February 2012
20 posts
You don’t care about gun regulation because the people you know aren’t going to die on account of an accidental or even intentionally shot bullet. There are neighborhoods where the fear of being shot is imminent, every day. You then ask, why cater regulation to the fears of a particular group? I respond, why cater regulation around people who don’t have a personal stake in the...
there was a beautiful pink cupcake in the fridge this morning which I ate without second thought…little did I know that it was ONE OF THOSE until I was sitting in court two hours later feeling PARTICULARLY entranced by the intricacies of the carpet design.
An Encouraging Introduction to the Law of Servitudes
Entering the study of servitudes is a little like diving into a swamp late at night, swimming and floundering in terror, and emerging quite fortuitously on some unknown shore in the morning. When it is all over you’re sorry that it happened, you don’t understand anything you saw but you know that you didn’t like it, and you...
BRAIN NOT FUNCTIONING JUST SIGNED UP FOR A 5K RUN who do i think i am?
AHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SUMMER INTERN AT THE VENTURA COUNTY OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC DEFENDER!!!!!
“Racism is still a really big issue in this country especially around immigration...”
– Hari Kondabolu - Mexican Stereotypes
(via warriorsrise)
Stay divine Hari.
(via dank-potion)
Freedom extends beyond spatial bounds. Liberty presumes an autonomy of self that includes freedom of thought, belief, expression, and certain intimate conduct. The instant case involves liberty of the person both in its spatial and more transcendent dimensions.
[The Bowers Court failed] to appreciate the extent of the liberty at stake. To say that the issue in Bowers was simply the right to...
The truth is, a series of small actions and events ended up eliminating a problem that seemed to hang over everything. There was no miracle cure, just the intercession of a thousand smaller sanities. Ending sentencing for drug misdemeanors, decriminalizing marijuana, leaving judges free to use common sense (and, where possible, getting judges who are judges rather than politicians)—many small acts...
When the New York City police stopped and frisked kids, the main goal was not to jail them for having pot but to get their fingerprints, so that they could be identified if they committed a more serious crime. But all over America the opposite happens: marijuana possession becomes the serious crime. When the New York City police stopped and frisked kids, the main goal was not to jail them for...
Which leads, further, to one piece of radical common sense: since prison plays at best a small role in stopping even violent crime, very few people, rich or poor, should be in prison for a nonviolent crime. Neither the streets nor the society is made safer by having marijuana users or peddlers locked up, let alone with the horrific sentences now dispensed so easily. For that matter, no social good...
“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via fornicating)
I JUST DID MY FIRST PULL-UP EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NOW MY ARMPITS REALLY HURT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://unomoralez.com/img.html?cid=2&offset=19
Death penalty long read
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/03/the-last-line-of-defense/8875/
January 2012
9 posts
Yummy Yamswan is back at the library with a bag of celery sticks and a thermos of tea. Will my hypothetical client Mr. Selvaggio get away with negligently infecting his wife, Betty, with HIV? My gut says, “No way in hell,” but my research is pointing to “Maybe.”
Pre-Roe Reality
Teenagers—especially those who are poor and uneducated—are by far the group having the most elective late-term abortions. If we truly wish to protect the young and vulnerable, promote a “culture of life,” as President Bush said so grandly in his signing speech, then we must make teenage girls a top priority. Make sure they don’t get pregnant in the first place,...
“Remember that there are only three kinds of things anyone need ever do. (1)...”
– C. S. Lewis, in a letter to Sarah, his godchild, on 3 April 1949 via Stan Carey (via bobulate)
I: spent my winter break writings variations of my go-to diversity statement.
Lessons in Japanese Part 1
Abbreviated Sentence endings
The student should be aware of the practice of leaving sentences unfinished. As you will see in the examples below, conversations between Japanese people frequently feature phrases that end in “but…” and “so…”
1. “I’m not sure how to read this so…” (Won’t you teach me...
From a purely analytical perspective, the death penalty might be justifiable if it deterred crime and saved lives, or if it resulted in a reduction in State costs. Studies have shown that it does neither of these things. The death penalty, therefore, can only be viewed as an institutional expression of revenge and retribution. Rather than focusing on the offender, it must be asked what the death...
“I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which the defendant was well represented at trial… People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.” -Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
“The most glaring weakness is that no matter how efficient and fair the DP may seem...
December 2011
10 posts
In the last episode, Billy and Ari were last seen irrationally deciding to descend a slippery cliff leading to a private beach with spotted with massive boulders bracing against a stormy brigade of waves.
