Category Archives: Completely Different

So I am reading A Critical Guide to Vehicles in the Park, a paper by Frederick Schauer, which was part of Hart-Fuller conference at NYU. Towards the end he writes,

But we are not choosing between Hart and Fuller for a single position on a law faculty. They are, after all, both dead, and that appears to make them unlikely candidates for faculty appointments.

Then there's a footnote, which says:

Which is not to say that we might not prefer to have them, even dead, over some of our colleagues.

Tough crowd they have at the K-School…

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early.

From Calculated Risk: Rob now, HOPE later:

A robber in a ski mask blamed the bank for what he was about to do, The Associated Press reported Feb. 22.

“You took my house, now I'm going to take your money!” the assailant hollered. Talk about a reverse mortgage!

The FBI plans to review the bank's foreclosure records for clues.

The suspect is presumed to be ARM'ed and dangerous.

(From here)

There are a host of reasons to worry about Google's ability to scoop up and correlate facts about its users. But I have to admit that I never thought of the one exposed at Google Maps is Evil.

Eric Muller says he doesn't remember many jokes, but in I'm Here All Week. Tell Your Friends. he tells a great Jewish joke that I never heard before:

So Joel Rabinowitz, this Jewish guy, falls in love with Bird-in-the-Night, an American Indian girl. They get married and soon decide to have a baby. This is when things get tough. Sol's parents insist that any grandchild of theirs must have a Jewish name. Bird-in-the-Night's parents tell Bird that they'll disown her if she doesn't give their grandchild an Indian name.

When the baby's born, they name her “Smoked Whitefish.”