The CHurch likes to point out that the cult of relics had been active in other cultures and religions long before the birth of Christ. Five centuries earlier and thousands of miles from Bethlehem, for example, the Buddha took his… Continue Reading
When a big case is released, I want to read it right away. But unfortunately, courts release big cases at precisely the time lawyers are working. So it’s taken me a day to digest this latest and possibly penultimate round… Continue Reading
Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end. – Neil Gaiman
At 9:53 a.m., I received electronic notice of the posting of the opinion in Perry v. Brown, and noticed that the Ninth Circuit’s website with links to the opinion crashed every time I tried to get at the opinion. Some… Continue Reading
…[W]hy is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what’s on the other side? – George R.R. Martin
Like a blogbuddy, or two, I’m returning to my regularly scheduled life after an emotionally-straining hiatus, one which was sprung on me suddenly and unpleasantly. I’m reticent to disclose a great many details as they inherently involve a medical condition of a close… Continue Reading
The Ninth Circuit will issue its panel decision in the same sex marriage case tomorrow. It will, of course, be appealed almost immediately. But we’ll have fodder for discussion for quite some time thereafter.
Contemporaries were well aware of the absurdity of the ostensible reason for the protest. ‘Will not posterity be amazed’, wrote one sceptic, ‘when they are told that the present distraction took its rise from the parliament’s taking off a shilling… Continue Reading
Here are the probabilities, based on past performance. Our shot sheet has twenty entries, to split between four players. Patriots win coin toss 50% Giants win coin toss 50% Brady-Gronkowski TD pass 111% Brady-Welker TD pass 56% Brady-Ochocinco TD pass… Continue Reading
More than the divides of race, class, or gender, more than rural or urban, believer or nonbeliever, red state or blue state, our culture has been carved up into radically distinct, unbridgeable, and antagonistic entities that no longer speak the… Continue Reading