Arbitrary Aardvark

Sunday, June 29, 2014

Baudewatch:
the comments at the washington post aren't working for me tonight.
"Unable to retrieve Canvas config from the storage".
Baude has a post on the recent noel canning case.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/06/29/responses-to-my-noel-canning-piece/

I was going to comment something to the effect that Scalia's argument in Noel Canning is backwards from what he argued dissenting in McIntyre v Ohio. In McIntyre, he argued for a living constitution, where rights expire if not used by the best-by date. This is the opposite of what he is usually known for.

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Saturday, June 28, 2014

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/webspecials06/lawyer/
story about a $40 lawyer. hat tip from nick sarwark.

# posted by gt @ 11:28

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Indiana legalized gay i mean same sex marriage today by order of a federal judge, a long time coming.

update: a stay has been granted by the 7th circuit, so marriages are on hold again.
update: now kentucky
http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2014/07/01/gays-right-marry-kentucky-judge-rules/11900313/

# posted by gt @ 21:53

Saturday, June 21, 2014

100010 pageviews

well that only took ten years.

fan service to follow.

# posted by gt @ 03:22

when the anarchists ruled iceland
http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/ausland/europa/More-punk-less-hell/story/10069405

# posted by gt @ 03:20

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Criminal conversation, like the Holy Roman Empire, is neither.
- Eugene Volokh, writing about a north carolina decision finding adultery statute unconstitutional. That reminds of me of when Earl Grey was lord privy seal, "not a lord, not a privy, and not a seal."

# posted by gt @ 02:41

Monday, June 16, 2014

http://vark.blogspot.com/2010/01/i-really-liked-some-atomic-kitten-of.html

some of the links in this post have expired so this is a note to self to redo it.
that was my post collecting versions of "the tide is high" which i first knew as a blondie song.
as i creep toward 100,000 hits i might pull out a few of my favorite posts from the past ten years of doing this pointless unpopular blog, which i keep doing just for myself. currently at about 99,500. what it lacks in audience it makes up in stability - i've had blogs that got 200,000 hits a month but vanished in a few months,
but blogger keeps working.

# posted by gt @ 20:22

Sunday, June 15, 2014

Jeph Jacques will be in Indy for Gencon, 8/14-16. Dunno yet if I'll be in town or not, work happens sometimes.

# posted by gt @ 20:47

My mom, sister and nephew at Buckingham palace yesterday for the Queen's birthday party.

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Friday, June 13, 2014

http://lifehackoftheday.com/

# posted by gt @ 14:46

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/supreme-court-privacy/article19155295/

canadians get right to be anonymous online.

# posted by gt @ 14:37

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

92 yesterday, lawrence shepard reminded me.

what i've been reading lately:

swanson on swanson, gloria swanson's bio, written at 80, delightful.
an authorized bio of agatha christie,
letters of g h w bush.
i find republican politicians more interesting when they get to tell their own stories.
i have read some nixon, goldwater, reagan, and now bush. dunno if ford wrote a book.

# posted by gt @ 20:50

Friday, June 06, 2014

my computer had been saying "please wait...." for 3 days so it's in the shop and i'm on a $75 dinosaur of a laptop running windows xp, some sort of pentium thinkpad from 10ish years ago.
at least i'm back online kind of.
loading chrome took ages, but i was able to catch up at electionlawblog.com and questionablecontent,
so it'll do.

# posted by gt @ 12:36