I don't really think that Barack Obama is ready to be President.  I think Hillary Clinton is much more qualified and would do a much better job.  Ditto for Bill Richardson.  Issues-wise, I probably agree most with John Edwards.  I'm not even going to go into the Republican candidates because, other than John McCain, they are a crazy deluded group ( Read more... )

Bold the ones that are true for you.

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Father went to college
Father finished college
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What I got for Christmas:

From Dad:
-sign that says "Beware of Attack Lawyer".  Whoever hires me had best have a sense of humor, because that's definitely going in my office.
-"I Am America (And So Can You!)" by Stephen Colbert.  Can you expect quotes from this book to be posted in my LJ for the rest of 2008?  I think you can.  Let's start:

"All dogs ( Read more... )

So in case you don't follow celebrity gossip regularly (and why wouldn't you?), Jamie Lynn Spears, 16-year-old sister of Britney, is pregnant.  In the immortal words of Usher, she says she's three months pregnant and she's keepin' it.  Ordinarily I wouldn't re-post celebrity gossip, but I had to share this amazing quote.  You can find the whole ( Read more... )

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I give you money and send you into the grocery store to pick up 5 items. You can only pick one thing from the following departments. What is it ( Read more... )

Very rarely, I read something in my assigned law school material that makes me laugh.  Even more rarely, I read something by a conservative that makes me laugh.  Today we're two for two ( Read more... )

Whole Foods makes olives stuffed with bleu cheese.

Big green olives.

Stuffed with.

Bleu cheese.

I just thought you should know.

Yesterday we had the preliminary rounds of the mock trial competition I am running.  It went remarkably well, and I was pretty proud of myself and the rest of our exec board.  AND YET I woke up this morning in a panic about the 80 million other things I have to do.  Thus the Morning of Productivity, which hopefully will morph into the Day of ( Read more... )

1. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
2. Tag seven people to do the same.
3. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it."

Okay, so here they are:

1.  I have always wanted one of those old-fashioned bathtubs that has feet.

2. I read both Roots and The Autobiography of Malcolm X when I was in sixth grade ( Read more... )