Most of you don’t know this — I don’t talk about it much here, preferring to keep business separate from politics — but for many years as a kid I was an avid card collector, practically inventing the concept of prospecting (I like to fool myself into believing) one summer moment in Baltimore, 1981, when I realized I could trade my middling Orioles cards to neighborhood kids for the likes
August 16, 2015
August 16, 2015
From the UNEXPECTEDLY!!! Files: In the Wake of Proposition 47, California Sees a Crime Wave [Darleen Click]
No f**king sh*t, Sherlock … “The Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act” isn’t living up to its promise. Also known as Proposition 47, the California ballot initiative, which was approved in November 2014 with 60 percent of the vote, downgraded drug possession and many property crimes from a felony to a misdemeanor. Proponents argued that lesser punishment for low-level offenders would enhance public safety. San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon was