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  <title>A Criminal Waste of Space</title>
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	<modified>2009-8-01T12:52:06Z</modified>
  <tagline>Calfornia Associate Justice William W. Bedsworth A Criminal Waste of Space monthly column irreverant look at legal matters</tagline>

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		<title>A Ticket to Walk:  Cap'n Crunch and the Other Terrorists </title>
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		<modified>2009-8-01T12:52:06Z</modified>
		<issued>2009-8-01T12:52:06-08:00</issued>
		<id>tag:www.acriminalwasteofspace.net,2009:87</id>
		<created>2009-8-01T12:52:06-06:00</created>
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		  <name>William W. Bedsworth</name> 
		  <url>http://www.acriminalwasteofspace.net/</url> 

		  <email>william.bedsworth@jud.ca.gov</email> 
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			<![CDATA[I think I may have underestimated the Pepsi Cola people. This would, after all, be an easy thing to do. About all we see of Pepsi is that red-white-and-blue beachball logo, and it&#39;s hard to take them seriously as an evil empire when all they seem to want us to do is join the Pepsi generation and think young. Frankly, I think we&#39;ve long since passed the point of diminishing returns on getting me to think young, and I doubt I would be successful if I tried somehow to switch generations, so...]]> 
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		<title>It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) </title>
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		<modified>2009-5-13T10:08:25Z</modified>
		<issued>2009-5-13T10:08:25-08:00</issued>
		<id>tag:www.acriminalwasteofspace.net,2009:85</id>
		<created>2009-5-13T10:08:25-06:00</created>
		<author>
		  <name>William W. Bedsworth</name> 
		  <url>http://www.acriminalwasteofspace.net/</url> 

		  <email>william.bedsworth @ jud.ca.gov</email> 
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			<![CDATA[I have gone gently into the good night of geezerhood. I&#39;m not sure exactly when it happened. At some point, apparently while my attention was diverted, I went from being &quot;The Kid&quot;1 to being &quot;Acting PJ.&quot; That&#39;s like going to bed Warren Zevon and waking up The Werewolf of London. It&#39;s not like the age thing snuck up on me. Two years ago, my birthday breakfast was served under a banner my wife had hung in the kitchen: 59, Gateway to the Wild Embellishment Years. And ...]]> 
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		<title>Two More Cases I Would Have Gotten Wrong</title>
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		<modified>2009-4-01T14:37:27Z</modified>
		<issued>2009-4-01T14:37:27-08:00</issued>
		<id>tag:www.acriminalwasteofspace.net,2009:84</id>
		<created>2009-4-01T14:37:27-06:00</created>
		<author>
		  <name>William W. Bedsworth</name> 
		  <url>http://www.acriminalwasteofspace.net/</url> 

		  <email>william.bedsworth @ jud.ca.gov</email> 
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			<![CDATA[I was a trial judge for ten years without ever being assigned to Family Law.&nbsp;Turns out all you have to do is deny a coupla divorces and the Presiding Judge decides you&#39;re not cut out for that assignment.&nbsp; Go figure.&nbsp; Seemed to me you shouldn&#39;t need a judge to grant divorces if there wasn&#39;t an option to deny them.&nbsp; I&nbsp;assured him that if he assigned me a few more I was confident my grants would eventually exceed my denials, but he seemed not to be reassured.&nb...]]> 
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		<title>MCLEmentary</title>
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		<modified>2009-4-01T14:19:20Z</modified>
		<issued>2009-4-01T14:19:20-08:00</issued>
		<id>tag:www.acriminalwasteofspace.net,2009:83</id>
		<created>2009-4-01T14:19:20-06:00</created>
		<author>
		  <name>William W. Bedsworth</name> 
		  <url>http://www.acriminalwasteofspace.net/</url> 

		  <email>william.bedsworth @ jud.ca.gov</email> 
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			<![CDATA[The National Judicial College is located in Reno, Nevada.&nbsp; I don&#39;t know why.&nbsp; I always assumed that&#39;s where the founders&#39; wagon train ran out of food and water.Whatever the reason for the location, it&#39;s problematic.&nbsp; Say what you will about Reno, it is geographically undesirable for the vast majority of judges.&nbsp; The vast majority of judges, like the vast majority of everything else, is not in northern Nevada.They have, what, nine judges in northern Nevada?&nbs...]]> 
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		<title>Crime and Punishment</title>
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		<modified>2009-3-06T15:52:38Z</modified>
		<issued>2009-3-06T15:52:38-08:00</issued>
		<id>tag:www.acriminalwasteofspace.net,2009:82</id>
		<created>2009-3-06T15:52:38-06:00</created>
		<author>
		  <name>William W. Bedsworth</name> 
		  <url>http://www.acriminalwasteofspace.net/</url> 

