Thursday, December 18, 2014

Bad customer service winner of the week--Ulta.com.

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Apparently, Ulta, "we promise to answer your question in 24 hours" does not mean what you think it does .  Ten days and waiting, a...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

Our amicus brief in ASARCO was filed yesterday.

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And it's here (and here ). 
Thursday, December 04, 2014

Why doesn't Fitbit trust its customers?

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I have a Fitbit Charge.  I have that, instead of the Jawbone, because my Jawbone broke repeatedly and had to have a soft restart about once ...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Dear Tim Cook: Steve Jobs wouldn't have bollixed up the Genius Bar this way.

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So now, apparently, I can't just make a Genius Bar appointment .  I have to go through too many hoops, including having to override the ...
Monday, November 10, 2014

Wishing my beloved Marine Corps a very happy birthday today.

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Happy 239th birthday, Marines !
Wednesday, November 05, 2014

Steven Davidoff Solomon's interesting take on why law schools won't close.

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Here .  I especially liked his point about why incentives favor bailing out law schools rather than closing them: [A]  closed law school ...
Friday, October 31, 2014

I loved this post about the boycott.

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See here .  (Hat tip to my dad for sending it to me.)
Monday, October 27, 2014

Happy birthday, John Cleese!

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And here is his lecture on how to be creative.

A nice shout-out in a book review.

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See here .  Thanks, Sue Liemer !
Thursday, October 16, 2014

Congratulations to the wonderful Kathleen Lyon!

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Full story here , but here's my favorite paragraph: The 10 th   and final Distinguished Service Award is presented to Tax Division Off...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

For my friends who aren't on Facebook--a recap of a happy event last month.

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Yep, that's 1st place in the USDC Rising Star Smooth, B Division.  YAY!

Dear Financial Times newspaper: you win; I give up; I will not renew my subscription.

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I have tried--and tried, and tried, and tried, and TRIED--to renew my newspaper subscription.  I can't reach a human; when the "hum...

Assuming that what this professor says is true (and I have no reason to think that it's not), I'm standing with him in solidarity.

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See here .  Universities are supposed to be places in which divergent views can be heard with respect and intelligent debate.  That means th...
Monday, October 06, 2014

Guess who gets to hang out more in the Lee Business School now?

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Yep--I'm now an Affiliate Professor of Business Law and Ethics in the Lee Business School .  YAY!
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Friday, September 26, 2014

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that a former AALS president says that some law schools should close.

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Here's the article.  I agree with Michael Olivas about this point, which is why I said the same thing in 2012.
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Another wonderful Lubet post about the Salaita issue.

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See here .  What I liked best about this post is the point about trying to see things from other points of view.  Too often, we assume that ...
Friday, September 19, 2014

UNLV's State of the University Address.

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It's here .  And for my buddies, the stuff about me starts around 1:24:18 or so.

And another feel-good story....

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See here .

Awesome young inventor....

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See here .  And his mom's awesome, too!

UPDATE: Why I am no longer a Democrat (the short version).

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There's a longer explanation having to do with feeling as though I no longer belong in the mainstream of Democrats, but the shorter--and...