Spence (Sean Bean): You ever kill anybody?
Sam (Robert De Niro): I hurt somebody’s feelings once.
- Ronin, written by J.D. Zeik and Richard Weisz, a.k.a. David Mamet, and directed by John Frankenheimer, 1998

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"William L. McClure", "Cindy S. Elmquist"
Jorgenson, Siegel, McClure & Flegel, LLP
1100 Alma Street, Suite 210
Menlo Park, CA 94025
650-324-9300 Phone
650-324-0227 Fax

"David C. Bertini", "Matt L. Milde", "Cherise Brandell"
701 Laurel St. Menlo Park, CA 94025
650-330-6600

Dear Mr McClure,

I have received your second denial, dated 4 May 2016, of ( Read more... )

"William L. McClure", "Cindy S. Elmquist"
Jorgenson, Siegel, McClure & Flegel, LLP
1100 Alma Street, Suite 210
Menlo Park, CA 94025
650-324-9300 Phone
650-324-0227 Fax

"David C. Bertini", "Matt L. Milde"
The City of Menlo Park
701 Laurel St. Menlo Park, CA 94025
650-330-6600

Dear Mr McClure,

I am lodging herewith an appeal of your denial of my ( Read more... )

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Former business partner of Subrah Iyar and Min Zhu, Michael Zeleny, is to be tried tomorrow in People v. Michael Zeleny, San Mateo County Superior Court Case No. SM382036, for lawful armed protests at headquarters of New Enterprise Associates (NEA), which bills itself as “the largest VC firm in the country ( Read more... )

The best reason not to have sex in public is to avoid exposure to well-meaning second-guessers. Thus the late Robert Hughes ably illustrated the stupidity of judicial censure of sexual deviance:Why so few [sodomy] convictions? Ernest Augustus Slade, who had been superintendent of the convict barracks at Hyde Park in Sydney from 1833 to 1834 (his ( Read more... )

As is well known, Holmes’s theory of liability rested on two interlocking principles. First, the primary purpose of the law is to ‘induce external conformity to rule’, [The Common Law, (M. DeW. Howe edn., 1963), p. 42.] and second, personal moral blameworthiness is not generally an ingredient of liability. [Ibid., pp. 42-3.] I turn first to ( Read more... )

Dear Bay Area law enforcement personnel,

Over the following year, I shall reside and appear in your jurisdictions, exercising my fundamental rights under the First and Second Amendments to the Constitution of the United States in the course of ongoing peaceful public protests, as documented at http://www.subrah.com/ and http://larvatus.livejournal. ( Read more... )

“The Constitution as interpreted by the Court these past decades allows the federal government to put your taxes up and use the proceeds to send you a weekly box of broccoli.” This putatively commonsensical observation by Clive Crook is meant to support a transparent non sequitur: “If Washington instructed you to choose your own basket of fruit and ( Read more... )