Year: 2009
Scattershot 2009-07-27
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… Read more
Adventures In Avvo – Take 3
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… Read more
Adventures In Avvo – Take 2
Out of some curiosity about how bail works, I posted a question on Avvo Answers. The first answer I got was a clean miss by an out-of-state lawyer. Now Illinois’s own Jeremy Richey has stepped up. To review, here’s the question I asked: What’s my exposure if I bail someone out of jail? Chicago, IL… Read more
Adventures In Avvo – Take 1
After a recent episode of Raising the Bar, I’ve been wondering if some do-gooder could go around bailing indigent people out of jail so they can go home to their families even though they don’t have $500. Not that I could afford to do that, but how would that work? I know it only takes… Read more
Playing Catch Up
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” — Winston Churchill For those of you who didn’t follow it, an amendment to a bill in the US Senate was defeated this week, on a 58-aye, 39 nay vote. (Yeah, I know that sound strange; another… Read more