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April 26, 07:04 PM / Althouse / Sunrise — 6:35, 5:38, 5:42, 5:44, 5:46, 5:48, 5:54.
April 26, 01:24 PM / Althouse / "Concern for posture, as a matter of etiquette, has been around since the Enlightenment, if not earlier, but poor posture did not become a scientific and medical obsession...""... until after the publication of Darwin’s 'On the Origin of Species' in 1859. He posited that humans evolved through natural selection, and that the first thing to develop was bipedalism; in other words, standing upright preceded brain development. This idea was controversial because conventio...
April 26, 12:28 PM / Althouse / "Biden, asked if he’s planning to debate Trump, says 'I am happy to'" — asked by Howard Stern.The NYT reports. Mr. Biden’s announcement, made in response to a question from the radio host Howard Stern, comes after pressure from television networks and Mr. Trump’s campaign for the president to agree to participate in debates. Hey, I'm surprised he submitted to an interview ... and irked an...
April 26, 12:14 PM / Althouse / "What Harvey Weinstein’s Overturned Conviction Means for Donald Trump’s Trial."A good title. It's something I was trying to parse on my own yesterday. The article is at The New Yorker , written by Ronan Farrow. Subheadline: "The legal issue behind Weinstein’s successful appeal is also at the heart of the former President’s hush-money case." The subheadline in my head was: B...
April 26, 11:01 AM / Althouse / "The days when Democrats could get away with thinking of Hispanics as one of 'their' minority groups are, or should be, over."Writes Ruy Teixeira, in "Postcard from the Hispanic Working Class/Education polarization comes to America’s Latinos" (The Liberal Patriot). In terms of voting intentions, Biden leads by just one point among working-class Hispanics but by 39 points among their college-educated counterparts....
April 26, 10:57 AM / Legal Profession Blog / Go AheadThe Tennessee Board of Professional Respnsibility has publicly censured an attorney Mr. Hamblen represented the mother of a child in a custody matter in which an order had been entered granting the mother supervised visitation. The parties and their counsels...
April 26, 10:56 AM / Law & Humanities Blog / Delgado on The Utopian Liberal: Continuity and Change in the Thought of Charles Sumner
April 26, 10:54 AM / Althouse / "If it is felony 'election interference' for a candidate to try to keep private the details of a seamy relationship, what other candidate concealments — of a lawful and entirely personal nature — must be reported?""Must the out-of-pocket settlement for that fender-bender be disclosed, since it conceals a candidate's bad driving skills? How about plastic surgery, since it masks the true ravages of age or health?... The Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016 paid an opposition...
April 26, 10:00 AM / Legal Profession Blog / Drug Offenses Lead To License SurrenderThe Nebraska Supreme Court accepted the voluntary license surrender of an attorney convicted of drug possession charges On February 24, 2021, the respondent was arrested in Douglas County, Nebraska, and charged with four counts of possession of a controlled substance,...
April 26, 09:45 AM / Legal Profession Blog / I Could Write A Book (And Get Revoked)An attorney with a "lengthy disciplinary history" (but no prior suspensions) had his license revoked by the Wisconsin Supreme Court This disciplinary matter concerns Attorney Merry's publication of a book regarding his former client, M.S. This matter began with three...
April 26, 08:52 AM / Althouse / Dear Dan Rather: Are you trying to allude to a Beatles title?I don't really want to read what Dan Rather — or "Dan Rather and Team Steady" — has to say about the Supreme Court. (Sample text: "More Republican-led state houses should take note of a plethora of unintended consequences that have come from the reversal of Roe .") I just want to talk about ...
April 26, 08:12 AM / Balkinization / What About Watergate?
April 26, 07:59 AM / Althouse / "Who is going to buy TikTok?"Writes Charlie Warzel in "Welcome to the TikTok Meltdown/The ban is a disaster, even if you support it" (The Atlantic)(also noting that courts might find the ban unconstitutional and that China may block selling the algorithm). At the heart of the government’s case... is that TikTok is the ...
April 26, 05:34 AM / Crooked Timber / Going Meta on Culture WarsCulture wars have two main functions. First, to split an existing, dominant social or political coalition apart by the clever use of wedge-issues. (Not all wedge-issues are a part of a culture war.) So, a culture war reveals a latent or induces real divergence in a pre-existing coalition. So, for...
