Immigration Articles

The Miami Law Review has a great set of articles about immigration.

This one, by Rebecca Sharpless, entitled Toward a True Elements Test is great, as is Vastine's Is Your Client Prejudiced?

Dear Family,

I am not your emotional pinata. I do not exist to make you feel better, absolve your sins, fix your mistakes, or heal your wounds. The errors you made have been done, and my emotional vulnerability does not fix that. So, please, fuck off and stop playing family politics with me. If you burn a bridge, do not expect the death of my mother to magically re-engineer it.

It's sad when you go to school, even though the entire school is closed, because you don't want to be alone and the closest thing you have to a friend in Miami is the school library.

It really hurts to know that you are all alone. And, now, I know that.

Look like nothings gonna change,
Everything still remain the same,
I can't do what ten people tell me to do,
So I guess I'll remain the same, yes,

Sittin' here resting my bones,
And this loneliness won't leave me alone

Whoa...

It has been a long motherfucking time since I've had a crush on someone. This feeling is weird and kind of unsettling.

It is also rather strange that THAT is what brings me to type in my blog once again. It isn't law school, it isn't finals, it isn't Miami; no, instead a girl makes me blog again.

Why Zidane?

Seriously man, you better have a good reason for head-butting a man in the chest during the World Cup Final: a game that was the last game of your career.

Soccer Commentary

God DAMN it. Americans either need to learn about soccer, or shut the fuck up when speaking about it. These people are ignorant beyond belief. Who the fuck is Michael Beckon? Do you mean David Beckahm? And who is Ronaldin-HO? Do you mean Ronaldinho? There is no HO in Ronaldinho. Nor is Keller the best goalkeeper in the world. Adu is not the next Pele. And Eugene Robinson, you lost some major respect points in my book today (for politicizing soccer, and for being wrong in about everything he said about it).

And this all occurs even though I try to stick to Spanish commentary and articles (or British articles) concerning the cup.

Okay, I Take it Back...

I do understand how someone can love a book that is contrary to one's ideals (I love Crime and Punishment and the Brothers Karamazov). Although, I will say that at the time I first read Crime and Punishment I was strictly Catholic and, therefore, liked it for that reason. It (and Dostoevsky's style) must somehow be ingrained in my mind as something pleasing, even though I don't believe in Christian existentialism for a second. On the other hand, I really dislike Nietzsche's philosophy, and Crime and Punishment is a type of argument against that philosophy (and I know Crime and Punishment was written before Nietzsche published his work, but Schopenhauer's philosophy was around at this time).

HAHA

One of the funniest things I've read in a while (Concerning why "This Land is Your Land" should be the American national anthem):

"True, Woody Guthrie was a bit of a Communist, but Francis Scott Key was a slave owner, for goodness' sake."