Why I <3 Sarah Vowell

Sarah Vowell wrote a little NYTimes op-ed after the DNC last year. I re-post it here for a few reasons:

1) One of you LOVES Teddy Kennedy.

2) I recently gave one of you a Sarah Vowell book and think you should read it. This article should give you a little taste.

3) Most of you now have federal loans.

4) One of you is my husband and has to agree with me regardless.

California splitting off? It used to be.

Wonderful discovery of the day. Way back when maps were cool like the one below, California was an island:

Tuition dollars hard at work...

Umpteen thousands of dollars in tuition, and we have to walk through mulch puddles and soggy tennis courts. I may sound like a bitchy 1L who just got her Jimmy Choo's all wet, but what an inglorious beginning to the 3L year.

The faces of the new batch of peasants was glorious this morning. I can't wait until they're exposed to the intellectual mind-$*@& that is Pennoyer v. Neff.

Confession...

I hope someday to blog about Julia Child.

Or, perhaps, blog about the blog about Julia Child - either way is fine with me.

Janet Napolitano

I really like the way she answers these questions. Did you know she was a girl scout and that she has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro?

Did I mention that I did an event for this woman one time and thought she was really cool? Did I also mention that we saw her at the National Gallery perusing the contemporary art this summer?

Sea monkeys?

Dude. I give you the aquatic ape hypothesis.

"Citizen Judges"

Japan gives jury trials a shot.

mmmm bacon

http://www.indypendent.org/2009/07/23/bacon-as-weapon/