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2010-04-30T10:00:28-04:00

Have you heard of the recent storm of controversy making the rounds in the legal blogosphere? About a Harvard law student being alternately lambasted and defended for the intensely racist comments she forever immortalized via email? No? Well, it's certainly worth reading about. And I think no one captures the angles of this issue better than Jill at Feministe: Stephanie Grace, racist Harvard emailer.Stephanie Grace, a 3L at Harvard Law...

Esquiring minds.

2010-04-15T12:35:42-04:00

I'm leaving the office early today to head over to BC Law. One of my old professors, who taught my litigation clinical course, asked me to join a panel of guest lecturers on "nontraditional career paths after law school" and "staying nimble in a unfriendly legal market." If by "nimble," she meant "bitter and causticly sarcastic," then I'm the perfect man for the job. Somehow I don't think that she...

I have more foreign policy experience than Sarah Palin.

2010-04-09T09:33:00-04:00

I just finished reading the transcript of President Obama's interview with George Stephanopoulous. Worth taking a look. And while his insights on Russia, China and Iran were very interesting (and, I think, spot-on), I can't help but take enormous pleasure in his pitch-perfect response to criticism from Sarah Palin. You remember that "fiscally conservative" champion of the "Real America" who quit her office and left Alaska with the biggest debt-to-state-GDP...

Cautious optimism.

2010-04-02T09:55:49-04:00

The Labor Department's latest Job Report is out: the economy gained approximately 162,000 jobs in March. Some of that is padded by a hiring frenzy (on the order of 48,000) by the Census Bureau -- all temporary, once-a-decade positions -- but still, a gain is a gain is a gain. Unemployment remains a dismal 9.7%. Although, in the legal world, staffing agencies appear to be placing more contract attorneys with...

Oh, good. Something new and different.

2010-03-30T22:53:00-04:00

In a stunning reversal of Republican bipartisanism and goodwill, Senator McCain announced that his Democratic counterparts had "poisoned the well" and that there would be, and I quote, "no cooperation for the rest of the year." How this tremendous shift in the status quo will impact the legislative process remains to be seen. This, from a man who would have been president. I mean, seriously? Are you kidding me? What...

What's next? PeaceNext.

2010-03-29T20:19:00-04:00

PeaceNext.org from Parliament of Religions on Vimeo.