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1. 

   My best guess is that “law” here means something like “Justice” or a sort of Platonic ideal where the law as written in statutes corresponds to “natural law.” i.e. we always keep striving for Justice, but we never actually achieve it.

   Platonic ideal of natural law, you’re always a day away!

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   Being as he was on the Supreme Court, every case he looked at involved a dispute about the law with two different well-supported opinions as to what the law really meant. So there was always a little piece of case law that wasn’t yet but was about to be. Now once the decision is written you can say that that little piece of case law no longer is about to be but now actually is. But there is no break before the next case comes along, so from his point of view the law was ALWAYS about to be.

   An old related joke: Three baseball umpires were talking.
   The first one said, “I call them as I see them.”
   The second one said, “I call them as they is.”
   The third one said, “Until I call them, they ain’t!”

3. 

   Whoever made that graphic needs their copy of photoshop deleted and an injunction against ever touching it ever again. It takes a skilled botcher to make a static image capable of inducing motion sickness.

4. 

   I took the photo in front of the law school. I don’t think they intended it to be photo-friendly.

5. 

   What I don’t understand is how this thread popped up between Big Brother and the Apostrophe’s. I don’t believe it was in the list before I had read Apps and Sign.

6. 

   Like Kilby, I’m also confused. However, all my comments go to moderation, which also confuses me. Lesson – I’m often confused.

7. 

   That is quite true: the past few days, all of your comments have been going to moderation. I have no idea why.

   This site uses a different filtering program than the old site, which would also choose somebody at random for a few weeks to block.

8. 

   Law is always changing.