Journey of the Frog

Simple Idea for a Simple Entry

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:55:46 GMT

Movies about drugs, L.A., sex, and characters who do not deserve audience sympathy are now deemed monotonous.

Apples Don't Fall Far From Their Trucks

Wed, 09 May 2007 09:10:20 GMT

Chris Matthews is a horrible moderator. And I can smell the smoke from Griffith Park.

Thoughts During Exams

Wed, 02 May 2007 07:05:36 GMT

"Only time will tell
If we stand the test of time."

~ Van Halen's "Why Can't This Be Love?"

I used a similar line of reasoning when conducting a dimensional analysis of the Commerce Clause: "Congress has the power to regulate interstate commerce, but only if the commerce is interstate."

Sat, 28 Apr 2007 03:39:06 GMT

Nothing Better

Sat, 28 Apr 2007 03:26:34 GMT

Bjork on Saturday Night Live.

Facially Silly

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:58:41 GMT

We are all familiar with the Commerce Clause and the Dormant Commerce Clause, but have you heard of the Pugnacious Commerce Clause and the Bloviating Commerce Clause?

These are found in Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution, before the congressional power to establish post offices, but immediately after the congressional power to promote the progress of alchemy and to advance the interests of Klingons.

The Constitution makes no mention of Vulcans. Sorry.

Socratic Method

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 23:08:22 GMT

Shapiro: Why?

Breanna: What?

Shapiro: No! The answer is "why not?" Adam, why?

Adam: Because.

Shapiro: Yes! That is the answer! Ms. Rose, what is the difference between a duck?

Allison: And what?

Shapiro: No! That is not the answer! There is no difference between a duck!

Who Doesn't Enjoy the Smell of Damp Cardboard

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:59:12 GMT

Note: The spell check approves of neither "ticky" nor "tacky."

"Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of ticky tacky
Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes all the same
There's a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.

And the people in the houses all went to the university
Where they were put in boxes and they came out all the same,
And there's doctors and there's lawyers, and business executives
And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.

And they all play on the golf course and drink their martinis dry,
And they all have pretty children and the children go to school
And the children go to summer camp and then to the university
Where they are put in boxes and they come out all the same.

And the boys go into business and marry and raise a family
In boxes made of ticky tacky and they all look just the same."

- Little Boxes, Malvina Reynolds (1962)

One Should Always Watch News With Laugh Tracks

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 07:58:11 GMT

So good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BS8KhqwCJ4&mode=user&search=

Reason for the "Two-To-Transfer" Notion

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 06:58:40 GMT

"Handing oneself a dirt clod is ungainly."

Riddle v. Harmon

The Grounds of the State Capital Need Hot Dog Concession Stands

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:06:12 GMT

Question: According to Blackmun, how are federal interests weighed against state interests?

Answer: International units!

(You know, you can abbreviate them as both IU and UI. Ingenious!)

Also, Tori Amos is doing a cover of "Yatta." She said, in a quote on Saturday, that she wants to return to her roots. In her own words, "Happa ichimai areba ii. Ikite iru kara lucky da!"

(Not really, but I e-mailed the suggestion as a piano bar request.)

Delightful

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:39:01 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qf0puHJ-KM

I always wanted a father who was a laboratorian.

Validating My Impact on the Law

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 18:33:45 GMT

"The contribution of ducks to the common law system has been limited, but significant; they have concentrated the minds of lawyers upon fundamental issues of timeless principle."

- Chapter 3 of A.W. Brian Simpson's Leading Cases in the Common Law (1995)

In the Brilliant Tradition of Moonwryn's Ask-Me-Nots

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 07:08:47 GMT

Which is better:

a) the adversary system

b) the inquisitorial system?

Profound

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:22:07 GMT

"The Constitution uses words in the manner those words were used at the time."

~ Anonymous

Cats Are the New Dogs

Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:50:59 GMT

In starting my second semester at law school, I can only hope that I won't be plutoed.

State of Fear

Sat, 06 Jan 2007 07:32:26 GMT

"When we ignore the cost of our environmental decisions . . . on other areas . . . we are in reality committing statistical murder."

~ Harvard Center for Risk Analysis study (Lomborg p. 338ff)

My Thoughts Exactly

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:24:25 GMT

"See your reflection in your mind
You keep your revelations wide-eyed
They knew just where to draw the line
You let them get you every time

Though it breaks your heart
We had to sell the farm
Back to California where it's warm

It fell around you like the stars
You picked up everything they dropped
And though it breaks you like a song
You had some secrets of your own

Though it breaks your heart
We had to sell the farm
Back to California where it's warm"

~ Low, "California" from The Great Destroyer

When Apples Grow Too Large for Baskets

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:11:23 GMT

All individuals who are young, fabulous, and broke should learn about their FICO score from Suze Orman.

She makes sure to show her canines when smiling.

Anarchy Understood to Mean the Absence of Rulers, Not the Absence of Law

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 06:42:16 GMT

"Only myth tells us who we would become; only history can tell us how hard it will really be to become that."

~ Robert Cover, The Folktales of Justice: Tales of Jurisdiction

Silly Fountain of Knowledge

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 19:44:02 GMT

"I have no time for hate or love.
Hey child, you're so full of woe.
I have no time for hate or lying.
Hey child, you're no child of mine."

~ PJ Harvey, "No Child of Mine"

(I initially thought she was singing, "I have no time for anal love," and I sympathized greatly.)

P.S. Democracy Is At Work Today

Wed, 08 Nov 2006 05:34:35 GMT

A perfect example of primitive faith in the inherent potency of words: the Swedish peasant custom of curing sick cattle smitten by witchcraft, by making them swallow a page torn out of the psalter and put in dough.

This reminds me of my reason for eating pages from the Acts of the Apostles (with the appropriate amount of dough): to hopefully - fingers crossed - cure my gayness.

Do Not Leave Your LiveJournal For Too Long . . . It Gets Cold

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 09:04:40 GMT

Something I've been meaning to relate:

This is in reference to a plaintiff's set of complaints in five consolidated securities fraud cases totaling 4,000 pages, occupying 18 volumes, and requiring a hand truck/cart to move.

"According to the court, counsel was lucky that the discipline was not akin to that meted out by the chancellor in 1596 who 'decided to make an example of a particularly prolix document filed in his court. The chancellor first ordered a hole cut through the center of the document, all 120 pages of it. Then he ordered that the person who wrote it should have his head stuffed through the hole, and the unfortunate fellow was led around to be exhibited to all those attending court at Westminster Hall.'"

If only sanctions could be this degrading.

Careful What You Plead

Sun, 08 Oct 2006 23:07:10 GMT

The complete pleading in the Case of the Broken Pot:

(1) I never borrowed the pot.
(2) The pot isn't broken.
(3) The pot was already broken when I borrowed it.

Moral: Do not "jettison [your] previous affirmations as if they were so much ballast, to be cast off to keep [your] balloon airborne."

(A simple lesson from Professor Garet as "borrowed" from his law review article.)

Never Doubt Legal Realism

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 02:30:27 GMT

"The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience."

- O.W. Holmes, The Common Law, Little, Brown and Company, 1881, 1.

Please repeat this while banging your head with a frying pan multiple times, but only so many times that might be deemed "reasonable" under these circumstances.