April 26, 12:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Brown on the Pennsylvania Council of Censors and the US Constitution
April 25, 07:44 PM / Althouse / Sunrise — 5:48, 5:57, 5:59, 6:01, 6:04.
April 25, 06:38 PM / Althouse / 6 quotes from today's oral argument in Trump v. United States.I listened live and took some handwritten notes, so I could find various things in the transcript . Here are the 6 quotes that made the cut for me. All but one are from the Justices. 1. Trump's lawyer, D. John Sauer, encourages the Court to see far beyond Trump to the true horror of criminally pr...
April 25, 02:38 PM / Legal Profession Blog / Making Matters WorseThe Colorado Presiding Disciplinary Judge approved a stipulated reciprocal discipline of a one-year suspension This reciprocal discipline case arose out of discipline imposed on Johnson in Louisiana. In October 2023, Johnson’s Louisiana law license was placed on interim suspension. Then,...
April 25, 12:31 PM / Legal Profession Blog / Too Late To RecuseThe Tennessee Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of a recusal motion in a divorce case as untimely Because Wife did not file her motion for recusal promptly in accordance with Tenn. Sup. Ct. R. 10B, §1.01, we must conclude...
April 25, 12:27 PM / Legal Profession Blog / Prior Representation Of Expert Witness Does Not Require RecusalRecusal is not required as a consequence of the judge's prior representation of one party's expert witness, according to a decision of the Tennessee Court of Appeals Asserted basis for recusal The parties engaged in discovery. Defendant disclosed an expert—structural...
April 25, 10:52 AM / Legal Profession Blog / Former Prosecutor Permanently DisbarredThe Louisiana Supreme Court has permanently disbarred a convicted attorney In October 2020, respondent was charged in West Feliciana Parish with the aggravated rape of a thirteen-year-old victim in 2003. In December 2020, respondent was charged with felony carnal knowledge...
April 25, 10:19 AM / Legal Profession Blog / New Trial For Harvey Weinstein; Dissent: "New York's Women Deserve Better"The New York Court of Appeals has granted Harvey Weinstein a new trial Every person accused of a crime is constitutionally presumed innocent and entitled to a fair trial and the opportunity to present a defense (see U.S. Const Amend...
April 25, 10:06 AM / Althouse / Listen to the live oral argument in Trump's immunity case.Here. ADDED: I've listened to the whole argument and have notes, but I need the transcript to write the things I have in mind, so please carry on the discussion without me. AND: Here 's what Adam Liptak wrote in the NYT: The Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed poised on Thursday to narro...
April 25, 09:15 AM / Althouse / "New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 conviction on felony sex crime charges.""The NYT reports. Free access link. In a 4-3 decision, the New York Court of Appeals found that the trial judge who presided over Mr. Weinstein’s case had made a crucial mistake, allowing prosecutors to call as witnesses a series of women who said Mr. Weinstein had assaulted them — but...
April 25, 09:09 AM / Legal Profession Blog / Ohio Suspends For Misconduct With TeenagersDan Trevas has a summary of a discipline case decided today by the Ohio Supreme Court The Supreme Court of Ohio today suspended a Westlake attorney based on his criminal convictions for providing two teenage girls with alcohol and groping...
April 25, 09:07 AM / Althouse / "[T]ensions between the White House and the [New York] Times... had been bubbling beneath the surface for at least the last five years.""Biden’s closest aides had come to see the Times as arrogant, intent on setting its own rules and unwilling to give Biden his due. Inside the paper’s D.C. bureau, the punitive response seemed to typify a press operation that was overly sensitive and determined to control coverage of the president...
April 25, 07:56 AM / Althouse / "Please don’t speculate on who any of the real-life people could be. That’s not the point of our show."Said Richard Gadd, whose brilliant Netflix series "Baby Reindeer" is a fictionalized version of his own true story, quoted in "Baby Reindeer creator asks fans to stop speculating about stalker/Richard Gadd says his real-life friends are being unfairly targeted as viewers try to guess the identity...
April 25, 06:19 AM / Althouse / "I hate that my tattoos are such a defining factor for me getting a job or not. Just because I have tattoos doesn’t mean I’m not going to be a good worker."Said Ash Putnam, quoted in "Tattooed applicant claims she was denied TJ Maxx job over her ink, confronts store employees: ‘It’s so annoying’" (NY Post). There's a big satanic tattoo on her throat and so much more. Here's Putnam deadpanning in her hilarious TikTok: @ashxobrien I want to know...
