This week’s trivia challenge is brought to you by Mike Schilling! In order: Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, Boston, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Baltimore. This is an exhaustive list. Tied cities are listed in alphabetical order.
I cannot think of a time in American history, or indeed in world history, in which an entire city has been shut down to apprehend a single criminal. On Friday, the city of Boston and its neighboring cities of Cambridge and Watertown were… Continue Reading
One way we define a “state” here in the USA is as a unit of regional government. But states are also ways that we define ourselves as local communities and from which we take shared identities. And overlapping between the… Continue Reading
The fishing Padres Only know how to bring it Against the Dodgers.
Unsurprisingly, my nomination for 2013 will be going to Ken at Popehat: Rep. Jon Lundberg views his position as an elected representative the way a 13-year-old boy views a tube sock. Truly, I am awed.
The courts conduct the nation’s business. The public’s business. The courts stand apart from the rest of the government so that they can pass judgment over the government when need be. And the public has a right to see what… Continue Reading
I’ve arbitrarily chosen the last twenty-five years as the period depicted in the graph. I could have gone back farther in time than that, but it was going to be unreadable and so I’ve not bothered to research before 1989.… Continue Reading
All this week on the front page, the League of Ordinary Gentlemen has been running a symposium on higher education. I’ve contributed five (!) 2,000-3,000 word posts on legal education. Necessarily this involves some exploration of the interplay between the practice of… Continue Reading
The top ten in North America, in 2011, were: Allentown; Louisville; Columbus; Round Rock; Saltillo; Sacramento; Monterey; Dayton; Pawtucket; Indianapolis.
I learned a long time ago that part of what makes people of different faiths about to get along together is to not mock one anothers’ beliefs. If I wish tolerance for my own world view, I must offer it to… Continue Reading