MI, MO, IA, KS, MN, CO.  Depends on you criteria, they’ve all been included as swing states at one time or another.

You’ve got a typo in your fucking bio! (Because should be became).  Here’s a tip - the thing that deep-sixes more young lawyers than anything else is a pattern of trivial errors that can be caught by proof-reading.  Typos in memos will put a hole in your career faster than a 6-penny nail will flatten a tire.

Does this mean you’re living in Ann Arbor now?

Typos in memos will put a hole in your career faster than a 6-penny nail will flatten a tire.

You should check the kerning in this post, too.  Future sleuths will be especially attentive to that, because we didn’t have kerning on blogs in 2008.

Hey Jesse… said in my other post (before I went and actually you know, read your bio) that I can get to OH.. well MI too… it’s an airline thing.

Law school.  Damn.  That’s awesome. 

Jo

Michael can joke about this because he has never in all the years I’ve read him had a typo in a blog post.  Not even in a comment.

”...makes him pretty sure that he’s lived in more swing states than you.”

I live in Oklahoma.  We don’t even sway.

As a fellow Swarthmoron and lawyer, I’m glad to see you posting.  But Michigan?  heh…

Welcome to Michigan Law, from a member of the class of 2010 and a regular Pandagon reader.  Try not to forget the blog when the temptation to dive into a [lawopen] fracas arises.  You’ll see what I mean soon enough.

“because the Governor’s”

Of course you mean “became the Governor’s.”

That reminds me, I have a paper to revise and edit.

Don’t let the typo nazis drag you down; they’re just jealous.  My recommendations for 1L year by the way:

1. Read “Getting to Maybe” about how to write law school exam answers.
2. Read the case outlines in an Emanuel’s or some other study guide.  They key them to your textbook so you can read case descriptions that actually make sense.  Do NOT try to figure out what the 19th century judges were saying.
3. Don’t go to class.  Your professors will only distract you from learning law.

“You should check the kerning in this post, too.  Future sleuths will be especially attentive to that, because we didn’t have kerning on blogs in 2008.”

But we do have the word “became”, a*****e. (And yes, I do know who Michael Bérubé is.)

Just remember, no matter what law review editors say, don’t be afraid to split verbs.