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Kraut control
While researching for my Race and Law paper I came across this glorious WWI French postcard of the 15th Sikh regiment landing in Marseilles.
They look like some very spiffy bad-asses but I especially love the caption.
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Bumper sticker crit
My Kentucky Death Penalty paper is done and I'm now working on revising and polishing my Race and Law paper on Muslims and Arabs after September 11th. In doing this I've been doing a lot of reading, some of it interesting and some of it damn infuriating. Much of it has been in critical race theory which despite the name is not so much a theory but ( Read more... ) -
busy Friday
Mom came up for Thanksgiving with Heather's family for the first time and it went well. On Friday we took the moms to see the Amish quilts exhibit at the de Young (more interesting than I was expecting), visit the California Academy of Sciences (my first time), have dinner at Max's, and finish up with Bach's Christmas Oratorio at the SF Symphony ( Read more... ) -
ye olde five questions meme
waltzingmathea gave me five questions.
Leave me a comment saying "I'll bite" and I'll do the same for you.
Pass it on to your own jounal (post the questions and answer them).
1) What made you decide to go to law school?The short answer is that I wanted to use my powers of arguing for good, not just for awesome. The slightly longer answer is that until my mid ( Read more... ) -
two great client quotes from our GED classroom
client 1: "Why you doin' that? You ain't cool."
client 2: "I don't wanna be cool. Being cool got me into prison. I wanna be square."
and
client A: "Erik, what is this stuff we're listening to?"
client B: "Tsk man, that is Cab Calloway. Don't you know nothin'?"
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Heather + cats
In honor of our 8th anniversary, I would like to share with you some pictures of Heather with cats. No LJ cut for you!
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