March 10, 2013

The Big Stories

Long articles from the previous week that are more than worth the time that it takes to read them:

In the Footsteps of a Killer “I’ll kill ’em, I’ll kill ’em, I’ll kill ’em,” he chanted to himself—like, as an investigator would later put it, “a guy pumping himself up for an athletic endeavor.” If this coldest of cases is to be cracked, it may well be due to the work of citizen sleuths like me (and a handful of homicide detectives)

What Happens Now That the War on Drugs Has Failed? "If you knew how to trim a tall tanoak in the forest so that its topmost branches protected the crop from view while still letting in just enough sunlight, then you could really make it."

Omens – Humanity's deep future When we peer into the fog of the deep future what do we see – human extinction or a future among the stars?

Cardiac Conundrum: Cardiac care in 2013 is dramatically more advanced than it was in 1910—isn’t it?

America's Hardest-Working Know-It-All Jeopardy is both elitist and all-inclusive. Alex Trebek is its nominal star, but the real star is the idea that being smart alone is worth something, even if you're the kind of social oddball who likes airline food.

The Story Behind Banksy Hiding behind a paper bag, or, more commonly, e-mail, Banksy relentlessly controls his own narrative. His last face-to-face interview took place in 2003.

When A 10-Year-Old Kills His Nazi Father, Who's To Blame When she reaches the living room, she sees her husband motionless on the sofa, blood streaming from a dark hole on the side of his shaved head. Joseph reemerges from his bedroom to where he had retreated with the gun, walks halfway down the stairs, and stops. "I shot Dad," Joseph says flatly.

Confessions of a Corporate Spy: I fingered the cell phone in my front shirt pocket, to see if the voice recorder was still working. No, I didn't tell the manager I was recording her. Legally, in Georgia, I didn't have to.

Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 10, 2013 8:16 AM
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"What Happens Now That The War On Drugs Has Failed?"

I thought that was obvious to most folks. What happens now is The War on Guns.

And that will have - has already had, in fact - the same essential (unintended) consequence as both the War on [Some] Drugs and the War on Poverty had: proliferation of the very thing its proponents sought to keep under control.

Posted by: goy at March 10, 2013 10:38 AM

Jim Rogers on the state of play economically
"Throughout our history – any country’s history – the people who save their money and invest for their future are the ones that you build an economy, a society, and a nation on.

In America, many people saved their money, put it aside, and didn’t buy four or five houses with no job and no money down. They did what most people would consider the right thing, and what historically has been the right thing. But now, unfortunately, those people are being wiped out, because they are getting 0% return, or virtually no return, on their savings and their investments. We’re wiping them out at the expense of people who went deeply into debt, people who did what most people would consider the wrong thing at the expense of people who did the right thing. This, long-term, has terrible consequences for any nation, any society, any economy."

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-09/jim-rogers-were-wiping-out-savings-class-globally-terrible-consequence

Greenwald on the state of play politically
"Comencing immediately upon the 9/11 attack, the US government under two successive administrations has spent 12 straight years inventing and implementing new theories of government power in the name of Terrorism. Literally every year since 9/11 has ushered in increased authorities of exactly the type Americans are inculcated to believe only exist in those Other, Non-Free societies: ubiquitous surveillance, impenetrable secrecy, and the power to imprison and even kill without charges or due process. Even as the 9/11 attack recedes into the distant past, the US government still finds ways continuously to increase its powers in the name of Terrorism while virtually never relinquishing any of the power it acquires. So inexorable has this process been that the Obama administration has already exercised the power to target even its own citizens for execution far from any battlefield, and the process has now arrived at its inevitable destination: does this due-process-free execution power extend to US soil as well?"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/10/paul-filibuster-drones-progressives

Posted by: Bill Jones at March 10, 2013 2:49 PM

The war on drugs, of course, is another couple of trillion of the national debt.

Posted by: Bill Jones at March 10, 2013 3:58 PM

The LA Magazine story about the serial rapist/killer known in the 70's as the East Area Rapist and Original Night Stalker needs as much exposure as the Internet can give it. This guy was the most prolific rapist/killer in California history and nobody knows about him.

Posted by: f1guyus at March 10, 2013 4:11 PM

RE: the Nazi father, do we hold the mass media responsible at all, since the boy was led to label his father as 'evil' and that he would 'be okay' if he killed him?

Well, if the media is reporting it, probably not.

Posted by: RiverC at March 12, 2013 7:55 AM
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