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Megan McArdle is Humiliated
Posted on December 23, 2009In response to the argument that homeowners - i.e., regular working stiffs - owed banks no moral obligation to pay mortgages on an underwater property, Megan McArdle flipped out. Of course people should! In this very polite slate essay, Daniel Gross explains why McArdle is an embarrassment to thinking people everywhere: Blogger Megan McArdle expressed disdain for people who chose...
Is Tiger Woods on Steroids?
Posted on December 23, 2009I don't care about Tiger Woods, but I do care about steroids and performance enhancing drugs. It seems that Tiger Woods is at least peripherally linked to performance enhancing drugs. Many thus wonder: Is Tiger on "juice"? Well, of course he is. The dominate theme about steroids (one class of performance-enhancing drugs) is that people use PEDs to get more...
Kozinski v. Barack Obama (In Re: Karen Golinski)
Posted on December 22, 2009If there is one person the Obama Administration does not want to mess with, it's Judge Alex Kozinski. You will not win a battle of will or a battle of wits. Yet Obama is waging war against Kozinski. And against gay rights. Oh, yeah. A month ago, Judge Kozinski issued an order demanding that the Office of Personnel Management, for...
California Attorney General's Office is Unethical, Court Proclaims
Posted on December 21, 2009Law professor Shaun Martin found this disturbing language from an opinion issued today: "While it is clear that this case was not moot at the time of our decision, we feel constrained to comment on the circumstances surrounding the Director?s bringing this ?new? law to our attention...
America in One Picture
Posted on December 21, 2009I could spend all morning thinking about this picture: Unfortunately, I only have five minutes. If you don't know the players: Elliot Spitzer, as New York Attorney General, prosecuted Henry Blodget, a stock analysis, for hyping stocks that Blodget personally viewed as dogs...
Shadows Are Not Reality
Posted on December 20, 2009Frank Rich has produced a remarkable essay - "Tiger Woods, Person of the Year." The essay is writing at its best - insightful, wise, reality-enhancing. The essay's message will be given many pseduo-knowingily nods from a society of narcissists. It's message will be missed, since people are a product of their cultures...
Jim Harris, Seattle Lawyer Spammer; David Sheehan Spammer
Posted on December 17, 2009In 2006, I started receiving spam from California lawyer David Sheehan. Actually, research revealed that David Sheehan's real name is Saeed Reza Sehizadeh. On his law firm's website, Sheehan/Sehizadeh writes: "My name is Saeed R. Sehizadeh aka David Sheehan...
What's Up With Law Blogs?
Posted on December 17, 2009Colin Samuels has a nice collection of law blog posts here.
Aleynikov Case Continued Again
Posted on December 17, 2009Yes, I am sounding like a broken record. Here is the lastest from the wrongful prosecution of Sergey Aleynikov: 12/16/200916 AFFIRMATION of Joseph P. Facciponti in Support by USA requesting a 30-day continuance from 12/16/09 to 1/15/10 as to Sergey Aleynikov (aba) (Entered: 12/17/2009) 12/16/2009 ORDER TO CONTINUE IN THE INTEREST OF JUSTICE as to Sergey Aleynikov re: 6 Order...
Sex Offender Laws Ruin Another Life
Posted on December 16, 2009A 17-year old who had sex with his 15-year-old girlfriend isn't going to have much of a life.
Aleynikov Hearing Today (12.16.2009)
Posted on December 16, 2009What happened? There are rumors of a plea agreement. I hope Sergey refuses to plead guilty, since there is no way that he could be convicted at trial. More details once they are available.
The Children Never Grew Up
Posted on December 15, 2009Adults - fully grown men and women - were shocked (not in the Casablanca sense of shocked; but really, truly, actually shocked) to learn that professional baseball players used steroids. How very sad. Not that athletes are using steroids; but that this was a surprise...
Bill of Rights Day
Posted on December 15, 2009Happy Bill of Rights day, from the Cato Institute's always-thoughtful Tim Lynch.
What is Real?
Posted on December 15, 2009My lengthy rejoinder to this post about a female who blogged under a man's name went poof into the Internet. In sum: Bernie Madoff was as real as it gets. He wasn't anonymous. He had credibility. It was all illusion. Once you realize that most of life is an illusion, and that nearly everything you've learned is a life, you...
