Who’s getting the laughs at the Supreme Court?
Apparently saying “Limburger Cheese” is enough to get a laugh.
And sometimes, Justice Roberts only gets “A little laughter.”
Via Instapundit.
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Happy Thanksgiving
Remember, the only thing better then turkey is too much turkey. For
days on end. With pie.
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Traveling
I am at the airport, which aside from the fact that out of caution I’m
here near 3 hours early, isn’t too bad. But at this point it’s a race
against the storm.
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See, that is how they should teach this in School
How the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals explains unilateral contracts:
Homer Simpson talking to God: “Here’s the deal: you freeze everything as it is, and I won’t ask for anything more. If that is OK, please give me absolutely no sign. [no response] OK, deal. In gratitude, I present you this offering of cookies and milk. If you want me to eat them for you, please give me no sign. [no response] Thy will be done.” The Simpsons: And Maggie Makes Three (Fox television broadcast, Jan. 22, 1995).
Via the WSJ Law Blog.
Lawyers and Lawsuits are easy targets
Brought to you via Digg, a thought provoking piece on litigation in modern American society.
Lawsuits are Turning Our Kids into P*****s.
This piece is facially aimed at the hoi polloi, the average man on the internet. It’s title, its NSFW language, its tone; all are clearly intended to appeal to somewhere near the lowest common denominator.
So why is it worth a post, why do I bang out my commentary? Not because it is on a page with links to puerile pictures, but because it represents the wide-spread understanding of lawsuits. People have been generally convinced … Continue Reading
Just spied on the NYT site.
I was the paralegal (really more of an assistant) to a DC attorney. In one high-money real estate case, when the opposing side’s unstable client approached us at the building with mace in hand, the lawyer actually shoved me in front of the can, saying, “Let her spray you - it’ll be fantastic for our case.”
All I want is a conclusion to Lost
I freely admit I know next to nothing about the current Writer’s Strike. This is an excellent overview, but it is also partisan, so it needs to be taken with a grain of salt. It is also on a potentially NSFW site.
That being said, it isn’t hard for me to believe that the entertainment industry is greedy. We’re talking about an industry that believes the VCR is like the Boston Strangler. They consistently maintain that consumers should have to purchase a separate form of media for each piece of technology; one for your computer, … Continue Reading
Somewhere, someone said something.
That is what this boils down to.
From the article:
In what one FBI spokesman described as “almost an annual ritual,” the bureau has obtained uncorroborated intelligence indicating al Qaeda would like to strike shopping malls during the holiday shopping season, two law enforcement sources said Thursday.
Alternatively, someone was reading Tom Clancy.
Data Mining. Silly, sad, data mining.
The FBI is using grocery store data to try to find Iranian Terrorists (via Wired). From the article:
The idea was that a spike in, say, falafel sales, combined with other data, would lead to Iranian secret agents in the south San Francisco-San Jose area.
This feeds directly into what I was discussing about data shadows.
Clearly the situation isn’t necessarily identical. I’m talking about publicly available information, and making a public face to the world. This is distinct from intelligence gathering. But there is a common underlying principle. To wit, that there exists a vast amount of information about every … Continue Reading
This is what is known as “Mission Creep”
Gang Member is Convicted under Terror Law (NYT).
The conviction seems to be based on the jurors term confusion, inflicted by the judge. The judge told the jurors that terrorism was an act intended to “intimidate or coerce a civilian population[.]”
The problem with that is that the definition may be sufficient as to what “terror” is, but is incomplete regarding what “terrorism” is. Terrorism, as an act, is intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population in the pursuit of political aims.
It is that second part that represents the crucial distinction. Without it, nearly every kind of crime is tantamount … Continue Reading