Law

  • Another full Weekend

    I’ve been off-line all weekend, and a bit behind on responding to emails and what not. My brother got married yesterday, which always makes for a hectic time, between the rehearsal dinner on Friday, and the wedding going late into the evening on Saturday, leaving us with only Sunday to run errands and spend some…

  • Addition to laws go too far

    Apparently, Megan’s Law wasn’t bad enough. Now my home state of Ohio is pushing ahead a law that would allow prosecutors, or even the alleged victims, petition a judge to have someone listed in the public sexual offenders registry even if they aren’t found guilty! According to the Toldeo Blade: A recently enacted law allows…

  • Megan’s Law is bad law

    As if these sorts of stories weren’t completely predictable, it seems that yet again someone listed on an offender registry has been the victim of vigilante justice in Sacramento. Years ago, when every child protection agency in the country was pushing for these laws I though they were a bad idea, and I still do….

  • Lawrence Lessig

    This morning while reading through my usual feeds, I was taken aback by a post on Robert Scoble’s blog. He talks about finding a link to an article on New York Metro about the American Boychoir School and a lawsuit being brought by someone who was a victim of molestation while attending the school. In…

  • Tennessee

    I saw this entry over at Instapundit the other day of pictures he took driving around the mountains near Knoxville and Gatlinburg. I got really excited because we’re going to be in Tennessee next week. We’ll be staying closer to the Cumberland Plateau part of the state than we will be the Smokies, but there…

  • Baby stuff

    We, finally, made it over to my brother and sister in law’s last night and got to meet our little neice, Kaitlyn. She’s so tiny, at 7 lbs 11 ounces she’s very small compared to the rest of the boy McBride babies. (I was 10 and a half pounds, which is just average for my…