Lara A. Bazelon, to whose comments about judge Alex Kozinski I responded here, has replied to me publicly in Monday’s edition of the Los Angeles Times. I was kindly offered the final word on the matter by the Times, which I declined (I feel the news cycle has moved on ...
Read MoreDefending Kozinski: Full Response to Lara A. Bazelon
This is the full-length version of my article that appeared in today’s Los Angeles Times (and thanks to the Los Angeles Times for publishing a shortened version of my response to Bazelon as today’s Blowback). —————– Alex Kozinski, the Chief Justice of the 9th Circuit Court whose private fileserver was ...
Read MoreA standing ovation for the LA Times
An op-ed in today’s LA Times, the newspaper which broke the story that Judge Alex Kozinski has a stash of porn on his personal website, is one I could have written myself. I love it. It’s subtitle reads, “An apology from the 9th Circuit judge for his computer collection of ...
Read MoreObscenity trial on hold after judge’s website was found to contain… obscenity!
On Monday, I reported on an obscenity trial of a porn producer who is being prosecuted in federal court here in California. Now, this amazing turn of events: A closely watched obscenity trial in Los Angeles federal court was suspended Wednesday after the judge acknowledged maintaining his own publicly accessible ...
Read MoreOn citizenship: Randi on America
The United States of America is not above reproach, and clearly not without fault either. But I’m sick and tired of hearing my fellow Europeans pontificate about American policy and culture in moralising lectures during which their countries are portrayed as leaders somehow trying to show America how to be ...
Read MoreDeism and libertarianism
A while ago, William Crawley discussed an exchange (video) between theist Alister McGrath and atheist Richard Dawkins, recorded in a TV interview. During the exchange, Dawkins asked McGrath about the problem of evil: why would God not protect people from tornados? (Or, better yet, I’d add, steer the tornados away, ...
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