May 2009

Headlines from the Bitter Newsroom—a place as sought-after and fictitious as The Eager Beaver: • Just as everyone is pushed by the corporate- and media-fed compulsion to Tweet their f**king brains out, a storm front moved in after Today’s weatherman Al Roker was busted for taking pictures in the jury lounge with his iPhone and [...]

Headlines from the Bitter Newsroom, as super-secure and foolproof as a smile-less driver’s license: • The legal media web frenzy growing out of the Seventh Circuit Bar Association’s brawl beating of courtroom lawyers’ skimpy and eyesore threads (Bitter News, 5/22/09) has hit national headlines—not only to offer additional advice from Northwestern law school about looking [...]

Headlines from the Bitter Newsroom that turn poop into something useful and gassy:  • Apologies no longer accepted.  Lawyer eval grudge match time.  Faceoff: Alito v. Sotomayor (btw, per Krikorian, can we drop the dramatic pronunciation already? You’re not jamming the “t” and rolling the “r” anyway—because it’s so “not natural”).  [Power Line] • Okay, [...]

Grab a liquid-crack Red Bull and start the short week with these headlines from the Bitter Newsroom: • The whole Scalia/Fordham Law “teaching moment” thing is all well and good, but what happens when people who aren’t law students use the internet to obtain personal information about a judge?  Like, say, white supremacists and gang [...]