Blog unborked
I think I’ve spent more time fixing my blog this year than actually posting anything to it, but now that it’s been fixed AGAIN, here’s hoping that changes…
View ArticleRight of the living dead
Recently the Centers for Disease Control used the prospect of a zombie attack to encourage Americans to think more about disaster preparedness. It was an interesting learning tool, using a premise...
View ArticleThe Reasonable Man, Scalia is not (repost)
I’ve been thinking about these issues in another context, so I decided to salvage this post from my old blog so I could reference it. Originally written March 23, 2004, with edits for clarity today....
View ArticleBreast assured
I found myself tweeting extensively in disgust over the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood’s breast cancer screening programs going forward. “Politicizing women’s...
View ArticleNew project: Digital Age Defense
For those people who still read this blog (anyone? anyone?) I wanted to announce my new blog, “Digital Age Defense.” In the long run “Digital Age Defense” will be more than just a blog – it’s a whole...
View ArticleFirst thing we do, let’s enslave all the lawyers
It’s not that providing legal services to the poor isn’t a worthy policy goal. However that worthiness does not vindicate any old policy nominally intended to serve that end, particularly if said...
View ArticleThe latest from CathyWorld
Hello, world, it’s been a while, so I thought I’d catch you up on some of what I’ve been busy doing in my professional life while I’ve not been busy blogging here. I have, for instance, been doing a...
View ArticleThe Tour de France explained
I’d forgotten I’d written this guide to the Tour de France until someone emailed me this morning to thank me for having explained the complexities of the race. Like I say in this guide, it’s more than...
View ArticleWhy I don’t play baseball (repost)
A conversation today reminded me of this post from my old blog, so I decided to clean it up a bit and repost it here: I’ve always loved baseball. I can’t quite explain why, and it seems a little odd...
View ArticleRecent housecleaning
New year, new blog… Well, it’s the old blog, but I got tired of maintaining MovableType, so I ported “Statements of Interest” over to WordPress. The migration was happily pretty painless, except that...
View ArticleUS Patent Office, past and present (repost)
The following is a post that I had originally written in 2004 when I was a law student for my old “Great Change” blog. Given that patent reform remains a salient, timely issue — ie, see President...
View ArticleThe beauty of a well-timed pun (repost)
I’ve always thought it sad somehow that people tend to groan at a pun. To be fair, a pun is a little hard to react to because it’s not humorous in an obvious, laugh-eliciting way. For a regular joke,...
View ArticleUnified Europe
In walking through the Frankfurt Airport yesterday I was struck by how difficult it was to tell that I was in Germany. The only hallmarks seemed to be the volume of Lufthansa flights boarding and the...
View ArticleOn learning language (repost)
I’m visiting France for the first time in 10 years, struggling to get my French skills back up to the moderate fluency I’d had before. In thinking about foreign languages I wanted to repost something...
View ArticleThe Clifford Chance Napping Room – an update
As long as I’m reposting items from the blog I kept while I was a law student, I should include this one because there has been an important update. For some context, I did a semester of my 3L year in...
View ArticlePlus ça change
Sometimes in life you just need to run off to Paris. So I did. It was certainly time: I hadn’t set foot in France in 10 years, which was particularly odd given that I had twice lived there, once for a...
View ArticleOn cats, commitments, and parasites (repost)
I wrote this when I was in law school. I always kind of liked it as a piece of writing. I also think it remains a perfectly sound theory… BoingBoing has a post about an author of a book on parasites,...
View ArticleA shielding law
Both Ken @ Popehat and “Gideon” at his blog have posts on the position reporter Jana Winter finds herself in. To briefly summarize, the contents of the diary of the alleged Aurora, CO, shooter ended up...
View ArticleThis is why I became a lawyer
I’ve always been a committed fan of free speech. More than a fan, actually: it was something I believed in fighting for. In my previous career as an Internet professional I became more and more...
View ArticlePrenda Law, a San Francisco treat
I wrote about one of the recent chapters in the Prenda Law saga at the Popehat blog last week. For posterity, and people who read this blog but not that one, here’s what I wrote. While most of the...
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