Here's a link to what claims to be the Obama Tax Cut Calculator.And also my reaction to Obama's speech. His manner, his mode, his affect was strong. Strong. STRONG. read more

My brother recently landed in North Carolina for grad school and I accompanied him for the trip out. I wrote this in the car at the end of the week... So the trip has been good. Tuesday was fantastic. Driving through pockets of thunderstorm over t... read more

Hello to everyone!How was your summer? Welcome back to USF (or, welcome to USF). I hope this semester and school year is a great one! • I want to introduce our 4 new student workers: Kate Mitchell, Kathleen Smith, Jeremy Ghassemi, and Fang-Yu Chao... read more

what follows is a working version of my teaching narrative, a part of my USF tenure packet that is due september 15th. comments and feedback - especially from past, present, and future students - are encouraged and appreciated.David SilverTeaching... read more

am i right in assuming this entry is a scambecause1. dancing squirrel2. comic sans? read more

click to view larger imageFinally done editing the images!!! This shoot is with my friend Kimi from school taken on August 20, 2008. She had in mind a park nearby her house but when we arrived, there were too many kids around [forgot that school s... read more

It's a curious thing, being a fan of Mad Men. The episodes are often subtle, clever, visually striking. And so, when you watch an episode designed to set up later ones -- where primarily backstory and conversations happen but no true plot points e... read more

SINCE ITS INCEPTION, TWR has taken a keen interest in the intersection of politics and plagiarism. Not long ago, we posted on accusations of plagiarism against Barack Obama by Hillary Clinton, and we also wrote about plagiarism and the memoir Lov... read more

Things are going well as I end my second week in Texas! Last Sunday we moved into Casa Rutilio Grande. It's a three bedroom house in a predominantly Mexican neighborhood just a bit southeast of downtown Houston. Since there are seven of us, we... read more

It isn’t exactly health food: waffle or steak fries with cheese – usually mozzarella – and more brown sauce than you would find in a gravy boat at Thanksgiving. In addition to this, the dish comes with even more gravy for dipping – if you ca... read more

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This sunless and fog filled summer was a memorable one. I turned that longing age that every college student counts down the days for, moved into a new apartment, and had my first “I hope I don’t get hit” bike ride around this beautiful Bay City. ... read more

Orientation has brought a flock of new law students to the Zief Library, and reminded us that one of the hardest things about the beginning of law school was trying to make sense of the cases assigned for the first classes.So this seems like a go... read more

USF's own Fred Blankenship, now at WSB-TV in Atlanta, welcomes FB4. That's a nice baby. But Fred was always the West Coast distributor for handsome. read more

Leroy Sievers, whose blog for NPR was linked to ours, passed away. Read more here. read more

Next Monday marks the official start to my new position at the Foghorn. Hired as the Online Manager of this coming year, my task involves revamping the Foghorn Website and working to get any other technical aspects of the organization up to speed... read more