"Hey Mike, Say Something About...Palindromes!"

Palindromes? They are so cool! Are they as awesome as everyone says? Absolutely! Says everyone: "As awesome as they are cool?" So, are they? Palindromes!

P.S. I know I owe Jon "bread". I'm still thinking about that one.

"The Great American Shout-Out" - local flavor

Al Franken wants us to yell stuff at President Bush.

New York: "Fuggedaboudit!"
Minnesota: "Oh no ya don't!"
California: "No way, dude!"
Columbus: "GO BUCKS!" (obviously)

The "arguing both sides" thing

When I spend any time studying an issue or debate, especially if it's a small or recent one, I tend to come to a strong conclusion one way or the other pretty quickly. It really seems to me like there is one right answer to a lot of questions. It's consequently maddening to have to argue what I see as clearly the wrong side.

Which reminds me...back when I was a freshman in college and we were all reading Socrates, I was moved to such heights of righteous indignation that I stood in front of the law school, shook my fist, and yelled: "SOPHISTS!!!" Or, at least I thought about doing it.

Hey Mike, Say Something About..."WhatEver!"

Got it. Here you go:

Was anyone else ever taught that the words "weather" and "whether" were supposed to be pronounced differently? I have a memory, long faded by time, of being told by an elementary school teacher that when you say a word that starts with "wh" like "whatever", you should blow a little puff of air when you "wh". I hadn't thought about this in a very long time, and I certainly have never spoken this way. Strangely enough, Merriam-Webster actually confirms multiple pronunciations for the word in question, including the whispery, wheird and whacky "wh"!

New feature: "Hey Mike, Say Something About..."

To go along with the little-seen advice column feature, here's a new one: "Hey Mike, Say Something About..." This consists of you adding a comment to this or some other post, asking me to say something about something. My goal is to say something funny, unless you pick a serious subject. The prompt for my saying something could be a single word, like "celery", or a whole concept, book or web site. It's up to you. Then I have to say something. But my response isn't guaranteed to be any particular length or guaranteed to be funny. It will include at least one word, and may include images or other audiovisual aids. So if you said: "Hey Mike, Say Something About...Celery!" I might say: "Crunchy." That's what I would say especially if I have a paper due soon or something like that.

Has a sitting Supreme Court justice ever been a party in a civil suit? Did the justice go pro se? If not, did the justice have to pay to be represented, or were lawyers falling over each other to do it for free?

Lest we forget...

They all hate us.

Discourtesy of Fark.com

Er...pardon my ignorance. A cursory web search reveals that "cocoa puff" refers to smoking marijuana laced with cocaine. Needless to say, I do not approve of this activity. However, I do approve of eating Cocoa Puffs cereal (in moderation).

News: Nelly & M.C. Hammer

Apparently, Nelly is going to pull a "Use Your Illusion" next month by releasing two different albums on the same day, "Suit" and "Sweat". I thought this guy's first single and video ("Country Grammar") were outstanding. Not the version about shooting people, but the clean version about Cocoa Puffs and whatever. And the video that just showed regular people doing regular stuff and having a good time was a real breath of fresh air. Since then, though, not too impressed. But this Axl-esque move is full of guts. Then again, look how Axl ended up.

And M.C. Hammer is back! Sort of...he's back on VH-1, at least. There was this video billed as "M.C. Hammer featuring..." and then like three or four other guys. So they showed Hammer for about 30 seconds at the beginning and he did one verse and then he simply disappeared! What's more, he put people who can actually rap well on the track! So, basically, he made a cameo appearance in his own video! Very weird.

Success!...sorta...

Joe & Schroe together!



Schroeder's doing the alien cat staredown...no, this photo was not retouched...

I just realized that at least one of the big law firms I'm thinking about interviewing with has defended a tobacco company. It could be that all of them have. Could I stomach working at such a place?

Observing the 1L in its natural habitat

They look just like us...except I've never seen them before in my life!

First day of classes! I'm a real 2L!

And...I'm done already! Except for the fact that I have to take a whole LSAT to prepare for my last class tonight.