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I’ve been thinking for a while that the best time for Taiwan to declare independence would be right before the Beijing Olympics, because Beijing can’t invade Taipei without offending the rest of the civilized countries. Well, following the rejection of the UN membership, which Taipei knew would be rejected, and with the reiteration of […]

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Free (via) posted a video that, like him, I missed on September 19th. It’s a press conference from the mayor of San Diego.

I understand that some of the readers of this blog are conservative, and do not agree with my stance in support of gay marriage and civil rights. Nonetheless, everyone must admit that […]

Well it is several weeks in, we just gave our first real test yesterday, and it was open house tonight. Teaching has officially begun. Where am I at?
It is a lot of fun again. 10th and 11th graders nearly have adult brains, and most can both be reasoned with and joked around […]

(this is converted, edited, and expounded upon from a gchat with Pacrand)
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In Constitutional Law II, we’re going over the juicy stuff and it makes for a interesting time. We just finished the sequence of Griswold, Roe, Casey, & Carhart which is the whole reproductive rights chain of cases. We’re starting the Village of Belle […]

Law firm interviewing process sucks, but I have at least one job offer for the coming summer. It’s in DC though, as is another callback interview I have next week.
Taking the Patent Bar on Monday; practice test performance at the moment is right on the edge of passing, could go either way in reality.
Weather in […]

Yesterday in one of my patent law classes, we were talking about the inclusion of morality concepts into patent law. Things like “not being able to patent a human” and the differences in American versus European allowances under this concern. At this point, a German-national in the class started the following exchange:
Terms of Art explained […]

Today was Clubfest day at my school, where all the newbies came out to find out what activities they’ll be doing for ‘fun’ in their ’spare time’. Only later do these new members discover the glory of being a club member primarily entails paying membership dues and hearing lunch speeches on campus by middle […]

So I observed for 2 days then I taught half the period today. The good news is I was not nearly so nervous as the last time I took over a class, but I still have a ways to go to get back to proficiency.
The good - I knew most of the […]

Times they are a crazy; way too hectic, and I’m not even the ones getting married this weekend. I feel bad for not posting more often, but life is just too much. But since I have been using this site as my status update for quite some time now, I will at least make note […]