Literacy

Dang. I have read, like, no books ever.

Arrogance

I don't bring my laptop to Bar/Bri class, because this is my first an only opportunity to learn many important points of legal doctrine. Like, say, what exactly is a "tort." Not everyone takes things so seriously. Today, a student a few rows in front of me was confident enough in his mastery of the Duty of Care that he spent the lecture playing Doom on his laptop.

Cloud Pedant

Real graffiti from SFist:

The Giant Pool Of Money

This American Life, of all places, has a great story about the housing crisis and credit crunch that breaks it down more clearly and thoroughly than I've seen anywhere else.

Ganstagrass

Their severs are crawling under the load from Boing Boing, but I can't really complain since that's how I found them too. Head over to Ganstagrass.com, where the self-titled hip-hop-slash-bluegrass album is available for free download. A few seconds into the first track and you'll know – these guys are doing something right.

Batman and Iron Man

It's Movie Tuesday!

Elizabeth Warren on the Collapse of the Middle Class

I'm a little disappointed I went through my time here without having the opportunity to take a class form Warren. I can only take some solace from knowing that I have been able to meet her dog Otis, and he's awesome.

Michael Pollan at Google

The author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food at the Mountain View campus:

One Sentence Movie Review: Iron Man

Iron Man is the best superhero movie ever made, except for The Incredibles.

The End

And just like that, it's over. I'm done with law school!

And Then There Was One

In eight hours and four minutes, I will be done with law school. Bring it on, Terry.

Photo Outrage: Ur Doin It Rong

The Daily Show tells me that everyone's all upset that the popular star of a Disney kids' show posed for sexy pictures in a magazine, and she's only 14. I agree that the pictures are gross. But not because of her bare shoulder. They're gross because she looks like The Joker:

I Have A Problem

Everyone else has more serious things to worry about, but with my semester all but over (five pages to write for Thursday, and then only one exam) I have been apartment hunting on Craigslist somewhat ... obsessively. I made bookmarks of the two neighborhood searches I run so that I can do one-click refreshes, which has me checking for new listsings, judging from my browser history, literally every five minutes. I have a problem.

Cheeseburger Symphony

I'm writing papers tonight, and to help me focus I've got Pandora going in the background, playing a station keyed around Mozart. I just tabbed through the window a minute ago, and the entire screen is taken over by a large, full-color ad that has become the dashboard for my internet radio station. Pandora, famous for its meticulous assessments of users' musical taste and exhaustive taxonomy of musical styles, decided that the product most closely associated with Mozart was Wendy's new Spicy Baconator™ double bacon cheeseburger with jalepeños:



I don't even want to know what targeted advertising will come up on my Wagner channel.

Unrestricted Interrogation of Minors Not Yet Shown to Have Engaged in Culpable Behaviors

Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule have posted Unrestricted Interrogation of Minors Not Yet Shown to Have Engaged in Culpapble Behaviors on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

Relatively unsophisticated analysis of the problem of unrestricted interrogation of minors who have not been demonstrated to have engaged in culpable behaviors often begins with the assumption that such potentially harsh interrogation would violate a deontic obligaton. This kind of moral objection to the harsh interrogative techniques frequently depends on a distinction between acts and omissions, but that distinction is misleading in this context, because government is a special kind of moral agent. Moral objections based on deontic obligations depend on a distinction between acts and omissions, but that distinction is inapplicable to actions by the state for which the obligation to prevent harm stands on an equal footing with the obligation not to cause harm.

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From the Legal Theory Blog via Julian Sanchez.

Spring?

My weather report says today's high in Boston is a balmy 64 degrees.

Naturally, I suspect a trap.

From His Bracket to God's Ears

Obama picks Stanford to beat Pitt and make the Final Four

Cross-Registration Thought of the Day

Writing a business plan is WAY less fun than writing a motion for summary judgment.

John McCain Has An Extra Gallon of Windshield Washer Fluid If You Need It

johnmccainisyourjalopy.com

Kenneth Mack Facts

This will only be funny to Section 6, or at least someone who's taken Property from Mack. But if that's you, it will be really funny.