The Pagan Science Monitor tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-531350 2007-10-31T22:01:43-05:00 Your skeptical weekly look at law, policy, and satire. TypePad Illinois drivers license written exam cheat sheet tag:typepad.com,2003:post-40954090 2007-10-31T22:01:43-05:00 2007-10-31T22:01:43-05:00 One freebie for the IL drivers written test T.P.S.M. Judex Canis Mesomelas, guest blogger tag:typepad.com,2003:post-40951618 2007-10-31T20:31:43-05:00 2007-10-31T20:31:43-05:00 The Hon. Judex Canis Mesomelas writes: "Grrrrr. Ipso facto. Woof. De fideli! Mmmmmmmmmmmmm, dingo entrails? Amicus curiae, sub judice! Sua sponte! Rrrrrrrr, rrrrooof! Qui facet per alium, facit per se. Veritas et scientia. DINGO ENTRAILS! DINGO ENTRAILS! I SMELL DINGO ENTRAILS! AND I'LL PERSONALLY SEE... T.P.S.M. Objection, judge! Have you been drinking? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-39843028 2007-10-05T20:41:49-05:00 2007-10-05T20:41:49-05:00 Your honor, I object to that illegal left turn you made into my car, and to that bloody mary on your breath T.P.S.M. I love my bike but fear my government tag:typepad.com,2003:post-39525406 2007-09-28T15:55:32-05:00 2007-09-28T15:55:32-05:00 NLG Legal Observers will ride along with Critical Mass bikers in Chicago tonight, for the 10th anniversary CM celebratory ride. T.P.S.M. Quotation du jour: Tue. 9-25-07 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-39384353 2007-09-25T17:48:29-05:00 2007-09-25T17:48:29-05:00 Langston Huges: Quotation du jour. T.P.S.M. Quotation du jour, Wed. 7-4-07 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-36125018 2007-07-04T22:58:41-05:00 2007-07-04T22:58:41-05:00 Judge denounces use of jailhouse snitches T.P.S.M. Communting Scooter's prison sentence is a dare tag:typepad.com,2003:post-36057136 2007-07-02T22:39:59-05:00 2007-07-02T22:39:59-05:00 I dare you guys to impeach me. I dare ya. T.P.S.M. Quotation du jour, Mon. 7-2-07 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-36055370 2007-07-02T21:21:50-05:00 2007-07-02T21:21:50-05:00 "The first method for estimating the brain-power of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him....There are, in fact, three types of brain. One understands things for himself. The second discerns what others understand. The third neither understands for itself nor... T.P.S.M. Don't read this, read that tag:typepad.com,2003:post-35997754 2007-07-01T18:52:51-05:00 2007-07-01T18:52:51-05:00 Marjorie Cohn, president of the National Lawyers Guild writes as a special guest on Jurist about the FBI spying on the NLG. Jurist is the e-zine of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. T.P.S.M. WWJD??!!?? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-35976996 2007-07-01T00:30:24-05:00 2007-07-01T00:30:24-05:00 WWJD: When was Julio's dialysis? Waffles with jam?! Du-u-u-u-d-e! Wait! We'll jump down! Why was Jacquetta drunk? T.P.S.M. Quotation du jour -- Sat. 6-30-07 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-35976622 2007-06-30T23:53:46-05:00 2007-06-30T23:53:46-05:00 "For all the difficulties, the instinctive coutermeasures, we go on watching closely, trying to read a face, trying to measure intentions. Friend or foe? It's an ancient preoccupation. And even if, down through the generations, we are only right slightly more than half the time,... T.P.S.M. No Friday afternoon conspiracy theory tag:typepad.com,2003:post-35954534 2007-06-29T22:37:50-05:00 2007-06-29T22:37:50-05:00 Excuses, excuses. Typepad was down half the afternoon. Sometimes, too, it is better for a man to live than to blog. Finally, sneaking away from the fun to blog (ignoring my own observation), I find that the CIA's FOIA site makes the computer crash...any theories... T.P.S.M. Policy to be skeptical of today tag:typepad.com,2003:post-35916260 2007-06-28T20:42:53-05:00 2007-06-28T20:42:53-05:00 Why oh why can't I just get a couple cans of black matte spray paint? T.P.S.M. Full disclosure tag:typepad.com,2003:post-35873460 2007-06-27T17:34:49-05:00 2007-06-27T17:34:49-05:00 Yesterday, it was the "family jewels," the day before, it was FBI spying on the National Lawyers Guild, today it's a subpoena about the illegal eavesdropping. The ruling class is having an orgy of contrition over its bad behavior. Or...maybe it's just like what trial... T.P.S.M. NO WAY! FBI documents show decades of spying on NLG tag:typepad.com,2003:post-35774004 2007-06-25T16:18:38-05:00 2007-06-25T16:18:38-05:00 National Lawyers Guild spied on T.P.S.M. After the after-party tag:typepad.com,2003:post-35743512 2007-06-24T22:08:58-05:00 2007-06-24T22:08:58-05:00 LGBTQI legislative victories don't make up for the corporate takeover of Pride. T.P.S.M. Friday afternoon conspiracy theory tag:typepad.com,2003:post-35741796 2007-06-24T20:47:21-05:00 2007-06-24T20:47:21-05:00 Congestion fee proposed for Chicago motorists T.P.S.M. Happy Johannestanz day tag:typepad.com,2003:post-35738512 2007-06-24T17:54:34-05:00 2007-06-24T17:54:34-05:00 Manic Dancing