One of the young women who attended Silvio Berlusconi’s “bunga bunga” parties told a court on Friday that she dressed up as a burlesque version of U.S. President Barack Obama to entertain the former Italian prime minister.
In testimony during a trial against the 75-year-old Berlusconi on charges of paying for sex with an underage prostitute, Marysthell Polanco said she had also dressed as prosecutor Ilda Boccassini.
“I dressed up as Boccassini with a toga to make him laugh, and also as Obama,” Polanco told the court.
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Whoa. Berlusconi was into some weird stuff.
Between black metrosexual Abe Lincoln and burlesque female Obama, I think this year has some really rich Halloween costume ideas…
There are exactly three countries on Earth that do not provide guarantees for paid maternity leave. Papua New Guinea and Swaziland are two of them. Care to guess the third?
I don’t understand why more ladies aren’t up in arms about this!
Deadlines are approaching. This is how I feel.
Petitioning for law review is going this well…
The Texan in me is blown away that I can travel between states (!) in under an hour (!) on a train (!). For $7! BRB, #baltimore. Going to #dc for a hot second. (Taken with instagram)
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What Can a Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Teach Us About Obamacare?
Ronald Coase won the Nobel Prize in Economics for showing that social costs are symmetrical. In The Problem of Social Cost, Coase invoked the example of a farmer whose crops are trampled by the neighboring rancher’s cattle. Before Coase, it would have been common to view the rancher as the culprit responsible for imposing costs on the blameless farmer. Coase pointed out that no matter which way the legal rights were allocated, one was imposing costs on the other. If the law forces the rancher to keep his cattle fenced in, the farming imposes fence-building costs on the rancher. If the law gives the rancher the right to let his cattle roam free, then the farmer bears the social cost.
Coase’s work was instrumental in establishing a new field of scholarship — the economic analysis of the law, which has been highly influential in many legal areas. In light of this, it is surprising how little role the core Coasian insight had in the Supreme Court’s recent oral argument about the Obamacare mandate. Much of the discussion seemed to take for granted that this mandate encroaches on individual liberty, depriving individuals of the “freedom” not to purchase health insurance.
But as Coase’s analysis makes clear, framing the issue in terms of individual liberty is deeply misleading. When the uninsured get sick and go to the emergency room for care they cannot afford, someone has to pay the costs. If the law gives the uninsured the right not to buy health insurance, then the costs for their emergency care are imposed on the insured, whose payments must cover the hospital’s costs. If the law instead requires the uninsured to buy health insurance, they become personally responsible for the cost of the care they receive.
In other words, the issue is not whether to have a mandate, but rather on whom the mandate should be imposed.
Read more. [Image: mrfoto/Shutterstock]
A really interesting read that I wish someone had sent Paul Clementi before he got up before the court and underwhelmed everyone](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4hmbdmCiO1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
What Can a Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Teach Us About Obamacare?
Ronald Coase won the Nobel Prize in Economics for showing that social costs are symmetrical. In The Problem of Social Cost, Coase invoked the example of a farmer whose crops are trampled by the neighboring rancher’s cattle. Before Coase, it would have been common to view the rancher as the culprit responsible for imposing costs on the blameless farmer. Coase pointed out that no matter which way the legal rights were allocated, one was imposing costs on the other. If the law forces the rancher to keep his cattle fenced in, the farming imposes fence-building costs on the rancher. If the law gives the rancher the right to let his cattle roam free, then the farmer bears the social cost.
Coase’s work was instrumental in establishing a new field of scholarship — the economic analysis of the law, which has been highly influential in many legal areas. In light of this, it is surprising how little role the core Coasian insight had in the Supreme Court’s recent oral argument about the Obamacare mandate. Much of the discussion seemed to take for granted that this mandate encroaches on individual liberty, depriving individuals of the “freedom” not to purchase health insurance.
But as Coase’s analysis makes clear, framing the issue in terms of individual liberty is deeply misleading. When the uninsured get sick and go to the emergency room for care they cannot afford, someone has to pay the costs. If the law gives the uninsured the right not to buy health insurance, then the costs for their emergency care are imposed on the insured, whose payments must cover the hospital’s costs. If the law instead requires the uninsured to buy health insurance, they become personally responsible for the cost of the care they receive.
In other words, the issue is not whether to have a mandate, but rather on whom the mandate should be imposed.
Read more. [Image: mrfoto/Shutterstock]
A really interesting read that I wish someone had sent Paul Clementi before he got up before the court and underwhelmed everyone
The Washington Post has a searchable database of people that have visited the White House. Do a search and see what you can find. (Above: Beyonce has met with the president at the White House once, one less time than Jay-Z has.)
WAR ON WOMEN
WHY DOES BARACK OBAMA LIKE JAY-Z SO MUCH MORE THAN BEYONCE? HE MUST NOT KNOW ‘BOUT HER, BECAUSE SHE COULD HAVE ANOTHER PREZ IN A MINUTE. MATTER OF FACT, HE’LL BE HERE IN NOVEMBER. (hopefully not, maybe Jay-Z could donate to the struggling and terribly named Obama SuperPAC.)
well played
Yes.
Hahaha yelp really is the WORST.
“I was not treated like the Pope in this establishment and so I shall write a ranty manifesto about how terrible it is! But I will also keep going there, because they seriously have the most delicious scones, you guys. But none of y’all should go, because the wifi is spotty.”
Sergeant Franklin Williams, home on leave from army duty, with his best girl Ellen Hardin, splitting a soda. They met at Douglas High School. Baltimore, Maryland, May 1942
The description for this photo is terrific. I hope someday I can be someone’s “best girl.”
Blue steel, beagle-style. #rosie (Taken with instagram)
