Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Neglectful... That is my name...

I know I have not updated as much as I should... traffic to this site is awful, but better than expected considering my lame update performance...

...since I get hits even when not updated, I'm thinking I've stirred enough interest that I SHOULD update...

Here are some posts I've been holding...

Two under 'Sexting' if you don't know what it is, by now, you are in NO POSITION to be practicing Juvenile Law!

Federal Judge Blocks Sexting case.

Sentencing Law & Policy 'Sexting'

And, on a personal note, I went to Vegas once, stayed at the Trop, saw "Le Folies Bergres" (2nd showing, topless) ...what a classic piece of Vegas... When the usher lifted the table to usher the other couple into our front-row booth, while my girl (at the time) and I sucked down frozen daiqurai's ... I felt like Ray Liotta in "Goodfelas"... I will really miss the Classic Vegas Show!

Monday, March 16, 2009

I'm Really Bad at This....

....I don't update nearly enough, I know, But it's starting to dig at me so I hope to do better...


....so for now,... posts I've horded...

1) I try to ignore it, but the schadenfreude overcomes me... mea culpa... Jeff County ADA Intern pulls a Natasha Lyonne.

2) My first ever blind link... I love the blog, I will link to it faithfully, but he invoked Immanuel Kant... I throw up a little in my mouth, I HATE Kant... I have a minor in Philosophy so I'm not coming from an uneducated place, I LOVE Kierkegaard. I enjoy Sartre, Spinoza, Liebenz. I can tolerate

Nietzsche

when he is not off on a Syphilis-ridden rant....

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Bills I'm Watching

Items to watch in the current session of the Commonwealth's legislature:

1) 2009 HB 38 Increased restrictions on registered sex offenders. A horrible bill. It's a "piling on" of sex offender residence exclusions. It expands to include pools & parks as locii for a no-reside radius. It's becoming clear that Sex Offender Registries do not work. [and here] Well, it's been clear to those in the trenches, but now economists, penologists and a few lawmakers [and here] are begining to agree. I would like to note that the bill was introduced by Stan Lee (R-Fayette) (no relation to the Comic Book guy) who's never met a "Family-values" panic-inducing ultra-conservative talking point he didn't like.

2) 2009 HB 130 Seeks to EXPAND eligibility of the Death Penalty in Kentucky. This bill really bothers me. In my life I was ok with the Death Penalty, on the fence with the Death Penalty...

...before I even imagined to become a lawyer...

...when Timothy McVeigh was put to death... a colleague at my former workplace said something to the effect of "It's a good day, we fried that a-hole"...

...I took exception, I thought we shouldn't delight in the death of any human, even one like McVeigh, who is probably one of the best arguments FOR the Death Penalty. I became against the Death Penalty....

...As a 1L, I was fortunate enough to attend a talk with Juan Melendez, the 99th person exonerated from Death Row since the reenstatement of the Death Penalty. His story is the precise reason the Death Penalty should be abolished...

...on moral and legal ethics grounds...

...but there is also an economic component, that we all had to lose our 401(k)'s and Cost of Living raises SLASHED to realize...

... the thing that really bothers me is that the bill is sponsered by Rep. Joseph M. Fischer (R-Campbell), who recieved, from 1993-1998. the Northern KY Right to Life John J. Bauer Service Award, and sits on the Board of the Greater Cincinnati Lawyers for Life...

...But he wants to expand the Death Penalty... As a Roman Catholic, I think that will get him excommunicated...



There are more, but I commented/linked more than I anticipated... Good night, post will be continued.