Merry Christmas Everyone

I'll be back to posting on the 27th. Until then, enjoy the holidays and take care.

P.S.: Wish my Bruins good luck today.

Stat Of The Day

I know nothing about it, now if we were talking about getting brain in the rental....

Yet Another Contributor

I'd like to welcome a new contributor to this blog, Penal Guest. This person would like to remain anonymous - and with a first name like Penal, can you really blame that person - (and unlike Deli77, would like to do so successfully) but rest assured, this person is, unlike the rest of us, somewhat funny. Hopefully, this person will take time off from their break and start posting shortly.

More Civ Pro Humor

Via Volokh.

Is Maury Povich Hosting?

Petting Mr. Nimmers Sure Does Help

You may not believe this but Hello Kitty plays Freud, here's my psychoanalysis.

You are a serious person always able to control your temper.

Your stress level maintains in a balance level. Though if you deal with high stress, you will become quiet and fear your surroundings. For this type playing with pet will help you release the tension.

Via Heidi.

It's A Very Merry Christmas So Far

Chirstmas Wishlist Item #1 fulfilled. Now who's getting me that snorkeling gear?

Stat Of The Day

Even if it were of the sexual variety, I've been nowhere near Michigan. And I'm sticking with that story.

Weather Update For Those Who Left Cali For Home

Brrrrrrrrr... a high/low of only 68°/44° today.

Expect This To Be The Last Post From Stummy For Awhile

No need for procrastination any more.

So It's Kinda Like They're Sweating All Over Each Other

From Boing Boing:

While Japan demolishes one of its famed indoor "outdoor" simulacradomes, a Zeppelin hangar in Brandenburg, Germany is transformed into a massive indoor beach resort. From The Guardian:

The scale of the operation puts one in mind of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, or a Martian colony, or other things that don't exist in real life. They have trucked in 30,000m cubed of soil and 500 plant species for their rainforest. The speakers which broadcast insect noises are shaped like rocks. And the building itself, it goes without saying, is extraordinary, the biggest inside of anything you will ever see. It makes your head spin. This place doesn't just have a climate. It has weather. As the place fills up, the extra moisture in the air condenses on the roof. It starts to rain a little bit." (my italics)

So "sweat" in German is "rain"?

Why Didn't They Just Hold Him Until?

Brotherly love was put to the test this week after two 18-year-old identical twins swapped their clothing and traded places so that one could escape jail.

But prison and police officials were not impressed by the gesture when one of the brothers, serving a 10-month sentence for assault and robbery, walked out to freedom.

During a visit, the two siblings, neither of whom were named, managed to switch their outfits without anyone noticing.

After visiting hours ended, the inmate walked out, pretending to be his brother. Faced with the prospect of spending the night in jail, his brother admitted the ruse to prison guards.

The only noticeable difference between the two twins was a birthmark on the face of the one doing time, but that was taken care of with an ink pen.

The visiting brother was questioned and released, but could face charges of aiding in a prison escape.

His brother? Police said he was still on the run.

More T9 Madness

Can you interpret the following?

Hey chubi.

An Addendum

I'm adding to this list (if you're too lazy of a "duckes" (and if you're too lazy to click on that link (and don't you just hate parentheticals within parentheticals) you won't get that inside joke) to click on that link it's about a SBA t-shirt idea that would include on the back a list of reasons for "Why We Love Attending SWLAW" or some similar heading).

1. Our campus is handicap accessible (i.e., it's rollie-user friendly - not talking about the people in wheelchairs).
2. So long as you don't get caught, the professors here don't care if you play games on your laptop - just remember to lower those blinds if you're in room W423.
3. Some SWLAW first years become 2Ls and some 2Ls become 3Ls and some 3Ls graduate - it does actually happen like that at our school.
4. SWLAW allows you to have one bad semester - use it wisely.
   
5. The classrooms and the library are kept really cold (see #12 or #13).
   
6. We have not one, but two water fountains (i.e., no line to wait in to drown yourself).
7. SWLAW is close enough to Loyola that when out in the nearby area with books in tow we can say we attend that law school instead if anyone asks.
8. There are internet ports in the classrooms that don't work, constantly reminding us how lucky we are (but do we really need to be reminded in such manner when we have these shirts?) to have a school that cares so much about their students learning during class that they removed all potential distractions. Really... lucky us.
9. Lots of potential customers in the surrounding area of the campus for those interested in Criminal law.
   
