Local guy who antagonized the police on YouTube busted

Once Ypsilanti resident Madison T. Mealing's anti-cop videos showed up on YouTube the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department started investigating him. Then they raided Mealing's home and he was arrested and charged with illegal weapon possession. Something about glass houses and throwing stone comes to mind here.

Ann Althouse to commenters: "Be respectful or I'll delete you".

The UW law professor now censoring comments on her blog. Something good has been lost here.

More depressing news from the land of the Magna Charta

The UK Labour Party wants to require "journalism licenses" in order to distribute or broadcast news or opinion. So much for a "people's party" that wants to shed its image as an overbearing, intrusive, social engineering-obsessed mob of nannies.
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Some final thoughts on Grand Rapids' rampage serial killer Roderick Dantzler (Grand Rapids Press/MLive)
"By sawing off a big piece of his family tree and then blowing his brains out he at least somewhat mitigated the damages he caused. Those women Dantzler killed won't reproduce any further (good) and neither will Dantzler or his offspring (even better). His genes go into the ground with him and won't be passed along. And the thugophiliac skanks who bred with him won't be churning out any more copies of this creep or those like him. Sorry to be so blunt but that's the truth as I see it. Not much of a silver lining but there it is."

Dantzler's final act reminds me of a self-cleaning oven.

* Note: The Grand Rapids Press & MLive both deleted this post and most of the replies to it. Here it is preserved for posterity.

Here are some SFW photos of Dantzler's victims. All were white except for his own daughter who was mixed race.


Yeah, that'll show 'em!: Troy pro-millage group to hold book burning party if library millage loses (Detroit News)
Idiocy.

You can be friends or you can do business together as equals, but both? Unlikely. (Taki's Magazine)
"We are not all friends and we are not all equal, so if you want your boss to respect you as an employee, then you have to treat him as if he were the employer and not your friend. If you want to be friends with your boss, then quit. Otherwise he is going to take advantage of you as if you were his friend! But if you want to keep your job, try treating him like an employer; don’t listen to his problems, don’t tell him yours, and don’t call him Dick but rather Mr. Dick! Employers aren’t supposed to care about your feelings; they’re supposed to pay you."

Spending money like a drunken sailor (or soldier, airman or Marine) (Thomas Ricks, Foreign Policy)
The young service people just can't handle families, money or life in general. But they are terrific at war though.

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Always pay cash for things to protect your privacy. LRC
I have my doubts about that, but it's an interesting read.
What is the mystery force slowing down the Pioneer spacecraft? Pop Sci
Are municipal bonds the next financial bubble getting ready to burst? reason
German doctors claim to have cured patients of HIV, leukemia. Seattle Times
More bad news for the wage slaves: America's work cubicles are shrinking LAT (via Slashdot)
Amazon ending sales of some books featuring incest - The Self Publishing Revolution blog
Should Detroit impose a moratorium on fast-food restaurants? MLive
They have far, far more important issues to worry about than that. Probably won't stop them though.

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"A federal law is needed to cover threats against free-speech rights. Across media and geographies, Islamic extremists are increasingly using intimidation to stifle free expression" say Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Daniel Huff in an op-ed at the LA Times.

"It's time for free-speech advocates", says Hirsi Ali, "to take a page from the abortion rights movement's playbook. In the 1990s, abortion providers faced the same sort of intimidation tactics and did not succumb. Instead, they lobbied for a federal law making it a crime to threaten people exercising reproductive rights and permitting victims to sue for damages. The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, or FACE, passed in 1994 by solid bipartisan margins. A similar act is needed to cover threats against free-speech rights."

Maybe it is.

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Virtual suicide: Delete your "social networking" memberships and get real again. - AdBusters
"...virtual suicide sites like seppukoo.com and suicidemachine.org have started a counter movement, provoking users to kill their online selves and reclaim their real lives."


Feds allow prison cell phone jamming test- AP
"Testing" for what? I don't like where this line of experimentation is heading.
Dean Baker critiques David Brooks economic analysis - Beat the Press
"Working class men are ill-prepared to deal with the effects of incredible economic mismanagement that has made them its primary victims. It has been conscious policy of David Brooks and his peers to weaken welfare state supports, making income and well-being almost entirely dependent on employment. Now, because David Brooks' highly-educated peers are incompetent economic managers, millions of working class people (disproportionately men) are facing extended periods of unemployment. And, naturally Brooks sees their difficulty in dealing with this crisis as a failure of working class culture."
Human genome researcher gives God a failing grade in bio-engineering. - New Scientist
"The reason? Our genome is an unmitigated mess."
People don't become serial killers because of Dungeons & Dragons. - Boston Phoenix
They kill because they're murderous sociopaths with poor impulse control.
"America is on its way to becoming a country of serfs ruled by oligarchs." - Paul Craig Roberts
Waddaya mean "on it's way"?
Small spinning asteroids are piles of rubble and dust that ought to fly apart but don't. - Technology Review
NASA wakes Endeavor crew with Serenity theme song - Topless Robot
Considering that Obama is killing the manned space exploration program soon it's darkly appropriate.
A layman's observations about the junkie populations of Europe and the US - Rick Steves @ Seattle Post-Intelligencer
How Darwinian natural selection works. - ABC News
"Bohlig took off his backpack and a layer of clothing then decided to pose for pictures near the rim of the crater. He was backing up when the snow gave way and he fell."