tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62039232011-08-19T06:40:22.148-04:00An NYU law student shares his innermost feelings.Dnoreply@blogger.comBlogger431100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6203923.post-1098380557276819522004-10-21T13:27:00.000-04:002004-10-21T13:42:37.276-04:00

Thanks to a furtive industrial spy and a bunch of meddling kids, a pirate version of the new Grand Theft Auto game is now available for download on the internet. Obviously, Rockstar games is pissed. They intend to make a gazillion dollars of this game, and they don't want some punks getting to be the first to play it without laying the bucks on the barrelhead. The developers released a

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I guess  this   is Drudge's response to Michael Moore's derisive comments about Bush's time spent at Camp David and at his ranch in Texas.    Moore's accusations were pretty much bullshit.  A lot of the time Moore said Bush was "vacationing" he was meeting with foreign leaders, who he typically receives in Crawford.  Michael Moore is kind of full of shit.   Of course these pictures actually

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Cheney told Leahy to go fuck himself, but it's George Bush who is getting fucked this week. Starting out, you have the chubby face of Michael Moore leering out from the cover of Time Magazine. That's not the kind of thing Georgey-boy likes seeing on the newsstand. Like many of his right-wing counterparts, Moore is much more committed to ideology than to truth, but he's made a powerful piece

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Somebody thought my post about how the everything was going to hell in a handbasket was really pessimistic. That's probably true, but it's the reasonable conclusion given the evidence. Thousands of smart folks go to law school every year. Thousands of smart folks join the peace corps or get Masters' of Public Policy, or get PhDs in sociology, and the great mass of humanity is still miserable.

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Britney Spears is marrying a backup dancer who has two kids by another woman. They've been dating for two months. I guess you can take the trash out of the trailer, but you can't take the trailer out of the trash. You know, because Britney is trailer trash. WHORE!

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When I saw that Ronald Reagan had died today, my immediate reaction was to wonder how this would effect the 2004 presidential race. This will doubtless build a lot of good photo ops for Bush, and a lot of uncritical television discussion of conservative policy goals. I think that the Republicans will be able to successfully milk this for political benefit, and do it subtly enough to avoid a

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This is the basic, distilled lesson that I have drawn from my 1L experience: Society's problems are systemic and intractable. Attempts to resolve them will only create new problems. Human civilization is, thus, not sustainable. If you have a Sisyphus complex, you can waste your life trying to prevent the fall of society. Otherwise, you should put on a suit, and go make enough money to build

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During my Administrative and regulatory state exam today, I actually had to look up the word fail in the dictionary to resolve a statutory interpretation issue.

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Some of you may have heard about how those exemplars of intellect at Council for American Islamic Relations got their keffiyehs all bunched up over a fake photo . Now somebody has taken it upon himself to create a little web application that lets you throw your own fake slogan onto the now-infamous sign. Have fun.! Incidentally, looking at the picture, my theory is that the "raped my sister"

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Disney just can't win lately. Now, the mouse house is refusing to distribute Michael Moore's new documentary. They painted themselves into a corner. They would have taken heat if they had put it out, and they will take heat for not putting it out. I don't really care much for Moore. It was okay to root for him when he was trying to ambush the CEO who cut jobs in his hometown, but he doesn't

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Well, since I haven't posted in three weeks, I guess I owe something topical. Cases for detained US citizens Yasser Hamdi and Jose Padilla are before the Supreme Court today, and will determine the limits of the president's wartime powers. Security mavens will argue that this is an easy case of executive discretion in the interest of protecting safety. Similarly, many civil libertarians see

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The following quotation is from Roger Ebert's 1989 review of Steven Soderbergh's "sex, lies and videotape." "The argument in "sex, lies and videotape" is that conversation is also better than sex - more intimate, more voluptuous - and that with our minds we can do things to each other that make sex, that swapping of sweat and sentiment, seem merely troublesome." The implications of this

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Apparently you can win by losing.

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The ads at the top of the screen lead to both the Green party and the Republican party. Which is odd, to say the least. Although, I suppose a vote for either would serve the same end as a practical reality. Also, a suggested search is for "Bush daughters," whom I thought I'd never mentioned, but apparently did in a post a couple of months ago. Apparently, they're a popular topic, though I

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It's about time we finally got some good news. Hamas "spriitual leader" Ahmed Yassin finally got what was coming to him. Few people truly deserve to take a direct hit from a helicopter fired missile, but this unrepentant murderer was certainly among them. Hamas will certainly try to retaliate, but it's not as if they were sending fewer suicide bombers than they were able to before this

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There has been much discussion in the media lately about my reported feud with Hillary Duff. I would just like to say that these rumors are largely false. Hillary and I are on, like, totally friendly terms. In fact, we're almost like sisters, and I totally don't think she's a stuck-up bitch.

