windy pal, Mark Draughn, parsed the “New Green Disaster” put forth by the AOC Committee in the newly woke House of Representatives. After running
https://windypundit.com/2019/02/green-new-disaster/#comment-36329
After nearly 17 year federal prosecution, 27% of Lynch’s life, USA vs Lynch being dismissed and Lynch’s felony record being wiped clean. Federal prosecutor David Kowal missed almost 1 year of...
https://windypundit.com/2008/08/remember_david_kowal/#comment-36327
even though I don’t like hip-hop I think this song needs to be promoted, especially because the NYPD wants it censored. And since 50 Shades of Grey has appeared so often here lately, I thoug...
https://windypundit.com/2015/01/je-suis-bronx-defenders/#comment-36326
my old buddy, Mark Draughn, the Windypundit, wrote the other day, there is a reason nothing about this indictment feels as significant as it
https://windypundit.com/2023/04/putting-the-trump-indictment-into-perspective/#comment-36313
Update: The second half is up.
https://windypundit.com/2023/11/what-is-chatgpt-doing-wrong/#comment-36312
I’ve linked to many of Mark Draughn’s well-researched, well-considered essays over the years; this one is on the aftermath of the Backpage persecution & show trial, and here’s a taste:
https://windypundit.com/2023/11/backpage-and-the-iron-law-of-prohibition/#comment-36299
my previous post on this subject, I gave a brief outline of how ChatGPT is based on a neural network that has been trained on a huge
https://windypundit.com/2023/10/what-is-chatgpt-doing/#comment-36297
of the shooting of Ta’Kiya Young by a police officer in Blendon Township, Ohio. I’ve been blogging about their commentary on police shooting videos at Active Self Protection for the past few...
https://windypundit.com/2023/08/watching-people-die-part-1-incidents/#comment-36290
my first post in this series, I discussed John Correia’s collection of videos of police-involved shootings. My second post
https://windypundit.com/2023/08/watching-people-die-part-1-incidents/#comment-36289
this series, I discussed John Correia’s collection of videos of police-involved shootings. My second post tried to extract some lessons about how to avoid getting shot by the cops. In this pos...
https://windypundit.com/2023/08/watching-people-die-part-2-lessons/#comment-36288
Update: Part 2 is up.
https://windypundit.com/2023/08/watching-people-die-part-2-lessons/#comment-36287
my first post in this series, I introduced John Correia’s collection of videos of police-involved shootings, which I think
https://windypundit.com/2023/08/watching-people-die-part-1-incidents/#comment-36286
Yeah. That would have been interesting. I think he was close enough that we could have met up occasionally. But maybe I misremember.
https://windypundit.com/2023/08/watching-people-die-part-1-incidents/#comment-36285
I bet J-Dog would have been thrilled to be your concealed-carry mentor.
https://windypundit.com/2023/08/watching-people-die-part-1-incidents/#comment-36284
to equip the entire armed forces 20 times over.Some people dispute these numbers. For example, the Illinois Supreme Court brief claims only 6.4 million civilian owners. But even if we accept tha...
https://windypundit.com/2023/05/jane-notz-is-fibbing/#comment-36278
I think you're probably right. A lot of anti-gun agitation is based on ideas about guns that are just plain wrong, and it's hard to believe that this is unintentional when they repeat the same fa...
https://windypundit.com/2023/05/jane-notz-is-fibbing/#comment-36276
Very good and informative post, I only have one quibble. Mark wrote, "Gun owners have long complained about gun control laws based on a poor understanding of guns..." I think writing "....
https://windypundit.com/2023/05/jane-notz-is-fibbing/#comment-36275
Interesting comment, as usual. As I understand it, under New York law, the statute of limitations clock can stop running when the subject is outside of the jurisdiction of New York, as Trump has ...
https://windypundit.com/2023/04/putting-the-trump-indictment-into-perspective/#comment-36274
This case is bizarre. It's not illegal to pay off a mistress and have it go under an NDA. NDAs exist for literally this kind of thing. It's not even illegal to write off your NDA money as a tax w...
https://windypundit.com/2023/04/putting-the-trump-indictment-into-perspective/#comment-36273
giving her medication. We also noticed that whenever she did come out, one of our other cats (Buffy) would harass her. We were never sure if the sickness made her a target for harassment or the
https://windypundit.com/2005/10/two_views_of_buffy/#comment-36271
My understanding of the issue, and I'm not a lawyer, so this might be a very flawed understanding of the issue, but my understanding is that because the President of The United States has plenary...
https://windypundit.com/2022/08/trumps-declassified-documents/#comment-36269
Mark, I'd like to connect with you if at all possible. I sent you a message through facebook. Ken "John" was my uncle and Kenneth was my Grandfather. I came across you your tributes to both of th...
https://windypundit.com/2021/12/ken-gibson-rest-in-peace/#comment-36268
Stalwart friend of whores Mark Draughn picks apart claims that computers can detect “sex traff…:
https://windypundit.com/2022/07/no-ground-truth-sex-trafficking-and-machine-learning/#comment-36248
In reply to jenniferabel. Sounds good to me. Thanks for stopping by.
https://windypundit.com/2022/07/twenty-years-at-the-keyboard/#comment-36247
In reply to Matt Haiduk. For me it doesn't get that far. I don't decide to tweet instead of finishing a p...
https://windypundit.com/2022/07/twenty-years-at-the-keyboard/#comment-36246
Twenty years?! Yikes. (Hardly the most original commentary, I know.) I've known you (online, at least) for almost that long, it feels like. Hoping for another twenty-thirty-forty or so.
https://windypundit.com/2022/07/twenty-years-at-the-keyboard/#comment-36245
"A lot of my impetus for blogging came from getting excited or angry about something and feeling that I’ve got to tell people about this." I hear this. I have about 75 unpublished posts because...
https://windypundit.com/2022/07/twenty-years-at-the-keyboard/#comment-36244
In reply to BRIAN TANNEBAUM. Dammit, Brian, I knew I'd leave someone out. (Fixed.) Those were the days. T...
https://windypundit.com/2022/07/twenty-years-at-the-keyboard/#comment-36243
from Jeff Gamso, an extraordinary lawyer who has defended people on death row. When I wrote about a prosecutor’s attempt to put a paraplegic man in prison for illegal use of pain pills, I hear...
https://windypundit.com/2010/12/prosecutor_scott_andringa_trie/#comment-36242
hit blogs, but there were times it seemed to punch above it’s weight. I think it started with this post about Google Earth. I had been a user of the Keyhole virtual globe before Google bought ...
https://windypundit.com/2005/05/google_keyhole_google_earth/#comment-36241