Criminal Law

Starting a 4-day break from wo?

Posted on May 22, 2008
Starting a 4-day break from work. Probably the last time that happened was last Nov-Dec. I think being away will b good 4 clearing cobwebs.

Missing salt bagels toasted w/?

Posted on May 22, 2008
Missing salt bagels toasted w/cream cheese. No one makes salt bagels here. It’s very sad…

Trying to spell ?deputy? w/2 e?

Posted on May 20, 2008
Trying to spell “deputy” w/2 e’s and no y. My mind is slipping like an icecube down a waterslide. Hmm, I’d really like to go for a swim…

Trying to learn how to repond ?

Posted on May 19, 2008
Trying to learn how to repond when clients demand I do things that will only damage their case & make me look like an ass.

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Posted on May 19, 2008
I believe there may be two or three people who actually visit this page once in a while to see if there are updates (others read on RSS, which I think is the better way). This message is for those of you who actually load the page: Don't click on the random photo near the top of the page...

Fixing the timing on the mgb. ?

Posted on May 18, 2008
Fixing the timing on the mgb. Now it runs like a sportscar again instead of like a bucket o’bolts. Just in time 4 top-down summer!

Waiting for a haircut & th?

Posted on May 17, 2008
Waiting for a haircut & thinking for the zillionth time I should just shave it all off or cut it myself & stop caring what it looks like.

When gas goes up 1 cent/gallon?

Posted on May 16, 2008
When gas goes up 1 cent/gallon, the costs for the USPS to deliver mail go up $8 million? That’s what NPR said. Wow. Buy forever stamps now!

If I could try just doing the ?

Posted on May 15, 2008
If I could try just doing the work of one person instead of 2 or 3 people my job would be superexcellent. Or maybe I just suck @ this.

You know it?s a busybad day wh?

Posted on May 07, 2008
You know it’s a busybad day when your ipod sits in your bag all day and you don’t listen to a single song all day long. :-(

Public Defenders as witnesses to crime

Posted on May 05, 2008
Blonde Justice recently posed a great question: Can the Defense Ever Be Pro-Proseuction? Her hypo is about a fellow defense attorney "who had recently been a crime victim."

Pop quote: "Wanna put my ?

Posted on April 30, 2008
Pop quote: "Wanna put my tender haert in a blender & watch it spin around to a beautiful oblivion?" what a twisted image! (yes I am punny)

Artist of the week: Raconteurs?

Posted on April 29, 2008
Artist of the week: Raconteurs. Song: Intimate Secretary. "R u part of this kakistocracy!?"

Today feels like the first day?

Posted on April 29, 2008
Today feels like the first day of spring. Desperate *not* to b at work.

Coming down w/a cold. *again* ?

Posted on April 28, 2008
Coming down w/a cold. *again* This is like the 4th time since fall, or more. I’m so tired of always feeling like crap!

Why do I even bother? (Audacity v2.0)

Posted on April 27, 2008
I have to remind myself that I?m a lawyer, not a social worker / substance abuse expert / anger management counselor. Ugh! ? I so have that problem. Double-ugh!

Car Talk Podcast

Posted on April 26, 2008
Want to take Car Talk with you? Be our guest. Just prepare to be shunned when news gets out that your iPod is loaded with Click and Clack. ? Finally!

There really r times when Meta?

Posted on April 25, 2008
There really r times when Metallica is completely appropriate. Really.

Mental Detox Week

Posted on April 24, 2008
The idea is simple: take your TV, your DVD player, your video iPod, your XBOX 360, your laptop, your PSP, and say goodbye to them all for seven days. ? You can take my tv, but my laptop? Never!

Richie Ramone was Robbed!

Posted on April 24, 2008
Richie Ramone, one of the drummers for The Ramones, lost his fight to get paid for 6 songs he wrote because a judge said that digital files are not "manufactured or sold" but are instead transmitted and licensed.Wha?

Let it end!

Posted on April 22, 2008
Today is finally the day of the Democratic presidential primary in Pennsylvania.

The wheel in the sky keeps on ?

Posted on April 21, 2008
The wheel in the sky keeps on turning, but sadly, I know where I’ll b tomorrow. Here. At work. *sigh*

I heart technology

Posted on April 20, 2008
You know you're living in a wonderful world when you can just open a web browser and read a chronology of the events in Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.

Words

Posted on April 19, 2008
poetaster, digital hitchhiking, corrigible, horse surgery, carburetor, apposite, incompetent, superrelationships, soul-mates, and timing.

Is it really always darkest be?

Posted on April 18, 2008
Is it really always darkest before the dawn? Does melodrama ever work? Thank goodness for Radiohead. Really.

From the NLG: "John Yoo s?

Posted on April 10, 2008
From the NLG: "John Yoo should be disbarred . . . dismissed from Boalt Hall and tried as a war criminal."

QOTD: "It?s very sad that?

Posted on April 05, 2008
QOTD: "It’s very sad that people seem to have lost a sense of the future." -Chris Thornberg on American Public Radio’s "Marketplace Money."

One of our best attnys left to?

Posted on April 04, 2008
One of our best attnys left today. I wish him the best but it’s very sad. "Go on, take the money and run."

@cranium Go public defender! Y?

Posted on April 03, 2008
@cranium Go public defender! You won’t regret it! (& have u ever thought of spending a summer in montana?)

Working in a zoo w/a bunch of ?

Posted on April 03, 2008
Working in a zoo w/a bunch of 5-year-olds. "I need direction to perfection no no no no help me out, yeah you know u gotta help me out."

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