Lift Your Glass to the Awful Truth ...

Reciting the lyrics was getting too somber - Leonard Cohen would want us to be joyful in the memory of him and his music, so I made this ridiculous thing - let’s hope we get through the rest of 2016 without losing any more great talents.

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USN&WR Law School Rankings, Color-Coded Changes from 2016 to 2017 Editions

Here is this year’s version of the big color-coded chart that shows the changes in all the reported metrics in the USN&WR law school rankings, from the 2016 Rankings Edition (released in March 2015) to this year’s 2017 Rankings Edition (released March 2016).

Click the title to view the whole thing on-line, or click the download link to save yourself a copy.

As the introductory text on the fist page says, contact me with any errors, questions, or other issues. And I've got some other analyses I might do if I have the time - will upload and publicize the same way.
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Donald Trump’s Demonic Conspiracy to Take Over America

I stumbled upon this in some old archival material when I was researching something else - I think it must be shared with as wide an audience as possible.


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Possum Relocation, Again

Its been two years since the great possum scourge of 2012-2013, when I trapped and relocated four of them in just over a year or so. They're attracted to the food we leave out for the semi-feral cats who live in our backyard, but word must have gotten around because we do not see them as often as we used to - I've only caught one since 2013.

But last night I saw this guy stuffing his face, oblivious to me watching him:



They're cute from some angles.

Anyway, I set up the trap and this was the first possum that cooperated right away and climbed in the first night. This is him the next morning, sharing a Hannibal Lector moment with one of the yard cats:




And then I took him to the park and set him free:

 And he's now living happily every after with the other ones I've released there.
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