ALABAMA CHURCH GROUP FINED FOR CUBAN TRAVEL
"U.S. Treasury officials have fined an Alabama church group $34,000, accusing members of Baptist Church of the Covenant in Birmingham and several other churches of engaging in prohibited tourist activities while in Cuba last year for religious purposes.
(BIRMINGHAM NEWS, unearthed by Jack Zylman)
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Saturday, August 19, 2006
DUTY TO DO JUSTICE
The problem is that lawyers' often considerable skills can be harnessed to extraordinarily undemocratic and troubling ends. To be sure, it is sometimes the advocate's job to make weak arguments look strong, and vice-versa. But government lawyers have a different calling. They have a duty to argue what is right, not just what is convenient. Their motto is, 'The government wins when justice is done' - not, 'The government wins when it gets to do whatever it wants.'
(FINDLAW, unearthed by Paul Whitehurst)
The problem is that lawyers' often considerable skills can be harnessed to extraordinarily undemocratic and troubling ends. To be sure, it is sometimes the advocate's job to make weak arguments look strong, and vice-versa. But government lawyers have a different calling. They have a duty to argue what is right, not just what is convenient. Their motto is, 'The government wins when justice is done' - not, 'The government wins when it gets to do whatever it wants.'
(FINDLAW, unearthed by Paul Whitehurst)
Friday, August 18, 2006
HOW TO GIVE NOTICE
This link automatically downloads an mp3 file. It's a hysterical resignation speech by a Mobile Alabama Radio disc jockey who has decided to move on to greener pastures and uses a novel way to give her notice to her bosses at WBLX.
(Suggested by Matt McCarthy)
This link automatically downloads an mp3 file. It's a hysterical resignation speech by a Mobile Alabama Radio disc jockey who has decided to move on to greener pastures and uses a novel way to give her notice to her bosses at WBLX.
(Suggested by Matt McCarthy)
Thursday, August 17, 2006
JILL CARROLL'S STORY
"'You're my brother, you're truly my brother,' I said in Arabic. 'Promise me you will use this gun to kill me by your own hand. I don't want that knife, I don't want the knife. Use the gun.'
(THE FOURTH PART OF THIS SEQUEL WAS PUBLISHED TODAY. FOLLOW THE LINKS)
(SEATTLE TIMES)
"'You're my brother, you're truly my brother,' I said in Arabic. 'Promise me you will use this gun to kill me by your own hand. I don't want that knife, I don't want the knife. Use the gun.'
(THE FOURTH PART OF THIS SEQUEL WAS PUBLISHED TODAY. FOLLOW THE LINKS)
(SEATTLE TIMES)
Sunday, August 13, 2006
WONDERFUL PICTURES OF HAVANA
I'm not quite clear how to get around all of the flashy web mechanisms on this site. So, I've just posted the main site and trust that, if you want to see some truly amazing photography, especially some real street scenes of Havana, you can follow the links to his portfolio. Truly impressive.
I'm not quite clear how to get around all of the flashy web mechanisms on this site. So, I've just posted the main site and trust that, if you want to see some truly amazing photography, especially some real street scenes of Havana, you can follow the links to his portfolio. Truly impressive.
DOUBLE SET OF BOOKS
"The Chimera is primarily known as a creature of Greek legend - a fire-breathing monster with parts of a goat and a lion with a serpent for a tail. In biology the term has come to refer to any organism that contains more than one set of genes."
(DAMN INTERESTING, unearthed by Brent Gourley)
"The Chimera is primarily known as a creature of Greek legend - a fire-breathing monster with parts of a goat and a lion with a serpent for a tail. In biology the term has come to refer to any organism that contains more than one set of genes."
(DAMN INTERESTING, unearthed by Brent Gourley)
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