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December 30, 2003
Couldn’t quite clear that
last hurdle
December 27, 2003
The money will spend, but
it still makes a difference how you spend it
December 25, 2003
A Christmas gift for tax exemption policy
December 23, 2003
When your attorney tells
you to treat that money as if it’s someone else’s, he might just be right.
December 22, 2003
Suing your fellow
legislators might make you feel better, but it’s not likely to help much
December 21, 2003
There are legitimate ways to preserve open space.
Reverse spot zoning is not one of them.
December 13, 2003
Fighting over process as a
proxy for fighting over substance
December 10, 2003
Holiday gift guides and shameless
self-promotion
December 9, 2003
Not enough votes right
now, but there are ways to find them
December 8, 2003
Three Claudes for a physical fitness headline
December 6, 2003
Losing a gamble on federal jurisdiction
December 5, 2003
We’re looking for a few
bad films
December 4, 2003
Update on Rhode Island State Senate Voting
Rights Act Case
November 30, 2003
One phrase can make all
the difference
November 27, 2003
Being Polite at the Thanksgiving Table
November 25, 2003
Blue notes about
transportation financing
November 24, 2003
Not a lot of interest in a free market
November 23, 2003
Campaign everywhere if you
want to be considered a national party
November 20, 2003
New Census report on housing in the U.S.
November 19, 2003
Did all those ill-gotten
gains absolutely positively have to be there overnight?
November 17, 2003
A lead on the holiday
gift-buying rush
November 16, 2003
Claude winner for College Budget Economics
101 story
November 14, 2003
Traffic cameras helping
the war effort
November 12, 2003
Goose turds—the gifts that
keep on giving
November 11, 2003
Small town business owner
complains about law enforcement; First Amendment hijinks ensue
November 10, 2003
Animal House
and the Americans with Disabilities Act
November 5, 2003
Rehoboth Independent Film Festival 2003
November 4, 2003
Fun for the
self-centered--not so fun for the rest of us
November 1, 2003
Houston, you don't have a problem
October 31, 2003
Knowledge of
local cultural norms is a good thing—and safer, too
October 30, 2003
Challenging a law for what it doesn’t say
October 27, 2003
The wrong side of being
zealous, and on tape no less
October 23, 2003
It would
be so much easier to believe your good intentions if you hadn’t spend the
money
October 20, 2003
New study says more poor
folks buy lottery tickets than any other income group.
Gee, what are the odds?
October 17, 2003
Memo to FTC and FCC:
Create the Do-Call List
October 16, 2003
Picked an odd time to start defending
yourself, didn't you?
October 16, 2003
News from the world of political science
October 15, 2003
A mild case of sex
discrimination
October 13, 2003
Sometimes doubling up is a
good thing
October 12, 2003
If the hammocks are that environmentally desirable, then buy
them
October 11, 2003
Expressing the limits of one’s political
ambitions
October 8, 2003
The substance of scooter
style
October 6, 2003
Somebody's a movie buff. Unfortunately for
the other guy, he wasn't.
October 5, 2003
When the smell of burning
leaves is neither possible nor enough
October 3, 2003
What part of “you lost,
they won” didn’t you understand?
October 3, 2003
Bill Gates, evil intergalactic genius?
October 2, 2003
Four Claudes, graded on
the Demand/Supply Curve
October 1, 2003
A refreshingly honest bit
of reporting
September 24, 2003
Maybe this time they’ll award attorney’s fees
September 23, 2003
Annals of crime (with
apologies to Broadway)
September 22, 2003
How can you complain about a permit
revocation, when you never had the property zoned for that use in the first
place?
September 22, 2003
Two Claudes, with a little violin music.
From a tiny little violin, in fact.
September 20, 2003
Missed this one in the
college guidebooks
September 18, 2003
Smelling the coffee about
tax policy
September 15, 2003
Hot new stuff
for census wonks and others
September 15, 2003
Beavis and Butthead, Headline Writers
Stuck on you
September 12, 2003
Those tolls are for thee—and what would you do without them,
by the way?
