Legal Commentary

If you can blawg this, thank a teacher.

Posted on October 05, 2009
In honor of World Teacher's Day, Susan Cartier Liebel hosts Blawg Review #232 at Solo Practice University. In this educational edition of the carnival of legal blogging, we learn how to move past the billable hour (or not), how to find one's niche in the law and blawging, and how the courthouse has influenced the schoolhouse...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (239)

Posted on October 02, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of WABC (from Thursday, October 1; link good at time of posting):Authorities continue to search for a robbery suspect who strolled out of a Manhattan courthouse after he was mistaken for a lawyer...

A Round Tuit (3)

Posted on September 30, 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...

Vegas, Baby, Vegas!

Posted on September 29, 2009
The ads say that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but word was bound to get out about this week's Blawg Review #231, hosted at the Legally UnBound blog. Kael Garvey, the blog's pseudonymous Vegas-resident proprietor (none of us use our real names when we go to Vegas) takes us on a tour of Sin City and the best legal blogging of the past week...

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TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (238)

Posted on September 25, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of Hit & Run (from Thursday, September 24; link good at time of posting):New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has a salty tooth. According to The New York Times, Bloomberg liberally salts his pizza, throws so much salt on his morning bagel that "it's like a pretzel," and "likes his popcorn so salty that it burns others' lips...

War! What is it good for? Absolutely... well, quite a lot, actually.

Posted on September 20, 2009
Mike Semple Piggot and I host Blawg Review #230 at our joint Unsilent Partners blawg. It is a respectful tribute to tomorrow's United Nations International Day of Peace:Officially of course, we?re against war, as it?s undeniably destructive to humans and their works...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (237)

Posted on September 18, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of CNN (via Boing Boing) (from day, September ; link good at time of posting):Embedded video from CNN Video[Previous TGIS]

Harvard's not the douchiest, but still douchy enough for Blawg Review.

Posted on September 16, 2009
Harvard alum Barry Barnett hosts this week's Blawg Review #229 at his Blawgletter site on the anniversary of John Harvard's death. Right off the bat, we learn a few things about Harvard, including that he had no involvement with the founding of the university which bears his name and that he spelled his name with only two a's, unlike Haaavaaad University does today...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (236)

Posted on September 11, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of BBC News (from Thursday, September 10; link good at time of posting):Broadband promised to unite the world with super-fast data delivery - but in South Africa it seems the web is still no faster than a humble pigeon...

A Round Tuit (2)

Posted on September 09, 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...

Nothing is certain except death in Texas.

Posted on September 08, 2009
Law is Cool founder Omar Ha-Redeye hosts Blawg Review #228 this week. Highlights of this edition include a bitter interview of an asshole from a douchy law school, networking in good times and bad, and debating the role of the government from Obamacare death panels to Texas' death penalty...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (235)

Posted on September 04, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of Legal Blog Watch (from Tuesday, September 1; link good at time of posting):If experience is the best teacher, then Denver immigration lawyer Ravi Kanwal certainly knew his stuff when it came to representing illegal aliens...

A Round Tuit

Posted on September 02, 2009
My grandfather was an industrious sort. He used to say that he'd get some task or chore done when he "got around to it"; he'd then reach into his pocket to produce a wooden disk the size of a half dollar with the word "Tuit" written on it and excitedly bustle us off to do whatever it was that needed doing...

Simple is the New Complex

Posted on August 31, 2009
The theme of this week's Blawg Review #227 is themelessness. I know that it's all very meta, but Sheryl Sisk Schelin does us proud with this effort, hosted at her The Inspired Solo site. As the "next guy [who went] all Dante on you" referenced in the third paragraph, let me just say that I for one am appreciative that Shelin's arrested (at least temporarily) our Blawg Review theme arms race...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (234)

Posted on August 28, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of The Inquisitr (from Tuesday, August 25; link good at time of posting):Stand-Up Comic, Sunda Croonquist, is being sued by her mother-in-law for defamation because she doesn?t find that being the butt of mother-in-law jokes is funny...

Tale of the Tape

Posted on August 26, 2009
Family law barrister Lucy Reed hosts Blawg Review #226 this week at her Pink Tape blog. She focuses on the traditional British summer — meaning in this case the quaint family vacation, rather than the not-so-quaint mass murderer holiday program...

