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Should only law professors be appellate judges?

December 25, 2008 00:53

Professor Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond Law School offers advice to President-elect Obama here about the type of appellate judges he should appoint during his term. Professor Tobias' advice can be summed up in two words - "law professors." Implicit in the good professor's piece is the...

Congressional Motors Presents the 2012 Pelosi.

December 23, 2008 22:20

Although whoever wrote this has an obvious rightward tilt, and even though I am pretty "green" when it comes to cars and houses, with all that's going on in Detroit and Washington these days, this is just too funny not to share. It's in the way you dress. The way you boogie down. The way you sign...

British judges more willing to talk to the press.

December 11, 2008 02:53

Judges typically don't talk to the press but the London Times reports here that changes may be in store as more "activist" judges are appointed who see in the media an opportunity to educate the British public about the courts and the role of a judge. Can't you just see somebody dressed like this...

I know its a crime but you really have to admire their ingenuity.

November 26, 2008 14:29

Robert Catalano and George Wills have pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for conspiring to sell the "Whizzinator" -- a prosthetic penis sold with a heating device and dried urine which helps people fake their way through drug tests. From TMZ.

Commit a virtual murder and you might go to a real jail.

November 02, 2008 16:28

A 43-year-old woman in Japan has been arrested for killing her husband, although they weren't legally married, she didn't really kill him, and he isn't really dead. The two only met online, as part of a popular interactive game called "Maple Story" in which cartoon-like "avatars" (example shown)...

"Ender's Game" author asks "Where have all the honest journalists gone?"

October 22, 2008 00:19

I have been a science fiction fan since the heyday of Robert Heinlein and Arthur C. Clark and I regard Orson Scott Card, the author of the classic Ender's Game, as one of the best of their modern successors. I was surprised to learn that he is also a journalist and political pundit who isn't afraid...

If you gotta go, this might not be the place.

October 20, 2008 02:14

I think the Darwin Award winning caption should be "Here, hold my beer and watch this!" Thanks to Whole Wheat Toast. (Actually, I doubt anybody who checked out this way actually would win this years Darwin Award. Based upon the current vote count, it appears that Father Adelir Antonio de Carli,...

Apparently, elections can kill you.

October 06, 2008 02:01

What with all the fund raising letters, telephone polls, negative campaigning and 24 hour news cycle spin, I guess it was inevitable that someone would discover that elections are hazardous to your health. In fact, you are 18% more likely to die in an auto accident during voting hours on election...

The Pink Panzer?

October 06, 2008 01:31

I guess I'm dating myself but I remember when the only muscle powered vehicles that people attempted to build involved orange crates and old roller skates. Now they apparently involve pneumatic cannon and bizarre urban camouflage. Via PopSci.

Maybe I should go on a junket factfinding tour.

October 03, 2008 23:25

The New York Times had this interesting piece the other day about how judges are more involved in making foreign policy.