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I’ve got three different single-topic posts in the works and hope to have them up later tonight.  At least one should be of interest to those wanting something about Scruggs.  In the meantime, here’s some things of interest:

Preservation in Mississippi is a group blog new to me that I highly recommend.  Because of a link [...]

Ashe v. Swenson holds that where a defendant is acquitted of a crime, double jeopardy (via collateral estoppel) bars charging a second closely related crime \where the first acquittal had to have resolved facts that would would establish innocence of the second crime.
Reduced to simple terms for present purposes, suppose a defendant was charged of [...]

William Saletan writes about science issues at Slate.  It’s a topic I find interesting, but I’m not sure there’s a worse writer about science than Saletan.  He embodies the particular faux contrarian ethos that is Slate at its worst– staking out a position the writer presents as against the general wisdom and hopes will draw [...]

Another guessing game, with the answer below the fold.  I saw a biography of a country singer at the bookstore, and read the jacket flap text:
The twentieth century was graced with a trio of great female singers who mined the darkest corners of their hearts and transformed private grief into public dramas.  Opera had Maria [...]

Here’s my favorite correction of the month, from the NY Times Arts blog:
An earlier version of this post misquoted Mr. Remnick on his comparison between the book and a New Yorker article he had previously written. He said the book would not be a “pumped up” version of the article; he did [...]

Students rate Amy Bishop, and either love her, or hate her, with the exception of a few who note:  She doesn’t change her tests often, just study the old tests.
I don’r spend a lot of time on Rate My Professors, but it really struck me how polarized these ratings were.
h/t Walter Olson’s Twitter feed.

Probation? Did I say probation?
Dr. Bishop’s life of crime in Massachusetts reached the point of probation?
She apparently punched a woman in I.H.O.P. for refusing to give up a child seat to Dr. Bishop’s child. From a Boston Globe blog:
In March, 2002, Bishop walked into an International House of Pancakes in Peabody with her family, [...]

Photo from Sarah Freeland Simonson (who got a coconut at the Zulu parade).

Update below

I posted this weekend about a blow-up in New Albany, where the city was furious that the city attorney had appeared as local counsel in a class action suit against Toyota, who is someday hoped to open a giant auto plant near New Albany, a plant that’s had huge effects on local governments, both [...]

This link will take you there, on the website for the international organization for these sports.