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secretsmonday  is up - late again. For the first time ever I think I am soliciting responses to a question. Check it out.

Poll #1476679 Minor Sell Out
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 17

I need more long sleeve running shirts, should I pay a sketchy online dealer for a longsleeve bootlegged minor threat shirt?

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( Nabokov's notecards )

( Writers in their offices )

After having kind of a hectic day and forgetting about secrets monday, I finally got around to posting it. The response has been underwhelming, not surprisingly, underwhelming. Perhaps today will be a more interesting secretsmonday  on a Tuesday?

Poll #1461996 TV on the DVD
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 29

Which TV series should E and I watch next?

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I am going to share with you now a true inside the Beltway secret. You want to know who really runs the country? It is not the Masons, or Van Jones, it’s the local members WAKA, the World Adult Kickball Association.*

WAKA in D.C. is a massive league of kickball teams made up of junior hill staffers, NGO workers, assistant lobbyists and bloggers. If you are under the age of thirty and you live in the D.C. area, there is a pretty good chance you either are a member of WAKA or one of your roommates is. This is where the groundwork for the decisions about our future are made, at kickball games on the National Mall, and in the shitty Irish bars near Union Station.This may sound like I'm kidding, but I'm not. Does your congressman really need to get a rider on that appropriations bill? Talk to the scheduler on the other team. Need to make sure a certain lobbyist shows up at your fundraiser? Buy his assistant a beer at Irish Times.

This country isn’t run by a cabal of socialists, its run by a bunch of kids who manage the outlook calendars of the powerful... and they all play kickball.

 *Formerly Washington Area Kickball Association until they decided to take the conspiracy global.

There are now a million of these videos of people saying stupid shit on the mall, I generally find them to be depressing and not all that funny. This one especially bummed me out. Check out the conversation around eight minutes in where a woman wants to know if the czars appointed by Obama will be getting land. I mean, come on people. How distanced from reality can you get? That is so phenomenally irrational that I can't get my head around it.

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females.bandcamp.com

Party People,

I'm back from two weeks of vacation in the American South and Cape Cod. It was awesome. I have started drafting a very long post about all the food I ate, but right now I don't have time to finish it. I do however have time to say that the best bbq I have ever eaten is Central in Memphis, New Orleans is a city I need to return to and today is a very special holiday edition of  secretsmonday Go on over and check it out.

Dear Internet,

Why is everyone talking about “birthers” all of a sudden? Did something happen? Is there really a growing number of idiots out there who believe that shit?

So I am back from the Bar and working my first full day, no time for a major post at the moment, but I wanted to remind everyone that secretsmonday  is up and running. Go, comment, tell others.

Seriously folks? I admit I didn't post until one in the afternoon, but 14 comments? Is secretsmonday finally dead?

Mark Sanford is not very bright.

Ok, not to be paranoid, but I’m getting kind of freaked out by the rash of right wing domestic terrorist people with guns going around shooting at folks. etiner  said to me last time he was in town that there are a lot of very armed, very pissed off people in this country, and I think he’s got a point. People like the guy who shot Dr. Tiller and the wingnut today at the Holocaust Museum are so outside the mainstream discussion that I tend not to take them seriously, but maybe we should be taking these guys a lot more seriously.

So I haven't updated here on LJ in a while, mainly because my life is super busy and I am the definition of boring. Here is what I do in order of importance/time it sucks from my life:
1. Study for the bar
2. Work
3. Run
4. Go (indoor) rockclimbg

In there I try and hang out with E as much as possible, but too often our hanging out is either both of us doing practise torts questions or both of us staring at the television brain dead after having done a whole ton of torts questions. This is really not the most exciting summer ever.

Today, instead of enjoying what looks like it will be the first day without rain in a week, I am going to sit at the kitchen table and learn the elements of criminal procedure. Right now, I am really doubting this whole let's be a lawyer thing.

Dr. George Tiller, one of the few doctors in Kanasas willing to perform late term abortions was killed this morning AT HIS CHURCH. Rest in peace, Dr. Tiller. I never knew your name before today, but you were a brave man who stood up for personal freedom and choice.

Today I am going to give to Planned Parenthood and NARAL in your honor. I encourage everyone else who believes in a woman's right to choose to do the same. Its a small gesture and the least we can do.

I am (basically) done with law school.

1. today is secretsmonday. you know what to do.

2. Fascinating article on Souter's life in his hometown today in the newspaper. I'm all for dudes who curl up in the woods and read books, but when I saw the photo of his house, I got a little weirded out.



That looks like the unabomber cabin, dude.

Another high point of the article is how yankee the people of Weare are in their attitude towards having a supreme court justice living there.

“I don’t know how much of a do people will make of his homecoming,” Ms. Straw said, “but we’ll see.”

Don't get too excited Ms. Straw, it isn't like he's shaping the laws of the country or anything.

3. This time next week, I'll be done with law school. Amazing.