Personally, I have problems with Suzanne Vega’s song “My name is Luca”

My name is luca
I live on the second floor
I live upstairs from you
Yes i think you’ve seen me before

(Repeat, monotone, ad nauseum)

‘Just don’t ask my why…(3x)’

Apparently the judge, hid the picture, not wanting the jury to know the true depth of his cheese. You can read more about this judge by googling “chicago judge ‘ordered to undergo anger managment’”

I’ve been in court sevral times when highschool classes were present during field trips. Twice I’ve heard a student ask a judge if he wanted to be a “t.v.judge” ( chicago public school kinda question ). One judge did the right thing and just said no. The other judge got a stupid fucking smile on his face and said he’d have to think about it.

So I agree with Mike S. in general. However, as one who is hates the noise pollution caused by every douche-bag gang-banger wannabe, I think that this judge, in this case, exhibited a certain amount of genius.

Indeed, this is like a virus spreading through the court system. Once a few judges yield to the entertainment element, a dozen other judges begin to contemplate the same avenue toward notoriety.

Judges like this do coarsen our court system in their using their positions questing for publicity as the post describes. Yet in truth Professor and the other Attorney’s who comment here, isn’t this also true of many of our prosecutors, law officers and yes even some attorney’s themselves? As historic examples we have Roy Bean, Rudy Guiliani, and Sheriff Joe Arpaio, to name a few.

While as a non-lawyer I feel a great appreciation for our legal system, Clarence Darrow and William O. Douglas are heroes to me, I also see too much abuse in it directly stemming from its’ being so inextricably intertwined with our political system. Rudy Giuilani’s prosecutorial grandstanding led to his national prominence, as did Tom Dewey’s. There is political payoff to be had by Judges behaving like this, with the citizenry uninformed by a degraded educational system, applauding/rewarding these abuses of power.

By the way I apologize in advance for my pomposity, but I lack the wittiness (perhaps youth) to keep up with you all, although I’m smart enough to appreciate how smart and funny you all are.
Just consider me the old fart in the mix.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

I have begun preparing the mega-feast, already!

I fear that the next aural gem you unleash might include Madam Sarah Palin before an audience of unpardoned, last rights’ Thanksgivin’ turkeys a’sangin’ Sir Bury Minilows rendition of: “

Feelings, wo-o-o feelings, Wo-o-oooooooo…ad infinitum……

(Here’s hopin’ that Mr. T is also susceptible to earworms like us ‘common folk’ is, ’cause I’m givin’ myself a headache and earache over “BMs” heartache songs…)

Where is the gratitude? I could have posted the lyrics to Copacabana but I decided that there must be some limits.

JT

Yes, but why did *you and I* have to read those lyrics, thus increasing and prolonging our own misery?

My alibi: I did it for research purposes only.

Thank you Mr. T. That ‘earworm’ will be hummin’ in my head all day.

Did you have to include the lyrics?

It’s as if all judges wish they could be Judge Judy. Mike, I know you wrote about this on another thread (which I can’t find) but I see this as another example of a distrubing pattern in this society. There is this weird celebrity thing going on. Being “famous”, on TV, the “news”, in Second Life etc. overrides actual lived experience. Fame seems to be the main goal and people are doing whatever it takes to get it. The places where “fame” occurs are primarily in the “unreality zone”. This conjunction of the desire for fame and fame occuring in a type of unreality doesn’t make for well thought out actions in lived experience. I know I didn’t say this well, but it’s the best I can do right now.