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My newest guilty pleasure: Female Science Professor Blog

Posted on January 07, 2010
See here. I stumbled upon this blog thanks to an article that Female Science Professor wrote for the Chronicle of Higher Education, here. And here's my favorite part of that article:10. For students and postdocs: If you are paid a salary, you should do the work...

Calling all Mac users--any idea what this means?

Posted on December 31, 2009
I've gotten these files before. Can't get rid of them; don't know what causes them. But when I brought this problem to the Apple Genius Bar, the person who addressed the problem suggested a wiping-out of my computer and a restore based on Time Capsule...

For those writers with spelling "issues"

Posted on December 31, 2009
See this. Hat tip to my buddy Scott Chase for sending it to me.

Watch Jeff & Priscila on this LVAC webpage.

Posted on December 30, 2009
Jeff Monroe (our personal trainer) and his wife, Priscila Monroe, are two of our favorite people. If you're ever just feeling blue, just click on the Las Vegas Athletic Clubs website (here), then click on "Guests," and then don't click on anything else until you watch all of the ways that Jeff & Priscila try to entice you into clicking on any of the options...

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A true leadership opportunity for our government.

Posted on December 30, 2009
As we've all recognized, the system failed (see this editorial from today's New York Times, here). Here's what I think should happen next, if we are going to see true leadership from the top down.1. Find out which people made tragically bad decisions about Mr...

A tale of two customer service philosophies

Posted on December 29, 2009
On the "best of times, worst of times" list, Apple Care has to stand out as one of the best examples of good customer service, and Handango has to stand out as one of the worst. I've had some hiccups with my MacBook Pro, and the good folks at Apple Care have walked me through a total of 2-1/2 hours of "um, where's that button?" and "can you please repeat that?" Luddite comments on my end, with infinite patience and kindness...

Why someone should nominate me for the Disney board of directors, part n

Posted on December 29, 2009
See here. Seriously--shouldn't I get a chance to do some good for shareholders, at a company I actually love?

And now, some common sense from one of my heroes

Posted on December 29, 2009
This op-ed today (here) from Clark Kent Ervin.Here's what we're not realizing: there probably were some procedures in place for homeland security folks to use to keep Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab from getting on that plane to Detroit. I don't know if the procedures were the best ones we could have developed, but I'm going to guess that if (1) someone's own parents call and say, "watch out for our son," and (2) that son is already on a watch list, and (3) he checks in for a flight with no luggage and pays cash for his ticket, there were probably some procedures that could've kept Abdulmutallab off that plane...

Some common sense about cybertalk

Posted on December 29, 2009
See here. Great editorial!

Wow. Check out this great investigative reporting by Gretchen Morgenson and Louise Story.

Posted on December 24, 2009
See here. One of my law students has been working on a case involving these allegations. Fascinating.Update: Thanks to my guru, Jack Ayer, some other thoughts (here, here, and here). Thanks, Jack!

Classic exam bloopers (and a rant)

Posted on December 23, 2009
I'm working my way through grading my PR exams, and one blooper (well, two, actually; but they were actually the same blooper) cracked me up last night (see here). On a more serious note, although I don't count off for bad writing on exams--and maybe I should, given that my exams are 72-hour take-homes, with plenty of time to proofread the submissions--I'm stunned by the sheer illiteracy of some of these exam answers...

Guilty pleasure: I Can Has Cheezburger

Posted on December 22, 2009
I'm totally addicted to ICanHasCheezburger.com. And this picture just takes the cake:

Dear Government of the State of Nevada: here are some revenue-raising ideas

Posted on December 22, 2009
Dear Government of the State of Nevada:As Nevada slips ever further into a budget deficit, and the Governor seeks proposals for up to 10% cuts from state agencies (see here), it's time to consider options for raising revenue, rather than simply cutting further...

R.I.P., Joe Hunter Reynolds

Posted on December 21, 2009
The world lost a truly great human this week: Joe Hunter Reynolds (see obituary here). Even this obituary doesn't do Joe justice. His word was gold--no one ever needed a "this is to confirm" letter from him, because once he said something, he followed through...

