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Not a lot going on in my neck of the woods. My program to read progressively denser and less interesting law books is going swimmingly. I'm currently reading The Prosecutors, a real-life look into one year in the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office. It's far too much like fiction or true crime to serve my purposes, though. I need something like The Complete History of Evidence Inadmissibility Motions 1944-49 with Annotated Concordance. I don't think I'm quite ready for that, so give me some time. Recently, I have read Lawrence Friedman's short history of American law and skimmed Catherine Crier's book The Case Against Lawyers. Seeing so many examples of purported lawyerly misconduct was giving me second thoughts, but a few moments later I remembered the business I'm already in and decided I already have a lot of practice being loathed, so I might as well just keep going.

I've been enjoying the daily updates at Slate about the Scooter Libby trial. I have no idea how a journalist would write about the trial for people who had not been following it the whole time. It's more convoluted than Matrix: Revolutions at this point. But each day's post brings a couple interesting nuggets. I'll be sad when it's over.

Speaking of trials, Charlie Weis is currently involved in one over malpractice following his gastric bypass operation. Apparently he nearly died, although I wasn't really aware of that. If there are any doctors who read this blog and care to chime in down in the comments that will be allowed. Obviously, Weis underwent a risky surgery, but I don't know enough to diagnose (ha!) whether he should have ended up in a coma afterward. Still, the prospect of of Tom Brady on the witness stand is enteraining. I don't know if this is a jury trial or not (one of my next selections in the law book Bataan Death March is Medical Malpractice Cases in Massachusetts 1976-1982: Rulings and Outcomes), but if it is a jury trial, I think the plaintiff's attorneys would have been wise to stack the jury box with young Boston bachelorettes.

Valentine's Day: Don't believe the hype. It is a holiday made up by Corporate America to fatten us up so we'll need gastric bypass surgery, which may in fact kill us, rendering us unable to enjoy our malpractice suit windfall.

A certain professional basketball team has hit quite a rough patch. Since I was trumpeting them during the long winning streaks I should probably write a few words here during the dark moments to show my true support. But I don't have much to say beyond the fact that without Nash they just aren't very good. But in today's NBA, I don't know any team that could lose its best player and still expect to win even half their games. If the Mavs lost Dirk, they'd lose a lot of games, too. Same for the Spurs with Duncan and the Heat with Wade. I think these losses will show just how fallible the Suns are and how tenuous their success can be, but I don't think it will teach them things they don't already know.