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I am an NHL fan, and when my wife and I caved in last April — after 9 months without cable — we got the channel package that included Versus. Versus is virtually the only network that carries NHL regular season and playoff games in the United States. NBC shows like a half dozen or [...]

I concur.
Imagine if the Knight of Columbus decided to give an award to a pedophile priest who had fled the country to avoid prison. The outcry would be universal. Victim groups would demand the award be withdrawn and that the organization apologize. Religion reporters would be on the case with the encouragement of their editors. [...]

Correction: Drugged and then raped a child.
Some links for the morally confused:
Great News For (Famous) People Who Rape Children!
Common Roman Polanski Defenses, Refuted
Reminder: Roman Polanski raped a child

Choice quotes from Whoopi:
But it wasn’t rape-rape.
The world see 13 year-old and 14 year-olds differently.

1. May 22, 2009. Olbermann’s hypocrisy on the Gitmo recidivism rate exposed by John Gibson:

2. May 22, 2009. Privatizing education would provide real stimulus.
3. May 22, 2009. Obama’s defense of his national security policies is rife with hypocrisy:

[O]n one hand, the president claims that the Bush administration and the post-9/11 Congress went “off course,” making [...]

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 [...]

June 12, 1967. It was 42 years ago today that the Supreme Court struck down Virginia’s ban on interracial marriages.
To commemorate this civil rights milestone, the Obama administration filed a brief in support of the Defense of Marriage Act comparing gay marriage to incest and child rape. Anyways, that’s what DOMA opponents are [...]

[This is another unpublished post from the summer of 2008. It is substantially incomplete, but it is at least readable and there are some decent points in it. In reading these old posts, I seemed to have a lot of anger pent up inside last summer.]
In June 2008, the Supreme Court held that a state [...]

[This is another old post that somehow never got published. It is long, but worth reading. You will find some righteous indignation on my part, because I am definitely right and Eugene Volokh is wrong.]
Sometimes, I wonder how we can trust law professors to give us decent guidance on anything. They are supposed to be [...]

[This is another unpublished post from last fall. Please enjoy, even though it is not timely anymore.]

The LDS Church mobilized in favor of California’s Proposition 8, a ballot initiative that bans gay marriage. Mormons donated $19 million to the cause — nearly four out of five dollars raised. [The initiative passed.]
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We are seeking to strip [...]

 
If you love Hitchcock and also saw Disturbia, this is a fascinating law suit. The Dreamworks flick clearly was a 2007 remake of the Hitchcock classic Rear Window. The plot was the same, albeit with a younger cast and based in suburbia rather than an apartment complex.
Well, now the estate of the author [...]

Did the suit brought by the husband for the injury to him flowing from the alleged wrongful and negligent act of the defendant, which suit was prosecuted to a judgment in favor of his wife as his administratrix, the judgment being paid by the defendant, constitute a bar to the present suit by the wife [...]

Convincing video that’s making the rounds on the interwebs.

This is just sick. Middle school art teacher, Aaron Mohanlal, is walking around free thanks to Broward Circuit Judge Marc Gold.
For nearly two years, the South Florida middle school art teacher forced the boy to have sex in a classroom supply closet.
Sometimes, Aaron Mohanlal would call in sick to work, take the boy to [...]