December 2006
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What do Jews do on Xmas?
What do Jews do on Christmas day? Great question.
I attempted an answer in this quick video vignette. It appears that we order Chinese food and watch football games we don’t necessarily care that much about.
Though this ethnography is not the definitive documentary on the subject, there is a high-degree of accuracy in random sampling. In the past we’ve also been seen volunteering at...
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Do Not Use Your Shift Key!
“Do Not Use Your Shift Key!” I think that’s what this sign says down at the oceanfront in Virginia Beach.
It’s actually supposed to encourage boardwalkers (boredwalkers?) to refrain from using inappropriate language. Or maybe it’s to let the teacher from Peanuts know that they’re not welcome around here.
It’s winter at the beach. Everything is in...
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Law School Jokes Are Lame
Twas the night before Crim Law, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring. So there’s clearly no actus reus, because that would require a voluntary act (i.e. stirring). Though, one could interpret the lack of stirring as an omission from a mouse, if the mouse is physically capable of stirring and had a responsibility to stir (statute, relationship, contractual, creation of risk,...
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I Put the Stud in Studying
A Pulitzer Prize winning photo, capturing the rare moment that the endangered speciesstudious maximus hits the books.
You might be wondering what the basketball on my desk is…
It’s the prize I received for *drum roll* winning the first annual torts poetry contest! My professor decided to get the kinesthetic learners in the class to do something creative in order to remember these...