A reader has asked what the percentage is of lawyers in Congress. After checking federal government sites, Google, findarticles.com and the American Bar Association, I have found no recent statistics. The statistics would probably change at least every two years, so interested people may look through a congressional directory to find the current percentage of lawyers. Let me know if you find an easier way to answer this question.

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News release: The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has sustained the Boeing Company’s protest of the Department of the Air Force’s award of a contract to Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation for KC-X aerial refueling tankers. Boeing challenged the Air Force’s technical and cost evaluations, conduct of discussions, and source selection decision.
Air Force Releases Statement on GAO's Decision on the KC-45A Tanker
Final Rule (PDF 4 pages) regarding changes to GAO's Bid Protest Jurisdiction concerning OMB Circular A-76, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quality task orders, TSA procurements, and other administrative changes to GAO's Bid Protest Regulations
Boeing Statement on Tanker Protest Ruling
Proposed Rule (PDF, 4 pages) regarding changes to GAO's Bid Protest Jurisdiction concerning OMB Circular A-76, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quality task orders, TSA procurements, and other administrative changes to GAO's Bid Protest Regulations.
Bid Protests at GAO: a Descriptive Guide, Eighth Ed., 2006 (GAO-06-797SP) (PDF, 76 pages)

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News release: The Federal Trade Commission has approved publication of a Federal Register notice announcing final amendments to the agency's Fuel Rating Rule. The notice...was issued pursuant to Section 205 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA). The EISA required the Commission to develop labeling requirements for biodiesel, biomass-based diesel, and blends of those fuels (biodiesel fuels).

On June 16, Lori Drew pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy and accessing protected computers without authorization
The theory of the case seems to be that when Drew registered on MySpace she agreed to certain terms of service that required her to, among other things, provide “truthful and accurate registration information” and “refrain from promoting information that” she knew was “false or misleading.”
According to this January New Yorker article and last month’s indictment, Drew — under the guise of “Josh” — struck up a flirtatious online relationship with Megan Meier, a 13-year old MySpace member, that lasted for several weeks. “Josh” allegedly told Megan she was “sexi” and made other sexually suggestive overtures. Then, “Josh” told Megan he was moving away and that the world would be a better place without her. After “Josh” broke off the relationship, Megan hanged herself in her bedroom. U.S. Attorney Thomas P. O’Brien has acknowledged this is the first time the federal statute on accessing protected computers has been used in a social-networking case.
WSJ Law Blog June 17, 2008

Toponym
sardonic (sahr-DON-ik) adjective
Marked by scorn, mockery, and cynicism.
[After Sardinia, a large island in the Mediterranean. Eating a Sardinian plant was believed to produce facial convulsions as if in a maniacal laughter.]
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Mistrial in Australia after inattentiveness
After 105 witnesses and three months of evidence, Judge Peter Zahra aborted a drug trial that cost $1 million, and discharged the jury after the jury forewoman admitted that she and four other jurors had been playing Sudoku since the second week of trial.
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/06/11/can-you-blame-them-lengthy-trial-aborted-after-jurors-played-sudoku/#0
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23846744-17044,00.html

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently limited the ability of employers to obtain e-mails and text messages sent by employees on company-financed devices. Here’s the story from the LAT, and here’s the opinion. The unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel, reports the LAT, was the first federal appellate decision to provide 4th Amendment protection to electronic messages.
WSJ Law Blog June 19, 2008

June 20 is the birthday of poet and novelist Vikram Seth, (books by this author) born in Calcutta, India (1952), the son of a successful shoe salesman and the first woman chief justice on the High Court of Delhi. After studying philosophy, politics, and economics at Oxford, he moved to California and did a master's degree in economics at Stanford. He was particularly interested in Chinese culture, and started a dissertation called "Seven Chinese Villages: An Economic and Demographic Portrait."
Then one day, after he had spent the morning entering economic data of Chinese villages into a computer database, he decided he "couldn't stand it anymore" and walked into the Stanford bookstore and pulled a few volumes of poetry off the shelves. One of them was an excellent translation of Eugene Onegin, Pushkin's novel written in verse. Seth said, "I was so astonished by it, and so affected by it, that I decided that rather than continue working on my dissertation I would take time off to write a novel using the same stanza form, but set in California
The work he set out to write became The Golden Gate, published in 1986, a masterpiece that was 1,300 pages long and consisted of more than 8,000 tetrameter rhymed lines. Set mostly in San Francisco, it was called by Gore Vidal "the great California novel" and gave a sort of poetic analysis of the 1980s young urban professional — "yuppie" — culture.
He finished Golden Gate while living in California, then returned home to India to write his next novel. He thought it would take him a year to finish, but the project expanded and spanned on for several years, and he spent most of his 30s living in his childhood bedroom at his parents' house in India. In 1993, he published his first novel in prose, another huge and ambitious volume, A Suitable Boy, about an intelligent independent Hindu girl who is determined to marry a man of her own choosing rather than be part of an arranged marriage. At 1,349 pages long, it's one of the longest novels to have been written in the English language, and in the opening dedication, Seth playfully inscribed, "Buy me before good sense insists / You'll strain your purse and sprain your wrists."
The Writer’s Almanac