Category Archives: Miscellaneous
More evidence of why the public hates lawyers
So what do you do if your $5 foot long from Subway is actually a little less than a foot long? Evidently at least one lawyer from New Jersey thinks that litigation is the appropriate response: The two men – from Burlington and Ocean Counties – measured their footlongs after seeing allegations from others that…
Newtown
As a father of school age children, I find words to express my thoughts on this week’s tragedy are difficult to conjure. As such, I defer to Lord Tennyson: STRONG Son of God, immortal Love,Whom we, that have not seen thy face,By faith, and faith alone, embrace,Believing where we cannot prove; Thine are these orbs…
Meet the new additions to the family
Courtesy of The Green Bag (which, in addition to being a fabulous law journal, on occasion gives away really cool stuff to its subscribers) and my wife’s cousin Elizabeth, a D.C. area law student, the below 4 folks have come to join our bobblehead family.
A must-have Kindle download
Harvey Silverglate’s fabulous book exposing the dramatic over-expansion of the scope of federal criminal law, “Three Felonies a Day” is currently available for Kindle download for $1.99. I cannot recommend this book more highly. If you’re at all interested in the over-criminalization problem, this is a must read book. (H/T: Point of Law)
The restoration of order
All is being made right in the Universe – behold the American League East Division standings, as of this morning: Let’s go O’s!