Pervert, pimp, serial sexual predator, felon and multi-millionaire Jeffrey Epstein reportedly committed suicide in his jail cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan a week ago. Even before his corpse had cooled, there were dozens of conspiracy theories. The facts, at least the facts we know, suggest enough irregularities in the Feds’ treatment of…
It was 25 years ago this past Monday that the 1994 Major League Baseball season came to a sudden, unplanned and wretched end. The last 52 days and 668 games of the regular season and, for the first time, the playoffs and the World Series. It was no loss for Cubs fans; the Cubbies were unusually…
July went by pretty fast, but WC is determined to try to make these monthly follow up blog posts a little more timely. So, without any attempt at Actual Journalism, here are follow up notes to earlier posts, stuff that didn’t justify a full blog post and other bits and pieces that got caught up…
Back in February 2017, WC wrote this blog post on the idea of privatizing public lands. With the new Acting Director of the Bureau of Land Management now a rabid privatization advocate, the issue has a new urgency. William Perry Pendley is not only a noisy opponent of federal ownership of lands; he’s not only…
WC missed Robert Mueller’s testimony to the House Intelligence Committee. One of the blessings of the eastern slopes of the Oregon Cascades is that there is precious little internet access. The respite was wonderful. Since returning to what passes for civilization in these decadent days, WC has read a lot of the House hearing transcript…
Professor Stevens, in WC’s Appellate Law and Procedure class back in law school, told us, “Federal judges have no constituency, and thus have a duty to respect the legitimate policy choices made by those who do.” At the time Professor Stevens was a judge on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and his course was…
When WC was a newly minted young Fairbanks lawyer, he worked for a year and a half for a law firm whose clients included a pimp. Yes, really. During the TAPS construction boom, a number of prostitution rings relocated to Fairbanks. New associates in large law firms don’t get a lot of choice about who…
