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Attention Present and Past Coauthors: Get a Mac So We Can Switch to Pages

If you are now or ever wish to be a coauthor of mine, please -- pretty please -- switch to a Mac so we can use pages. Microsoft Word for Macs has crashed on me twice this am when trying to save a document for the first time.

Put bluntly, Microsoft Word for Mac is an unstable, fickle, evil tool of the devil. I hate it and all those responsible for foisting this POS on an unsuspecting public.

Also, law reviews and book editors that want to work with me should be prepared to receive manuscripts in Pages format.

Grump, grump, grump ....

Bishop on Professor Bainbridge on S.B. 75 and the Delaware Bar

Keith Paul Bishop blogs about my new article (Fee Shifting: Delaware's Self-Inflicted Wound; available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2624750).

 

Behrens & Hitchcock Ode to Picasso (Napa Valley) 2006 w/ BBQ Chicken

Dinner tonight was barbecued chicken, corn on the cob, and watermelon. I used store bought BBQ sauce (Stubbs Original) on free range skin-on, bone-in breasts and thighs. I brined the chicken for 1 and a half hours in 1/2 cup white wine, 1.5 cups beer, and enough water to make a total of 2 quarts, to which I had added 2 tablespoons of kosher salt, 2 tablespoons honey, 1 teaspoon smoked paprika, a bay leaf, and a half teaspoon each of black pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, and cayenne pepper. Forty minutes on a gas grill. Yum.

To drink, I poured a nine year-old Ode to Picasso, which is a blend of Cabernet Sauvignon and Syrah, as well as being one of my favorite Behrens wines. After decanting, I let it breathe for 45 minutes before dinner. Soft tannins make it easy to drink now (and I suspect it won't get much better). There's enough acid to stand up to barbecue sauce, as well as plenty of rich, dark fruit. Blueberries, black cherry, mocha java, pepper on the nose and palate. Grade: A-

Bainbridge on Fee Shifting Bylaws: The National Law Review Takes Note

From the National Law Review:

UCLA Law Professor Stephen Bainbridge recently posted an article calling Delaware’s recently enacted S.B. 75 a “self-inflicted wound”.   ... What I find particularly interesting is Professor Bainbridge’s thesis that the Delaware legislature acted at the behest of the Delaware bar which has a vested interest in maintaining, not limiting, stockholder litigation ....

Now I just need a student-edited law review to take note and publish it.

Research Handbook on Shareholder Power

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— Elgar Law (@Elgar_Law) July 2, 2015

Volokh hits back at University of California's absurd new micro-agression policy

My UCLAW colleague Eugene Volokh writes in the LA Times (how he got it past the notoriously far left Times editorial board is something of a mystery):

Calling affirmative action "racist" is an example of a racial "microaggression," says the University of California administration. Other examples of supposed microaggressions: "America is a melting pot," "I believe the most qualified person should get the job," "Gender plays no part in who we hire" and "America is the land of opportunity." ...

It's clear that UC wants to prevent such microaggressions, which the Academic Personnel and Programs Department defines as "slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative messages to target persons based solely upon their marginalized group membership." ...

Some people are indeed upset by criticism of affirmative action, or claims that America is the land of opportunity. But universities are places where people must be free to express their ideas, even when others find those ideas offensive. Administrators should not be pressuring professors, graduate students and others to censor themselves.

Are millennials really so delicate that they need a trigger warning before someone says "America is the land of opportunity"?

Am I really surprised that the University of the People's Republic of California is worried about such trivial nonsense? No. I'm just glad that in 8 years I'll be able to hang it up and ride off into the sunset.

Anyway, kindly go read the whole thing.