Prosecuting a Judge
Posted on December 15, 2009An very interesting case in Harris County, Texas, is being live-Twittered by Mark Bennett. Here are some details. The Twittering is hard to follow, since the posts are in reverse chronological order. If you're game, go here.
Barack Obama Should Run for President of the United States
Posted on December 14, 2009Barack Obama has been blogging about his outrage over the bailouts, and Wall Street corruption. Imagine if he were the most powerful man in America. Imagine if he had the power to appoint the Secretary of the Treasury. Imagine if he had the power to lobby Congress for Wall Street form legislation...
See a Narcissist Parent
Posted on December 13, 2009What is wrong with Emily Bazelon? My boys love astronomy. I couldn't care less. This leaves me with a guilty question: What do you do when your children's interests don't match your own? Do you do your utmost to cultivate genuine enthusiasm and expertise? Do you fake it? Or do you keep the faith with your own passions, figuring you're...
Congress and White House Address Debt Slaves
Posted on December 11, 2009When banks made ruinous financial bets, they will be bailed out. They will pay record bonuses with taxpayer money. When, you, the average American, makes a bat bet on your house: Hit the streets. Democratic leaders failed to revive legislation that would let bankruptcy judges rewrite mortgages to lower homeowners' monthly payments...
District Attorney's Son Avoids Harsh Prison Sentence for Three Homicides (Diana Gomez, Larry Morse II, Judge Kenneth Gnoss)
Posted on December 11, 2009What is the likely prison sentence a California drunk driver who killed three people would receive? Here are the facts: Dylan Morse had a blood-alcohol level of at least 0.15 percent, nearly twice the legal limit for an adult, and had marijuana in his system when he ran a red light at Stony Point Road and Highway 116, where he...
What Does a Debt Slave Look Like?
Posted on December 11, 2009People, for years, treated a home like it was an investment. Except that their were brainwashed into not treating a home like an investment. Consider this.... You start a new business. You finance it. Your business fails. You plead bankruptcy. You move on...
The Perils of Elitism
Posted on December 11, 2009The American Prospect is an extremely liberal publication with an extremely liberal readership. It's the National Review for liberals. Recently, Matt Taibbi wrote an article for Rolling Stone Magazine, wherein Taibbi critized Barack Obama's handling of the economic crisis...
Seven Foods Experts Won't Eat
Posted on December 10, 2009This is an incredible article. Food makers are feeding you poison. Yet another reason to live one's life by this mantra: Don't look at what people say; look at what they do. Some of the experts do have a conflict of interest. How persuasive is it that an organic potato guy would tell you to eat organic potatoes? Meh...
How You Are Making Bankers Billions
Posted on December 10, 2009Explaining the bailouts has just been made easier. In a brilliant post, Henry Blodget explains how you the American taxpayer are making Wall Street billions for doing nothing: Raise $1 billion of equity. Borrow $9 billion from the Fed at an annual cost of 0...
Narcissism v. Individualism
Posted on December 09, 2009Probably the most influential essay I ever read was Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self Reliance." One who understands this understands life: "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion []...
Washington Post as Wall Street Propoganda Machine
Posted on December 08, 2009Last weekend the Washington Post attempted to reform Neel Kashkari's image. Kashkari, a former Goldman Sachs banker, was Henry Paulson's right-hand man during the bailouts. Kashkari helped redistribute hundreds-of-billions of dollars from those who needed it most, to those who needed it least...
Science, Steroids, and Climategate
Posted on December 08, 2009Relax, this is not another post about Climategate ? which means it?s a post that has everything to do with Climategate. §§§ Myths are always propagated by those who wish to remain in power. Wizards wear robes. Scientists wear lab coats. Today?s truths are tomorrow?s myths...
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Do parents have the right to NOT turn in a sexual offender?
No. The offender should be turned in regardless of any disability (1), or reason...
Can someone detained in a search w/ warrant, be charged with a crime related to the search if they were not arrested at the time of the search?
The police have fairly wide discretion on when they can make an arrest so long a...
I was a bookkeeper for a recreation center. The Center Director left and a new director took over. I went to work one day and some of my files were missing. I called our computer tech and her restored the files (I had ma
In order for a crime to be established you need to conclusively prove that the D...
If I was detained by citizens unlawfully, and then the police showed up...is everything they charged me with in-admissable?
Probably depends on the law of the state in which you live. Many states allow fo...
If I pay restitution, can I still be charged with a crime?
It sounds like the law in your area is treating it as a civil matter. That being...
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