Running from the Cops

Most of you know about my fondness for the TV show Cops. I'm watching it tonight, and here's the big question: What the heck do you hope to gain by running from the cops, especially after the cop already had a good view of your face?

Best case scenario: You get away for a few days, until someone recognizes you and turns you in.

Worst case: You get tackled by a donut-loving Farva with his trusty German Shepherd. Squishing and pain ensue, perhaps with permanent bite scars, along with that "resisting arrest" charge added onto your "pot possession" or "going 55 in the 54." Is it really worth it?

No matter what happens: zip your lips. You have the right to a lawyer, and however nice the cop might seem, shutting up until your lawyer gets there is the best solution.

New Computer

My new computer came yesterday! My old one was almost 3 years old, and while it was still in working order, I decided it was time for a new one. Our law school has a zero tolerance policy during exams for technical difficulties, so if your computer freezes and you lose your work 2 hours into an exam, too bad. You don't get to make up the extra time. Knowing that, and knowing how many tics older computers seem to have, I took advantage of an HP sale and bought this new one. It's also 14 inches wide, compared to my old one's 17 inch-wide screen, so the new one is easier to cart around.

People have different preferences when it comes to laptops, and I got a lot of advice to buy a Mac or Dell. But I've had HPs all my life, and they've never given me any problems. I stuck with what I knew worked for me. It'll take a year or so to determine if I made the right choice, so we'll see.

The new one is also a lot prettier than my old one. Look at the cool design! I have to confess, that was a selling point. I am a girl, after all.

Law School Prom

I've written before about how much law school resembles high school. Seriously. We have lockers, there are about 500 students (total), and the gossip rivals that of Sweet Valley High. Guess what other high school tradition we have?

Prom. Prom!? Prom.

Next week is law school prom. Technically, it's called the "Barristers' Ball," but in reality, it's prom all over again. Yippee -- I wonder if my date will stand by me in public if I wear a poofy pink dress and tiara. Probably not.

Loaded Question

"So, how do you like law school?"

New Word

Property class taught me a new word today: chary. Try to guess what it means before you read the rest of this post.

Chary: discreetly cautious or wary.

"Do you ever hear about somebody whose life is so interesting that you're envious..."

"...even though you don't want to do any of the things that person does?"

Ann Althouse asks.

Eliot Spitzer's Secrets

Was Spitzer addicted to sex? To prostitutes? Until now, I had the impression that it was a one-time indiscretion. But indiscretions like this are rarely solitary. From an article in NY Magazine:

Someone who was certainly not surprised by Spitzer’s fall was Jason Itzler, erstwhile self-declared King of All Pimps. The now-41-year-old but still endlessly openmouthed Jason, whose exploits at his pricey NY Confidential whorehouse were previously described in this magazine (see “The $2,000-an-Hour Woman,” July 10, 2005), knew right away, before it came out in the press, that the Big Spit was a regular. “When I was in the business, if you had someone like him, you’d comp him. You comp him and comp him again, all the while jumping for joy because a client like that is like having the ultimate ‘get out of jail free’ card. But there’s a point you can’t comp him anymore. He’s using too much. You’ve got to begin charging. So if Spitzer was paying, and paying that much, he had to be serious addicted.”

It certainly raises interesting questions.


Secrets of the Megapimps [NYMag]

Deadlines

I'm a deadline-driven person. It helps organize my time when I have a deadline staring me in the face. Consequently, I'm having a hard time getting work done this week (it's spring break for us). How do you work on a paper that isn't due for another 3 weeks?

Sigh. I guess I'll have to learn. Any little tricks that people have to share would be appreciated.

Happy Saint Patrick's Day

Happy Saint Patrick's Day, everyone!

When a Tornado Hits During a High-Stakes Basketball Game

Did you see the game between Alabama and Mississippi State last night? It was played at the Georgia Dome, which was apparently hit by a tornado during the game. The roof was leaking, there were places where the roof was completely torn off, and the structure itself was shaking.

The game was postponed, but resumed about an hour later. MS State ended up winning. (Boo).

Tornado Trashes Atlanta [CNN]

Bracketology

We're watching the parts of the brackets being revealed by ESPN, interspersed by commercials and observations by commentators.

There are about 5 guys in my living room, and even though the entire bracket is already released online, they refuse to look at it. They say it's "all part of the fun" to string out the bracket revelations.

