Please Hillary--Don't Quit the Race

I am so dismayed that people are trying to get Hillary to quit. They are saying she should step aside and let Obama nail down the nomination. Who are they to make these rules up? What they don't understand is that would not only be unfair to Hillary but it would also be unfair to all the people who support Hillary, and it would also be unfair to the states that haven't had their primaries yet. There will be plenty of time to square off with John McCain when the time comes.

Walmart Sucks

Walmart is a disaster. Just as they were starting to look better with their environmental initiatives and fits and starts toward being a more responsible company, here they go again: Suing a brain damaged woman for the money she needs to lead a decent life. Details on Anderson Cooper tonight. She was an employee of Walmart who was injured in an accident. She won a settlement; now Walmart is suing to get some of their money back. It is not that they are not entitled to do so. What is at issue is their backwardness. Their cold heartedness. Their utter stupidity about business in this day and age, and their backasswardness when it comes to public relations. I love it that they are getting such bad press about this. They deserve it.

Count Down to Graduation

I am sitting here after class exhausted, and panicked about the next five weeks. I have so much to do before graduation, and I don't see how I can get it done. Moot court oral arguments, three tests, and haven't even really started studying for any of them yet. Fill out the bar application. Try to get at least a little sleep. Try at least to clean up my hopelessly dirty condo. Not lose my mind. Continue trying to lose a few pounds. Forget about even trying to do exercise. I love school too, and I hate that my last five weeks are going to be so awful. I did order my cap and gown yesterday, so that is a good thing. Another good thing is it looks like I am going to graduate. Another good thing is I will pull this off. Flip switch. Flip switch. Flip switch. Know that I will get through this and do well.

New Look for BizABiz

I decided it was time for a change for BizABiz and chose a new template. As much as I liked the other scenic one, it just didn't fit the subject matter very well. I am a writer/editor (in addition to the other things I am) and this template seems more like news or magazine column type, so it makes me feel more at home. Plus a change now and then is good.

Phil Valentine Off Base

Even though I am a liberal, I listen to the wackadoo conservative radio shows sometimes, often because I am tired of music and sometimes because I want to get my jollies. Lately, I have been wincing every time I listen to the Phil Valentine show because he is so wrong about courts. He discusses the Supreme Court's "precedents" as if they were something untoward. He says the court should interpret the Constitution and stop relying on precedents. Um....hello! Obviously, he is either ignorant about the Supreme Court and the Constitution, or he is relying on the fact that his audience is naive. The Supreme Court's interpretation of the Constitution is the law, and begets precedents. It is then decided law. I hope most of his listeners understand his mistakes. I think a civics lession is in store. I hate to think of all the misinformation he is spreading.

PMBR--Day 2--Property

The second day of the PMBR was scarier for me than the first. It was over property. I did very well in property in school, but it is one of the subjects that can vacate your head very quickly. The good news is the teacher said don't worry about studying about the Rule Against Perpetuities for the Bar Exam. Woo hoo! The bad news is there are lots of other property questions on the test. I did not do the practice questions before the review session, and that was a big mistake. After hearing the lecture, I did the practice questions and still missed 18 out of 50 questions. But the other good news is this is only the pre bar review session, so I will get to do it again in May. I disagree with all of those who I have heard say PMBR is a waste of time. It is a good review, and even better because I am doing it so far in advance.

PMBR--Torts and Snorts

I started the PMBR review this week and was looking forward to the first lesson, which was on torts. I really wanted the review: It has been 4 years since I had torts and I felt like I had forgotten most of what I learned. I got a C in the course so was afraid I never learned it that well to begin with. The course offered a wonderful collection of attractive nuisance, slip and fall, defamation, and other eclectic cases. While it was fascinating and often entertaining, it also had a reputation for flunking students out. And sure enough a large portion of our class succumbed. My goal was to shore myself up on the subject, to get rid of my deficiency there. But, who has time to revisit old courses when you are still taking new courses? So the PMBR review was the first look at torts for me in a long time. It felt good to get some of those concepts back in my head and get a better understanding of them. I know torts is traditionally offered in the first year of law school, but I really think I could have gotten more out of it if I had taken it in a later year.