* Tom Daschle is going to DLA as an advisor, not for help with his taxes. [USA Today]

* Deloitte pays to make Parmalat go away. [Going Concern]

* Indiana Law Professor proposes shipping at-risk kids back to Africa. Oh, where to begin? [True/Slant]

* Is perfectionism a blessing or a curse? [What About Clients?]

* If it’s good enough for Yale Law, then it should be good enough for New York Law School. [Adjunct Law Prof Blog]

* It’s holiday sale time in Biglaw. [Young Lawyers Blog]

* Brick Breaker prowess doesn’t always translate into firm success. But when it does, it is awesome. [Litination]

* The ATL running group will be meeting tomorrow (Saturday) at 10 a.m., at the East River 6th Street track. All are welcome. [Above the Law]

* The Army Corps of Engineers doesn’t care about black people. [WSJ Blog]

* Thank God for Brian Leiter. Here’s what the Super Lawyers rankings look like, adjusted for class size, not adjusted for U.S. News Top-14 status. Now I can comfortably say, HLS to #1! [Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports]

* Sometimes I park, in handicapped spaces, while handicapped people, make handicapped … Oww. I think the PC police just tasered my fingers. [Wild Wild Law]

* Your lawyering skills aren’t going to matter much if you can’t sell it. [Bar & Bench]

* David Hamilton will ascend to the 7th Circuit. Finally. [BLT]

* The IRS does not apologize. [Going Concern]

* Where is the physical evidence in the Robert Wone case? [Who Murdered Robert Wone]

* In Tennessee you can run for elected office under a fake name. I predict “Jack Daniels” will be Tennessee’s next Governor. [Young Lawyers Blog]

* Kash did some research on what search terms people use to find us. The results are disturbing. [True/Slant]

* Some companies just don’t like the U.S. court system. [Going Concern]

* A health care surcharge could be taxing. [Blackbook Legal]

* William Kunstler’s children are educating people about their father. [Gothamist]

* Lat, in living color. [The Law.TV]

* Today is the NRA’s birthday! To celebrate, I’m heading to my local gun range (it’s called “the Bronx” if you’re not from New York) where I intend to pump a copy of the Second Amendment full of hot lead. [Jew with a Gun]

* Google gets into the Westlaw and Lexis business. [The Supreme Court of Texas Blog]

* Volokh looks at some aggravating circumstances that could possibly justify why 37-year-old Sandy Binkley was sent away for 12 years for banging a 17-year-old student. I still don’t think the punishment fits the porking. [The Volokh Conspiracy]

* The Feds have the death penalty, but New York doesn’t. If Holder really wants to bomb Khalid Sheik Mohammad back to the stone age, it’ll be a tricky political situation. [WSJ Law Blog]

* What does it say when lawyers are lining up to defend Bill Belichick’s controversial decision to go for it on fourth down during the Patriots’ loss to the Colts on Sunday? It says “the amount of front runners who support teams like the Patriots, Yankees, Lakers, Celtics, and Steelers has reached epic proportions in this country. And soon the Dookies will be upon us. Everybody who did not grow up in New England needs to get off Tom Brady’s illegitimate child-having jock.” Ahh, that feels better. [Tax Prof Blog]

* Generation X = The Lost Generation? That really bites. [Law and More]

* Meep. [The Legal Satyricon]

* Outsourcing the marketing of attorneys could lead to ethical problems. [New York Personal Injury Law Blog]

* Public opinion on some hot button legal issues. [The Volokh Conspiracy]

* There are all sorts of ways unscrupulous lawyers can rip off their clients. [Business Insider]

* Did you know that today is the International Day of Tolerance? Let’s get through this quickly.
[Windypundit via Blawg Review]

* What does it take to legally disturb a grizzly bear in San Francisco? [Lowering the Bar]

* Apparently, some people thought I was defending the Columbia professor who punched out a woman. I was not. [True/Slant]

* The benefits of being a Twitter snob. [Simple Justice]

* Is there enough political balance at law schools? [Blackbook Legal]

* Church ordered to stop being so goddamn nice. [Bad Lawyer]

* Thanks to Ropes & Gray, firms are taking another look at their security measures. [Bloomberg]

* Strippers. In a glass box. On the back of a truck! We’re about to develop a whole new meaning for the term “rubber necking.” [Legally Unbound]

* Don’t forget to vote in this weekend’s caption contest. [Above the Law]

* Rapper calls himself “C-Murder.” Rapper commits murder. Rapper gets convicted for murder. Rapper bitches and moans like a little baby boy that he can’t afford to appeal his conviction. Which one of those things doesn’t belong? (Wait a minute, why am I making fun of a homicidal rapper who might get out of jail? Please tell Mr. Murder that I meant no disrespect.) [New Orleans Times-Picayune]

* How Twitter can help you find a job. [Let’s Talk Turkey]

* Is Justice Ginsburg getting a little weird? [Holy Hullabaloos]

* Gloria Allred wants a bit of Carrie Prejean’s ass. [Radar]

* “Shut the door, have a seat.” [Ideoblog]

* There’s a Costco in Manhattan, in case you are looking to stretch your deferral dollar. [Transracial]

