Saturday, January 10, 2009
Is Holding Weird Press Conferences an Impeachable Offense?
Check out this bizarre press conference that Blagojevich held after being impeached by the Illinois House, in which he essentially argues that he should not have been impeached because he did lots of good stuff. As TPM points out, the Tennyson quote at the end is not to be missed.
Labels: Politics
Friday, January 09, 2009
Eye of the Beholder
When you're a forensic musicologist, everything looks like a prehistoric rave site....
Labels: Science
We're Back
After a hiatus of absurd length, we are back. Somehow we cannot resist beginning the new year with the glorious title of this case decided ... uh, last year ... by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals: United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins, No. 05-56274 (9th Cir. Mar. 17, 2008). POA readers who are legally inclined are encouraged to submit other amazing case names in Comments. Here, we'll give you a couple more examples: United States v. 11 1/4 Dozen Packages of Articles Labeled in Part Mrs. Moffat’s Shoo-Fly Powders for Drunkenness, 40 F. Supp. 208 (W.D.N.Y. 1941); United States v. One Package of Japanese Pessaries, 86 F.2d 737 (2nd Cir. 1936). Bonus points for absurd case names that are not in rem actions.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
Labels: Law
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Palaeography Skills
"You know, like nunchuck skills, bowhunting skills, computer hacking skills... Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills." POA readers interested in brushing up on their awesome ancient document parsing skills should visit the web site of the UK's National Archives. Check out the palaeography tutorial.
Thursday, February 24, 2005
Estonian TV Commercials
I imagine most of our readers have already been confounded by these insane Estonian commercials, especially this particularly disturbing one about meat and this nearly indecent one that appears to be about ice cream. Thanks to some guy named Stevenf for the link.
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Happy Birthday to Lorenzo
Hope it's a good one!
Friday, February 18, 2005
Sketchy?
A strip club in Boise has come up with an interesting way of circumventing a municipal anti-nudity law that seems to be modeled on the Supreme Court's famous Miller test for obscenity.
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Layout Problem
Does anyone else think it's strange that the Democratic National Committee's splash page appears to introduce new DNC Chairman Howard Dean as an attractive young black woman? Plus, what's with the grainy, jaggy .gif signature? OK, I'm going to bed.