September 9, 2003
Won’t be hearing them now, or anytime soon
for that matter
September 4, 2003
Whole lotta table-pounding goin’ on
September 3, 2003
Why isn’t it more a matter
of bad pricing?
Takes one to know one
September 2, 2003
Take one bite each from
two separate apples
August 29, 2003
Trusting Mom to do the wrong thing for you
August 27, 2003
Close call on a Rails-to-Trails fight
August 22, 2003
Parking—not exactly a
privilege, and not exactly a right, either
History lessons
August 19, 2003
Not exactly a judicial temperament
August 18, 2003
Preserving privilege and piping plovers at the same time--nice argument, if
you can make it
Shameless Promotion
August 16, 2003
The Big Weekends
August 15, 2003
Communications skills
August 14, 2003
Nice bit of timing for a double-whammy
August 13, 2003
The Sneaking Suspicions Recipes List
August 12, 2003
Tales from the car hunt
August 12, 2003
Check first before you buy. That includes
your lawyer.
August 11, 2003
Just a little too controlling
August 10, 2003
Wet summer
August 9, 2003
The anticipation of
seafood
August 8, 2003
What were they thinking?
August 7, 2003
A
statistical explanation for all those blinking left turn signals
August 7, 2003
Traffic report
August 6, 2003
When it
comes to crimes under the Clean Water Act, there are wetlands and then there
are wetlands.
August 5, 2003
What if you held a California bond sale and
no one came?
August 4, 2003
Annals of Crime
August 2, 2003
Meeting Charles Hill
August 1, 2003
Serious Movietime
July 31, 2003
Understatement on all
sides
July 30, 2003
If you’re going to push
for policy change as a plaintiff, first make sure you have a good case
July 29, 2003
Sam the Ham
July 28, 2003
Segregation for the sake of diversity?
July 27, 2003
Pastaletta
July 26, 2003
Swagging the government’s
revenue estimates
July 25, 2003
Five Claudes for this one
July 24, 2003
WMD Alert
July 19, 2003
Blogging break
July 19, 2003
Sex on the beach--fun for you, maybe, but not
for the folks that can't avoid seeing you
July 18, 2003
Doing the right thing after doing the wrong
thing
July 17, 2003
A rare judicial reference to
common sense
July 16, 2003
Coincidence doesn’t prove causation
July 15, 2003
Bridge burning 101
July 14, 2003
Elle Woods meets Springtime for Hitler
July 13, 2003
Nothing like a
roller-skating drag queen to spice up your Bingo Games
July 12, 2003
Lunch with Sgt. Stryker
July 11, 2003
Serious arguments are
taken seriously by the courts. Non-serious arguments are not.
July 11, 2003
Maybe we live just a little too far north
July 10, 2003
A bureaucratic legend comes back to life?
July 9, 2003
This thud’s for you
July 8, 2003
Ghostlight
July 8, 2003
Fifth Amendment Rule Number One is, it’s okay
to look out for Number One
July 7, 2003
Fireworks experiment
July 7, 2003
Traffic report
July 6, 2003
New Protocol--finish the 18th
hole, hand in your scorecard, and turn in your driver to the equipment
trailer
July 5, 2003
Maybe they'll listen to Wall Street--maybe
July 4, 2003
The sound of where you live
July 3, 2003
Not so
uncommonly silly after all
July 2, 2003
Heavy weather
July 1, 2003
Chutzpah alert
July 1, 2003
Recommended reading
June 30, 2003
Anyone care to comment?
Anyone?
June 30, 2003
Thank you, Mr. Lelyveld
June 28, 2003
Burying the lede in a
Voting Rights Act story
June 27, 2003
The Ten Commandments and public buildings
June 26, 2003
Phonics Phun
June 26, 2003
Rednecks remembered--all of them
June 25, 2003
The golden rule for discovery violations
June 24, 2003
Would you
like that bandage ripped off slowly, or quickly?
