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Lo! A Scoundrel
Posted on November 04, 2009I whipped up this comic strip in the context of a Facebook discussion about Hark! A Vagrant, a web...
Conversations With My Wife: The Cumulative Effects of Being a Parent, BigLaw Associate, and Generally Uninteresting Person
Posted on November 02, 2009Me: I got a Borders gift card for my birthday. Are there any books you want to buy for...
Excruciating Originality
Posted on September 23, 2009Yes, this is the first comic strip I've drawn in over thirty months. And yes, it is inspired by...
Ingredients
Posted on September 14, 2009[This is a short story based on a dream I had last night. It is slightly more coherent than...
Meredith Broussard is a Hack
Posted on September 01, 2009Every now and then I'll check my link tracker and see that someone has found this blog by searching...
Weird Al vs. George Washington
Posted on August 04, 2009Take a look at Weird Al's new video for his song about Charles Nelson Reilly, then watch this wonderful...
Happy Father's Day
Posted on June 21, 2009Today I'm celebrating my first Father's Day as an actual father. I got all of my gifts early because...
I Are The Grammar Police
Posted on June 19, 2009I'm not one of these people who gets all worked up about other people's failure to adhere to arcane...
The Dark Knights of Columbus
Posted on June 17, 2009This is inspired by a comment in the Rifftrax for The Dark Knight....
Sonia Sotomayor Magic Card
Posted on June 16, 2009I reckon I'll have to make one of these every time there's a new Supreme Court appointment (I'm counting...
I Can't Explain
Posted on June 08, 2009I was wondering why this Who video from 1965 is such a sausagefest: I also wondered, with less fervent...
Scalia's Capteron Concurrence - A Message to Sotomayor and the Judiciary Committee?
Posted on June 08, 2009Today the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Capteron v. Massey Coal Co. (opinions here), a rather sensational...
Six Catholics, Two Jews, and a Protestant Walk Into a Court...
Posted on May 26, 2009In case you haven't heard, President Obama has nominated Second Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. This...
Ghostbusters III
Posted on May 24, 2009Word on the street is that Ghostbusters III is set to begin filming with the original cast. Here are...
Conversations with My Wife: Star Trek, Menudo, and Obscure Child Actresses
Posted on May 12, 2009Me: I guess in the new Star Trek movie they avoid canon problems by having the bad guy travel...
On Remixing
Posted on May 11, 2009People often ask me what my motivation is when I remix a song. What is it that drives me...
Baroque Masterpieces and Unreleased Eight-Bit Nintendo Games
Posted on May 05, 2009As I've mentioned before, I'm taking an audio course on music to enhance my cultural capital. The cultural capitalism...
Statements from the Supreme Court Regarding Justice David H. Souter's Retirement, Interpreted
Posted on May 01, 2009Justice David H. Souter has announced his retirement, a development that has made Google Reader unbearable today. The other...
Rocky Mountain Lawyster
Posted on April 29, 2009I passed the Colorado Bar Exam. To celebrate, here is a video of a headless Japanese guitarist playing Lucca's...
A Substantially Less Fun Visit to the Allergist
Posted on April 28, 2009Before I get into my latest allergy adventures, the Supreme Court handed down a significant ruling regarding FCC indecency...
I'm Not Being Sarcastic...
Posted on April 27, 2009I just found out I need speech therapy, so to celebrate I bring you this Kids in the Hall...
I'll Give It an 87 But I Can't Dance to It
Posted on April 23, 2009Since I spend in the neighborhood of 1.5-2 hours a day fighting traffic among the incompetent motorists of the...
The Dopey Effort to Keep Kids out of Campaign Ads
Posted on April 23, 2009California Assemblyman Pedro Nava, D-Santa Barbara, is introducing a bill that would "prohibit the use of a minor's image,...
Cthulhu Rising
Posted on March 22, 2009These pictures of undersea volcanic eruptions near Tonga are extremely cool, even the ones that don't look like Cthulhu....
