It seems that 50% of those who earned the J.D. from 2008 forward are employed as temporary attorneys (h/t Stringer Bell). They do document review, sometimes on the graveyard shift in airless basements for $17 per hour, no benefits. This is with $150,000 in student loans to pay back. It seems that there are some … More Adjunctification
Northern Gaijin (observe his fascinating blog) writes in: I would like to nominate Conrad Black for the “Bluffer of the Day” award. Lord Black whose official title is Baron Black of Crossharbour, OC, PC (Can.), KCSG was incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution Low, Coleman in Florida a.k.a. Club Fed for looting his companies of … More BLUFFER OF THE DAY AWARD: Conrad Black
I was fascinated with the book Working It Out not because it discussed womens’ right to work but to have a work. This is what was missing from my academic training. I learned very well how to do the work and how to work, and how to produce work, but I did not learn that … More On Having a Work
According to one list the top 15 law schools are Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, NYU, Berkeley, Chicago, Penn, Michigan, Duke, Northwestern, Virginia, Cornell, Georgetown, and UCLA. A composite of their middle LSAT ranges (25th/75th percentile) would be 164 to 177. My LSAT scores in the 90s and earlier this century were 157, 158, and 159; … More On Schools
I have finally understood this, and the BLUFFER OF THE DAY AWARD goes to my painter Jean Chrétien. His remarks meant, in essence: I, Mr. Antony, and my sons have all as good as seen you naked, and we have discussed it. It was an attempt to disarm so I would feel less confident about … More Illumination: j’ai compris / mo té compendre
Observe these people in Lima playing real Chicago blues. “Jelly roll killed my pappy and run my mother stone blind.” This was filmed in the Jazz Zone which is near the Parque Kennedy, so it is easy to get to. Let’s go tonight. Axé.
Where are the weapons of mass destruction? We been lookin’ for months and we ain’t found nothin’ Please Mr. President, tell us something We knew from the beginning that your ass was bluffing! And despite the deaths now of both Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Ladin, we are still at war. The AAUP, meanwhile, has … More BLUFFER OF THE DAY AWARD: La Casa Blanca
I would rather be running Linux and using LaTex, and I would like it if Open Office worked better for me than it does. But I am running Windows 7 and XP, and I am unlikely to be in a position to change this in the near future. In the university we have Microsoft Word, … More WordPerfect
NEWS 1. Of interest – post du jour: In which a great-aunt in Calcutta’s traditional values are shocked by the self-righteous logic of “have conceived, will ruin a future life by having the child and giving it to strangers:” She thinks the “villianisation” of abortion in a “dangerously over-populated” world is crazy, self obsessed, morally … More Notes From My Oven
In the first place, Wilbert Rideau and many other former prisoners and wardens, as well as a Federal judge or two, all deserve more credit for the reforms at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola there than does the dishonest and incredibly self serving current warden, Burl Cain. I am amazed at how Cain has … More On Bluffing