June 23, 2003
A
Rehobosexual steps out
June 23, 2003
Three Claudes
for a not-too-startling admission
June 22, 2003
Thanks for stopping by
June 21, 2003
Sometimes you're fine about all the hype
June 21, 2003
Pretty good mood elevator
June 20, 2003
Struck a community’s nerve
June 19, 2003
Putting your money where your mouth is
June 18, 2003
Guessed right about this
bit of found money
June 17, 2003
A difference in emphasis
June 17, 2003
About two weeks late and 7,300 dollars short
June 16, 2003
Fun with headlines
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June 15, 2003
Called this one correctly about The Two
Cultures
June 13, 2003
Same-Sex Wedding Etiquette
June 12, 2003
Update on the Salt Lake City/LDS sidewalk
case
June 11, 2003
Family and other traditions at the beach
June 11, 2003
Kind of brings a whole new
meaning to “I can get if for you wholesale.”
June 9, 2003
You sentence a guy to an additional 130 years
in prison, and all of sudden he’s got a problem with that?
June 8, 2003
Finding the money in
Alabama, with God’s help
June 7, 2003
Science and Music, Working Together in Space
Exploration
June 6, 2003
Left the gate a bit too early
June 5, 2003
Pump, pump, pump it up—the
Chesapeake Bay, that is.
June 4, 2003
Fairness, like beauty, in the eyes of the
beholder
June 3, 2003
Some trusts are better than others
June 2, 2003
Looks like my aim was a
little off about targeted redevelopment
June 1, 2003
Finding the money through Enron-like
accounting
June 1, 2003
A LULU of a Claude candidate
May
31, 2003
Life imitating The Wind in the Willows
May
30, 2003
The Internet and dated cultural references
May 28, 2003
Finding the money by tapping Uncle Sugar
Shakespeare behind the wheel
May 23, 2003
A RAW deal for Californians
May 22, 2003
Just a bit too much foreshadowing
May 19, 2003
Finding the money by banishing the blues--Blue Sundays, that
is.
Hot about HOV abuse
May 16, 2003
A tip about tats
May 15, 2003
Major Claude points for
this one
May 14, 2003
The New York Times and the
Peter Principle
May 14, 2003
A nice milestone
May 13, 2003
Not entirely blameless, but then again maybe
there’s a reason for what they're not doing
May 12, 2003
You assassinate a few leaders, fire off a
couple mortar attacks at some others, and all of a sudden somebody thinks
you’re a terrorist organization. What’s up with that?
May 11, 2003
A local variation on the Lake Wobegon effect
May 10, 2003
A good mix of old and new
technology
May 9, 2003
A matter of family honor
May 8, 2003
Maintenance duties
May 7, 2003
Not a lot of sympathy for these folks
May 6, 2003
When it comes to municipal
annexation policy, you can’t make a federal case about being forced to buy
into the whole package.
May 5, 2003
Not such a good job of picking your plaintiff
May 5, 2003
Get Well Note
May 4, 2003
Testing yourself against the
best
May 3, 2003
Ignoring basic economics
at one’s peril
May 2, 2003
Filling the land use regulatory vacuum
May 1, 2003
Barrels of fun
May 1, 2003
Return to Blogging
April 24, 2003
Spring Break
April 24, 2003
Points for chutzpah
April 23, 2003
A good Claude candidate
buried deep in the story.
April 22, 2003
The Baghdad-friendly MP
may have had his reasons
April 21, 2003
Recommended reading in the aftermath of
beating Hussein and the Taliban
April 21, 2003
Nothing trashy about PBR,
at least by comparison
April 20, 2003
A break in the routine
April 19, 2003
Golf courses are anti-environment only if the
facts are ignored.
