Monday, May 30, 2011

"Flood? WHAT flood?"

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The libertarian approach to flood control? H/t ( via ).
Friday, May 27, 2011

Who else is anti-gay? Pottery Barn???

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The news that Miley Cyrus ragged on Rick Santorum for his homophobia is moderately interesting. What startled me is that her ragging was ...

Sing, Clio, those who died young in your service

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Having other business in downtown Jackson today, we dropped by the Tattered Pages bookshop in the Welty Commons , which merits the occasiona...

Caption contest!

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I'll start. OBAMA: "Uh, sorry , Dominique, but I don't think Michelle has ever worked in a hotel." Via .
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Thursday, May 26, 2011

Very possibly the worst dissenting opinion in the history of Mississippi jurisprudence

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Dare v. Stokes (Miss. May 26, 2011) (Kitchens, J., dissenting). According to the opinion, Dr. Dare has an affair with Mrs. Stokes, followed...
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It's not prostitution, it's slavery

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Via Bookslut , a VF report on sex trafficking in America , focusing on a federal prosecution in Connecticut: The unlikely trafficking-abolit...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

When your standard is the very best, what's to heighten?

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We were reminded today of that Miss. Supreme Court opinion in Bluewater Logistics , in which the Court renounced its "heightened standa...

In which we get all judgmental

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Via Cowen , the death of inTrade.com's manager, on Mt. Everest: An Irish man who has died attempting to reach the summit of Everest did...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Now, if he'd appointed a lolcat, I probably would've noticed sooner

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Somehow, Haley Barbour appointed a new COA judge 10 days ago, and I'm just now finding out about it . Blogs are not always a substitut...

Voices echo, This is what salvation must be like after a while

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Bob Dylan is 70.
Monday, May 23, 2011

How to catch a rabbit

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One of Sullivan's readers sends him an old joke from Russia : The KGB, the FBI and the CIA are all trying to prove that they are the bes...
Friday, May 20, 2011

"The Great Writ is dead in this country."

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Much is made of the “floodgates” that will open should the court exercise its authority to remedy the mistake made by us in Gilbert’s senten...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

A temple 7000 years older than the Great Pyramid

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Göbekli Tepe ("pronounced Guh-behk-LEE TEH-peh") in southern Turkey, a strange conglomeration of stones up to 16 tons, and the ea...
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Supreme Court writing tips

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Legal writing maven Bryan Garner interviewed 8 of the 9 then-sitting SCOTUS justices about good prose in briefs, and now his transcripts are...

Anti-GOP slur of the month

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From Elvis Elvisberg : They have no beliefs, no philosophy, only resentment and tactics. They love America like Ike loved Tina.