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- The § Rulebase Team</description><link>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/34796212989</link><guid>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/34796212989</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 19:39:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>The Cuban Missile Crisis at 50: Declassification of Documents</title><description>JOHN YARBROUGH

This week marks the 50th anniversary of the most critical events of the 13-day Cuban...</description><link>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/34302423799</link><guid>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/34302423799</guid><pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:59:27 -0500</pubDate><category>presidential</category><category>international</category><category>cold war</category></item><item><title>Don't Get Tricked (or Treated) into Breaking the Law</title><description>JOHN YARBROUGH

Have your costume picked out and ready for Halloween, including that killer mask you...</description><link>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/34251301037</link><guid>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/34251301037</guid><pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:18:00 -0500</pubDate><category>Halloween</category><category>Holidays</category><category>Weird Laws</category><category>Alabama</category><category>Delaware</category><category>Local</category><category>hollywood</category></item><item><title>Electoral College Tie: A Legal Nightmare?  </title><description>JOHN YARBROUGH

In a tight race, could the 2012 Presidential election end in a 269-269 tie –...</description><link>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/34100312609</link><guid>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/34100312609</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:21:00 -0500</pubDate><category>presidential</category><category>election</category><category>federal</category></item><item><title>The World Series is Almost Here?  Time to Debate the DH!</title><description>JOHN YARBROUGH

It may be the most heated debate over a single rule in all of sports. On one side...</description><link>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/33893194898</link><guid>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/33893194898</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 09:16:00 -0500</pubDate><category>Sports</category><category>baseball</category></item><item><title>Rulespotting: And I Thought NYC was Dirty...</title><description>LEONARD BROOKS

This sign, rulespotted in a bathroom in Ithaca, NY, states that &amp;#8220;all employees...</description><link>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/33852470031</link><guid>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/33852470031</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:42:46 -0500</pubDate><category>New York</category><category>rulespotting</category></item><item><title>NC-17: CENSORSHIP OR GOOD GUIDANCE?</title><description>JOHN YARBROUGH

How many films rated NC-17 have you seen at the movie theater? If you’re like most...</description><link>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/33841103236</link><guid>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/33841103236</guid><pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:02:00 -0500</pubDate><category>hollywood</category><category>Entertainment</category></item><item><title>Nike’s De-Tour from Lance</title><description>JONATHAN BLUM

Nike announced today that the company is ending its endorsement of Lance Armstrong...</description><link>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/33783820389</link><guid>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/33783820389</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:52:00 -0500</pubDate><category>Sports</category></item><item><title>AUTOMAKERS v. AUTO REPAIR SHOPS:  WHOSE RIGHT TO REPAIR?</title><description>JOHN YARBROUGH

If there’s one thing all car owners complain about at least once, it’s driving your...</description><link>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/33773183684</link><guid>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/33773183684</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 09:37:00 -0500</pubDate><category>Massachusetts</category></item><item><title>§ Unlocking the Mystery of Presidential Debates - UPDATE</title><description>JOSH GOLDBERG

We posted John&amp;#8217;s article on the terms and conditions of Presidential Debates on...</description><link>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/33718667375</link><guid>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/33718667375</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:45:00 -0500</pubDate><category>presidential</category><category>Rules of the Game</category><category>federal</category></item><item><title>Rulespotting: Show me your plates</title><description>ANDREW GRIFFITH

Ever wondered about the placement of license plates in Texas?  Does the law require...</description><link>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/33451458360</link><guid>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/33451458360</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:42:00 -0500</pubDate><category>rulespotting</category><category>Texas</category></item><item><title>Alan Smithee: Hollywood’s Angriest Director?</title><description>JOHN YARBROUGH

If not a single Hollywood director is in a legal battle on any given day, you know...</description><link>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/33365568497</link><guid>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/33365568497</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 10:08:00 -0500</pubDate><category>pop culture</category><category>Hollywood</category><category>Entertainment</category></item><item><title>Hot Cheetos and Takis</title><description>JOSH GOLDBERG

Last week, my brother sent me a music video that changed my life. Okay, maybe it...</description><link>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/33297347436</link><guid>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/33297347436</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 08:52:00 -0500</pubDate><category>federal</category><category>pop culture</category></item><item><title>Rulespotting: Seriously, are you smoking right now?</title><description>LEONARD BROOKS

This sign from Ithaca, NY reminds the public that there is no smoking within 30-ft...</description><link>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/33158361583</link><guid>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/33158361583</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 08:56:00 -0500</pubDate><category>rulespotting</category><category>county</category><category>local</category><category>Tompkins</category></item><item><title>Christopher Columbus and the "Capitulations of Santa Fe”</title><description>JOHN YARBROUGH

This Columbus Day weekend, America celebrates the 520th anniversary of explorer...</description><link>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/33101241744</link><guid>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/33101241744</guid><pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2012 13:49:42 -0500</pubDate><category>international</category><category>holidays</category></item><item><title>Thirty Years Later: The Legacy of the Chicago Tylenol Murders</title><description>JOHN YARBROUGH

Thirty years ago today Johnson &amp;amp; Johnson initiated a nationwide product recall...</description><link>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/32943095803</link><guid>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/32943095803</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:18:00 -0500</pubDate><category>federal</category><category>rule of law</category></item><item><title>How Do You Know if They’re Faking It?</title><description>JOHN YARBROUGH

Like it or not, there’s plenty of cheating in sports that involves faking – from...</description><link>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/32887311247</link><guid>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/32887311247</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:57:00 -0500</pubDate><category>Rules of the Game</category><category>Sports</category><category>Basketball</category><category>Soccer</category><category>Cricket</category><category>Olympics</category><category>Badminton</category><category>Baseball</category></item><item><title>§  Unlocking the Mystery of Presidential Debates</title><description>JOHN YARBROUGH
Tonight marks the first of four debates in the 2012 presidential campaign, and the...</description><link>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/32804926386</link><guid>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/32804926386</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 09:40:00 -0500</pubDate><category>Rules of the Game</category><category>federal</category><category>Presidential</category></item><item><title>Fifty Years Ago: James Meredith Enters University of Mississippi</title><description>JOHN YARBROUGH
Fifty years ago today – October 2, 1962 – 29-year-old James Meredith enrolled in the...</description><link>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/32740010729</link><guid>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/32740010729</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:17:00 -0500</pubDate><category>rule of law</category><category>court decisions</category><category>federal</category><category>desegregation</category><category>Supreme Court</category></item><item><title>Rulespotting: Pedestrians in the (road)way</title><description>ANDREW GRIFFITH

This sign from Dallas, Texas says that it is &amp;#8220;state law&amp;#8221; to yield to...</description><link>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/32685090241</link><guid>http://rulebase.tumblr.com/post/32685090241</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 15:29:00 -0500</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
