This one’s a blast from the past, from the past — we’re quoting a 2013 news feature about a 1958 assault with intent. On May 12, 1958, in Department 42 of the Hall of Justice, two punks from East L.A. were on trial for a murder committed during the course of a robbery. Fifty-one-year-old Jose Castellanos, …
That’s what it was, witnesses agree: a green, 6½-foot wooden panel which came sailing down under a clear blue sky and slammed into a man’s head. The New York Post says: Sources say the victim, described as a male between 60 and 70-years-old, was walking northbound on Fifth Avenue near 30th Street around 4 p.m. …
Remember, when you hear about “gun violence,” with staggering numbers, 2/3 of the numbers used by the Democrats’ gun control groups like Everytown and Americans for Responsible Solutions are suicides. What do people without guns do, when they want to snuff it? Turns out, a firearm is not a necessity. A suicide has options from …
One claim we keep seeing in the media is that “assault weapons” are something new, either new just before they were banned in the 1990s, or new since the ban expired in 2004. This is nonsense. Sure, the term is a neologism coined by national socialist Josh Sugarmann in the late 1980s, but the sort of rifles and …
Not this pole. Especially not as accessorized. Although the perp was partially unclothed! And no, he wasn’t running around Denver with a buddy named Kowalski. And just because it was a shirtless guy with a pole, it wasn’t a Chippendale Dancer, ladies. Sorry ’bout that. A man was arrested Wednesday evening on suspicion of aggravated …
The Good Idea Fairy (aka Ash Carter) as a Child We considered something less blunt than “getting dumber” for the title, but we wanted to be sure that officers could read it. Matthew Cancian in Joint Forces Quarterly starts off with the Marines, simply because he has their data handy. We’ve deleted the footnote references …
British historian Nigel Perrin’s blog, Set Europe Ablaze, takes a somewhat opposite approach to this one: instead of generating a lot of posts, he generates few posts, but each one is of superior quality, and of great interest if you are interested in the secret war in Europe 1939-45. While it’s mostly about the SOE special operations organization — …
A fascinating story in the Los Angeles Times (of all places) describes what the imminent retirement of 71-year-old Rick Gerhart means to CalTech, the prominent science and engineering school. CalTech scientists depend on Gerhart’s craft. He is one of the world’s most creative and experienced scientific glass blowers, able to construct and repair the bespoke scientific equipment that …
The guy that’s still alive leaped from the train at 60 mph or so. The three guys who didn’t jump, but who rode the trains allthe way to the head-on impact, are just missing. One person was injured and three people left missing after two BNSF Railway trains suffered a head-on train collision near Amarillo, Texas, …
It wasn’t his foot this time. Unfortunately for a former member of the Indianapolis Colts, this is one of the cases where Experience gives the examination before the lesson, and since the student has assumed ambient temperature, the retest will not be scheduled. A former NFL player died Tuesday after accidentally shooting himself in the …