When I first heard about this case, I assumed Brown had made a terrible mistake by not kicking Kopin out. But then I read the relevant documents which had Sclove’s testimony to Brown before the case got big in the media. She told Brown essentially, that Kopin was a puppy dog on voice command, obeying her whenever she…

I’ve written a lot about the case in my blog: hardthinking.com. “The Marching Morons” is probably the best piece. The case against Knox was frighteningly similar to a Monty Python skit: the judge and prosecutor and police were so obviously ridiculous, it was almost comical (google Monty Python burn the witch skit if…

The Vanderbilt case (for example) is scary because it was dumb luck that resulted in the men being caught horribly violating an unconscious woman. It begs the question: how often does this happen? I know the answer is, “all the time” partly because a number of people I am close to have been raped.