Blogaround

1. A North Carolina trial could change jury selection in death penalty trials (September 18) "For decades, courts have automatically disqualified opponents of capital punishment from serving on juries in death penalty trials. This has been accepted law and practice."

2. What Cracker Barrel can tell us about culture war (August 10) "Nowhere in that piece does Paul cite a single example of the word 'woman' being abandoned by any single person or organization."

3. I’m a Fertility Doctor in Texas. It’s Getting Bad Here. (September 23) "Methotrexate is used for many other conditions such as cancers and arthritis. A man with arthritis or lymphoma would not have an issue filling this medication. But how much does a woman have to suffer or be close to death so that we can properly care for them?"

4. Which Is More Dangerous–Moral Certainty or Moral Relativism? (September 25) "I believe in the existence of moral absolutes, but also believe that they are far more difficult to identify than most of us imagine. The lifelong search for moral clarity and certainty will often look and feel like relativism."

5. Man Jailed for 24 Years After Brutal Tangshan Restaurant Attack (September 23) [content note: misogynist violence] "In June, four women at a barbecue restaurant in Tangshan were brutally assaulted by a group of seven men and two women after one of the female diners objected to unwanted sexual advances. Surveillance footage from the restaurant showing a group of men beating, slapping, and kicking the diners soon went viral, raising concerns over women’s safety."

6. “I Just Wanted to Live”: Man Missing for 17 Days After Earthquake Leaves ICU (September 29) and Earthquake hero missing for 17 days found by rescuers (September 22)

7. Dr. Oz Mad John Fetterman Hired Wrongfully Convicted Men Instead Of Imprisoning Them Forever (September 2) "The super fun thing about our American 'justice' system is that you are in a better position to get out of prison if you actually committed a crime than if you didn't."

8. Analysis: What I unlearned about Roe v. Wade (May 18) [content note: miscarriage] "When I was 14 or 15 years old, I’d been among a small faction of evangelical Christians and Catholics who’d picketed outside this doctor’s suburban office and on the sidewalk outside the hospital entrance with signs that said 'Abortion is Murder' and 'Don’t Kill Your Baby,' or which simply featured poster-sized pictures of aborted fetuses."

9. The Great White Heist (2020) "Naturally, Black parents were outraged when they discovered the white children didn’t have to make the same daily trek as their children because the district had purchased 33 buses to chauffeur them to school. Incensed, a group of parents begged Clarendon County School Superintendent R.W. Elliot for just one bus, to serve the county’s Black students. He said no."

10. James Earl Jones Retires From Voicing Darth Vader (September 27)

11. Unboxing, bad baby and evil Santa: how YouTube got swamped with creepy content for kids (September 13)

12. Two Christian ranches, meant to help troubled teens, were hotbeds of abuse (September 10)

13. Are AI art programs ripping off human artists? (September 26) "One possibility is legislation to create a robot dividend. Artists whose work was included in the training corpus of an AI engine would be paid a small royalty whenever that engine’s art is used for commercial purposes."

14. Trust us: The problem with crypto-billionaires and effective altruism (July 10) "The logic is certainly compelling: make as much money as you can to do as much good as you can in this life. But a fundamental flaw of effective altruism is that it says nothing about the way that money is earned in the first place."