Big Wednesday 2013
Yesterday, I finally had a spare moment to set up for today’s cases. And I threw in my predictions just to go on the record. No, I don’t know why the Court is taking three days to do what I… Continue Reading
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Serious Literary Content
Oh my not-God. I love this recent judicial opinion so much it’s difficult to even describe. An excerpt, describing the subject of the case, a fine piece of modern literature entitled The Silver Crown (content below the jump debatably NSFW but mainly… Continue Reading
Sandstorm
I’m not so good at this Photoshop stuff: Yesterday I took these three pictures with my phone from a point about two miles from my home, near the California Aqueduct. The wind at that location was about 25 miles an… Continue Reading
Ask Burt Likko Anything, 2.2
John Howard Griffin asks: “What problems occur because we have a Capitalistic form of legal representation?” Which is a big question. A BIG question. And, although I don’t think Mr. Griffin intended it this way, a trick question. To say… Continue Reading
Endeavour No More
My drive to work this morning looked very strange. Lots of cars parked in the desert, people getting out and standing around. With cameras. About halfway between my house and my office, I saw it. It looked like a very… Continue Reading
Time To Make Hard Choices
A report from the CSM about Governor Brown’s budget proposal is almost unremittingly positive, particularly given its rather dismal subject matter. It makes me distrust the objectivity of the reporter. The devil is in the details, but the big picture… Continue Reading
I Have A Soft Spot For Elephants
Let’s play a game, albeit a morbid one. I’ve found a crime from a real case, and I’ve created a hypothetical circumstance. Consider two crimes, both setting in motion chains of events which result in the death of a human… Continue Reading
Car Cameras Coming To California
This Saturday, it became legal to operate a vehicle equipped with a “video event recorder.” These have already been in use in some police vehicles, and are expected to be adopted first by public transportation agencies, and then gradually by… Continue Reading
Predictions for 2011
Completely undeterred by my decidedly spotty track record from last year, I’m forging ahead with bold predictions for 2011. A little different format this year, grouping my predictions by subject area: International Relations: No nuclear weapon for Iran, no overt… Continue Reading
Scorecard 2010
Here were my predictions for 2010, and here’s how they did: Jon Huntsman will resign as ambassador to China and begin to lay the groundwork for a Presidential bid in 2012. Has not happened. In retrospect, I failed to credit… Continue Reading