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Today's blog is a conversation about an alum of my journalism school who has since become famous. Names have been changed to protect the innocent. my friend: sorry, I was watching jayson blair and katie couric my friend: it's on right now Volenti: Let me know when they start kissing, and I'll flip it on. my friend: haha not gonna happen my friend: she tore him up my friend: and he agreed with

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Damn! People who I would generally tend to sympathize with just keep coming up on the wrong side of the First Amendment lately! I just saw this disturbing editorial by Clynton Namuo, who is an associate city editor from the Boston University student paper. Basically, the Republican student group at BU has decided that it's not fair for the liberals to have all the fun protesting, so they've

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Took the Which Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Are You? quiz I am rule 12(b). That is about all that needs to be said about that.

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In case you're wondering what the hell is up with that weird Quizno's ad that's been on a lot, apparently, it's based on this. Whoever decided to license that and use it to sell sandwiches is either brilliant or crazy.

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All right, I'm like the only Jewish guy left who doesn't hate Mel Gibson. I don't think there has been anything to gain from this controversy. What has happened is that the attacks from Jewish groups drove Christians to rally around Gibson, getting all of them much angrier at Jews than any movie ever could have. Whenever groups protest movies like this, it always annoys me. Arab and Muslim

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I just finished Philip Roth's "American Pastoral," which I spent the weekend plowing through at the expense of various other responsibilities. Roth won the Pulitzer for this in 1997, and it's really easy to see why. This might be the most powerful book I've read since "The Great Gatsby," and the downfall of Roth's hero, Swede Levov, is nearly as poignant as Gatsby. In fact, "American Pastoral"

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I've developed a tendency to go pretty easy on George W. Bush lately. Even though I'm a registered Democrat, I generally like tax cuts and I've become a hawk on security since Sept. 11. I was strongly in favor of the war in Iraq. However, when this president starts calling for inquiries into "intelligence failures..." My God. It's like a giant pinata. How could Karl Rove have permitted this?

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Glorfindel , who is a Michigan blogger and also a Tolkien character who didn't make it into the films, has cut through all the BS about vague grade discussions by just posting his grades on his blog. I have decided to do the same, so here they are: Contracts: Material Breach. Torts: Eggshell Skull Civil Procedure: 12(b)(6). Minus. That's 'bout all I have to say 'bout that. In other news,

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I found these tests at Similar Minds, courtesy of Trish, who doesn't like me. Fascinating results. What Famous Leader Are You? Interesting. I would describe neither myself or Bill Clinton as being a "social chameleon." But I'm flattered by the comparison. Whoever made this test is apparently some kind of Limbaugh-style, foaming-at-the-mouth, right-wing freak-o, though. I played around

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I had to watch Howard Dean's Iowa concession speech twice before I could believe what I was seeing. I never thought much of the man, but I can't believe he could make such a blunder. It's being compared to Senator Muskie's crying incident in 1972, which was, previously, the biggest front-runner flameout in campaign history. I never had a lot of respect for Dean, but I didn't expect to see

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It's a good night for people who don't like Howard Dean. I don't have a lot to say on the matter. Res Ipsa, and all that. I would have posted at length about politics, but I was sidetracked by that whole movie thing. I like movies, in general, better than politics, because the people in movies are a heck of a lot better looking. Also, considering that I thought "Schindler's List" was kind

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This list seems to be making the rounds on the "Blawg" circuit. I'm not going to reproduce the list again, but I'll make a few comments. I'm not sure where it came from originally, but I think this has gotta be somebody's personal list. Some of these picks are pretty unorthodox, and also somebody is mixing foreign language names into the list, which is confusing. It took me a minute to

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I just found out that a lot of things I dislike are all under the aegis of the same record label. Check it out: This is really awful. What's even more appalling is that his record label, apparently Jive Records, gave him money to try to pay off his victim. Nearly as appalling, this same record label also afflicted the world with Justin Timberlake. But, on a more optimistic note, Britney, who

