Month: March 2006

  • Truer words…

    “Most of the literature of jurisprudence, to paraphrase William James, is tedious, not as hard subjects like physics and mathematics are tedious, but as throwing feathers, endlessly, hour after hour, is tedious.” Thurman Arnold, Institute Priests and Yale Observers – A Reply to Dean Goodrich, 84 U. Pa. L. Rev. 811 (1936). This is the…

  • Abdul Rahman to be Released

    I posted, a couple days ago, on the situation of Abdul Rahman, the Afghan Christian who was facing the death penalty for his conversion from Islam. CNN is reporting that he will be released “in the coming days.” (Link to follow)

  • There Goes My Life, Again

    I just bought a course packet of 764 letter-sized pages. Welcome to law school, boys and girls. Welcome to law school.

  • Afghan Christian Faces Death Penalty

    In case you haven’t heard, yet, Abdul Rahman, an Afghan man who converted from Islam to Christianity has been arrested and is awaiting trial, at which he faces the possibility of the death penalty. CNN.com has the full story. This is, obviously, an outrage. While freedom of religion is hardly universal and while other nations…

  • Computer Annoyances

    When I’m writing a program or web script, I usually test it on my own system before deploying it to its final destination (a web server, application server, etc.). Tonight, I made the unpleasant and rather disturbing discovery that Norton AntiVirus 2005, if it’s set to scan outgoing mail, may scan memory before a program…