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When your first attempt to discredit a judicial nominee involves an indirect attack on Justice Marshall, you might want to think twice. You're usually going to be making a mistake. (No, it really doesn't matter which Justice Marshall; they're both pretty much impervious ( Read more... ) -
Most Popular D&D Campaign Features of 2010
I have this suspicion that an unusually high number of Dungeons & Dragons adventures written over the next 12 months will contain a band of Orcs led by a Captain Muraski ( Read more... ) -
Warm bodies, I sense, are not machines that can only make money.
Precisely.
If corporations are persons, they are - if they behave as Milton Friedman wanted them to - persons with mental and emotional impairments so severe that any decent judge would feel entirely justified in declaring them incompetent.
If corporations are persons, they are sociopathic. That's fine; that's the design; but that's no reason to ( Read more... ) -
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In a matter of years, the board of directors of General Motors (now Motors Liquidation Company) will dissolve the "legal person" that is GM. This will be a premeditated act. Under the rule announced in Citizens United, will the directors be indicted for murder? -
Less Fantastic
NY State Senate votes on gay marriage. (That's good ( Read more... ) -
Fantastic!
What the NY Times amusingly calls a steampunk flamewar. A several-week exchange of letters to the editor in the Times of the 1870s, complete with pseudonyms and ad hominems, on the merits of Scrapple as a "substitute for breakfast meat" (in the words of the chief proponent).
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Just posting to brag
Haven't checked LJ in the better part of a week, and I will go back later; but I just wanted to say:
I hiked Mount Princeton to the summit. 14,197 feet, 13 miles round trip plus over 4000 vertical feet from bottom to top (and back), in just a bit over 12 hours.
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My Dad's Bad Joke of the Day
With apologies to thatliardiego:
It was once said in parts of this country that a black man would become President of the United States when pigs fly.
Barack Obama was sworn in on January 20, 2009.
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Creative Plea Bargaining
One of the advantages prosecutors have over some of their adversaries is that, while they are generally represented by sane attorneys, a Defendant-Client's assessment of his or her own interests may not be measured on precisely the same scale of sanity as that used by the People ( Read more... ) -
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There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs ( Read more... )