April 25, 06:11 AM / Althouse / "Out of control New York University protesters swarmed and berated an NYPD chief and his officers – calling them 'f–king fascists'...""... after they cuffed one of the demonstrators at an anti-Israel rally, wild new video shows. The viral video... shows NYPD Assistant Chief James McCarthy and his officers being chased and surrounded by protestors on Monday night while trying to get inside the NYU Catholic Center after arresting...
April 25, 05:59 AM / Althouse / "We think it may be to reduce competition and intimidation in the kinds of close-cooperation, within and between sexes, that’s required to make our complex, highly cooperative societies function."Said University of New South Wales professor Rob Brooks, puzzling out why men shave given that facial hair is a "sign of dominance." He's quoted in "This is the reason why men with facial hair are hotter — could this explain the Mark Zuckerberg ‘beard’ appeal?" (NY Post).
April 25, 12:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Daly to Speak on Africa's Military Regimes
April 24, 09:50 PM / Legal Profession Blog / Sanction For Bicyclist DeathThe Colorado Presiding Disciplinary Judge approved stipulated discipline for a traffic accident that had resulted in death The Presiding Disciplinary Judge approved the parties’ stipulation to discipline and publicly censured Charles F. Cliggett (attorney registration number 14036), with conditio...
April 24, 07:10 PM / Althouse / Sunrise — 5:58, 6:00, 6:02.
April 24, 01:17 PM / Law & Humanities Blog / Davis on Property, Wills, & Estates in The Count of Monte Cristo: A Comparison Between the Napoleonic Code & Mississippi Law
April 24, 01:10 PM / Law & Humanities Blog / Sherwin on Chorological Jurisprudence and Liberal Democratic Flourishing @RKSherwin @NYLawSchool
April 24, 11:18 AM / Legal Profession Blog / In House To Out HouseAn in-house who is not admitted in Minnesota has been publicly reprimanded for unauthorized practice by the Minnesota Supreme Court The Director of the Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility has filed a petition for disciplinary action alleging that respondent Michael...
April 24, 11:15 AM / Legal Profession Blog / Trial Misconduct Draws Reciprocal SanctionThe Minnesota Supreme Court has ordered a suspension of a minimum of 30 days as reciprocal discipline for a South Carolina sanction. Argus Leader reported on the South Dakota action A member of the State Bar of South Dakota has...
April 24, 10:44 AM / Althouse / "Biden and his supporters are intent on making Trump the Nelson Mandela of America."Said Trump pollster John McLaughlin, quoted in "How 'The Nelson Mandela of America' Is Making Bank Off of His Criminal Trial/'I’m catching up on my fucking sleep ’cause I’m bored,' Trump told one source" (The Bulwark). Wow, that caught my eye, and not just because "I’m catching up on my fucking s...
April 24, 09:47 AM / Althouse / "We heard from employees who, because of noncompetes, were stuck in abusive workplaces.""One person noted when an employer merged with an organization whose religious principles conflicted with their own, a noncompete kept the worker locked in place and unable to freely switch to a job that didn't conflict with their religious practices." Said FTC Chair Lina Khan, quoted in "U.S. ba...
April 24, 09:29 AM / Althouse / "I said: 'This is a terrible, toxic relationship, you and Trump. And you’ve got to break up.'"Said Tom Arnold, "the actor and comedian best known for his role on the 1990s sitcom starring Arnold’s ex-wife, Roseanne Barr." Quoted in "Michael Cohen says he’s reformed. Will America buy it? Resistance hero or reprobate? As Cohen takes the stand against his former boss in Trump’s first c...
April 24, 09:17 AM / Althouse / "National Enquirer made up the story about Ted Cruz's father and Lee Harvey Oswald, former publisher says."NBC News reports. The paper had published a photo allegedly showing Cruz's father, Rafael Cruz, with Lee Harvey Oswald handing out pro-Fidel Castro pamphlets in New Orleans in 1963, not long before Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy.... “We mashed the photos and the different picture w...
April 24, 08:23 AM / Althouse / "What I do know is that even the most peaceful of protests would be treated as outrages if they were interpreted as, say, anti-Black...""... even if the message were coded, as in a bunch of people quietly holding up MAGA signs or wearing T-shirts saying 'All Lives Matter.' And besides, calling all this peaceful stretches the use of the word rather implausibly. It’s an odd kind of peace when a local rabbi urges Jewish students to ...
