I am a dinosaur. \u00a0I still read the print edition of the NY Times. \u00a0Of course, it helps that the academic M-F rate for the print edition–delivered to my door daily at 3 am–is less than the monthly cost of the digital firewall (print subscribers get behind the firewall).<\/p>\n
The real reason I like the print edition, though, is that I read more of the paper, including delicious stories like this one:<\/p>\n
Obscene Gesture Produces Years of Legal Battling<\/a><\/p>\n The money quote from the judge:<\/p>\n The 14-page opinion, written by Judge\u00a0Jon O. Newman<\/a>\u00a0for a three-judge panel, expressed skepticism at the officer\u2019s explanation of why he had followed the car.<\/p>\n \u201cPerhaps there is a police officer somewhere who would interpret an automobile passenger\u2019s giving him the finger as a signal of distress,\u201d Judge Newman wrote.<\/p>\n \u201cBut the nearly universal recognition that this gesture is an insult deprives such an interpretation of reasonableness,\u201d he added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n There is even a book on the subject!<\/p>\n Ira P. Robbins, a professor of criminal law at American University who has studied the history of the gesture and is the author of the article\u00a0\u201cDigitus Impudicus<\/a>: The Middle Finger and the Law.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am a dinosaur. \u00a0I still read the print edition of the NY Times. \u00a0Of course, it helps that the academic M-F rate for the print edition–delivered to my door daily at 3 am–is less than the monthly cost of … Continue reading