It’s been a long time coming. There’s been a lot of discussion behind the scenes. And now, it’s finally happening. Soon, the sub-blogs at The League of Ordinary Gentlemen will be no more. Even The League of Ordinary Gentlemen itself… Continue Reading
Many times in the past when I’ve written of the Declaration of Independence, I’ve emphasized that it is not law. The Constitution is law, but not the Declaration, which is a political document. This causes a lot of anxiety in… Continue Reading
Does the Fourth Amendment allow law enforcement to gather an arrestee’s genetic sequence and compare it with a large FBI database of genetic material gathered from old, unsolved crimes? A reader asked me to do an analysis of Maryland v. King, a… Continue Reading
On this day back in 2005, I began blogging after reviewing a photograph of a gangrenous foot. I was still working at a personal injury firm in Knoxville, Tennessee. The blogging bug bit hard, and I found a pleasure I’ve… Continue Reading
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
By way of Popehat, Arnold Kling on a root problem with contemporary political discourse, summarized in the Wall Street Journal: Mr. Kling’s three “languages” are ways of talking about politics and government, and they align roughly with the progressive, conservative… Continue Reading
My name is Vikram Bath, and I can’t help myself. It’s been five years since my last post–a dirty rant from a PhD student in the skankiest corner of the Internet on a striving-for-the-D-list blog. Since then I graduated, became… Continue Reading
Burt and I are extremely excited to announce that we will have a third voice here at Not a Potted Plant: Vikram Bath. Vikram has not been a regular at The League or NaPP, but he’s an old voice for… Continue Reading
I would not be surprised to learn that Bar Jester Jason Peters is reverse-engineering an actual essay from his freshmen composition class. His note to the female students of his college is well-taken — this isn’t worth suicide for them… Continue Reading
In law, we make an exception to he hearsay rule for “dying declarations.” The idea is that when someone is conscious of their own impending death, they attach special importance to the things they say, so that we may rely… Continue Reading