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  1. Didn't say it was rational. So is watching scat porn and driving drunk. So is burglarizing a Walgreens to get or pay for drugs. Nor did I say that moral outrage is unwarranted. But moral outrage tends to displace rational thought about what we're doing with big chunks of our criminal population. You can go from relatively simple cases like addicts and drug users/possessors, whose irrational acts have mostly been decriminalized, to other areas of criminality with a large psychological component. And some, like drug dealing, that have little or no psychological component at all, and might even be considered rational.
  2. The whole conflict between the Article II CIC power and the Article I declare war power is pretty insane. A major flaw in the Constitution. Congress doesn't want the political baggage associated with declaring war for every little (and not so little conflict) and so is happy to have POTUS holding the bag for the Vietnams, Iraqs, and Afghanistans. But they don't want to be judged harshly by history, either. So, you get an Authorization for Use of Military Force, the last of which was this one https://www.congress.gov/107/plaws/publ40/PLAW-107publ40.pdf That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons. They have been trying to crowbar everything subsequent to 9/11 into that. It's laughable at this point.
  3. I had guessed that it was CIA assets doing the strikes outside the military chain of command and might guess that's what "special forces" means in this context. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Activities_Center
  4. They will know we are Christians by our love, by our love.
  5. I know I'm not winning any hearts and minds here, but I am pretty uncomfortable with most aspects of our sentencing regime, particularly at the federal level. And, as I said, I think child pr0n offenses, other than production, are a microcosm of what's wrong with it. Dime store psychology and moral outrage displace everything else.
  6. Lotta truth to this. I think it stems, again, from his overestimation of what our players can routinely execute on offense. The question then becomes what informs that overestimation. And the answer to that question dictates Sark's fate as a coach.
  7. You just made my point for me. I did not say the moral outrage was uncalled for. But it replaces rational thought, which is pretty common in our criminal justice policy.
  8. Have we? Speaking from ignorance or memory failure. I was reading Dead Wake and a reference to the first German gas attack with chlorine gas and had to contemplate what kind of monster would think that's a really good idea. Also musing that while the origins and prosecution of WWI are more complex and nuanced than WWII in a lot of ways, Germans really do seem to have a knack for being morally compromised (U-boat attacks on civilian and even passenger shipping, chemical weapons, etc.).
  9. Neither are most convicted criminals, or unconvicted criminals (the lot of them being justice involved), but that could easily change, both in the addict and criminal affecting you, personally. But they do affect society as a whole in the social cost of their crime, the social cost of their incarceration, and the social cost of their being essentially wards of the state after they are eventually released into the community. And I'm not talking about drunk drivers, I'm talking about addicts that do other crimes. I'm not even going to dignify your criticism of "justice involved" people.
  10. More evidence that the adults are in charge. Also, Lindsay Halligan texts a reporter. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna--lindsey-halligan-here Reporter seeks comment from DOJ before publishing texts and gets this: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna--lindsey-halligan-here From cross- and crazy-eyed spokesbitch Natalie Baldassliar.
  11. Also something truly bizarre. Lindsay Halligan texted Anna Bower of lawfare, unprompted, to bitch about Bower's coverage. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna--lindsey-halligan-here For context, Bower is a "justice reporter" at lawfare who rarely posts "original content." On lawfare, she mostly live "tweets" hearings and apparently on Twatter retexts other reporting.
  12. Comey has already filed his vindictive/selective prosecution and invalid appointment motions.
  13. Too late to edit. But our incarceration rate may say something about the American people, who I am coming to understand are a worse group than I ever comprehended. But that's not because of their justice-involvement.
  14. You either can stop drinking or you can't . . . . The above is what got me interested in this whole area. Alcoholics and addicts rehabilitate and in the process leave behind a lot of morally questionable if not reprehensible moral choices. A lot of crimes are driven by addiction or other psychological problems that can be "rehabilitated."
  15. I might could get on board with recidivist long sentences, but I think most of our criminal justice policy needs a hard rethink. I don't think our incarceration rates can possibly say anything good about our criminal justice policy. Non-contact child pr0n offenses are a microcosm of our criminal justice policy where moral outrage displaces rationality.
  16. You've expressed these notions before in other contexts. They do, eventually, get out of prison and, as things currently stand, almost no rehabilitation occurs in our prisons. So, they're rehabilitating in "our communities" however you want to slice it. And they are also rehabilitating from the damage that prison does to them, including likely being unable to support themselves. Do you favor life sentences or the death penalty for all crimes where you don't want people "rehabilitating in the community"? Also, the latest figures show that non-contact sex offenders have among the lowest recidivism rates of criminals, despite a post-conviction regime that is virtually designed to imprison them again for technical (non-sexual, non-criminal) probation violations. Also, one of the things that is most disgusting about the criminal regime at the federal level is that it was entirely implemented by Congress and the US Sentencing Commission has almost no role in establishing sentencing guidelines. And one of the major pieces of legislation in the area is named after a D-list celebrity. Performative work by Congress in a moral panic at its finest.
  17. Well, it seems we have more or less let the deadline pass (not sure the deadline really exists anymore). Would be fascinating to know why given that the powers that be would all seem to be for gobbling the orange crank.
  18. Yeah, that's the way you do it, agree to some sum less than the annual compensation, but still substantial. Still could be challenged as improper liquidated damages. But Mack was in a somewhat uniquely unleveraged situation there. A new hire at a helmet school would probably demand something more "normal," if not fully guaranteed.
  19. Some truth to that. But, the nature of being a civil servant lawyer in the DOJ is defending and prosecuting policies you may not agree with personally. He had been at DOJ since 2010. ETA this may be one of those examples of a guy that did more good by sticking around (until fired) than quitting as an objector.
  20. It is, criminally, and also, I think, morally. This isn't really porn, though in the sense that the victims aren't engaged in sexual activity.
  21. TwiceHorn

    Hubris

    It was raised as a possibility on a couple of the $995 post-game posts that current offensive assistants are either yes men telling Sark the roster can run what he wants, or are ignored, meaning they tell him they can't and he doesn't listen. For whatever reason, it seems he has had higher expectations of his offensive personnel than what they can deliver. One of those explanatory scenarios is bad, the other is fatal. The OU game plan may be evidence that Sark is listening or someone is getting through to him, UK is another matter.
  22. I think the key there is that it really is tied to revenue. Not money from any source, but athletic department operating revenue. And not much of that is deployed on buyouts, I don't think.
  23. That's not an NIL cap, it's a cap on revenue sharing.
  24. There really isn't such thing as a "buyout." It's paying the balance owed on the employment contract. There's two flavors of it, balance owed less compensation earned as mitigation, and "guaranteed," meaning balance owed unconditionally. I suppose you could have a contract that somehow eliminates the legal requirement to pay the money agreed to for the term agreed to, but that would be dangerously close to an illusory contract: I hire you for X years at Y/year, but I don't have to pay Y if I fire you, so not really.
  25. I don't think it's anyone's to agree to except President Jim Davis. Obviously, Abbott, his handpicked BOR, the lege, and others are pressuring Davis from outside. And students and faculty from below. I don't think Davis gives a shit about students or faculty, that's not his remit. But someone seems to understand that this will make us look like clowns.
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