Saturday, May 31, 2014

Bravo, Mayor (well, former mayor) Bloomberg--well done!

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This whole idea of students protesting commencement speakers because they don't like the proposed speakers' politics bothers me, whi...
Thursday, May 29, 2014

Airline inconvenience insurance? Count me in.

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The Wall Street Journal gave me the heads-up on this new insurance ( here ). I can't find the insurance on the company's website y...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

I can't decide if this story is more ridiculous or horrifying.

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I was going to make some flip remark about the events reported in this story , like how I'm too busy controlling the banks and Hollywood...

Life lessons for all of us--from the Navy SEALS and TaxProf Blog.

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See here .  Worth reading all the way through.
Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Dear Mr. Whelan of the National Review:

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Wow.  Our faculty letter and our Dean's letter must have really struck a nerve with you .  (See also here and here .) Before I respon...
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Thursday, May 15, 2014

Thank you, Dan Filler and Faculty Lounge !

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What a lovely, lovely post ( here )!
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

I am having a very good day.

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Saturday, May 03, 2014

Cox Cable Customer Service--sigh....

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So far today, I've spent almost two hours on the phone, on the web, and in live chat with Cox.  Things that went wrong today: The ...
Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Well done, Clark County Republican Party!

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You dropped the definition of marriage as between one man and one woman; you dropped your pro-life stance; you added sexual orientation to t...
Monday, March 31, 2014

President Karen Gross on ten ways to make colleges more friendly to veterans.

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It's just marvelous ( here ).
Friday, March 28, 2014

UNLV's Psychology and Lawyering Conference webcasts are posted.

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Here's the site, and here's our panel's session. 
Friday, March 21, 2014

The Akron Law Review ethics symposium issue is out.

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See here .  I was there for the symposium, and it was wonderful from start to finish.  My article, The Client Who Did Too Much , is here .
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Normally, Southwest Airlines is awesome at customer service (UPDATED).

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Not this time, though: UPDATE:  Verity Kugelmann at Southwest reached out to me, investigated, and gave me a much better feeling about S...
Monday, March 10, 2014

My salute to George Carlin's partial score schtick, in light of the upcoming USNWR rankings.

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This obit describes Carlin's joke about partial scores.  And in a salute to Brian Leiter's open letter requesting that deans not re...
Friday, March 07, 2014

The Dewey indictments and cognitive biases (updated).

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This morning's NYT brings the story of the criminal indictments of some of the people at Dewey & LeBeouf ( here ).  If the emails re...
Monday, March 03, 2014

My latest piece came out in Green Bag.

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See here .  The essay links the original plans for NYU's law school with current issues in legal education.
Monday, February 24, 2014

My husband's Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle experience with his U.S. Bank/REI card.

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So my hubby and I are fine with credit cards monitoring suspicious activity and putting freezes on our accounts when something looks fishy. ...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

An update for editors everywhere.

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From my buddy Kathleen Lyon, some thoughts about editing ( here ) in response to my frustrated screed ( here ). 
Thursday, February 13, 2014

Thanks, Conglomerate!

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For the shout-out ( here ).
Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Serious customer service problems at Premium Media Design.

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Tried to order some software.  My tale begins thus: Clicked on website.  Put software in cart. Chose PayPal option. Logged on to PayPal...
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