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Crime

On Jeffrey Epstein, again

Posted on July 9, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Oh where to start… First, did Epstein commit suicide? Yes. As I mentioned a few months ago talking about Virginia Giuffre, I still whole-heartedly believe...

Due process/Trial by jury

Blame the prosecutors

Posted on July 5, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

This is more evidence of the disconnect so many people have in how criminal trials work. If the defense does nothing in the trial and the person is still acquit...

Second Amendment/Supreme Court

Gun makers aren’t accessories to crimes

Posted on June 5, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act provides for a lot of protections for gun manufacturers. The most broad protection being that gun makers largely c...

Product and service reviews

Staying with Plex

Posted on May 29, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Back in… 2019, Proctor & Gamble made a bit of a marketing blunder with their Gillette brand with what became colloquially known as their “toxic ...

Concealed carry/Fourth Amendment/Law Enforcement/Police/Second Amendment

Officers and civilians

Posted on May 16, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Police officers have a bit more leniency under the law when it comes to use of force. And they do need it. In part to deter civilians from becoming vigilantes a...

Crime

On Virginia Giuffre

Posted on April 27, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

And here’s that tweet with its date: December 10, 2019. So about a month and a half after Epstein’s suicide. (And yes, I still firmly believe Epstei...

OPNsense router

Making an Arch-based router

Posted on April 12, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

For a while I’ve been using OPNsense for my custom router. I recently decided, though, to migrate away from that over to Arch. Hardware I haven’t ch...

Mira/Open source

Follow-up on my “Linux challenge”

Posted on April 11, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I’ll preface this by saying that I’m no longer using OpenMandriva. I switched to openSUSE Tumbleweed after dealing with some rather interesting inst...

Ethics

Scam? Hardly…

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I’m going to play devil’s advocate here on the part of the repair business since “scam” gets thrown around way too much anymore. A ̶...

Fourth Amendment

Don’t consent to searches

Posted on March 10, 2025 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

If you ever want a damned good reason to never consent to a police search of your phone or other electronic device, take this case out of Oregon recently decide...

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