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LAST POST!

Posted on May 27, 2008
Last Post: This will be my last post for Soapbox Law. (Wait for boos). The real purpose of the blog was two fold 1) an outlet to express my experiences as a law student and 2) let my family and friends know what I am up to. It also surprisingly became a small resource for law students interested in Santa Clara Law School, the JAG Corps and even for some interested in Mormonism...

Santa Clara Law School Graduation

Posted on May 19, 2008
Graduation was better than I expected. I didn?t go to my undergrad graduation because generally graduations are long and boring and I didn?t want to subject myself nor my loved ones to more than one of those, and since I knew I was going to law school, I figured I?d postpone emergence from the formal educational womb until I finished law school...

FYI: GRADUATION ITINERARY!

Posted on May 15, 2008
Here is the itinerary for Graduation weekend. I have included links to restaurants so that those attending can google maps/mapquest/yahoo map out the directions from and to their respective hotels. Friday 5/16/2008: Family dinner at Magianno?s at 6:30 p...

Nightmare!

Posted on May 09, 2008
I woke up last night in a cold sweat. I really did. My heart was pounding so hard I thought I was going to wake up my wife. Coming into my final semester, I needed 12 units to reach the exact minimum number of units needed to graduate. I signed up for Remedies (3 units), Wills & Trusts (3 units), Jury Law (3 Units), Moot Court (2 units), Elder Law (1 Unit) for a grand total of 12 units...

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Law School: Stick a Fork in it!

Posted on May 06, 2008
- Last Final: I completed my last law school yesterday. There was 60 multiple choice questions on my Remedies final and for the last 10 questions, after I completed each one, I kept saying to myself, ?9 more questions left in law school,? ?8 more questions left in law school,? and so on...

Why ?Wind Fall? Profits Are a Good Thing

Posted on May 02, 2008
With both Democrat candidates trying to make corporations and especially the oil companies the boogie man in our economy, Investors Business Daily gives a healthy dose of perspective regarding ?obscene? profits by oil companies: Our free-market economy is built on profit...

...One to Go

Posted on May 01, 2008
- I finished my Wills final on Monday and I?m a little worried about it, but not a lot. It was 100 multiple choice questions and after the first 30, I was spent. It felt like the longest test of my life. I also felt like the questions weren?t that hard, and trust me, that?s never a good sign...

I?m a Justice Scalia Groupie

Posted on April 27, 2008
While taking a break from studying for my Wills & Trusts final tomorrow, I listened to the 60 minutes interview of Justice Scalia. I?ve read a lot of his opinions both before and during law school, and I have to say I can?t recall ever reading anything that I?ve ever disagreed with...

Thirty-Two Years (and one day) ago...

Posted on April 26, 2008
...Rick Monday saved the American Flag at Dodger Stadium from a couple of hippies.

Last Law School Class

Posted on April 24, 2008
Going to my last law school class today wasn?t a terribly emotional affair. As has been well documented, I?ve never been a big fan of classroom attendance in law school. But I felt a hint of nostalgia as I walked out of my last class, imagining my life as a movie with a collage of classroom related images scrolling across the screen with an appropriate riff blaring...

Playing the Oracle at Delphi and Why the US Army is A-Okay

Posted on April 20, 2008
I participated in a panel discussion today for prospective students who have been accepted into Santa Clara Law School. Afterwards, there was a lunch outside where I shared a table with 6-7 of these students, followed by giving a slightly larger group a tour of the campus...

World Wide Sports Leader and Religious Bigotry

Posted on April 19, 2008
ESPN commentator Ric Bucher when trying to explain why the Utah Jazz have a great home court advantage came to this conclusion: "It is the most intimidating place to play because of the configuration of the arena... and, let's be honest... they are Mormon? They are in Salt Lake, and there's nothing up there," he said...

Graduation Luncheon and Other Thoughts

Posted on April 18, 2008
One month from today, I?ll be a law school graduate and to commemorate the event, we had a graduate luncheon today. It was kind of exciting, cuz we had to make seating assignments for graduation, which had a sense of finality to it. But overall, it was a little depressing...

Winds of Change II

Posted on April 17, 2008
I?ve been swamped lately with the end of the semester (and my law school career) coming to a close. I had to write a policy paper for my Elder Law class after visiting a nursing home, put together a couple of tree killing notebooks for Jury Law and of course, all of the reading for Remedies and Wills &Trusts I?ve been putting off this semester apparently isn?t going to read itself...

Quote of the Day [Updated]

Posted on April 10, 2008
I was talking with some law school friends yesterday about t-shirts, of all things. I mentioned that I?ve seen a guy in school frequently wearing this Soviet Union t-shirt. I don?t like this t-shirt for many of the same reasons I don?t like Ernesto ?Che? Guevara t-shirts; the USSR deliberately murdered 100s of millions of their own people and they brutally oppressed the rest of their citizens that couldn?t flee that murderous regime...

War Links [Update with Petraeus Quotes]

Posted on April 07, 2008
With General Petraeus appearing in front of the Senate Armed Forces and Foreign Relations Committees tomorrow, I figured I'd post some of my favorite links on the war that I've read in the last few days. I doubt that the left will make as big of fools of themselves as they did last time (remember moveon...

