Compassion for only one group is not compassion at all, because compassion is not selective. Compassion is not extended to one group because they appeal to our political ideology (veteran, immigrant, Black, White, rural, urban, blue, red). Compassion is extended to everyone because they are human and so are we.

WVU is not challenging larger players with a new business model. It is trying to control the damange in a financial crisis. It’s not the same thing.

Is it ‘giving in’ to focus on gratitude? If we don’t stay pissed off, aren’t we letting the ‘bad guys’ get off too easily?

Maybe we have that backwards too. Maybe the nature of real strength is best described in the Tao:

It’s easy and sometimes convenient to say “I can’t feel better unless you change.” But that disempowers us, leaves us stuck as victims. If you could choose again - if you could choose joy and peace instead of suffering - would you?

Hottovy seems to have a strange magic with pitchers during these visits, but he outdid himself this time. After the break, Wicks proceeded to strike out nine, setting down the last fifteen straight batters he faced.

Maybe, instead of putting a Band Aid on mental health, we should be buckling down and rethinking the law school experience so that it isn’t quite so stressful?

Many of our students have long held the career goal of being an immigration lawyer. But not all of our students expect to practice immigration law. Either way, immigration law is a great vehicle for learning a wide variety of lawyering skills. It can provide litigation practice, regulatory experience, and legislative lobbying - sometimes all in the same case.

Alison’s Cold Virus Ass-Kicking protocol

Here are the things I did (periodically throughout Sunday through Tuesday as available):

Raw garlic (chop, wait 10 minutes, then eat)

Apple cider vinegar (shots, with a chaser of water)

Gait recognition is bound to be plagued by the same failures that plague other types of machine learning technology - overbroad judgments made on inadequate data, systems that fail to detect changes due to age or injury. And since no consent is required, it could easily be deployed to discriminatorily target vulnerable populations (like immigrants and people of color).