How did the cheerleaders text nude pictures of themselves to their boyfriends? You don’t text-message a photograph, by definition. Or is the verb “text” morphing into something other than “sending a text message from or to a cellular phone”? Otherwise,… Continue Reading
Battlestar Galactica will begin its season-ending run in a month and a half. And when it’s gone, it’s going to be gone. So it’s a great pleasure to see that the prequel series, Caprica, has just been greenlit. It looks… Continue Reading
One of the peculiarities about writing a blog is its immediacy. An interesting thought comes into my head, I develop it for a short time, and I publish it. Sometimes I take more time to research and develop the idea;… Continue Reading
We are in a recession. Does anyone doubt the truth of that statement? Our economy is contracting. It has been for some time now. Yet news outlets have been speaking about “signs of a recession” without actually saying that we… Continue Reading
Yesterday’s post about the Emoluments Clause and its effect on eligibility for Executive office, turns out to have had its roots in an article written by a then-law student. The author is now a USMC JAG based at Camp Pendelton.… Continue Reading
The problem of college students not knowing how to write complete sentences, or apparently having no idea what they are actually writing about, has become horrifyingly commonplace. When I taught classes and asked my students to write things — including… Continue Reading
I was approached this morning by another lawyer asking if we could cross-post on one another’s blogs. I’d never really considered giving up my monopoly on the soapbox here, but I found myself not at all cool to the idea.… Continue Reading
The Wife is lucky. She gets to read Hamlet for her English class. I figured, why should she have all the fun? And so I pulled out my Shakespeare. So many great turns of phrase. What a piece of work… Continue Reading
Back in mid-2005, some friends in Tennessee said that they had blogs and they enjoyed writing them. I thought, “Well, they’re young and that’s what the kids are all doing. I’m too private a person to do that sort of… Continue Reading
I’ve surveyed the hitcounter on the blog, and the search terms people use that bring hits. Until about ten days ago, the most common search term resulting in a hit was something that included the word “pterodactyl.” Pterodactyl searchers rarely… Continue Reading