Yes, I know, I could fill several hundred blog posts with that topic. But it’s been a long day, so just a couple:
•Our old friend David Brooks (past posts about his idiocy here, here and here, among others) says that putting body cams on cops is a terrible, terrible idea. Instead of encounters with police being warm, friendly and laid-back, the body cam screams that we don’t trust them, which will make our encounters confrontational. Brooks also claimed Snowden was shredding the bonds of trust when he went public. And I’d completely agree with his view of the cops, if only I lived in Mayberry.
•Courtesy of slacktivist, a preacher explains in a newspaper column that our policy on the new Iran deal should be based on our Biblical understanding of the End Times because this is all part of arming Gog and Magog for their attack on Israel. I notice that while he refers to the Rapture, he avoids saying that it’s not mentioned anywhere in the Bible and references the Left Behind books instead.
•And no, fighting against gay marriage is not like resistance to the Nazis.
Now, the good news:
•New Mexico now says that police can’t keep property taken by civil forfeiture unless there’s a conviction. And the police don’t get to keep the money even if there is a conviction.
•Quality Egg falsified records for its egg shipments to make them look fresher than they were. And astonishingly, the eggs were linked to a salmonella outbreak that sickened almost 2,000 people. Having two executives spend three months in jail is a small punishment, but I usually expect nothing, so yay!
•New Jersey says anyone who claims a religious exemption against childhood vaccination has to explain their belief, and why it’s a part of their religion rather than just offer a blanket assertion.
