He only raped one little girl.
Author: Paul Campos
Joe Posnanski points out the rather amazing statistical quirk that Washington’s NFL franchise won’t play a team that will have won a game until the seventh week of the season (their oppone
Ask your doctor if cultural hysteria is right for you. Couple of notes: (1) “Obesity” among infants is currently defined by the CDC by taking what was the 95th percentile of height-weight
Malcom Gladwell asks a very good question. I’m a huge college football fan and like my NFL fix too. This article is to put it mildly extremely disturbing. I don’t know whether it’s a function of watching games in HDTV on a bigger screen or just getting older and less reckless, but even before reading […]
This NYT story argues that the American legal system and the culture in general have become far less lenient toward adults having sex with minors since the wild and crazy 1970s. While doing so it soft
Incredibly, Applebaum’s followup to her original contribution on the Polanski rape is even more clueless and offensive than the original: Of course, there were some very legitimate disagreements
This reads like a wingnut parody of degenerate France and degenerate Hollywood engaging in an orgy of amoral pomposity. (As a lawyer I confess ignorance regarding the principle of immunity from legal process for film festival attendees). I can only hope that most of the signatories to this kind of thing aren’t actually familiar with […]
Several commentators in the Polanski thread are apparently taking the view that if a particular exercise of criminal punishment is unlikely to deter crime or rehabilitate the offender, then punishing
Penn State University’s titular head football coach, Joe Paterno, is old. Really, really old. How old? Well Chalmers (“Bump”) Elliott was Michigan’s football coach for ten year
It’s always difficult to figure out what’s going on from news reports regarding a criminal investigation, but this story raises a lot of questions. First, why isn’t Zazi being charged under one of several very broadly-worded federal anti-terrorism statutes? If, as the FBI asserts, Zazi admitted attending courses “at an al-Qaeda training facility in the […]
That’s the basic moral of this story. I did a town hall-style health care debate last night in Denver with Hugh Hewitt, before an audience of 973 people, 964 of whom were shall we say predispose
Scary black woman throws tennis into turmoil. Update: When I proposed this piece to the Daily Beast, I suggested I might not even mention race because the piece is primarily about the role of gender p