60 years after arguing about Quemoy and Matsu

we’re still arguing about

Quemoy and Matsu.

Good news Bahrain: The number of Active Covid-19 cases is dropping. 12,747 as of 4 July. There is still a long way to go to get the numbers to the August, 2020 level, but the July trend is encouraging.

Q. “We are playing the conference champions next week and our team has had a dismal record. What can we do, that is, in a spiritual sense, to insure victory?”

A. Put photographs of a soul-eating Naga everywhere in the champions' dressing …

American Muslims: now that the US Supreme Court in Bremerton has approved midfield prayer during football games, it’s time to get an appropriate prayer rug for the next game.

(Note: please do not suggest this is inappropriate, I have an …

June stats: the number of Active Covid-19 cases in Bahrain has started to level off, with daily drops of 200 cases or so. Let’s hope the slow downward trend continues.

The U.S. Supreme Court has approved private, voluntary prayer at high school football games. The opinion raises many questions concerning the Establishment clause and the separation of Church and State. I have put together a helpful FAQ to aid …

The proposed “historic” American gun legislation is anything but:

• no restrictions on assault rifles
• more meaningless background checks
• closing a non-existent “boyfriend” exemption (firearms surrender as a condition of bail in …

What’s strange–

and really more dangerous than anything else

–is that both sides on January 6

thought they were protecting democracy.

Efforts to “de-gender” the English language by using neologisms (e.g. “latinx”) have failed, even though English is not as gender-obsessed as the Romance languages or German. The only real solution is a language that does not recognize …

Anyone who makes it from Calais, whether legally or not, should be given refugee status because of their successful efforts to land on British soil. Just as possession is 9/10ths of the law and “finders keepers, loosers weepers”: …

Here are the outlines for a face-saving plea for the USG in the Assange case:

• Guilty plea to a felony computer crime
• Three year cap, credit for time in Belmarsh.
• Non-reporting probation.

Julian gets his freedom back, USG gets a guilty plea, Julian …

Chilean-resident Haitians who have lived in Chile for five years are not refugees.

Chile #haiti #refugees #Panama

immigration policy

Evergreening:

“To roll over unpaid amounts on loans, adding to the total amount outstanding.”

Loan sharks have long simply added unpaid vig to the total amt.owed without needing to name the practice.

banking #creditoreal #mafia

No need to waste millions on McKinsey’s business consulting advice; the t-shirt says it all.

There is so little to write about when covering golf that the slightest variation from the game’s white-bread norm is newsworthy. Because what happens in the game is infrequent and hard to see and takes little more than 90 seconds on Youtube …

“Imagine some would-be mass shooter bursting into a classroom only to be faced almost instantly by the barrels of at least 15 to 20 handguns.”

Read more: …

The number of Active Covid-19 cases in Bahrain continues to rise.

One great way to have a brief pompously returned is to you with directions to “correct and re-file" is to include any kind of graphic. The appellate clerk’s office is filled with martinets. Your only hope is to file an application for …

Kosovo voted for independence and the will of the people was respected.

Crimea voted for union with Russia and the will of the people was ignored.

The war in Ukraine is not what you think.

Active Covid-19 cases in Bahrain for the month of June, 2022. The numbers are going up, not down.

Do clients know they are paying seasoned lawyers to futz with document formatting? This is a direct result of getting rid of secretaries. How many fruitless attorney hours are wasted fixing fomatting; correcting autonumbering errors and the like?

Or …

Reuters asks: “should a female elephant have some of the same legal rights as humans? In a push to free the one named Happy from the Bronx Zoo, an animal rights group asks New York’s top court that question .”

What about male elephants? Should they …

According to the NY Times, at least 20 banks are putting up 1/3rd of the money Elon needs to buy Twitter.

First drafts don’t get typeset in 12 pt Century. This is a “draft” only in the sense that there may be line-edits and cites checked.

Not that there will be substantive changes.

Expect this to be the opinion of the Court. They have …

I have pointed out that KSA is the largest foreign shareholder of Twitter. I was corrected here and ate crow.

But this was just posted following PWBT’s dust-up with Elon Musk.

Musk #Twitter #SaudiArabia