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Friday Follies 3.2

There are SO MANY great lines in this Canadian legal opinion that it could fill a couple editions of Friday Follies. It undoubtedly will be an all-time classic and the footnotes alone are worth the price of admission. The judge admitted he was using “ridicule as a last resort” because the custody dispute is one […]

Weekend Edition: 1-8

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Cory, who when I last checked had 376 posts to my 43, comments on the fact the KELO Issues blog to which I contributed is ending, partly because of “the low number of regular contributions.” Given that I am seventh out of the eight bloggers for number of contributions (even being outpaced by […]

Friday Follies 3.1

A Houston man is suing his alma mater when his son wasn’t accepted to the college following his $40,000 donation to the school.

Legal-related blog headline of the week: Romania declares witchcraft a legally-recognized (and taxable) profession, pisses off witches (The witches are fighting back, though, “using cat excrement and dead dogs to cast spells […]

So much for less is more

Once again I have proof why I don’t do New Year’s resolutions. Just last week I said “less is more” when it came to my reading in 2011 and specifically mentioned cutting down on reading books for review. That sounded great — until those wily publishers came metaphorically knocking upon my door.

I got home […]

Running amok around that word

At first, it was simply going to be a Weekend Edition item but then a contrasting item using the same phraseology I intended appeared, causing me to plunge into dangerous waters.

First was the news that a publisher is releasing an edition of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn that totally eliminates the word […]