		  <email>william.bedsworth @ jud.ca.gov</email> 
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			<![CDATA[My first year criminal law professor spent a great deal of time - an inordinate amount of time, I thought then - on the philosophy of punishment.&nbsp; I was a lot more confident at twenty than I am now of my ability to recognize a waste of time, and the weeks we spent debating the efficacy vel non of deterrence, retribution, incapacitation, and rehabilitation, satisfied my definition thereof as well as this column satisfies most others.I knew why we punished people.&nbsp; We punished them for t...]]> 
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		<title>The Tyranny of Small Laws</title>
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		<modified>2009-3-06T15:05:46Z</modified>
		<issued>2009-3-06T15:05:46-08:00</issued>
		<id>tag:www.acriminalwasteofspace.net,2009:81</id>
		<created>2009-3-06T15:05:46-06:00</created>
		<author>
		  <name>William W. Bedsworth</name> 
		  <url>http://www.acriminalwasteofspace.net/</url> 

		  <email>william.bedsworth @ jud.ca.gov</email> 
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			<![CDATA[G. K. Chesterton said, &quot;When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty.&nbsp; You do not even get anarchy.&nbsp; You get small laws.&quot;&nbsp; And when you break the small laws, some poor judge gets another ulcer.Before Pete Wilson went walkabout and gave me the absolute best job in the legal system, I had the second best job:&nbsp; trial judge.1&nbsp; I loved being a trial judge.&nbsp; It was like being a big league umpire:&nbsp; All you had to do was yell &quot;safe&quot; or &quot;...]]> 
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		<title>Is That a Kielbasa in Your Pocket?</title>
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		<modified>2008-11-04T18:15:51Z</modified>
		<issued>2008-11-04T18:15:51-08:00</issued>
		<id>tag:www.acriminalwasteofspace.net,2008:80</id>
		<created>2008-11-04T18:15:51-06:00</created>
		<author>
		  <name>William W. Bedsworth</name> 
		  <url>http://www.acriminalwasteofspace.net/</url> 

		  <email>william.bedsworth @ jud.ca.gov</email> 
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			<![CDATA[It occurred to me today that it&#39;s a long, long time from May to December, but the days grow short when you reach September.1 Which means that by November, the days have grown short enough that Grumpy and Sneezy could drive the lane on them. The race to get home before sunset has once again become an even-money proposition, and the smart money&#39;s on the sun. All of which means another year has slipped by us2 without a major weight loss or a personal best time or an organized garage or a la...]]> 
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		<title>Just Another Day in the Monkey House </title>
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		<modified>2008-9-17T17:35:19Z</modified>
		<issued>2008-9-17T17:35:19-08:00</issued>
		<id>tag:www.acriminalwasteofspace.net,2008:79</id>
		<created>2008-9-17T17:35:19-06:00</created>
		<author>
		  <name>William W. Bedsworth</name> 
		  <url>http://www.acriminalwasteofspace.net/</url> 

		  <email>william.bedsworth@jud.ca.gov</email> 
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			<![CDATA[When novelist Kurt Vonnegut died last year, Sports Illustrated ran an obituary. This was unusual. SI has a section in which they typically run short obituaries of sports figures, but Kurt Vonnegut was not, at least at first glance, a sports figure. It got my attention. Turns out Sports Illustrated was running a Vonnegut obituary because Vonnegut was an ex-employee. In 1954, Vonnegut was hired as part of the magazine&#39;s first staff. They had not even begun publishing yet, and Vonnegut was assi...]]> 
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		<title>The Ruby Laffoon Rule</title>
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		<modified>2008-5-20T18:34:09Z</modified>
		<issued>2008-5-20T18:34:09-08:00</issued>
		<id>tag:www.acriminalwasteofspace.net,2008:77</id>
		<created>2008-5-20T18:34:09-06:00</created>
		<author>
		  <name>William W. Bedsworth</name> 
		  <url>http://www.acriminalwasteofspace.net/</url> 

		  <email>william.bedsworth@jud.ca.gov</email> 
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			<![CDATA[I try really hard not to throw rocks at legislators.&nbsp; For one thing, they have a very tough job, a very boring job, a job most of us wouldn&#39;t take unless they&#39;d stopped hiring at the steel mill.&nbsp; For another thing, if you throw a rock at a legislator, you&#39;re gonna hit him; they&#39;re as defenseless as an animal with opposable thumbs can be.&nbsp; Near as I can determine, legislators use up all their instincts for self-preservation during the decennial re-districting proces...]]> 
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		<title>Schaddenfreude a la Spitzer</title>
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		<modified>2008-5-02T17:12:42Z</modified>
		<issued>2008-5-02T17:12:42-08:00</issued>
		<id>tag:www.acriminalwasteofspace.net,2008:76</id>
		<created>2008-5-02T17:12:42-06:00</created>
		<author>
		  <name>William W. Bedsworth</name> 
		  <url>http://www.acriminalwasteofspace.net/</url> 

		  <email>william.bedsworth@jud.ca.gov</email> 
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			<![CDATA[My wife and I work together. This means I get to spend pretty much every minute of my life with her. This sometimes gets in the way because, of course, it means I have to spend so much time giving thanks to a higher power for my incredible good fortune. Other than that, it is the unalloyed blessing everyone who knows Kelly imagines it to be.1For one thing, it makes for some terrific conversation on the way to work. One morning in March, for example, we spent the entire 35 minutes talking about t...]]> 
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