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A Round Tuit (12)

Posted on December 23, 2009
When it comes to legal blogging, there seems to be no shortage of writing worth reading once one gets around to it.What's that? You have no round tuit? My friend, you are fortunate indeed, for never before in human history have round tuits been so readily available...

Keep Fighting the Good Fight

Posted on December 21, 2009
Chris Sherliker issues a call to arms with this week's Blawg Review #243:[S]hould not the steely and dogged courage and determination to fight back, often in the face of overwhelming odds, often in total default of resource and often when the very capacity to fight has itself been exhausted, be the distinguishing hallmark of our profession?The case is bad...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (249)

Posted on December 18, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of the Telegraph (from Tuesday, December 15; link good at time of posting):Staff at the Great Yarmouth Sea Life Centre in Norfolk give turtles a seasonal treat of brussel sprouts at Christmas which provide a healthy dose of vitamins, minerals and fibre...

A Round Tuit (11)

Posted on December 16, 2009
When it comes to legal blogging, there seems to be no shortage of writing worth reading once one gets around to it.What's that? You have no round tuit? My friend, you are fortunate indeed, for never before in human history have round tuits been so readily available...

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Likelihood of Illumination

Posted on December 14, 2009
Last Chanukah, Ron Coleman offered-up a tremendous discussion of the Jewish Festival of Lights with his Blawg Review #191; as he notes in comparing this year's Blawg Review to last year's, this year's is "not that kind of Chanukah Blawg Review because it?s not that kind of year...

These folks will live in famy.

Posted on December 11, 2009
Thank you to all those who very kindly linked to Blawg Review #241 on their sites and/or through Twitter:Mark Bennett;Peter Black;Mike Cernovich;Ron Coleman;Amy Derby;The Great and Powerful Editor of Blawg Review;Lance Godard;Moshe Glickman;David Harlow;Jodie Hill;John Lee;Diane Levin;Lyonette Louis-Jacques;Elie Mystal;Kevin O'Keefe;Walter Olson;OneSpot Law;Popehat;Mike Semple Piggot;Heather Townsend; andEric Turkewitz.

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (248)

Posted on December 11, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of the Associated Press (from Thursday, December 9; link good at time of posting):Authorities have charged a North Carolina woman with selling moonshine out of her day care center.....Agents said children were in the day care center when they sent in an undercover agent to buy two gallons of moonshine...

Blawg Review #241

Posted on December 07, 2009
Back on 7 December 2005, I posted under the title "Pearl Harbor Day Trivia" a throwaway comment about President Franklin Roosevelt's famous "Day of Infamy" speech:December 7, 1941 was immortalized the next day in a speech by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as "a date which will live in infamy"...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (247)... The Sequel!

Posted on December 04, 2009
This week's bonus joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of the BoingBoing blog (from Monday, 30 November; link good at time of posting):An angry loser (right) came to Syracuse University to make a fool of herself by spreading pathetic hatred and was treated to a happy mutant style stunt by this smiling student, named Chris Pesto (left)...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (247)

Posted on December 04, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of Ananova (from Monday, November 30; link good at time of posting):A luckless crook surrendered to police after four robberies flopped in the same day.Ralf Lautenbach, 24, fled after trying to hold up two hotels which set security guards on him - and then abandoned a break in at the local tax office in Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (246)

Posted on November 27, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of APP.com (from Wednesday, November 25; link good at time of posting):An Indiana man was arrested after police said he left his 5-year-old son in a tractor-trailer while he ducked into an Indianapolis strip club to drink...

A Round Tuit (10)

Posted on November 25, 2009
When it comes to legal blogging, there seems to be no shortage of writing worth reading once one gets around to it.What's that? You have no round tuit? My friend, you are fortunate indeed, for never before in human history have round tuits been so readily available...

A Blawg Review Without Blarney

Posted on November 24, 2009
Máiréad Enright hosts a no-nonsense Blawg Review #239 at the group blog Human Rights in Ireland. For decades, Ireland and Britain were at odds over the status of Northern Ireland and atrocities committed against Britons by Irish terrorists. This week, as Enright notes, Ireland finds itself as one with England after suffering a grievous handball-caused injustice in a World Cup-related soccer match...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (245)

Posted on November 20, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of KRGV (from Tuesday, November 17; link good at time of posting):Anthony Carrazco, 19, practically arrested himself after he was going door-to-door attempting to sell weed, but he knocked on the wrong door...

A Round Tuit (9)

Posted on November 18, 2009
When it comes to legal blogging, there seems to be no shortage of writing worth reading once one gets around to it.What's that? You have no round tuit? My friend, you are fortunate indeed, for never before in human history have round tuits been so readily available...

