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If it's not Scottish, it's not Blawg Review.

Posted on April 06, 2009
Stuart Rankin (Mike Myers): Welcome to All Things Scottish. If it's not Scottish, it's crap! Can I help ye? Customer (Phil Hartman): Uh, yeah. A friend of mine's Scottish and he's getting married, so I gotta buy a kilt. Rankin: Well, you've come to the right store...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (213)... The Sequel!

Posted on April 03, 2009
This week's bonus joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of The Times (Trenton, New Jersey) (from Thursday, April 2; link good at time of posting):A man who tried to rob a liquor store Monday night sat down and cried when he encountered resistance from the senior citizen behind the counter, police said...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (213)

Posted on April 03, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of the Associated Press (from Tuesday, March 31; link good at time of posting):An Internal Revenue Service agent who audits taxpayers in California has agreed to plead guilty to cheating on his own taxes...

I'd like to begin Blawg Review, but first... the Holst!

Posted on March 30, 2009
Sure, that video's somewhat tacky and slightly dated, which George Wallace's elegant and up-to-date Blawg Review #205 is not. It also lacks the universal appeal of Wallace's Gustav Holst-themed post, but I haven't time to find anything better right now...

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TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (212)... The Sequel!

Posted on March 27, 2009
This week's bonus joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of Reuters (from Friday, March 27; link good at time of posting):A would-be suicide bomber accidentally blew himself up on Thursday, killing six other militants as he was bidding them farewell to leave for his intended target, the Interior Ministry said...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (212)

Posted on March 27, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of Bloomberg (from Sunday, March 22; link good at time of posting):About 20 protesters, along with a press corps of national and international media who outnumbered them, yesterday rode to the Fairfield County, Connecticut, homes of two AIG executives who received portions of $165 million in extra compensation...

Is "Punctuality" a Sacred Cow?

Posted on March 26, 2009
I'll plead that I had a couple of days off earlier this week and then a great deal of catching-up to do at work, but the fact is that I'm just unforgivably late in linking to this week's Blawg Review #204, hosted by the fine folks at the Above the Law blog...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (211)

Posted on March 20, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of the I'm Not Actually a Geek blog (from Tuesday, March 17; link good at time of posting):A lucky job applicant tweeted the following:Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have to weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San Jose and hating the work...

Random Thought (17)

Posted on March 18, 2009
If you want to walk a mile in my shoes, I'd appreciate it if you'd also pick up a sandwich for me while you're out.[Previous Thought]

Assholes Welcome

Posted on March 17, 2009
Former Blawg Review Sherpa Diane Levin has suggested that a "No Assholes Rule" might be warranted for Blawg Review, in light of GeekLawyer's #203 published yesterday. As I commented at her blog, I respectfully disagree:I tend to disagree with you (and with GeekLawyer, it seems)...

What Happens in Blawg Review Stays in Blawg Review

Posted on March 16, 2009
"I want you to get this fuck where he breathes! I want you to find this nancy-boy . . . I want him dead! I want his family dead! I want his house burned to the ground! I want to go there in the middle of the night and I want to piss on his ashes!"--Al Capone, "The Untouchables" (1987)--Blawg Review Editor, 16 March 2009It's not as if we weren't warned, by Charon QC, Dan Hull, and many others...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (210)

Posted on March 13, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of BBC News (from Wednesday, March 11; link good at time of posting):A West Midlands sandwich bar worker who was prosecuted after footage of him stuffing lettuce up his nose appeared on YouTube has avoided a jail term...

It's a big world out there, but getting smaller all the time.

Posted on March 09, 2009
Carl Gardner hosts Blawg Review #202 at his Head of Legal blog. Not to Troy McClure him, but you may know Gardner from such Charon QC podcasts as No. 101, No. 103, and No. 109 (all available at lawcasts.net). In those conversations, Gardner demonstrated his command of current civil liberties issues in Britain; his Blawg Review this week covers that ground and ventures far afield, both topically and geographically, touching on international criminal law in Sudan, civil rights in Germany, and Constitutional law in America, amongst other matters...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (209)

Posted on March 06, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of Reuters (from Wednesday, March 4; link good at time of posting):A Mexican national who told airport immigration he was visiting Britain to see a friend was swiftly deported after a search unearthed a good-luck card in his luggage wishing him well for his "new life in the UK...

The Eyes of Texas Are on Blawg Review

Posted on March 04, 2009

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (208)

Posted on February 27, 2009

Happy anniversary, Blawg Review; you don't look a post over 199!