Basketball, Bar, & Benjamins

Posted on April 06, 2008
I?m proud of my Bruins for making it to three straight Final Fours, which I suppose is a lot like being a maid of honor in three straight weddings (here?s me sending my Bruins off to the Final Four last year). Seriously though, you can?t be too mad in the face of that kind of success...

No April Fools Here: This is the Last Month of Classes for Me!

Posted on April 02, 2008
While I do have a final in May, this month represents the last month of me having to go to classes I?ve paid for. Period. Ever. Even if the Navy sends me to get an LLM later, THEY are going to pay for it. Look, I know being in the womb of school has its benefits...

Bay Area Baseball Dilemma

Posted on March 31, 2008
I?m a Dodgers fan first, A?s fan second. Two of my best friends happen to be Angels fans don?t respect that because, after all, I grew up fairly close to the Angels and went to many Angels games growing up. But I was never a huge fan, largely because I bleed Dodger blue...

Surprise: Another Anti-War Movie Tanks!

Posted on March 29, 2008
I was asked recently why I have written a slew of anti-Obama posts lately. After explaining I?m not anti-Obama and that I am anti-Obama ideas (which is classic leftist thought wrapped up in a new package), one of the main reasons I gave is that writing about it is cathartic...

Arbitrary and Capricious Roller Coaster: 2009 US News and World Report Moves Santa Clara Law School Up to #77

Posted on March 29, 2008
When I applied to Santa Clara Law School we were ranked #83. By the time I entered Santa Clara, it dropped into the third tier (107 I think). My first year saw SCU creep to #87. Than last year it slid down to #91. And now? A leaked report shows SCU bumped up to #77...

Different, Unique, and Innovative Obama Plan for Economic Change: More Taxes, More Regulations

Posted on March 27, 2008
More evidence that Obama is just Ted Kennedy with a less annoying voice; his plan is essentially $30 billion more in taxes and huge regulatory increases. Brilliant. Nothing stimulates the economy more than taking more money out of people?s pockets. Despite Obama?s desire to not be burdened with distracting labels like liberal, having positions like complete withdrawal from Iraq despite the clear and consistent progress there, government take over and mandate of health care, re-hauling of our economy to make it ?green,? and other huge increases of government in education, and other entitlements with the accompanying huge increase in taxes and populist rhetoric...

Flip Flop Time

Posted on March 25, 2008
The weather has been phenomenal up here in the Bay Area lately and, finally, it?s time. My pasty white toes have been covered from public view long enough and now, I am wearing my flip flops. Right now it?s not pretty. My toes are glow in the dark white right now and it?ll take some time to get them brown, but oh yes, it?ll happen...

Quote(s) of the Day

Posted on March 24, 2008
?I think Cuba has done the best job of implementing communism.? I was eating dinner at a friend?s house, when a friendly conversation on politics revealed this little gem from my left leaning friend. We had a great conversation, but my immediate retort at the time was, ?That?s exactly why thousands of Cubans risk their lives to come to America on floating doors...

"Why seek ye the living among, the dead?"

Posted on March 23, 2008
"He is not here, but is risen." Luke 24:4-5. This blog is usually full of snark and condescension, but I hope I can successfully put that aside for a moment to wish all of you the blessings of the empty tomb and the Living Christ and may it fill you with hope on this Easter Sunday...

Bracket Busted

Posted on March 20, 2008
For the record, I love sports. I love basketball, football and baseball, and choosing which one I love more is like asking a parent which child do they love more. And I know a lot about sports. Especially basketball. Seriously, I have forgotten more basketball statistics than most people ever learn in their life, in either college or NBA...

I Am the Racial Switzerland

Posted on March 19, 2008
Given the topics and comments of my recent post, I found today?s jury law class to be timely. I really enjoy the class (though it?s not as practical as I?d hope), and we often talk about jury bias, using a recent study on, of all things, racially biased calls by referees in the NBA...

That Crazy Media

Posted on March 14, 2008
Michael Goldfarb warns that the media reporting of the new pentagon study is misleading at best. As the headlines by ABC, NY Times, and others say, apparently the pentagon report reveals ?No Al Qaeda Link? between Saddam and the terrorist organization...

Things I Learned at a Santa Clara Law School Bar Review: You Are Not Inferior (If You're a Minority) and You Are Sinister (If You're White)

Posted on March 14, 2008
Along with many other 3Ls here at Santa Clara Law School (though not as many as I thought), I attended the first of several bar preparation courses put on by the Law School for free. Today was just a general over view of the bar, and though I didn?t really learn anything new, I thought it was pretty well done...

Around the Web

Posted on March 12, 2008
Freakiest Story of the Day I have a voracious appetite for news and I surf the internet daily to satisfy that hunger. Rarely have I read a story that made me just close my computer and walk away. This is that story. Quote of the Day As a coreligionist with Harry Reid, it gives me no pleasure to say that he is perhaps the worst majority leader in the history of the union...

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