Random: February 2008 Archives

But does this strike anyone else as odd (emphasis mine)

Jurors considering the fate of a former police officer who murdered his pregnant lover and their unborn child didn't believe he meant to kill the woman in her home.

"Nobody ever felt he went there to kill her. Whatever came about, came about as a result of something that happened when he got there," jury foreman Charles Gillespie said Wednesday.

The jury determined that they would not recommend the death penalty for Bobby Cutts Jr. for the aggravated murder of the unborn female fetus. He also was convicted of the lesser charge of murder for killing Jessie Davis, 26.

It sounds like her life was worth less under the law than that of her fetus! What's that about?

From page 3 of the March 2008 issue of the National Wildlife Federation's Wild Animal Baby magazine, a publication for very small children.

Um. Yeah.

Today, walking back from lunch:

Michael (guesturing towards a vacant-looking storefront): Hey, did you know that's a pot club over there?
Me: Really?
Two guys loitering nearby: Hey, you want to buy some pot?
Michael (laughing): No thanks.
Me: I feel like that was a real-life Google text ad.
Michael: Totally. An annoying Google text ad.

Composed extemporaneously this a.m.

Hush little baby
don't run away
Mom and dad need
a triple latte

If that triple latte don't work
Mom or dad will turn into a great big jerk...

My dad is arguing this case!

hether a $500 million damages award against Genentech Inc. stands will probably come down to whether the California Supreme Court interprets a 32-year-old contract as establishing a fiduciary relationship between the biotech giant and a research center.

That issue was the focus of Tuesday's oral argument in the long-awaited case, as the court's justices attempted to nail down exactly what constitutes a fiduciary relationship in a patent contract. All seven justices -- including 1st District Court of Appeal Justice James Lambden sitting in for recused Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar -- asked tough questions without tipping their hands about who would prevail.

Attorneys for both sides were well-regarded appellate specialists. Jerome Falk Jr., a partner in San Francisco's Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin, represented Genentech, while Peter Davis, counsel in the San Francisco office of Reed Smith, presented arguments for City of Hope National Medical Center.

It was on television too, although viewing the archive requires blasted Windows Media Player...