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• Department of Odd Connections, State Bar Division

  The options for state bar commissioner for the 3rd District are Thomas Dawson, former prosecutor of Tim Balducci, and Ken Smith, former law partner of Tim Balducci.

• Sam Sifton of the NY Times brings us: The Explosive Turkey Bomb

  I’m enjoying the hell out of Sam Sifton’s blogging on the NYTimes food blog (he’s also started off well and vividly as the Times’ new restaurant critic).  This week, he’s doing Q&A on Thanksgiving dinner,…

• Could there be newly discovered evidence in the 1964 civil rights worker murders?

  Jerry Mitchell had an interesting pair of stories about the possibility of further prosecutions for the murders of civil rights workers Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman in Philadelphia in 1964. Recall a while back Jerry Mitchell…

• Open Thread and Meditation on Ole Miss Football

  So life is interferring with the internet– I spent five hours today at a school hearing, and come out to deal with all the other stuff accumulating while I’m tied up, and learn… …a bartender…

• The Sixth Circuit Tells Funk Fans Something They Already Know

  – that George Clinton owns “Bow wow wow yippie yo yippie yeah,” thanks to Atomic Dog It seems that a rap group on the Universal label had a song about a dog that used the…

• Some notes on Mississippi Supreme Court opinions from 11/14/09

  I’ve already posted about the Mississippi Supreme Court opinion in the Jones, Funderburg case (and one reaction to it) from last Thursday’s decisions list.  There are several more opinions; I’m going to hold comment on…

• “We lost enough money last week on the game.”

  Some people may have overreacted to those orange-wearing visitors. h/t Kingfish.

• Big Orange? Wandering Around Town Today

  I noticed all these people in orange, and thought:  What does this remind me of? My first thought was pumpkins, two weeks late for Halloween. Nope.  That’s not it.  Then I realized what I was…

• I’m sorry folks, this is not Robert Johnson’s birthplace

  The Clarion Ledger has a story about Robert Johnson’s birthplace in Hazelhurst.  Local officials claim to have discovered it: His birthplace, however, has been verified. The seminal bluesman came into the world in 1911 in…

• One reaction to the Supreme Court’s Barrett v. Jones, Funderburg decision yesterday

  Grady Tollison writes: As I read Barrett, et al. v. Jones, Funderburg, Sessums, Peterson and Lee, PLLC, the only interpretation is that if a group of lawyers acting in concert in the collective interest of…