Thanksgiving

Anne and I are coming into town this evening for the Thanksgiving Holiday. We will get in late tonight, but are interested in going out on Firday night if anyone is available.

WEB-HEAD

MOOSE:

UC Law 98-er John ("Stinky") Webber got a little local press when he worked with Satan's Prosecutor in order to avoid a Grand Jury hearing in a gun-fired-in-self-defense case.

Major League Baseball Player Theme Song

If I was a professional baseball player, I would choose this song as my theme song. Under the best case scenario, I would be a big league closer and this song would play as I trotted out to the pitchers mound. I would also want the video to play on the jumbotron interspersed with clips of me striking out batters. It would be great for the crowd as well as they could chant "when the going get tough, the tough get going at the beginning." Think about it - silence and then "when the going gets tough" and the croud responds "the tough get going" followed by Billy Ocean's voice and my appearance from the bull pen.

UC Law 1998

UC Law 1998

http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2006/11/what_constitute.html

A take on minimal standards for law school "success." I disagree with the assertions. If trained monkeys can pass the bar, why is that at all relevant to a law school's success? It would be better if Harvard grads. regularly failed. Then there would be general agreement the bar is an inane metric. Ask Moose, whose secretary is a more effective lawyer than I am.

The world should be thisly: like mental health counselors who pass some test and are able to put you on a couch, the minimum criteria for practicing law should be passing the bar. But anybody smart enough can do it. Then, law school provides you a credential that NOT everybody has. So in competition with the world of hack lawyers out there, we all call ourselves "UCLaw1998, J.D." And we command a premium for that credential just like psychologists or psychiatrists command a premium over "counselors."

Max

Jack Trick or Treating

A renegade cop. A robot renegade cop.

BUD:

They ran the trailer for Jerry Seinfeld's new movie last night on the Daily Show. Attempted live action of a scene from an animated movie -- pretty funny idea. Supposedly, there are going to be a couple more that will expand the story.

It reminded me of the trailer they did for the Comedian several years ago which was fantastic and worth another look.