April 19, 2003
Even Baghdad Bob could
have done better than that.
April 18, 2003
Fighting against a cleaner environment at every
opportunity
April 17, 2003
The courage to act on
one’s convictions
April 16, 2003
More fun with Rule 68
April 16, 2003
Say it ain't so
April 15, 2003
Showing a not-so-keen
sense of timing
April 14, 2003
Don’t push it
April 13, 2003
When a small state mourns
its fallen
April 12, 2003
I didn't know we were such a nuisance
April 12, 2003
There’s no must about it
April 11, 2003
That was heavenly
April 10, 2003
That 1.58% must be some really special
property
April 9, 2003
By George, I think she’s
lost it entirely
April 9, 2003
Still time for another tax case
April 9, 2003
Maybe it’s not the message
April 8, 2003
Evocative imagery
April 8, 2003
A slight surprise
April 8, 2003
Traffic Report
April 7, 2003
Flooded with fun at work
April 7, 2003
One down, one to go
April 6, 2003
Credit where it's due
April 6, 2003
No messages, please. We’re
here for the golf.
April 5, 2003
Press Briefing Follies
April 4, 2003
Michael Kelly
April 4, 2003
That'll teach the Canadian government
April 3, 2003
Waiting for word on where to protest
April 3, 2003
Milestone
April 2, 2003
That money you thought you
found might not be there after all.
April 1, 2003
Cheney silent as
Halliburton tax conviction upheld on appeal.
March 31, 2003
A slight twist on a car rental
company slogan
March 30, 2003
A Brilliant Ploy?
March 30, 2003
Peeps--lots of peeps
March 29, 2003
Pope alleged to be Roman Catholic
March 29, 2003
If the sheep you’re
counting on aren’t really there, you’ll probably have nightmares
March 28, 2003
Second-guessing can go too
far
March 27, 2003
Annals of crime
March 26, 2003
Needlessly angering the Federal judiciary has
its costs
March 25, 2003
Bringing back the dead
March 25, 2003
You can’t make a federal
case out of being declared a nonconformist—at least, not if that’s all
that’s occurred.
March 24, 2003
Oh,
that $2.4 million judgment. My bad.
March 24, 2003
In which I agree with
Michael Moore
March 23, 2003
Persist
with the facts in the face of fundamentally dishonest opposition
March 23, 2003
The other stages should appear, one hopes in short order
March 22, 2003
Victory sign
March 21, 2003
Going where the money is
March 20, 2003
Keep watching on the home front
March 19, 2003
Never-used Old Bay®
in the cupboard? How is that possible?
March 19, 2003
It looks like splitsville for the tenants of
Stiltsville—but not on the Audubon Society’s timetable
March 18, 2003
Homestead sweet homestead? Not.
