He was such a demon for work that, growing overheated through feverish memo-writing, he would gradually strip off his clothes and work gravely at his stool without waistcoat or pants, as his colleagues watched in prim Victorian wonder. Link: Adam…
Election Day is here, at long last. As always, there are crucial issues at stake on San Francisco's ballot. Perhaps the most important, of course, is whether the city will rename what is currently the "Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant" as…
You win some, you lose some. Less than a month after successfully defeating a motion to dismiss his trademark lawsuit against the maker of M&Ms, New York’s "Naked Cowboy" Robert Burck was arrested in San Francisco when he tried to…
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I have the utmost respect for the work David Remes, a partner at Covington & Burling, is doing in defense of detainees at Guantanamo. And I think the strategy of dramatically illustrating how they are mistreated is not a bad…
Before too long there will be enough material of this kind to create a separate category or gallery of Bad Disguises. Previous candidates would include the Duct Tape Bandit and the Tree That Robbed a Bank, and to those we…
In addition to the continuing War on Low Pants, about which I will report again in the near future, other recent legislative developments in the Midwest are threatening the rights of young people. In Arkansas, the right of toddlers to…
Remember, time is running out to apply for an internship in the office of Senator Larry Craig (R-Idaho). The deadline is March 15, 2008, or when Senator Craig resigns, whichever comes first. "For those interested in politics," Craig writes on…
Not too many tax cases make the cut here, but this one seems important. On November 29, 2007, Mary Bach struck a blow for all Pennsylvania consumers when a judge agreed with her that, in that state, toilet paper is…
Time again for "Google Searches That Led To Lowering the Bar," that exciting series in which we learn what odd questions some people out there have for Google (anonymously — as I mentioned before, I can see the search terms,…