Itzik Basman

Recovered Toronto lawyer. Literature/ideas/politics/music/film/sports/law/jokes. I write. Online: lit crit—Hamlet, Mordecai Richler; published short story; Blog

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The motto under the Basman Family Crest:

Aude manducare Persicam

(which means, “Do I dare to eat a peach”)

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@Theworld119944 Cotton Field

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@HawkEmDownChris Blue Eyes…

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@lippyent The Ms and the Ps…

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@Aguillemes I wonder if the following distinction makes sense to you, not assuming responsibility over your list but rather assuming responsibility for good legal representation, whether solicitor or barrister, so that clients have their best feet put forward where the stakes can be huge?

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@Hot_Pepper76 @fredforthemets Greg A…

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@DietCoke_Esq finesse approach v sledge hammer approach/take no prisoners approach…?

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Respectfully disagree. I see a difference between being bound/being affected/influenced. If say all liberal democratic orders world over allow parole for minors short of commission of homicide meet the US rule of evolving standards of decency for 8th Am, then how not influential?

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New in Confirmation Tales: Sonia Sotomayor's Foreign Deceptions
Even though she had an easy path to confirmation, Sonia Sotomayor failed to defend the progressive vision of judging at her confirmation hearing and instead strove to sound like a judicial conservative. She resorted to even more blatant deceptions when she tried to camouflage her permissive position on looking to foreign and international law to decide the meaning of provisions of our Constitution.

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@maggiewestrum @conquertheno Plus, I can’t stand chicken skin, especially as fried and greasy.

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@lhallwriter Continuously not continually

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Sensible

[Jake 🇺🇸 @omni_american]

"The left tends to blame disparities on racism, past or present, and the right tends to blame them on culture, behavior, or most ominously, genetics. This essay proposes that we simply stop worrying about the origin of disparities and focus on solutions. There’s a principled reason to quit obsessing about origins, namely, the origin of a disparity does not design the remedy for it."

—@docgotham and I are in the Journal of Free Black Thought (link next tweet)

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@RandyEBarnett @ishapiro I’ve read your book, gave it five stars somewhere and have a read a few reviews of it. This one is by far the best. It’s the review your book deserves.

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@RetroHighway Certainly

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Maybe not their best player but he has my heart, Earl Monroe, ie The Pearl.

[TD Nash @td_nash]

Who’s your all time favorite New York Knicks player?🧐

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@Hot_Pepper76 For me it’s not a hard pick to make, it’s an easy one, Patsy Cline, all day every day, from this group.

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@ProfMJCleveland @soirchick I shared both that specific feeling and that general feeling even without watching 60 minutes.

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@Hot_Pepper76 The Guess Who

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@RetroHighway So in!

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@inqdragon2 a mirror…. :-)

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@ThatEricAlper Miles Davis