Sometimes the law is a cruel mistress.
Burt Likko
Pseudonymous Portlander. Pursuer of happiness. Bon vivant. Homebrewer. Atheist. Recovering Republican. Recovering Catholic. Recovering divorcé. Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of Ordinary Times. Relapsed Lawyer, admitted to practice law (under his real name) in California and Oregon. There's a Twitter account at @burtlikko, but not used for posting on the general feed anymore.
House Likko's Words:
Scite Verum.
Colite Iusticia.
Vivere Con Gaudium.
A potentially mighty case dies not with a shout, but with a one-sentence memorandum, full of legal...
A fine critical analysis of this week's demonstration that the best show on television has eroded into...
A squib of a post about this morning's Supreme Court decision in McCutcheon v. FEC. Very brief:...
Fifty U.S. cities. Presented in several unmarked brackets. I think this week's puzzle is pretty easy, personally,...
The weirdest marketing plan for music maybe ever. For starters, they're only going to print one copy...
Be the first to guess why some, but not all, of the states (and Puerto Rico) are...
It's Linky Friday and now you have a way to malinger productivity while reading random links embedded...
A lean, inexpensive cut of beef: a London broil. A simple rub: truffled salt, black pepper, cayenne...
Statistics wizard Nate Silver talks about the re-launch of FiveThirtyEight on ESPN, political punditry, and burritos.
Could Abraham Lincoln really have sidestepped the entire American Civil War by using the government's power of...
SIHTAF means "S[omething] I'll Have To Apologize For," as in readily-mockable conduct by a brother or sister...
Ten actors, in a particular order. Who's eleventh?
Rethinking the way Olympic results are posted.
Burt Likko fills in for Will Truman for this week's aggregation of dozens of links to themed...
The love song survey. Results to be compiled whenever voting stops.
In classical art, you almost never see Athena and Aphrodite depicted together. There's a reason for that,...
A headline writer for the E! website demonstrates awkward use of a prepositional phrase.
Guess the celebrity author of this breathtaking poem, without using Google.
