Plaintiffs allege that the Defendants conspired to illegally raise the prices of prerecorded Music Products by implementing Minimum Advertised Price policies, in violation of State and Federal laws. All Defendants deny all claims of wrongdoing asserted by the Plaintiffs.

... and I get $13.86

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News and Stuff: My local paper continued to bash Mel Gibson's new movie, so here's some more on me partially defending him [Anyway, Roger Ebert liked it.] An interesting article on how unions benefited civil rights over the years. A look to the side panel will show two new links, the blog Calpundit (with its useful list of news links) and a fairly new legal/political blog known as Legal Fiction. A recent post on how Sen. Edwards is trumping Sen. Kerry in the rhetoric game was excellent as were many other entries. I disagreed with his take on Roe v. Wade (supports the right, not the courts "inventing" it), schooled him on it, and he nicely responded (he's still wrong, but what can you do? lol), but the blog is a great read.

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A Blast From The Past: The Seinfeld Chronicles was on tonight, and it is the first time I saw the darn thing. It was the pilot of Seinfeld, Kramer was "Kessler" (and knocked before entering Jerry's apartment! an apartment without the tell tale cereal boxes in the kitchen), and there was a different female character than Elaine (a waitress named Claire; and the duo was not even sitting in a booth!). It was rather weird really ... Jerry and George was basically the same (though Jerry's potential g/f is not someone he would go out with in the regular show), but their surroundings were clearly off kilter in various ways.

I myself recall Seinfeld himself on the Tonight Show (hosted by Johnny Carson, yes, this was 1989) talking about this new show he was doing. It had a rough beginning; heck, I didn't even start watching it until it was around a year old. Given how often the show is on (TBS and FOX combined have four different episodes on daily, not counting an additional two on Wednesdays), it is a bit shocking (to use the sort of overkill the characters at time use) I never saw the pilot before. Syndicated television sometimes provides little gems like that.