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The Good Ship Jurisdiction: Sunk to a Foggy Bottom

Posted on April 29, 2010, 8:00 am, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

How is the Pope like a Peruvian steamship? The State Department stopped both of them from getting sued. You’re right; it’s not funny at all.

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