Interesting Pro Bono Opportunity...

"Attention Students:

The Legal Education Project needs volunteers to teach lessons on bullying to middle school students. LEP is scheduled to teach on January 30th between 9:20am and 10:20am at Sutherland Middle School and needs at least two additional volunteers ASAP. Students will teach in teams of two and will be provided with a lesson plan. No teaching experience is required...."

That's good, because my bullying certification expired last year.

Is this what I have to look forward to on the MPRE?

"Lawyer convicted of tax evasion and fraud charges asks judge to set aside his nine-year prison term and allow him to teach course on ethics and morality to law school students instead."
[Guardian, courtesy FARK]

What goes on in my head?

Another inscrutable comment in my notes, this time in the margin of my Crim book. As a side comment on declaratory judgments, I've written:

declaratory judgment
- get rights declared w/o enforcement
- mushroom v. toadstool

It's that second bullet that has me worried, as I have no idea what might have prompted it. Maybe I need to lay off the mushrooms for a while...

Monkey apple carburetor?

I worry about myself when I'm typing up my notes and I see "burden cost strategic behavior manipulation" apparently intended as a complete sentence. Any thoughts on what that might mean?

Thacker v. Commonwealth

134 Va. 767, 114 S.E. 504 (1922)

"The accused, in company with two other young men, ...was attending a church festival in Allegheny County, at which all three became intoxicated."

That must have been one heck of a church party. Why save the wine for Sundays?