Daily Archives: July 19, 2014

Manufacturing crime

You just can’t make this stuff up — the absurdities with which our criminal justice system operate. The story is about an undercover ATF agent (Brancato) trying to arrest a man named Halgat. Judge Says U.S. Gov. Generated ‘New Crime’ … Continue reading

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On addiction

The always excellent Maia Szalavitz has another good article: Most of Us Still Don’t Get It: Addiction Is a Learning Disorder There’s a lot of misinformation pushed out there about addiction, and much of it is used to justify interventional … Continue reading

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