I have to admit that I had expected to call an end to todays proceedings when Jose Baez wrapped up his opening statement. It was somewhat shorter than Linda Drain-Burdick’s 150 minute exploration of the case, but it was an opening statement that could well come back to haunt him and the entire defense effort. [...]

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Yahoo has promulgated a list of manners that it insists all children should know and abide by. Many of these such as saying “please” and “thank you” or sending a “thank you note” are important courtesies.  Others are simply a reminder just how much certain adults despise children. Some of these serve no other purpose [...]

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  Artist:           Sean Jones CD Title:      No Need for Words CD Release: May 24, 20011 Label:           Mack Avenue Records These days when you hear someone is releasing a new CD you don’t get excited because there maybe some disappointment to follow. No matter who the artist is theirs always a chance of disappointment very few [...]

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Just after 1:10pm Jose Baez had his turn to offer Opening Statements. The State had created a strong case in their statement, and this afternoon we got to hear the defense. I have joked many times that Jose Baez would claim that Caylee Anthony was abducted by aliens and taken to Area 51. It turned [...]

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There is little doubt in my mind that the State got off to a very strong start. Linda Drain-Burdick gave a 150 minute introduction to the case, and the evidence that would be presented. A good deal of those 150 minutes was spent walking the jury through the day by day activities of Casey Anthony [...]

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There seems to be a rather sad group of people — mostly on the political Left, apparently — who are convinced that anything popular is bad. And they go to some lengths to prove it. Hence we have the unrelenting attacks on things as diverse as McDonald’s and cellphones. No compromise by McDonald’s ever suffices [...]

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An amazingly naive study below. Some researchers into this topic have absorbed the lesson that they must control for social class variables if they are to be taken seriously but the guys below have just reinvented the wheel. The study is in a “pay to publish” journal so it’s what one has to expect, I [...]

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