Viewing profile — djdj123

You may have picked up on the author's not-so-subtle self-congratulation in the use of the phrase: "our great culture". There is a lot of wonderful material to be absorbed in the a…

This generalization gets bandied about too much. Crime trends and patterns are highly local. I'm sure violent crime is dropping in many places, but in other places it's spiraling o…

Another criticism of Gladwell's writing by Steven Pinker some years ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/books/review/Pinker-t.html...

Er, iphones and other fancy smartphones are being stolen because they fetch hundreds of dollars from black-market wholesalers and unwitting craigslist buyers. Not because people do…

Living in a bay area city with a recent alarming increase in armed robbery due to a shrinking police force (guess which one), I would suggest that crime, like real estate, is local…