Having spent most of the day ill and abed, I’ve not done a ton of reading or writing. And the Supreme Court would not allow YouTube to simulcast or delay-cast the trial despite the trial judge’s order that it should. … Continue Reading
Renewing my tradition from last year, I boldly offer the following predictions for the next year. I make no claim to psychic powers, clairvoyance, astral projection, divine or demonic information, or access to time machines. These are SWAGs and nothing… Continue Reading
A year ago, I made some predictions for what would happen in 2009. How’d I do? 1. The United States Federal deficit for calendar year 2009 will exceed $1.5 trillion. Check. 2. A human being will be cloned. Not Yet… Continue Reading
I. Background Karen Golinski is a staff attorney employed by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, who works out of the Ninth Circuit’s headquarters office in San Francisco. In 2008, during the window of time in… Continue Reading
Opponents of same-sex marriage in Iowa want to have something like California’s Proposition 8 there to overturn the judicial decision extending marriage rights to same-sex couples. If you were writing a news story about this political effort, you could use… Continue Reading
A few days ago, I wondered about whether our military activities in Asia were “war” or something else. Then at about four in the morning I awoke after a flash of the kind of thinking that only comes with sleep,*… Continue Reading
Locals pronounce the name Maryville, a Tennessee city very near The Estate At Louisville and an exurb of Knoxville,* “Muhrr-vull.” The big news: a local citizen was concerned that the city’s annual holiday celebration, which included a reading of several… Continue Reading
While some of you blogwatchers out there are deeply worried about the public feud between a right-wing blogger and a formerly right-wing blogger who got fed up with the excesses of the more vocal elements of the conservative blogosphere and… Continue Reading
The Alliance Defense Fund took the California city of Merced to task for changing the name of its annual Christmas parade to the “Holiday” parade and then bowing to pressure from citizens to change the name back to the “Christmas”… Continue Reading
I’m not entirely sure Mike Huckabee can be blamed for the apparently-continued criminal activities of Maurice Clemons, who allegedly shot four police officers in Washington State to death over the weekend. To be sure, then-Governor Huckabee granted clemency to Clemons,… Continue Reading