I'm too impatient for this. I'll stick with my instant internet-only bracket.

Is anyone keeping score?

Prof. Horwitz, who is also a blogger (PrawfsBlawg) and my con law professor, and I have had a good natured ribbing going on through our blogs. I wrote about how he had a "pimp cane," he replied on his blog and demonstrated that he has a wonderful sense of humor.

The most recent installment of our good natured war of the blogs involves a post I wrote for Above the Law teasing a "lovely Canadian professor" at my law school for pronouncing "substantive" as "subSTANtive." The next con law class period, he handed me a printout from a Canadian dictionary showing that his pronunciation was, indeed, correct.

One point for Prof. H.

Spring Break

Anyone doing something fun for spring break? I'm faking it by working on the book, law school work, and ATL -- but going to the tanning bed and watching basketball in between. At least I'll be a tan, basketballsy-informed workaholic.

Regal me with your tales of white beaches, blue waters, and pina coladas until the sun comes up. Or console me with your similar workaholic spring break.

Absence on ATL

David (daBossmann) Lat is trying out new bloggers, and wants several to fill in at different points. I don't know right now what my role would be exactly, but I think he has a role for me on the site when things get settled. Something like "Project Chick" would do just fine.

I'm just learning a ton with ATL, pushing boundaries, and having a great time. I see good things in our future together.

On Ending Sentences with Prepositions:

I tend to agree with Gloria:

My understanding as to not ending a sentence with a preposition was that the rule originated in Latin - where the preposition must be followed by the object in order to be correct. I'm ambivalent about the rule. I think the rearrangement of words to avoid such is a neat trick that shows off one's verbal acrobatics, but also generally unnecessary to clarifying one's meaning.

Thanks, G.

Prof. H Makes us Laugh

"We might have some visitors during class towards the end of the semester. It may be other faculty, etc. It's all standard stuff. Don't worry about it -- I'll pretend I'm sober, and you'll pretend you're paying attention."

And the Aides Fall

Samantha Power worked for the Obama campaign, and she stepped down last week after calling Clinton a "monster." Compare this to the quote that Geraldine Ferraro, who worked for the Clinton campaign, was forced to step down over today [CNN]:

"If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman, he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept."

Is this racist? Is pointing out someone's race racist? Is pointing out someone's sex sexist?

UPDATE: From the comments:

RumorsDaily said...

Pointing out race isn't racist, claiming someone is where they are BECAUSE of their race is potentially racist.

Warm Weather Brings the: Preachers?

As the temperature has risen, so have the number of campus preachers. Today's Crimson White has an article about the students who use a little outdoor "free speech area" to preach to students walking by. Some of the group's tactics are fine, even admirable: they read passages from the Bible and talk about them, sometimes encouraging a dialogue. If this helps students make more informed choices, then great. It also encourages debate, which is (arguably) the purpose of higher education.

"I try to make people heckle me so I can engage them and preach to them," he said. "It's more fun for people. It's good to act a bit dumb sometimes. It's good to make statements that are politically incorrect."

The article doesn't talk about anyone challenging the preachers' right to preach, but it does describe some disagreements and times of tension that the preachers caused.

Alex Perkins, a senior majoring in theatre, said Venyah's tactics go too far.

On Monday afternoon, Perkins asked Venyah a question. Venyah started pointing at Perkins, referring to him only as "you homosexual." Perkins said he became irritated and asked not to be pointed out, but Venyah told him to be quiet and shouted that homosexuals were taught by Satan.

"I find that incredibly offensive," Perkins said. "I think [Soulwinners is] just as militant as [Armstrong] is, but more offensive."

Venyah said he did Perkins a service.

"I just told him the truth," he said. "It's not Christ telling men to have sex with men, to masturbate, to drink alcohol. That's the devil."

The preacher singled out someone in a crowd and called him "you homosexual." Just because Jesus did something, it does not mean that you have the authority to do it. Thoughts on this?

Freedom of speech probably covers this type of behavior, but I'm not sure about that. Simple ethics -- respect for others -- would seem to prohibit it.

Advice for Eliot Spitzer

So, (ex) Governor Spitzer, how did they catch you?

On a federal wiretap.

