And now for something a little different: rare coins, crime, and clemency
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The Ghost of Police Brutality Past
In 1991, Officer Michael Exline of the Columbus Police Department committed one of the most notorious acts of police brutality in the city’s history. Nearly 30 years later, he’s still on duty.
Read moreOpioids in Baseball: “More people are going to die if this doesn’t get fixed”
On July 1, Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs asphyxiated while under the influence of fentanyl, oxycodone, and alcohol in his Texas hotel room. Today, over at NBC Sports, I spoke with former players and front office employees who are concerned that baseball has a bigger opioid problem than most people think.
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The Compound in New Albany
Yesterday the Washington Post told the story of Maria Farmer, an artist who was commissioned by the disgraced and deceased sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein to do some paintings in the mid-1990s. In reality, Farmer alleges, Epstein and his partner Ghislaine Maxwell used the opportunity to sexually assault her while she was held virtual prisoner in […]
Read moreWhat Cost Vengeance?
The Columbus Dispatch reports today that between 2016-17 the State of Ohio took drugs purchased by and intended for the state’s Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and gave them to the prison system to be used in executions. This despite warnings from drug manufacturers not to do so under threat of having drugs […]
Read moreKavanaugh was unfit even before the latest allegations
Over the weekend a report emerged detailing how Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation process was aided by a fast-tracked FBI investigation which failed to follow up with dozens of witnesses with potentially damaging information on the nominee. It also includes new allegations from a witness who says he saw Kavanaugh push his penis into […]
Read moreCondemned to Repeat It
Library of Congress An article appeared in the Washington Post yesterday about a lynching in Wytheville, Virginia in 1926. A man named Raymond Byrd was arrested after being accused of raping a white woman. He was killed in his jail cell by a mob, his body was dragged through town behind a car and he […]
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