Lisa and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary in Mendocino, my favorite tourist destination of all time. Great scenery, great food, lots to do. This time, we stayed at the MacCallum House right in town, which turned out to be…

Over the years, we have found vegetarian restaurants in some wacky/unexpected places, but Mineral Restaurant ranks up there as one of our most surprising discoveries. Mineral Restaurant is a high end vegetarian restaurant designed to compete with other five-star Northern…

Back in April 2006, a first-rate group of law professor bloggers (and a few other bloggers) gathered for the Bloggership conference to discuss how blogs affected legal scholarship and our lives as law professors. My recap from the event. I…

Slate has an article recapping the environmental consequences of meat eating, vegetarianism and veganism. The article rightly explains the complexities of doing proper environmental cost accounting of our food choices, which must include both the manufacturing consequences but also the…

According to this Mercury News article, state Treasurer Lockyer is floating a discussion proposal of eliminating state funding for the UC system. I don’t think anyone expects that to happen, but as the article points out (and as I previously…

Earlier this week, I spent a ridiculous 3 hours perusing my blogroll accumulation from a single day of being offline. Too much! Today, the great blogroll purge–I trimmed my blogroll by about 30%, including a number of blogs I had…

Over on Post Punk Kitchen, they are reminiscing about TV shows (especially 80s sitcoms) depicting vegetarianism or animal rights issues.

Law students don’t seem to appreciate how easy it is to win a legal writing competition. Write a good paper on an original topic, and you will stand out from the pack. Instead, most students gang-tackle the exact same topics,…

The Chronicle of Higher Education ran an article on six professors who are using Second Life as a pedagogical tool. However, the article also contains a sidebar with some caveats about Second Life’s downsides, ranging from technical glitches to bandwidth…

Last month I blogged about the AALS/National Law Journal event we hosted at SCU entitled “Blogging, Scholarship and the Bench and Bar.” The National Law Journal published the transcript from the event (National Law Journal, Oct. 8, 2007 at 22)….