Posted on February 23, 2009
The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.--Mark TwainIt should be noted that although the carnival of legal blogging reaches a milestone with this week's Blawg Review #200, it shows no signs of slowing down. If at some point in the distant future the carnival does finally fold its tents, I have no doubt that Blawg Review would be remembered fondly by the many who've hosted, read, and been linked in its already lengthy existence...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (207)

Posted on February 20, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of the Associated Press (from Saturday, February 14; link good at time of posting):Patrick Rosario had a clever way of making sure a pair of burglars didn't get away with his three flat-screen TVs: He stole their van...

Wow. Just Wow.

Posted on February 17, 2009
When it comes to Blawg Reviewin', never let it be said that Houston defense attorney Mark Bennett is all hat and no cattle. His Blawg Review #199, hosted this week at the Defending People blog, finishes out the first two hundred reviews in high style and sets the standard for the next two hundred...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (206)

Posted on February 13, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of Huliq.com (from Thursday, February 12; link good at time of posting):[A]n elementary school in Hattiesburg, MS is canceling Cotton Picking Day in celebration of Black History Month.A father became angered when his stepson came home from school with a request to purchase a slave costume so they could reenact cotton picking...

An undigested bit of beef...

Posted on February 11, 2009
I dreamed last night that the renewal of my bar membership was being held until I completed a new required continuing education seminar -- Music Appreciation -- for which I would have to write a lengthy research paper on a notable band. Although it seemed odd, I dutifully headed off to bar headquarters to attend...

Deadly Sins Are Always A Capital Idea

Posted on February 10, 2009
Jeremy Richey, who hosted Blawg Review when he was a law student back in 2005, has returned to the fold and hosts this week's edition of the carnival of legal blogging at The East Central Illinois Criminal Law & DUI Weblog. He builds Blawg Review #198 around the Seven Deadly Sins...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (205)

Posted on February 06, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of Reuters (from Monday, February 2; link good at time of posting):A hapless thief drilled his way into a French bank at the weekend, but missed the safe and instead found himself in a lavatory where he was promptly arrested, a French newspaper reported on Sunday...

The Blawg That Never Sleeps

Posted on February 03, 2009
...not this week, anyhow. Legal Blog Watch is amongst the legal blogging elite at the Legal Tech New York conference this week. They managed to kick the week and the conference off right with an excellent Blawg Review #197, highlighting famous ukulele performers of the mid-20th Century...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (204)

Posted on January 30, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of the Associated Press (from Thursday, January 29; link good at time of posting):Everett [Washington] police said a 24-year-old man picked the wrong place to try to deal drugs - a stall in the police station restroom...

The Voice of Unreason

Posted on January 28, 2009
Charon QC's coverage of the American legal scene didn't end with his excellent Abbot of Unreason Blawg Review earlier this month. Today, Charon's posted an interview with Judge John Kane concerning the failure of the War on Drugs and our antiquated Rules of Civil Procedure...

Perhaps it's still Monday in Australia?

Posted on January 28, 2009
I generally post my Blawg Review introductions on Mondays, when the reviews are are posted by their hosts. Obviously, I didn't manage to do that this week. It's not because Peter Black's Australia Day-themed Blawg Review #196 is a poor effort, or because I was busy celebrating Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day instead of Australia Day, or because the recent Australia movie starring Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman dishonored the entire nation...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (203)

Posted on January 23, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of the Associated Press (from Monday, January 19; link good at time of posting):Police went to the home of 22-year-old woman on Friday to serve warrants for assault, harassing phone calls and violation probation carrying a concealed weapon without a permit...

A Blawg Review not judged by the colors of its template but by the content of its posts...

Posted on January 19, 2009
Yolanda Young hosts Blawg Review #195 at her On being A Black Lawyer blog. The Martin Luther King Day holiday has prompted some wonderful posts, including Blawg Review #143 posted by Gideon last year, and Young's post is a worthy addition. She advises us that discussion at her site is casual but true; her post today is also heartfelt and rewarding for those who take a few minutes on this day off to read and consider it...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (202) . . . The Sequel!

Posted on January 16, 2009
This week's bonus joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of WKYT Television (via Omar Ha-Redeye) (from Tuesday, January 13; links good at time of posting):Nicholasville [Kentucky] police say a man walked into the South Elkhorn Water District building Tuesday afternoon armed with a gun...

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