The meteoric fall of Sarah Palin combined with the fact that I start government classes again today (after three years of law - wish me luck!) have me thinking about the reasons this went awry. After all, on the surface she should be everything the public would want to "balance" McCain: she's young, family-oriented, has executive experience, and ( Read more... )

Went up to New York yesterday to see Boeing-Boeing. It's gotten all kinds of hype, won a couple Tonys, and starred a ton of great actors, so I'd been wanting to see it since about June. The website seemed to indicate it was closing September 7, so I snatched up a ticket...then came to find out it wasn't closing yet, which made me feel like an ( Read more... )

McCain chooses Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as VP"

Just when you think McCain's advisers couldn't be any worse, they manage to do something right. What a way to steal a bunch of the pissed off Hilary fans who swore they'd rather vote for McCain than Obama...but weren't actually going to vote for a republican without a damn good reason to do so?

Dear GW:

Bite me.

Seriously, bite me hard.

No, I do not need a lesson on how to use a law library. Know why? Because I graduated from law school already. Now, granted, your law library is even smaller than my tiny public university's was, and it is severely outdated. I guess I got spoiled by Georgetown's big, fancy, useful library. But the ( Read more... )

Dear Transmen,

Please stop acting like you know anything about the law, medicine, or any other specialty for which you need to attend several additional years of school, unless you yourself (or even your partner or a close relative) have attended this school.

Or, at least, stop harassing and questioning the people who did go to school for those ( Read more... )

Poll My Hebrew Name

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There's a story on today's AOL frontpage about the 'crisis' in America. A guy and his wife moved their family from Atlanta, where they made over $200K/year (for the record? With both of them in executive jobs that's not so huge) and had a nice place in the city, to a farm outside Nashville,, TN. And they're shocked - shocked, I say! - to find out ( Read more... )

A law was passed earlier this year that allowed (a) married men to take the name of their wife and (b) domestic partners to take each others' names automatically upon registration of a domestic partnership, bypassing the long and costly and generally annoying name-change process that would be followed by anyone else. Great, right ( Read more... )

Have you ever gone through your computer when the harddrive is almost full, and you wish you could delete about 80% of it in order to make room for new and important work or hobby stuff...only for some reason you can't get rid of it ( Read more... )