Leading Off (09/17/09)

1. When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. When Southwest Airlines takes away lemons to save $100,000, well, you’re out of luck. Unless you like limes, then you can make limeade.

2. Speaking of being handed lemons, the Court ruled it wouldn’t consider the issue of a romantic relationship between a judge and prosecutor in Charles Dean Hood’s capital murder case. In other death row news, a man was executed last night and two more are scheduled within the next week, which reminds me of this post by Wick—the article by David Gann at the New Yorker is a great read and a bit of a downer.

3. As hard as I try, I can’t tie this to lemons, or limes. So I’ll just give you the news. A California law school did a study and found evidence of racial profiling in Irving. Irving’s mayor isn’t too happy with the results. I guess maybe he can use those limes at happy hour to drink away his sorrows. There. Tied it in.

1 comment

  1. So is there *anyone* out there who doesn’t think our state needs to take a good, long look at the death penalty process? Anyone? The fact that the judge didn’t recuse herself is disgusting enough, but the fact that she and the prosecutor are getting away with it… ick. Just ick.

    @ 11:39 am on September 17, 2009

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