Entries from September 2005

Crime and Punishment

September 25, 2005

I’ve been thinking a little about prior restraint. That lead to thinking about different kinds of crime and punishment.
It seems that there are actually two kinds of crime/punishment schemes.
The first relates to crimes society wants to prevent. The punishment has to prevent the crime by making the trade-off between the benefit of committing the crime [...]

Three Insights

September 25, 2005

Over my lifetime, I have realized some things. Here are my “three insights”.

Drivel

September 25, 2005

From time to time, I try to find interesting blogs to read. I find some really mindless, self-absorbed stuff out there. I don’t want to be like that.
Still, I haven’t been all that inspired lately, and what I’ve written lately borders on drivel. I just haven’t been all that inspired since the last election.
Sigh.

The Constant Gardener

September 18, 2005

Go see this movie.