Noted this article on blawgs on How Appealing. My favorite quote is from Associate Justice William W. Bedsworth of the Fourth Appellate District Court in Santa Ana in A Criminal Waste of Space, a great little blawg that deals with the quirkier issues and the law (today's involved Famous Amos cookies and the penological system of Greenland):



"I write it to get the basic lunacy which is a large part of my psyche out of my system. Writing about seal penises and monkey smugglers and Kirk Kerkorian's divorce in this space bleeds off the silliness, so I don't feel the need to write opinions that say, 'Your sentence of 25 years to life is affirmed, but did you hear the one about the nun and the rabbi and the parrot?' "