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The Jew With a Gun Next Door

Mark Bennett | October 17, 2009

A couple of years ago (!) I wrote about mapping the blogosphere as a metaphorical space, with proximity measured by commonality of interest as represented by mutual links.
Today New York criminal defense lawyer Scott Greenfield has a nice profile today of one of our virtual neighbors, Minneapolis renaissance man Joel “Jdog” Rosenberg. Not a [...]

Because Sometimes We Buy Our Own Bullshit

Mark Bennett | December 20, 2008

In the comments to Murphy’s Law of Investigation we had a little discussion of what a lawyer should do when his client maintains his factual innocence, and he discovers that there is evidence that, if analyzed, could either confirm that factual innocence or conclusively disprove it.
Renaissance man Joel “JDog” Rosenberg wrote of a hypothetical rape [...]