Conversations with My Wife: Archaic Rude Gestures Edition
Posted on March 08, 2009[Watching the baby eagerly shove his fists into his mouth.] Me: This boy's going to be a thumbsucker. Her:...
Another Bar Bites the Dust, and Happy Early St. Patrick's Day
Posted on February 25, 2009Well, so much for that. My fate as a licensed Colorado attorney is now in the hands of the...
Deathmatch Do-Over
Posted on February 23, 2009Tomorrow I take the Colorado Bar Exam, a requirement for licensure in the state of Colorado that I really...
Cat vs. Baby
Posted on February 11, 2009The tension between Ruby and the baby finally came to a head (hurr) last night as Ruby tried to...
Chapter One
Posted on February 08, 2009[This is the opening of a story that I've been trying to write for about eight years. I've been...
Supreme Court Justices at the Inauguration
Posted on January 20, 2009Four of the Justices made an appearance at yesterday's pomp-fest. And here's a snapshot of their conversation....
Love Field: The Bad and the Good, or a Big Fancy Lawyer Visits Dallas
Posted on January 10, 2009This past week I took the third trip to Texas of my life, and my third trip to Texas...
Holiday Physics
Posted on December 29, 2008Here's a video where I use externally indistinguishable chocolate truffles to illustrate quantum mechanics. It's been like eight years...
Hot Webcam Action
Posted on December 16, 2008My dad recently sent us a webcam so he can watch his grandson grow without having to actually visit...
Oh Hai I Upgraded My RAM
Posted on December 07, 2008Yesterday I doubled the amount of RAM in my three-year-old desktop computer, which has made a huge difference in...
Stupid Baby Toys: Multilingual Plastic Animal Medallions
Posted on November 28, 2008Another installment of the Internet's least interesting new video series: My voice is still too quiet. I'll work on...
Conversations with My Wife: In Which I Bemoan the Fact that My Innate Musical Abilities Have Rotted on the Vine
Posted on November 26, 2008Her: What are you doing? Me: Washing my old recorder. [Dries off and reassembles recorder; flawlessly executes a rendition...
Get Up, Stand Up
Posted on November 25, 2008It's been a while since I posted an adorable picture of my son on this blog. So here: Here...
Nut Allergy Humor Done Right
Posted on November 25, 2008Back in my days as an egomaniacal Squelch editor/contributor I made a few feeble attempts to bring allergy-related humor...
Excerpts from the First Draft of Quantum of Solace
Posted on November 24, 2008[Spoilers for final version of movie included.] Mr. White: You don't know anything about QUANTUM. You probably don't even...
Snow!
Posted on November 14, 2008Denver got its first snowfall of the season this morning, and my first snowfall ever. Dr. M snapped this...
Stupid Baby Toys: Strikingly Realistic Dragonfly
Posted on November 13, 2008I had another late night with the boy last night so I decided to do a send-up of another...
Stupid Baby Toys: Bunny Flower Mutant Creature Thing
Posted on November 11, 2008I'm not sure if I'll actually be able to make a series out of this, but this particular toy...
Conversations with My Wife: Jane Austen Edition
Posted on November 04, 2008[While watching the deplorable Gwyneth Paltrow film adaptation of Emma, during a scene in which Emma is talking to...
A Small, Cute Halloween
Posted on November 03, 2008We had our first Halloween in the 'burbs last week, and the boy's first Halloween ever. Our house was...
The Lesser Powell
Posted on October 20, 2008In a story that really shouldn't be news, the Hill reports that Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama marks...
Stay Classy, San Bernardino, or Diane Fedele Is An Idiot
Posted on October 17, 2008When the Inland Empire makes national news, it's usually not for good reasons. The latest appearance by the region...
Yet Another Caption Contest
Posted on October 14, 2008Previous caption contests haven't drawn much enthusiasm but I'm running this up the flag pole anyway. The official name...