Billy was apparently possessed by a magical leprechaun spirit that enabled him to hop from one rock to another with ease. I, on the hand, was fumblingly clinging to every clingable jutting...
Was sad to leave beautiful Big Sur.
I lost my phone in a tide pool on Tuesday so most photographic records of our trip are likely to be lost forever. So I feel the need to write things down lest I forget the brightest parts.
DAY 1
I had set my alarm for 6:08 am the night before. I kept waking up feeling anxious because I was afraid we’d oversleep and miss the one boat that was leaving...
Pantsless Progressive: Irony, Access and the... →
politicalprof:
One of the remarkable things about watching media members interview politicians these days is just how bad the questions are. The journalist inevitably starts with a softball set up question that allows the candidate to offer some version of their stump speech for an answer….
BILLY & ARISA’S PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY TOUR AGENDA
DAY ONE FERRY TO CHANNEL ISLANDS BIKE SOLVANG
DAY TWO KAYAK & HIKE MORRO BAY EXPLORE CAMBRIA
DAY THREE TOUR HEARST CASTLE BECOME FRIENDS OF THE ELEPHANT SEALS SET UP CAMP IN BIG SUR
DAY FOUR HIKE BIG SUR EXPLORE CARMEL BY THE SEA DAY FIVE RETURN TO LA
People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty … I have yet to see a death case among the dozens coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which the defendant was well represented at trial. - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2001)
Dorna was babysitting the dogs next door. Around 8, we took them for a long, rambling walk around the neighborhood. We were about a block away from home when two rottweilers came trotting across the street. They were big and muscular like gorillas and they were eyeing Abby and Vinnie and snarling. They circled us, barking throatily, snapping at our dogs. I swept up Vinnie into my arms and kicked...
rapping before last final… ahem,
KILLIN IT
KILLIN IT
D-DIS IS ME KILLIN IT
SMASHIN SHIT
TEARING UP
STOMPIN ON U LITTLE BITS
“I once had a thousand desires, but in my one desire to know you, all else melted...”
– Rumi (via fornicating)
November 2011
6 posts
Ew! Got 5 suspiciously fairy-tale red apples yesterday from the grocery store. Generally, I know better than to pick apples by their sheen but I got lots of things on my mind—the cardinal rule of apple-picking aint one of em, let me tell you.
They turned out to be mealy, my least desired trait in a fruit. Do mushy apples make for a beautiful apple crisp? Stay tuned…
“My perfect date night: I pick you up. In my Kia Sorrento. You get in. There’s...”
– Aziz Ansari on his perfect date (x)
Humor!
機会みたいにカタカタ 働いてる 三分の一ロボット、残り正真正銘の女の子 言葉を吸い込む脳みそ 底なく、永遠に続く。 寝て、おきて、頭の中整理して、 これからも毎日新しいこと習うのさ。
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FwZW4ezAKg&feature=related
Angel Haze
SASS.
“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering...”
– Elie Wiesel
Relevant
(via mohandasgandhi)
October 2011
2 posts
“A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the times in which it is used.”
O.W. Holmes
おはよう、こんにちは 今日も天気絶好調 今日もチョコレート食いすぎた きゅうりにみそをちょっと付けて食べると美味しいんだぜ バナナみたいに手にもって食べること忘れないで 今夜もぐっすり眠れるのかな 明日の受験、いい点数とれるといいなー そうだったらいいな。
September 2011
3 posts
土曜日 ７時に起きて早速、朝ごはん。 それはマロンが作ってくれたミネストローネスープとバゲット。 他の人に作ってもらったスープほど旨いもんはないっすよ。 夕方ごろ「だれにでも似合う」J-Crewのズボンを求めにモール にちっとドライブしてきましたが、なぜか、私には似合いませんでした。 べつに気にしてないけど。なんてな。 ９時半ごろロロと韓国風呂へ。 そこで２時間半たっぷりだらだら、ペチャクチャしてきて おかげさまでその夜はぐっすり眠れたとさ。
日曜日 朝飯：ロロ作、バナナブレッドアンド自家製ラテ。 ７時から勉強。楽しい時もあれば、砂漠まで逃げてこの人生を 捨てようと決心する時もある。
２時ごろにマロンの髪を切りました。ちょっとかっこよくなりました。 自分に関心。 切りすぎてはげて見えるのは二箇所だけ。 初めてのわりにはよくないと思いません？ 彼はちっとだけ気になってるそうですが、...
“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (via bonnietsang)
“If the feoffor made it a formal condition of the feoffment that the feoffees should perform their trust…”
-Cases and Materials on American Property law