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So. It’s been a while. A long while. In fact, it’s been so long that probably nobody even checks this blog anymore. Sigh. My life is hard. But!! I have some news. For the past year or more, I’ve tried to maintain at least some degree of anonymity here. I also had a personal blog [...]

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parasailin’ update

Wait. Is it Parasailin’ or Sarah Palin? I’m so confused. You know who I’m talking about, right? That mavericky mom who can see Russia from her backyard? Yeah, that one. Okay, anyway. She “wrote” a “book.” I think they finally settled on the title Glowing Rouge or something like that. Let’s review. Remember, whilst apparently [...]

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law students and lawmakers share a pastime

It’s my understanding that more and more law professors are banning laptops in the classroom. I have one professor this semester who has done just that. Although I much prefer taking notes on my computer, where I can easily access any reading notes and/or case briefs I might have to go along with lecture material, [...]

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bits & pieces 08.09.09

Many thanks to my various Twitter friends from whom I stole today’s links. You’d better hope you don’t find a picture of yourself here. If you do, better keep it to yourself. Now this is a cute midget. Let’s say you have a close relationship with a Trekkie. Now let’s say that said Trekkie expires. [...]

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bits & pieces 08.05.09

Lately I’ve been coming across a whole bunch of stuff on these fabulous intertubez that I’ve been saving. I don’t know exactly what I’m saving them for, because they really don’t each warrant a separate blog post, but I just like them. So there. Anyway, my blogging friend Mariel over at Fresh Thought Soup does [...]

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i’m still alive, and this girl’s a doofus

I’d like to be able to say that my lack of blogging lately has been a consequence of some massive project I’m working on or some other noble pursuit. Well, I could say that, I guess, but of course it wouldn’t be true. Alas, I owe an apology to both all of my loyal readers. [...]

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sarah palin link dump

There were a lot of really good pieces this week regarding everybody’s favorite almost-ex-governor, Sarah Palin, written by much better wordsmiths than I. From the Secular Right blog, a post on Right Wing Identity Politics Dahlia Lithwick over at Slate explains how Sarah Palin was Lost in Translation At Reason magazine’s online site, Cathy Young [...]

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two deaths

It’s a bad year to be a celebrity; they seem to be dropping like flies. In case you didn’t crawl out from under your rock in the last week or so, Michael Jackson’s memorial service was held today in Los Angeles. I didn’t watch any of it, but my Twitter stream was packed full of [...]

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sarah palin, quitter extraordinaire

Regardless of your political leanings, if you’re a woman or you’re sympathetic to women’s efforts to advance on the political stage, you should be royally pissed off at Sarah Palin. Earlier today, in a hastily assembled, rambling, disjointed, and sometimes contradictory press conference, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin announced that not only does she not plan [...]

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the mother of all blog posts

Once again, I find myself having to defend people I don’t really like to defend. This is already getting old, and we’re only six months into the Obama administration. Today’s subject: elections in Iran. Prepare yourself for the mother of all blog posts. Last Friday, presidential elections were held in Iran, and everybody’s favorite Holocaust [...]

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