Happy New Year to all of our blogging family. This has been a remarkable year for the blog. We are now solidly in the top ten legal blogs, according to the AVVO rankings and we have over doubled our number of visits from last year. The success is almost entirely due to our regulars who bring insight, humor, and passion to legal and policies issues every day. I cannot thank you enough.
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Category: Environment
British teenager Tom Reid had just enrolled in college and went to a nightclub to celebrate. He never made it out alive and authorities believe that the loud bass may have killed him by affecting his heart rate. They believe that Reid had a rare genetic disorder known as long QT syndrome.
Continue reading “Music To Die For: British Authorities Believe that Teenager May Have Been Killed By Loud Music”
This just may be the coolest cat I have ever seen.
Continue reading “Mad Dog Versus Zen Cat: The Classic Battle Captured on Video”
Happy New Year’s Eve to all of our blog family.
The final day is here in the galactic struggle for blog dominance. This afternoon, voting will end and, while the vote count has now been hidden by the ABA, we cannot give up our righteous battle.
Continue reading “VOTE NOW: HOURS TO GO TO THE CLOSING OF THE ABA POLLS!”
Vultures are disappearing in South Africa. This is not because of pollution or global warming or development. Vultures are disappearing because gamblers are literally smoking their brains. That’s right. Smoking their brains.
Continue reading “Bad Bet: Vultures Face Extinction in South Africa As Gamblers Smoke Their Brains”
We are now four days short of the finish line in the ABA top blog competition. While the vote count has now been hidden by the ABA, we must learn to fight blindfolded and trust our senses, Little Grasshoppers.
Continue reading “FLOG THE BLOG: FOUR DAYS LEFT FOR BLOG IMMORTALITY”
As a special gift to Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, I wanted to show that his denouncing of atheism was not ignored. He clearly touched this creature.
Continue reading “THE PIOUS PRAIRIE DOG”
This guy really loves this cat. I have to admit that the jumping in slow motion is pretty cool.
Continue reading “Maru’s Moments — In Slow Motion”
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has insisted that the Obama Administration will not fight with China over human rights and instead seek a “more practical” approach that emphasizes trade issues, here. Yesterday, China showed the world that it doesn’t feel any pressure to allow free speech or basic rights to its citizens. It sentenced leading human rights advocate Liu Xiaobo to 11 years in prison for calling for the rule of law and democracy in China.
Continue reading “China Sentences Human Rights Leader to 11 Years in Jail For Drafting Pro-Democracy Paper”
Best wishes to everyone celebrating Christmas and Hanukkah. To paraphrase Tiny Tim, “And God bless us, everyone . . . even Legal Satyricon.” Continue reading “MERRY CHRISTMAS”
The good people of Norad are tracking the jolly fat man and spotted him in Micronesia, here.
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PETA has released photos taken by a former elephant trainer with the circus of a baby elephant being taught to perform — and hit with sharp metal hooks when it fails to do so. The photos were reportedly taken by trainer who died recently and wanted them published.
Continue reading “PETA Publishes Photos of Elephant Abuse Taken By Late Trainer”
According to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, climate talks are simply evidence of the “arrogance of man.” It is expected that next week Palin will announce her campaign to dismantle all dams, re-irrigation programs, and forest fire suppression programs in part of her “de-arrogancing of man.”
Continue reading “Sarah Palin Denounces Climate Talks as Example of “Arrogance of Man””
It has come to this. We are facing a 50 vote deficit with ten days left in the battle for the blogoshere. It is time to pull out the video that most captures the moment (as supplied by Mespo). You are not the first to face an overwhelming army with many assuming certain defeat.
Continue reading “FLOG THE BLOG: Vote Now or the Orcs Will Inhabit the Blog”