Thoughts
Hypocritical Turtles All the Way Down
9.14.2020
Way, way back in 2018 the people of Florida did something that is very difficult to do: They passed an amendment to the state constitution.
Apparently, the good people of Florida finally realized that, given the systemic and deep-seated issues with the country’s criminal justice system, disenfranchising felons en masse might be an antiquated and narrow-minded philosophy.
Despite the demos firmly asserting its will. …
It Ends with Aporia
9.7.2020
It should go without saying that writing a dissertation is hard. Just getting to the point where you start to write the dissertation can seem like an insurmountable hurdle. Then, when you finally crest the top of the ridge, you realize that academic mountains aren’t triangle-shaped like the ones we drew as children; they’re stair-step Ziggurats and when you reach the top of one arduous climb, you simply have to gear up for the next. …
Gotta Start Somewhere
8.24.2020
I write legal blog posts and articles for a living–I’ve probably done over a hundred by now, plus a handful of books, guides, and handbooks. But this is my first blog post that I’ll be writing as myself.
It’s a strange thing to do: write as someone else. …
