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WorldCon Report, Day 1: The drumbeat begins

Posted on August 20, 2015October 7, 2021 by Frog

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…

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Meritocracy

Posted on June 27, 2015October 7, 2021 by Frog

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….

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What’s with the sudden rage on Twitter?

Posted on June 26, 2015October 7, 2021 by Frog

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…

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I Just Had My Ass Handed to Me By A Children’s Movie.

Posted on June 23, 2015October 7, 2021 by Frog

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…

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The Streisand Effect

Posted on June 8, 2015October 7, 2021 by Frog

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,…

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In Which Frog Enters Attorney Mode to Talk About Cops

Posted on May 6, 2015October 7, 2021 by Frog

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…

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Marvel finally irks me, but it’s not in my geek.

Posted on April 13, 2015October 7, 2021 by Frog

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….

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“On the Hugo Nominations,” or “Giving Zero Poops”

Posted on April 5, 2015October 7, 2021 by Frog

Guess what?  There’s a lot of drama surrounding the Hugo nominations. At first glance, this seems like a big deal.  After all, I’m a genre writer.  This is kind of the award for us, it’s our Oscars, right?  It’s all the recognition from peers that matters to us, to validate our writing.  Not only that,…

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Argh!

Posted on February 23, 2015October 7, 2021 by Frog

Ok, ok.  I have tried to be calm.  I have tried to deal with the fact that a great many of my people are reacting in a completely irresponsible manner to the problems confronting us.  #Gamergate and the bullshit that surrounds it, the 4channers, the trolls; these people are nowhere near in the right. But…

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A Larger Perspective: In response to the response to Scott Aaronsen

Posted on January 13, 2015October 7, 2021 by Frog

Before you read this post, read this. Let’s put the comment into context, first.  Few of the other commenter’s on Dr. Aaronsen’s comment take it in the context of the full conversation, so let me attempt to outline this one.  There was an MIT professor, a Prof. Lewin, who committed sexual harassment.  Well, was alleged,…

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