http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/ en-us trickey@housevirgo.com 2006-08-25T19:09:25-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/archive/005545.php So that's it. RIP Three Years of Hell, June 2, 2003 to August 25, 2006. After all these words, there are only a few things left to say. Two sites, the Imbroglio and the Volokh Conspiracy, have given me a... 5545@http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/ Blogs and Blogging 2006-08-25T19:09:25-05:00 http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/archive/005544.php Dear Wormwood: Our correspondence over these last few years, put together, may be the single longest thing I've ever written. For old time's sake, however, I hope you'll allow me to give you one last list, a few things I... 5544@http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/ Letters to Wormwood (Advice for JD2Bs) 2006-08-25T18:32:56-05:00 http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/archive/005543.php Dear Wormwood: I promised you two letters that might help your friend Scrimgouge in starting a 1L blog. The first letter focused mostly upon matters that any blogger, legal or otherwise, might find useful, be they technical or stylistic. But... 5543@http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/ Blogs and Blogging 2006-08-25T16:45:05-05:00 http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/archive/005542.php Say hello to Luis Villa, a 1L at Columbia law school. He's another coder turned lawyer, and his musings on code and law strike a cord. If there's any other Columbia Law School bloggers who would like to tie their... 5542@http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/ Blogs and Blogging 2006-08-25T16:21:19-05:00 http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/archive/005541.php Right... self-imposed deadline of tonight to finish this thing off, and still four or five posts that I need to complete. Right now all that quick typing in exams is coming in handy!... 5541@http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/ Blogs and Blogging 2006-08-25T16:17:40-05:00 http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/archive/005536.php Dear Wormwood: Who is this Scrimgouge whose email address you've forwarded me? It's certainly very flattering that he's asking you to ask me for advice on starting a law school blog. Nevertheless, there's no good reason for him to ask... 5536@http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/ Blogs and Blogging 2006-08-24T18:51:03-05:00 http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/archive/005539.php A friend of mine just gave me a "post bar exam gift": a copy of Ichisada Miyazaki's China's Examination Hell: The Civil Service Examinations of Imperial China. From the first page: Competition for a chance to take the civil service... 5539@http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/ Bar Exam and BarBri 2006-08-24T15:01:20-05:00 http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/archive/005538.php Forwarded from a current Columbia Law Student, from one of Student Services' fantastic new staff members: We have put in place a new system, the Student Organization News and Information (SONI) System, which allows student organizations and journals to email... 5538@http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/ Life at Columbia 2006-08-24T10:36:07-05:00 http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/archive/005537.php Strange circumstances conspire to bring me back to New York just before the blog ends. I drove through Jersey late last night. A blind man could smell his way up the Jersey Turnpike. My memory of New York will be... 5537@http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/ Vacationing 2006-08-23T20:33:27-05:00 http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/archive/005533.php Dear Wormwood: The bar exam is over. I've moved away from D.C. to Another State. [1] And today the last signs of law-student living left me: my free Lexis account no longer works. I feel I shall soon have withdrawal... 5533@http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/ Blogs and Blogging 2006-08-18T01:07:12-05:00 http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/archive/005532.php Over at the Republic of T, Terrance has been chronicling battles in Wisconsin and Virginia over the interpretation of either Defense of Marriage amendments or alterations thereto. The argument is wearily familiar: that the text of the legislation is overbroad,... 5532@http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/ Off-topic 2006-08-18T00:12:15-05:00 http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/archive/005527.php Another "oops" in Lebanese photography, this time from the AP. Fact-checking seems to have gone out of style these days. Worse than journalists, credibility seems on shaky ground with lefty law professors. The ever-dependable for the lunatic fringe view Brian... 5527@http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/ Off-topic 2006-08-14T10:06:45-05:00 http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/archive/005526.php I guess the guys at DailyKos are a bit giddy after their victory over Kiss Me Joe, because they're hawking the story of a photoshopping scandal. According to the Kossacks, the GOP decided to paint a Hitler moustache on Howard... 5526@http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/ Off-topic 2006-08-11T15:20:19-05:00 http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/archive/005525.php Compare and contrast this New York Times editorial on "castle doctrine" laws with this fisking. As those who just took the New York bar will recall, New York requires someone in fear of their life to make reasonable efforts to... 5525@http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/ Classes: Criminal Law 2006-08-11T10:08:08-05:00 http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/archive/005519.php After forcing Reuters to pull a third rate forgery from its video archives, bloggers are having a field day finding more suspicious photos from the Israeli/Hezbollah conflict. My guess is that many will turn out to be perfectly valid images,... 5519@http://www.threeyearsofhell.com/ Off-topic 2006-08-07T07:53:06-05:00