Law Students

BREAKING: Ray Smuckles Taps TPHS Alum Tony Hawk for VP Slot

Posted on January 30, 2008
Today's Achewood.Really, the whole election storyline beginning here has been hysterical.

Hulkobamamania!

Posted on January 30, 2008
Hulk Hogan endorses Obama:But does he have what it takes to win the Eliminator?

The Real Chuck Nesson

Posted on January 28, 2008
Talking poker on the Colbert Report:

Cloverfield

Posted on January 26, 2008
All you need to know about the movie is from the last two sentences of the New York Times review:Like too many big-studio productions, ?Cloverfield? works as a showcase for impressively realistic-looking special effects, a realism that fails to extend to the scurrying humans whose fates are meant to invoke pity and fear but instead inspire yawns and contempt...

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Heath Ledger, 1979-2008

Posted on January 22, 2008
As my roommate says, "What's going on with celebrities all of a sudden?"

Rambo Inflation

Posted on January 22, 2008
Data via Marginal Revolution:Number of people killed per minute in the Rambo series. * Rambo: First Blood (1982): 0.01 * Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985): 0.72 * Rambo III (1988): 1.30 * Rambo IV (2008): 2.59

Miracles, etc.

Posted on January 15, 2008
Andrea is totally putting a whole new person into the world. We should wish her well.

Deep Cover

Posted on January 14, 2008
John Rogers (not the one I know) has got his hands on the best CIA interview ever. Go read it.Believe in heroes.

Rematch!

Posted on January 13, 2008
San Diego 28, Indianapolis 24. Bring it on, Patriots.

Try Out For Parody!

Posted on January 11, 2008
Can you act? Can you sing? Can you dance? Audition for the Parody! It is without question the most fun you can have in law school. Come be a part of this year's show, already being hailed by critics as "one of the funniest ever" and "in a class of its own...

The Right to Exclude

Posted on January 10, 2008
Having liberals sabotage the Michigan Republican primary by voting Romney sounds like a lot of fun, but it's also the kind of thing that makes open primaries unconstitutional.Which is kinda too bad.

Elitism

Posted on January 08, 2008
I love it when judges slip for a minute and betray some great disdain for juries. Even better when it's tinged with envy for their counterparts overseas unencumbered by the unwashed masses: It is a quiddity of our law that a well and thoroughly reasoned decision reached by a highly skilled and scientifically informed justice of the Patent Court, Chancery Division, in the High Court of Justice of Great Britain after four weeks of trial must be ignored and essentially the same issues with the same evidence must now be retried by American jurors with no background in science or patents, whose average formal education will be no more than high school...

Why I Support Obama

Posted on January 06, 2008
Yes, some of it is spite at the media monopoly of Baby Boomer narratives after 40 goddamn years already. See below. But not all of it. Fundamentally, it's because I think you have to strike while the iron is hot. Obama can see the fire, and he brings the biggest hammer...

Where's Your Baby Boom Now?

Posted on January 04, 2008
Booyah, old people. Booyah.

Mutilate Your Thirst

Posted on December 26, 2007

Priorities

Posted on December 23, 2007
Via ATL, this motion to continue at trial on the grounds that it conflicts with the LSU-OSU game is pretty awesome.

Head Tracking with the Wii

Posted on December 23, 2007

The End of the World

Posted on December 22, 2007

Rent to Own

Posted on December 21, 2007
Merrill Lynch's expectations for the housing market:But with the sales backdrop still softening, they may have to slice their construction plans by another 30% before we hit bottom on a cyclical basis. And, that bottom could be as long as a year away...

Finito

Posted on December 19, 2007
Also, I finished my last exam (Copyright). I am outta here. Touchdown in San Diego at 8:10 p.m. PST.

The Death of the 3L Paper

Posted on December 19, 2007
This is the best news in a long time:All J.D. students are required to produce either (1) a substantial research paper of publishable or otherwise professional quality, to be written in close consultation with a faculty advisor, in conjunction with a seminar or workshop (for an addition of 1, 2, or 3 credits), or through independent study or the January Term writing program (for 2 or 3 credits); a 3-Credit project should have the scope and ambition commensurate with a 3-credit course, and students electing 3 credits should make sure that this would not cause them to exceed the 12-credit limit on writing credits nor interfere with their plans to pursue cross-registered and clinical courses, the credits for which, along with writing credits, count toward the 16 non-law-school-classroom credits students may take for degree credit...

Take Admin

Posted on December 18, 2007
It was rough at the time and seemed hopelessly obscure, but one short semester later I can already tell you that taking Administrative Law was one best things I have done to deepen my understanding of how tings actually work. Insights form Admin have helped me in all of my classes this semester, including the venture capital class I took at the business school...

This Time It's Serious

Posted on December 13, 2007
Boston finally decided to stop playing around and snow for real.Naturally, we received an e-mail informing us that finals will continue unaffected:Dear Students:Just to confirm, exams will take place today as scheduled. Given that most students can reach the school by foot or by public transportation, the Law School has traditionally held exams in the snow without disruption...

Foxboro Hot Tubs

Posted on December 12, 2007
Been listening to this all week on my ipod. Supposed to be Green Day's new secret side project, only not so secret I guess. Either way, good music, and free, too.

1-900-Turing-Test

Posted on December 11, 2007
Russian chat bots con personals seekers out of their credit card numbers

Barack Obollywood

Posted on December 09, 2007
The lip syncing is awesome, but for my money the best part is the dance at 1:25.

The Race is Over. You Are All Winners.

Posted on December 07, 2007
0 pages still to write. 4 hours until deadline.Who wants shots?

The Race Is On

Posted on December 06, 2007
15 pages still to write. 28 hours until deadline.Ready, Go!

Finals

Posted on December 06, 2007
Suck.But you know this.

A Question of Discipline

Posted on December 06, 2007
One of the professors in my awesome cross-registered course is a medical school professor, and will be teaching a class in the spring called "Human Disease." This brings to mind two questions:1) Isn't that a fairly broad topic for a one-semester course?2) What exactly were the med students learning last semester?

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