I read the text too, and learned how to make a butterfly net and to tell the difference between Piliated and Ivory Billed woodpeckers (one is a majestic horse, the other a unicorn, in the birding world). [read post]

It's simply not been my experience that the rhetorical problems he hypothesizes from the ivory tower play out that way in the real world (a sentiment I've expressed to him in private correspondence a time or two).Pfaff also underestimates, to the point of downplaying, the role the drug war played in reducing civil liberties protections for defendants across the board and incrementally increasing government power across an array of institutions, not just prosecutors (although they… [read post]