April 24, 12:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Booth on Policing in Atlanta after Slavery
April 23, 06:22 PM / Althouse / Sunrise — 5:42.
April 23, 02:01 PM / Legal Profession Blog / Guns In The CourthouseThe Arkansas Supreme Court decided a case involving an attorney's right to enter a courthouse while armed Arkansas lawyer Chris Corbitt attempted to bring a firearm into the Pulaski County District Court and the Juvenile Justice Complex. Mr. Corbitt’s initial...
April 23, 01:47 PM / Legal Profession Blog / Echols May Pursue Innocence ClaimIn the high-profile criminal case involving one of the "Memphis Three," the Arkansas Supreme Court has held that Damien Echols may pursue DNA exonoration notwithstanding his release from custody and Alford plea Here, the plain language in sections 16-112-201 and...
April 23, 11:31 AM / Althouse / "This hearing, ostensibly about violations of a gag order, doubled as a complete onslaught on the Trump ethos. ""Justice Merchan clarified that politics infused everything that the former president does and insisted on hearing good faith arguments, and the truth, wherever possible. We knew this was going to be a big moment; it was even more revealing than expected." Writes Jonah Bromwich, covering the Trum...
April 23, 11:20 AM / Legal Profession Blog / Competence In Criminal Defense At IssueAn Illinois Hearing Board found that an attorney had rendered incompetent representation in defending a drug case and in an unrelated appeal. The hearing board recommended a four-month suspension and restitution Based upon the foregoing guidelines, we find that Respondent...
April 23, 10:52 AM / Althouse / Jon Stewart's view of the Trump trial: It's a test of the media's fairness and accuracy."If the media tries to make us feel like the most mundane bullshit is earth shattering, we won't believe you when it's really interesting. It's your classic boy who cried Wolf Blitzer."
April 23, 10:14 AM / Althouse / "After listening to Monday’s opening statement by prosecutors, I still think the Manhattan D.A. has made a historic mistake.""Their vague allegation about 'a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election' has me more concerned than ever about their unprecedented use of state law and their persistent avoidance of specifying an election crime or a valid theory of fraud.... Both the misdemeanor and felony char...
April 23, 10:00 AM / Althouse / "'There’s just one question on voting day. Do you want an Islamized Europe or a European Europe?'""This stark choice was posed by Marion Maréchal, a rising star of the French far right, at the launch of her party’s campaign for the European elections in June.... While Ms. Maréchal’s Reconquest party sulfurously accuses elites of orchestrating a Great Replacement of Christians by Muslims, it s...
April 23, 09:14 AM / Althouse / "I’m seeking out clients that are also neurodivergent, disabled and autistic so I don’t need to mask or hide my disabilities...""Especially on your wedding day, when there’s so much pressure on it being just right. Why would they hire me when they could just hire somebody who’s nondisabled?... I’ve marketed myself as a queer, awkward, anxious photographer who hopefully makes others feel more comfortable in front of the le...
April 23, 08:56 AM / Althouse / Here's a long interview with RFK Jr. and someone I hadn't thought about in a long time — Glenn Beck.
April 23, 08:49 AM / Althouse / The nothing that happened.The most surprising part about this is that you uploaded it. Nothing happened. Nobody even reacted. Your provocation failed. This demonstrates that you are not unsafe among supporters of Palestinian liberation. — Daniel Baryon (@AnarkYouTube) April 22, 2024 ADDED: I suspect that the person who po...
April 23, 08:10 AM / Althouse / "Do you think that someone who is a drug addict is absolutely incapable of -- that all people who are drug addicts are absolutely incapable of refraining from using drugs?...""All right. Then compare that with a person who absolutely has no place to sleep in a particular jurisdiction. Does that person have any alternative other than sleeping outside?... They have... none. They have absolutely none. There's not a single place where they can sleep.... So the point ...
April 23, 07:39 AM / Althouse / Roseanne's political comedy: "Joe Biden raped me."#believeallwomen . #meshoe #bergdorfdressingroom #loosemeat pic.twitter.com/yzebab8syO — Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) April 23, 2024 Is this good satire? "Joe Biden. He raped me right here. In the shoe department of Bergdorf Goodman... I need to sue." I get the point: You can't trust women wh...
April 23, 06:28 AM / Althouse / "Lola DeAscentiis, a sophomore, zeroed in on the song 'But Daddy I Love Him,' comparing it to the Sylvia Plath poem 'Daddy.'""She plans to explore the link in her final paper. 'I hesitate to say that the song was anywhere near the genius of Sylvia Plath — no offense to Taylor Swift — but I can definitely see some similarities in the themes, like sadness, depression and mental health,' Ms. DeAscentiis, 20, said.... 'The...
