Shakes Sis has an interesting post about various social and legal problems with enforcing rape laws in Britain. Such problems are of particular interest to me, since a large part of my MA thesis was about an important Canadian Supreme Court decision that impeded an attempt...
Dreadnought was the first modern battleship completed, but not the first designed. That honor went to a pair of American battleships, South Carolina and Michigan. Larger only than the Espana.
Tom the Dancing Bug asks a good question: what's the dillio with all these lame movies about big families? If I'm not imagining it, the terrible-looking Rene Russo vehicle this.
Urgh. Fortunately, I missed this.The suit, scheduled for a hearing on Dec. 12 in Federal District Court in Los Angeles, says many of Calvary's best students are at a disadvantage when they apply to the university because admissions officials have refused to certify several of the...
Friday Cat Blogging... Bud
Greetings from bucolic central Connecticuit, as I luxuriate in the afterglow of the kind of delicious down-home cooking and family togetherness that a New York bachelor is so rarely able.
We have a new look. If you notice any serious problems (causes seizures, can't read the font, won't load up or looks really weird on a particular browser), please advise in comments.Aesthetic comments are also welcome.UPDATE: And thanks very much to Shakes' Sis for the nifty...
Amanda, by IDing my top choice, reminds me that I'm never one to turn down a pointless list, so I might as well get to it. My one condition, which.
Happy Turkey Day, all. Expect light posting until Sunday or Monday.
Lindsay and the Carpetbagger Report note that Fox News has rejected an ad critical of Alito. What's puzzling is exactly why the ad was pulled--the Yahoo article doesn't say. Lindsay assumes that it's the (completely accurate) strip search reference. Justin Gardner, working from the same article,...
Shorter Antonin Scalia (R-USSC): "As soon as the "Gore people" had the nerve to file for the recount they were legally entitled to, we has no choice but to put.
I see that Ann Althouse is again accusing anybody who disagrees with her about Samuel Alito's nomination of undermining "the rule of law and the legitimacy of the courts." Implicit.