Thursday, February 26, 2004

You are... The Flag of Turkmenistan!!!
Green is special, too!
The bold red vertical stripe through the green background fits you to a tee.
It is representative, of course, of your independent streak,
which is always just dying to get out. That said, the "you" that the world
sees is the large, green-background "you." Your first priority is to let
the world see the red "you" and all of the little squiggly things inside.
While some might think that you are confined to the four corners
of your external self, you know better. Be confident in who you are.
PS - Chicks dig crescent moons.

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Everyone else has already talked about it, but Naomi cried Wolf. Now every time I hit on a woman, it's rape. Good to know, because God knows, it's not like the modern male suffers from enough social disability.

I'd like to thank radical feminism for making me the man I am today: afraid that if I touch a woman I'll be sued, afraid that if I look at a woman too long I'll be sued, afraid that if I even think naughty thoughts about a woman I'll be sued. Thanks, ladies (err, womyn- don't want to be sued) for ruining life for the overwhelming majority of single men who haven't raped anyone.

EDIT: Yes, I know the standard feminist argument is that anyone with a penis is a potential rapist. Following that logic (which fails to take into account that anyone with a broom, or a balloon whisk, or a curtain rod is also a potential rapist), anyone with a car is a potential speeder, anyone with a gun is a potential murderer, anyone with a fish and a newspaper is a potential mafioso, and anyone with a piano is a potential Vladimir Horowitz, and anyone with a Jewish relative is a potential Jew at least as far as the Nazis and Adbusters are concerned (after all, someone's got to invoke Godwin's Law).

Tuesday, February 24, 2004

Tim Sandefur highlights an interesting quote from a letter of Jefferson on the Necessary and Proper Clause. It reminds me of a joke my con-law professor once told us, of a time when he was clerking at the USSC for Justice Stanley Reed. He was talking to another law clerk, and this other clerk was railing against the New Deal Court and their attempts to restrict the NRA. My professor asked him, "Don't you believe in any part of Article I?" The other clerk responded, without batting an eye, "I believe in the Necessary and Proper Clause."

Monday, February 23, 2004

YOU ARE RULE 11!

You were designed to make sure that attorneys in
federal cases make reasonable inquiries into
fact or law before submitting pleadings,
motions, or other papers. You were a real
hardass in 1983, when you snuffed out all legal
creativity from federal proceedings and
embarassed well-meaning but overzealous
attorneys. You loosened up a bit in 1993, when
you began allowing plaintiffs to make
allegations in their complaints that are likely
to have evidenciary support after discovery,
and when you allowed a 21 day period for the
erring attorney to withdraw the errant motion.
Sure, you keep everything running on the up and
up, but it's clear that things would be a lot
more fun without you around.


Which Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Are You?
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Well, this result is wholly unsurprising.