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We posted a lot about Casey Anthony back when her trial was going on.

In 2011.

So there’s a new documentary out that seems to conclude, as we did 11 years ago, that Casey’s father was a logical suspect in the toddler’s disappearance but wasn’t apparently investigated by law enforcement.

At all.

It’s nice to

So, the SCOTUS nominee coming out of the Biden administration is being hailed as an historic departure from past appointments, and a victory for diversity and racial justice.

It’s nothing of the kind.

What the SCOTUS most needs now is someone who has actually tried a case, to a jury, representing a disfavored litigant. No

We haven’t posted in a long while. We make no apologies. We’ve been busy.

Something has occurred to us recently that warrants a post or two. A theme we have visited before. Maybe a timely theme as well.

What, really, was the great 20th century quarrel between communism and “capitalism”?

Take a look at the

whether a $60 million pain and suffering award was “too much” and needed to be cut in half?

The Appellate Division, First Department. That’s who.

It’s a lot of money either way, of course. At least, in context it is.

But we’ll just say here what we have said before: there is no principled

We take it that Dahlia Lithwick over at Slate would generally not approve of District Court judges issuing “rebukes” to the SCOTUS. But she loves this one.

We at LoS are quite struck by this passage:

In order to block the law, [District Court Judge] Pitman crafted an injunction to “halt existing S.B. lawsuits

Politics ain’t beanbag. We get that.

She knocked off Tom Richards, who was an odd choice for Rochester mayor, speaking demographically. But he was not odd in one important respect: the shadowy powers that be held him in high regard.

Lovely did not truck with the powers that be and that has consequences, especially if

At some point someone has to say something. Might as well be us.

There’s a website characterized as “far right” on Widipedia called “The Gateway Pundit” (“GP”)

GP reports that there was a “rally” yesterday in Georgia presided over by former President Trump that featured a “massive crowd”. Is this true? GP says

Last verse of the immortal “American Pie”:

I met a girl who sang the bluesAnd I asked her for some happy newsBut she just smiled and turned awayAnd I went down to the sacred storewhere I’d heard the music, years beforeBut the man theresaid the musicwouldn’t playAnd in the streets the children screamedthe lovers cried