treatment bound: I was in the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas not too long ago with my 19 year-old daughter and the felt surface of the black jack table had drawings of that photo in front of each player instead of the normal circles or logos. I tried to explain to my daughter how simultaneously cool and horrible that…

My first Clash show was September 21, 1979 at the Palladium in NY. Memorable moments: the spooky snake dance during Armagiddeon Time; the Beatles re-union story in the Post or Daily News that day - Strummer holding up the front page of the paper as he sang the "phony Beatlemania" line from "London Calling"; the…

"Fade Away and Radiate"

The personal injury statute of limitations in Nevada is two years. Assuming the EDC is held around the same weekend every year, the statute would have expired sometime in the last few days. Whatever other motivations they may have had, if they hadn't filed now, they would have been time-barred.

I have to say the post-mistrial defense press conference was one of the most jaw-droppingly stupid things I've ever seen. Between the MC thanking the "tour manager" and "social media" representative and then Mrs. Cosby's statement about the judge collaborating with the DA, and then whoever the moron was who said…

Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele almost immediately announced his intentions to retry Cosby because if he didn't take that position he'd have no leverage at all in plea negotiations.

It used to be the most surreal time of year in Las Vegas was late spring/early summer when the Grateful Dead would play the Sam Boyd Silver Bowl. The off-strip casinos would be packed with older, more grizzled Deadheads playing slots and watching the dials spin. The Hard Rock Hotel would be packed with younger heads…

Agreed. See, e.g., Miles Davis. His autobiography is a tough read and I wouldn't blame anyone who decided not to listen to him after reading it. However, they'd be missing out on some transcendent music.

These are just suggestions for what to do right? Otherwise buying this record might be a bigger commitment than I thought.

As someone who has been practicing law for a very long time, I commend you on this post. I don't practice criminal law, but as I'm sure you know, the premise is that in order to have an adversarial system of justice, you have to have adversaries. The job of the criminal defense lawyer is to ensure that if someone is…

We taught both of our kids and a bunch of our friends' kids on a very gently sloping grass hill at the park. Once of us would let them go at the top and the other would catch them at ever-increasing distances downhill. Eventually, they'd realize the bike was staying upright by itself and they'd start peddling. It…

I always recommend John Forester's "Effective Cycling" to anyone taking up road cycling. It's come in and out of style over the years, but the basic premise is when you're riding on the road, act like you're driving a car and folks will have an idea what to expect from you.

Since I don't think the prosecution has rested, using Cosby's deposition testimony at this stage of things was probably the DA's decision. Just guessing but it wouldn't surprise me if they didn't have evidence to establish that he was lying in some portion of the depo testimony the jury heard.

RIght you are.

The jury's decision on actual malice wasn't that odd. They didn't find that Rolling Stone acted with actual malice (either knowledge it was false or reckless disregard for its truth) when the story was first published. At that point RS had no reason to think it wasn't an accurate story. However, when RS re-published…

I got bored with this video pretty quickly until I realized the synth thing had a mouth. Then I was transfixed.

Perhaps the pinnacle, but as far as I know, other than Schroeder playing Beethoven, Pianosaurus was the first band to do it. https://www.youtube.com/wat…

I think there's also data that suggests reports of crime in LA are down because people are concerned about having police show up at their door to investigate the crime report and then deporting the victim.

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