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Thoroughly modern males?

Wondering what makes a modern man?’ I can’t say I was but Thursday I stumbled across a link to The 2009 Great Male Survey that AskMen.com conducted with about 50,000 of its readers I’m not sure how definitive or valid the survey is but it asked a wide range of questions and had responses not […]

Tingo time again

About two years ago, I came across a British newspaper article on a book by a former BBC researcher exploring the breadth and often intriguing nature of about foreign words and phrases. I wrote about some of the words I enjoyed. The book wasn’t available in the U.S. then but I recently came across the […]

Friday Follies 1.7

Bob Newland, take note: Michigan court says probation order with blanket prohibition against any “defamatory and demeaning communications” is void, even when the the probationer says of the sentencing judge, ” cursed shall be the fruit of thy body. The Lord shall smite thee with consumption and with a fever and with an inflammation and […]

Friday Follies 1.6

The Friday Follies were delayed today due to the ongoing college trip. And it has produced one of the biggest follies I’ve encountered, but that is the subject of a separate post tomorrow. That said, here’s this edition of the follies:

“A super-secure federal prison ruled that two books written by President Obama contain information […]

Friday Follies 1.5

A few more Michael Jackson law-related (at least tangentially) headlines: What will happen to Michael Jackson’s kids? and Michael Jackson: The Mother of All Malpractice Suits? (via) and, of course, Michael Jackson’s Will: The Details, an interview with a lawyer “who does not represent the Jackson family.”

“A York [G.B.] postman has been jailed for […]