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Old Man McGonagle

He's my wills prof, and not to be confused with the detective of the same name. Anyway, he's like a thousand years old, and managed to repeat a question about senility, among other others. Heh.
Posted by on Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:49:00 GMT

If you got 15 minutes to kill......

This blog and the ensuing rumble in the comments are pretty funny. It's myspace gone berzerk.
Posted by on Wed, 15 Dec 2004 05:42:00 GMT

Holy shit. This is what's wrong with Iraq

I direct your attention to this. It's someone's post of his moron pal's experience in Iraq. Oh yeah, and the moron is running the water system for the entire fucking country. I'd post it on my othe...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Dec 2004 18:25:00 GMT

Priceless

Fuck the South is a brilliant, brilliant site. Excerpt: Which state do you think has the lowest divorce rate you marriage-hyping dickwads? Well? Can you guess? Its fucking Massachusetts, the ...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:49:00 GMT

Zizek on the election:

Zizek, as many of you know, has been my hero for awhile now. Here he is on the election (with thoughts of mine to follow in subsequent posts; some critical, some adulatory):"On September 11, 2001, the...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Nov 2004 17:51:00 GMT

Reality offends republicans; party faithful demand that reality cease and desist being real.

In case anyone missed it, the GOP faithful took its first shot across the bow at one of its own that dared to suggest it may not be feasible to get a prolifer on the bench.It's kind of weird, really. ...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Nov 2004 05:30:00 GMT

Four More Years: Assessments & Predictions (domestic edition)

So Bush won. I'm gonna go through the major issues and tells ya what I thinks (sorry, I'm still in the-sky-is-falling mode.  This'll probably be heavily edited or amended as I mellow out). Struct...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Nov 2004 08:37:00 GMT

Spring Classes

I've got the best schedule in the world, as far as law school goes. I managed to wrangle 3 - that's right, 3- theory classes, the coolest of which is on justice and catholic social thought. I fi...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Oct 2004 08:49:00 GMT

Sky Captain Adorno and the Banality of Evil

So, Sally and I saw Sky Captain over the weekend. Before going to the flick, we had a bite to eat and a drink, and started talking about a book Sally had just purchased: Jonathon Strange & Mr. Norrel...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Sep 2004 08:34:00 GMT

The phenomenology of DJing and the death of Romanticism

As I was reading an article on DJing in the Sunday Times this morning, I came across this line: But whatever the approach, and perhaps without knowing it, more and more musicians and listeners are ...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Aug 2004 09:25:00 GMT