#173 — Legally Speaking

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The Great American Pastime is, of course, taking people to court.

No, I’m kidding. The Great American Pastime is baseball; an event in which small teams of highly skilled and carefully trained individuals convene in a specially-designated location to compete by following a complicated set of rules under the watchful eyes of a team of impartial judges. So, come to think of it, baseball isn’t that much different from court. Except, wouldn’t court be a lot cooler if the lawyers had to wear knee-breeches? It would at least make it easier to identify the prosecutors from the defenders.

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Notes:

• Thanks to Shane, Cheryl and @Mainframe for their kind and encouraging words this week.
• Thanks, also, to http://www.thescotchcast.com/ for playing my promo.
• Finally, I mentioned Ian Peaston’s interesting experiment in serial fiction during the show.  You can check it out for yourself at: http://www.whoiskai.com/