No, not that kind of citation!

So, small but exciting event... I made a small update to my Selected Publications page. My article in the BYU Law Review was quoted by the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut! I'm honored that a federal court would consider me quotable.

In related news, I am actually presenting some of the quoted paper at a conference in Virginia in April. Should be fun!

So! The BYU Law Review has selected a new Board. Other than some basic training for my successors, I am done with Law Review. It was an educational and often entertaining experience; I didn't accomplish everything I'd hoped, but I think I came pretty close. And the new Board should do quite well.

I am actually working on two--two!--law school related blog entries. Seriously. But I couldn't pass this up. Maybe because it's about toys? I love toys. d^_^b

Go read this article. It's okay. I'll wait.

Now. What. The. Heck. Ty Girlz (let's just skip how insipid and uninspired it is to substitute Zs and Xs at the end of words in order to get around trademark laws on ordinary language) introduces its very first black dolls (let's also skip how CNN assumes that all black people are of African descent), names those dolls after the President's daughters, and then insists the dolls aren't named for the Obamas?

Come on. Seriously. I might have been persuaded of Ty's "coincidence" if they released "Tasha and Tia." But this? This is a three-year-old with ice cream all over her face telling us that the dog made the mess in the kitchen. Unbe-frickin'-lievable.

After almost three years of law school, you grow accustomed to certain patterns. One of those patterns takes the form of a question that Professors employ to "teach" something about "intent." Because intent impacts tort law, criminal law, contract law, and so forth, the question comes up repeatedly throughout one's legal education. It has to do with ascertaining intent, and through gross misapplication of something they like to call the Socratic Method, professors will eventually spring the trap:

"Isn't intent subjective!?"

Seeing as how they said this three weeks ago, I hardly dare hope it's true, but it looks like the Auto bailout has been defeated.

Sorry to keep bringing this up, but the whole bailout shtick just makes me irate. Free market means free to fail. If I wanted Ford et al. to have my money, I'd buy their products.

Anyhow, it's too little, too late so far as I'm concerned--$14 billion is a drop in the bucket compared to what we've already done. But at least it's a step in the right direction.

For quite a while now, something has been bothering me and I haven't been able to quite pin it down. The incidence of this vague dissatisfaction always seemed to border on petty, but I could sense a depth there, eluding me, mocking my attempts to fathom it. I've probably failed again, before I've even begun, but... perhaps aggregating things here will help. But be warned--I am going to talk about media depictions of "unsavory" things, which ironically some will find in itself unsavory.

One: I have not posted in a long time. Let's pretend it's because I'm busy preparing for final exams.

Two: No embedded videos on my front page? Well, I guess that means I should put one here. Hopefully you will accept this love song as an apology for my extended absence. It is, as they say in the vernacular, full of win.