My second installment in this series of police- and civil-rights-related musings might be of more interest, since it's about the merra-jah-wanna, and who doesn't like that?

I'll start right off with the basic facts of a relevant case, and then bring it back to my reflections.

A plainclothes Street Narcotics Enforcement Unit (SNEU) in the Bronx ( Read more... )

I lay in bed this morning thinking about a long laundry list of disconnected things-from all the practical ways I could come up with to fix the current health care system, to the distinction between pleading for more reasoned political rhetoric and proposing a ban on incendiary language (and a large number of people's apparent inability to make or ( Read more... )