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
It took me sixty seconds on the internet and $6.99 to become ordained as a minister and become empowered to officiate over and solemnize wedding ceremonies. I didn’t even have to profess a religious creed. Truly, I live in a… Continue Reading
General Motors has, after its traumatic financial reorganization, reduced its branding from eight or nine different brand names to four. One of its brands, GMC, is reserved for trucks, so it has only three levels of branding available for its… Continue Reading
This column suggests that judges should say nothing outside of the four corners of their opinions. But it levies its criticism at John Paul Stevens, David Souter, and Sandra Day O’Connor — three retired Justices of the Supreme Court. I… Continue Reading
One game of Pictionary is all it took to remind me that my head is so full of esoteric, strange, random knowledge and/or trivia that it can be difficult at times to communicate with others who have more mainstream sorts… Continue Reading
I’ve tried, something like twelve times tonight, to load up and watch the oral arguments in Perry v. Schwarzenegger. I’ve been mostly frustrated. I half-listened to the arguments about standing at work, and they affirmed what I already thought —… Continue Reading
For our second installment of this intermittent series of posts, I have an ad that passes one test but fails another. The ad in question takes the form of a magnet, attached to one of the three local yellow pages.… Continue Reading
About two months ago I wrote about a judge in Mississippi who imprisoned an attorney for not reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. As I predicted, the judge received a public reprimand and has acknowledged his error. The attorney who was… Continue Reading
I’ve been subscribing to the filings and postings in the Perry v. Schwarzenegger case. Of late there have been a lot of requests by the media to broadcast the arguments (which will be a week from today). The Court has… Continue Reading
Ahmed Ghaliani was accused of being a significant participant in the August 7, 1998 bombings of the United States embassy complexes in Kenya and Tanzania. At least 223 people were killed and over 4,000 were wounded in nearly-simultaneous suicide bombings… Continue Reading