New Zealand Versus England Part Two

New Zealand is all set for some sweet revenge against the Poms. After losing the home series 2-1, which was more disappointing considering we were 1-0 up!, the Blackcaps will take on the English on their home soil.Now the 20/20 match will be fun, the one dayers will be interesting, but all that really matters is the three test matches, England are red hot favorites, but I'm...

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Amy and Maxi go for a ride

I don't think there are many things more lovely than a little girl and her pony. Maxi is three now and I guess we could say that Amy broke in her first pony when she was two years old. These two have learned together and Maxi absolutely adores 'his' human. ...

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My life was bitter and hopeless. Then, I discovered coff...

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Reilly gives his first lesson

Reilly and Amy have effectively grown up together. Amy is always on at me to let her ride so today Reilly was the lesson pony. He's wise and sensible beyond his years as I think this video helps illustrate. Luff my boy! ...

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The Brown Swan

My brother sent this to me via email. It was too good not to share.My Negative Black Swan: I thought it was impossible to shit in my pants whilst farting on my cohorts.........until the day that I did. The dramatic outcome was that I had to sit around in gym shorts all day while my clothes were in the washer. What is worse is that I didn't think lightning could strike twice,...

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Useless Knowledge

At some point during a discussion of the War of 1812 in your high school history class, you probably wondered something that many kids wondered before you and wonder today. How is this going to help me make money?Like it or not, most of the stuff you learned in school was a waste of time. Did you really need to read Hamlet? Did you really need to dissect that frog? Did you really need to know how to solve a quadratic equation? Would you make one penny less if you didn't know that Columbus discovered America in 1492?I consider the fact that Sherlock...

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PRINT-The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan is a book about highly improbable events that have a very large impact. Taleb's target is the Gaussian Bell Curve and the delusion that it creates which he terms the ludic fallacy.Taleb divides the world into two fictional countries he calls Mediocristan and Extremistan. Mediocristan is the world of the bell curve. It is where the distribution...

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MONET, The Studio B...

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Well we did it - Our first dressage test

Again Reilly has knocked my socks off with his amazing mind. He soaked everything up today like a big brown hairy sponge and never put a foot wrong. It's true that we have a very long way to go before we are ready for registered competition but, for a horse that has been under saddle for a month, quite frankly I think he is amazing.The test was quite wobbly and my riding was...

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Gender Power Relations

Now that I have your attention, lets talk about Gender power relations. Apprently I'm not bright enough to talk about this important issue, according to someone from the blog "The Standard"You see, I was foolish enough to mention that a video of a topless woman posted on Stephen Franks's blog, wont hurt his changes on getting into Parliament in November.According to the good...

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Constitutional law in unexpected places

For example, in George Clooney cinematic homages to His Girl Friday, every Cary Grant-Katherine Hepburn comedy, and movies depicting the minor-league backwaters of professional sports.One of my colleagues was approached by a student in his Con Law I class, who had just seen the movie. According to the student (I have not seen the movie and probably will not until it comes...

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Our first dressage lesson

Gawd I am knackered!!! We had our lesson with Jo today, my first real dressage lesson in YEARS! What a work out for Reilly and for me (an hour). Jo has 5 horses and of course they are all mares so Reilly chose today to realise he has balls, lol! The silly dufus fell in love with the very pretty weanling (he's a cradle snatcher!) filly in the paddock next to the arena. Not...

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Another victim of sports mascot violence

In a previous post, I discussed the interesting role of sports mascots in spectator injury cases. Assumption of risk usually bars spectators injured by batted balls at baseball games from suing the team or arena. However, there is a split on whether a spectator distracted by a mascot should be able to get around this ordinary bar.The Tort Law Professor blog picks up the...

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U. of Hawaii Enforces Contract Against Breaching Coach

In the first week of January, Hawaii football coach June Jones terminated his 5-year contract that expires on June 30 of this year and accepted a job worth about $2 million per year at Southern Methodist. Hawaii claims it is entitled to damages for his early termination in the amount of $400,008 (which amount represents half of his annual salary). Section 10.4 of the agreement clearly provides, "If Coach terminates this Agreement prior to June 30, 2008,...Coach shall pay to the University as liquidated damages the sum of $400,008."Jones is now...

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Sonny Vaccaro to Speak at Columbia University Tomorrow Night

For those of you in the New York City area, Columbia University will be hosting its second annual Sports Ethics Symposium tomorrow night from 6:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.. The keynote speaker will be basketball legend Sonny Vaccaro, who has recently delivered talks at Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, the University of Memphis, and the University of Maryland. Sonny's talk...

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It is better to make mistakes of boldness rather than timidi...

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There is no end to work. Unemployment exists because of laziness and government tomfucke...

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New ideas are recombinations of old ide...

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Dr Cullen pulls the oldest trick in the book

For the life of me, I cannot understand why the media hasn't called up Dr Cullen on his latest underhanded sneaky trick. The Labour party has been pulling this for years and years, businesses have been using the same trick, yet the media remains silent.Politicians for decades have been trying to get this down to perfection, but no one has had the amount of success at it, like...

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Learning to jump (on the lunge)

I think it is safe to say that Reilly and I won't be rocking over to the UK any time soon for a crack at Badders or Burghley! Today, in an effort to get some 'lift off' I popped Reilly on the lunge and showed him some small jumps. He's certainly all heart but not too much 'ping' in the pony yet. He clearly wants to please but the idea of organising ones impulsion and ones...

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