Year: 2007
Criminal Lawyers, France, Dogs, Navy to the Rescue
Random shots around the web: Still not too late to send in your nomination for Criminal Defense Lawyer of the Year 2007. One more reason why it must suck to live in France: It’s illegal for Amazon to deliver books for free. In old New England, if your neighbor’s sheep seemed disturbed, it was a… Read more
The Profession of Journalism?
Kip links with some derision to an op-ed by journalism professor David Hazinski about the trend toward citizen journalism. Kip, who has other unkind things to say about the piece, quotes this bit: Advocates argue that the acts of collecting and distributing makes these people “journalists.” This is like saying someone who carries a scalpel… Read more
Evolution, Faith Rainbows, and Eminent Domain
Random shots around the web: Some scientists think the invention of agriculture was so revolutionary that it made us humans start evolving really really fast. For example (if I understand correctly) lactose intolerance is not a defect. Rather, the ability to digest milk long after infancy is a recent mutation that hasn’t spread to the entire species yet.… Read more
Something For Me To Ponder…
A couple of weeks ago, Windypundit was getting about 300 visits per day. I just checked, and now it’s getting about 400 visits per day. Apparently, the less I post, the more popular I become. Read more
No Enjoyment of Life
It must be a week or three since Norm Pattis blogged this, but I’ve been meaning to say something, and it might as well be now. Norm starts with a hypothetical call about a wrongful death suit from a potential client: He had bronchitis. The doctors failed to diagnose it on time. As a result, he died;… Read more