Monthly Archives: June 2012

Busy Week for the Supremes.

June 25, 2012 at 4:45 pm

Usually I think that the Supreme Court Justices, or the “Supremes” as I call them, have a really good gig. They get to pick what they work on, have life time tenure, and have a pretty nice building to work in every day. This week I don’t envy them, because I get the feeling that […]

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The Love Defense.

June 12, 2012 at 8:40 pm

I would like to thank Catherine Greig’s attorney for setting women back about three decades today. Greig is Whitey Bulger’s long time girlfriend, the one that fled with Whitey and hid with him for sixteen years while the federal authorities supposedly looked for him. (I find this whole claim a bit dubious because of Whitey’s […]

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Disney

June 6, 2012 at 10:08 am

Last year my family took a vacation to Disney World. I am pro-Disney, love every cheesy over the top thing about the place, and would go back annually if my husband would allow it (he won’t). But one week in Disney World is full of visual evidence of America’s obesity problem. Here in the Northeast […]

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Update on Garrett Bauer

June 6, 2012 at 9:45 am

Those of you that had me in the Spring 2012 semester are familiar with the case of Garrett Bauer, who pled guilty to insider trading. He was sentenced yesterday to nine years in a federal prison. Here is an interesting article talking about the case. What is your reaction to his sentence?

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