April 23, 12:30 AM / Legal History Blog / The Legal History of the Church of England
April 22, 07:41 PM / Althouse / The nesting crane.(Write about whatever you want in the comments.)
April 22, 02:15 PM / Legal Profession Blog / Judicial Clerk Misconduct Draws Permanent Disbarment RecommendationThe Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board recommends permanent disbarment in a matter involving misconduct by a judicial clerk While employed at the Second Circuit, Respondent knowingly and intentionally corrupted the judicial process by surreptitiously collecting confidential court information a...
April 22, 01:51 PM / Legal Profession Blog / Skill Set MisusedThe Pennsylvania Supreme Court has temporarily suspended an attorney convicted of crimes described by the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on November...
April 22, 01:18 PM / Althouse / "He stuck his finger in the mouth to see if he might wiggle the piece loose. 'And my finger came back wet,' he said.""'I thought about it for a half-second longer and said, "Oh my God, my finger is wet,"' he recalled. 'I got my flashlight out and shined it in there, and the thing is completely full of liquid,' he said. He summoned colleagues. They were stunned. Here was 'an out-of-the-box, next level, spectacul...
April 22, 12:46 PM / Legal Profession Blog / The $50 Fine Rule: Sanctions VacatedThe Tennessee Court of Appeals vacated sanctions imposed for Rule 11 violations What began as a public records request ended with the trial court imposing sanctions upon the requester for violations of Rule 11 of the Tennessee Rules of Civil...
April 22, 12:10 PM / Legal Profession Blog / CollectabilityThe Wyoming Supreme Court has held that collectability is an essential element of a legal malpractice action In legal malpractice cases, the client claims an attorney’s negligence caused her damages. In some cases, like this one, the client alleges her...
April 22, 12:09 PM / Althouse / A puzzling criticism — in the NYT — of Trump's lawyer's building Trump up instead of "blasting" him.I'm reading Jonah Bromwich, in "Live Updates: Jurors in Trump Criminal Case Told That He Lied ‘Over and Over and Over’/Donald J. Trump is charged with falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal that threatened to derail his 2016 campaign. A lawyer for Mr. Trump insisted that the former...
April 22, 12:00 PM / Legal History Blog / Rare Book School: Seats Still Available
April 22, 11:53 AM / Althouse / "Dogs in large cities are essentially settler-colonial—a way for their owners to move into and occupy more of the urban space than they are allotted while making it everyone else’s problem."That's a tweet quoted in "Dogs slammed as ‘settler-colonial’ as pooches and owners blamed for ‘gentrifying’ NYC by woke activists" (NY Post).
April 22, 11:32 AM / Discourse.net / Ukraine Aid in PerspectiveThe Ukraine Aid bill appropriates $61 billion, a very large portion of which will actually be spent in the US to pay US arms makers to replace the stockpiled weapons we will be sending abroad. That number, however is both … Continue reading → The post Ukraine Aid in Perspective appea...
April 22, 10:48 AM / Legal Profession Blog / Not ImmuneThe New Jersey Appellate Division affirmed an award of sanctions for frivolous litigation This appeal requires us to settle whether a public entity is immune from sanctions for filing a frivolous lawsuit in accordance with the Frivolous Litigation Statute (FLS),...
April 22, 10:00 AM / Law & Humanities Blog / Sichelman on The Mathematical Structure of the Law @tedsichelman @USanDiegoLaw
April 22, 09:36 AM / Legal Profession Blog / Cooperation Dissolves Interim SuspensionThe Vermont Supreme Court has dissolved an interim suspension entered on March 27 Respondent now moves for dissolution of the interim-suspension order under Administrative Order 9, Rule 22(D). She asserts that she has cooperated with Disciplinary Counsel’s requests for information...
April 22, 09:30 AM / Neuroethics & Law Blog / Governing AI Agents by KoltNoam Kolt (University of Toronto) has posted Governing AI Agents on SSRN. Here is the abstract: While language models and generative AI have taken the world by storm, a more transformative technology is already being developed: “AI agents” — AI...
