for Scare Force One incident: Donald Douglas following up on Jeff’s post from last night.
Still unclear from latest underbus upskirt incident is who requested the permission for the flyover. But the guy’s resigned, so be satisfied, right?
Meanwhile, Alan Keyes and others arrested for marching at Notre Dame to protest Obama as commencement speaker. Lefties to denounce him for trying to shake down Catholics for more babies in 5, 4, 3 . . .
On language, Eugene Volokh has the lion’s share of the sour grapes.
The idea that “lion’s share” means “all” doesn’t hold up through even one single nature documentary. If it did, hyenas and vultures would be extinct in Africa.
/pedant
Huh, so a black leader marches against oppression and immorality and is jailed… its almost as if we’ve seen something like this before.
That Volokh post is an unusually benign example of lawyers’ incapacity to view language as anything other than a weapon, even in extralegal contexts (if they admit the existence of such).
The “lion’s share” may well be “the largest or principal portion,” but that’s not why the phrase has a lion in it. He’s there–and he is there–to take however much he wants, by means you can’t stop. He’s a damn lion.
Yes. Note that. Note it with anything in mind other than how you can beat someone with it, and you might see a lion.
Maybe it should be updated to “lawyer’s share.”
(I do like Eugene. Kind of. But.)
I like lions.
psycho, I like the “lawyers share” can I steal it?
JESUS CHRIST! GET IN THE CAR!
“It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.”
Lazarus Long.
I have continual back spasms. They build character.