March 17, 2003
Bush's Ultimatum Speech
March 17, 2003
Next time, put some variety into your tax
cheating
March 17, 2003
A LULU of a Claude-Deserving Headline
March 16, 2003
A sign that the development pendulum is beginning to stop and
reverse direction
March 15, 2003
Shameless boosterism
March 14, 2003
The circus is coming to Augusta—for the
Masters
March 14, 2003
Concert note
March 12, 2003
A short note about Congressman Moran
March 12, 2003
Losing the money when you
didn’t have to
March 11, 2003
Finding the money by not paying for it in the
first place
March 11, 2003
When it comes to some aspects of human
nature, we’re all experts
March 10, 2003
Zealous representation and
sins of omission
March 9, 2003
Trees and sand and
attitude
March 8, 2003
Car Hunting
March 7, 2003
Pushing the sentencing
envelope a bit too far
March 7, 2003
Traffic Report
March 6, 2003
Effective Torture Techniques
March 5, 2003
The press remains free--to pay a reasonable
fee for airport newsracks
March 4, 2003
Focusing on the bottom line isn’t always the
right thing to do
March 3, 2003
Finding the money
March 3, 2003
Living in two places at once
March 2, 2003
Coach Kuff
March 1, 2003
Associated Press screws up headline on
Rwanda-Iraq story, big time
March 1, 2003
A Bloody Daisy Chain
February 28, 2003
Four Claudes for a political fund-raising
headline
February 27, 2003
Annals of Crime
February 27, 2003
Sally Field Moments
February 27, 2003
Blood Blogging
February 26, 2003
Santa’s Haitian Workshop
February 25, 2003
Even the purest of motives won’t necessarily
keep you in court
February 24, 2003
Taking a page out of the Federal budget
playbook
February 24, 2003
Apocalyptic Visions
February 23, 2003
Faking it
February 22, 2003
Know your target audience—in some cases,
literally
February 21, 2003
A radio listener's modest
request concerning liberal talk radio
February 20, 2003
Setting practical priorities and obtaining
them
February 19, 2003
Spew alert
February 19, 2003
Fool for love
February 18, 2003
The Beach in Winter
February 18, 2003
Norts Spews*
February 18, 2003
Some end runs will not be
allowed in Federal Court. Good.
February 17, 2003
The City of Magic meets
Harold Higgins—hijinks ensue
February 16, 2003
What’s in a name
February 16, 2003
Feeling a bit targeted
February 16, 2003
There are demonstrators
and then there are demonstrators
February 15, 2003
Spoilsports
February 14, 2003
Le E'tat Fromage
February 13, 2003
Would you like fries with
that tourist?
February 12, 2003
Our southern exposure is
now a bit more southern
February 11, 2003
When your anger is
misdirected, don’t be surprised if someone tells you
February 10, 2003
If you follow a few simple rules, you can cybergripe all you
want.
February 8, 2003
There’s symbolism, and
then there’s symbolism
February 8, 2003
Stunning news from the world of tax preparation
February 6, 2003
Three Claudes for an
economics lesson
Good Timing
February 3, 2003
A zoning appeal is a cost of doing business, not a chance for
cost-shifting
Oh Jeez
January 31, 2003
Update on Paul Krugman, state tax prognosticator
A warning for new dads
The Two Cultures
January 28, 2003
There are ways to deal with prosecutorial misconduct. Barring
a second trial is not normally one of them.
January 26, 2003
The Graceless Whipsawing of Maureen Dowd
Random thoughts on the selling and buying of newspapers
Let’s go to the videotape
Extremely absentee ballots
January 21, 2003
This window of correction is a drive-through
January 20, 2003
MLK memories
January 20, 2003
Sure it’s a dummy thermostat--but it’s digital!
January 19, 2003
Three Claudes for a taxing example of simple logic
January 18, 2003
Our friends at PETA
January 18, 2003
Why our dog likes Snow Days
January 17, 2003
Local signs of an upcoming fight
January 17, 2003
A version of phone sex?
January 16, 2003
The Lynyrd Skynyrd Exception to the Fourth
Amendment
January 15, 2003
The NYT makes a Trent Lott-like comment
January 15, 2003
Somebody’s a big fan of Milla Jovovich
January 12, 2003
Transportation politics at
the margins
January 12, 2003
The Arts and the Internet
January 12, 2003
Blogging Break
January 11, 2003
Gambling on gambling
January 10, 2003
The bike rider wasn't the only one to slip
up.
January 9, 2003
Why did I pay all those premiums all those
years? And don’t tell me “peace of mind.”
January 8, 2003
Don’t want to play piggyback any more
January 7, 2003
Traffic Report-One Year
January 7, 2003
Mad money and other
fun tax crimes
January 6, 2003
Local energy issues may be about to become very
interesting—and windy, too.
January 5, 2003
An anti-immigration policy most people would
support
January 4, 2003
Would a quarter-vote be enough for you?
January 3, 2003
Not completely correct on tax policy choices
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