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Archives for July 2009

Just to show that it’s possible . . .

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I'm thinking, more and more, that the whole Henry Louis Gates thing is a racial Rorschach test.  It's a misshapen blob of an incident that, regardless of what can and should be learned from it, everybody with a strong opinion about The Important Issue of Race in America learns, once again, what they already believed.I don't think that's necessary to explain what … [Read more...] about Just to show that it’s possible . . .

Scattershot 2009-07-27

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Random shots around the web: Postal service hell. Launch a fake North Korean Twitter feed, watch real media pick it up. Kudos to Popehat. Whatever else I may think of Obama, I really hope that on his last day in office he provides the "vault copy" of his birth certificate that all the idiot birthers have been asking for. The guys at Second City Cop chime in on the arrest of … [Read more...] about Scattershot 2009-07-27

Adventures In Avvo – Take 3

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I've been posting about my attempt to get an answer to a simple question using Avvo Answers. In Take 1, an out-of-state lawyer provided a wrong answer. In Take 2, our own Jeremy Richey provided a good answer that misseda part of the question. I clarified my question, and now Jeremy has provided the final answer in a comment to Take 2. My clarified question was: If the bond is … [Read more...] about Adventures In Avvo – Take 3