April 22, 09:27 AM / Legal Profession Blog / NextGen Bar Exam Coming To TennesseeFrom the web page of the Tennessee Supreme Court April 22, 2024 The Tennessee Supreme Court announced, today, that starting with the July 2027 administration of the bar examination, law school graduates applying to become licensed attorneys in Tennessee will...
April 22, 09:20 AM / Althouse / "Identifiably Jewish students found themselves surrounded and cornered by protest mobs.""Sahar Tartak, a sophomore who has written for these pages, was poked in the eye with a flagpole and needed hospital treatment. On Friday night the mob cheered as students ripped down the American flag in front of a memorial for fallen soldiers and tried to burn it. Students called Yale trustees ...
April 22, 08:50 AM / Althouse / "He hadn’t read more than 'a couple pages' of my work, but he had seen me lecturing on YouTube, and concluded that I was 'disingenuous.'""'I don’t like people who are disingenuous like that,' he said, somewhat opaquely. Disingenuous like what? He did not elaborate. 'I wanted to murder him because he was disingenuous' would be an unconvincing motive if one were to use it in crime fiction, and my strongest feeling, after reading his...
April 22, 07:50 AM / Althouse / "For Sole-Smith, 'diet culture' has come to symbolize all the crushing expectations under which American women live.""In her Substack newsletter and podcast, Burnt Toast , she muses on whether hewing to a household budget, gardening only with native plants, or limiting kids’ screen time can be regarded as diets." From "Let Them Eat … Everything/In the age of Ozempic, the “fat activist” Virginia Sole-Smith is in...
April 22, 07:23 AM / Althouse / "Did you hear Trump's take on the JFK assassination? Why he didn't release the files?""He said that if you knew what I know, you wouldn't tell people either. Which is crazy. What does that mean?" Joe Rogan asked Tucker Carlson, toward the end of a 3-hour conversation. Carlson answered: Well, that's his position on the UAP thing as well. Yeah, actually. And that's a lot of people's...
April 22, 06:55 AM / Althouse / "[T]he type of perfectionism with the steepest rise — socially prescribed perfectionism — was rooted in the belief that others expect you to be perfect....""There could be a number of causes for the uptick: increasing parental expectations, school pressures, the ubiquity of social media influencers and advertising...." I'm reading "Perfectionism Is a Trap. Here’s How to Escape. Perfectionism among young people has skyrocketed, but experts say ...
April 22, 06:34 AM / Althouse / "Supreme Court to Consider How Far Cities Can Police Homelessness/A group of homeless people in a small Oregon city challenged local laws banning sleeping in public."A NYT article about a case up for oral argument today. The plaintiffs’ argument rests in part on a 1962 case, Robinson v. California , in which the Supreme Court held that laws imposing penalties on people for narcotics addiction violated the Eighth Amendment because they punished a s...
April 22, 12:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Waddilove on Equity in 1600
April 21, 08:18 PM / Althouse / Sunrise at 6:09 and flowers at 1:30.Trout lilies: Bluebells:
April 21, 10:49 AM / Althouse / Things I talked about with Meade this morning.1. How Tucker Carlson told Joe Rogan that Bari Weiss is a fraud and not honest at all. She called Tulsi Gabbard a "toady" and she didn't know what "toady" meant. 2. The similarities and differences between the Bob Dylan song "You Got to Serve Somebody" and the Band song "Unfaithful Servant." 3. T...
April 21, 01:49 AM / Crooked Timber / Sunday photoblogging: crossroads
April 20, 06:50 PM / Althouse / Sunrise — 6:03, 6:08.
April 20, 06:31 PM / Althouse / Much as he hates to side with conservatives, Bill Maher worries about the sexualization of children in schools and entertainment media.Watch the whole thing to see what I mean:
April 20, 04:09 PM / Althouse / "Elephants learn crucial social and behavioral skills from their mothers and other relatives, with whom they share intense emotional bonds.""Instead of experiencing all this in their natural homes, elephants used in circuses are exploited—made to do meaningless circus tricks on the road." A statement from PETA, quoted in "Elephant escapes circus, roams streets of Montana" (WaPo). People are finding this amusing... ... but it isn't, r...
April 20, 03:57 PM / Althouse / "There is chaos that is happening."Said Laura Coates, quoted in "A history of CNN’s Laura Coates, who calmly narrated a self-immolation/She’s a lawyer-turned-journalist who captivated viewers by reporting calmly on a tragedy unfolding before her eyes" (WaPo)(free access link). “We have seen an arm that has been visible that has be...
