Uh-oh, a Lincoln conspiracy post. Well, one can’t be much of a crime history professor without mention of one of the most widely publicized, theorized, dramatized, and scrutinized assassinations in antiquity, save John F. Kennedy and Julius Caesar. Spoiler Alert. It was John Wilkes Booth. This Alex Taylor column originally appeared in the Gainesville Times,…… Continue reading Bad Actors
Category: Government
Sweet Jane (not THAT one), and a Very Naughty Girl
Alex Taylor’s Tuesday returns with a fascinating twist in America’s Revolution. Alex then points his time machine 100 years forward to examine a—wait … Toot toot, ahhh, beep beep … Talkin’ ’bout a Bad Girl! Alex Taylor’s Crime and History column originally appeared in the Gainesville Times. This one appeared in the NE Georgia section,…… Continue reading Sweet Jane (not THAT one), and a Very Naughty Girl
The Super License
You may have noticed my vitriolic tendencies toward the media’s misplaced sensationalisms regarding death and injury statistics. To paraphrase a Star Trek adage, the death of a few outweighs the deaths of the many. Not that one person’s death is any less important than another’s, no matter how it happened. Death and injury (we’re talking…… Continue reading The Super License