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Month: May 2010

Here’s a reason people hate cops

May 14, 2010Burt Likko 4 Comments

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 →

California, Courts, Generalized Gripe

Mojave Cross Thief Issues Demands

May 14, 2010Burt Likko

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 →

California, Constitutional Law, Crime and Punishment, News

Sarah Palin’s Historical Challenge

May 14, 2010Burt Likko 4 Comments

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 →

Constitutional Law, History, Link Love, Religion

Attention East Coast Baseball Fans

May 14, 2010Burt Likko

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 →

Sports

Guidelines For Dinner Parties At Soffit House

May 12, 2010Burt Likko 7 Comments

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 →

Food, Soffit House, The Wife

Something To Note About Elena Kagan

May 11, 2010Burt Likko 2 Comments

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 →

Barack Obama, Courts, Domestic Politics, Government, News

A Close Shave In Las Vegas

May 11, 2010Burt Likko 2 Comments

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 →

Las Vegas, Money

It Wasn’t Me

May 11, 2010Burt Likko 4 Comments

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 →

California, Constitutional Law, Las Vegas, Link Love, News

Disproportionate Democracy

May 6, 2010Burt Likko 6 Comments

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 →

2010 Election, Britain, Domestic Politics, France, Government, International Politics

An Atheist On The Court?

May 5, 2010Burt Likko 2 Comments

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 →

Atheism, Constitutional Law, Courts, Government

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