In a BIG surprise, Hot Potato Mash was nominated for a Weblog Award -- Best Video Blog -- for a second consecutive year. My immediate joy in garnering the nomination, however, has quickly given way to embarrassment as my current vote tally barely registers. Thus, I encourage, no, implore, my humble ...

Let's see if this post comes through without major format issues: When I was approached last year by ILGLaw and The Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law and asked for recommendations for panelists for this upcoming conference, I was thrilled. As far as I know it is the first such gathering ever ...

January 6, 2009 ... Pray for our young men and women who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan, and for their families … Tony J. Gonzales, 20; Benjamin B. Tollefson, 22; Christopher W. Lotter, 20; Alberto Francesconi, 21;  ...  and for the citizens of Iraq and Afghanistan who have died, un...

Colorado Media Matters: KHOW guest host Beauprez and Post's Haley misled about DPS performance under Senate appointee Bennet No happy trails for WCCO's Malmberg Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - ... Trails,'" he said, reprising how he departed for WCCO from his own nationally syndicated radio...

My friend and executive director Brad Sears of the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at UCLA Law School emailed me today to remind people that the early registration deadline for The Global Arc of Justice: Sexual Orientation Law Around The World, the conference they are ...

"Tomorrow is a big day for you." ---U.S. District Judge Andrew Guilford to former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona on the eve of closing arguments in his trial. "Look at the bigger picture." ---Riverside City Attorney Gregory Priamos to one of the CPRC commissioners during some "special" training. ...

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Part IV in a series of posts on the prospective elections for 2009 and 2010 tackles New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota and Ohio. New Hampshire The Senate race should be the biggest game in town next cycle. With former Governor Jeanne Shaheen having taken ou...

It was to be a season of revelations. Nissan was having a hard time keeping his cars up to date, and Toyota had a new weapon in the name of the Eagle Mark III. Jaguar would try to make for a very disappointing 1991, with more wins than ever, but no title in the end. Mazda was now another GTP competi...

Dust off your eco party clothes, fire up that Tesla and get ready because Global Green’s Gorgeous & Green 2008 will be taking the planet by storm on December 2. A raging, hip, glamorous, conscious, ridiculously fun storm.  Gorgeous & Green will be a star-studded event celebrating eco...