Month: April 2010

Here's a bit of heartbreaker.  A Pennsylvania man with a mobility disability sought  food stamps in an amount sufficient  to feed both himself and his dog.  His dog apparently helps…

Paul Caron has a post up highlighting some tax issues relevant to those professors going on sabbatical or visiting other universities. Faculty hitting the road next year are probably well advised…

The problem with having a market economy ethos and the death penalty is that, sometimes, the two come together in odd ways.  So it is in Utah, where Ronnie Lee Gardner faces…

For anyone missing the politicking of the last U.S. presidential election, Prime Minister Gordon Brown has just called a general election in the U.K. for May 6.  The British Labour…

Because I’m exceptionally organized and my class a well-oiled machine with every move carefully timed . . . Okay, no.  But a combination of luck and planning meant that today…

The current issue of Baylor Magazine profiles the university's incoming president (and outgoing Pepperdine law dean) Ken Starr in a lengthy article available here.

Roger Dennis (baseball fan, faithful reader of this blog, and Drexel's law dean) reminded me on Friday that baseball season gets underway today.  So let's kick off the season with…

Via Reuters, just in time for the Easter holiday, Holy Bubble!  According to the article, filings in the Thomson Reuters Westlaw legal database show foreclosure proceedings against U.S. churches have nearly…

Some more pictures from my trip last summer to Southampton.  A house along the road that Nat Turner followed.