So I’ve been worried about teaching an undergraduate class. Here’s my solution, and the rationale. Returning undergraduate students have their strengths and weaknesses. For instance, they deal poorly with ambiguity. That means that if I give them this question: Paul… Continue Reading
A nicely-thought out piece on trying terrorists — the emphasis should be on due process and justice, and those are concerns that do not change based on the identity of the defendant.
Sometimes it’s hard to tell parody from what it’s parodying. Take this for instance: Now, I found this on comedy site failblog.org. That’s a good place to go to see things like people not setting their parking brakes, teenagers… Continue Reading
Thank you very much, Attorney General Eric Holder, for mooting all of my high-falutin’ Constitutional ideals. I’ve gone to some length here and elsewhere to argue that it is very important to give even a dirtsack like Khalid Sheik Mohammed… Continue Reading
I What is Terrorism? In 2003, I read a book by Caleb Carr called The Lessons of Terror. In it, Carr argued that terrorism is a military threat and should be handled by the military in the way that the… Continue Reading
So I’m handling this eviction this morning. As with most of my evictions, my staff does all the prep work and I don’t review the file until I get to court that morning. This one looks… well, it looks a… Continue Reading
The Old Bailey is London’s primary criminal courthouse and has been for quite some time. Someone has done something rather extraordinary — compiled and made searchable on the internet records of every case the Bailey handled from 1674 to 1913. … Continue Reading
Just ask the family of Jennifer Strange, who died of hyponatremia, also called “water intoxication,” as a result of participating in a radio contest called “Hold Your Wee For A Wii” up in Sacramento two years ago. She was 28… Continue Reading
A left-leaning publication house called OR Books is going to release a book called Going Rogue: Sarah Palin An American Nightmare on the same day that former Governor Palin’s memoir Going Rogue: An American Life will be released. The font,… Continue Reading
When the Legislature passes a law, with a plain, obvious meaning on its face, and a judge gets a case implicating that statute, and makes a point of saying that he thinks its result is “absurd” and instead creates his… Continue Reading