From an article about how some people really don't want to do breakfast/lunch/dinner with you to do meetings or because you want to "pick their brain." The fact that you are paying for the food is basically nothing…
A family in New Jersey was pressured into taking down a hanged dummy, which was part of a Halloween display in their yard. Before the figure was removed yesterday, Madison Mayor Ellwood "Woody" Kerkeslager said "t…
"... so when you make them up, give me an inch that I can let out there, uh because they cut me, it's just like riding a wire fence. These are almost, these are the best I've had anywhere in the United States..."…
... at what point do we have a problem with it? Dr. Helen scoffs at at the people who complain about the way Fred Thompson looks at his voluptuous wife: [T]here are many ... women who feel that unless one is Bill Clinton or the …
Linda Greenhouse is highlighting Justice Ginsburg's decision to read two of her dissenting opinions from the bench this year. In both, Ginsburg spoke for herself and the other three liberal Justices (Stephens, Souter, and Br…
The city in question: Beijing. Volunteers wearing satin Queuing Day sashes shooed rush-hour commuters into lines at busy subway stations, while hospital administrators and a few city officials handed out long-stemmed roses to pat…
So, what do you think of a woman, eating alone, at a good restaurant ? Do you feel sorry for her? Do you think she would like you to ask her to join your group? Etiquette tip from the linked piece: Don't approach her. Use the…
The law faculty here is having an email list debate about the perceived problem of students using the wireless internet access during class to check websites, do email, IM, etc. Blogging hasn't been mentioned yet, but presuma…
First, the view from India : The Delhi unit of Shiv Sena has termed Valentine's Day as "Prostitution Day" and will hold a protest march near Delhi University to oppose the celebrations. Sena sources said that they h…
Today was the first day of law school, and I had my first "Religion and the Constitution" class. It seems like a lively group. After some preliminaries, we had a nice discussion about a 19th century case that refused to…