Monthly Archives: January 2014

Special Maryland edition of this feature! In Baltimore last week there was a mass shooting in a shopping mall: Howard County police on Sunday identified 19-year-old Darion Marcus Aguilar of College Park as the man who entered a store at … Continue reading →

One nice (?) thing about this regular feature is that I don’t have to wait long for new items. Tuesday, a 12-year-old walked into his middle school and shot two of his classmates. One of the challenges that our Second … Continue reading →

A firearms company in India has introduced a lightweight revolver for women, supposedly to deal with the country’s (apparently quite serious) rape problem: Giving more power to women to defend themselves and as a tribute to December 2012 gan[g]rape victim … Continue reading →

Conor Friedersdorf has a pretty good post up about how violent, hyper-sexualized hate mail and commentary can dissuade women and gay men from participating in journalism and the marketplace of ideas: I began to ask female friends if they experienced … Continue reading →

The Daily Caller has an interesting guide to selecting & using a shotgun for home defense. Some of this is for gear-addicts who get off on name brands, but I thought the author’s debunking of common myths about shotguns and … Continue reading →

In the comments section at The Atlantic there was recently a long and unsatisfying debate, starting here, about whether there is any “objective” or “real” morality without God as the ultimate ground for it. Here are a couple of representative … Continue reading →

The NYT goes to bat for Edward Snowden: The revelations have already prompted two federal judges to accuse the N.S.A. of violating the Constitution (although a third, unfortunately, found the dragnet surveillance to be legal). A panel appointed by President … Continue reading →

Let’s open with some comedy: The incident happened around 6 p.m. Thursday at the Home Depot in Brighton . . . . Police say the 32-year-old Green Oak Township man, who was not named, was apparently reaching into his pocket … Continue reading →

There are occasional news reports (and books) about how we’re all committing more crimes than we think, which usually leads to attempts to quantify how many different crimes there are — often a partisan exercise, because the counting tends to … Continue reading →