buy the Afghan opium harvest.
March 27th, 2009
The GOP even gets its windmills wrong.
March 26th, 2009
Category: Good news
Since January, and no-one told me! I love Maira Kalman! This month’s op-ed pushes all my buttons: Thomas More, de Toqueville, New England local governance, social capital…. Well, so did the one in January, my other buttons, blessings and thanks for small and big odd things and banal things my favorite poem. I love Maira [...]