For the first time this year both the Astros and the White Sox are in first place. Maybe we will get a World Series rematch this October, hopefully this time Houston will actually win a game.

Japan’s camera phone craze spreads to funerals

This reminds me of something I learned from one of my trips to the funeral museum. Apparently, it was quite common for people to take pictures of the dead when cameras first became popular.

Mouse Thrown Into Fire Sets Home Ablaze

Nineteenth-century English village life will always loom large in the world's imagination, like Greenland in a Mercator projection map.

This is excerpted from a recent NYT Magazine article ( Read more... )

Restaurant to get new name to avoid possible trademark violation

The article says they would bring a claim for trademark infringement which requires a likelihood of confusion. How many of you would think there was a connection between the restaurant and the soda? How many of you have even heard of Jarritos soda?

cross-posted to sazon_hispano

Hey, you-with the laptop! Ignore your professor and read this instead.

Here is a nice short article with a little talk of comparative constitutional law:
A Tale of Two Constitutions

Blacks and Hispanics who traditionally vote Democratic strongly backed the state's gay marriage ban at the ballot box this week, sometimes outpolling Republicans, analysts said Wednesday.

U.S. Rep. Brady pleads no contest to DUI charge