April 20, 03:36 PM / Althouse / Powered off.I'm reading "Daniel C. Dennett, Widely Read and Fiercely Debated Philosopher, 82, Dies/Espousing his ideas in best sellers, he insisted that religion was an illusion, free will was a fantasy and evolution could only be explained by natural selection" (NYT). According to Mr. Dennett, th...
April 20, 02:12 PM / Discourse.net / Aid for UkraineToday’s long-delayed House vote on aid to Ukraine reminds me of a line that I was sorry to discover Churchill may not have said, “Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possiblities have been … Continue reading → The post Aid for Ukraine appe...
April 20, 12:02 PM / Legal Profession Blog / Village PeopleAn Illinois Hearing Board recommends a six-month suspension based on findings of misconduct On September 30, 2022, the Administrator filed a one-count Complaint against Respondent, charging him with bringing a proceeding or asserting issues therein when there was no basis...
April 20, 11:49 AM / Legal Profession Blog / Malpractice Dismissal ReversedThe Delaware Supreme Court reversed and remanded a decision granting summary judgment to a defendant attorney in a legal malpractice case This appeal arises from a claim of professional negligence relating to legal services that appellee Margolis Edelstein provided to...
April 20, 10:20 AM / Althouse / "Of the so-called Big Six Romantics, he’s the hardest to place. The hikers and the introverts read Wordsworth...""... the hippies love Blake, Keats is for the purists, Shelley for the political dreamers … and Byron? In spite of his fame, he lacks brand recognition. That’s partly because, halfway through his career, he decided to change the brand. 'If I am sincere with myself,' he once wrote, '(but I fear on...
April 20, 09:30 AM / Althouse / "They’re spread from south-east Asia to the Korean peninsula and Europe. What is [Biden] implying? All 79,000 that were never found were eaten?"Said Michael Kabuni, a lecturer in political science at the University of Papua New Guinea, quoted in "'Lost for words’: Joe Biden’s tale about cannibals bemuses Papua New Guinea residents/President’s suggestion that his ‘Uncle Bosie’ was eaten by cannibals harms US efforts to build Pacific ties,...
April 20, 09:16 AM / Althouse / "The presidency is really hard, people age during the presidency. Maybe he’s just what a lot of 80 year olds would be like if you made them work that hard."Texted my son Chris, in a discussion about some recent Biden videos — the one about cannibalism , the one about little kids in the west giving him the finger , and the one where he has trouble closing a box: Joe Biden can’t close a box and struggles to order a milkshake at a Wawa convenience stor...
April 20, 08:53 AM / Althouse / "The Natural Law Party was founded in 1992 on a platform that included promotion of transcendental meditation, responsible gun use, flat taxes and organic farming....""For 22 years, [Doug] Dern, a bankruptcy lawyer with a small practice outside Detroit, has almost single-handedly kept the Natural Law Party on Michigan’s ballot."Each cycle, the party runs a handful of candidates in obscure state races to meet Michigan’s minimum polling requirements for minor pa...
April 20, 08:25 AM / Althouse / "It’s clear to me that [university authorities] haven’t transgressed here. You can debate who you ought to be sympathetic with...""... but in my own mind, I am confident that the students have no First Amendment claim to stay in that space." Said Columbia lawprof Vincent A. Blasi, "who has spent decades studying civil liberties issues, said the university had articulated a 'reasonable' policy to govern protests and had ever...
April 20, 07:54 AM / Althouse / What the man who burned himself to death outside the courthouse symbolizes.This is what he symbolizes to me and also what I think he ought to symbolize: People have grown far too emotional about politics. Calm down, everyone. Observe. Think. Don't throw away your humanity. Don't throw away your life. The anguish — the fever pitch — is not helping.
April 20, 06:36 AM / Althouse / Where the Trump jurors say they get their news.A helpful graphic from "Where Jurors in Trump Hush-Money Trial Say They Get Their News" (NYT): Juror #2 is the only one who gets the news from X and also the only one who gets news from Truth Social. This person has no other news source. (Of course, it's possible that the jurors weren't accurate/...
April 20, 12:30 AM / Legal History Blog / Weekend Roundup
April 19, 09:22 PM / Crooked Timber / Online talksI’ve been doing a bunch of talks and events online, mostly not CT related, but a couple that might be interesting to readers. One that certainly is is this conversation with Francis Spufford, which is a coda to Red Plenty. Some of my bits of the conversation build on this Long Now talk from...