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Any good things to pick up on? Yes. There are.

My optimism didn’t pan out, did it? But the good thing involves that quasi-religious-Jewish ritual, Kinahora phuh phuh phuh, a Yiddish invocation for warding off The Evil Eye. Reminder: As soon as somebody remarks on a good or hopeful upcoming … Continue reading

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Did Magna Carta lead inevitably to the Scopes Trial?

Oh probably not. But Kevin Underhill, at his brilliant, satirical take on the worst of law, Lowering The Bar, writes something in his excellent and hilarious treatise on Article 41 of Magna Carta and how some, uh, insurrectionists tried to … Continue reading

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The Fourth and the First

On this bizarre and disturbing Fourth of July, I ran into a fascinating and inspiring history of the founding of the ACLU. Which, of course, has a lot to do with the First Amendment and how the ACLU has defended … Continue reading

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