Another Excerpt: The Airplane
Posted on October 07, 2008Here's some more of the short story that's swirling around in my head. It follows discontinuously from the previous...
Teaser
Posted on September 19, 2008Here's an excerpt from a short story I've been trying to write for several months. I'm posting it here...
Unexpecting
Posted on September 18, 2008Hey, you ever move into the house you just bought and then after you and your wife finish your...
Sarah Palin, Creationism, and Sex Education
Posted on September 01, 2008I know I've been pilin' on Palin, and I'd like to promise that this will be my last Sarah...
Karl Rove on Picking an Inexperienced Governor/Former Mayor of a Small Town as Your VP
Posted on August 30, 2008Here's what Karl Rove had to say on the prospect of Obama McCain picking Tim Kaine Sarah Palin as...
Sarah Palin
Posted on August 29, 2008Sarah Palin has become the foxiest VP candidate since John Nance Garner (but not the world's hottest politician by...
Obama as Schroedinger's Cat
Posted on August 28, 2008Things have gotten more intense on the 16th Street Mall since Monday as the buildup continues toward this evening's...
DNC Photo Essay Part 2: Less Merch, More Protests
Posted on August 28, 2008As I said, things livened up a bit after my first photoventure. Whereas the 16th Street Mall was dominated...
On the Subject of Denver
Posted on August 25, 2008Not surprisingly, I've had numerous people over the past several weeks ask me "How's Denver?" I've answered this question...
The DNC Lays Waste to the 16th Street Mall: A Photo Essay
Posted on August 25, 2008I may not give a tinker's cuss about the masturbatory political speeches going on a few miles from where...
George Orwell Has a Blog
Posted on August 19, 2008JMV sent me a link to The Orwell Diaries, a site that's posting George Orwell's entries in his diaries...
Caption Contest
Posted on August 15, 2008This photo from a wedding I appeared in earlier this week seems to have a lot of grist for...
The Olympics are Stupid
Posted on August 10, 2008If I were an Olympic swimmer and won a gold medal in Olympic swimming, here are a few things...
Vindicated
Posted on August 10, 2008Dr. M and I made a third effort at Geeks Who Drink this week. After our disappointing first experience...
Colorado and Three-Letter Words
Posted on July 30, 2008My new home state has just added "WTF" to the list of three-letter combinations that are prohibited from appearing...
I Need to Stop Deleting Comments
Posted on July 29, 2008As I've mentioned before, this blog, along with perhaps the entirety of Cementhorizon, is under constant assault by Russian...
Shooting Fish in a Barrel / Bidi Bidi Bidi
Posted on July 27, 2008Until tonight I thought the phrase "shooting fish in a barrel" referred to firing a gun into a barrel...
Small Children Riding Sheep: A Day at the Arapahoe County Fair
Posted on July 27, 2008As part of our ongoing effort to "get out there" and see what's going on in our strange new...
Thoughts on the Third Circuit's Super Bowl Ruling
Posted on July 25, 2008Here's an Op-Ed I wrote earlier this week about the Third Circuit's recent reversal of the FCC's fine arising...
Some Denver Photos
Posted on July 20, 2008By popular demand I'm uploading a handful of photos from our first week and a half in Denver. First,...
Our First Denver Area Social Outing, and How It Went
Posted on July 17, 2008Dr. M and I have been residents of the state of Colorado for about a week now, and last...
Moving to Colorado, BRB
Posted on July 05, 2008I know everyone is dying to know what I think about the fact that the Supreme Court rejected the death...
Here Comes Horse
Posted on June 14, 2008Dr. M, Dr. M's mother, and I are in Denver on a daring house-hunting safari. Because it is impossible...
Conversations With My Wife: Former Presidents Edition
Posted on June 05, 2008Me: I would love to be a former president. I mean, look at Barack Obama. Even if he serves...
