Barristers’ Robes and Wigs
On balance, Legal Beagle likes them. She also garnered two quite amusing comments.
Link Love
The Hero
Further to my thoughts below about the Virginia Tech killings, there is a sad but heroic story from within the massacre to tell. Professor Liviu Librescu, a Holocaust survivor who escaped to Israel from Communist Romania, and a world-acclaimed aeronautical… Continue Reading
Atheism Debate
An interesting debate at Donklephant about the existence of God. Not the usual stuff for that site, which is usually about separating the pressure of partisan politics from determining good public policy. The question is whether reason and faith are… Continue Reading
Writing Again
A new post, finally, from New York Hack — and it’s about jury duty. She’s been away from her blog for some time working on her book, but she can really write, so it’s good to see more from her… Continue Reading
Why Can’t We Be Friends?
Fabio, a blogger from Europe that I read from time to time, decries European ignorance of how the United States works. Fairhandedly, many Americans are similarly ignorant of how things work in the Old World. What’s interesting is that Europeans… Continue Reading
I Get It Now
After being confused yesterday about why it should be such a big political deal about the U.S. Attorneys being fired, I found as good a write-up about the U.S. Attorney flap as I could have asked for can be found… Continue Reading
National Primary
Thanks to Ovaloffice2008.com, it’s very clear that by February 5, 2008, the Presidential primaries will be effectively over. On that day, it’s very likely that Alabama (23), Arkansas (32), Arizona (16), California (1), Florida (4), Illinois (5), Missouri (18), North… Continue Reading
Humane Executions
An interesting thought from Mark Kleiman about capital punishment. I’m in favor of capital punishment, although I’m also in favor of making damn sure that the executed prisoner really was guilty, and too often our criminal justice system demonstrates more… Continue Reading
Droning On
Via a link on the Freakonomics Blog, we learn that occasionally journalists write about “pilotless drones.” To be sure, this is a redundancy but one guy put way too much emotion into making that point. I also wanted to point… Continue Reading
Disloyalty and Criticism
I guess I’m in a cynical mood after last night’s dinner guests expressed similar contempt for our national leadership as I read in some ironic invective from the Reality-Based Community. A surge of 20,000 “new” troops is the answer? They’re… Continue Reading