* Homeland Security really needs to get rid of color coded threat levels. [Litination]

* Happy Veteran’s Day. Thanks to all who serve. [Army JAG; Navy JAG]

* If you think law school looks like a terrible financial investment, you are correct. [Tax Prof Blog]

* Punching women isn’t the best way to make a point about racial injustice. [The Legal Satyricon]

* A pro-wrestler fell down, but not by design. Predictably, he decided to sue. [Chicago Now]

* What’s wrong with cutting off the hands of those who steal (online content) again? [Simple Justice]

* What’s the difference between journalism and blogging? Some thoughts from Lat. [Yale Daily News]

* Josh Blackman created a Supreme Court fantasy league. You get points for predicting the outcome of the case and which justices will be in the majority and minority. [FantasySCOTUS]

* Wait, so bounty hunters can use bear mace? (No, not really — but Cartman can “do what he wants.”) [Legal Lad]

* Can lawyers change the legal ethics rules so they can make Goldman-style money? [Ideoblog]

* Carrie Prejean’s mom was in the room with Carrie when Miss California lawyers showed the tape of Carrie rubbing one out. [TMZ]

* Time served for Girls Gone Wild Founder. [Tax Prof Blog]

* You should probably buy these books. [Courtoons]

* Blawg Review is all about freedom. [The Property Law Blog via Blawg Review]

* Congratulations to Marc Randazza, ATL’s counsel in Jones v. Minkin, on another successful representation. [The Legal Satyricon]

* Speaking of free speech, is a college acting unconstitutionally by banning so-called “empty-holster protests”? [Courthouse News Service]

* Maryland bar exam results are out. Congrats to all who passed! [Maryland State Board of Law Examiners]

* In the wake of the Maine vote, is there such a thing as “Gay Apartheid”? [Transracial]

* Remember the Notre Dame 1L impersonator? He may be “weird and unethical,” but he didn’t break any laws. [WNDU]

* The ATL running group will be meeting tomorrow (Saturday) at 10 a.m., at the East River 6th Street track. All are welcome. [Above the Law]

* Did I miss the part where beating your wife became a civil right? [Double X]

* The Anonymous Lawyer opines on Biglaw bonuses. [WSJ Law Blog]

* Justice Antonin Scalia will be speaking at Ohio State. Any chance he’s looking for clerks? [Moritz College of Law]

* Stealing court documents in plain sight. [The Victorious Opposition]

* Why does Facebook hate pregnant women? [Gothamist]

* Anyone wondering why Carrie Prejean abruptly settled her suit with the Miss America people? It’s pretty hot, or horrible, I can’t decide. [TMZ]

* Defending free speech requires one to defend some pretty annoying junk. [Underdog]

* Have you ever been framed by a prosecutor? [Bad Lawyer]

* An openly pagan Republican lawyer won a city council seat last night. In the words of Winston Zeddmore: “I love this town.” [Double X]

* I don’t think you should be called a super lawyer unless you have an alter ego of some kind. [Tax Prof Blog]

* David Lat on the joys of blogging. He shares some good advice for people just starting out. [Blackbook Legal]

* And as Marin explains, legal writing can be a decent way out of Biglaw. You know, so long as you don’t mind having an apartment like mine that resembles a spider hole. [TechnoLawyer]

* I wish I had read this post before I voted this morning. [What About Clients?]

* Gay marriage activists are outing the names of those who stand opposed to gay rights. Good political strategy or straight up intimidation? [True/Slant]

* New Wachtell partners. Congratulations boys, enjoy your fabulous wealth. [Am Law Daily]

* Lawsuits against Deloitte have come back from the dead. [Going Concern]

* To be clear, if any group is getting “screwed” by affirmative action it is rich Asians. [Tax Prof Blog]

* The Bogeyman cometh to Blawg Review. [New York Personal Injury Law Blog via Blaw Review]

* “Beckner represents exactly the kind of cop that should be stripped of his badge, covered in s*** and bees, and then rolled off a cliff in a shopping cart.” But, tell me what you really think of officer Beckner? [The Legal Satyricon]

* Will work for food free. [Craigslist]

* An argument against privatizing prisons? [New York Times]

* County jail doesn’t sound so great either. [Ann Arbor Chronicle via Daily Kos]

* For the iPhone obsessed. [Business Insider]

* Nothing like a Justice Stevens podcast to get you through a marathon. [Concurring Opinions]

* Looking for a new reason to hate on Goldman Sachs? [McClatchy Newspapers]

* Baby monitors can be used for good or for evil. [Chicago Tribune]

* Somebody call up the Cornell School of Hotel Administration and get them to teach their people how travelers actually use computers. [Drug and Device Law]

* Police can search your email without telling you. Bring it on coppers, bring it on. [True/Slant]

* If your Biglaw career has stalled, maybe you should become a CPA. [Going Concern]

* An Indiana law school dean is getting pushed out because he is too old. Peyton Manning, welcome to your future. [Law Librarian Blog]

* Is a globally integrated law firm that provides one-stop shopping still a viable business model? I don’t know, Wal-Mart seems to be doing just fine. [Ideoblog]

