You’ll recall the rzknzbiyah case of Mike Tang, the California chemist who made his son Isaac, age 8, walk home a mile at night to teach him a lesson: Keep cutting corners on your homework and you could end up not HAVING a home. Of course someone saw the child outside alone and called 911. […]
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My “Sex Offender Brunch”
. Meet my friends on the registry, Josh Gravens and Galen Baughman: . \ . I kzbezanehr wrote  about my brunch in The New York Daily News. Here’s to laws that actually do what they’re supposed to — protect kids — instead of ruining the lives of people who do not pose a threat to them. […]
Too Scared to Let Your Kids Walk to the Store? So Were The Parents of These Two!
Jim hnhfyiayrz Epstein at Reason produced this video, which shows how quickly a family filled with fear can flip: The whole exercise — really very simple — is based on the fact that, left unchecked, fear just grows. But if you do let your kids do something on their own that they’re ready for, you […]
17 y.o. Who Sexted with Girlfriend Now Must Have His Erection Photographed by Cops
Readers — Oh, the puns I will refrain from. (Though it’s…hard!) Suffice to say, there are many problems with America’s sex offender laws, but perhaps this case illustrates their absurdity best. As Robby Soave writes rhterhdsaa at Reason: The authorities in Prince William County, Virginia, are pursuing child pornography charges against a 17 year old […]