Archive for the ‘Current Events’ Category
You may have noticed that my blog was inaccessible all day yesterday. I joined the internet-wide movement to protest SOPA/PIPA, two bills currently being considered in Congress. Other major companies such as Wikipedia and Reddit were a part of the blackout. While I haven't personally read the text of the ...
Current Events, Politics - No Comments »
I have been refraining from commenting on the "huge numbers of confused and directionless young people" at Occupy Wall Street up to this point, but this textual highlight reel published in the WSJ today was too good to pass up. The theme of the article was the "remedial course in ...
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One of the great things about law school, at least at BYU, is the vast number of highly intellectual, thought provoking guest speakers and events that come to visit the law school. I'd be tempted to say that most of the learning that I've experienced in law school has ...
Current Events, Law, Religion - 1 Comment »
People distrust the government for many reasons, but one of the big ones in my mind is that proponents of big government have no problem regulating the lives of others, but then live their own lives free of those regulations. An article in the WSJ yesterday illustrated one way ...
Current Events, Investment, Law, Politics - No Comments »
I'm reading a bunch of cases in preparation for this memo I'm writing, and in my reading came across this great quote from the famous Judge Learned Hand.
The First Amendment, said Judge Learned Hand, "presupposes that right conclusions are more likely to be gathered out of a multitude of tongues, ...
Current Events, Law, Politics - 2 Comments »
So I've decided to do 12 posts of Christmas. I'm not yet sure exactly what I'm going to write about for each one, but I think it will be a fun way to lead up to Christmas this year! (Even though technically the twelve days of Christmas starts on ...
Current Events, Humor, The Office - 1 Comment »
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