A law suit filed today by Margorie Baker alleges that a local golf course and country club in her small Mississippi town has been discriminating against women. The country club, it’s said, charges women significantly higher greens fees than men, and has been doing so for years. Men also get “discounts” on equipment, meals, and [...]
Work and blogging elsewhere has been keeping me busy lately. This week is especially crazy given the fact that FanHouse is running my series on the ten dirtiest football programs which is a response to this nonsense. I started Monday posting two teams per day, which puts me on pace to reveal the dirtiest football [...]
Pete, I’m a long time practicing lawyer and I’ve gotten myself so out of touch with the young people in law school and aspiring lawyers. What advice can you give me to help me get in touch with the new crop of lawyers joining my firm and the students [...]
Listen, I understand. We as law students are taking out tens, sometimes hundreds, of thousands of dollars in loans. We want a payout and we want it now. But wanting something and thinking you’re entitled to it are two wholly different things. Take, for example, this Ask Metafilter question on getting a “good” job: [...]
The first years have started blogging and that, I think, is awesome. They also show the good sense to stay away from Blogspot. Opting, instead, for Wordpress.com, a decision that demonstrates that they possess wisdom well beyond their years. Kyle Michael is the Balls William Van Hook Welcome to IU, Gentlemen. I’m totally joking about the ‘hell’ thing, too. It [...]
Pete, I’m a rising 3L and terrified of graduating and moving into the “real world.” I don’t want to look for a job, and I really, REALLY don’t want to take the bar. I’m too far in debt to drop out of school; can you think of any [...]
Random links and such. Here they be! The Weird Converter is bizarre and fascinating. I weigh the same as 10.9 spider monkeys and I’m 18 human tongues tall. AT&T, as a requirement for their merger with Cingular, is offering $10/mo DSL to new subscribers with a 1 year contract. This is available in their entire 22-state [...]
Hey Pete, I’m an LSU fan, and one of my “Bama Buddies” forwarded me the link of Jamarcus Russell wearing the “Bama Bling” necklace. I think he thought that I would be freaked out. I simply thought it was weird. I passed the e-mail on to a well [...]
A few weeks ago I got a letter in the mail from Alabama’s College of Arts & Sciences. They wanted me to donate to their scholarship fund. I was a little irritated, and I wasn’t sure quite why. A few minutes later it dawned on me why I’m irritated. I still owe Alabama $8,000 in student [...]
No, I didn’t get a ticket. Rather, my boss seems to have gotten a little frustrated with his efforts to get me into a courtroom. Tomorrow, Judge and opposing parties willing, I will try my first (and second) cases. Both standard, run-of-the-mill traffic court cases. It should be fun. Hopefully my record will improve to [...]
