It’s time for another post linking to all the content I have produced lately across different websites — a ‘digest’. The internet is actually a digestive tract, you see. All of my content goes into a series of tubes that poops pixels out onto your screen. (Do not attempt to use the internet as fertilizer.)
During the last six weeks, I onboarded as a staff editor at Genspect, attended their conference in Albuquerque, took a train trip, visitedfamily, supported a loved one through a medical crisis, and somehow I still got all this done, too. I am particularly proud of the three podcasts, the Judge Dredd piece in which I reviewed a dreadful piece of work, and the research piece on Russia’s shortage of tactical paint.
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Judge Dredd Arrests Poverty, Puts It In An Iso-Cube For Mega City One Crimes
“The poorer the population the more violent crimes they commit and we just let a lot of really poor people in,” Judge Hershey says on page three of A Better World. A few pages later, Judge Maitland discovers that “we can wipe out crime” if Mega City One just spends all the money on education instead of judges, according to her “models” of criminality. Maitland’s reasoning leaps from environmental intervention — cleaning up slums and improving urban architecture — into a “social engineering” panacea for all forms of crime, using anecdotal examples of ‘reform’ in much the same way anti-police ‘social justice’ advocates do in the real world.