the imbroglio

Awesome photos of lightning over Chicago. I biked home during the beginning of this storm but was definitely safe and dry by the time this lightning struck.
(Via NPR.)

Inappropriate Golden Books — what a great idea. I can’t choose a favorite. More here, including “The Big Lebowski,” “Seven,” and “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

teeth! (view it large)
Originally uploaded by xetark

L. took Sisu to the dog beach yesterday and someone caught her looking fierce!

Wishbone Restaurant

Originally uploaded by ambimb

Way back in 2005 I was in Chicago w/L and her family and her sister took us to the Wishbone cafe. Now my snap of the place has made it into the Scmapp! Chicago interactive map/travel guide. Cool. Great place for [...]

It’s hard to believe how much time it’s possible to spend just poking around the world of Flickr. It’s like once you start, it’s hard to stop. I just spent a couple of hours clicking through the photographic treasures to be had there, much of it at the Project 365 group.

When I was in law school I somehow managed to take and/or post a photo nearly every day for a couple of years. However, since I moved to Montana and got a “real” job, that has pretty much come to an end. Somehow I can’t seem to find the time to take and post photos like I used to.

While adding the Rodney-Winners to the blogroll I noticed Doubtslinger’s latest post about his 17-year-old client who pled no-contest to assault with a deadly weapon on Thursday…. They could have asked the juvenile court for a fitness hearing, where a social history could have been done, we could have hired child-psychiatrists and social workers to take a long, hard look at this kid and decide whether this is someone society should throw away.The voters of this great state gave the prosecution the power to skip the psychobabble and treat kids like the grown ups they aren’t. Once a case is direct filed, there is nothing a defense attorney can do until the conclusion of the trial, and hope that the judge will sentence his client as a juvenile instead of as an adult.

Congratulations to all of this year’s Rodney Award Winners—the very best of the public defender blogging world.