My thoughts are with all the Hokies on my flist, and the whole VA Tech community. What a senseless, abhorrent act.

Also, good on the gNats for wearing Hokie hats in solidarity last night.

Jeers to President Tin Ear for his choice to reaffirm the right to bear arms on the day of the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. Asshole.

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1. W00t! I am spending a cumulative total of $500 in bar prep materials and am getting the 2006 Bar/Bri books for Massachusetts, plus 65 hours of lectures and a three-volume study set from a Boston-based law professor/bar prep guy. Wally the iPod is going to be all filled up with bar review lectures. Am I a party animal, or what? ::g ( Read more... )

Hamdi, Rasul, and CSRT -- Show Trials for the 21st Century
A Rant by Macha
[Read the Seton Hall law school summary .pdf]

So what's my problem this time? Who remembers that amusing argument by Bush and his Torture!Rocks Attorneys General that we can toss suspected terrorists -- sorry, enemy combatants -- in the clink and throw away the key because ( Read more... )

"This country has been run lock-stock-and-barrel in Washington for the last six years… not by the Republican party, but by the most right-wing, most ideological sliver of that party." -Bill Clinton, stumping for Gubernatorial hopeful Deval Patrick, 10/16/2006::sniffle:: I miss Bill ( Read more... )

OMFG, so hot I'm considering buying a portable air condtioner. (Thanks, zoecole!) Tomorrow should be hotter. Yay.

Derek Jeter is coming out (heh) with a cologne.

No, really. The fragrance is a blend of chilled grapefruit, clean oak moss and spice. And I thought A-Rod's kid's book was stupid.

OMFG, missing a field goal attempt? Is this the Penn State-Florida State game again? ::grumble::

Stupid Longhorns with the second-half sucking. ::grumble::

Anyway. I'm getting cranky. ( And *not* about football. Or baseball. )

Are you f'ing kidding me!?

Forty-six percent of Americans approve of Bush's handling of the [hurricane Katrina] crisis, while 47 percent disapprove. That compares poorly with Bush's 91 percent approval rating for his performance in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but it's far from the broad discontent expressed by critics of ( Read more... )

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(CNN) -- The director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Thursday those New Orleans residents who chose not to heed warnings to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina bear some responsibility for their fates...

"Unfortunately, that's going to be attributable a lot to people who did not heed the advance warnings," Brown told CNN. "I don't ( Read more... )

I haven't said much about Katrina because I'm still... I don't know, in shock, maybe? I don't have nearly the ties to N'Awlins as many on my flist, but I do dearly love the city. Which is nothing to the human tragedies happening in Biloxi, in small gulf coast towns in Mississippi and Louisiana, and in the Superdome/Convention Center insanity in ( Read more... )