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Gender Double Standards

Posted on June 26, 2008
I am a man. If I wanted to become a woman, I could take estrogen to make me more feminine. Why can't I take testosterone to make me more masculine? Women may legally use exogenous estrogen as a form of birth control. Just go into a doc and get a script...

Feminism 101: Women Hate Women

Posted on June 26, 2008
Unfortunately, the stock answer most feminists give to any problem woman has is patriarchy. Why do women wear make-up? Why, the patriarchy makes them! This is stated even though most men I know do not like it when women wear make-up. As a feminist why women take birth-control pills...

The Miserable Human Condition

Posted on June 25, 2008
This article points out that the rich have less leisure time than the poor: Being rich used to get you into the leisure class. Money meant freedom ? from work, money worries, household chores and screaming kids (via boarding school). Now, however, the wealthy seem to be as besieged as ever...

Disconnecting

Posted on June 25, 2008
I had just started my first year of law school when I walked into the cafeteria for breakfast. "Did you hear the news," Brad asked me? "Huh?" is all I could reply. Our conversation continued: "The World Trade Center had been bombed." "Oh, fuck. Who do they think did it?" "Bin Laden...

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Standing In Line

Posted on June 25, 2008
During next week's vacation, I'll be reading the following: Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect with Others Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives Read anything interesting lately?

Class By Paul Fussell

Posted on June 25, 2008
It's rare to pick up a piece of non-fiction that is fun. Sure, learning is pleasurable. Reading is fun. Maybe, then, the right word is ornery. But Class, while written in 1983 and thus outdated in some ways, is precisely that. It's hard not to enjoy reading this book...

Sway: The Pull of Irrational Behavior

Posted on June 25, 2008
Four word summary: People do stupid shit. Of course, we all know that. The question is: How much stupid shit do we do, and why do we do so much of it? Sway, written by a Harvard-MBA-and-shrink team, examines those questions. The Brafman brothers blame much of our irrational behavior on loss aversion, value attribution, and diagnostic bias...

Justice Scalia is Not a Nice Man

Posted on June 24, 2008
A fanboy learns the truth.

Henry Waxman Ignorant of Laws We Follow Under Threat of Prison

Posted on June 19, 2008
This is unsurprising, but nonetheless revolting.

Let he who has no irrational belief cast the first stone

Posted on June 19, 2008
Law professor Rick Hills has a really interesting post describing how many secular people view religious believers: Just a few days ago, I was discussing a mutual friend with a former colleague. The latter was astonished by our mutual friend?s Christianity: ?What?s up with that?!? he exclaimed, expressing bewilderment and even nervousness at the thought that a well-regarded ? indeed,...

The Future is Bleak

Posted on June 18, 2008
If you think this is the only tax increase we'll see coming, you're crazy.

The Truth, Scrambled

Posted on June 18, 2008
This is an amazing video. Someone took scenes from "The Shining" and converted it into a trailer for a romantic comedy of the same name. This is amusing, of course, but there is a deeper meaning. One can take a few scenes or words out of context to create a totally alternate reality...

I Luvz Me Cuz Im Better Dan U

Posted on June 18, 2008
The New Scientist has an interesting article about narcissists: Narcissistic people do not make pleasant colleagues, but they perform better than average at tasks that would daunt others, according to new US research. Psychologists consider narcissism to pathological...

What Does This Article Say About Women?

Posted on June 18, 2008
Well?

Steroids

Posted on June 18, 2008
Here is an awesome review about an awesome documentary on steroids. People ask me why I have no respect for authority or institutions. I have one answer: Steroids. As a sixth grade I would argue with my biology teacher about steroids. He insisted they did not "work...

Pedophiles, However, Remain Welcome

Posted on June 16, 2008
Irony alert: Tom Hanks banned from Vatican for "poisoning the faith."

Let the Thing Speak for Itself

Posted on June 14, 2008

Getting Girls to Lift Weights

Posted on June 12, 2008
Paul Cassell blogs about the problem of ACL injuries in female athletes. I have a simple solution that will never work. Make girls lift weights. It's really that simple. It's banal to those in the know to note that load-bearing exercise (i.e., weights; none of that pilates or Yoga stuff) strengthens ligaments...

Good Lawyering

Posted on June 12, 2008
This is creative and aggressive lawyering in action. Nice job, Norm.

Brain and Body

Posted on June 11, 2008
Due to a recent injury, I haven't been able to do my normal fight training. I still lift weights and do hard interval training (Tabatas), but to maintain my weight loss, I have do some traditional "cardio." It's hard reading a book while doing cardio...

Who is the Sexist Here?

Posted on June 11, 2008
Tamara Klopfenstein seems to be a sexist: According to court papers, Klopfenstein worked for six weeks as a part-time receptionist and data entry clerk. In her suit, she claims that the office environment was tinged with sexism .... After just a few weeks on the job, Klopfenstein claims that a male co-worker invited her to lunch in an e-mail that...

The Dark Side of "Victim's Rights"

Posted on June 11, 2008
There is a dark side to "victim's rights," that is, formal and informal procedures that give the prosecutorial power to the complaining witness in a criminal case. What is that dark side? Prosecutions are supposed to be about public justice. Prosecutors will tell juries: "We do not represent clients...

David Motari Update

Posted on June 11, 2008
The puppy killer is being expelled from the Marines. Details here.

Heaven Comes in a Glass

Posted on June 10, 2008
I must have one. (Irony alert: Not the first ingredient.)

Manhood, in Two Acts

Posted on June 08, 2008
What you are when you have both testicles. What you become when you lose them.

Nah, It's That People Are Cattle

Posted on June 06, 2008
Norm Pattis ponders why no one stopped to help a Hartford hit-and-run victim. He thinks it has to do with our brutal human nature: My sense is that in neighborhoods all across the United States many people shudder behind masks of indifference in fear of one another...

Entire Michigan Trial Bar Disbarred

Posted on June 06, 2008
Not really. But if you can't get a law license for thinking the Michigan Supreme Court is activist, then a lot of people will need to bite their tongues.

People Suck

Posted on June 05, 2008
Yes, they do.

Google is SkyNet

Posted on June 05, 2008
The proof continues to mount.

Rethinking St. Thomas More

Posted on June 02, 2008
Thomas More is praised for his commitment to the rule of law and for choosing conscience over his life. Yet that same More burned at least six Lutherans at the stake. (Source.) This interesting essay asks whether we should view More as a martyr, or a tyrant.

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