Isn't that how you caught all those Wall Street crooks? Shouldn't you know that when the transaction is shady, you shouldn't talk about it on the phone? Lastly, should you be inclined to tangle with prostitutes in the future, Randy Moss has some advice for you:

"Straight cash, homey."

Also, Spitzer's escort really, really "loves" who she is.

Spitzer Agrees to Resign

Spitzer agrees to resign over his ties to a prostitution ring.

When I first saw this story, I thought he was being nailed for participation in the money side of the ring. The guy is already Governor of NY, but money is a universal motivator. "So what?" I thought. "He got greedy and got caught."

But the story is much stranger than that. It's being reported that Spitzer met with a high-dollar prostitute in a DC hotel. Why would he pay for sex? He's in a position of power, there HAVE to be other women who want to sleep with him for free. Of course, adultery wouldn't make the situation any more morally acceptable than prostitution. I'm just talking about whether or not his decision was rational.

When I voiced this opinion to my friend Gloria, she reminded me that the prostitute was likely under a contract that would bind her to keeping silent about the affair for the rest of her life. Most likely, Spitzer didn't pay for the sex -- he paid for discretion.

I'm sure a good lawyer could turn that into an argument and get Spitzer off (in more than one way).

Don't Kill Yourselves (It'll Make the Law School Look Bad)

Law school is mostly a blur of stressful situations and hours spent studying. Every once in a while, however, our professors give a little speech about how much they care about us, and how we should try to balance our lives with non-law school related activities. I think they're worried that someone's going to kill himself.

Our Evidence professor gave us one such speech today. In particular, he told us that we should try to make friends who aren't law students or lawyers. He ended the talk by telling us that, if we need to, we should go see the campus counseling services.

The first suggestion -- to make non-lawyerly friends -- is probably wise. Everyone needs good influences, right? The reminder about the counseling services just strikes me as funny. Also funny: that the people who are making our lives so stressful suggest that we go to Jamaica for spring break. Sorry, professor, I'll be too busy working on the brief to go to Jamaica this year. Gee, thanks for the suggestion though.

Sigh. Maybe next year.

This made me giggle:

My legal writing professor just (purposely) said "This isn't rocket surgery, people."

Observation

In Con Law we're talking about the abortion cases -- Roe, Casey, Carhart, etc. -- and the nature of discussion is totally different from any kind of discussion that would have happened in college. In undergrad, people would voice emphatic opinions and defend them vigorously. The class would probably run long, and the professor would moderate.

In law school, the discussion is very different. The students are very, very reluctant to state opinions, and when they (we) do, it's like tiptoeing. Of course, this makes sense in an environment like law school, where people are excessively aware of peer approval.

But it's also counter-intuitive in at least one sense. When we're talking about less emotional issues, the debate is more heated than it is now, when the subject is extremely controversial. Yet the abortion discussion is like pulling teeth to get students to contribute.

Another observation: People tend to mimic the speech that they're exposed to. Since we're reading and discussing abortion cases, words like "conception" and "termination" are being used as they relate directly to the actual abortion procedure, but people are also unconsciously using them to mean other things ("My conception of this idea involves...").

The Wire

I've become a fan of The Wire this season, and I ended up watching all of the previous episodes during the past six months or so. Tonight is the final episode of the entire show. To any other fans-in-arms out there who are anxious: I feel you.

Stephen A. Crockett (Jr. [Shouldn't there be a limit for the number of name-parts you can use in a byline? I'm thinking 3. Four is just gratuitous.]) feels you too. Even though his name is annoying and distracting, the man can write. If you're a Wire fan, check out his series eulogy. It may make you feel a little better.

Ah, Sunday

Sunday used to mean a day off:

And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done. (Genesis 2:3)

I'm guessing that whoever created law school didn't ask God's opinion first.

Reviews on ATL

I read through some of the criticisms tonight, and I think the ATL crowd is the toughest to please out of any blog I've read. That's alright, though. It just means I have to step it up.

Here are the complaints that I think have some merit:

• Over-posting on frivolous news items.
• Under-posting on substantive pieces.

Here are some complaints that just make me laugh:

• SEN...you're cute. Stick to that.
• Lat - Hopefully, today the last day of Take Your Kid to School Week. Get off your ass and work.

Then there were some complaints along the lines of "You're a girl. You'd make a good wife. Stop trying to do guys' work."

I bet that guy would make a good wife-batterer.

