So it turns out that a couple of the U-Prep Mock Trial team members have livejournals of their own. Gelzo, my new friend, is one. He currently thinks he's a badass because his page is at the 10th grade reading level. Of course, the applet was working on a sample size of 170 words ( Read more... )

aspara's Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 9Average number of words per sentence:19.65Average number of syllables per word:1.42Total words in sample:2554Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebernSo, according to this application of the Flesch-Kincaid formula, my journal is intelligible only to those persons who read at a ninth grade level or above. ( Read more... )

( The highlight of my day. This is actually the hyper-edited version of events. In real life this took much, much longer. )

So after reading sybz’s review of the U.S. Catholic Bishops’ review of The Passion of Christ I wasted the better part of an hour checking out the Catholic Bishop’ movie picks. It's been fascinating--the reviews are sneaky. I've been sort of surveying both the good and the bad to get the feel of the site--some of these reviews are pretty good. I ( Read more... )

Tomorrow my Mock Trial Team goes to war at the district competition. Tonight, on the eve of battle, I provide them with this philosophical battle manual on the theory that belies the art of cross examination, ast applied to high school competitions. For those interested in my self-aggrandizing Mock Trial tutorial, here it is. For everyone else, ( Read more... )

Check it:

( boring boring boring. You were warned. )

So, I'm really not a fan of all these damn quizzes, but I really liked the one bugboy3001 posted.
here's what I am:

YOU ARE 28 UNITED STATES CODE SECTION 1332!

You are not a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure at
all: you're the statute that allows the federal
district courts to hear diversity of
citizenship actions! You were drafted with the
idea that an out-of ( Read more... )

So, so after reading some comments on alfpogs’ page I thought I’d write a post about how Nader is a jackass, just because nobody else is doing it, but I figured I’d better inform myself first. So I checked out http://www.votenader.com to find out, you know, what’s what ( Read more... )

So, as y’all know, last night Annie covered the Mock Trial practice for me while I was at the library. Today I got what I chose to interpret as a rather disturbing email from Annie:

Hey Pat ( Read more... )