Written constitutions are a fine thing for the most part. While not much of a constitutional theorist Geeklawyer has often thought that a constitution defined rigidly enough to prevent subsequent power grabs to be good. Some favour a document that everyone can read and understand, a flexible ‘back of the envelope’ thing knocked up in 5 minutes in the pub; e.g. the American Constitution.
Fine, but as anyone who has ever had to argue a statute in court knows, broad flexible documents leave much to interpretation. That’s fine when honest men draft and virtuous men decide, but that contingent condition is, in this cynic’s view, rarely met.
Perhaps in simpler times when the problems were less involved a simple document was all that was needed and parliaments could be relied on for decency. Perhaps.
An illustration of the difficulty in the latter, in a Parliament heavily whipped by the executive, is the story in the Times whereby a constitutional reform bill, sold to the electorate as being one to improve accountability transparency and honesty, has been subverted to do the reverse. The Attorney General, both politican and legal advisor — nice separation of powers, was widely criticised for not disclosing his advice on the illegal Iraq war and was then leant on by Phoney Tony to reinterpret the advice in more convenient light. Being a grasping ambitious lickspittle he obliged.
The reforms were posited to remove the structural deficiencies allowing that to happen, but as ex-AG Lord ‘fatty’ Falconer said the bill has descended into meaningless waffle. Far from removing the power of abuse it would increase it. For example the AG can now step in with new explicitly powers to spike politically inconvenient prosecutions like the investigation into the corrupt payments BAE gave to the Saudis.
So, like Geeklawyer said, to get a good constitution you need honest men: Tony Bliar? ineffectual Gordon ‘closet queen’ Brown, Preening Cameron? Righty ho.
Geeklawyer is off to Glastonbury Music Festival this week. He is going to have a few brews with his nigga homey Jay-Z to get him freoned after the dissin’ he got.
As well as wallow in the mud Geeklawyer will be cavorting with arch rival blawger Ruthie; they will be sharing a tent and fully expect to be able to clear an entire field to have it to themselves.
There is a terrific service called Qik that lets one stream from some smartphones — it has proven a success on Geeklawyer’s N95 and it is hoped that a live streaming video will be done from the festival at some point.
Sadly Geeklawyer suspects that Ruthie’s aversion to Geeklawyer’s bad behaviour may need to be controlled if he is to have any fun. She may even insist on him showering at some point in the week — tshh, showering at Glasto?! Damned woman’s mad.
In an act of, possibly, drunken self-confidence the editor of Blawg Review some 18 months ago invited Geeklawyer to do the July 4th review. The normal remit of Blawg Review is to provide balanced intelligent incisive and/or amusing reviews of global law blogs. Quite what possessed him to invite Geeklawyer to do it is beyond comprehension. Indeed ‘Ed’, now sober, seems to be of a similar view if today’s email is to be believed:
“Hello Geeklawyer,
With trepidation, we’re looking forward to your presentation of Blawg
Review #166 next Monday.”
Tripping lightly over the use of the royal ‘We’, Geeklawyer is hard pressed not to sympathise. Does a moment of drunken hubris survive a retraction of appointment? “Dear Geeklawyer we think that, like Lord Byron, you are mad bad and dangerous to know. But unlike him, with no discernable talent, so we have given your slot to a lawyer”
Apparently not.
Nonetheless should any law related blawger/blogger wish to subject himself to the mercies of Geeklawyer they may be assured a sympathetic response. No guarantee will be given of review since space is limited but UK blawgers are particularly welcome. However, tedious European blawgers can keep themselves to themselves, thank you, as even a Europhile like Geeklawyer has a bordedom threshold more than 1 nanometre high.
Submissions should be made to Geeklawyer via the Blawg Review submissions page.
Many people wonder how it is that a first class cunt like Geeklawyer has a harem of hot totty and a bunch of lady stalkers (some of whom are gracious enough to send him their soiled underwear in the post — sweet).
Geeklawyer is not one for deep thinking on anything much except how to milk his punters for more money but even he has wondered why it was that hot classy totty like Lawminx, Ruthie, Opinionated Bean, Mrs Robinson, Juxtajazz, and any one of dozens of other totty GL can’t even faintly remember, worshipped the very ground he walked on.
The answer is now revealed by researchers: narcissism, psycopathic behaviour and Machiavellianism. That triad of bad behaviour all leads to red hot sex. Being slightly evil provides an evolutionary benefit.
James Bond epitomises this set of traits, Jonason says. “He’s clearly disagreeable, very extroverted and likes trying new things — killing people, new women.”
Geeklawyer’s nickname at law school was, seriously, James Bond. Unlike the above quote however he never killed any women. At least, none that didn’t deserve it.
“There must be some cost of the traits.” One possibility, both Keller and Jonason suggest, is that the strategy is most successful when dark triad personalities are rare. Otherwise, others would become more wary and guarded.”
Waaaayyyyy too late sucker …
After several stiff whiskies and in between hot curry and sex with Ruthie, Ruthie and Geeklawyer decided that the winner of the whisky competition is:
House.
”
I was bored…
You asked:
Hello are you a natural blonde?
Lisa says:
I like having blonde hair.
You asked:
Are you really a giant woman?
Lisa says:
That’s not a very nice thing to say …
You asked:
I like giant women will you go out with me?
Lisa says:
A lady should retain an air of mystery, don’t you think …
You asked:
True, what about going out for a drink then?
Lisa says:
Sorry, I’m washing my hair!
You asked:
bugger
Lisa says:
That’s not very nice – why don’t you ask me a question instead?
You asked:
I did and you just told me you were washing your hair!
Lisa says:
I try to keep my hair looking nice.
You asked:
oh well bye
Lisa says:
Bye – see you again soon!
”
Geeklawyer too busy to blog. Or breath. Or eat. Damn frickin’ litigation. Up to my fucking ears in appeals cross appeals and under and over appeals. Writing submissions and skeletons, witness statements and …
Argghhh! Brain. About. To explode. Can’t. Let go of. Keyboard. Help me Mead. Help.
Old Jug-ears retard has apparently repaid a debt of £453.15 owed by Charles II “as a matter of solidarity”. Not that much solidarity it seems, since the sum would now amount to £34,777.45 inflation adjusted. So, still a cheap bastard.
Geeklawyer is a great fan of silly Facebook groups. he very much approves of the public trashing of the London Underground on the last day of legal drinking. It was a very sad to see Boris allow this bit of nanny-ism proceed: one expected it of the sleazy cunt Livingstone. Ho hum.
More encouraging was that the Brighton filth seem to understand that the custard pie throwing event on Brighton beach is ‘just a laugh’. The ban on it that everyone talks about is merely because the numbers have shot up from a few dozen to about 1500 and they have only asked for a stay while they ensure that it is organised safely. Brighton Filth have a poor reputation as do much of the Sussex police but this does at least show that however low a collective IQ they have, the basic urge for fun will sometimes overreach jobsworthery. Ho ho hum.
Oh how we laughed at the stories of America’s TSA: the retards responsible for stealing passengers luggage all the while saving the world from arabic t-shirts. This sort of brainless bureaucracy seems to be a specialty of the American civil service.
Regrettably like many things American it seems to be making its way over here: it seems wearing a t-shirt with a cartoon gun is enough to get one kicked off a flight. This kind of hysterical brain dead twaddle is just depressing the living fuck out of Geeklawyer. It’s the inevitable consequence of jobsworthism: hiring cretinous people with a humourectomy inculcated in an atmosphere of panic over the “War on Terror”.
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