• Forced to Be Free. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2010-10-08). Across Europe, high-minded debates about terrorism, assimilation, and the social effects of Islam have been devolving into disputes over the clothes the government will let people wear, as countries from Switzerland to the U.K. ponder bans on burqas and head scarves. Curiously, legislators and pundits on both sides of the… (Linked Saturday 2010-10-09.)

• 09.23.10: Don't Forget the Motor City. David Byrne, David Byrne's Journal (2010-09-23). I'm here in Detroit to participate in a film directed by Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo). The other day we performed the song "This Must Be The Place" with band and string section while the camera made a complicated move and a living room set rose up and traveled over our… (Linked Saturday 2010-10-09.)

• The Drug War Metaphor: Increasingly Literal. Radley Balko, Radley Balko: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2010-10-06). A New Mexico narcotics task force sent a SWAT team and helicopter to raid a school where students "participate in farming as a context for learning mathematics and science." The raid was apparently part of a larger operation involving the task force, the state police, and the National Guard, in… (Linked Saturday 2010-10-09.)

• Nazi Nudges. Will Wilkinson, Will Wilkinson (2010-10-06). Most of you have probably seen this on Marginal Revolution (from Dan Ariely), but the lesson is too good to pass up. When it suits them, Nazis use nudges, too... Nudge-style "choice architecture" techniques are ideologically neutral. We can't count on the guys in charge to have benevolent motives. That's… (Linked Sunday 2010-10-10.)

• Military Keynesians Are the Worst Keynesians of All. Sheldon Richman, Free Association (2010-10-07). From the National Journal this week: Two wars are not enough. America’s economic outlook is so grim, and political solutions are so utterly absent, that only another large-scale war might be enough to lift the nation out of chronic high unemployment and slow growth, two prominent economists, a conservative and… (Linked Sunday 2010-10-10.)

• Feminism. Marja Erwin (2010-08-24). When men consider how they should treat other men, it is moral philosophy. When womyn consider how we should treat other womyn, it is feminism. It has taken feminism to separate the were-centered moral philosophies from the human-centered ones. It will take feminism-in-practice to discover the full potential of feminism-in-theory.What… (Linked Monday 2010-10-11.)

• American schools are killing children. Marja Erwin (2010-10-10). Through bullying, through high workloads, and through indifference to the needs of different children. Classrooms may be a good teaching environment for some kids, mediocre for other, and downright destructive for some. Bullying was an epidemic when I was in school, and I understand it has grown worse yet. Calling… (Linked Monday 2010-10-11.)

Stop.

Everybody get Shameless.

It’s Sunday, and y’all know what that means. It’s been a while, between travel, work, and other tasks, but while Shamelessness can be repressed, it always comes back stronger in the end.

So let’s make this a good one. What have y’all been up to for the past few weeks? Write anything? Leave a link and a short description for your post in the comments. Or fire away about anything else you might want to talk about.

Officer Jason Anderson, Milford Police Department, Milford, Connecticut. Up in New England, Jason Anderson, a cop formerly working for the Milford city government’s police department, served and protected the public by tearing down a city street at 94 miles per hour, with no lights or sirens on, sideswiping a car and killing two 19 year olds named David Servin and Ashlie Krakowski. Officer Jason Anderson was not responding to an emergency call at the time; he just felt like getting wherever he was going at 94 miles per hour. Since then, the Milford city government’s police department discovered dash cam videos of another government cop, Officer James Kiely, driving over 100 miles per hour on city streets at least 3 different times. Officer James Kiely was given a five (5) day vacation from his government job; I’m sure that if you or I were caught on tape driving 113 mph three different times, the Milford city government would be equally forgiving. Meanwhile, R. Bartley Halloran, the lawyer for David Servin’s family, filed a Freedom Of Information request for video records of city police cruisers going back to 2006, in order to determine whether or not there was a pattern of reckless driving by the Milford city government’s police. He got a handful of videos, dating from before the accident, which show Milford cops repeatedly driving over 85 miles per hour on city streets. The videos are public records, but Halloran never got most of the tapes that he had a right to review, because they’d been unintentionally deleted by Lieutenant Dan Bothwell. Oops! The Milford Police Department takes this kind of thing seriously, of course, so they gave Lt. Dan Bothwell a one (1) day vacation from his job.

See also:

• GT 2010-03-27: Washington State trooper accused of driving off road while drunk then calling rookie trooper to help him cover it up
• GT 2010-05-21: Friday Lazy Linking / Defensive Driving
• GT 2009-09-05: Cops are here to keep us safe (cont’d): Senior Corporal Michael Vaughn, Dallas Police Department, Dallas, Texas
• GT 2009-07-31: The Police Beat / Cops are here to keep us safe (cont’d): unnamed officer, Lilburn, Georgia
• GT 2009-05-22: Friday Lazy Linking / The police are here to keep us safe: Officer James Manor, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Las Vegas, Nevada

• Joe Conason Prefers American Cheese to Vienna Sausages. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2010-10-06). Joe Conason's columns are reliably stupid, but this week he's really outdone himself. Here's his reaction to the news that Tea Partiers have been reading Austrian economics: The Austrian craze is particularly curious because it has displaced a school of economics that ought to be more appealing to the proud… (Linked Wednesday 2010-10-06.)

• California City Redevelopment Agencies: Waste, Abuse, What Else is New? Brian Doherty: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2010-10-06). The Redevelopment Racket Vs. Affordable Housing. (Linked Wednesday 2010-10-06.)

• If you have a .ly domain, you should know that the only way to escape the Libyans is with a flux capacitor and a Delorean. Mark Pilgrim, Mark's Firehose (2010-10-06). (Linked Friday 2010-10-08.)

• Making a Market in Antipsychotic Drugs: An Ironic Tragedy. Dr. Peter Breggin, Dr. Peter Breggin (2010-09-23). Remember not so long ago when Prozac became the world’s largest selling medication of any kind, and then for years how Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft took over many of the top 10 spots? Remember the explanations at the time–that they were wonder drugs and that 15-50 percent or more of… (Linked Friday 2010-10-08.)

• Inhousepharmacy.com stops shipping to the US. The Bilerico Project (2010-10-06). The Intellectual Protectionism Movement Vs. Human Decency and the Trans Community. (Via Anna Morgenstern.) (Linked Wednesday 2010-10-06.)