Category Archives: Crime & Punishment

Upset about those million pages on the Epstein Affair?

Posted on December 31, 2025 by Naomi

Worried that the volume (and DOJ redactions) make it impossibly burdensome for Congress’s investigative units to get through them, let alone find the smoking guns? Instead of worrying, watch Dark Waters, a brilliant legal thriller from 2019, starring Mark Ruffalo … Continue reading →

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Kid assassins in Sweden? Didn’t I read about this before?

Posted on December 27, 2025 by Naomi

Yes, I did! My informant was Harper’s Weekly Review. Who else would tell me about a Swedish…fad? movement? cult? involving teenage girls? That was in September of this year. Now, December, Harper’s has an update, of sorts: [I]n the latest … Continue reading →

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Trump’s pardons spit in the faces of one particular group of Americans

Posted on December 7, 2025 by Naomi

The ones no one refers to when convictions are announced: the people, i.e., us ordinary and unheralded participants in the American experiment, who sat on the many grand juries indicting the criminals and the many juries convicting them. When Jack … Continue reading →

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