this day in 1374 T.P.S.M. Quotation du jour: Fri. 6-22-07 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-35669914 2007-06-22T19:28:05-05:00 2007-06-22T19:28:05-05:00 Shut up! Ain't funny! This gun is real! T.P.S.M. Quotation du jour: Sat. 6-16-07 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-35418298 2007-06-16T12:32:42-05:00 2007-06-16T12:32:42-05:00 Orwell on bustin suds T.P.S.M. Friday afternoon conspiracy theory: 6-15-07 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-35384692 2007-06-15T19:10:23-05:00 2007-06-15T19:10:23-05:00 Watch out for them Freak Macons, they'll gitcha. T.P.S.M. Quotation du jour, Fri. 6-15-07 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-35364542 2007-06-15T10:09:11-05:00 2007-06-15T10:09:11-05:00 Woody Guthrie sings Scooter Libby a lullaby with a machine that kills fascists. T.P.S.M. Is Paris burning? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-35248068 2007-06-12T21:15:35-05:00 2007-06-12T21:15:35-05:00 Paris Hilton's unnamed medical condition revealed! T.P.S.M. Quotation du jour, Mon. 6-11-07 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-35203838 2007-06-11T20:18:32-05:00 2007-06-11T20:18:32-05:00 God Bless the Child, Billie Holiday, 1939 T.P.S.M. Friday afternoon conspiracy theory, 6-8-07 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-35101480 2007-06-08T18:18:16-05:00 2007-06-08T18:18:16-05:00 9/11 conspiracy theorists' FAQs T.P.S.M. Knocked up: yes, the nuns CAN fire you, you fornicators, you tag:typepad.com,2003:post-35007802 2007-06-06T16:17:59-05:00 2007-06-06T16:17:59-05:00 Fired for getting pregnant? Fired for getting someone else pregnant? T.P.S.M. Quotation du jour, Tue. 6-5-07 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-34976242 2007-06-05T22:15:49-05:00 2007-06-05T22:15:49-05:00 Who invented music? T.P.S.M. NLG president has blawg (law blog) tag:typepad.com,2003:post-34930164 2007-06-04T21:17:29-05:00 2007-06-04T21:17:29-05:00 Critique of unitary executive theory T.P.S.M. Quotation du jour, Sun. 6-3-07 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-34843996 2007-06-03T21:29:56-05:00 2007-06-03T21:29:56-05:00 Mission Accomplished T.P.S.M. A different idea to make the El bearable tag:typepad.com,2003:post-34842338 2007-06-03T20:23:44-05:00 2007-06-03T20:23:44-05:00 Stop pretending there are pirates in the Blue Line tunnel and do something! T.P.S.M. Grumpy old men seized in wild JFK terror plot tag:typepad.com,2003:post-34818568 2007-06-02T23:32:17-05:00 2007-06-02T23:32:17-05:00 Montrous threat from terror cell called 4OMCK, or Four Old Men's Coffee Klatch, broken up in nick of time. T.P.S.M. Quotation du jour tag:typepad.com,2003:post-34782466 2007-06-01T21:25:14-05:00 2007-06-01T21:25:14-05:00 The Quotation du Jour is wordless. Today, it is a sound. T.P.S.M. Anti-death penalty lesbian prosecutor for president in 2008 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-34731980 2007-05-31T15:58:21-05:00 2007-05-31T15:58:21-05:00 Lesbian prosecutor fired for being anti-death penalty to run for president in my head. T.P.S.M. Rosie-Hasselbeck make-up: most important thing in the whole world! tag:typepad.com,2003:post-34654278 2007-05-29T20:18:02-05:00 2007-05-29T20:18:02-05:00 Real true inside scoop on Rosie and Hasselbeck make up! T.P.S.M. Nazis bash LGBT march in Moscow tag:typepad.com,2003:post-34580194 2007-05-27T19:51:07-05:00 2007-05-27T19:51:07-05:00 Remember how mad you were the last time you got queer-bashed and the cops arrested you? It happened today in Moscow. The city again banned a Pride march, for the second year running. Moscow LGBT activists (including organizer Nikolai Alexeyev) instead rallied to present a... T.P.S.M. Quotation du jour tag:typepad.com,2003:post-34556938 2007-05-26T18:51:40-05:00 2007-05-26T18:51:40-05:00 pray for a new age pray for information i can hope, see even if i don't believe pray for a new state pray for communication i can hope, see even if i don't believe and i believe i think i don't know history will show... T.P.S.M. Happy obscure law-related anniversary tag:typepad.com,2003:post-34531894 2007-05-25T20:17:22-05:00 2007-05-25T20:17:22-05:00 It's the 220th anniversary of the convening of the Constitutional Convention. The president celebrated by slapping the entire legislative branch silly. The chief justice told Catholic college grads to "be brave." The slimy toxic corporate despoilers of all that is good and beautiful threatened to... T.P.S.M. "It's partly good" set to replace hackneyed go-to phrase tag:typepad.com,2003:post-34487592 2007-05-24T20:58:59-05:00 2007-05-24T20:58:59-05:00 Don't say it's all good. It ain't. T.P.S.M. Ask Starry Decisive for an acronym tag:typepad.com,2003:post-34486846 2007-05-24T20:24:43-05:00 2007-05-24T20:24:43-05:00 What should I call my dog's booger? T.P.S.M. Illinois drivers license written exam cheat sheet tag:typepad.com,2003:post-34486526 2007-05-24T20:09:36-05:00 2007-05-24T20:09:36-05:00 One free answer to IL drivers written test. T.P.S.M.