Among the battering of ATL commenters, I also received the best compliment I've ever been given:

Sharon, I didn't even realize it was you posting and not Lat today on AboveTheLaw, particularly since it is Thursday and I thought you'd be posting on Fridays. The fact that I didn't notice that it was you today shows how seamless the transition was and is between you and Lat. Kudos to you!

On another note, it is very telling that all the bitter people who wrote nasty comments last week have suddenly disappeared on AboveTheLaw. A sign of acceptance for you from the male-dominated New York crowd that primarily posts there. That level of acceptance is not easily accomplished by a Southerner in the span of one week. For example, every time that Billy Merck pops his head up, a pack of people will instantly write about how much they hate him in a dozen different ways.

Good work, Sharon!

This last compliment was posted anonymously, but I'd like to know who wrote it. If you feel like revealing yourself, my email address is Ijudgeyouwhen AT gmail DOT com.

Whew.

Just finished the afternoon's blogging at ATL. I'm getting the hang of it now, which may just mean that I'm getting better at scanning the news and filtering out which items I have something relevant to say about. My favorite post of the afternoon is below, but check out the rest at the actual website.

Book-Stealing Hoodlum on the Loose at U of Kentucky Law

That’s right, people. Kentucky Law’s lockers are unsafe. A tipster forwarded us the email that Associate Dean Bakert sent out today warning students not to keep books in their lockers until the security threat is addressed. There was a lock on the locker in question, but the crafty thug apparently broke it.

We know those law school books can be expensive, but they are not the things that a proper gangster steals. You can’t even brag about that, player.

We can think of some creative things the students could keep in their lockers instead of books. Like, you know, snacks and stuff. To our resourceful commenters: what helpful items would you suggest Kentucky’s law students keep in their lockers instead of books?

Busy Day

I'll be blog-sitting over at ATL for a few hours later this afternoon, and tomorrow I get to take over the WHOLE place for the ENTIRE day. What devious things do I have planned? You'll have to wait and see, but I will say this: it involves vodka and verbal rabble-rousing.

I Heart Facebook

Dahlia Lithwick and I are totally Facebook friends now. Yes!

President Bush Gossip

President Bush gave a speech yesterday in Washington, DC for political appointees, and I have a source who was there. As far as I know, there weren't TV cameras there and press coverage was minimal. Apparently the Pres. really let loose and had some super goofy moments. Heck, why not? He doesn't have to run for anything ever again. Here are some approximate quotes from the talk. (Imagine these in a deep Texas accent.)

In response to a question about interesting experiences while living in the White House: "You know, when I stopped drinking, I stopped seeing ghosts!"

"We hang influential Presidents on the wall in the Oval Office and I've got Lincoln up there. I mean, I hang 41 in my heart, but Lincoln's on the wall."

"That's the great thing about America, you can worship however you want. Whether your Jew, Christian, Muslim, Hindi....Vegan, whatever!"

On what he'll do after his term ends: "I'll probably make some speeches, if they're paying, of course. I've got bills to pay!"

"My buddy Clay [Johnson] came into the Oval Office and said, 'I can't believe we're here, and what's more, I really can't believe you're here." - W's Yale University roommate.

Jan Crawford Greenburg

Jan Crawford Greenburg is speaking at my law school today, and I'm in the room listening to her now. She is (was?) a legal correspondent for ABC News, and she has a new book out called Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control for the United States Supreme Court (Penguin Press).

She's talking about the Justices' demeanors, telling how Chief Justice Rehnquist would cut off lawyers in oral arguments as soon as the red light came on. I can imagine that gruff, daunting man startling little lawyers at the end of their time, totally cutting them off. Hey, those are the rules.

Now she's talking about the interactions between Justice O'Connor and CJ Rehnquist, about how the CJ struggled to stay on the court until the very end of his life. Greenburg is casting this in a good light, saying how the CJ overcame these great odds, beat thyroid cancer, and came back to the Court. But do we really want to encourage the justices on our highest Court to continue serving when they're not really in shape to make their best decisions?

I've heard this argument about TVs in the Court. The argument is that if we allow TV coverage, the justices' conditions will be highly public. If their mental acuity is slipping, it will be more apparent with TV coverage than by just reading their opinions (which are mostly written by clerks, anyway). If their physical movements are scrutinized, it will encourage them to step down sooner if they need to. While this might sound heartless, it's a good argument for quality control of the Court. We want SCOTUS to make lasting, credible decisions, so we should encourage conduct consistent with that.

