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Non-Sequiturs: 05.14.08

comp image.jpg* In case you're not tired of the whole "laptops in the classroom" debate, watch Ann Althouse get snarky on Ian Ayres (our former contracts prof -- back in an age when only one or two students in a class would have a laptop, and there was no wireless internet). [Althouse; Freakonomics]

* Tax evasion kills babies. Seriously. [TaxProf Blog]

* The MSM reports what we reported last week: Schoenfeld v. Allen & Overy is settling. [Legal Week]

* Obama addresses a female reporter as "sweetie." [Blogonaut]

* Says our source: "I don't know what the drink-form of HLS should taste like, but an HK scorpion bowl would certainly be a much better start than this nonsense." [The A.V. Club]

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1 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:22 PM

First? Kash is working Big Law hours.

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2 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:26 PM

David posted this one, but he was kind enough to oblige our entreaties for a Kash pic.

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3 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:26 PM

Good for Althouse. Ayres wrote an op-ed in the New York Times a few years ago raising this issue, telling some horrible tale about his contracts class. Ayres claimed that he asked the class to not surf the web, and his students essentially revolted over it. Too bad IT NEVER HAPPENED. I was in said class. He raised the issue, and everyone agreed with him. He tried to get students to take a different view, postulating his own reasons why we might want to surf the web (or play solitaire, or whatever) instead of listening to him. No one took the bait. Not one person in the entire class disagreed with Ayres' position.

No matter. Ayres simply wrote a different story in his op-ed -- a fanciful (and false) tale of student rebellion. He did not let the facts get in his way, and he is still milking the issue to this day.

Ayres was a great professor, but the lack of honestly here is astounding. I have never valued his opinion, or taken anything he has written seriously, ever since he fabricated this story.

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4 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:32 PM

Am I the only one who is offended by Obama calling a female reporter "sweetie"?

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5 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:44 PM

I think KASH is wearing a bikini in this pic.

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6 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:23 PM

10:32 No. Obama himself was offended. He immediately apologized. Of course, Lat hates the O-man, so he fails to report that.

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7 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:23 PM

I think KASH (who's sort of a reporter) is a "sweetie." Does it offend you, yeah?

I also made a poem:

There once was a blogger named Kash
With her picture I gave me a rash
She's just such a sweetie
Not least in bikini
All wet after making a splash!

Signed, LIMERICK LAD

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8 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:32 PM

go home 10:32; there is no story here.

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9 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:57 PM

Whoever made the comment about the HLS-HK Scorpion bowl is a poser. We all know HK is famous for it's Tiki Bowls. And true HK enthusiasts will recall the days when they were served in faux-wood-carved tiki-ish bowls.

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10 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 15, 2008 1:36 AM

11:23 -- ohhhhh, he APOLOGIZED. Well I guess that makes it all better then. Kind of like if Hillary called a black reporter "boy" an apology would make that just a-ok!

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11 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 15, 2008 8:18 AM

In Althouse's classes solitaire is more interesting. She permits surfing to keep her student evaluations up. Why reproduce just another example of the unbearable lightness of being ann althouse.

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12 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 15, 2008 8:20 AM

10:32 - for you "sweetie" is equivalent to "boy"? You must have some serious "daddy" issues. Are you Ann Coulter or Phyllis Schafly?

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13 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 15, 2008 8:27 AM

Sweetie is offensive. Not as offensive as Limerick Lad though. Eww.

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14 Posted by Kamala | Permalink Thursday, May 15, 2008 8:54 AM

11:57 - So why does googling "hong kong scorpion bowl" turn up http://www.hongkongboston.com/ and http://www.hongkongharvard.com/drinks.html, but "hong kong tiki bowl" turns up ebay garbage and smack talk about Tiki Barber and the Super Bowl? Three years at HLS and not once did I hear the drink in question referred to as a "tiki bowl" and that includes the month during 3L year when I was there every other night after Parody rehearsal. Thanks for playing, schmuck.

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15 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 15, 2008 9:19 AM

Sweetie = boy? I think not. Boy is used to denote inferiority, as in "you're a boy not a man." Sweetie, on the other hand, is more a term of endearment. I understand how some women may be offended by it, but please, let's not try and turn this into an intentional slight. The guy lives in a house full of women and probably calls everyone sweetie, even David Axelrod.

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16 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 15, 2008 10:51 AM

Second 8:20 & 9:19.

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17 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 15, 2008 11:00 AM

9:19: You're full of shit. Try addressing one of the senior female capital partners as "sweetie." See what happens. See how endearing she finds you. If you're not addressing your significant other or child with such term it is being used to refer to the person in a subservient role.

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18 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 15, 2008 11:37 AM

saying "sweetie" is a term of endearment is equivalent to saying a game of grab a$s is a compliment

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19 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 15, 2008 12:02 PM

11:37 - The point wasn't that "sweetie" is a term of endearmant, it was that it is not equivalent to the term "boy." The post was a violation of Godwin's Law.

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20 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 15, 2008 12:13 PM

Lat,

More Kass pictures please. I mean Summer's nearly here. Could give us a pic of Kass in micro mini or Daisy Dukes.

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21 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 15, 2008 12:57 PM

12:02 - I understand your point and disagree. "Sweetie" is condescending and indicates talking down to someone and lowering someone in the same way as "boy." Both are innappropriate in a professional setting. If you think "sweetie" is less bad because it's endearing, you're missing the point.

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22 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 15, 2008 1:06 PM

I think Kash is wearing only a bra in that photo. Am I wrong?

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23 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, May 15, 2008 1:40 PM

12:57 - I agree. To anyone who doesn't, click through the link and watch the video clip.

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