So, day 3 was supposed to be simple. I had one job to do. That job, by the way, was to drink beer, an activity that I perform on occasion with no obligation whatsoever. Well, that and work sgt-at-arms for the Business Meeting, which was fun but uneventful (wait for Day 5). No, Friday was shaping up to…
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WorldCon Report, Day 1: The drumbeat begins
Alright, day one of Worldcon was a slow start. Jessica Rising was awesome enough to show Esther and I a sneaky way to get in the registration line before the doors to the convention center opened, thus insuring that we did not actually have to wait in said line for more than a couple of…
Meritocracy
The Supremes issued a couple big opinions this week. Then the country basically lit itself on fire. There’s a lot of celebration, and rightly so. There’s also a lot of hatred from the right for the judicial authority which has so finally demolished the debate. The legal issues are done. Gay marriage is now legal….
What’s with the sudden rage on Twitter?
Alright, I’ve gone kind of off the rails live-tweeting this horrific CLE I’m a part of. We’re on lunch break, now, so I’m going to break my thoughts down in a form that isn’t limited to 140 characters. The NACDL is the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. In theory, it’s an organization that exists…
I Just Had My Ass Handed to Me By A Children’s Movie.
I’ve always been kind of a Pixar fan. They do good films over there, and basically everyone knows it. Up, when it came out, hit me like a truck. I still can’t watch it again. It’s a movie about loss, and it’s simply one of the most depressing things I’ve ever watched. That’s not the…
The Streisand Effect
In 2003, Barbara Streisand sued a photographer for posting pictures of her beachfront home on the internet without her permission. The photo was part of a 12,000 photograph collection, meant for the purpose of detailing shoreline erosion in California. It was small, obscure, and nobody cared about it. Yet in her zealous defense of her privacy,…
In Which Frog Enters Attorney Mode to Talk About Cops
I want to take a moment to honor Sergeant Greg Moore of the Couer d’Alene Police Department. I didn’t know Sgt. Moore well. He wasn’t a buddy. He was a guy I met a couple of times in the course of business. He seemed nice, and I never had to file a suppression motion on…
The post that treadeth into no-man’s land.
Alright, it’s been a year, and I’m ready to break down the #Gamergate debacle. I shall attempt to do so, and then I shall await the flensing that comes when any blogger touches this, the internet’s third rail. Let me begin by saying this: I am a gamer. I like video games. I like board…
Marvel finally irks me, but it’s not in my geek.
I have a rule. I don’t watch TV shows about lawyers. I just don’t do it. Not that they aren’t perfectly good shows, most of the time. But…I am a lawyer. And the closest I have seen anyone come to showing what it’s really like to do my job is either Benched or Night Court, depending on the episode….
What the Hell Just Happened to Me? – the side effects of the Grant-Frog style.
So, as of today the Grant-Frog style has existed for an entire week. It has been one of the strangest weeks of my writing career. Let me start by saying this: the style started as a lark. Grant Riddell and I were getting drunk at the Norwescon Small Press party, having a good ol’ time,…