I signed Pam Samuleson's marvelous Academic Author Letter setting out a number of flaws in the proposed Google Books settlement.
It's probably the best-drafted and most cogent group letter I've ever signed. And, wow, I'm in good company among the signatories.
Amygdala explains why you might want to care about dysprosium, terbium, and neodymium.
I look forward to his discussion of scandium and yttrium.
Congresswoman Ileanna Ros-Lehtinen is asking constituents to fill out her Health Care Survey Form.
I have to admit, it's less biased than I would have expected. But then my expectations were very low.
Nevertheless, there are a few good questions on there like if you support the public option, so if you live in Florida's 18th district, might as well fill it out.
Full text of the survey — with some comments — after the jump.
My advice is to hurry to the Gables Stage to see Speed-The-Plow.
I saw it last weekend and I think it's one of the best productions I've ever seen in the area. It's a great David Mamet script, and the cast does a fine job of it (at least after the first five minutes which last Friday before they relaxed into it seemed worryingly stilted). Paul Tei, who despite his extensive local credits I don't think I'd seen before, plays Bobby Gould very effectively; Gregg Weiner, who I recognized from Summer Shorts, inhabits Charlie; and Amy Elane Anderson is a suitably ambiguous Karen.
The show closes Sept. 13. If you live in south Florida and like real theater, you should go.
We had such a good time that we decided to take the plunge and for the first time subscribe to the Gables Stage for an entire season's six plays. It's amazing what you can do when you don't need to worry about babysitters any more.
In Another View: Lock the Law School Doors Dan Slater argues that law schools are admitting too many students, but praises UM Law Dean White's (relatively unsuccessful) attempt to get incoming students to defer for a year.
This summer, in the staid world of legal education, where curriculum is uniform and scholars are trained in the art of like-mindedness, one dean hatched a contrary plan.
In a memo to incoming students, Patricia D. White, the dean of University of Miami School of Law, surmised: “Perhaps many of you are looking to law school as a safe harbor in which you can wait out the current economic storm.” She then urged them to “think hard” about their plans and offered incentives for those willing to defer for one year.
Apparently, though, the tide would not be stemmed:
32 students took Dean White up on her offer to defer, [so] the school is still left with a first-year population of 527 — 35 percent more than last year’s incoming class.
I hope the legal job market has turned around by '12. I think it will be better than it is now, but the question is, how much?
Senate Guru:: FL-Sen: Marco Rubio Crushing Charlie Crist Among Florida Republican Grassroots
Polls show that Florida voters as a whole like Crist better than any other candidate currently in the race.
And I'll bet that's maybe even true of people who identify as being Republicans; but is it true of the sort of GOP faithful who vote in primaries?
Yes, it's another turnout primary. As Senate Guru says,
Overwhelmingly, Republican Party activists in Florida prefer Marco Rubio to Charlie Crist, with disapproval for Crist and his policies being so strong that motions to censure Crist either succeed or only narrowly fail by the smallest of margins. These are the voters that know both Crist and Rubio best. Do you wonder why the Rubio camp is able to proceed with optimism in the face of statewide polls currently giving Crist a clear advantage?
The only question is whether or not the Rubio camp's organization will be effective enough to translate this clear-cut support (and broad discontent with Crist) into a sufficiently strong grassroots army to counter Crist's fundraising advantage and Washington D.C. establishment support. If Rubio does (and I think he can), a major upset may be in the works.
Actually, there's one other question: if Rubio starts looking really threatening, will he drive Crist so far to the right that his general election chances are harmed even if he wins?
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