Letters to the Editor
Herb Spencer
Published Letters: 23
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Practice, Practice, PRACTICE!
[Read the article: I'm a high-school dropout in law school and I feel like an impostor!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dude, you are NOT "learning disabled," or, worse, "differently abled." You have certain strengths and weaknesses that you've learned to live with and have found, in the same profession as I have with similar traits, your niche in life. That's cause for celebration, not consternation.
To answer your question - because as a lawyer, as opposed to, say, a theologian or historian, you'll be focusing on specific issues throughout your career - you need to take as many practice bar exams as possible, both MBE and essay. Do them under simulated conditions that match those you'll encounter on test day(s), and do them often, for at least a month, in addition to reviewing your subtantive law. Trust me, I did it that way and I passed the toughest bar exam in the US. Good luck and "see you in court!"
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A "less interesting" game?
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To those who say that college ball will be less interesting w/o BK, I say since when did bullying and gratuitous violence make any game - hockey included - any more "interesting?" What interests me in any sport is skill, grace, power, intelligence and finesse. Throw in some humility in winning and pride in losing after making an honest effort and you've got what I admire in sports. Maybe that's why I generally confine my viewing to amateur and college sports, except for baseball and playoff games in the NFL.
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If only we COULD stop contributing to NPR!
[Read the article: Journalism's last line of defense]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]However much the prior poster might revel in stopping her contributions to NPR, unfortunately she and the rest of us taxpayers are obliged to continue our contributions as long as Congress continues to fund this Leftosaurus. It's utility and creativity have long-since been surpassed by the rise of private educational and "cultural" channels, such as A&E, Discovery, Bravo and others. Nowhere is this better broadcast than by PBS' showing A&E's excellent, albeit several-years-old, "Pride & Prejudice" on "Masterpiece Theater" this past and the next few Sundays - and passing it off as if it were its own. Time to pull the plug on the CPB and end all the conflicts - of interest and otherwise - that government funding of ANY media engenders.
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Congrats - kinda
[Read the article: Happy ending for writers]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm glad when any group gets justice, as you have apparently here, and when people are productive and contributing to society again. But is the last of these three points really operative here? Sure, there's a demand for your product, as evidenced by the ratings, however dismal they may be at times, but does your product really make our society a better place? From what I've seen, itself an exercise in patience and self-control, I respectfully think not. The values your writing expresses and the ever-lower levels of discourse which it drives have not only not bettered our society, but have actively brought it down. What the strike really demonstrated to me, at least, was that not only did no one outside your field of endeavor really care about your issues, no one really missed your product. Simply put, we were better off without it.
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McCain AND Obama - THAT's the ticket!
[Read the article: The dude vote]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Add this middle-aged male GOPer, active in his party, to the list urging McCain to invite Obama to be his Veep if Team Billary steals - that's the only way they can get it now - the nomination. The Master and The Apprentice, a solid, unifying team that will benefit America best!
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Tell us about Team Hillary's defense of cop killers at Yale Law!
[Read the article: Newsday's cheap shot]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It's documented, but not often reported, that Billary, Bill Lan Lee and other old Clinton cronies were active in the defense of numerous cop-killing black radicals in their days at Yale Law. That's the Clintons' idea of pro bono - but it sure as hell ain't mine. The sooner they both are yanked off the national stage, the better.
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Don't forget Kino
[Read the article: The bull market for forgotten films]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]THE source for obscure films, from the silents to the most avant garde. Of the hundred or so films I own at home, 90% were made pre-1970. So much junk has been made since then that it's a rare critic indeed who can write a quality review today, most of them simply being ignorant of what makes a quality film.
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Dismal Science or Junk Science?
[Read the article: Richard Price's criminal intelligence]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Have a care when citing Darwin in the context of subcultures that would - and should! - no longer exist had natural selection not been supplanted by affirmative action.
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The Wait's Over!
[Read the article: Richard Price's criminal intelligence]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Actually, for open-minded people who'd rather read than spin, it never began. You needn't be Margaret Mead to know that all cultures harbor individuals who abuse drugs a/o are troublemakers. The point is that few governments actively subsidize and promote future generations of such miscreants as ours does, all in the name of a horribly misguided misconception of "social justice." See, DPMoynihan, generally.
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Hubris? Arrogance? What IS it ...
[Read the article: The tragic fall of Eliot Spitzer]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]about so-called "great men" - and women, as we'll soon see - that makes them abandon all reason and engineer their own downfalls? Intelligent people these, but suffering from a fatal lack of judgment and self-control.
In short, the absolute last sort of person who should govern anyone, when they can barely govern themselves.
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"Everything is beautiful?"
[Read the article: Pretty heads will roll ]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]To which I can only riposte, "Can't we all just get along?"
Looking forward to Season II, assisted-masturbation and all.
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Nice try, Salon
[Read the article: Is Briana Waters a terrorist?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your play for "clemency and forgiveness" - I'm glad I've not breakfasted yet - fell flat on its homely face. All you did was demonstrate once again that many of those who call themselves "Progressives" are just selfishly permissive and don't know the least thing about how our legal system actually operates. Brianna - she sounds more like a fan of "American Idol" or a subscriber to "People" than the enviro-arsonette she is - is lucky to have had her trial within the Ninth Circuit, which will undoubtedly bend over backwards to indulge the slimmest of her grounds for appeal and subject us all to several more years of its own whining version of "activism."
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Wrong Colbert
[Read the article: Can Stephen Colbert save America?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]We'd all do better by following the advice of Jean Baptise Colbert, not Stephen.