Poppy Crop
For about two weeks every year, California’s high desert blooms as though a celestial Jackson Pollack had spattered the countryside with gold, orange, and violet paint.
Author: Burt Likko
Silly Tuesday Questions, Jorge Luis Borges Edition
The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge gave us some of the strangest taxonomies to date; can you top it?
Book Review: Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett
Picking a book at random from the “Hey check this out” list works out very well, at least this time.
When Text And Context Collide
Wednesday, the Supreme Court will entertain the latest challenge to Obamacare. If you can make it all the way through this post, you’re going to understand what’s going on way better than your neighbors. Added bonus: a significant detour through the jurisprudence of piscene spoliation, which you’ve no doubt all been anxiously awaiting.
A Greatest Hit: Marbury v. Madison
One of Burt Likko’s greatest hits, offered in celebration of #judicialreviewday.
Coming Attraction: Argument Digest
In just over two weeks, some stuff is gonna get real at One First Street Northeast, yo.
SIHTAF: Pleading Prisoners’ Plasticity of Personal Piety
When an atheist prisoner self-identifies as Jewish, it provides an insight into the engine driving what Burt Likko predicts will become the next wave of litigation by the incarcerated against their jailers.
Review Of The Charges
A close look at the law and the allegations suggests that outrage about the Brandon Duncan prosecution may be based on incomplete information. Burt Likko dissects the charges and the law for your review, compares that to the advice of his colleagues, and then finishes his nightcap.
Minimum Beard, Maximum Deference
Turns out, a Muslim prisoner has a right to grow a beard even if the warden doesn’t want him to. Burt Likko digests today’s big SCOTUS case of Holt v. Hobbs to reveal something about what this means for those of us who aren’t Muslims in prison.
Hometown!
Everyone has a hometown. Lots of places have music about them. What music defines where you’re from?
Why Do You Care About Free Speech?
It’s suddenly very fashionable to be a strident advocate of free speech, without giving a lot of thought into why free speech is worthy of advocacy. Burt Likko dares to offer five reasons, which surely won’t be controversial at all.
Marriage Class
Burt Likko was going to mercilessly lampoon a prestige law firm for three of its partners writing a deeply offensive and poorly-reasoned memo. But he got distracted by a shiny object along the way.
A Resolution For 2015
From the police chief who served donuts and hot chocolate to protestors rather than launching canisters of tear gas at them.
Would You Like Fries With That Midterm?
It’s not news that adjunct professors don’t get paid a lot. But it is at least remarkable when life imitates Breaking Bad.
The Ongoing Vitality of Free Speech in the United States
There’s never been a better time to say things no one objects to.
