Bullety Stuff

• Anonymous blowhardery chilled by overzealous US prosecutor: Ken White has the story about Reason commenters making noises about wood chippers and stringing up the Federal judge in the Ross Ulbricht/Silk Road case, Katherine Forrest. Lots of other people have noticed this, including former Reason honcho Virginia Postrel in Bloomberg View and Ilya Somin at The Volokh Conspiracy. That these aren't anything like true threats is obvious; ditto the attorneys pursuing such charges having a purely political aim. Prosecutorial abuse isn't going away, and it's not getting better, either.
• Cartoonist has work repurposed with antisemitic messages, but retaining his name: A horrible circumstance. How do you recover your good name?
• So that's what that means: Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby asked for police to target the intersection where Freddie Gray was arrested two weeks before that happened.
• Ellen Pao doesn't like some subreddits, it appears, and so they have been shut down. Redditors are calling for Pao's head, while the list of condemned material apparently expands to non-abusive articles, such as one by Ashe Schow in the Washington Examiner about a non-rape that later became Title IX charges (stop me if you've heard this one before).
• Another case of retroactive 'rape' at Amherst: Here's Schow's article; the TL;DR version seems to be the guy was out of his mind blitzed, girl gave him head anyway, and twenty-one months later this became rape, whereupon he was expelled. The girl in question (the then-girlfriend of the John Doe complainant's roommate) sent friendly texts after the event, did not seek medical attention after the fact, and did not approach the police. Minding The Campus has a much longer piece with more detail.
• RICO charges against climate skeptics? Sen. Whitehouse hopes to pull off such a thing. The tobacco settlement appears to be (a terrible) precedent.