Victimless Crimes

Mimi & Eunice: Exploitation

by Nina Paley October 20, 2011

Here’s a terrific article on Capitalists vs. Entrepreneurs. . . . → Read More: Exploitation

Keeping Rights on Paper, Losing Them on the Streets

by Robert Wicks July 22, 2011

While many people love to promote the various rights guaranteed by the Constitution, it is interesting to see how rights are restricted not through legislation or even an active judiciary, but simply by law enforcement not respecting them. Consider the right to keep and bear arms and this officer’s reaction to a man exercising his [...]

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Helmet Laws and Needless deaths

by Robert Wicks July 4, 2011

Yahoo News reports the death of a motorcyclist during a protest ride against New York’s helmet laws. While it is certainly tempting to simply cite this as a case of someone “asking for it” and getting it, consider the specifics of this case: Philip Contos was riding without a helmet at this place and at [...]

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Tragic Turn in Redemption Story

by Dick Clark May 24, 2011

A cop-turned-black-market-intelligence-entrepreneur was arrested in Watertown, Massachusetts after he heroically warned medium-scale commodities importers of his former colleagues’s conspiracy to rob, kidnap, and enslave them. A fired Watertown police officer has been charged with giving information about an international drug investigation involving millions of dollars and several other Watertown men to the people being investigated, [...]

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Zero Tolerance = 100% Totalitarianism

by Manuel Lora February 3, 2011

How else could one explain this? A 7-year-old child allegedly shot a Nerf-style toy gun in his Hammonton, N.J., school Jan. 18. No one was hurt, but the pint-size softshooter now faces misdemeanor criminal charges. Dr. Dan Blachford, the Hammonton Board of Education superintendent, said the school has a zero tolerance policy. “We are just [...]

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Why Can’t Kobe Get Any Love?

by Wilton Alston November 22, 2010

“A debate on ESPN about Kobe being in that “Call of Duty: Black Ops” commercial, holding a rifle, convinced me of two things…” ~ First Tweet “…One, ESPN has a lot of retarded debates about issues that are less than important.” ~ Second Tweet “…Two, I watch too much ESPN.” ~ Third Tweet My previous [...]

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Down in smoke

by Wirkman Virkkala November 5, 2010

My former colleague and neighbor Jesse Walker, in the course of an “appreciation” of exiting Sen. Russ Feingold — whom he calls “the Bob Barr of the left” — expresses the briefest note of sadness over the failure of California’s Proposition 19, the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010. I will demur. Sadness? [...]

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