Year: 2009

  • In re: “Net Neutrality Supporters Have First Amendment Upside Down”

    http://bit.ly/6Ew12R I somewhat agree with the assertion that the First Amendment does limit the government’s ability to regulate free speech. However, a completely textual argument would suggest that government can only be limited when it “abridges” (deprive, diminish, reduce in scope – http://m-w.com/dictionary/abridge) rather than expands free speech.  If the net neutrality regulations are promulgated…

  • In a State of Transition

    I find myself in the same state I felt when I was a senior in high school.  That place where you’re at the end of a stage in your life and you’re so close to that new beginning. You’re excited, apprehensive, scared, impatient, happy, and sad … (and lazy and unmotivated).  Senioritis. It’s hard to…

  • Fear and Loathing in Los Angeles

    The thing that scared me the most about yesterday was not that I was willing to give up completely, but the lack of hesitation. I didn’t hesitate. I didn’t ponder whether it was something I truly needed to do (because it was already a given that it was). I didn’t lock myself in a closet…

  • Queen of Swords

    “The Queen of Swords indicates a woman who is blessed (or cursed) with sharp perception, and highly honed intuition. She is acutely analytical, with a razor-sharp ability to get to the heart of a situation, seeing exactly what is, rather than what others would wish her to see. She is a private woman, unwilling to…

  • Exchange Music Project Update…

    Do not worry – I have not forgotten about this idea.  School is keeping me busy, but that’s no reason to not give you all homework. The theme to this exchange is simple enough: Soundtrack to Your Life.  Make a list of songs that tells the story of your life – where you’ve been, where…

  • A Proposition: Twitter Music Exchange

    This idea was borne from a conversation about music block – a phase where you realize that you’re growing tired of the same songs repeating on your music player, be it your iPod or even the radio.  If you’re like me, you don’t listen to the radio so you don’t know what’s out there, nowadays. …

  • Stained with Red

    Will this scar? Will this stain? Triumph marked by the thought – the regret? – of a mistake made. Will it burrow? Or will it fade? Price of the struggle left on skin hasn’t washed away. Am I scarred? Am I stained – stained with this remnant of red?

  • A Fault

    Somehow, two decades have passed since I moved to the United States (for good). Twenty years. How did that happen?  That’s first grade through high school, four years of college, two years of hanging around, and two years of law school.  And in all that time, I have not been able to become fluent in…

  • Teh Awesome

    It’s hard being awesome. I don’t mean to say that in a pretentious, snobby way as in, “I know that I am awesome, it’s tough being me.” But more in the way of: I forget that I am awesome and forget to BE awesome.

  • Kismet – 10 Years

    It’s fitting that I end this less-than-stellar week with a Stars Align concert. In the ten years I have been following all the different permutations of this band, I have changed so much. All the ups and downs, it seems that this band has been the background soundtrack to it all. I wouldn’t find myself…