It takes four Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court to bring a case onto the docket. Typically...
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.
Today’s question from the good doctor makes me ask a more basic one. Why do people crave fame? Is...
The Beeb is reporting that Muammar Quaddafi has captured by Libya’s transitional government, hiding in a spider hole much...
I just finished A Feast For Crows last night. Now I’m considering whether to drop the extra money on...
Let’s say you and I are sitting at lunch and you get up to use the restroom....
A reversal of policy like this has to have come from either Holder or Obama. And it...
A calculus teacher named Bradley Johnson at a public high school in Poway, California decorated his classroom...
My co-blogger has some excellent thoughts up about online univerisities and non-traditional students. I think it’s front...
Charlie Whittington owns the Kwik Kar Lube & Service in Plano, Texas, and he circulated a coupon...
It appears that as part of what used to be called the Global War On Terror and...
If you are convicted of a misdemeanor in Baldwin County, Alabama (that’s on the east side of...
The English word “republic” is taken from the Latin phrase “res publica,” a concept which embraced the...
My co-blogger Will Truman has authored a really interesting piece on the United States Post Office. I commend...
The war in Afghanistan (remember that one?) clearly is resulting in, at long last, a decrease in...
The government, and people acting on behalf of the government, may not endorse religion, and may not...
The state of Alabama has enacted a new law which would restrict the flow of various benefits...
Here in California, Governor Brown has just signed a law mandating that the history curriculae of the public...
Ten years ago, Portugal decriminalized drugs, including “hard” drugs like cocaine and heroin. Since then, drug-related crime...
Those who are interested in such things are welcome to persue my annual meditation on the United...
In Norway, teachers are trained and encouraged to teach non-traditional gender roles to four-year-olds. This includes the...