10. Our school is safe - all the windows are locked shut so you can't jump fall out.
11. Two words: 1) chicken 2) chipotle 3) wrap. Yum.
    
12. Thinking ahead and/or counting not that important at SWLAW.
    
13. We got these t-shirts in sheer white, size XXS for the ladies.
14. Our library is so beautiful it makes people cry.
15. It eventually ends.

So That's What The Dodgers Were Doing

Getting the Yankees in grasp of a prized pitcher and then snatching it away at the last moment. Go Dodgers!

Christmas Wishlist Item #2

Gift idea taken from THL.

Random AIM Conversation

Riz: what happened last night
Bruin7089: i remember you were freaking every man, woman and child at Level One
Riz: yea
Bruin7089: it was like, "hi Sean!"
Bruin7089: and then you were freaking them
Riz: i remeber not be able to walk but able to dance
Bruin7089: and they were like, "Ok"
Riz: were people like get away or were they having fun?
Bruin7089: responses varied
Bruin7089: from "this is awesome!" to "what the fuck?"
Riz: who gave which anybody i know or was it just randoms cuz i remember dancing with some large black girls
Bruin7089: every man, woman, and child
Riz: i jsut remeber girls boyfriends staring me down when i would freak their girls
Riz: and not caring one bit

And The List Grows

Add to the list,

Joel
Liz
Aylin
Aaron

to those that I won't talk shit about anymore admire because they are known to read this blog truly great people.

GOOD TIMES!

I noticed Wayne hadn't recapped on last night's official Southwestern SBA end of the semester bash. So let me sum it up in a nutshell:

More alcohol than anyone can remember, hotboxing at La Barca, students violating one another on the dance floor (and elsewhere), food, drunk dialing, dropping it like it's hot, afterparty, and of course CRAZY ORGIES.

Whew...i'm surprised I made it out of bed today.

Quote This

"Are you going to smog about this or whatever it's called?" - Aylin

Christmas Wishlist Item #1

A 20Q segment on The Hot Librarian. Make it happen Soup. Now.

If Law School Doesn't Work Out III

Reflecting on how poorly I surely must have done on the recently completed exams, I'm going to have to find me a lot more of these "If Law School Doesn't Work Out". Please email me any link suggestions.

Exam In An Hour

Good thing I know the definition of Monops.

Antitrust Outline Done

That gives me a little over 3 hours to memorize 6 pages. That's two hours of procrastination folks.

Privacy Schmivacy

Thanks to Evan Schaeffer for the link to this post regarding law student blogs and privacy. For a more in-depth critique of that article check out Evan's post and the link to Will Baude.

As for my own privacy policy, basically, I post about everything unless told not to. Consider yourselves put on notice.

Stat Of The Day

#3 on Google and moving up with a bullet.

As If I Could Stay Away

What does $2.80 get you for dinner? Well if you have an all-vending machine dinner like I just had you could have a can of Coke, a bag of Doritos, and a main course of a microwaved burrito. Mmmmmmmm... good eats.

Senor Paranoia Signing Off

With less than 24 hours until my Antitrust exam - or as I like to melodramatically call it, The Moment of Truth - I go study now. Back to posting sometime tomorrow.

Ok Sara

I know you're stronlgy anti-death penalty but can you defend this person from that fate?

Antitrust Progress (Or Lack Thereof)

I arrived at the library nearly three hours ago and have read just over ONE page of the commercial outline since. But I did take a nap, and I posted, and I had lunch at McD's. So it hasn't been a complete waste of time.

I Got 99 Problems But 12(b)(6) Ain't One

The Civ Pro version to 99 Problems.

Quiz Time

You Are Socks!

Cozy and warm... but easily lost. You make a good puppet.

What Crappy Gift Are You?

Megan's Law Database Now Online

Many sex offenders can be displayed by city, ZIP Code, county or within a predetermined radius of a selected address, park, or school.

It's even got photographs of every individual sex offender who is registered in California, which is all too freaky for me. Also provided are the list of offenses each has committed. So not only do you know that these people live near you but also know what they look like and what they did.

There are 20 of them registered in my zip code alone. So the chances of bumping into one of them don't seem too unlikely enough. What to do if I should run into one of these people at my grocery store? Again, the words of my mentee come to mind.

Here's one of the fucker's list of offenses.

