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Monday, October 31, 2005
Live long and be fabulous
I felt bombarded by news last week. Miers, Libby and Sulu. Since I have no intelligent commentary on the
Miers or Libby stories, I offer:
Top 10 Reasons for Suspecting Sulu was Gay
10. Frequently responded to orders from captain with "Oh honey" instead of "aye sir"
9. His Enterprise quarters were, in fact, a closet
8. Tried to stage "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" makeover after Scotty wore kilt
7. Bones looked at him on the first day of shooting and muttered, "He's gay, Jim."
5. Suggested changing name of Enterprise to "Priscilla: Queen of the Quadrant"
4. Never forgave Spock for trying to "reverse his polarity"
3. Communicator ringtone was "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"
2. Once had phaser set to "fabulous"
1. Tricorder equipped with "gaydar"
Mon, October 31, 2005 | link
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
It's not you, it's your hair
Years ago I was at a local mall doing free legal consultations. It was some kind of local bar pro bono project.
The only situation I remember was woman who told me that she had been turned away from a department store hair salon because
she was black. She said the employees there said no one there had the training to cut black hair. I thought that
was pretty odd and possibly illegal. I understand that not all hair is the same, but I figured it must be a standard
part of cosmetology or barber school to be able to cut all types of hair. I think I suggested that if she contact the
store manager and complain that would probably get results. I can't imagine a major department store chain going on
the record that it turned black customers away.
Friday, October 21, 2005
Not a good sign
He worked out of a shabby office even though he landed
a case that gripped the world.
Part of the description of the defense attorney in the Saddam trial in Iraq killed by people who identified themselves
as government officials.
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Would you like fries with that?
A friend of mine snapped this picture. Tasty.
Update: Apparently "Lawyer Americanus" is a species of cod. According to a human lawyer it “looked prehistoric with a black body and fat gray mottled underbelly."
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Wednesday, October 12, 2005
It's the end times when Pat Robertson makes sense
A word to those who criticize the fact that Harriet Miers has not spent her career pondering the subtleties and complexities
of constitutional law:
It just isn’t that hard.
Few sitting justices have ever tried a case before a jury. Most have never
been involved in any litigation outside of government work. None has ever represented
a criminal defendant. Those are glaring deficiencies that frequently leave me
thinking “do they have any idea how things really work?” when I read one of the court’s opinions, especially in criminal law.
Any reasonably intelligent lawyer (and Miers is probably smart given her career success) can grasp the lines of constitutional
thought and apply them. Pat Robertson actually had a point (just once in his
entire life) on CNN when he said that the Constitution belongs to the people
and they are capable of interpreting it.
I probably won’t agree with much of Miers reasoning if she gets confirmed. But
pretending that Constitutional law is some private reserve for academics and sitting judges is ridiculous.
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Get me Anderson Cooper!
Grass roots blogger types show us storm damage that you just can't get from the mainstream media.
Friday, October 7, 2005
I've got the fever and beer's got the cure
job-sick/bar-well
adj. the state of being too ill to go to work but fit
enough to go the bar. (From Modern Drunkard Magazine)
Tuesday, October 4, 2005
So crazy it just might work
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If you take away my grudges, I've got nothing
Resentment is the poison that I drink while waiting for you to die.
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