The Supremes issued a couple big opinions this week. Then the country basically lit itself on fire. There’s a lot of celebration, and rightly so. There’s also a lot of hatred from the right for the judicial authority which has so finally demolished the debate. The legal issues are done. Gay marriage is now legal….
Month: June 2015
What’s with the sudden rage on Twitter?
Alright, I’ve gone kind of off the rails live-tweeting this horrific CLE I’m a part of. We’re on lunch break, now, so I’m going to break my thoughts down in a form that isn’t limited to 140 characters. The NACDL is the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. In theory, it’s an organization that exists…
I Just Had My Ass Handed to Me By A Children’s Movie.
I’ve always been kind of a Pixar fan. They do good films over there, and basically everyone knows it. Up, when it came out, hit me like a truck. I still can’t watch it again. It’s a movie about loss, and it’s simply one of the most depressing things I’ve ever watched. That’s not the…
The Streisand Effect
In 2003, Barbara Streisand sued a photographer for posting pictures of her beachfront home on the internet without her permission. The photo was part of a 12,000 photograph collection, meant for the purpose of detailing shoreline erosion in California. It was small, obscure, and nobody cared about it. Yet in her zealous defense of her privacy,…