Valentine's Day potpourri

I was going through my feedreader, which I haven't had much time to do recently, and with this relative lull it's a good time to give a few links and talk about a few things that I've yet to get to.-- I was reading this story by John O'Brien of Legal Newsline about the battle in the McIntosh v. State Farm case over whether the Scruggs(less) Katrina Group, now known as the Katrina Litigation Group, should be disqualified for allegedly unethical conduct. I love this story because it talks about one of my favorite artifacts from the post-Katrina conflagration, the Brian Ford notebook. For sheer outrageousness and unintentional hilarity, the Ford notes are not quite up there with Hood's confidential informant letter, Dickie Scruggs' anti-George Dale ad where he depicted Dale as a pig w