Archive for August, 2009
FACT SHEET: MCDONALD’S SCALDING COFFEE CASE
Stella Liebeck of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was in the passenger seat of her grandson’s car when she was severely burned by McDonald’s coffee in February 1992. Liebeck ordered coffee that was served in a Styrofoam cup at the drive-through window of a local McDonald’s.
After receiving the order, the grandson pulled [...]
It feels like 9/11
From reporter Matt Cooper’s twitter stream:
Yeah. Ok.
As Ace put it:
America stunned as 77-year-old chronic alcoholic succumbs to old age; Al Qaeda suspected.
Obama Footnotes
President Obama is accusing his opponents of lying and creating myths about the health care bills in Congress. But Obama, himself, has been caught lying about the legislation, lying about his motivations for the legislation, and lying about whether he has changed his position with respect to the legislation in several glaring instances.
(I do not [...]
Fun with Law School Margin Notes – Part III
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The feminist writer proposes that domesticity,
[a]s a gender system…has two defining characteristics. The first is its organization of market work around the ideal of a worker who works full time and overtime and takes little or no time off for childbearing or childrearing. Though this ideal-worker norm does not define [...]
Fun with Law School Margin Notes – Part II
This example is a little glib, but I think it is clever enough to make the cut.
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In the process of reading this complex material, I tried to summarize what I was reading in the margins. I reduced the following sentence: “Feminist rationality acknowledges greater diversity in human experiences and the value [...]
Fun with Law School Margin Notes – Part I
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This feminist treatise starts rather abruptly, putting down the traditional family, religion, science, and even the law. At the time, I chose to represented these statements visually in the margin of my textbook:
Feminism
religion
science
law
If your personal philosophy causes you to reject out of hand everything we know from just about every field [...]
Scotland Takes a Crap
Morons. The dude served a week and a half in jail for each person he killed.
Good one, Suckland.
Is there hope for the next generation?
Sometimes I wonder.
Duh
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So why invent a post office for the health care sector?
A comment on the Rick Pitino story at kentuckysportsradio.com:
Pitino admitted to Louisville police that he did have consensual sex with Sypher in Porcini’s Restaurant and then afterwards gave her the money necessary to get an abortion. Sypher’s allegations were that the sex was not consensual, although both agree on the location of their first encounter [...]
Of Course Democrats Want Single-Payer
Snap.
