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When Obama wins…

Friday, May 9th, 2008

This website will be seen as prescient. Now, if only I could convince Barack Obama to add Ben Affleck as his running mate…

A list of behaviors and viewpoints that I would not tolerate in a babysitter but that I am forced to tolerate in President George W. Bush

Friday, March 21st, 2008

1) A long history of alcoholism and drunk driving.
2) An inability to pronounce basic English words.
3) The tendency to believe a job is done when, in fact, it is not.
4) A disbelief in evolution by natural selection.
5) The continuing need to invite people from his father’s work to help do his job.
6) Is homophobic.
7) Chokes […]

How to argue with illogical people

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

This column appeared in the Georgetown Law Weekly on April 17, 2007.
The great Roman orator Cicero once said that “Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.” You will find, especially those of you who plan to actually practice law (Section 3 need not apply), that there will […]

Iran-Contraceptive scandal grips Georgetown Law

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

In what will surely go down as the most controversial decision at the Law Center since President Patrick Healy ordered the replacement of the Draconian Method with the Socratic Method in 1876, the Student Bar Association approved funding for an event featuring Iranian ambassador Zarif and voted down a measure that would allow members of […]

Court rules that government may not censor the internet. Government immediately begins censoring court.

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

A federal district court in Philadelphia ruled yesterday that the government may not censor the free exchange of information between adults.
The case, ACLU v. Gonzales, concerned a challenge to the 1998 Child Online Protection Act (COPA), which was designed to keep minors shielded from commercial communication that is “harmful to minors” unless a […]

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