Blogging in the Snowpocalypse

I am home way early from work because of the blizzard in the D.C. area.  And yeah, I got the term “snowpocolypse” from someone else.

Not that I am going to liveblog this.  Instead I will take this as a chance to catch up with and talk about some things I have been meaning to blog about.  But if anything interesting happens I will be sure to tell you.

Update: This article has a lot of interesting information on the recent weather, including the massive amount of snow we have had locally.

But there is always this as a counterpoint.

Overlawyered’s Jihad Against Disability Accommodation Continues

Now anyone who goes to the site Overlawyered will see that there is one issue I clash with them about, all the time: their continual objection against any student receiving accomodations.  So they not only object to people suing for accommodations, but also people using things like financial pressure to obtain accommodations.  That’s right, they are so opposed, that even using financial weapons is verboten in their mind.

Now today they tell us that, horror of horrors “School districts spend thousands on litigation over special education.”

Yeah, and in the 1950’s and 60’s I am sure a lot of school districts spent thousands of dollars on school segregation issues, too.

But I should start by saying that this is personal to me. 

Wear Your Hard Hats

I am constructing this blog as we speak. Hopefully nothing will fall on you.

For instance, I have only barely started to put up my links. There are a lot of great sites to link, but it’s a start.

And it’s a good time to tell you something else about this blog. There are blogs that follow the news obsessively. This isn’t going to be one of them. I am going to post maybe once or twice a day, and generally after work. I would say my model is Beldar, but the bastard hasn’t posted in months.

Beldar, I say that with love. Come back to us. We miss you.

So I guess Legal Insurrection is my model. Cool.

“So Who the Fuck are You?” (or: “About me”)

Okay, having managed to fight the blogger editor until it let me post, once, I figured it was time to tell you a little more about me.  I will try to backdate it to make it my first post, but I might not be successful.

I am in my 30’s.  Happily married.  I work as a lawyer.  Ah, crap, now you hate me, right?  Well, I will also say that I am not one of those cheesy lawyers who isn’t aware of how his profession can be incredibly corrosive in our society, nor do I make the mistake of thinking every problem has to be solved by lawyers.