Wednesday, April 30, 2003
a bunch of random things in the news
And Writ has two interesting commentaries: A Recent Judicial Reprimand of Attorney General Ashcroft Exposes a Pattern of Gag Order and Ethics Violations By His Office by Elaine Cassel and Does Federal Tort Reform Unduly Infringe on State Sovereignty? by Michael Dorf.
Tuesday, April 29, 2003
the onion makes fun of my big boss
Ashcroft Rejected by Newly Created Bride of Ashcroft.
more
EPA Is Said to Be Concentrating on Terror, in the New York Times. And Museum's Shift Of Arctic Refuge Exhibit Gets Cold Reception.
on slate
An essay about North Korea.
Monday, April 28, 2003
from this weekend
Criminal Agents Diverted to Drive EPA Boss.
Friday, April 25, 2003
on findlaw
Forest Service Blocks E-Mail Comments.
hmm
Justice Department Tracking Staff's Contact With Congress.
Tuesday, April 22, 2003
a plug...
for Notes From Ground Level, a new legal-plus blog by a psuedonymous author, "GLM," discussing "Memphis, Cincinnati, history, art, law, politics, movies, tv, commercials, food, culture, and so on."
hunh
Half the Sins links to this article written by Leonard Pitts Jr., who's African American, in which he attempts to figure out his relationship to Mississippi while he visits. I don't know what to make of this, perhaps because my own relationship to Mississippi is weird as well. I lived in Jackson when I was younger, and I remember it fondly. But I know what fear he's talking about as well---the discrimination, the otherness. I remember the random insults on the streets and the funny stares (not that we didn't experience them elsewhere, I have to say. But not as much, maybe. Or differently. I dunno.). Though I'm sure what I felt as a Chinese American there was quite different.
On the other hand, you know how communities can arise out of adversity? That's what I felt there. A sense of community. Yes, I'm using a term that postmodern theorists would sneer at, in its simplicity and its lack of acknowledgement of fluidity. But whatever! That's the only way I can figure out how to characterize it. There were so few Chinese American families in town, and regardless of whether we would've liked and hung out with each other had we lived in even a slightly more Chinese-American-populous city like Memphis (like Memphis), we had to hung out with each other there. And that had to, that necessity, created a sense of closeness that I never experienced when we moved to Memphis.
So I'm mixed. Because I see how awfulness can generate a modicum of goodness. And while I don't believe the awfulness should exist, I still have this childhood memory of goodness. Of feeling, for once, that feeling of belonging.
on findlaw
Joanna Grossman has an article entitled "When an Employee is Not Formally Fired, But Effectively Forced to Leave, Is Her Employer Automatically Liable for Sexual Harassment?", pointing out the circuit split on this issue.
Monday, April 21, 2003
ugh
I think I have a cold. No, I don't think it's SARS. But I have a sore throat and I feel weird and tired.
this weekend
Saturday was full of work. But Sunday, Sunday was perfect.
Number one on the perfect list was and is beyond perfect, really.
Number two on the perfect list: the Flaming Lips concert, which was the bestest ever, in a long long time. Wayne was his master-showman self, and the big giant balloons were just perfect, including the two ridiculously huge ones, and even the people in the animal suits didn't annoy me like they could've---they seemed so happy and swell.
And I'd forgotten how cute and sweet the background video for "Waitin' for a Superman" was. Oh oh.
Number three on the perfect list: the weather.
Number four on the perfect list: Feint.
Number five on the perfect list: reading and writing and books and coffee.
Not on the perfect list, but frightening enough to deserve mention: this Washington Post article on Pabst Blue Ribbon that somehow managed to mock and characterize the exact demographic into which me and D fit. "And nothing is so tenuous as a youth fad, particularly one embraced by the ever-vigilant American iconoclast, who is likely to bail once he suspects corporate America has found him out, not to mention the media. If PBR becomes too visible, too much of a commodity, then it will lose its newfound support." Well, as ever-vigilant American iconoclasts, we're outta here.
random
The Village Voice has an article entitled: Bush-Ashcroft vs. Homeland Security: Clean Air Act Polluted by the Justice Department.
AP newswire has a bit entitled White House Reshapes Environmental Policy.
Also, there's now a fed Earth Day website.
Friday, April 18, 2003
hunh
Holiday judge lays down law by laptop, in the Telegraph. An excerpt: [Judge Barry Woodward] had booked a week's holiday when he realised that the cases had been listed for him. Instead of passing them to a colleague, he made legal history by dealing with them via a laptop computer from his rented villa.
Tuesday, April 15, 2003
random
Gina wants to meet Chris Isaak. If anyone out there knows how to facilitate her dream desire, email me. I can't believe I'm typing this.
also
Where has this been all the time I've lived in DC? I have hope for this city yet.
oh no!!!!
Oh no!!! I am so hiding my dear Spiro.
Friday, April 11, 2003
and here's where i lose any indie rock[*] cred i have at all
(if having lots and lots of Yes albums doesn't already do that.) So I was browing through Pollstar and I found this:
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Wed 07/23/03 "Classic Rock's Main Event" MCI Center
Wed 07/23/03 Journey MCI Center
Wed 07/23/03 REO Speedwagon MCI Center
Wed 07/23/03 Styx MCI Center
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I am frighteningly intrigued.
p.s. D will probably correct me and say that I should say indie pop instead, given that even the rockingest of the stuff I regularly listen to falls on the power pop side, rather than the indie rock side. But whatever!
Wednesday, April 09, 2003
quick question
Why does my usage counter keep telling me that my page is getting referrals from www.iaea.org? Don't get me wrong, I think the International Atomic Energy Agency is a fine UN-family agency. I just can't imagine why I'd receive referrals from that page. Do I know someone there?
Tuesday, April 08, 2003
the current debate
How to make it to both the National Press Club to hear Sandra Day O'Connor speak and the Black Cat to hear the Delgados but also importantly Essex Green, who is opening. Oh, the conflux of law and indie rock.
back
Got back from Memphis Sunday night. Been laying low. But I did go to a lunchtime talk organized by the American Constitution Society today. Pluses:
* hearing Ruth Harlow from the Lambda Legal Defense Fund speak about the strategies behind the Supreme Court antisodomy case
* going with Ilana and Dave S.
* running into Leslie and Frank and Marina
* seeing other bloggers, like Jason, Fred, Gary, and Sam
* hearing that the National ACS Meeting will hold a Janet Reno Dance Party.
Minuses:
* only one vegetarian dish (which is, to be fair, one more than last time. But this time I was at a table with two other vegetarians!)
Thursday, April 03, 2003
won't be posting much in the next few days
Going to Memphis, to visit my parents and for my judge's clerk reunion. There will be a gospel brunch and casino dining and trivia games and magic tricks, oh my. There will also be a visit to see the Peabody ducks and the Civil Rights Museum. There may also be parental interrogation, but I hope not too much of that.
Wednesday, April 02, 2003
that was fun
Just had lunch with another blogger, Jason Rylander. Lunch was tasty, albeit spendy. Conversation was good. We decided it'd be nifty to get a bunch of ACS-friendly law-blogging types in DC together.
Tuesday, April 01, 2003
other tidbits i've missed
A random link: a chart on what Europeans think of each other.
an article
Slate has an article entitled Do Judges Read Amicus Curiae Briefs? I tend to think the answer's yes.
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