No* Only one judge I have ever appeared before has ever done me this courtesy: stating in writing the questions, he’s going to ask days before the oral arguments. In this case, though, I suspect it’s because there are no… Continue Reading
What’s important in life? Good Scotch, friends, laughter, and speaking your mind forcefully and gracefully. Requiescat in pace, Christopher Hitchens.
The first, and in some ways the most important and foundational, case in this series is all about lawyers, courts, and the laws that govern them. It could not be otherwise – we care about this case because this case… Continue Reading
The People’s Republic of China is sea-testing an aircraft carrier, apparently sucessfully. She is believed to have originated as the Soviet carrier Varyag, which was originally designed to support missile-carrying subs and surface ships, and is diesel-powered rather than nuclear. What… Continue Reading
Following up on a story I discussed in October and again in November, concerning a Latin cross atop a municipal water tower in the Western Tennessee town of Whiteville, the Freedom From Religion Foundation was apparently unimpressed with the town’s defiant Mayor’s… Continue Reading
Dear sweet baby Jesus, Please please please please please make the bad people at Google change the GMail interface back to what it used to be. I hate the new interface. The mail items are spaced too widely apart. The… Continue Reading
The criteria for the game: the person must have been on an active roster of an NFL team at some point in the active season. On the IR list counts, on waivers counts only if the player was on a… Continue Reading
I’ve had two extraordinary bottles recently, both obtained at reasonable expense, and both of which demonstrated the benefit that comes from cellaring. Now, some Readers find reading about someone else drinking wine an astonishingly insipid subject, like having to listen… Continue Reading
Attempting to arrest his meteoric flameout from the GOP’s good graces, Rick Perry is running this ad on TV in Iowa: I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m a Christian, but you don’t need to be in the pew every Sunday to know… Continue Reading
I loves me them Mythbusters. (Warning — link to the show autoloads to loud audio.) But they can only blow up stuff for so long before something goes wrong. And it finally did — seems that they shot a cannon through… Continue Reading