An Ambiguous Dystopia
Jul 08Going through old papers I find this gem from my Randian past: a very short sf story that I wrote in (but not for) college, titled “Under the Violet Sun.” Some of my stories actually had plots (hopefully I’ll dig them up eventually). This one, not so much.
It Makes a Fellow Proud, Part 3
Jul 07And now Tom Knapp is in CounterPunch, explaining how the Casey Anthony trial was a failure of justice regardless of whether she was guilty or innocent. You can also hear a clip from Kevin Carson being interviewed by Iranian Press TV here, on the role of big business in war. Those of us who have [...]
Cory Maye To Be Freed
Jul 01Cory Maye, about whose case I’ve blogged previously (here, here, here, and here), is finally due to be released. (CHT Sheldon.) It falls short of what he deserves – he was required to plead guilty to manslaughter for exercising his right to defend himself and his family, and he’s being offered no compensation for the [...]
Cordial and Sanguine, Part 6
Jun 09My third post (yeah, been crazy busy lately) at Bleeding Heart Libertarians is now up: “Prison Break.”
Hunt the Wild Justice
Jul 11C. S. Lewis’s article “The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment” is simultaneously an excellent argument against the rehabilitative or therapeutic approach to punishment, and a lousy argument in favour of the retributive approach to punishment. Lewis makes a compelling and eloquent proto-Szaszian case for the thesis that punishment not based on responsibility is wrong; but, never [...]
Discipline and Punish
Jul 13An Alabama man just got out of prison after serving nearly 30 years for … stealing a toolbox. Notice how his attorney assures us that the legal system is much better nowadays – he’d probably only receive ten or fifteen years (!). In related news, see Jeff Tucker on the Madoff case and the perversity [...]
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