A passage from the book I’m reading, “Witness” by Whittaker Chambers, in the opening pages, that I found evocative in its comparison of Communism and religious faith: [Communism] is not new. It is, in fact, man’s second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of the Creation under the Tree of the […]
Archives for September 2010
Big Brother, and Google, is watching you…
September 13, 2010 by
Image by Inmigrante a media jornada via Flickr I thought it was scary how much information Facebook had on me. Yeah, right. Next to Google, Facebook is just almost benign. Almost. Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google (which does email, calendars, documents, searches, maps, directions, YouTube, blogs, and so on), has his eye on you: […]
Thinking about returning that prom dress? Think again.
September 13, 2010 by
Thinking about returning that prom dress? Think again, says Ian Ayres, professor of law and economics at Yale and Freakonomics contributor. You’re committing fraud, he says. And that text book you purchased at the campus book store while waiting for the cheaper one to arrive from Amazon, all the while planning on returning the more expensive […]
Memorable Depositions
September 10, 2010 by
The ABA Journal has asked readers what are some of the memorable depositions they’ve been in over the years. I had a good laugh at a few of them. “Andythelawyer” remembered a depo where the client shared more than his attorneys thought appropriate: A couple of decades ago I was representing one of many directors […]
Tattoos: Free speech on your body
September 10, 2010 by
Image by megabn via Flickr While I suppose it would be plausible for other circuits to deal with tattoos as political speech, it’s really no surprise that it was the the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in Anderson v. City of Hermosa Beach, that actually did. And that found them to be speech. Some […]
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