288(a) LEWD OR LASCIVIOUS ACTS WITH CHILD UNDER 14 YEARS
288a(c) ORAL COPULATION WITH PERSON UNDER 14/ETC OR BY FORCE/ETC
289(a) PRIOR CODE-SEXUAL PENETRATION WITH FOREIGN OBJECT BY FORCE
f289(a) PRIOR CODE-SEXUAL PENETRATION WITH FOREIGN OBJECT BY FORCE

Talk about TMI - and maybe I should stop saying things like a young teen knowing that these bitches are around.

Lesson: Don't Tell Me Anything

Jeffrey Rosen, a law professor, writes an article in the NY Times Magazine. It's about privacy rights, looking at "dating bloggers" and law student bloggers in particular. Since I don't post about dating for obvious reasons - women are evil, women are the devil, etc. - you know which part of the article interested me the most.

As blogs expand, people will need to develop new social conventions to resurrect the boundaries between public and private interactions. Consider law professors, in whose privacy I take a special interest. There is a growing category of blogs, known as blawgs, in which law students across the country record their musings about their daily experiences in law schools. Professors have always had to assume the risk that performance in class will be publicly evaluated: a Web site called RateMyProfessors.com posts anonymous rankings of teachers across the country.

But unlike course-evaluation sites, many blawgs focus on far more than their teachers' public performances: they are essentially gossip sheets in which anonymous students transcribe conversations in and out of class with their professors and fellow students. For example, a blawg called Open and Notorious posted by students at a Washington law school was taken down after it posted graphic transcripts of conversations between professors and sycophantic students, as well as speculation about who was sleeping with whom.

At the law school where I teach, George Washington, I recently discovered that there are two anonymous student-run blawgs.... The bloggers also include verbatim transcripts of their conversations with my colleagues not only in class but during office hours, augmented by unkind (if sometimes wickedly accurate) comments.

Now that I know that students may be reporting my after-class comments without my knowledge, I'm more likely to be circumspect in private conversations. Do I have any other remedies? One possibility might be to announce at the beginning of each term that all comments in the classroom are off the record to bloggers. But this kind of strategy is likely to backfire. In an Internet law class at Yale Law School, for example, Reed Hundt, the former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, agreed to speak on the condition that no news media be invited; during his talk, he discovered that student bloggers were enrolled in the class and asked them not to blog his remarks. This had the effect of enraging the bloggers, who insisted that they hadn't agreed not to blog in advance and had a First Amendment right to blog whatever they liked. (Prof. Al Gore made the same mistake when he unwisely tried to block the media from one of his classes at the Columbia Journalism School.)

''Once burned, twice shy,'' Hundt said, reflecting about his experience. ''I no longer try in any group larger than two or three people to establish any rules of confidentiality at all: what are you going to do, ask people to sign pieces of paper?'' Hundt said he has abandoned the idea that he can control his audiences and assumes that everything he says might be posted. But in a small act of revenge, he has started an anonymous blog of his own. ''It's in the nature of a private diary, but to tell you more would compromise its anonymity,'' he said coyly.

Reminds me of Trini's story about how she mentioned to Prof. Horwitz at the Student/Faculty Mixer that she was a contributor to this blog and he responded by saying that he'll be sure to be quiet around her.

Anyway, so who wants to hear the story about The Chub?

Maybe Our Resident CALI Award Winner Can Figure This Out

Since he's got no finals to study for. Lucky bastard.

The Weekly Roundup Is Up

It covers posts from those who are done with their law school exams for the time being. Congratulate, envy, or hate these people. I know which I prefer to do.

I Guess This Means Brian Will Be Drinking Like A Christmas Tree Monday Night

Quiz Time

You Are Tequilla

When you drink, you're serious about getting drunk! You'll take any shot that's offered up to you... Even if it tastes like sock sweat! And you're never afraid of eating the worm.

What alcoholic drink are you?

(Taken from E. McPan.)

At The Pace I'm Going

I should know Antitrust by Monday... the Monday two weeks from the Monday I take the test. Decidedly not good.

I Might Have To Actually Do Some Real Studying Next Semester

Of the three professors teaching Professional Responsibility next semester, I get the one who uses a casebook for which there is no case briefs for and a commercial outline keyed to the previous edition. And of the three professors teaching Business Associations, I get the one using a casebook for which there is no commercial outline keyed to. And then there's Forensic Evidence, where no supps seem to exist for that class much less for the casebook itself.

Next semester is going to be lots of fun.