Thursday, July 21, 2011

Welcome home, STS-135!

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Here' s the landing.  Thank you, NASA, for all you've done.  Here's to giving you the funding and the vision to continue letting...
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

And speaking of Apollo....

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Happy Moon Landing Day (see here ).  And yes, we did TOO land on the moon.  Here's to our nation coming up with more ways of getting kid...

Kickstarter's Apollo film--let's get it funded.

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I'm captivated by Kickstarter, a micro-finance engine for a variety of projects, and I particularly care about this project:  Last of t...
Monday, July 18, 2011

Happy birthday to John Glenn!

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My buddy Scott Unger reminded me that it's John Glenn's birthday today .  Wishing a happy birthday to a very, very brave person.  W...
Sunday, July 17, 2011

My thoughts about the recent New York Times article on law school economics.

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Posted at our Law School Survival Manual blog ( here ).
Thursday, July 14, 2011

Elton John and the space shuttle

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Watch here .  Hat tip to Ed Fein, my IP guru at NASA.  Also a hat tip to our friend Randy, who is a rocket scientist--for real.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Couldn't have said it better myself.

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Read Alexandra Petri's "Space, a place we used to go" here .
Friday, July 08, 2011

Godspeed, STS-135.

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Here .  I still cry at every launch.
Thursday, July 07, 2011

Not just a good New York Times article about bankruptcy filings.

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But a good New York Times article with a nice picture of, and good quotes from, Bob Lawless ( here ).
Wednesday, July 06, 2011

In memoriam: David Getches.

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Brian Leiter posted the news here .  I'd known David Getches from our intersecting times as dean, and more recently on a personal level...
Thursday, June 30, 2011

A salute to Robert Gates and a diatribe against the U.S. Postal Service--and why the two are linked.

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Kevin Ferris wrote a lovely piece about departing defense secretary Robert Gates ( here ), who has served honorably in his position, puttin...
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Why I need to get a speaking gig in Belfast.

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See here .
Sunday, June 26, 2011

Fun with professional responsibility.

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One of my favorite students at Boyd, Jason Lather, has alerted me to this story about a newbie lawyer who took on way, way too much:  here ....
Thursday, June 23, 2011

Sports trivia question.

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Can you name any of the 17 schools with ZERO major NCAA violations in any sport since 1953, when the NCAA started keeping track? Any of th...
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

For those of you who want some LexisNexis materials....

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LexisNexis has graciously offered to give my readers a 20% discount if they order by clicking through my blog.  I don't get a dime for t...
Thursday, June 16, 2011

USNWR likely to change its rankings methodology for placement.

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Hat tip to TaxProf Blog , with this post ( here ). I'm obviously no fan of the rankings or how law schools use them as a measure of qu...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

An incredibly sensible post about billable hours and the reason(s) behind billing clients that way.

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See here .
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Why I love bankruptcy judges, part n.

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See here .
Monday, June 13, 2011

Joe Nocera's right about the opposition to Elizabeth Warren.

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See here .
Saturday, June 04, 2011

Watching STS-134 still brings tears to my eyes.

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See here and here , with the links provided by our buddy Randy Morgan (that'd be our friend who is a real rocket scientist). Watching...
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