Tweeting briefs, haiku edition
The State Bar of Texas Appellate Section is hosting a “Twitter Brief Competition” in preparation for its annual meeting in September. It’s exactly what it sounds like: craft an appellate argument in...
View Article“‘Wacky’ does not a successful libel lawsuit make.”
From the annals of silly lawsuit history comes the case of Bill Kaysing versus Jim Lovell, circa 1997. A handy timeline of the case is here. You may Know Jim Lovell as the commander of the 1970 Apollo...
View ArticleOh, frack
A while back I wrote a juvenile post about fracking and my love of Battlestar Galactica. In that same spirit, the following is presented sans excessive commentary, to let the absurdity sink in (h/t...
View ArticleIn praise of Austin’s cleverly snarky jurists
Law is a conservative profession, in that it is rarely given to huge leaps of fancy or whimsy. English common law has given us a system based on precedent, where the challenges and disputes of the...
View ArticleI rule the world of appellate Twitter haiku!
I have been writing haiku for fun and to annoy my fellow man since I learned of the medium in middle school. A few weeks ago I wrote up a few legal haikus in response to a contest hosted by the Texas...
View ArticleA Wisconsin professor had best make peace with his dear and fluffy lord
I have one viable claim to hipsterdom: I was into “Firefly” before it was cool. I watched the show obsessively in the fall of 2002. I evangelized for it. I yelled at people who dared to doubt its...
View ArticleI’ve got 72 problems, but a lack of topics to blog about ain’t one.
First, I should apologize for that horrendous appropriation of a hip hop lyric. Second, I apologize for what is about to become a “why I haven’t been blogging” blog post, one of the more obnoxious...
View ArticleCelebrating a Year of Censorship and Attempted Censorship!
The always-intriguing and entertaining Popehat has put out his nominees for the “Censorious Asshat of the Year,” and the field is indeed proud. I am of course reblogging this for reas0ns, but I invite...
View ArticleI maintain my faith in humanity – for now
The American Bar Association has published its 5th Annual Blawg 100 list, naming its picks for the one hundred best blogs dealing with legal issues. (Law + blog = blawg. Get it? Ha!) For the fifth...
View ArticleIndeed I am Curmudgeonly…
The AgeAnalyzer will take a look at you blog and, using unknown and probably arbitrary parameters, guesstimate the age of the blogger. Try it, it’s fun! Several people (indicating that more than one...
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