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A Year at Venice Beach: April 2013

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A Year at Venice Beach. Tuesday, April 30, 2013. Whither the Sixth Amendment? Of Counsel for his defence. Amendment VI" to the U.S. Constitution. A couple days ago, I happened upon an article in my home-town rag, The Los Angeles Times. One brief passage in particular about the pre-Miranda interrogation of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev caught my eye:. Http:/ www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-boston-bombing-20130426,0,5051005.story. The 'Public Safety Exception' to the Miranda rule does not. But from where...

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A Year at Venice Beach: A Better Way is Possible

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A Year at Venice Beach. Monday, June 16, 2014. A Better Way is Possible. My wife Alma and I traveled up to Calabasas over the weekend to take a guided walking tour of the King Gillette Ranch. The ranch, situated on some 400 acres of mountainous desert chaparral, was one of the tribal areas of the Chumash peoples before Spanish colonizers arrived in the16th century. Such a foreign way of thinking, to bury one's 'wealth' with one at death. Most Americans are unaware that the principal source of wealth ...

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A Year at Venice Beach: May 2013

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A Year at Venice Beach. Wednesday, May 8, 2013. Cognitive Dissonance, Mark Sanford and the Current Republican Electorate. Is the discomfort experienced when simultaneously holding two or more conflicting cognitions. Light on otherwise puzzling, irrational, and even destructive behavior. Http:/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance theory offers one explanation for why Sanford managed to win but also why ECB managed to halve the margin by which a Dem last lost the district.

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A Year at Venice Beach: The Grey Lady Pimps The Ukraine Crisis

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A Year at Venice Beach. Thursday, March 13, 2014. The Grey Lady Pimps The Ukraine Crisis. It's a fun pastime among the cognoscenti. To bash The New York Times. For lapses in its journalistic practice or ethics. Such efforts grew more significant after Judy Miller helped Cheney's cohort pimp the war in Iraq on bogus claims that Iraq was seeking uranium yellowcake from Niger. Then there was the case of Jayson Blair, the Times. I had been late to that Times. And, two days ahead of a scheduled referendum by ...

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A Year at Venice Beach: Whose Plantation Is It, Anyways?

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A Year at Venice Beach. Monday, April 28, 2014. Whose Plantation Is It, Anyways? Over the racist remarks uttered by Donald Sterling, the owner of the professional basketball team The Clippers reminded me of a long-ago quote by Anatole France:. In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread. It bother me a lot that you want to broadcast that you’re associating with black people. Do you have to? You'll forgive me if I don't...

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A Year at Venice Beach: January 2013

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A Year at Venice Beach. Thursday, January 10, 2013. I've started a new blog on economics and finance. Just a note to all my subscribers and regular readers that I've now begun a new blog on matters of economics and finance:. Http:/ charlieseconomicmusings.blogspot.com/. I encourage and welcome all who are so inclined to visit my new blog also and comment on my posts there. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). The Washington Blvd. Pier. Sunset at Venice Beach. Support "A Year at Venice Beach".

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A Year at Venice Beach: April 2014

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A Year at Venice Beach. Monday, April 28, 2014. Whose Plantation Is It, Anyways? Over the racist remarks uttered by Donald Sterling, the owner of the professional basketball team The Clippers reminded me of a long-ago quote by Anatole France:. In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread. It bother me a lot that you want to broadcast that you’re associating with black people. Do you have to? You'll forgive me if I don't...

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A Year at Venice Beach: February 2013

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A Year at Venice Beach. Saturday, February 16, 2013. L'Affaire Dorner or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the LAPD. Except for the most hardline Anarchists, few would dispute the need for some type of constabulary police force to further the interests of justice, broadly defined. The real question is what type of constabulary police force we shall have and how it shall derive its legitimacy. When the masses lose their fear of its weaponry, the LAPD, and the 1% elite whose interests it protects an...

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A Year at Venice Beach: Trading with the Enemy: Imperialism, Desertion and Duty

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A Year at Venice Beach. Tuesday, June 3, 2014. Trading with the Enemy: Imperialism, Desertion and Duty. I had the paper but I did not read it because I did not want to read about the war. I was going to forget the war. I had made a separate peace. Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms. Wow, is this American POW story gathering steam or what? According to the New York Times. New York Times story. Reading this story today prompted some memories of the last time America was involved in a prolonged imperial b...