The Kansas Board of Education, voting 6-4, has approved a science curriculum for public schools which incorporates information about the “intelligent design” arguments on human origins and highlights problems with contemporary evolutionary theory. This is bound to create a massive uproar, of course; I won’t dive into any of the issues, here, but I thought [...]

The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit heard oral arguments in four cases at the University of Chicago Law School, today. I was only able to attend for about 45 minutes, but it was quite interesting; while I’ve observed criminal and civil trials, before, this was my first live experience with oral [...]

Question of the day: does the National Do Not Call Registry work, at all? Does the

There’s some sort of mass psychology at work, here: I’ll be sitting at home, trying to read a couple more pages for school before crashing for the night, and it starts. I get an IM, and thirty seconds later, another, from a second person. Then, yet another person IMs me, seconds after that. It happens [...]

I don’t get it. I know some people find her hilarious, but I think she has to be the least amusing comic on television. She’s even got her own five-days-a-week talk show. I don’t get it.

Today’s Doonesbury strip gets it wrong, as is pretty usual. The Georgia law does not require anything more of any one group than of another. It simply says that you must show some form of proof that you are who you say you are - that is, an ID card, like a driver’s license [...]

I’ve mentioned before the nasty problem of having “too much” memory, when running a Windows XP laptop. Well, I finally gave up and pulled 512 MB out of mine, at least for the moment. I had resolved to install Linux, but realized there are, indeed, a few programs I still care about but hadn’t found [...]

I just finished working through my in-school budget - it looks like it’s in pretty good shape. I didn’t try to work it out, until now, because there were just too many unknowns for my first month or so in a new (and more expensive than I am used to) city, especially with book purchases [...]

I just got back from Andy’s Jazz Club. I highly recommend it; it was a very fun evening. A very, very strange evening, but fun.

Upcoming posts:

Platform for the Next President - what America needs in its next Commander in Chief, politically, procedurally, and in personal presentation.
Blogging of the 1L job application process
Blogging of the 1L exam season
Politics and the Charismatic Personality
Review of Poker Academy Pro 2
Arguments for and against legalized poker (and other gambling)
Other stuff, as I think of [...]