Underworld Turns

CHP cruiser crashes onto embankment in Culver City

CHP cruiser crashes onto embankment in Culver City

An investigation is underway after a California Highway Patrol cruiser ended up on an embankment in Culver City Wednesday morning. The incident occurred around 1 a.m. near Green Valley Circle and Bristol Parkway. Video showed the CHP vehicle stopped behind a tree after driving up an embankment. The front hood and driver’s side door appeared […]
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‘Windfarming’

Robert Crawford has said his Scottish upbringing and academic work have made him particularly aware of an eclectic strain in Scottish literature that goes back at least as far as the Enlightenment, if not the Reformation: a tradition of academic generalism and what he calls “democratic intellect” that is still current in Scottish universities. This […]

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The obituary business

I guess that it is a characteristic of old age that you get more interested in obituaries – for the simple reason that you have known or come across more of the people commemorated (or, at least, have seen them on television or in parliament). When I was a lot younger, I found them a […]

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Texas Forbids Law That Keeps Guns Away From Unhinged People

Everything is bigger in Texas—except, apparently, memory of devastating mass shootings. In late June, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a bill known as the Anti-Red Flag Act, which preemptively bans the creation or enforcement of extreme risk protective orders. Such orders are legal tools used to temporarily prohibit a person from having access […]
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