From jury selection today at Tulane & Broad, the Assistant District Attorney: If this imaginary line here is reasonable doubt, and my body is halfway across the line, would that be reasonable doubt? Hard to say, but it’s a touchdown for sure.
New Orleans: The Times-Picayune, C-12, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009
Three days down and three days to go for jury duty. Just a hunch, but I think both prosecutors and defense attorneys have plenty of reasons to not want me on their juries. So far that’s been the case, anyway. A defense attorney asked me…
A Loyola student ran past me on the snowy street wearing flip-flops. He turned and asked, close to pleading, “Did anyone say this was going to happen?” I bumped into him a few minutes later in the library and I asked why he ran all…
Exhibit A: Fox News VP: If McCain Worker ‘Mutilation’ Story Is a Hoax His Campaign Is ‘Over’ Earlier today, John Moody, executive vice president at Fox News, commented on his blog there that “this incident could become a watershed event in the 11 days before…
Teaching is fun and joyous but also hard as fucking hell, especially if you give a quarter of a shit, at whatever level you teach. You feel crazy, torn between your instinct and drive to care, push, cajole and scaffold and the occasional need, depending on your circumstances, to distance, withdraw, erect taller boundaries, or just stop for a while.
If passed, Colorado’s Amendment 48 will define a fertilized human egg as a person: WHAT VOTERS WILL BE ASKED Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado constitution defining the term “person†to include any human being from the moment of fertilization as “person†is…
crossposted at Humid City and The Spot: G Bitch
Can’t see The Spot right now. Until this blows over, you’ll see me here and at Humid City. ><><><><> McCain Co-Chair Calls Obama “A Guy Of The Street,” Raises Drug Use (HuffPost) Palin: Obama not telling ‘total truth’ (Politico) McCain-Palin Rally Attendees: “Obama Is A…
The Goodfellas Social Aid & Pleasure Club secondline parade rolled yesterday. I caught them about a block from our house and followed them for a few minutes just to get a taste of the secondline energy that I’ve missed since the spring. The Black Men…
Someone left a fantastic comment on a flickr photo of mine–I’ve posted the photo below along with the comment (it’s a song; we’re aiming for an MP3 soon):
My reckless prediction: The media wolves will devour her. They’ve been following the other three players–Obama, Biden and McCain–for a year and a half, and here comes along this half-a-term-beauty pageant-governor from Alaska? She could surpass Dan Quayle in her badness. She could even be…