Legal Commentary

Hello.  I would like to echo Dan's Happy Valentine's Day or Not message.  Unlike Dan, though, I didn't get to the movie theater.  Indeed, the last time I actually saw a movie in a theater was about a year ago when I saw the awful "21" in the theater on the bottom floor of the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw.  I did rent Miranda July's "Me and You and Everyone We Know" and I have to say that I've since been wondering whether I want to live in a world where that movie did not get nominated for best picture.

I would also like to apologize for falling down on my guest blogging duties and being silent for a while.  I was busy giving talks on evolution-related topics at Liberty University and West Virginia University, where the faculty I must say consists of some of the friendliest and funniest people I've ever met in legal academia (or anywhere else, really).

I have an announcement regarding my book that leads to a general question.  I'm delighted to say that Mike Newdow, the guy who sued (successfully, for a time) to have "under God" removed from the Pledge of Allegiance, and who is also a musician in addition to being a lawyer and a doctor, has agreed to write and perform the theme song for my book Holy Hullabaloos.  I'm a big fan of Mike's, and I think he gets a bad rap in the media.  If you go to his website, I think you can tell that he's not interested in anything like establishing an atheist country; he simply wants the government to stop discriminating against atheists like him (and me).  You can also buy some of his very funny (to me, anyway) CDs, of which I own and enjoy two.  My question, I guess, is am I wrong about Mike?  What do people in law school and the academy think of him?  Isn't he just a guy who is standing up for the rights of a minority?  Don't we generally approve of that sort of thing?