Jack on April 5th, 2008

What bothers me the most about the memos that this bozo (who actually is a law professor at Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley; ugh, boy would I have some serious dialogue in his class) wrote saying essentially that whatever the president decides is OK during a “time of war” is legally OK. Rape, murder, Vlad the [...]

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Jack on April 3rd, 2008

So now we are having 1st graders (and perhaps even pre-kindergartners) charged with sexual harassment in school–and even having police called. In a Washington Post article today, Post staff writer Brigid Schulte describes incidents where children as young as four are accused of sexual harassment.

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Jack on April 2nd, 2008

Whoa, now there’s a term you don’t see much anymore. It refers to a manufacturer or business concentrating production of parts, supplies, etc., into wholly owned subsidiaries rather than non-owned suppliers. Not to bite the hand that might someday feed me, but Amazon (like many other corporations) is jumping now while the laissez faire antitrust [...]

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Jack on March 31st, 2008

Contemplating a divorce? Too bad; it happens, even if you have tried to make the marriage work. But a word of caution based on my career in consumer protection and legal training: If you own property together, make sure the divorce decree properly handles the division of real estate.

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