Lessons from My First Game of Ultimate [Frisbee]*
Posted on May 31, 2008WT was kind enough to invite me to play Ultimate Frisbee this morning in Golden Gate Park. Serenaded by...
This is a Post About the Lost Season Finale
Posted on May 30, 2008Spoilers ahoy. The Season Four finale was strong overall and definitely seals up this season as a departure from...
The Strangers and The Sixth Sense Are the Same Movie
Posted on May 29, 2008Time for some film commentary from someone who never goes to the movies. I don't intend to see The...
Book Shaming
Posted on May 27, 2008I'm picking this up from E. McPan, who provides some sort of explanation as to why it's relevant beyond...
Note to Self: Do Not Allow Children to Prepare My Food
Posted on May 23, 2008Hey, here's a pleasant thing to think about as I gaze into the future when my unborn child(ren) will...
In the Summer Associate Time
Posted on May 20, 2008This is the time of year when doe-eyed law students show up at law firms all fancied up and...
Borrowed Thoughts on the California Marriage Decision
Posted on May 16, 2008Someday, years from now, when I have made my fortune as a big fancy lawyer, when my children have...
Ignorance of the Meme is Unacceptable
Posted on May 05, 2008I'm not sure how much traffic this blog is getting from legal blawg readers these days, but I'm hoping...
My Aggressively Literary Wife
Posted on May 01, 2008Last night I overheard Dr. M say something that made me extremely thankful to be married to her and...
A Potential Scandal and Perhaps a Bizarre Fringe Benefit for Cal Alumni at Boalt
Posted on April 17, 2008The depressed Swedish detectives over at Nuts & Boalts are claiming to have exposed a scandal of sorts regarding...
. . . and the Law [of] Lost
Posted on April 16, 2008Hey! You! Have you ever wondered what the multi-platform narrative of Lost has to say about the constitutionality of...
50 Greatest Sketches of All Time
Posted on April 15, 2008Some website I've never heard of has teamed up with the Independent Film Channel (that authoritative repository of sketch...
Voila Mon Passport*
Posted on April 12, 2008I got my Irish passport yesterday. My nationality is listed thereon as "ÉIREANNACH/IRISH." You know what this means, folks....
Beer Ice Cream Tastes Like Beer in Ice Cream Form
Posted on April 12, 2008A home-made ice cream parlour recently opened near our house, so last night Dr. M and I went over...
Lawyer Mode Activated
Posted on April 07, 2008Sometimes I find that it's hard to turn off being a lawyer. For example, Dr. M and I had...
Cohen v. California in T-Shirt Form
Posted on April 02, 2008I'm tempted to buy this and wear it to a courthouse, just to see what happens. (Cohen v. California,...
Stop All the Hadron Collidin'
Posted on March 31, 2008In a rare intersection of freaky physics and freaky law, a couple of dudes are suing CERN, the Department...
Messin' Around with the New Camera
Posted on March 30, 2008After Dr. M and I participated in a photo scavenger hunt earlier this month, we realized that our faithful...
Supreme Court Sitcoms
Posted on March 20, 2008Top Ten Sitcoms Based on the Current U.S. Supreme Court 10. Five is Enough 9. How I Met Your...
The First of Many Posts About Adventures in Buying Baby Crap
Posted on March 13, 2008(This post was jointly written by Dr. M and me.) Dr. M and I were idly browsing the Babies...
Say Goodbye to Your Afternoon
Posted on March 13, 2008Flickrvision is irrationally mesmerizing. Watch people upload photos to Flickr all over the world. This would make a groovy...
On Subtlety
Posted on March 11, 2008I'm often reminded that my affinity for extreme subtlety may render my communications completely opaque rather than cleverly coy....
Careful with that Stock Footage
Posted on March 10, 2008I've shied away from posting stuff about the elections on this here blog, but I think this is really...
