Cafe Trotsky, El Crimen Perfecto and some really smart judges.....

Cafe Trotsky

Gershon and I discovered a great little place in the lower east side/east village for dinner and coffee. Cafe Trotsky is a little "hole in the wall" on Orchard Street, with an amazing "old world charm." The crab bisque was to die for as was my butter and sugar crepe. If you want to skip dinner there stop by for a Einspanner, known to many as a espresso con panna but instead of whipped cream it's served with Schlag before or after a movie at the Landmark Sunshine.

El Crimen Perfecto was a super movie:

"The director of "El Crimen Perfecto" ("The Perfect Crime"), 34-year-old Álex de la Iglesia, has been hailed as the successor to Pedro Almodóvar, who produced Mr. de la Iglesia's first film, "Accion Mutante," in 1993. Mr. Almodóvar's influence is visible in this film's crisp, almost cartoonish visual style; its bright, pulsating colors; and its generous use of slapstick.
But Mr. de la Iglesia's bleakly cynical worldview is a far cry from Mr. Almodóvar's expansive humanism. There are no heroes in "El Crimen Perfecto": Rafael and Lourdes are a callous, self-serving pair, locked in a zero-sum death struggle that recalls the pulp-noir couples of James M. Cain." NY TIMES - Dana Stevens


I'm reviewing Lawrence v. Texas (2003) for criminal law and stumbled across a paragraph from the majority opinion that makes me warm and fuzzy inside:

" The case...involve[s] two adults who, with full and mutual consent from each other, engaged in sexual practices common to a homosexual lifestyle. The petitioners are entitled to respect for their private lives. The state cannot demean their existence or control their destiny by making their private sexual conduct a crime. Their right to liberty under the Due Process Clause gives the full right to engage in their conduct without intervention of the government... The Texas statute furthers no legitimate state interest which can justify its intrusion into the personal and private life of the individual."

Of course Scalia disented.......

ok back to the books.........