Morning Docket 06.11.09
* UCLA Law students were successful in protecting our right to curbside carne asada. [Los Angeles Times]
* Apparently, Sonnenschein is “fat and happy” and moving its New York office. [New York Observer]
* Washington, D.C. lawyer Kenneth Feinberg has been appointed compensation czar and will get to set the salaries of CEOs at beleaguered companies getting government aid. [ABA Journal]
* The impeachment proceedings against Judge Samuel Kent — the first federal judge to be charged with a sex crime — will move on to the House of Representatives. [Associated Press]
* Sonia Sotomayor once called herself “an affirmative action baby.” [New York Times]
* San Diego lawyer Alfred Rava sued the Oakland A’s for sex discrimination after a 2004 Mother’s Day promotion that excluded males. Now ESPN columnist Rick Reilly is taking Rava and his men-ism suits for a round in the batting cage. [ESPN]
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First - but even if I'n not first, I'm first. I voted for Obama, so it's not the results that matter - it's my INTENT.
FIRST!
Carne Asada is not a crime! Salva Las Trocas!
Seriously, Elie, how hard of a job is it to post some f-ing links at 9:00am? I mean, that's literally your job. Why is this so hard for you?
I wish we had taco trucks in philly. be a nice change from the cheesesteaks.
That picture makes me hungry.
Just looking at that picture gave me diarrhea.
Excellent article below on Sotomayor.
"Through the Sonia Sotomayor Looking Glass"
http://elitestv.com/pub/2009/06/through-the-sonia-sotomayor-looking-glass
See what I mean? Affirmative action helped that damn Sotomayor take away a spot on the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund from a more qualified white man!
Sotomayor just stole my carne asada and called me a white devil. What the hell did I do to her?
Man, that sex discrimination guy really comes off like an a$$. No wonder everybody hates lawyers.
"The taco photo is a racist attempt at mocking Latino female genitalia."
-- SotomayOR!
sotomayOR schtick, please please PLEASE work on posting at least one funny comment per week. you haven't posted one yet.
and wow, that Al Rava guy is a fucking tool.
Carne asada is Mexican for 'whale's vagina'
Once again, the right wingers have nothing to offer except for misoginistic fear of the female body/sexuality, and a variety of race baiting and anti-hispanic rhetoric.
Given how badly the GOP loses both demographics, I'm still waiting for a rational explanation as to how continuing to alienate women (more than 50% of the population) and hispanics (fastest growing demographic) is a recipe for electoral success...
Rick Reilly - best sports writer working today.
Sports Illustrated has been a PoS since he left.
8: That was very, very funny.
Testing....I think ATL disabled my ability to post comments because I criticized their coverage of the economy.
Rick Reilly? you have GOT to be kidding me.
14, you are such a confused person. It's the left which hates strong females and those who want to live in a colorblind society.
Look at liberal David Letterman's rant yesterday about Sarah Palin looking like a "slutty flight attendant" followed by jokes of her 14-year-old daughter being raped. And look how liberal female Contessa Brewer on MSNBC suggested it was no big deal:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/06/10/brewer-spars-ziegler-about-palin-shuts-his-mike
Here's a better explanation:
"Too many American liberals cannot handle a strong, good-looking, intelligent, independent woman who disagrees with them — and so they make the crude, cruel and sexist remarks — including those about raping them or their 14-year-old daughters…
"So-called feminists stand on the sidelines like so many Silda Spitzers or Elizabeth Edwardses or Hillary Clintons, standing by their menfolk while the boys treat women like dirt. Heck, Mrs. Edwards even served as her husband’s attack dog against any critic — even as she knew he was sleeping with his mistress of many years…"
Oh, snap.
http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/2009/06/11/why-the-left-ridicules-women/
but sarah palin does look like a slutty flight attendant...it's not defamation if it's true
20,
It's YOUR opinion.
One which I happen to share.
I thought the "Latina & Case" one was pretty funny.
At "Breaking Back Into a Large Law Firm," someone needs to ask John Cannon of Shearman & Sterling why he fired all of the firm's second-years and then hired first-years to replace them, and if he thought that was ethical, moral, or human.
At "Breaking Back Into a Large Law Firm," someone needs to ask John Cannon of Shearman & Sterling why he fired all of the firm's second-years and then hired first-years to replace them, and if he thought that was ethical, moral, or human.
At "Breaking Back Into a Large Law Firm," someone needs to ask John Cannon of Shearman & Sterling why he fired all of the firm's second-years and then hired first-years to replace them, and if he thought that was ethical, moral, or human.
19, you make me LOL with your baseless "I know you are but what am I?" comments.
At least the Wise Latina admits she was a beneficiary of affirmative action, unlike Michelle Obama, who acts high and mighty as if she got in solely on merit. You can bet if her name were Rubinstein instead of Robinson Princeton and Harvard would have quicky deposited her into the reject pile.