On the one hand, it reinforces a distinct identity and people like to feel different. On the other hand, it reinforces a distinct identity where it isn’t all that distinct. The overarching negative is that other people are imposing an identity on you, where we all would like to be in control of how other people perceive us.
“… it reinforced my reluctance to read much into legislative history, given the myriad reasons why legislators vote for a bill… . Along that line, my legislative experience has made me cautious about superimposing the court’s will for that of the people expressed through their duly elected representatives and executive.” - Circuit Judge Paul J. Kelly, Jr.
That seems mostly to point at a problem. Where there’s an ambiguity in the statute and legislative history is meaningless, we can’t ascertain the will of the people.
American Psycho seems to be a kind of farcical critique on society and what it turns us into whereas Dexter is about some dude that’s got this terrible attribute (he’s a serial killer) because of some random event when he was a kid and how he copes with it, and the consequences that flow from it. The serial killer thing can be extreme, but you could see it as a metaphor for any number of defects that a human being might have that would make someone feel “different” and that has negative practical consequences for those close to you.
I watched this movie a couple days ago. The ending (spoiler alert) was potentially a cop out. Here we’ve got some guy that’s a product of American materialistic neurosis, taken to the extreme, and they’ve created this plausible plot where the natural reaction is for this person to serially massacre people. But then, you’ve got this ending where they leave open whether or not he ever really did it at all or whether it was just all in his head. I get it, I suppose, that it ultimately doesn’t matter whether or not he did it, just that its plausible that he might, and maybe this uncertainty sets up the final existential monologue at the end (“this confession means nothing”) which was pretty decent I thought, but I couldn’t help but feel disappointed that this may have been all just one big dream that essentially puts him right where he was at the start of the movie.
Lil’ Wayne’s in a universe of his own. He’s like the fourth dimension of hip hop. “Law is mind without reason. ……………..I’ll return,” Lil Wayne told fans on his Twitter page this morning.
“Lets say B gives A the money and then says, ‘but I’m going to sue you to get it back,’ then what?”
“Who would do that?”
“I don’t know… B?”
It seems like all the “aha!” moments I have these days relate to time. I suppose it should be obvious, but we only live for a finite amount of time. I used to place a lot of importance on being smart, but after getting my ass whooped by people who I am by and large as smart as, I think what’s probably more important is how you use your time. There will always be a deadline and the ultimate deadline is our own mortality.
“Since I have for years taught the survey course on evidence at various of our local law schools and at continuing legal education programs, this is a matter to which I have given some thought,” wrote Chief Judge Young… . Judge Young identified three approaches: Inadvertent disclosure never forfeits the privilege, it always does, and it sometimes does.
