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Morrissey
I'm Playing Easy to Get

Don’t dig for a metaphor
Has it not tweaked with you yet?
And don’t wonder why I’m still around
I’m just playing easy to get

Don’t dig for a secondary meaning
At worse you might just find a first
And don’t wonder why I’m standing over here
I’m just playing easy to get

Do I have to drop anchor like a sailor
To switch on the bulb in your head?
Do not frisk me, silence is your answer
I’m just playing easy to get

I’m so easy, maybe you’ve had me
If you had then you would not forget
When you see me between Cole and Cahuenga
I’m just plain desperate

So don’t waste time trying to get to know me
I’m yours
I’m yours
And don’t waste time with snappy conversation
I’m yours
Everyone knows
I’m yours

Call Me Ahab

I found my Moby Dick at last, and he's some kind of a stroke victim now. If Ahab found his whale in that condition, would he stopped acting like a madman? Would he have become rational and gone home, leaving the beast to mind his own business, the way he always did - except in my story, without all his marbles? The point of Moby Dick is that Ahab probably wouldn't have come to his senses. To ascribe such malignancy and power to a dumb beast isn't, after all, any more or less ridiculous than being in love with a person who over the years has become mentally impaired, or just plain nuts.

And so I am Ahab. My feeble-minded or insane Moby Dick is still the measure of everything I always wanted, but couldn't have, and of all my failures and inadequacies. He would fix everything when I found him, I believed. I found him at last - and I cried for three days.

December Stress

Whenever I think of how much of my Law and Society I'll have to write over Christmas - read: all of it - I feel like puking.

Meredith Baxter Comes Out

Former Family Ties actress Meredith Baxter came out as a lesbian on The Today Show. What do you think?

"With all these older lesbians coming out these days, I expect to see some cutting edge discoveries on menwholooklikeoldlesbians.blogspot.com."

Validation: I don't have it

It's been so long since I've been validated. I'm not good at law, I can't keep many friends, I'm not even invited to the law school parties everyone is invited to, and I've never done anything cool, like front a feminist punk band.

Getting a job was sort of validating, but de minimis. It was more like a game of probabilities. If firms were hiring one person for every ten interviewed, it wasn't all that impressive that I was the one hired after nine interviews.

Humans Biologically Disposed To Help

In his new book Why We Cooperate, Dr. Michael Tomasello writes that 18-month-old infants will attempt to help when they see an unrelated adult whose hands are full trying to open a door or pick up a clothespin. What do you think?

"Dr. Tomasello shouldn't jump to conclusions about 'human' biology. An 18-month-old may try to pick up your clothespin, but the 18-year-old will point at you and laugh for being poor and using a clothespin."

Chelsea Clinton Engaged

Chelsea, the daughter of former president Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is engaged to her longtime boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky. What do you think?

"The in-laws seem to be even more impressive than the Clintons: the groom's father is a former congressman who lost money in a Nigerian money laundering scam."

Swiss Vote Down New Minarets

Voters in Switzerland passed a referendum banning the construction of new Muslim prayer towers. What do you think?

"I don't know if I should be horrified at their religious intolerance, or proud of them for finally taking a stand on something."

One is the loneliest fucking number

...when you see vermin running across your kitchen, and there's no one to share your panic attack, or kill the vermin with HIS bare hands rather than YOUR bare hands. At last, I found a reason to get married.