But enough about us, Mr. Rosenberg.... What do you think of us?

Posted on November 16, 2009
We legal bloggers love to talk about ourselves, but on occasion Blawg Review permits us to take a break from our incessant navel-gazing to allow a non-lawyer, non-student, non-academic to gaze at our navels instead. This time last month, Scott Greenfield profiled a gentleman who's become a regular commenter at Greenfield's Simple Justice blog, a formidable blogger at the WindyPundit and The Twin Cities Carry Journal blogs, and a welcome presence in many legal folks' Twitter streams:Jdog is the name he uses most often when commenting here, though regulars know him to be Joel Rosenberg...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (244)

Posted on November 13, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of Reuters (from Monday, November 9; link good at time of posting):A British man on the run from police sent a picture of himself to his local paper because he disliked the mugshot they had printed of him as part of a public appeal to track him down...

A Round Tuit (8)

Posted on November 11, 2009
When it comes to legal blogging, there seems to be no shortage of writing worth reading once one gets around to it.What's that? You have no round tuit? My friend, you are fortunate indeed, for never before in human history have round tuits been so readily available...

If there's no Blawg Review in Disneyland, can it really be the Happiest Place on Earth?

Posted on November 11, 2009
One of the pleasures of living in California is the state's sensible tax policy that one can go to Disneyland about as frequently as one wishes and one's pocketbook permits. Fortunately, last week was one of those wondrous times when the two came together and I found myself with the family in the Happiest Place on Earth...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (243)

Posted on October 30, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of the Hit & Run blog (from Wednesday, October 28; link good at time of posting):From the office of Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.):Republican Congressman Jeff Flake, who represents Arizona?s Sixth District, today released the following statement regarding his vote against H...

A Round Tuit (7)

Posted on October 28, 2009
When it comes to legal blogging, there seems to be no shortage of writing worth reading once one gets around to it.What's that? You have no round tuit? My friend, you are fortunate indeed, for never before in human history have round tuits been so readily available...

I'm an optimist. I'm looking forward to the Great Elation and the Great Progression.

Posted on October 27, 2009
Stephen Seckler hosts Blawg Review #235 this week at his Counsel to Counsel site. Published this past Monday, the 80th anniversary of the stock market crash in 1929 which precipitated the Great Depression, one might expect that Seckler's post would not be a heartwarming, uplifting experience...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (242)

Posted on October 23, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of Reuters (from Thursday, October 22; link good at time of posting):A Sicilian builder transferred from prison to house arrest tried to get himself locked up again to escape arguments with his wife at home, Italian media reported Thursday...

A Round Tuit (6)

Posted on October 21, 2009
When it comes to legal blogging, there seems to be no shortage of writing worth reading once one gets around to it.What's that? You have no round tuit? My friend, you are fortunate indeed, for never before in human history have round tuits been so readily available...

A Blawg Review Sherpa gives us a [200-year] present.

Posted on October 19, 2009
Blawg Review Sherpa Victoria Pynchon hosts Blawg Review #234 at her Settle It Now Negotiation Blog site. She writes about the concept of a "200-year present" wherein we are affected by and affect the lives of the various generations which coexist with us...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (241)

Posted on October 16, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of the ABA Journal (from Tuesday, October 13; link good at time of posting):A Georgia federal judge has fined California lawyer Orly Taitz $20,000 for her litigation tactics in a suit questioning whether Barack Obama is a U...

A Round Tuit (5)

Posted on October 14, 2009
When it comes to legal blogging, there seems to be no shortage of writing worth reading once one gets around to it.What's that? You have no round tuit? My friend, you are fortunate indeed, for never before in human history have round tuits been so readily available...

Perhaps it's time to crown an Emperor Norton II.

Posted on October 13, 2009
Many years ago, I heard of the colorful 19th Century character known as "Emperor Norton" and his decree abolishing Congress for thwarting the will of the people. When I moved to the (greater) San Francisco Bay Area, I heard his name mentioned here and there, usually as evidence of the City's abiding love for the avant garde...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (240)

Posted on October 09, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of the San Francisco Chronicle (via Popehat) (from Thursday, October 8; link good at time of posting):A San Francisco murder suspect's attorney sought assurances Wednesday that he would not be arrested for arranging what prosecutors called a "blatant act of witness intimidation" involving eight suspected gang members who stood up during a witness' testimony...

A Round Tuit (4)

Posted on October 07, 2009
When it comes to legal blogging, there seems to be no shortage of writing worth reading once one gets around to it.What's that? You have no round tuit? My friend, you are fortunate indeed, for never before in human history have round tuits been so readily available...

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