http://unusedandunusable.powerblogs.com/ U & PU is a blawg by a Philadelphia lawyer. This is a linguistically-inclined blawg; we also do general legal commentary, political and social current events, and any senseless rants or worthless posts are hereby disavowed and disclaimed. Some rights reserved. All* comments welcome. *Not all comments welcome. Flippant, fierce, or fatuous, fine. Fraudulent, felonious, fabricated, facially insufficient, and farkin' futile, fuggeddaboutit. en-us 2007-06-10T11:06+00:00 http://unusedandunusable.powerblogs.com/posts/1181473471.shtml Judge Walton allowed 12 law prawfs to submit a brief. Routine, even in a high-profile case like the one against convicted felon Scooter Libby? (His conviction isn't final yet, and the... Eh Nonymous 2007-06-10T11:06+00:00 http://unusedandunusable.powerblogs.com/posts/1181327805.shtml I didn't want to go down this road. Like most folks interested in language and linguistics, I read Language Log, and like most folks aware of internet memes, I'd visited... Eh Nonymous 2007-06-08T18:06+00:00 http://unusedandunusable.powerblogs.com/posts/1179955730.shtml HB of How Appealing posts the following:... Eh Nonymous 2007-05-23T21:05+00:00 http://unusedandunusable.powerblogs.com/posts/1176633753.shtml I was bothered by this quote in a LA Times story:... Eh Nonymous 2007-04-15T10:04+00:00 http://unusedandunusable.powerblogs.com/posts/1175080910.shtml That's two separate topics. Semicolons separate two things which can stand on their own. Colons, in my limited experience, are for when the thing following the colon is an exemplification or... Eh Nonymous 2007-03-28T11:03+00:00 http://unusedandunusable.powerblogs.com/posts/1175001380.shtml To quote another legal epistolary writer (Aaron Streett; the extra T at the end is probably for Terrific), "Greetings, sportsfans!" See here, for the first March issue of his periodic... Eh Nonymous 2007-03-27T13:03+00:00 http://unusedandunusable.powerblogs.com/posts/1173239745.shtml ... and convicts when the case made by the prosecution is "overwhelming" despite having personal sympathy for the defendant. See NYT, March 7, 2007, "Libby Guilty of Lying in C.I.A.... Eh Nonymous 2007-03-07T03:03+00:00 http://unusedandunusable.powerblogs.com/posts/1158933530.shtml Popping my head up. Several thoughts.... Eh Nonymous 2006-09-22T13:09+00:00 http://unusedandunusable.powerblogs.com/posts/1157108506.shtml Blogging goes through periods of varying frequencies, as with most aspects of life.... Eh Nonymous 2006-09-01T11:09+00:00 http://unusedandunusable.powerblogs.com/posts/1157108506.shtml Blogging goes through periods of varying frequencies, as with most aspects of life.... Eh Nonymous 2006-09-01T11:09+00:00 http://unusedandunusable.powerblogs.com/posts/1155349066.shtml To my disappointment, the Heinlein Friday for this Friday wasn't done yet - not even half done yet, which would have let me post Part 1, to be followed next Friday... Eh Nonymous 2006-08-12T02:08+00:00 http://unusedandunusable.powerblogs.com/posts/1154088344.shtml Welcome to the 9th Heinlein Friday! Well, sort of. I posted the first HF-related post on May 26th, announcing a "new recurring feature" - how prescient of me. There have... Eh Nonymous 2006-07-28T12:07+00:00 http://unusedandunusable.powerblogs.com/posts/1153913353.shtml As I've got my act (more) together this week than last week, when I needed to make the HF post mostly not about Heinlein, and come out on a not-Friday (HF:... Eh Nonymous 2006-07-26T11:07+00:00 http://unusedandunusable.powerblogs.com/posts/1153369128.shtml I preempt (preemptively!) this week's Heinlein Friday, the recurring examination of the fiction of Robert Heinlein through a legal lens, to bring you... Eh Nonymous 2006-07-20T10:07+00:00 http://unusedandunusable.powerblogs.com/posts/1152875267.shtml Sensationalistic? Purposely filled with violence, gore, and sex?... Eh Nonymous 2006-07-14T11:07+00:00