Archive for December 3rd, 2008
Plaxidental shooting
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008Last Friday, New York football Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress took a gun into a New York City nightclub and accidentally shot himself in the leg while he was fumbling with his gun in one hand and holding a glass of wine in the other. He went to the hospital ...
Unlawful imprisonment on airplanes
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008Passengers aboard a TACA International Airlines flight were kept on board the plane for nearly 14 hours on November 30. It was supposed to be 4.5 hours. Radley Balko asks, "How is holding someone in an enclosed airplaine on a tarmac with no circulating air and little food or water ...
November market anarchist blag carnival
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008I enjoyed each of the posts submitted to the November edition of the market anarchist blag carnival. I tried to submit my post on early English law, but my internet was down for a couple days, and then I forgot, and then I was incommunicado down in the land of ...
More thoughts on the auto bailout
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008All I hear about in the news segments of morning radio here in Michigan is how "we" desperately need a government bailout of the Big Three automakers, and how letting them go bankrupt will be a disaster for many industries other than Detroit automakers, and how it isn't fair for ...