Let’s face it: It could be many, many months before Season 2
of Making a Murderer is released — although my book on Avery and Dassey will
available April 4th. In the meantime, be
sure to watch the Netflix documentary Amanda Knox. It’s just like Making a Murderer, only
set in beautiful Italy
instead of Manitowoc , Wisconsin . Okay, it’s not just like it, but there are numerous, uncanny parallels between
the Amanda Knox case and the Avery and Dassey cases, including these:
Sunday, October 23, 2016
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
How to fix the presidential debates
These so-called debates are so absurd that I can’t stand to
watch them. Even when I’m at home alone,
I get too embarrassed and have to turn the channel. I try to watch, but I just can’t. And these debacles don’t in any way resemble
an actual debate. Rather, the participants’
goals seem to be: (1) interrupt your opponent as often as possible; (2) ignore
the question whenever possible and instead talk about something completely
unrelated; and (3) work in as many sound bites as possible. And the moderators don’t help either. Their two biggest problems are: (1) they seem
to be participating in the debate rather than moderating it; and (2) they ask
absurd questions about topics that are far beyond the reach of the office of
the president. The good news, however,
is that there is a simple fix. Because
the Commission on Presidential Debates seems to be really dense, and has no
idea how to structure debates to “provide the best possible information to viewers and listeners,” I’ll put this advice in the form of a simple
numeric list.
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