More Important Than Marriage

Morning Music

A Murder of One – Counting Crows

Morning Music

Sympathy – Goo Goo Dolls

Happy Good Friday

Home-Stretch

My official run as a 1L is mercilessly nearing its end.  However, these last few weeks of the semester are going to be jammed with outline-cratfing, hypo-doing, and exam-strategizing.  On top of that I’ve a few advocacy team try-outs to prep for, an oral argument to give very soon, and a law review competition to try immediately after finals.  Fun stuff, but time-consuming to be done right.

All of that to say, if I happen to start slacking on usual posts, know that I am still alive but just chained to some law-related task.

Anyway, if you ever find yourself at work agonizingly looking at the clock and there is nothing to see here, you can always head to the online home of Celeb or CS$.

Hold Me Closer Tiny Dancer

A four year old red-haired kid dancing to “Low.”  Nothing else to say.  Watch it.  It’s worth it.  I promise.

Morning Music

For What It’s Worth – Buffalo Springfield

A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side

Tricky Chinese Names

You cannot make this stuff up.  Texas state representative Betty Brown was debating a voter registration ID bill when she explained what one of the problems was…Those dang’ed Asians and their tricky symbols…

[...] do you think that it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here?” Brown said.

Brown later told [Organization of Chinese Americans representative Ramey] Ko: “Can’t you see that this is something that would make it a lot easier for you and the people who are poll workers if you could adopt a name just for identification purposes that’s easier for Americans to deal with?”

Morning Music

Lull – Andrew Bird featuring Dianogah

Making it Simple

Peter Sagal sums up the whole gay marriage thing quite easily.  If only common sense reigned…

I was very happy to see that Vermont legalized same sex marriage, although of course, some people are very unhappy. There are three arguments against same-sex marriage, summarized thusly:

1) God hates it.

2) It’s against thousands of years of tradition.

3) It’ll ruin marriage for everyone else.

To which the effective ripostes are:

1) Actually, He told me in a dream that He’s all for it.

2) So was abolishing slavery, outlawing polygamy, and making women citizens, and those have worked out pretty well.

3) No, it won’t.