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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.

h/t Boing Boing.