Althouse: "[I]t remains possible that Uthman was... kind of Forrest Gump in the war against al Qaeda."

March 30, 2011

"[I]t remains possible that Uthman was... kind of Forrest Gump in the war against al Qaeda."

Orin Kerr is "generally skeptical of movie and pop culture references in judicial opinions," but he likes that one.

1 comment:

Beldar said...: I like it too, in this context. It's very constructive to use appropriate pop culture references in trying to articulate a "common sense" reason to doubt someone's credibility. This allusion furthers effective communication, and the cost to propriety is imaginary.; 3/30/11, 8:20 AM

Post a Comment

Please use the comments forum to respond to the post. Don't fight with each other. Be substantive... or interesting... or funny. Comments should go up immediately... unless you're commenting on a post older than 2 days. Then you have to wait for us to moderate you through. It's also possible to get shunted into spam by the machine. We try to keep an eye on that and release the miscaught good stuff. We do delete some comments, but not for viewpoint... for bad faith.