Underbelly

Return with me now to Main Street outside the Armstrong Hotel in Shelbyville, KY,  and the honor-vengeance killing of General  Henry H. Den...

A few years back I regaled the faithful with my account of how I destroyed Cleveland.   When the news  broke last week about the house of h...

Emily Bazelon does a superb job of explaining a(t least one) good reason why we should be reading young Dzhokhar his Miranda rights, but I...

Link .  But cf.  link .

A town near Fort Benning, GA, has set up a special jail for veterans .  H/T Margaret.

On the towel dispenser in the rest room at Palookaville's finest student joint:

Fascinating maybe-he-didn't story over at Above the Law .  A stretch, but David Lat will look like a hero if it turns out to be true.  ...

Here's one that intrigues me, although I suppose it is old stuff to the experts.  That is: I'm looking at data on the incidence of c...

The usually-right Glenn Greenwald has an overwhelmingly right piece up this morning about double vision at The Washington Post over crimin...

Littering . Or, as Arlo Guthrie would have said, " litterin'. "

About one of the defining crimes in modern Britain, Andrew O'Hagan speaks the unspeakable: Denise Fergus, the mother of James Bulger, is...