Cops don't carry those anymore. They carry Glocks. 9mm, 17+1 capacity. Yes, it's a technical nit to pick, but it means that the cop has 3x more bullets than you think he has if you think he's carrying a service revolver*. Also, he's probably carrying one or two spare magazines. In other words, Rain Man is screwed. Not only can he shoot you dead. He can shoot you very dead.

*I'm not saying this is always a bad thing. Cops deal with some seriously bad people sometimes, and I'm all for them being able to defend themselves. It just means that if you get a hotheaded cop on a power trip, there's potentially a lot of damage for IA to sweep under the rug in their coverup.

I could care less. It's a mute point anyway.

That's cute and all. But my brother, who is a devout Mormon, got an MS in evolutionary biology. At BYU.

No, it's their cousin species, the Weeping Jelly Doughnuts, who are much less of a menace to the universe. Instead of zapping you back in time 80 years and feeding on your residual potential, they zap you back in time to last Tuesday, where you eagerly devour an unwitting jelly doughnut that will now never get a chance to zap you back in time to last Tuesday, thus creating a paradox and canceling its own existence. There's a reason they're all but extinct.

More to the point, it doesn't matter if the NSA had high definition video of Feinstein fornicating with Osama bin Laden's corpse while worshiping Adolf Hitler and singing patriotic Soviet hymns. The people of California would still re-elect her, and she would still sponsor the Feinstein Sanctity of Remains Act that prescribes death for mishandling the body of a deceased U.S. Senator.

Your average voter, be s/he a Democrat or Republican, is not interested in liberty in any meaningful sense. S/he is interested in license. "Give me license to do what I want, and if anything bad happens, fix it and let me go back to doing whatever caused it."

You seem to be confusing the actual purpose of this program with the snake oil sold to people (which they are increasingly reluctant to buy). I do not doubt that this program has been immensely useful for its actual purpose.

I once got asked a question which I found hurtful and offensive, and felt tempted to 'blow up' the interview at that point. Fortunately, I resisted the temptation. As it turns out, the question was his way of introducing the next thing, which was telling me that he was offering me the job.

This may not be a bad thing. As long as they don't find a way to reanimate her, she'll have to keep her mouth shut and won't be able to vote on anything. I'd call that an epic win.

That's a serious understatement. It's like saying a Mack truck can haul more than a Porsche. If there is ever a nuclear war, tube-based electronics will still be humming along quite happily long after EMP has wiped out every single transistor on the planet.

Next time you parrot a meme such as the false dichotomy that Somalia and Haiti are the only possible alternative to our current federal nanny state that thinks it needs to micromanage every aspect of every citizen's life, feel free to engage your brain first. Just saying.

Here's my report on the actual ruling which is being reviewed: 2nd Circuit affirms denial of plaintiffs' preliminary injunction motion in WNET v Aereo

I guess it would take a litigator to notice this, but it's quite unusual that a preliminary injunction denial would be getting this kind of appellate attention.

In the first place, it was unusual for an interlocutory appeal to be granted from the denial of the preliminary injunction motion. In federal court usually you can only appeal from a final judgment.

Similarly, apart from the fact that it's always rare for a certiorari petition to be granted, it's especially tough where the appeal is not from a final judgment, but just from a preliminary injunction denial which does not dispose of the whole case.

That depends---African or European swallows. Or are you suggesting ICBMs migrate?

This is my new motto.