Looking outside the office at about 2:30 today, I saw snow coming down. Hard. Knowing that the last time we got hit with a sudden snowstorm, the County of Los Angeles’ attitude towards it was “Eh. It’ll melt eventually,” I… Continue Reading
Didn’t she used to be attractive? What the hell happened? Photo from article in UK Daily Mail about female eyebrow maintenance. Ladies, do not pluck out your eyebrows and then re-paint them on your face. I’m not sure where on… Continue Reading
Two judges in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, are in serious hot water because it looks like they railroaded juveniles through their system so that they could be shipped off to work camps and be exploited for slave labor. In a lot of… Continue Reading
Coming across this article from a New York criminal defense attorney who is also a mighty law blogger, seeing a similar issue addressed in one of my new favorite blogs (happily, chronicling a solid ass-drubbing the anti-vaccination crowd got in… Continue Reading
Citing what amounts to irreconcilable differences on the stimulus bill, Senator Judd Gregg has withdrawn his nomination to be President Obama’s Commerce Secretary. This is more of a relief than a surprise, although the President is likely feeling stabbed in… Continue Reading
Do my ears and eyes deceive me? Or did Jon Stewart do nearly seven minutes of riffing on President Obama on The Daily Show? Yes! Yes, he did! He mocked the Cabinet appointees, Obama’s halting performance during his press conference,… Continue Reading
Today would have been Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday. There are those who think that Darwin was the most important scientist ever. That is overstating the case, although in the field of biology it is probably impossible to diminish his importance.… Continue Reading
No, I’m not the only one taking weekly “fishing” trips up Geekback Mountain. Robert Farley has authored the finest and most incisive piece of commentary on current Colonial politics out there. It may be hard to hear, but — Tom… Continue Reading
A case of some interest is making the rounds of the legal blogosphere. Apparently, someone started a blog and it got popular, and then he wrote a book and made some money. The blog, and the book, are called Hot… Continue Reading
Yesterday was election day in Israel. Israel is a multi-party democracy and no politician can reasonably hope to lead the government there with a majority of his or her own party members alone. So the trick is to find enough… Continue Reading