The first Monday in October

Jimmy Page & Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin I like to work out to excellent music, whether it’s with a walkman or jamming out loud in my bedroom with my Onkyo/Sony system.  Music lifts you up and can take your workout to a higher level. I was glad to hear XM Radio devoted a channel for Led Zeppelin music.  Their whole collection, rare live bootlegs, interviews, and the solo stuff by Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones.  For the hardcore Zep fan, this is great news. If... more

British actor Michael York sits down with Fox News Radio’s Courtney Walsh to chat about his new film on the life of the late Pope John Paul 2. York describes the movie and how it has changed him. He also talks about his university days at Oxford and give advice to aspiring actors. ... Category: Media ... more

Is the SEC (gasp) overrated? Plus, this weekend may be the one to produce that "Heisman Moment" with a couple of huge games.... more

MODEL: John Roberts STYLIST: Tami Ballesteros , http://tamiballesteros.multiply.com/ PHOTOGRAPHY: Dan Santos ... more

"Officer Sean Devlin, Narcotics Strike Force, was working the morning shift. Undercover surveillance. The neighborhood? Tough as a threedollar steak. Devlin knew. Five years on the beat, nine months with the Strike Force. He’d made fifteen, twenty drug busts in the neighborhood." Dashiell Hammett? Raymond Chandler? Nope. Chief Justice John Roberts (pdf). ... more

Chief Justice John Marshall said it all in one sentence: "The power to tax is the power to destroy."... more

The Supreme Court rules 5-4 to allow the United States Navy to continue the use of Sonar in their training exercises in light of lawsuit from environmental groups fearing for the safety of wildlife. Chief Justice John Roberts cites the plainly indisputable: We do not discount the importance of plaintiffs’ ecological, scientific and recreational interests in marine mammals. Those interests, however, are plainly outweighed by the Navy’s need to conduct realistic training exercises... more

The November 4 election day not only brought us a new President but a crop of state changes in stem cell funding: 1. Voters in Michigan passes Proposal 2, the amendment to the Michigan Constitution that allows new embryonic stem cell lines to be derived from embryos that have been created for fertility treatment purposes. This is a very welcome change in Michigan law, which as previously not only banned but criminalized embryonic stem cell research. The passage of the amendment was welc... more

It is human nature to fear the new. And for many of us, the internet is still new. I have pointed out before that Lilian Edwards observes (in “The internet and security: do we need a man with a red flag walking in front of every computer?” (2007) 4 (1) SCRIPT-ed 1 (March 2007) ), rather like those who feared cars so much that early models had to be preceded by a man walking ahead with a red flag to warn people of the approach of the new-fangle... more

The Office of the Legal Services Ombudsman for England and Wales and the Office of the Scottish Legal Services Ombudsman were established in 1990 . There are plans afoot for their reform ( Scotland | England & Wales ) but the basic principle of independent oversight of disciplinary matters for the legal professions will not only remain intact but be enhanced. Now, it seems that Irish law is soon to adopt this principle too. Carol Coulter has an interesting article about ... more

The Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament ( CND ) is 50 this year, and its famous symbol is 50 today (hat tip: Opinio Juris ; BBC ): The images (from left to right) are the first ceramic CND badge, an early tin badge, and the current badge. The symbol was designed in 1958 by Gerald Holtom, a professional artist and graduate of the Royal College of Arts. He presented his early designs to the Peace News office in North London and, significantly, to the Direct A... more

I have blogged already ( here and here ) about the Statute Law Revision Act, 2007 . If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then the Oireachtas should feel very flattered indeed. Earlier this year, the Law Commissions of England and Wales and of Scotland published their 18th report in a series of proposed statute law repeals ( pdf ) (hat tip: Slaw ). The Statute Law (Repeals) Bill was introduced into the House of Lords on Wednesday 27 ... more