New York has, or has had, 16 of these. Massachusetts and Virginia has or has had 7...
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.
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By way of Popehat, Arnold Kling on a root problem with contemporary political discourse, summarized in the...
Today’s story about the Justice Department obtaining two months’ worth of telephone records from the Associated Press,...
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Not A Potted Plant is thrilled and proud to announce the arrival of its third contributor. Please drop...
Once something is published on the Internet, it’s too late to take it back. Ask Anthony Weiner....
To the left is a meal I had in Portland, Oregon this weekend. It was not the best...
Today marks the annual Congressionally-mandated ritual of disrespecting the Constitution in the name of pleasing the pious....
From today’s Boston Herald (via memeorandum): The Tsarnaev family, including the suspected terrorists and their parents, benefited from...
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