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Month: November 2009

Amateur Hour

November 19, 2009Burt Likko 1 Comment

Thank you very much, Attorney General Eric Holder, for mooting all of my high-falutin’ Constitutional ideals.  I’ve gone to some length here and elsewhere to argue that it is very important to give even a dirtsack like Khalid Sheik Mohammed… Continue Reading →

Constitutional Law, Crime and Punishment, Domestic Politics, Ethics and Morality, History, Law, Link Love, News

Trying Terrorists

November 18, 2009Burt Likko 2 Comments

I have to admit more than a little bit of frustration over the hue and cry, mainly from the right, about the upcoming trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to be held in the United States District Court for the Southern… Continue Reading →

Constitutional Law, Crime and Punishment, Terrorism

Runners World

November 18, 2009Burt Likko 2 Comments

This cover of Newsweek goes a long way towards making Sarah Palin look unprofessional and suggesting that she is not to be taken seriously.  When I first saw it, I wondered, “Why would she allow a photograph like that to… Continue Reading →

Domestic Politics, Intellectual Property, News, Sarah Palin, Scandal

Not Taking The Pledge

November 17, 2009Burt Likko 3 Comments

From several of my favorite blogs comes a story that I find very touching.  A ten-year-old boy in Arkansas, with early ambitions of becoming a lawyer, said he starting thinking about the words in the Pledge of Allegiance, and decided… Continue Reading →

Big Brass Ones Award, Constitutional Law, Link Love, News

Odd Sourcing by ABC News

November 17, 2009Burt Likko 3 Comments

First, and perhaps most importantly, it’s good work by ABC News to find all the massive B.S. that you can read about at Recovery.gov — relatively large amounts of money spent in congressional districts that do not exist, jobs saved… Continue Reading →

Blog, Government, Lying With Statistics, News, Writing

Pluralizations

November 16, 2009Burt Likko

My post this morning suggested that the real reason to pay attention to the Obama Bowgate issue is not whether protocol was breached or anti-royalist sentiments have been compromised, but rather that it reveals a degree of administrative and managerial… Continue Reading →

Trivia, Writing

Bowgate And Managerial Conundra

November 16, 2009Burt Likko 4 Comments

The image of President Obama bowing deeply while greeting Japan’s Emperor Akihito has generated many spilt electrons of apoplectic outrage and instinctive, unthinking apologia.  But in fact, both the left and the right have it wrong.  And it’s not the… Continue Reading →

Barack Obama, Industry and Commerce, International Politics, Japan, Link Love, News

Beating The Cowboys Should Have Been More Fun Than That

November 16, 2009Burt Likko 1 Comment

I don’t want to complaint about a “W.”  I’m glad we won.  But there are reasons to be discontented despite the win.  About the only real signs of life were the two touchdowns in the fourth quarter, one coming off… Continue Reading →

Sports

Weekend Weirdness, Volume V

November 14, 2009Burt Likko

Yes, it happens to us all.  Here’s proof.  Man, Brendan Fraser looks like me! Sick with the swine flu because no one will give you a vaccination?  Well, don’t let that stop you from getting your buzz on! You’ve fantasized… Continue Reading →

Death, Evolution, Sickness and Health, Weirdness

Treat A Criminal Like A Criminal

November 14, 2009Burt Likko 4 Comments

I What is Terrorism? In 2003, I read a book by Caleb Carr called The Lessons of Terror.  In it, Carr argued that terrorism is a military threat and should be handled by the military in the way that the… Continue Reading →

Constitutional Law, Crime and Punishment, Law, News, Terrorism

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