Participate in a discussion on the federal deficit:
1) USA Budget Discussion dot org
2) For a quick review of the difference between the national debt and the national deficit, visit this U.S. Treasury website.
Whew. The same week I’ve been thoroughly absorbed by the, what I can truly call thrilling, Harry Markopolos book, “No One Would Listen,” about Markopolos’ 8-year battle to get the SEC and others to listen to his warnings about Bernie Madoff, I bring you these two stories:
1) The April 22, 2010, OPB broadcast of The April 18th edition of Philosophy Talk on Lies Faces, Feelings, and Lies (blog post on the program). The April 18, 2010, program had guest Paul Ekman, author of “Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage.”
Professor Ekman teaches (free, online) a one-hour program on reading micro-expressions – and more!
We just heard that Terry Gross’s April 13th, 2010, interview with Jeff Shesol, author of “Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court” was highly entertaining and educational (a team that is hard to beat).
Those of us in the OPB “listening area” can hear it tonight at 7 p.m.
Or, link to the transcript and podcast of Fresh Air, “FDR’s Losing Battle To Pack The Supreme Court”.
Massey Energy Company was in the news back in 2009, if you recall, in this U.S. Supreme Court case, which you can be sure that everyone who votes for, against, or rails about having to vote for or against, state judges will be interested in reading:
Caperton v. Massey Coal Co., U.S. Supreme Court, No. 08–22, June 8, 2009
See also:
Update to previous posts on Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) resources (see also under Veterans):
1) Verification of military status (online verification) and certificates by mail.
2) American Bar Association Legal Assistance for Military Personnel (LAMP)
GPO Access will soon become FDsys (GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys)). It is still the Government Printing Office website, but new and improved and with a confusing name, FDsys. Two out of three isn’t bad at all and the important part is good content and a friendly interface.
Two useful articles from LLRX:
1) The Government Domain – Congressional Documents on FDsys: the Basics, by Peggy Garvin, July 27, 2009
Did you ever wonder what a U.S. Supreme Court law librarian job description looks like? Here’s your chance – and it’s a part-time job too (well, at least you’ll be paid for only 30 hours a week).
Direct link or link from Law Librarian Blog:
“Provides complex, interdisciplinary reference and highly technical research support services; uses resources in newly emerging information sources in all formats; creates new methods and formats for assembling, organizing and delivering knowledge and information to Court constituencies; participates in the design, implementation, and maintenance of a complex relational database incorporating imaging, indexing, data migration and file transfer across the Court intranet and extranet; serves as an expert in all aspects of the evaluation, navigation, access and retrieval of worldwide online and Internet resources and services; works under great time pressures; performs collection development and related collections services duties; conducts tours, briefings and orientations; and undertakes broad programmatic responsibilities for long-term projects and programs which impact the overall effectiveness of the Research Department. “
If you need access to this document before the 9th Circuit updates their website, read on:
We had a question recently about the Ninth Circuit (U.S. Court of Appeals) “Standards of Review,” but when the attorney and I went to the Ninth Circuit website, clicked on Attorneys, and then clicked on “Standards of Review,” nothing happened.
So, I got on the phone with my Ninth Circuit Law Library Guru and asked the question posed in one of those wonderful Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar jokes:
The Law Librarian Blog has a post about blogging as “scholarship”, but the eye-opening news is at the end of the blog post. I’m not sure if I’m more astounded at a blogger (of SCOTUS Blog) spending (assuming this is correct) $150,000 on his blog (though perhaps I should be surprised at the paltry sum spent given the quality and substance of the blog) or am more tickled by a blogger and his blog being translated into a TV show, which will cost (and pay) way more than that $150,000, so I’m sure no one is complaining:
“Blogging as Thinking Out Loud Sometimes“
Excerpt: “…Or how does one turn blogging into a TV pilot? The Washingtonian is reporting that NBC is developing a TV series based on the life of SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein. A partner at Akin Gump who has argued 21 Supreme Court cases, Goldstein spends about $150,000 a year of his own money to fund the excellent and rarely off topic SCOTUSblog….” (read full LLB post)
Oregon Legal Research Blog