Month: November 2005

  • Federal Circuit Arguments at the Law School

    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…

  • Does the Do Not Call List Work?

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

  • IM Swarms

    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…

  • Ellen DeGeneres

    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.

  • Doonesbury Gets it Wrong, Again

    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 –…