Participation
- Rebecca on The Tiny Constable: I love it when other SC justices answer back to Scalia’s ass-holery.
- adam on 4’33″: Rehearsal must be a breeze.
- adam on The Tiny Constable: The English language is so fucking stupid.
- Steven on The Problem of Persuasion: I, for one, would much rather have my guilt or innocence determined by a computer, than a lot of...
- Steven on Law vs. Justice: Law MUST have equal consideration for justice! EVERY written law has a justifiable contradiction to that law....
- Peter on The Tiny Constable: I’m pretty sure “secrete” is a verb meaning “to conceal.”
- adam on The Tiny Constable: Except the episode would be about whether “Tory Belleci can secret himself” rather than...
- Peter on Still Searching: Thanks.
- Rebecca on Still Searching: Good post.
Tweets
- .@RepJeffDenham If you won't support high speed rail, then I won't support you.
- RT @calladus: The minority voices of #Christian extremists are heard so clearly because the majority of Christian moderates refuse to sp ...
- @ATF628 Did you get anything good?
- RT @jboren4507: Read half-dozen stories today about people getting thrown under the bus. CHP should investigate outbreak of bus v. ped. ...
- @senatorboxer Vote NO on PIPA and SOPA. Stopping piracy is a good idea; trampling free expression in the process is a terrible idea.
- @RepJeffDenham Vote NO on PIPA and SOPA. Stopping piracy is a good idea; trampling free expression in the process is a terrible idea.
- @calladus Is that study merely OF beliefs, or study driven BY beliefs?
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Monthly Archives: February 2009
Welcome to Fresno
So a police officer alleges that he was punched once in the arm, that his badge was pulled off, and that an arrestee tried to jab him in the arm with a pen, and that means the officer gets to … Continue reading
Mock Trial is Cool
Mary and I volunteered to be attorney scorers for two rounds of the Fresno County mock trial competition this year—one round two weeks ago, and one round tonight. Both of us had a great time and will probably volunteer again … Continue reading
Same-Sex Adoption
Over at WorldNetDaily, people are wringing their hands about the State of California spending money on an “elaborate statewide campaign to promote statewide adoption.” But the report they refer to in their own article tells a different story: The Human … Continue reading
The Paranoia, It Burns
My girlfriend has a new job as a deputy district attorney at one of the counties here in central California. She’ll get lots of great experience, but apparently the county where she works doesn’t trust its employees to be productive … Continue reading
The Parties Therefore Agree as Follows
If you doubted my nerdliness, then let me slay those doubts: I think my new favorite blog might be Ken Adams’, which is a gold mine of tips for drafting contracts. (Yes, you read that correctly. It does not say “rafting … Continue reading
Scalia: "Oh no you di'n't!"
Justice Scalia sure has a strange sense of what constitutes a “nasty, impolite question.” Here’s how the South Florida Sun-Sentinal tells the story: In a room filled with some of Palm Beach County’s most powerful people, it took a 20-year-old political … Continue reading
A Cultural Defense?
The Februrary edition of the California Bar Journal includes an article about University of Southern California professor Alison Dundes Renteln‘s call for “formal acceptance in the legal community of a cultural defense in which legal systems acknowledge ‘the influence of … Continue reading
Lessons from the Letters Page
Like my brother, I often find the letters page of the Fresno Bee to be an embarrassing display of foolishness. Some people have views that diverge from—or even oppose—mine, and that’s fine. They might even be right. But when they … Continue reading