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A Question About the Huntsville Shooting

By on February 18, 2010 6

So the media outlets all seem to be saying that Amy Bishop shot six of her colleagues before her gun “jammed,” whereupon she was “pushed out of the room.”

We haven’t heard what model gun she was using, but don’t most handguns have just six shots? If so, why not assume her gun ran out of bullets rather than that it jammed? Is it that the reporters know more than we do (i.e. that her gun held more than six bullets) or that they know less than we do (i.e. the media’s usual vast ignorance about guns)?

A related question: why didn’t those who pushed her out of the room disarm her first? Weren’t they afraid she might reload and come back?

Hier Ist Kein Warum

By on February 17, 2010 4

When Primo Levi, as a newly arrived prisoner at a Nazi concentration camp, reached for an icicle to quench his desperate thirst, a guard knocked the icicle out of his hand. To Levi’s question “Warum?” (“Why?”), the guard replied with what was destined to become a famous quote: “Hier ist kein Warum” (“Here there is no why”).

Gosh, don’t it make you glad to live in a free country?

Aliens Among Us

By on February 16, 2010 25

porn star from another planet?

Just caught a clip of Joy Behar talking about Joslyn James, the porn star who claims to have been pregnant by Tiger Woods.

Behar said, inter alia, that a) of course Joslyn James wouldn’t have wanted to raise a child, because she’s a porn star and so has no “maternal instinct”; and b) it’s not plausible that Joslyn James would have objected to Woods’ being unfaithful to her, because she’s, you know, a porn star.

I wonder whether Behar’s aware that according to recent cutting-edge scientific tests, the DNA of porn stars is very similar to that of human beings?

All Your Mind Are Belong To Her

By on February 14, 2010 9

So law prof Karin Calvo-Goller writes a book with the catchy title Trial Proceedings of the International Criminal Court: ICTY and ICTR Precedents; and fellow law prof Thomas Weigend pens what seems to me a rather mildly negative review.

Why doesn't Karin Calvo-Goller want to let you read anything critical of her book?

Why doesn't Karin Calvo-Goller want to let you read anything critical of her book?

Whereupon Calvo-Goller reacts by writing to journal editor (and likewise law prof) Joseph Weiler demanding that he suppress the review, on the grounds that it might have a negative impact on her “professional reputation and academic promotion.” When Weiler very politely declines (at the same time patiently explaining some of her misinterpretations of the review), she drags him into court and has him charged with criminal libel. (CHT Der Leiter. Whether similar charges are being brought against Weigend as well is unclear.)

Given that Calvo-Goller’s actions threaten to injure her reputation by making her look like an idiot and a fascistic jerk, I am hereby charging her with criminal libel against herself.

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