Monthly Archives: November 2025
Chronically Online in Furtherance of a Crime
Let us count the ways that social media can get you into trouble. Content creators and algorithm designers have learned to target everyone’s worst nature, to make you feel angry, insecure, lonely, paranoid, and utterly convinced of your poorly thought-out ideas. Two friends whose ostensibly harmless clicks led them down rabbit holes of differing… Read More »
False Personation Charges
If you want evidence that people no longer see the world in terms of clearly defined good guys and bad guys, look at popular culture marketed toward young people. Antiheroes rule the day, everywhere from superhero movies to pro wrestling. Batman, even in his gravelly voiced permutation in the Lego Batman Movie, has always… Read More »
Crimes Against Crocodilians
In many parts of the country, the only thing you have to fear if you swim in a river or lake, or if your canoe capsizes, is a brain-eating amoeba, and while primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) infections are rare, only a few people have ever survived them. If you enter unchlorinated freshwater in Florida,… Read More »
Legal Implications of Florida’s 7-OH Ban
Yesterday’s vices are today’s health fads and vice versa. In the 80s and 90s, sophisticated types saw vegetarianism as the wave of the future, kind, environmentally sustainable, and best of all healthy. You were a barbarian if you chomped on beef jerky while others ate veggie burgers. Today, the loudest voices in public discourse… Read More »
