WELL, WE NEED THOSE: New Ways For Lawyers To Make Money. “This sort of thing is what’s going to pick up the slack in the legal market after the Death of Big Law.”
Archive for 2011
June 14, 2011
CONNING THE COUNTRY on jobs? “The administration’s industrial policy, if you can [call] anything so haphazard and corrupt such, is about as logical as playing the lottery. There is no coherent plan or analysis of technology, markets, or opportunities. Green is good. Everything else is bad. It has taken the President 2 1/2 years to come up with a grab bag of proposals that he will be rolling out over the next two weeks.”
WISCONSIN UPDATE: On Ann Althouse’s blog, “Supreme Court just ruled in favor of the Republicans on Budget Repair.”
Actual ruling here, which notes, “one of the courts that we are charged with supervising has usurped the legislative power which the Wisconsin Constitution grants exclusively to the legislature.”
UPDATE: At Legal Insurrection, “Wisconsin Supreme Court Overturns Judge Sumi:”
This is a sweeping victory for Republicans and Gov. Scott Walker. (And for my prior legal anaylsis, but that’s another matter. I’ll be spiking the football, for sure.)
Heh.
GOOGLE LEAVES SHAREHOLDERS IN THE DARK about green investments?
HOWARD LOVY: Researchers, companies quick to crack E. coli case.
AT AMAZON, free one-day shipping on Father’s Day items.
RECOVERY SUMMER II: US Small Business Sentiment Dims: NFIB Survey. “Small business sentiment in the United States fell for a third straight month in May, landing squarely in recessionary territory due to consumer reticence, high unemployment, and inflation worries, according to a monthly survey released on Tuesday.”
EXTREME BANK REGULATION: The Key To A Lousy Economy?
GETTING TEXT AND EMAIL on a cell-connected wristwatch?
COMING ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15 (that is, tomorrow): Ask A Libertarian! with Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch.
THE MOST BUSTED NAME IN NEWS, again.
RAND SIMBERG: An Out-Of-This-World Debate Question. “Space-policy analysts were as surprised as everyone else at one of the more obscure, but also more intelligent, questions asked in last night’s Republican debate. It was intelligent in both the nature of the question itself and in the candidate at whom it was directed.”
NEW HONDA CIVIC HYBRID is no match for aging Toyota Prius.
ELECTRIC CARS: Not so green after all?
LAWPROF BLOG TRAFFIC RANKINGS. Since I don’t have a Sitemeter any more, I’m not on this list.
IN THE MAIL: The Best Horror of the Year Volume 3.
CAN’T TELL TRUTH FROM FICTION: Dan Mitchell: Corrupt Obamacare Waiver Process Is Like a Scene from Atlas Shrugged. The novel that was meant as a cautionary tale, but that has been adopted as a manual.
MARK STEYN: Is Every Lesbian Blogger A Middle-Aged Man?
HEH: Disgusted Supreme Court Can’t Believe It Has To Rule Having Sex With American Flag Protected Under First Amendment. Yeah, it’s The Onion, but nowadays who can tell?
WISCONSIN DEMOCRAT TO CONSTITUENT: “I FEEL LIKE CALLING HER BACK AND SMACKING HER AROUND.”
UNEXPECTEDLY? May retail sales post first drop in 11 months. “Retail sales fell in May for the first time in 11 months as receipts at auto dealerships dropped sharply, but the decline was less than expected, offering hope of a pick-up in economic activity.”
AT AMAZON, markdowns on mowers and outdoor power.
FAUSTA WERTZ ON Obama’s Trip To Puerto Rico.