Silly Little Country

best when purchased by

What a wonderfully written, and savagely and clearly so, ruling! No fear about calling a spade a spade.

That is false.
...
Since we are directing an acquittal on all counts, the
sentencing issues are academic and we do not address
them, beyond expressing our surprise that the government
would complain about the leniency of the sentence
for a crime it had failed to prove.

It clearly helps that Richard Posner is pretty savvy on economics as well, and rightly skeptical of the value and capability of certain sorts of regulation.
It is also a great little education on what "best when purchased by" means. Not much of anything. As it likely should be.
UPDATE: Lifted from the comments, the prosecutor dressed down in this ruling appears to be the daughter of Ted Sorensen, I assume the author of Kennedy's scandalous "ask not..." trope that Obama seems to be lifting regularly now.

posted by Alan Adamson @ 11:55 AM