Unused and Probably Unusable
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U & PU is a blawg by a Philadelphia lawyer. This is a linguistically-inclined blawg. Expect some politics, some literature, and some nonsense. Some rights reserved. All* comments welcome.
*Not all comments welcome.en-us2008-02-12T11:02+00:00Griffin dour; the Stanford Space meeting will occur regardless
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The "Griffin dour" bit is my inability to pass up potential puns, in this case on Gryffindor, the House that Harry Potter belonged to at Hogwarts. I guess past tense is...Eh Nonymous2008-02-12T11:02+00:00Feb. 7
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Today the first eclipse of 2008 will occur, for folks in New Zealand and part of Australia there'll be a partial solar eclipse starting this afternoon, their time. Today is also...Eh Nonymous2008-02-07T12:02+00:00A fascinating footnote in a routine order
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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 Nonymous2007-06-10T11:06+00:00What's LOLcat for Lawyer?
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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 Nonymous2007-06-08T18:06+00:00ACLU-beating: a game anyone can play
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HB of How Appealing posts the following:...Eh Nonymous2007-05-23T21:05+00:00Giuliani and terrorism
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Rudolph William Louis Giuliani III, coddler to corrupt cronies and all-around self-promoter, repeated his slur against Democrats tonight during the Republican presidential debate....Eh Nonymous2007-05-04T02:05+00:00On Iraq, and what to do about it: get involved
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I haven't commented directly on the War Against Iraq on this blawg before. I've touched on it, lots. It reflects on the judgment of the administration. It kills our best and...Eh Nonymous2007-04-28T10:04+00:00"Worst day of violence on a college campus in American history"
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President Bush speaking about the event that Wikipedia seems to have settled on calling the "Virginia Tech Massacre" (as opposed to "Virginia Tech Shootings", see the Talk page for...Eh Nonymous2007-04-18T14:04+00:00The Reasonable Man and racial harassment
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I was bothered by this quote in a LA Times story:...Eh Nonymous2007-04-15T10:04+00:00Heinlein Friday: Gender and Change
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Or, for short,...Eh Nonymous2007-04-06T11:04+00:00Heisenberg, Congress, and War
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I'm pretty sure that the pervasive criticisms of those members of Congress who suggest that things in Iraq are going quite well, based on their own observations, are actually about...Eh Nonymous2007-04-03T11:04+00:00Football; and jurisdiction in the Supreme Court
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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 Nonymous2007-03-28T11:03+00:00Heinlein unFriday: Gender and Change, coming soon
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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 Nonymous2007-03-27T13:03+00:00A jury does its duty...
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... 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 Nonymous2007-03-07T03:03+00:00Rededicating
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Blog Burnout is a serious problem. Not "serious," per se, but worrying. If one worries about trivialities, anyway. And for some, the problem is more of a situation, rather neutral in...Eh Nonymous2007-02-27T05:02+00:00