The article refers to "commencing" foreclosure proceedings. One can commence and abandon a foreclosure the same way that one can commence and then abandon a lawsuit (which is all a foreclosure action really is anyway).

Keep in mind also that a "mortgage" has two parts: a promissory note and a lien. The lender can always sue on the promissory note (i.e., like any other unsecured creditor) and obtain a judgment without ever seeking to foreclose on the lien and obtaining the property.

Does this mean I can send my robot into his bar to check IDs?

I don't know which is scarier: (a) that there are people who think that this is either legal or proper, or (b) that such people are allowed to vote.

"the crowd gives them a standing ovation"

Are you suggesting that the crowd could somehow have given them a sitting ovation? ;-)

Looks like a capsized Dalek.

As much as I loath Cristo's silly brain-dead garbage, I will give him credit for this: He always pays for his exhibits himself, or at least with strictly private funds,

This inanity, however, is being underwritten by NYC's Public Art Fund -- which, despite its boasting of being a private fund, accepts government funds seized from unwilling taxpayers.

All this while Blooperberg warns that the city is approaching fiscal difficulties.

A pox on all their houses ... and their waterfalls.

Of course, Lawrence is the home of the University of Kansas -- and basically nothing else.
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So this is actually a case of "monopoly v. monopsony" -- and a very poor data point one way or the other in the muni wi-fi debate.

The academic and government studies are not only overwhelming but unanimous: childhood caloric intake in the developed world HAS NOT CHANGED in fifty years. Only caloric output has (i.e., lack of exercise).

Sorry to ruin your day with facts.

There are at least some jurisdictions where "public indecency" is a strict liability crime (i.e., no culpable mental state required).

Entrapment would not be available as an affirmative defense in such jurisdictions.

Just saying...

Since when is vandalism cool?

Last time I checked presidents don't pass laws -- legislatures pass laws. Presidents sign laws.

And you misspelled "Barack."

"The nation now spends an estimated $177 billion a year on obesity-related health care, 83 cents of every health-care dollar."

That is so preposterous as to summarily disqualify any claim to legitimacy in the rest of the piece.

"In the supersize me culture, there's just too much food available to them, and too much of it is loaded with fat and sugar."

It has been conclusively shown by several long-term studies that childhood caloric intake has been constant over the past 50 years or so. The issue, to the extent there is an issue, is one of exercise and exertion, not Happy Meals.

This piece is unscientific, unsubstantiated bunk.

See Hiibel v. Nevada, 542 U.S. 177 (2004), reaffirming the right not to provide ID if one provides an accurate pedigree instead.