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Just Joe and Christian, coming to you after a terrible week. We talk guns, ex-Judge Posner's book and humility, the right rules for disabled stoplights, the closing of a coffeehouse, and airplane seat reclining behavior. This show’s links: Oral Argument 101: Tug of War (http://oralargument.org/101) Richard Posner, Reforming the Federal Judiciary (https://www.amazon.com/Reforming-Federal-Judiciary-Televising-Arguments/dp/1976014794) Steven Lubet, Richard Posner, Unedited (Part One) (http://www.thefacultylounge.org/2017/10/richard-posner-unedited.html) Zoran Tasic, Reforming Richard Posner (https://medium.com/@ztasic/reforming-richard-posner-a25ce8fddece) Oral Argument 32: Go Figure (http://oralargument.org/32) (on Judge Posner's gay marriage opinion in Baskin) and Oral Argument 131: Because of Sex (http://oralargument.org/131) (featuring discussion with Anthony Kreis about Judge Posner's Hively opinion) WINIR (http://winir.org) How do you pronounce Utrecht? (https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-pronounce-Utrecht) The Perfect Cappuccino (http://cappuccinomovie.com) Two Story's Last Day in Five Points (http://www.redandblack.com/multimedia/photos-two-story-s-last-day-in-five-points/collection_5a4052c2-a21f-11e7-bd12-5391199be363.html) (including a photo of Christian with the shop's last cap) Christian Turner, The Cost of Foregone Biergartens (https://www.hydratext.com/blog/2013/3/8/the-cost-of-foregone-biergartens.html) Oral Argument 31: Knee Defender (http://oralargument.org/31) (and see episode 32, above, for more knee defender discussion) Christopher Buccafusco and Christopher Jon Sprigman, How to Resolve Fights over Reclining Airplane Seats: Use Behavioral Economics (http://evonomics.com/resolve-fights-reclining-airplane-seats-use-behavioral-economics/)
Tiny 3D printed endoscopy tools, Apple guy sells Android, Girl Scout Cookies, A business plan for garbage, keep spammers on the line, the Appendix has a purpose, and Knee Defender. Links from this episode: - Microfabrica and US Endoscopy Partner to Create a Tiny 3D Printed Weapon in the Huge Battle Against Pancreatic Cancer - The 'I'm a Mac' guy from the Apple commercials is now promoting an Android phone - Verizon's `Can you hear me now' guy now at Sprint - Finding Dory * - Mike Rowe reads girl scout's sales pitch for dads 'rich' friends - Great Pacific Garbage Patch - Comedic actor takes hilarious revenge on telephone scammer who was demanding cash by trolling him - More than you wanted to know about Clifford the Big Red Dog - A Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH Remake Is In The Works, Get The Details - Your Appendix Isn’t Useless: New Scientific Theory Gains Ground - The 5 Best Cuts Of Beef - Only FIVE PER CENT of the world’s population has ever been on an aircraft: 39 incredible plane facts revealed - Knee Defender - Senate rejects plan to regulate airplane seat size
In an alternate studio, with alternate equipment and chairs, striving to get back in the groove, blowing out the rust, we make our return to the interweb-waves. (Please forgive some of the audio dips and quiet portions.) No particular agenda, but we wind up responding to some long-ago feedback about the stagecraft of judicial proceedings. This show’s links: First Mondays (http://www.firstmondays.fm) Oral Argument 79: He Said It Peabody Well (http://oralargument.org/79) The Supreme Court of the UK (https://www.supremecourt.uk/index.html) Jay Wexler’s SCOTUS Humor (http://jaywex.com/wordpress/scotus-humor/) Oral Argument 31: Knee Defender (http://oralargument.org/31) Plato, The Republic (http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.html) and, yep, r/plato (https://www.reddit.com/r/Plato/) Texas v. Johnson (https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2084618710761560217)
We discuss the role of design in the practice of law with renowned typographer-lawyer Matthew Butterick. The conversation ranges among very practical tips for making better documents, why so many legal documents are poorly designed, why lawyers should care about design, and what it even means to design a document. Matthew explains why IRS forms are some of the most well-designed legal documents around. Also, Joe manages to connect (positively) enjoying physical books with smelling gasoline. This show’s links: About Matthew Butterick, also here and @mbutterick on Twitter Nicholas Georgakopoulos, Knee Defender, Barro’s Error, and Surprise Norms Christopher Buccafusco and Chris Sprigman, Who Deserves Those 4 Inches of Airplane Seat Space? Keith O’Brien, America’s Chimp Problem The pronunciation of “chimpanzee” Cecilia Kang, Podcasts Are Back - And Making Money (sadly, not ours, but here’s Christian’s post on Podcasts and some of the reasons we started this show) Overcast, our preferred podcast app Episode 11: Big Red Diesel, in which we discussed typography, text editing, and the worst breaches of email etiquette Butterick’s Practical Typography (and how to pay for it if you choose!) From the book: Typography in Ten Minutes and Summary of Key Rules Matthew Butterick, Typography for Lawyers (and how to purchase physical and Kindle editions) Ben Carter, Typography for Lawyers: One Space, Double Spacing, and Other Good Ideas An example of a Supreme Court opinion, notable for its design Robin Williams, The Mac is Not a Typewriter Matthew Butterick, The Bomb in the Garden, text and images from a talk Matthew gave at TYPO San Francisco in 2013 Rob Walker, The Guts of a New Machine, reporting on the iPod’s first two years and including the quote from Steve Jobs that “design is how it works” (Note too the uncertainty in 2003 whether the iPod would go on to sell like the breakthrough Sony Walkman, which sold 186 million in twenty years. As of this article, the iPod had sold 1.4 million. It went on to sell 350 million in eleven years.) Dan Barry, A Writing Coach Becomes a Listener, a profile of William Zinsser, author of On Writing Well Mike Monteiro, Design Is a Job Lawrence Solum, Legal Theory Lexicon: Fit and Justification Patrick Kingsley, Higgs Boson and Comic Sans: The Perfect Fusion Matthew Butterick, Pollen, “a publishing system that helps authors create beautiful and functional web-based books” and that “includes tools for writing, designing, programming, testing, and publishing” Matthew’s Equity and Concourse typefaces Matthew Butterick, The Economics of a Web-Based Book: Year One Special Guest: Matthew Butterick.
