Okay, I don’t usually do these, because I figure that they’re in the 48 things most of my blog readers could care less about. On the other hand, I sometimes like looking at them myself, because I enjoy learning new things about people I know — and most of the blogs I read belong to […]

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I’m not sure what these two incidents show. Incident Number One: Yang, the bronze medalist, was wrongly docked a tenth of a point on his parallel bars routine. If he had received the proper score, he would have won gold and Hamm would have won silver. “U.S. Gymnast Asked To Return Gold,” CBS News Online, […]

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Reading this article made me feel suddenly nostalgic. I wondered to myself, “Whatever happened to Tom Christiansen?” I suppose I could use Google to find out… …but I don’t really want to know. I just wanted to point you to the article!

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You think you had a bad day? I was going to file this under “Humor”, but that seemed a little crass; so it’s filed under “Miscellany” instead. I suppose I could create a new category: “Bird Photos.” As my wife would say, “Poor birdie!” The outline of the bird appears to have been made by […]

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I originally posted this on a bulletin board of our law school in response to another student’s comment that we all need to relax during Winter Break. It seemed appropriate to reproduce it here, as well. From an otherwise rambling and only intermittently interesting law review article (Bailey, “Legal Education: The Illusion of Truth,” 25 […]

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This past three weeks, I’ve gotten up to 400 (yes, that’s what I said, four hundred) spam messages per day on my primary email box. Of course, I’ve had the same address for about 11 or so years now. So there’s been plenty of time for that address to be sold over and over and over.

Which is why that particular address no longer exists.

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Seems people never learn, even otherwise intelligent people, like law students. I received an email today from a fellow student — as did about 300 other people to whom she sent it. The message explained how we could easily get at least $10,000. And all we had to do was forward her message to as […]

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Dropping into our mailbox today is the following note from Jean Chaffee. Hi, all you animal lovers. This is pretty simple. Please tell ten friends to tell ten today! The Animal Rescue Site is having trouble getting enough people to click on it daily to meet their quota of getting free food donated every day […]

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I gsues I’m jsut in a “sohrt psot” mdoe tdoay. So I’m jsut out borwsnig the Itnreent & ran arscros tihs wihch I fnoud smeowaht spruirsnig.

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