This isn’t my own cre­ative work, but it amused me.  It was post­ed on the Lawrence Jour­­nal-World web­site.  Here’s a haiku in response to the Heller deci­sion. Hand me my shot­gun. I need to go kill a bear, then I’ll… Read moreHeller

It’s won­der­ful being back in Kansas for a few days.  Mit­su has been lay­ing on me for a long time, read­just­ing when I move.  Sil­ly cat.  But it’s good to be home.  I’ll post some­thing about DC soon.  It might… Read moreon anoth­er note

I’ve been look­ing at the Kansas bar appli­ca­tion (not nec­es­sar­i­ly mean­ing that I will take the Kansas bar, but I need to start pulling my infor­ma­tion togeth­er), and when it comes to ref­er­ences, both gen­er­al ones and char­ac­ter fit­ness ones,… Read morethe bar appli­ca­tion in Kansas

We all know ICE has done ter­ri­ble things to peo­ple, even US cit­i­zens and LPRs.  And so I think the ral­ly­ing cry should be: “Ice ICE, baby.” I came up with this while I was sort of lis­ten­ing to a… Read moreICE

Thank you, Mom, for teach­ing me how to flirt.  Because of it, I man­aged to be alone in the court­room of the Supreme Court of the Unit­ed States. AWESOME.

This rap is awe­some.

I rode my bike today for the first time in almost a year.  It was  killing three birds with one stone — exer­cise, errands (with­out dam­ag­ing the envi­ron­ment), and pro­cras­ti­na­tion.  Every­thing was good for the first mile or so, but… Read moremy Ossi bike

I’m about to col­lapse into bed.  I was up until 4am work­ing on a paper.  It was fair­ly mis­er­able.  And then I woke up at 7am so that I could be first in line for Chief Jus­tice Roberts’ Q&A with… Read moreno more class until August!

Last night, CJ Roberts gave a lec­ture through the busi­ness school.  It was fair­ly dis­ap­point­ing, hon­est­ly.  He read his talk, and he talked about the Louisiana Pur­chase.  He also spent a long time on the mechan­ics of the Supreme Court. … Read moreChief Jus­tice Roberts vis­it­ed KU