The Senate today confirmed the nomination of Leslie H. Southwick to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Laurie Kellman at The Washington Post reports.
Judge Southwick lives in Mississippi, but he entered the world at Edinburg, Texas, and graduated from Rice University and the University of Texas law school. So he has the Texas
As the NYT helpfully points out, people who veer towards perfectionism, who can’t stand not feeling "in control", or who combine an obsession with perfection and an insistence on running things — these folks account for a great many of the workaholic population. To which Blawgletter utters: duh.
We repeat: duh.
We also point
On that horrible day
Marred by gunfire and violence
Down by the quay
The bustle of Boston was replaced by silence
What could’ve easily been avoided but nay!
Five people set down to lay,
never to get back up for another day
On a modest Massachusetts afternoon
With street peddlers adding to the tune
The
Hank Hill sells propane and propane accessories here.
BP agreed to pay $303 million to settle civil charges that it manipulated the market for propane, per the WSJ.
Blawgletter thinks the allegations relate to a scheme three years ago to corner the propane market.
No reaction yet from Hank Hill.
Barry Barnett
Tug McGraw celebrates 1980 World Series win.
The relief pitcher (and daddy of country music singer Tim McGraw) commented on his major league salary:
Ninety percent I’ll spend on good times, women, and Irish whiskey. The other 10 percent I’ll probably waste.
Barry Barnett
A jaw crusher doing what it does best.
The Second Circuit today affirmed dismissal of a monopolization complaint against the dominant stone crusher in the New York area. The big aggregate producer, Tilcon, bought its only competitor in the market; refused to sell rocks to the plaintiff, Port Dock, any more; and jacked up prices.
Harman International settled its dispute with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Goldman Sachs over the latter’s deal to buy the former for $60 a share. KKR and Goldman instead invested $400 million in Harman convertible notes — money that Harman says it will spend to repurchase its own shares. Because, you know, the company
New Coke (1985-2002), left, went the way of the dinosaur in the U.S. but still sells in Yap.
The Coca-Cola Company asked a court not to grant class treatment for a securities case against the Real Thing maker. Its reasons, per the WSJ today, included an allegation that lead class counsel, Coughlin Stoia, made
Fall out from bad subprime mortgages started hitting where its hurts count — on Wall Street. As the NYT reports today, the outfits that pay interest on bonds have begun to cut off remissions to people who bought bonds that depend on subprime mortgages for their money. The Times article predicts that the drying up
As best Blawgletter recalls, we learned somewhere between 1981 and 1984 that the Constitution’s dormant commerce clause hates disturbances. That the clause would prefer to sleep in. But that on occasion it must rouse itself.
Today proved no exception — or, at most, a little one. The Second Circuit ruled that the dormant clause needn’t
