I made this a blog post instead of an EoEO thread because I doubt many of you care that much about the details. Today, the Supreme Court issued a massive opinion upholding the Affordable Care Act, aka “Obamacare” (CNN’s hilarious screw up notwithstanding). I disagree with the decision, but in a somewhat surprising way. On a strictly constitutional level, I think Chief Justice Roberts’s opinion (which while not technically the Court’s opinion in all respects, ends up controlling all ...
This is an introductory post on the Streisand effect. The Streisand effect occurs when an attempt to censor or otherwise hide information leads only to that information being spread more effectively. This is otherwise known as “the internet.” Once upon a time, many moons ago, the website comic The Oatmeal noted that another website, FunnyJunk, was hosting a crapload of its content. The Oatmeal then asked FunnyJunk to delete that content, and FJ responded by deleting a small percentage ...
Updated 06-23-2012 at 10:26 PM by Raistlin
There is a widely-believed caricature of the law and lawyers, at least in the US. It is that the law mandates the use of legalese in order to make sure no one but lawyers has any smurfing clue what we’re talking about, and thus creating business for lawyers. That the law relies on archaic rules and procedures that make no sense in any modern setting to anyone outside the club. That the law is all form and little substance, and that lawyers promote this insanity in order to enjoy their monopoly on ...
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