Quiz Time

Your Ideal Relationship is Serious Dating

You're not ready to go walking down the aisle. But you may be ready in a couple of years. You prefer to date one on one, with a commitment. And while chemistry is important, so is compatibility.

What's Your Ideal Relationship?

Playing Under The Lights

Wish me luck. Or just pray that I bust up my knee.

UPDATE: After getting his first hit of the season with a seeing eye single up the middle, who is now sitting right at the Mendoza line?

Well Tampa Bay Did Win The Stanley Cup

Not that that's a mitigating factor or anything, I'm just saying.

Watching Al Roker

When really fat people decide to lose a lot of weight, they should be mindful that they may end up with a disproportionate head. Mr. Roker looks like a freakin' living caricature or like a bobblehead doll when he nods.

Relationship Question #3

In an effort to help me out, Shell tries to clear up the mystery of women. Eh. I never really believed in any of the myths she dispels. Most of them are just over-generalizations that do apply to some women and men but definitely not all of them or even most - except for that height one.

Here's what I think the problem is: Both women and men keep an eye out for something better and will jump at the opportunity for something better when given the chance.

Now my theory is more nuanced than that much like Sen. Kerry's position on... well... everything. But for now I'll leave it at that. So do you agree or disagree?

Everything You Learn As A 1L In 5 Minutes Or Less

By that other professor known as Michael Dorff.

via JD2B

AKA You Know You Can't Date Wayne If...

Who said beggars can't be choosers?

Model Rule 1.3 Comment 3

Perhaps no professional shortcoming is more widely resented than procrastination.

Shit.

Somebody Warn Law Review

That should make 'em supporters of Pres. Bush.

Where's The Tea Room?

I think I need a campus tour to reorientate myself.

Tough To See Him Go My Ass

She was trying to pawn that little fucker on any willing schmuck this passed Saturday. Apparently, all the alcohol on the ping-pong table worked and she was able to get someone drunk enough convinced to take the dog away. In fact, now that I reflect on it, I'm pretty sure the motivation for the get together she threw that night was to gather all the schmucks and pawn the little fucker off on an unsuspecting one.

The 8th Most Comprehensive Guide To Taking The California Bar Exam

It's good stuff.

Feb. 2005 Bar: First-time Takers

ABA-accredited schools:
1 Stanford 100% (4/4)
2 USC 100% (2/2)
3 USD 80% (20/25)
4 Pepperdine 77% (10/13)
5 UC Davis 75% (6/8)
6 Chapman 69% (9/13)
7 Cal Western 68% (65/96)
8 Santa Clara 68% (23/34)
9 Southwestern 68% (23/34)
10 USF 67% (12/18)
11 Hastings 67% (8/12)
12 McGeorge 59% (17/29)
13 Loyola 54% (26/48)
14 Golden Gate 43% (17/40)
15 Boalt 42% (5/12)
16 Whittier 33% (8/24)
17 UCLA 33% (2/6)
18 Thomas Jefferson 32% (11/34)
19 Western State 31% (8/26)

SWLAW Way Behind In The Game

The NY Times has an article on how law schools try to manipulate the U.S. News & World Report rankings.

Critics say law schools are engaged in an LSAT and G.P.A. arms race in which they exploit technicalities in U.S. News's methodology. Admissions people know, for example, that the rankings are calculated using grades and scores of only full-time students.

Rutgers School of Law, Camden, for example, has been shrinking its full-time program and increasing its part-time division for the last seven years. About 60 first-year students - many with less competitive LSAT's or grades - take one course in the summer to ease their load in the fall. By taking a three-quarters schedule, the students are considered part time. The school has moved up from No. 78 in 2003 to 65 this year.

It's not so much gaming the rankings as pressure to play the game, say many deans. "You distort your policies to preserve your ranking, that's the problem," says Mr. Kramer of Stanford. "These rankings are corrosive to the actual education mean because this poll takes the following 12 criteria and now you have to fetishize them."

So is SWLAW playing the game poorly, not playing the game at all, or playing the game well but way overmatched?

Not Funny

Whomever is voting for Tom Cruise, it's not funny.

All Those Who...

Made their mom cry this weekend, please step to the front.... Not you again and please wipe the Smarties dust from your nose.