Jakadrian Turner was 14 years old in November of 2010 when, despondent over her parents’ divorce and...
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.
Participating in democracy is futile. Your vote, by itself, doesn’t matter. No, what you need is seven...
At the sub-blogs, we’ve had some discussion of the idea of a meetup for the League. The...
I’d like to raise a subject for discussion that is not that walking, talking amalgamation of ambiguity that...
The next installment of my Great Cases series is available at my sub-blog. Today’s offering — Fletcher...
Today is the first day of Saturnalia. I nominate Jaybird to serve as our Lord of Misrule....
Joining what I hope will be a chorus of obituaries today: What’s important in life? Good Scotch,...
At my sub-blog, I have begun a series of analyses of significant cases in U.S. Supreme Court...
Following up on a story I discussed in October and again in November, concerning a Latin cross...
Attempting to arrest his meteoric flameout from the GOP’s good graces, Rick Perry is running this ad...
I wanted to share a quick thought about E.D. Kain’s very recent column at Forbes, but (sorry,...
Over the past month or so, several parts of Iran have begun looking like scenes from a Michael...
Today is “Opposite Day” here at the League. My favorite subject here is Constitutional law and I...
A collapse of the Eurozone would be a disaster of 1929-like proportions. But what’s for us in...
I’m enjoying the process of deflagging quotes. Today, I came across an article on Slate describing what...
Inspired by Tod Kelly’s claim that we U.S. Americans are really closer to one another politically than...
Coming to the silver screen in summer 2012: Atlas Shrugged, Part 2.
I’ve opined several times before that the legal concept of “standing” should be interpreted broadly, particularly in...
In an exchange Tuesday up on the main page, wardsmith asked me if I thought voters had...
I’m getting ready to throw the End-Of-Prohibition Party. So of course I’m thinking of old standards. Bear...
