Nothing But The Facts

Carnival mask


One of my favorite bloggers, Houston DWI attorney Paul B. Kennedy, writes “What twisted webs we weave” over at The Defense Rests today.

At first, I thought it was going to be another Rakofsky post, because he started off with this:

In the end all you have is your name and your credibility. Once you’ve besmirched those two things, you have nothing left.

Paul’s post, while in a sense related, is much more interesting to me than the Rakofsky debacle.

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The Jury & The Adversarial System

Jury Box


Yesterday, a friend and I were working in my office — yes, we knew it was Sunday; no, our clocks didn’t spring all the way forward to Monday — and towards the end of our day, she told me about the importance of a new cover for the iPhone, specially-designed to direct radiation away from your brain.

This is very important, she said, because cell phone radiation is so significant that it can make popcorn pop.

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