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My fellow NYU bloggers at 110 W. 3rd St. have pointed out this New York Times article which discusses a movement to raise the prosecutor's burden in death penalty cases from "beyond a reasonable doubt" to "beyond any doubt" The article cited a New Jersey Supreme Court justice, who, dissenting in a death penalty case, wrote that the standard "used to determine whether an individual should be

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20 years ago, Madonna scandalized the music industry by playing on the classic theme of the virgin/whore dichotomy. These days we think more clearly. Britney Spears toyed with a similar image, but she quickly discarded the "virgin" aspect. Thought: Congress thinks its important to defend marriage against homosexuals, but who will protect it from celebrities? I'm no great religious scholar,

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Lionel Tate will be granted a reprieve from his life sentence, due to a finding of error on the part of his trial judge regarding a failure to examine his competency to stand trial. I'm particularly offended by the column, linked to above, by Slate.com columnist Dahlia Lithwick. Her description of the events is egregiously unbalanced; in her telling, Tate is a playful innocent, lacking a mind

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There were some technical problems with "Comment This" which were preventing the page from loading, so I had to pull them off the page. It appears to be working now. Also I saw "Lord of the Rings" and it's one of the most perfect films I've ever seen. I'm a big admirer of Peter Jackson and his style of filmmaking. Jackson made all 3 "Rings" films on the same budget that the Wachowski brothers

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I thought that the Madonna/Missy Elliot Gap jeans song was the absolute lowest that humanity could sink. However, the new L'il Kim/Fran Drescher advertisements have found a way to lower the bar. I am creating a new rule, called D's law. It's kind of like Moore's law about computers doubling in speed every 18 months. D's Law states that commercials will become twice as dumb every 18 months. So

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A comment to one of my posts from last week seems to suggest that Howard Dean's statements about America's safety have been vindicated by the recent increase in the national terror alert. I don't think this is true. Nobody ever suggested that getting Saddam would make the world safe from terrorism forever. But I think it's reasonable to assert that the world has become a much less friendly

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It turns out that the Bush and Gore families have more in common than one might previously have expected. The wimpy patriarch suffers an ignominious defeat, but the hell-raising son with more balls than brains refuses to fade into the background! The parallel sagas of two American families... This fall, on Lifetime. In case you don't know what I'm talking about, Al Gore's kid got arrested for

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I was going to post an argument about why I think the Israeli security barrier is an effective implementation of the incentive based approach to fighting terrorism that Alan Dershowitz argues for. However, my civ pro exam was today, and I've spent too much time discussing the death penalty, and now I feel like I have an eggshell skull. So I am going to get drunk instead. Congratulations and

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Well, we now know why former Illinois Gov. George Ryan has so much compassion for criminals. He is one! This model of courageous leadership was indicted on 22 counts of racketeering, mail and tax fraud and making false statements to federal officials. I think he probably emptied the state's death row so he'd have a posse to watch his back when he went to prison. In other news, Salon.com

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Here's my sound-bite of the day: "Howard Dean has climbed into his own spider hole of denial if he believes that the capture of Saddam Hussein has not made America safer." -Joe Lieberman Ol' Joe is prone to histrionic fits over movie violence and video games, which is really stupid. Or maybe not so stupid, since it gives him a scapegoat

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Contracts is over. I hope I did well. Right now my brain hurts. So I'll just keep this brief, and to the point. There are two kinds of people in this city. Those who have screwed Paris Hilton, and those who haven't. I feel like I'm in the smaller group. And here's a nice tidbit from the common law: "He ought not to be responsible for the misfortune of not possessing the highest order of

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Well, George Bush got Saddam Hussein and I've got a contracts exam tomorrow. I'm about as nervous right now as Howard Dean must be. But at the same time, I feel like this is a moment of unique opportunity, kind of like John Kerry is having. I just hope I don't end up like Joe Lieberman. Talk about humiliating. That whole Gore endorsement thing must have been like getting dumped by your date

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Incidentally, if you're not studying, these are the DVDs you should be watching: Alien Quadrilogy: Every relationship has a pattern. First there's the face-sucker stage. Then there's the chest-burster. Then there's post breakup, with the slavering, sharp teeth and acid for blood. You know what I'm talking about. I'm sure you've got at least one ex who pops up when you least expect it to

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Welcome to my Blog. If you're looking for porn, you might want to check the web address. You probably made a typo. No need to be embarrassed, it happens all the time. Next time try typing with both hands. Now that that's out of the way, I'm a first year law student (1L) at NYU Law School, and this festive time of year, which everyone else calls "the holidays" is "exam time" for law students

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