* I didn’t know water intoxication existed. It doesn’t sound nearly as fun as regular intoxication. [ABA Journal]

* Don’t forget to come down and poke me with sticks meet me in Atlanta on Monday. [Georgia Association for Women Lawyers]

* TP-ing is still an effective deterrent. [Going Concern]

* Could getting braces hurt a 1L’s job prospects? It’s hard to say, since there are no jobs for 1Ls anyway. [Corporette]

* Proskauer partner Jon Oram, a rising star of the sports law bar (and Lat’s law school classmate), was heavily involved in the sale of the Chicago Cubs. Oram’s a Yankees fan, so maybe some of that winning karma will rub off on Chicago’s lovable losers. [National Law Journal]

* Why is Shyne wearing an HLS T-shirt? [Baller Status]

* Is the 7th Circuit the coolest? [Blackbook Legal]

* Can you get in trouble for saying that creationism is religious, superstitious nonsense? [Bell & Bar]

* Body shots taken a bit too far. [Litination]

* Are bankers even more narcissistic than lawyers? Consider the evidence. [Dealbreaker]

* No, Justice Scalia did not say he would have dissented in Brown v. Board of Education. [Balkinization]

* Of course, “[t]he misrepresentation of Scalia’s remarks went viral almost instantly, which is the way things go these days.” [Althouse]

* Patterico slaps around Scott Glover of the L.A. Times for Glover’s slanted coverage of a recent Third Circuit decision clearing Chief Judge Alex Kozinski (9th Cir.) of wrongdoing. [Patterico’s Pontifications]

* Justice Sonia Sotomayor, photographed by Annie Leibovitz for the pages of Vogue? Be still my heart! [Memo Pad / Women’s Wear Daily]

* “Too many people practice law who should not. Practicing law is hard.” Ain’t that the truth? [What About Clients?]

* Is it legal to kick out Redskins fans at the Redskins game for voicing their considerable displeasure with the Redskins? I guess it depends on if the fans have hired Quinn Emanuel. [D.C. Sports Blog]

* Even though the GAO tied the high cost of law school to competition in the U.S. News rankings, there is still more than enough blame to go around. [Ideoblog]

* Scientologists should have expected the Spanish Inquisition. [WSJ Law Blog]

* Look who’s flinging the poo now. [Adjunct Law Prof Blog]

* Listen all y’all it’s a sabotage. [Technolawyer]

* Short stories from John Grisham [Daily Beast]

* An obituary for one person who actually sought justice. [Simple Justice]

* Jeff Sesssions, ranking member fn the Senate Judiciary Committee, and other legal luminaries will be speaking in D.C. tomorrow about how to reform our profession. [Legal Reform Summit]

* If you are a fan of ESPN’s Bill Simmons (a.k.a. The Sports Guy), you’ll note that I steal from him he inspires me. I’ll be at Professor Thom’s tomorrow at 7:00 p.m. for the Bill Simmons book signing. If you’d like to meet him (or me! or the Fashionista editors!) please stop by. [Bill Simmons Book Tour]

* You never know when your Halloween costume will come back to haunt you. [Siouxsie Law]

* Anti-blasphemy laws make Jesus cry. [Overlawyered]

* Hey, we’re in the middle of a recession. If you really want to avoid legal pitfalls, hire a lawyer. Please. [Double XX]

* Note to traffic cops: driving while not being able to speak English is not a crime. Not even in Texas. [WSJ Law Blog]

* Oh criminal conspiracy laws that mock common sense with reckless joy. Long may they reign. [Legally Unbound]

* I think I’m at the point where if I called the cops myself I wouldn’t say anything to them once they arrived. I would just hope that they figured out for themselves the nature of the crime I called them to prevent/investigate. [Underdog]

* A tangled web links the SDNY U.S. Attorney’s office with the bottom of a pool in Florida. [Main Justice]

* If Gawker was written by Percy Fitzwallace I believe they would have responded to Joanne Lipman with this line: “I’ve got some real, honest-to-God battles to fight, Leo. I don’t have time for the cosmetic ones.” [Gawker via Law and More]

* Does R.E.M. have a copyright infringement claim against the government if their music was used to torture Guantanamo detainees? What if R.E.M. was simply used to give the interrogators a blueprint on how to torture somebody? That’s me in the corner, that’s me in the spotlight, losing my religion. [The Volokh Conspiracy]

* Gibson Dunn is joining Pepin Tuma to battle police abuse of disorderly conduct laws. I’d make a joke about cops now, but I’m in the privacy of my own home and I don’t want to tempt any officers to come in here and arrest me. [Huffington Post]

* Parents in Las Vegas don’t want their children to perform a version of Rent as a school play. You live in Las Vegas and you’re worried about what a Bohemian musical is going to do to your kids? That’s like living in Mississippi and wondering if Jackass: The Movie is going to make your kids dumb. [Legally Unbound]

* You know what, screw first time home buyers. What about longtime home renters? Where’s our tax credit? [Blackbook Legal]

* It’s been a good day for jokes about male reproductive organs. [Courtoons]

* Kanye West managed to keep his mouth shut long enough to have his vandalism charge dismissed. [Popsquire]