Blawg Review Veterans Day Edition Commands Respect; Leads to Thoughts on Shopping (Huh?)

Monday’s Blawg Review appeared at JAG CENTRAL, “the world’s first weblog devoted to military justice and military law issues.”

Appropriately, there was a military theme, executed with, well, military precision.

Along with the weeks’ top Blawg posts, the JAG included some basic military law lessons, such as:

Jurisdiction is easy to establish in the American armed forces. According to Article 2, UCMJ (10 U.S.C. 802), pretty much every service member on active duty is subject to court martial for a violation of the UCMJ, no matter where on Planet Earth (or elsewhere for military astronauts) the offense takes place.

This lesson segues effortlessly into the topic of the Graham Amendment, which “aims to strip the federal courts of all ability to hear habeas petitions by Guantanamo detainees.”

As always, Blawg Review is full of great links. One I’d like to highlight is from Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips Blog: “Technology Purchases: When is the Best not the Best?”

Jim refers to a Dennis Kennedy post: “The Best is the Enemy of the Good: Making Good Technology Choices.”

This post strikes a chord with me going beyond the specific subject of shopping for technology. It helps articulate and justify my personal approach to shopping and comparison-pricing, which is to spend a reasonable amount of time looking into a few of the many choices, preferably starting with some kind of review or recommendation, and then make a fairly quick no-looking-back decision, realizing you could spend another 100 hours and probably make a marginally better decision, but it’s not worth the time and hassle.

Dennis quotes a book that rates the “Best Plans” in order of desirability:

Very good
Good
Best
Not good
Truly god-awful

Merely “good” ranks above best because “getting to best usually gets complicated,”and thus, “too often, the path to perfection leads to procrastination.”

Read the rest of the week’s best at: Blawg Review 32