Greenburg is almost done speaking. I'm impressed by her speaking style, but I wish she had spoken more about the mechanics of covering the Court. She mostly told anecdotes about the interactions between the president and the Court and between the justices. She's done what I'd like to do -- turned a law degree into a writing and speaking career -- so I wish she'd spoken more about it. But she does have a book to promote. She has an authoritative speaking and writing style, and she has a blog (yeah!).

Conclusion: I don't know that I'll buy her book, but there's a copy on reserve at the library that I'll check out. If you're interested in the recent history of the Court, you'll probably be interested in her book.

UPDATE: Now she's answering questions. Prof. Horwitz just asked a question about reasoning in decisions, and how that compares as an influence in decisions compared to ideology. In journalism, with those who have a law school background, is there a greater respect for meticulously reasoned decisions over decisions influenced mostly by partisanship?

She's responding to the question, but she's talking about the justices, not journalism. She says that the conservative justices seem to be more resolute, that they hold that they absolutely made the right decision in every case. She's talking about Bush v. Gore, and she says the liberal justices remain convinced that the Court never would have heard the case if the parties were reversed. The liberal justices think the conservative justices are partisan, surprise surprise. I wonder if they ever, you know, flip a coin. Sometimes it seems like it, huh?

"Y'all" Writing

Jacob Rubin critiques Sarah Boxer's blog anthology titled Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wild Web. Rubin describes the obvious public element of blogging: yes, it really is out here for everyone to see. He gives a mixed review to the actual book, saying that some entries are better than others. I haven't read the book, but he makes one observation that seems absurd that I wanted to address:

"These writers, despite the famed interconnectedness of the web, seem uncommonly starved for connection."

The currency of blogging is links. I link to you, you link to me, we comment on each other's writing. It's constant interaction, perpetual peer review. Books cannot link (in the same sense). The reason that blog posts collected in a book seem "starved for connection" is that the material was never meant to go in a book. When you take something out of the environment it was made for, depends on, and made IN, of course it seems incomplete.

Final pet peeve about this review: the pretentious use of "Y'all" to detract from the form of writing. Ugh.

Jan Crawford Greenburg

Jan Crawford Greenburg is coming to speak at UA tomorrow morning, and all the Con Law classes are going. I'm just now reading up on her, but I like her writing style. She has a new book out on SCOTUS, and (my favorite part) she has a blog.

As I'm reading more of her pieces, I'm getting more excited to hear her speak. She's done what I want to do -- she turned a legal degree into a writing career. I just might be the gunner of her talk tomorrow.

Quote from Con Law, on Exam Taking:

Prof. Horwitz: "Fear organizes and concentrates the mind beautifully."

That's a good way to sum up the feeling in law students' hearts around exam time: fear.

Ohh, snap. Prop.Prof Krier just called me out.

In the middle of Property class, he stopped his teaching, looked around the room for "Ms. Nichols," and asked me why I said bad things about him in this post about the joke he played on the class.

"I didn't!" I protested. He laughed it off, then asked what NIU was. I should have linked to an explanation of the NIU tragedy, but I really didn't want to link Prop.Prof Krier's joke to such a tragedy. The Joke was a joke, and it served a good purpose. It was effective, it didn't waste much class time, and it put us all back in a mindset to be serious.

I explained the NIU tragedy in class today when Prop.Prof asked, and I'll link to it in this post. I just wanted to make it clear that those were totally different incidents, very very dissimilar. I mentioned the NIU thing to show my appreciation for Prop.Prof not being overly-politically correct and stuffy, like some professors would have been. Here's the NIU link.

Westlaw Briefing

What do you think the ethical considerations are for getting your case briefs directly from Westlaw? I read the assigned reading, but I find myself reading the Westlaw brief too to remind myself of the important points of law.

I don't think this is like reading Sparknotes instead of Hamlet in high school because Sparknotes is easier. If I've already done the reading, reading a supplement isn't cheating. What say you?

Chat with a Representative

The "chat with a service representative" feature that most websites have now is the BOMB. Just sayin'.

I resolved a Bank of America issue over their chat just now, and it took probably 1/4 of time time I would have spent on the phone.

