Month: October 2012

So far, mommy, baby, and daddy are doing well. I am not nearly as tired as I expected to be. That’s partly because we have a reasonably quiet baby. It’s also because a whole lot of the burden has been… Continue Reading →

From my little corner of California to Fresno, where I have work for a couple of days and where I may well have to try a long-cause jury trial in December, is a four-and-a-half hour drive up the Central Valley… Continue Reading →

I needed to take my computer to court today so as to present evidence for a client who had figured out how to make a movie of their phone playing voice mail but not how to transmit this to a… Continue Reading →

I saw at lunch that Bob Schieffer has made public the questions he intends to ask in tonight’s foreign policy debate. This makes it something of an exercised in prompted speechification, if you ask me. So I figured that since… Continue Reading →

My wife’s fondest colleague is Dr. Kaye. Though they don’t work precisely in the same area of medicine, they both have similarly off-beat personalities. They look a little bit alike, too, in a basic or superficial sort of way. They’re… Continue Reading →

The cable in the hotel room only has a few channels for cable. I was flipping through looking for ESPN to watch the LSU/A&M game. Alas, it doesn’t look like ESPN is carried. Due to high carriage fees, I’d imagine.… Continue Reading →

On Wednesday night, I was up to about three in the morning. I’d already informed the Redstone school district to deactivate me from their call rolls in the off-chance that Clancy went into labor. It seemed pretty unlikely, but I… Continue Reading →

The Federal Defense of Marriage Act has already been held unconstitutional by a Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. Today’s decision from the Second Circuit following suit and consciously anticipating SCOTUS review applies the “intermediate scrutiny” standard and was authored by a judge usually thought… Continue Reading →