I told you that judges and lawyers care about good writing....

Posted on December 17, 2009
See here. Bravo, Judge Kressel! And a hat tip to one of my best friends (who's going to be unnamed in this post) for pointing this notice out to me), and to the Wall Street Journal Blog, for the whole story (here).

State governmental math

Posted on December 09, 2009
Because Nevada was running a deficit on, oh, day 2 of our fiscal year, the governor has come up with a new plan to deal with a potential $53 million shortfall: layoffs of state employees (see here). Now, I believe that the state should close the shortfall...

My hair guru rocks again!

Posted on December 06, 2009
Check out this clip (here)--congrats, Sara et al.!

Check out this band!

Posted on December 06, 2009
The Sunny Era (here)--the band ROCKS!

My buddy David Friedman connects the dots...

Posted on November 24, 2009
Over at Prawfsblog (here). In addition to admiring David's good sense (and his sense of humor), I like where he's going with this post. Bravo, David!

Legal Profession Blog is, of course, right again.

Posted on November 22, 2009
See the various posts about the new, flawed SuperLawyers rankings here and here.

A plague on both their houses.

Posted on November 22, 2009
I'm officially disgusted with both political parties at this point. I've been a Democrat most of my life, and it's fair to say that I'm a social liberal and an economic conservative. I had hoped that, sometime in the last year, both parties would realize that it's time to stop demonizing each other's views and try to work productively with each other...

My hair guru in action!

Posted on November 22, 2009
See here. Yay, Sara!

Continental Airlines sees box, refuses to think in or out of it.

Posted on November 19, 2009
I am sitting on a "weather-delayed" (or could it be the delay caused by the massive computer glitch, here?) flight from Austin to Houston IAH, hoping to get there in time to board my flight from Houston to New Orleans. I need to be in New Orleans TONIGHT, because I'm testifying in a court case tomorrow morning...

Law students, grammar, and the practice of law

Posted on November 19, 2009
I'm hearing through the grapevine that some of my law students were unhappy with the grades that they received on their group papers this semester. I told them to find a movie with legal ethics issues and write about those issues. (Sneaky way to reinforce what they're learning, eh?) The good news: for the most part, they did good work analyzing the ethics issues in the movies...

Well, duh....

Posted on November 17, 2009
The SuperLawyers law school rankings are out (see here for a leak of the results). As I predicted (here), older and bigger schools did well; younger and smaller schools (except for Yale, which counts as "older") did poorly.I had emailed SuperLawyers to find out if its methodology was going to factor age and size of school into account...

New SuperLawyers rankings of law schools punishes smaller, newer schools

Posted on November 14, 2009
In the world of rankings, more info is usually better, but only when the ranking is fair(ish). SuperLawyers is about to release its new law school rankings, which consists of counting the number of lawyers making SuperLawyers from each school and then ranking the law schools according to the headcount...

Sad news about Fred Zacharias

Posted on November 11, 2009
I read on Brian Leiter's blog this morning that Fred Zacharias had passed away (see here). I had the opportunity to visit with Fred a number of times at conferences and, like a lot of folks who study professional responsibility, really enjoyed his scholarship...

Happy birthday, Marine Corps!

Posted on November 09, 2009
10 November 1775-10 November 2009 (so far). I'm so proud of the Marines I know, from Joe Reynolds, Racehorse Haynes, and Harold Hyman, all the way to John Ames, David Polyansky and the three Van Niels (my hubby, my bro-in-law, and my father-in-law)...

Why Sara Bryan and the Kelly Cardenas studio both ROCK!

Posted on November 08, 2009
See this YouTube video (here). My hair guru can beat up anyone else's.

More on John O'Quinn

Posted on October 31, 2009
His New York Times obituary (here). As I read various comments to posts about John's death, I'm struck by two things: first, how many people actually did appreciate his work, and second, how many people wrote anonymously nasty comments about him. People either liked John or hated him...

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