Legal Lyrics

I came across an item in yesterday's New York Times that I thought people might enjoy. If anyone else took Constitutional Law with Mr. Justice James MacPherson (known at the time as "Jimmy Dean"), you may recall him saying that the SCC always reminded him of "All Along the Watchtower," looking out to make sure that all was well. He cited Jimi Hendrix as the artist, but in fact, the composer was Bob Dylan, who heads the list as most popular lyricist among jurists in the U.S.

It would be nice to know what the breakdown is among Canadian decisions. Perhaps it could be a new Carswell feature; an audiolink to any referenced song could be embedded in the judgment.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/weekinreview/29dylan.html

Engineers at Work

As of today, my kids have been out of school for a week and camp does not start until next week. Sometimes there is not enough Valium in the world...

I found leftover toothpicks and mini-marshmallows, so now Zohar is ensconced at the dining room table, building structures from sweet nothings. It's only been a couple of minutes and she's already built a 3-D rectangle you could practically drive a car over. And now Jacob is getting started. He's building a person.

I'm hoping that between the focus on building and the stuffing of marshmallows into their mouths, they will stay fairly quiet. Oh, and world peace. I also want to wish for world peace.

Sending an @home writer's shout out to Kim in honour of her first day of doing tax cases while in her pyjamas.

I sympathize about the toilet. We had a similar problem two weekends ago, so four humans and two cats were sharing one bathroom.

Yikes! I hope it wasn't a messy task to clean up

Murphy's Law continued

Apparently near-tornado touchdowns aren't the only thing that can interfere with a work-from-home writer's ability to concentrate on the job. Try a blocked toilet that overflows onto the whole bathroom floor (and you have only one bathroom)! It's kind of hard to care about a legal summary when that happens. Fortunately a plumber was in the building on another job and my super convinced him to help me gratis as a favour, but the clean-up ate into my writing time.

Apparently, a tornado touched down right near my apartment this afternoon. I was arguing with my five-year-old daughter Zohar at the time, so I didn't notice.

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