Morning Docket: 02.17.11

* Hawaii state legislators have approved civil unions for same-sex couples. Tiny gay couples… [Reuters]

* Louisiana applies special penalties to those who are convicted of soliciting oral or anal sex, under the Crimes Against Nature law. Kirk Cameron and this Kiwi fella seem to disagree with Louisiana on just how unnatural oral sex is. [WSJ Law Blog]

* Mel Gibson certainly didn’t help the movement to “naturalize” oral sex in his burn down the house and blow me tirade. [Los Angeles Times]

* Borders declared bankruptcy because America’s favorite book is magazines. [Bloomberg]

* Texas plans to slash legal aid for the poor; move remaining services to basement of Alamo. [Houston Chronicle]

* Yesterday, The Cooch made his case against Obamacare to the House Judiciary Committee. [Legal Newsline]

* “She shed some tears for his victims, then keel-hauled the black-hearted buccaneer.” [New York Post]

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* Sewanee is not the Stanford of the South. [New York Times]

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