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"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Another Fake Hate Crime? Arrest Discredits Tennessee Anti-Gay Case

Paris, Tennessee, is a town of 10,000 people about two hours west of Nashville, but it made national headlines last month: Joe Williams, Tennessee Health Food Store Owner, Beaten In Alleged Anti-Gay Hate Crime Williams said three men beat him unconscious and wrote a “three-letter homophobic slur” on his forehead in the Nov. 20 attack: The […]

Two Words You Probably Never Want to Think About: ‘Botched Vasectomy’

Also, “shooting rampage”: Newly released 911 tapes reveal what the Reno, Nev., hospital shooter apparently told trapped patients and employees as he terrorized a medical office, killing one doctor and wounding two other people before taking his own life last week. His apparent reason for the rampage? A vasectomy he said wrecked his life. One […]

‘But … They Were in Love’

Dante Mobley, 30, accused of sex with 14-year-old. The accused 30-year-old perpetrator tried to deny it, but his 14-year-old victim offered a familiar defense in his behalf: In the Bunnell case, the parent of a 14-year-old girl in Bunnell called cops at 4 a.m. on Dec. 22, to report that the girl had snuck out […]

Crime Is a People Problem

How many times have I said this? A lot: The key to crime prevention is to identify, apprehend and imprison criminals. People who commit serious crimes also usually commit petty crimes, and by the time you actually catch a criminal and convict him on a serious charge, he’s probably already gotten away with numerous minor […]

Knife-Wielding Rape Suspect Says the Voices in His Head Were Rather Specific

Criminality and stupidity are not a particularly unusual combination, but it is a mistake to think that criminals are so stupid that they cannot pick up cultural clues. For example, decades of liberal rhetoric about the “rights” of criminals and the depiction of the mentally ill as helpless victims apparently influenced Anthony Washington’s ideas of […]

This Is Not News: Carl Herold and His ‘Domestic Partner’ Charles Dunnavant

Interesting which crimes get overlooked by the national media: Two Alabama men have been charged with imprisoning and filming their sexual abuse of a minor for use in child pornography made with the son of one of the accused. Domestic partners Charles Dunnavant and Carl Herold face a litany of charges ranging from sexual torture […]

Harvard Genius Caught in Stupid Hoax

The elitist theory that Harvard students are the smartest people on the planet continues to be contradicted by reality: A Harvard student has been charged in connection with Monday’s bomb threats which shut down four Harvard buildings and canceled finals for many students. The U.S. Attorney’s office says Eldo Kim, 20, of Cambridge, emailed several […]

‘Nobody Matters Less to Our Society Than Young Black Women. Nobody.’

The headline quote is from a very long Village Voice interview with former Chicago Sun-Times reporter Jim DeRogatis about the sexual accusations against pop singer R. Kelly. Since the release of the singer’s latest album, Black Panties, DeRogatis has quite evidently become angry at the way Kelly’s predatory conduct has been glossed over, or even […]

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