Done.

Idea for the Day: Fighting the Radical Right

1) Go to the website of the organization whose "family values" rhetoric you despise most. (I recommend the American Family Association, or Concerned Women for America.)

2) Check out their "action alerts."

For example, the AFA is currently calling on its constituents to call Kraft Foods and tell them to pull their financial support from the 2006 Gay Games.

3) Call whoever they're calling (in the above case, Kraft), and tell them to keep doing what they're doing. (In this case, supporting the Gay Games.)

Just a thought while I am in the manic throes of my last hours of paper writing for my last paper for my last course for my last semester for my last year of law school. Woo hoo!

Quick Post

1. I actually ventured outside today, to give my pasty white skin some Vitamin D, and was shocked to find that spring had arrived. Very nice. Even more of a reason to write faster to finish this paper/albatross.

2. I decided that I will refer to what most people call "conservative Republicans" by their proper name: radical Republicans. They're not conservative by any stretch of the imagination.

Neil Diamond on Ellen

I saw Neil Diamond on the Ellen Degeneres Show yesterday, and I'm wondering: Did he have plastic surgery? His face looked weirdly smooth.

I can't help it. I've loved him since the Jazz Singer. My latest gift to myself for finishing this %^%^!@# paper is his new CD. Weird, I know. It's like I'm 70 and belong in Boca....

Letter to John Kerry

Senator Kerry:

I worked for your presidential campaign here in Philadelphia -- and helped deliver you the state of Pennsylvania. And I want you to know that today, you lost my vote.

Today, you spoke out against same-sex marriage being part of the Massachusetts Democratic Party platform. Senator Kerry, that's a mistake. It's a mistake because across the country, thousands -- maybe even millions -- of hard-working U.S. families are being denied the benefits and privileges of marriage. We work each day to provide for our families, only to have the state and federal government deny us benefits and rights that would belong to us if not for the fact that our spouse is of the same sex.

It's wrong, and in your heart, you know it's wrong. Why won't you speak out against this grave injustice? Senator Kerry, you are on the wrong side of history this time.

I will not miss final exams...

but really, I prefer them to final papers!

Theoretically, I love to write. Or, perhaps, I love to say that I'm a writer. Or I love to have written. But the actual process of writing? Well, that pretty much goes something like this:

* Watch some random television show, staring blankly at the screen and trying to ignore the fact that my final paper of my final course of my final semester of my final year of law school is due in a scant few days.

* Eat everything in the house. This might include (in an illustrative, not exhaustive list): chocolate pudding, frosted mini-wheats, tomato soup, fresca, some weird non-dairy ice cream, more fresca, orange juice, apple, organic version of chef-boy-ar-dee spaghetti-o's, and an English muffin.

* Turn up my iPod and sing "Up Around the Bend" at the top of my lungs in an effort to find my "inner motivation."

* Stare blankly at the television.

*Read the newspaper.

* Check email.

* Check email.

* Check email.

* Update blog.

*Sigh.

You get the idea, don't you? This twisting in the wind is, well, really pretty torturous. There really must be a better way.

Happy Birthday to Me!

Happy Birthday, me! I'm finally the age of Jesus. (Don't ask, I can't really explain why this is in any way important, especially since I am, ummm, Jewish.)

I was born around 10 am at St. Barnabas Hospital in Livingston, N.J.
I will be celebrating the occasion this year with a 3-hour exam in Taxation at 6 pm tonight. Woo hoo!

It's my last exam in law school, ever. Not quite sure what to make of that.

The whole thing will be followed by festivities at McMenamin's. I'll be the one looking dazed and confused.