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You got it, exactly. Whether Sullivan can be impartial, let alone present the appearance of impartiality, is a rather obvious issue at this point.

Wherever Bernstien has been since Watergate, no one has missed him.

If only because Pierre Delecto does not approve, it must be the right thing.

.... or were never there in the first place, like Lieutenant Kije.

I would guess that these things need a lot of specialized, complex maintenance to remain functional. But who knows?

“The bar exam is not a measure of ABILITY. It is a measure of KNOWLEDGE.”

It’s about 60:40% ability to knowledge. Knowing the law is the lesser part. The bigger part is the ability to read the question properly, identify and analyze the issues involved, and finally compose a logical and coherent response.

“The bar exam is not a measure of ABILITY. It is a measure of KNOWLEDGE.”

It’s about 60:40% ability to knowledge. Knowing the law is the lesser part. The bigger part is the ability to read the question properly, identify and analyze the issues involved, and finally compose a logical and coherent response.

“Professional sports is a pure luxury good that competes with a lot of other possible uses of our time and money”

That’s why the Miami Marlins draw so few fans. There’s just too many better things to do in that city than watch baseball.

You cannot win an argument with a crazy person or a moron. There is no point even trying. You and they do not share the same concept of what is real and what is not.

Not all of the triple murders were by gunfire, for whatever difference it makes to you. One that I will never forget occurred at the Lincoln Park Tourist Hotel, on the SE corner of Lincoln Park and 13th Street, SE. Two women had their throats slit, and a baby was drowned in a bathtub. So common was ultra-violence in those days, the WAPO ran it as a small item on the inside of the Metro section in one edition.

D.C. is a terrible and dangerous city to live in, much less raise a family, and it has been that way at least since the mid sixties. I am the second generation of my family to have been born and raised in the city. In the '50s it was a relatively peaceful place, even if if strictly segregated. My mother told me that in the '20s, '30s and '40s, you could walk anywhere in the city at anytime of day or night without fear. I am not sure she really meant "anywhere", but from her point of view, safety in the city was not a significant concern. This all changed with the riots in 1968. Throughout the '70s the city suffered more than one murder a day, and the areas the author mentions, like Shaw, were surrounded by huge multi-block open-air heroin markets.

I lived off Lincoln Park on Capitol Hill in the '70s, near the emaciation statue in the article. In two years, there were three triple murders within one block of my apartment, my car was stolen, I was robbed at gunpoint, and twice someone tried to break into my apartment while I was there. Two blocks from my apartment, some gunmen crashed a party of law students, lined them up, made them strip naked, and then shot several of the males.

The author moved to D.C. in 2003, so he cannot know how it was like before then. He compares it to Brooklyn, as if Brooklyn were the negative standard for unsafe places, and perhaps the areas below Prospect Park were pretty bad once, but that was D.C until recently and much worse.

There are good and bad AKs. Good ones are light, well balanced, and dependable, even if they are comparatively innacurate and rattle and bounce around a lot.

Craft not made on this earth makes me wonder about alien factories. Certain elements of the fabrication process would completely familiar to us. It would certainly be more advanced, but bending, machining, forgeing, welding, molding, is something we would probably recognize the alien workers doing.

I was born and I grew up here, in the city. D.C. has always been subdued type of place. Whenever I fly back to D.C. it starts even at the airport. I see mostly people who are stressed, and appear self-isolated. Compared to say Los Angeles, Atlanta, Miami, or even NYC, where I might have flow in from, I notice the clothing right away; it’s dark and bland, so perfectly expressing an introverted, depressed state of mind.

If this is baseball, I won’t miss it.

Without knowing where the drones came from or where they went, it is impossible to guess the duration of their flight or their potential range.

Two other reasons for wigs were (1) Having an expensive wig displayed conpicious consumption and marked one of status, at the same time forcing the upper classes to spend huge sums for elaborate wigs, siphoned away their money which might otherwise be used for rebellious mischief, like the Fronde in Louie XIV’s time, (2) effective cheap, shampoos were not available until the middle of the 19th Century when German chemists developed them. It was far easier to wear a wig and shave your hair or keep it close cropped to keep your head clean, just as the ancient Egyptians did.

That’s okay, the rest of the country never much mattered to New York.

Goya makes the best mole sauce. Thin it in boiling water, let it cool, put it in a blender with some baking chocolate, then add some cola cola with cane sugar.

I’m not sure this is so routine. En Banc hearings are so rarely granted Circuit Courts of Appeal typically forbid any party from filing a response to such a request unless the Court orders or invites one. In the case of this Court, see Rule 35(e) of the Local Rules. This is prevent the unnecessary expense of a party responding to something the Court is going to dispose of itself. The fact that a response has been asked for, suggests that the en banc petition has gotten some traction.