I'M DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE ( Read more... )

World, take note. If you want to make the most badass coat of arms in the world, you need the following five items:

1. A narwhal.
2. A caribou.
3. A house made of balanced, gigantic blocks of ice.
4. A giant pile of balanced stones.
5. Three types of flowers that SURVIVE IN ARCTIC TUNDRA ... NEXT TO AN ICEBERG.

I had every intention when I woke up of writing my 2 pending cover letters and/or responding to all the Journal staffers about their Note topics. But a grimmer reality steamrolled those plans. On a whim, I figured I'd check the deadlines for bar, MPRE, and bar review applications, only to find that I now have only 13 more days to get the "early ( Read more... )

Dear Market Café at GULC ( Read more... )

So Anna (the Other Intern) and I were walking back from a delicious, cheap lunch-cum-milk-tea at Café Deli, and I decided for us to go up 6th and over on Eye St., instead of over on H and up 7th. The advantage of this route is that there are no crowds of tourists, construction workers, and/or homeless folks at bus stops. In fact, Eye is usually ( Read more... )

From Joe Palca's NPR blog: Real-Live Snake on a Plane

I think that officially tops the time when two mating black snakes practically fell on my mom in the kitchen.

There I was, all set up for a balcony party. I was invited, of course, as were two bunches of overripe grapes, my folding deck chair, and Nathan A. Canestaro's "Small Wars" and the Law: Options for Prosecuting the Insurgents in Iraq (43 Colum. J. Transnat'l L. 73, 2004).

And 5 minutes into the party, who decides to bust in, uninvited?
You guessed ( Read more... )

For the last week, I have not been able to sit on my balcony nearly as much as I would like.
Why?

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NYT: Paleontologists Discover Platypus-Like Watergoing Mammal Thing That Coexisted With Dinosaurs

...and not just any dinosaurs. Jurassic dinosaurs. As in: Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, but this mammal was around 164 million years ago.

For the record, mammals have been discovered going back as far as 130 million years. But not ( Read more... )

Wonkette is lobbying for the National Zoo's baby panda to be nominated next Supreme Court Justice.

She has this very well thought-out, too.