Recently we heard a "news" opinion predicting that the old Supreme Court decision in the Roe v. Wade case will be reexamined and overturned in a new reevaluation of the case.
At this point we have become seriously alarmed at the possibility that our friend in the Empire State (do we need to insert an irony alert here?) will build a substantial amount of evidence of judicial misconduct and then be shunted aside by the New York Times on grounds that such stories have become too commonplace to warrant the use of staff time and resources on just one particular example.
John B. Bogart earned a place in Bartlett's Quotations (on page 659 of the Fifteenth Editon) for saying: "When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news." Wasn't there a certain photo of Michele Bachman's husband biting a dog being displayed on the Internets recently?
Now the disk jockey will play "Here Comes de Judge," Johnny Cash's "The Long Black Veil," and an album by the Denver based group called Tequila Mockingbird. We have to go and look up the definition of "jury nullification." Have a "case dismissed" type week.
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