I talk about gay marriage a lot because I believe that it has inter­esting features and conse­quences beyond those commonly subject to discussion. For example, in my Law Review article, “Same-​​​​Sex Marriage and the Federal Spousal Privileges,” I argue that vari­a­tions in state laws dealing with gay marriage create a situation where federal courts may be faced with a novel choice-​​​​of-​​​​law question: To which state’s laws should a federal criminal court look to determine the validity of a marriage for purposes of applying the spousal testi­monial and commu­ni­ca­tions priv­i­leges to same-​​​​sex marriages under Federal Rule of Evidence 501. (That article was finished in April, 2009, and has [ . . . ]

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Comments are expressly solicited. In the course of going about living his life, a man notices that he has a dispro­por­tionate pref­erence for redheads as romantic interests. Not being a lazy man, he engages in some lengthy intro­spection and arrives at the following accurate conclu­sions: His pref­erence for redheads makes him more likely to inves­tigate the possi­bility of romance with redheads than with non-​​​​redheads. Red hair is not a factor bearing any weight on his decision to engage in, continue, or end a romance. His romances with redheads are no more or less healthy and rational than his romances with non-​​​​redheads. He honestly does not [ . . . ]

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I was going to comment on a recent editorial (Kay S. Hymowitz, Freedom Fetishists, Comment. Sept. 2007, at 50, available at http://​www​.commen​tary​magazine​.com/​c​m​/​m​a​i​n​/​v​i​e​w​A​r​t​i​c​l​e​.​h​tml ?id=10925) that paints Ayn Rand and her philosophy of Objectivism in an unpleasant color and with a crude brush. I spent several hours mulling over what I wanted to say about it. But in the end, I decided I really had very little to say that hadn’t already been said. That little boils down to this: Intellectual slop­piness begets intel­lectual slop­piness. Hymowitz should have done some real research, instead of relying on a few prominent Libertarians’ warped inter­pre­ta­tions of Rand’s philosophy, before purporting to speak with [ . . . ]

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As you already know, having thor­oughly read and under­stood the About and Policies pages, I am a law student. I attend a public law school in a key Midwestern swing state. This infor­mation is specific enough to narrow the field to a handful of schools, but not so specific that my professors or fellow students might discover my identity. Such a discovery would likely result in an unpleasant situation, as I fully intend to engage in critical commentary on various aspects of my legal education. To wit ~ Law school began for me last year with a one-​​​​week, “intensive,” intro­ductory course titled “Introduction to Law and Legal Systems.” Oh, thought [ . . . ]

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