Search






Jeff's Amazon.com Wish List

Archive Calendar

Archives

June 10, 2015

“Amherst’s Version of Kafka’s ‘The Trial'” [Darleen Click]

KC Johnson writes on yet another episode of Facts be damned, the man is always guilty … Kafka was born too early to write about Amherst College. At campus hearings on claims of sexual assault, procedures are relentlessly stacked again males and evidence of innocence doesn’t count. Amherst expelled a student for committing rape—despite text messages from the accuser, sent immediately after the alleged assault, (1) telling one student that

Process as Punishment: DOJ targets libertarian Reason Magazine [Darleen Click]

Ken White: The United States Department of Justice is using federal grand jury subpoenas to identify anonymous commenters engaged in typical internet bluster and hyperbole in connection with the Silk Road prosecution. DOJ is targeting Reason.com, a leading libertarian website whose clever writing is eclipsed only by the blowhard stupidity of its commenting peanut gallery. Why is the government using its vast power to identify these obnoxious asshats, and not