Friday Afternoon Links

By Lucy Steigerwald On November 16, 2012 · In Afternoon links, Law and order, Libertarian, Link, Politics · Add Comment

Cop gets four years for beating death of a disabled man. I think that counts as progress, which is the worst bit of all. The officer was charged with federal civil rights violation, not, ya know, murder or manslaughter, since the DA didn’t press charges.
As a commenter asked: “and how much do these police get paid to be scared of sticks.”
Robert Higgs on how love and the state do not mix.
The Agitator has another dose of the militarized state of police today. These pictures are scary.
Rookie mag on inventions that failed, including Thomas Edison’s creepy, creepy, creeeeeeepy talking dolls.
Continued drug war insanity, with bonus child-taking and: “the suspects face a possible 10-year sentence enhancement because the home is in the proximity of a nearby school.”
Everest gets safer, tech gets better, but people still die like they did in 1996. Almost like you can’t fully conquer nature, kids.
Nazis probably do not deserve to get diseases named after them, even if they discovered them.
Frustratingly hard to tell if this video counts as a real threat against named individuals, what with the video having been removed. (H/T: Josh Patton)