I didn't promise to do these in any order! So let's begin with
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So, I just wrote:

"But for the Constitution to have authority, it must be legitimate. As Post and Siegel put it, "the authority of the Constitution depends on... its ability to inspire Americans to recognise it as their Constitution".
...I used to be able to construct sentences once. Ones that didn't sound like Baby's First Legal Argumentation, at ( Read more... )

I can't write, I'm too hot and have a banging headache, so let me write about writing.

First of all, I just finished Red Seas Under Red Skies, and I loved it. It's Scott Lynch's second novel, the sequel to The Lies of Locke Lamora, which I liked and didn't love. With Red Skies, though,
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I really, really ought to be working right now. Oh, dear. But I got interview questions from foreverdirt, and it was much more fun answering those:

( judicial rulings; philosophers; guilty television pleasures; influences on my writing; a story in six words )