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I suppose you would have a civil case against the bad guy, but they tend to be broke.

@Horace said in Is TNCR dying?:

By what method?

I was just reminded that he killed himself by locking himself up in the garage with the car running.

Yep.

The nine colleges founded before the revolution.

Would not have guessed Rutgers was among them.

He played Ravel’s Noctuelles at my house once.

Indeed. It would hard to find someone who would say ‘this is how it should work’. It seems manifestly unjust to anyone except, I suppose, a federal judge.

I don’t know.

It wasn’t mentioned here at the time. Though I think it was years later when his daughter popped in to say hi.

Or maybe nothing like that?

I don’t know the scope of the redaction problem but with millions of pages surely not everyone did it wrong.

I think 65 convictions so far but it’s ongoing. It didn’t stop and restart.

Phlebas committed suicide.

I was supposed to see him in February of 2010 when he called to cancel. He died shortly thereafter.

He and Lucy visited me in Brooklyn and stayed in my apartment in Canary Wharf when he came up for treatment. He even had a key to use it when I wasn’t there.

I was supposed to see him towards his final days but he called and canceled. He was obviously unwell.

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One every four years on average.

I guess Russia funneling money to maga media pundits is something we want more of.

Outrageous. LA police blow up his business chasing bad guy, he’s entitled to nothing, says court.

https://reason.com/2025/12/29/innocent-man-sues-for-over-60000-after-police-blew-up-his-business-a-court-says-hes-entitled-to-nothing/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=reason_brand&utm_content=autoshare&utm_term=post

In these situations I still manage to phrase it as a question so I bow to his expertise. Even if I’m giving him the answer.

Finally. (The federal investigations began in 2022)

Looks like the real question for how violent society is over time would be ‘what’s the attempted murder rate’