New U.S. News Law School Rankings Leaked
Posted on March 06, 2008Concurring Opinions has the scoop here. The Berkeley/Penn/Michigan thing couldn't be more true....
My Cat is a Teenage Girl
Posted on February 28, 2008Lately I've noticed that Ruby, though characteristically aloof a great deal of the time, becomes extremely demanding of my...
Suck It, America
Posted on February 19, 2008I am now a citizen of the Republic of Ireland. Well, to be precise, I became an Irish citizen...
Something I Didn't Know About the Song "Always Something There to Remind Me" by Naked Eyes
Posted on February 18, 2008It was written in the 1960s by Burt Bacharach. And performed by a transvestite: This is like the time...
Speak to Me, Meatball! (Part II)
Posted on February 11, 2008That screaming you hear is the sound of an entire hemisphere without Blackberry service. This could get ugly....
New Lost Characters as Characters from Disney's TaleSpin
Posted on February 10, 2008One of the more impressive things about Lost, and something that can be difficult to explain to people who...
In Riverside, You May No Longer Rock Out with your Cock Out
Posted on February 06, 2008Yesterday was a big election day here in California. McCain took almost the entire donut on the Republican side,...
Tiddy Bear
Posted on February 01, 2008My friend just sent me this commercial, which features her dad as the guy in the car: In addition...
Perhaps the Nerdiest Celebrity Sighting Possible
Posted on January 26, 2008Last night Dr. M and I had dinner at a reasonably nice restaurant on University Avenue in Palo Alto....
Going to Court
Posted on January 19, 2008Yesterday I had to go to court in San Jose. I don't particularly enjoy going to court, since it...
New Blog, to Go with the Old Blog
Posted on January 10, 2008As promised, I've started a whole nother blog devoted to astronomy: No Pants Astronomy. I'm still fiddling with the...
Sometimes You Have to Laugh to Keep from Crying
Posted on January 09, 2008This: The part that begins around the two-minute mark is exceptionally depressing and absolutely undeniable. And also funny. The...
The Time I Sort of Met Walter Dellinger
Posted on January 04, 2008Walter Dellinger is now the District of Columbia's lead lawyer in the handgun case that the Supreme Court will...
Slate on the Billable Hour
Posted on January 03, 2008This article from Slate about the potential death of the law firm billable hour is creating a lot less...
In Case You're Looking for a Last-Minute Christmas Gift For Me...
Posted on December 18, 2007I'll take this, please. I wear a medium....
Just Another Manic Friday
Posted on December 15, 2007A conversation with a coworker yesterday, with some embellishment for dramatic effect: Me: Anything going on this weekend? Him:...
Moron Astronomy
Posted on December 05, 2007(In the event that I continue my astronomy hobby in light of recent events, I will be starting a...
Supreme Court Comes Original
Posted on December 01, 2007Over the past year, during my brief, glorious time on the payroll of the Federal Judiciary, I developed a...
The Moon and Mars are Friends
Posted on November 27, 2007Believe it or not, trying to take a picture of the Moon with a regular digital camera doesn't work...
Asstronomy Update
Posted on November 24, 2007I took advantage of the Thanksgibbons holiday to try to get my new telescope firing on all cylinders, with...
"Astronomy" with an Extra "s"
Posted on November 21, 2007As a result of circumstances I won't get into, I'm now the proud owner of a somewhat fancy and...
Land of the Nerds
Posted on November 16, 2007The Cal football team has decided to stop winning games for the time being, but that doesn't stop the...
Beer Snobs of the World Despair
Posted on November 13, 2007Rising gas prices I can handle, but when they start going after my microbrews, well, that's a whole nother...
Land of I Scream
Posted on November 07, 2007In our effort to find a suitable vendor of frozen yogurt near our new apartment, Dr. M and I...
The FCC Goes to the USSC
Posted on November 05, 2007The FCC has filed a writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court appealing the Second Circuit ruling (which...
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