The indefatiguable Howard Bashman of How Appealing is on a much deserved vacation. Howard has the premier appellate law blog in the country, making note of noteworthy appellate decisions and news as they come down. Law Professor Jeff Cooper, who has his own great blog, Cooped Up, is going to try to stand in for Howard over at Cooped Up. We're glad...we thought of doing it here but it's way, way too much work. To make matters worse, John Wesley Hall, who updates on fourth amendment law daily over at FourthAmendment. com is in the Hague this week.

We can't even have a good laugh about it because Skippy, who always at least gets a smile out of us, also is on vacation--he took Mrs. Skippy on an Alaskan cruise.

There's a lesson in here somewhere, like maybe we should give it a rest for a while, but we have lots of law work to do and since we have to work, we may as well blog. Besides, there aren't many prettier, more laid back places to be than Colorado, especially around Labor Day and the month of September when the aspen change. We're staying put.

Update: As we typed this, Skippy blogged in from Alaska, go read.

Meanwhile, Say hello to Autopsy Report, a new blog about autopsies--written by a medical examiner. Lawyers will find it pretty helpful. The blog's author likes the site Virtual Autopsy. [link via lawsites]

And check out Lisa English of Ruminate This who has the latest on the Zogby poll commissioned by the folks at DraftWesleyClark. Very interesting results.