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I'd write about the moral panic taking over Britain's pundits, but I don't have to, because the Economist already did, brillian...

On the one hand, Connecticut, USA: BI: Connecticut Decriminalizes Marijuana Possession Governor Dan Malloy of Connecticut is expected to sig...

I'll let Slate.com introduce the subject for me because I'm lazy. Slate: Do Prisoners Really Spend All Their Time Lifting Weights? T...

First, a piece of madness I must have missed when it hit the news and just happened to run into. NY Daily News: Florida mom Alexandra Tobias...

Firstly, the Obama administration was supposed to encourage and protect whistleblowers. Here's what they actually do. Salon.com: Bradley...

To sum up what's happening over on my Finnish-language blog, just two months away from the next parliamentary elections, the Finnish gov...

Today is Finland's independence day, and to appropriately honor this country's history and its people's patriotism, I'm goin...

First, rejoice, because the West Memphis Three are finally getting a new hearing . Then read an excellent article in the National Post on t...

Reuters: Poland okays forcible castration for pedophiles (Reuters) - Poland on Friday approved a law making chemical castration mandatory fo...

Here is a study from the University of Hawai'i, Pornography, Public Acceptance and Sex Related Crime: A Review , via the good offices of...

Earlier post on the same topic here . I also posted on the same topic at greater length in my Finnish-language blag . The fact that I have m...

A Finnish man born in 1982 crashed his stolen motorcycle into a car in Hakaniemi while fleeing the police. He had earlier been driving down ...

From Johan Norberg : Ok, the time has come to speak candidly about immigration and crime. American studies shows that there is a clear corre...

Misha Glenny 's book McMafia has such a hideously stupid cover that it put me off buying it for an entire year despite my great interest...