So I’m appearing this morning in court here in Stinking Bakersfield. No one at all is in line for the security screen behind me. There are two security guards and a Kern County sheriff’s deputy. I put my case file,… Continue Reading
Taking an already-magnified situation* and escalating it, someone claims to be the thief who stole the now-notorious Mojave Cross and has gone so far as to issue demands regarding its return. He did so in the Desert Dispatch, a local… Continue Reading
The guy’s a little harsher on former Gov. Palin than I would have been, and there’s nothing particularly new here by way of source material. But I’d point you to look at the larger point rather than the snark: The… Continue Reading
The Wife has a colleague at work who bought her boyfriend tickets to see the Red Sox-Yankees game on Monday the 17th. They are described as lower-tier, “right behind home plate.” She’s got them posted on Craigslist and I told… Continue Reading
If you aren’t invited to dinner this time around, please don’t be offended. We can’t have everyone over all the time. We try to bring together interesting people interacting with one another. Singles are welcome to, but not obliged to,… Continue Reading
Solicitor General Elena Kagan, if confirmed to the Supreme Court, would be the first Justice to sit on the Court since Lewis Powell to have a background that does not include service on an appellate bench. General Kagan’s background is… Continue Reading
One of the interesting things about Las Vegas is that time and money lose a lot of meaning while you’re there. You spend more time doing things than you normally would because there are no clocks anywhere and plentiful distractions… Continue Reading
Yes, I went to Las Vegas for a few days. And yes, the now-famous Mojave Cross is sort of near the I-15 on the road from L.A. to Vegas, a reasonably short drive from the Cima Road exit. And yes,… Continue Reading
The results of today’s election in the UK may look a little bit funny and it calls to mind a myth I was taught in college – the myth is that multi-party parliamentary democracies better represent the will of the… Continue Reading
Marc Cooper writes in today’s Fish Wrapper that the right pick to the Supreme Court to replace John Paul Stevens would be an open atheist. He confines himself to making some obvious points about how one’s religious beliefs do not… Continue Reading