We’re back with knees and gay marriage. And constitutional scholar Lori Ringhand. In the battle between recliners and knee defenders, Joe tells us the real enemy is the airline who has sold the same space twice. Somehow nose-punching, rapid window shade flipping, and the high arctic figure into the discussion. Turning to Judge Posner’s smackdown of midwestern marriage bans, we start with style: is there such a thing as too much smack? Then we turn to the really interesting bit, Posner’s reimagining of judicial scrutiny of discrimination. Also: speed traps. This show’s links: Lori Ringhand’s faculty profile, books, and articles Episode 31: Knee Defender, in which we first spoke of the airplane seat reclining controversy Neil Buchanan, Airplane Seatbacks, the Coase Theorem, and Simplistic Solutions to Difficult Questions Josh Barro, Don’t Want Me to Recline My Airline Seat? You Can Pay Me Katia Hetter, Seat Recline Fight Diverts Another Flight Baskin v. Bogan, Judge Posner’s opinion for the Seventh Circuit striking down marriage bans in Indiana and Wisconsin Robicheaux v. Caldwell, Judge Feldman’s opinion upholding Louisiana’s marriage ban Mark Joseph Stern, Judge Posner’s Gay Marriage Opinion Is a Witty, Deeply Moral Masterpiece Christian Turner, 404: Argument Not Found Brown v. Board of Education What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said, Jack Balkin ed. Episode 30: A Filled Milk Caste, in which we discuss United States v. Carolene Products Windsor v. United States (the Second Circuit opinion that led to the Supreme Court case) and SmithKline Beecham Corp. v. Abbott Laboratories (a Ninth Circuit case), each deciding to apply heightened scrutiny to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation Romer v. Evans, nominally using the deferential rational basis standard to strike down a state’s constitutional prohibition on any governmental efforts to protect gays from discrimination Special Guest: Lori Ringhand.
http://www.christianmoney.com John and Julieanne Dimitrion, despite being devoted members of Calvary Chapel in Pearl Harbor Hawaii, are now among the FBI's 50 most wanted white collars criminals. After pleading guilty to operating a fraud scheme, the couple failed to appear at their sentencing hearing in July of 2010. Jim discusses his recent blog article on the Dimitrions and the $10,000 reward being offered for information leading to their arrest. Residents of Houston, TX are reporting an unprecedented number of UFO sightings. Michael Sam, the first openly gay player to be drafted into the NFL, is cut by the St. Louis Rams. Jim shares his own thoughts on why the comparisons to Jackie Robinson are misguided, and how gay rights advocates will continue to attempt to exploit the story. Joan Rivers, an American legend, remains in a coma after three days. Jim comments on his admiration of Rivers and how she overcame a mountain of adversity. United Airlines flight diverted after fight breaks out after a passenger uses the 'Knee Defender' device to prevent the seat in front of him from reclining.
Our labor day episode, in which we discuss: Judge Posner’s castigation of state attorneys in gay marriage cases, professionalism (shiver) and politeness, the knee defender and recliners, airplane boarding and luggage retrieval, the exciting new adventures of the Town of Greece, satanists, and contempt of cop. This show’s links: Seventh Circuit arguments in Baskin v. Bogan and Wolf v. Walker Christian Turner, 404: Argument Not Found Paul Ford, How to Be Polite About the duty to rescue Paul Bloom, Against Empathy in the Boston Review, with respondents Richard Greenstein, Against Professionalism The Knee Defender AP, Plane Diverted as Passengers Fight over Seat Reclining CBC News, Fired RIM Execs “Chewed Through Restraints” on Flight Josh Barro, Don’t Want Me to Recline My Airline Seat? You Can Pay Me About the so-called Coase Theorem Stanley Coren, Is It Safe to Ship Dogs or Cats by Air? About boarding patterns on airplanes Dahlia Lithwick, Checking In on the Town of Greece Episode 19: The Prayer Abides (guest Nathan Chapman), discussing the Town of Greece case About the Streisand effect Jack Jenkins, How Satanists Are Testing The Limits Of Religious Freedom In Oklahoma Swartz v. Insogna About contempt of cop
Amber & Sarah chat with New Business Networking author Dave Delaney, Twitter opens Analytics to all, Pinterest's News feed, Spotify's Serendipity map, supporting Feminist Frequency, is Knee Defender rad or fad? And more! Hosts: Amber MacArthur and Sarah Lane Guest: Dave Delaney Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/social-hour. Bandwidth for The Social Hour is provided by Cachefly.
Amber & Sarah chat with New Business Networking author Dave Delaney, Twitter opens Analytics to all, Pinterest's News feed, Spotify's Serendipity map, supporting Feminist Frequency, is Knee Defender rad or fad? And more! Hosts: Amber MacArthur and Sarah Lane Guest: Dave Delaney Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/social-hour. Bandwidth for The Social Hour is provided by Cachefly.
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