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My broth­er and I are in the Philip­pines, vis­it­ing my dad and his fam­i­ly. We’ve been in Mani­la so far, but we’ll head to their house in the provinces tomor­row. I’m typ­ing this on a tiny key­board, so this won’t… Read moreMani­la

The only good thing about Iowa is Luther Col­lege, and that’s basi­cal­ly in Min­neso­ta.  Iowa is a ter­ri­ble place.  Ter­ri­ble. A friend of mine is get­ting mar­ried tomor­row in the Twin Cities, and I was going to dri­ve up from… Read morestuck in Sto­ry City

Carl and I are engaged!

SCOTUS grant­ed cert on my issue.  No word on when argu­ments will be. Darn.  I knew the risk, but I want­ed to be cool and have some­thing pub­lished before they looked at the issue, because then I would have been… Read morecert

Here’s my sched­ule for the last few days of Octo­ber and the first few days of Novem­ber. Octo­ber 30: Carl leaves (for a year) most like­ly; pick up a speak­er at 10:30pm Octo­ber 31: Law Review sym­po­sium all day; Blue­book… Read moreend of Octo­ber, begin­ning of Novem­ber

the can­di­dates as trains

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhDRVKDcXQo

I’ve been sick for, oh, a week.  Bad cold or sinus infec­tion or some­thing gross that makes my head swim.  It’s been unpleas­ant.  I haven’t had to go any­where though.  I think I made Carl sick.  It just hit him… Read morepoor Carl

Some­times read­ing cas­es just makes me feel dirty when I see the aca­d­e­m­ic dis­hon­esty that goes on.  Courts will take things out of con­text (much like law stu­dents, ha), manip­u­late lan­guage, and pick and choose “bind­ing cas­es.”  The best exam­ple… Read moredis­hon­esty

I’m sleepy and grumpy and sick.  And this paper is not doing so well.  It’s about as sick as I am, pos­si­bly even worse.