REPLY: to the comments on the laptop post. While I recognize the advantages of a Mac, the problem is that we take exams on a Windows-based platform. People with Macs have had all kinds of problems, and I'd rather stick to a PC for that purpose. Any advice on PC? What RAM and memory specifications are up to date? I'm partial to my HP, but open to suggestions.

[SHOOT! Spell check doesn't cover the title, apparently. Go ahead and judge me.]

Advice about Laptops

I'm in the market for a new laptop. I've had HPs for my whole computing life, and I really like my HP notebook that I have now. I've had it for 2 and a half years, and sadly it's getting slow on me.

What are current specifications for laptops? Like RAM and memory. I researched these things last time I bought a laptop, but I have no idea now.

Considerations:

• I need it to be light
• I've settled on a 14'' or fewer screen
• Word and OneNote
• Preferably, NO AOL applications. They're too hard to get rid of and useless for me.
• Also, I'd rather have Windows XP, but everyone is selling computers with Vista. Is it worth it to find one with XP? I have Vista on this machine and I don't like it, but that may be because this computer is slower. I might like it on a faster machine.

Virus protection is provided for free by the school, so these are my main concerns. Any advice?

Hackers and Pictures

The other day, I received an email from Facebook saying that someone tried to hack into my account. I had to change my password, because the hacker had apparently been successful.

I did all the usual phishing checks -- the website was really Facebook, the email was really from Facebook, etc. So somebody was really trying to hack my Facebook account. I wonder what types of changes they would have made. It's kinda scary to think about -- a TON of my pictures are stored on Facebook.

Note to self: back up Facebook pictures.

Jokes Build Goodwill

Prop.Prof Krier has a peculiar way of teaching. His classes resemble math classes, with him drilling the students on the problems from the night before. It gives me panic attacks (not the drilling, the mathematical similarities), but I understand how it can be an effective teaching method.

Last week we had a particularly brutal class. It was obvious that only a few were prepared, and those who weren't prepared were drilled into the ground, head first. It looked like it hurt. The class ended on sort of a tense note, and we all just wanted to leave.

Cut to the next class. Prop.Prof comes in and apologizes. He says that he's only hard on us because he respects our ability to do the work. He mentions the fact that he's new to Alabama (he came from Michigan) and maybe we do things a bit differently here, and he'd try to conform to the level of politeness that he sees in Alabama.

Student A, who only has a reputation for being a super nice guy and very hard worker, stands up.

"I don't know what you're thinking up there, but where I come from we treat everyone right. You're talking down to us right now, and I don't want to take it anymore."

Student A shuts his book and stomps out of the room, saying "I'm not going to take it anymore." Stunned, everyone looks around for a clue about what we should do.

Prop.Prof: "Well, if anyone else feels the same way, go ahead and leave."

No one moves. Prop.Prof starts teaching again. A full two minutes of awkwardness later, Student A pops his head in the door and says "HA! It was all a joke. Prop.Prof Krier was in on it!"

My thoughts on this: It was a brilliant strategy to build goodwill for Prop.Prof after we had such a brutal previous class. If he's cool enough to play a joke on a whole class, he must be cool in other ways.

Other thoughts: After the NIU thing, there were probably better words they could have chosen than "I'm not gonna take this anymore." Also, the whole class disturbance thing could have been frightening.

Full disclosure: I wasn't there. I'm just hearing this second-hand and describing it based on my knowledge of the people involved.

In the end, nothing bad happened and goodwill for Prop.Prof Krier is restored. So, good work everybody.

Drudge Breaks Prince Harry Story

Prince Harry comes home from Afghanistan because the media publicized his location. This CNN article doesn't name the news outlet that broke the story, but Headline News is reporting on TV that it was Drudge.

Arguments in Drudge's favor:

• News is news, and it's all fair game.
• We read websites because we want to be informed as soon as possible. Drudge gets readers because of his willingness to report what others won't, so anyone who reads Drudge is sanctioning this type of disclosure.

Arguments against:

• Slippery slope: if there are no journalistic standards, the news may as well be tabloids. Don't we want our news from quality sources?
• The ultimate line in the sand: when the information could put lives in danger.
• CNN, BBC and other respected news sources had agreed on not reporting the prince's location.

These are my thoughts on it. I think there are good arguments on both sides. See if you can come up with better ones.

The Latest Food Recall

Unidentified pills were found in Gordon's fish fillets in PA.