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  • Friday Night Lights

    While I watch and love FNL, I have one quibble about the article. ''Television has previously given us a single family, a school, friends, sisters and brothers, the bar, the corner, law firms, a lane, a ZIP code, even rich men, poor men. But never has television provided such an all-encompassing and realistic portrait of an entire town.'' ...
    Posted to Television by andy3590 on April 22, 2008

  • Munaf and Omar Cont'd

    How did the original Latin writ read? If I remember correctly, it was an order to the official holding the prisoner to bring the prisoner before the King's court for disposition. I guess that by Coke's time this routinely meant releasing the prisoner from custody. But need it mean this? Perhaps the District Courts could order their respective ...
    Posted to Convictions Archive by bluehorse on March 24, 2008

  • A New Writ: Please detain me!

    How did the original Latin writ read? If I remember correctly, it was an order to the official holding the prisoner to bring the prisoner before the King's court for disposition. I guess that by Coke's time this routinely meant releasing the prisoner from custody. But need it mean this? Perhaps the District Courts could order their respective ...
    Posted to Convictions Archive by bluehorse on March 24, 2008

  • Please Detain Me

    How did the original Latin writ read? If I remember correctly, it was an order to the official holding the prisoner to bring the prisoner before the King's court for disposition. I guess that by Coke's time this routinely meant releasing the prisoner from custody. But need it mean this? Perhaps the District Courts could order their respective ...
    Posted to Convictions Archive by bluehorse on March 24, 2008

  • Sex outside of Marriage & Man's Arrogance

    I commend Ms Yoffe for tackling a daunting, yet ignored societal crisis. The effects of this crisis are most evident in the social services offices, public schools, juvenile detention centers of America. If one has never visited or taken part there in, one can watch The Wire, Season 4, to get a fictional, yet poignant and masterful portrayal of ...
    Posted to The Best Policy by Usama2 on March 20, 2008

  • Jury nullification

    Brilliant post! Thank you, David, for bringing the problem, as well as the means of solving it, to everyone's attention. I am going to spread links to this post as far and wide as I can. I hope other readers will do the same.
    Posted to Convictions Archive by Pair0dox on March 19, 2008

  • Cheese's Execution Speech

    Did anyone else find it interesting that when Cheese gave his final speech about how ''there ain't no nostalgia'' he talked about how Prop Joe had his time and Marlo had his time but he never mentioned Avon Barksdale at all (even though Cheese was involved with Stringer in the founding of the Co-op that still endured)? I just found it an ...
    Posted to TV Club by UCrawford on March 10, 2008

  • Why it ended with McNulty

    Simon IS McNulty. Landsman's ''elegy'' said all that need be said. Jimmy is uncompromising, devoted to dogged pursuit of the truth, consequences be damned, and as often as not he was damned right back. And I think that's exactly how Simon sees himself (and I for one agree and respect him enormously for his willingness to take so many ...
    Posted to TV Club by prau on March 10, 2008

  • A fanfare to the The Wire, The best television series ever.

    The wire was actually the worst television series on television, but that's exactly what made it so amazing. It was more like an unwritten novel adapted to be broadcast as a television series. It even seams that if The Wire had a novel to base on it wouldn't have ruined it the way most television series do, trying to simplify the story, ''cutting ...
    Posted to TV Club by shaul hanuka on March 9, 2008

  • Quick Thought on Omar's Newports

    This last discussion post got me thinking: didn't Omar almost always buy a carton (10 packs) of Newports, rather than just a single pack? He can jump off of 6 stories and here he has the strange premonition he won't be needing 10 more packs of smokes. Any ideas?
    Posted to TV Club by The Avant Ridiculous on March 8, 2008
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