1,000 Joyful and/or Miserable Posts

Posted on August 21, 2009
According to Blogger, that last post was the 1,000th here at Infamy or Praise.It seems appropriate that this milestone would be achieved with one of my weekly Schadenfreude posts. Joy in the misfortune of others has been a regular and popular Friday feature here nearly since the inception of the blog...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schedenfreude! (233)

Posted on August 21, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of the Associated Press (from Wednesday, August 19; link good at time of posting):Authorities said a 23-year-old woman was arrested after a scuffle with a 13-year-old boy in a wheelchair at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children...

TGIS: Thank God for Schadenfreude! (232)

Posted on August 14, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of the Associated Press (from Thursday, August 13; link good at time of posting):A 34-year-old man is in custody after authorities say he gave a teller his account number and showed her his picture ID before robbing an Anchorage bank...

Our Baby's All Groweds-Up!

Posted on August 13, 2009
If you've not yet taken some time to read Tim Kevan's entertaining Blawg Review #224, hosted at the BabyBarista blog on TimesOnline, what the heck are you waiting for? Go now and do it, and when you've done with that, go read Kevan's BabyBarista novel, BabyBarista and The Art of War, which I reviewed favorably here last week...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (231) . . . The Sequel!

Posted on August 07, 2009
This week's bonus joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of The Inquisitr (from Tuesday, August 4; link good at time of posting):An unidentified man found himself on the business end of four angry, jilted women in a motel room and ended up with a superglued penis...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (231)

Posted on August 07, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of the Associated Press (from Saturday, August 1; link good at time of posting):Police officers contemplating cheating on promotion exams met their match this week in northwestern China - 18 serious-faced fifth-graders walking the beat...

Review: BabyBarista and The Art of War

Posted on August 03, 2009
I'm often frustrated by book reviews for the simple reason that most tend to avoid answering the question "Is this book worth reading?" I'll not make that mistake in writing about Tim Kevan's BabyBarista and The Art of War. This is a book worth reading; it's entertaining and insightful, building upon the best aspects of the much-praised BabyBarista blog and providing greater depth and color (or should that be colour?) to its characters and stories...

It takes a village to raise a Blawg Review...

Posted on August 03, 2009
When it appeared that Blawg Review's lengthy streak of weekly posts might come to an end this week, the anonymous editor put out a distress call to the one legal blogger who might've seemed the least likely to respond.Respond he did, though, and a bifurcated Blawg Review #223 was produced in record time, with one part hosted by noted Blawg Review curmudgeon Scott Greenfield at his Simple Justice blog and the other hosted by the Editor at the Blawg Review site...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (230)

Posted on July 31, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of Reuters (from Tuesday, July 28; link good at time of posting):Two Swedes expecting the golden beaches of the Italian island of Capri got a shock when tourist officials told them they were 650 km (400 miles) off course in the northern town of Carpi, after mistyping the name in their GPS...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (229)

Posted on July 24, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of The Telegraph (from Monday, July 20; link good at time of posting):Bosses at Knowsley Safari Park are warning motorists to beware of the baboons, after the animals learned how to open rooftop luggage and began stealing items such as underwear after helping themselves to the contents...

Unsilent Partners (3)

Posted on July 23, 2009
This week at Unsilent Partners, Mike Semple Piggot and I will address topics involving the Supreme Court of the United States and the brand-spanking-new Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. My essay, focusing on the SCOTUS nomination and confirmation process, is available now...

Let's Get Complex

Posted on July 23, 2009
Life is complex; litigation is complex; this week at least, Blawg Review is complex. If you've not yet taken a look at Blawg Review #221, hosted this week by H. Scott Leviant at The Complex Litigator blog. Leviant is generous in his praise for the carnival's recent hosts and his effort acquits him quite well, measuring up to those hosts' high standards...

TGIS: Thank God It's Schadenfreude! (228)

Posted on July 17, 2009
This week's joy in the misfortune of others comes courtesy of the Associated Press (from Thursday, July 16; link good at time of posting):Lincoln [Nebraska] police arrested a man who they said made up a story about being robbed to explain why he was walking around a city park naked...

Unsilent Partners (2)

Posted on July 15, 2009
Mike Semple Piggot has the lead essay at this week's Unsilent Partners; my response will be posted tomorrow morning. This time around, our topic is assisted suicide, prompted by Lord Falconer's recent proposal to amend the UK's suicide laws to prevent prosecution of those who accompany friends and relatives who've chosen to end their lives abroad...

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