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Today’s blip in Time

Wednesday Wake Me Up

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  • Anonymous

    Really happy to be reading this site and looking forward to continuing to follow the Criminal Injustice series here.

    Tchrldy was another person I respected at DK. Glad she wrote a bit about herself here today. Even though I don’t have a lot of money for campaign contributions, I intend to follow her lead and donate to Warren.

    (formerly blindyone)

    • Anonymous

      Hi sagenotsweet (lol, i love your new moniker!)

      Thanks for the kinds words and good to see you here!

      • Anonymous

        I’ll be here a lot. Lots of good stuff to read here.

  • bubbanomics

    Great news feed, Seeta! Thanks.

    • Anonymous

      Thanks bubba! :)

  • Anonymous

    Hi Seeta. I practiced trial law in Texas in private practice representing employees and worked for MCI in Texas DC and Colorado. After about 20 years of banging my head against the wall (fighting corporate abuses against employees through litigation and in-house) and because I had 4 young children at home, I “retired” from practicing law. I taught high school history and a few years ago I returned to school to get my MA in History. My concentration is World History and my research focuses are women and colonialism/ imperialism and women in South Africa. I now teach history at a community college which serves a very diverse student population.

    There is so much great information on your site. I am so happy to have found it. I can’t imagine where you find the time to do this and your law practice.

    Elizabeth Warren was a great teacher although she scared the crap out of me. She used the Socratic Method with unbelievable skill leaving most of us speechless at the end of a grilling by her. Yet she was very kind and supportive, especially of women students outside of class. She also taught me legal research and brief-writing. If she wins the Senate seat, I have no doubt, no doubt at all that she will apply her prodigious questioning skills against the Republicans and in Senate hearings. I can’t wait to see her in a debate against Scott Brown, he should be quaking in his boots.

    • Anonymous

      Wow! I could use some tips and words of wisdom about how you managed to stay balanced and maintain your faith in humanity during your time as an employment trial attorney — i.e., in light of interfacing with corporate attorneys on a regular basis! That was a great move on your part wrt to getting your MA and becoming a history prof, given your background and ear for intersectionality.

      Warren sounds like she was tough as nails. The debates should be entertaining and interesting.

      Thanks again for the kind words and glad you find the info here useful. As for where I find time, I am a glutton for punishment.

  • Anonymous

    I love blip in time. What a great way to link to these important stories. BTW Elizabeth Warren taught me contracts law as a first year law student at the University of Houston. I really learned the subject and used it over the next 20 years of practice as an Employment Law trial attorney. I posted a comment on her introductory post at DK and she replied to me very kindly even though she doesn’t have a clue which one of her students is “Tchrldy.”
    I just contributed to her campaign even though I don’t live in MA. I know that she will represent the people of the country well and will fight the Republicans brilliantly if elected. I have often wondered after she was not selected to head that Consumer Protection Bureau if she and the President didn’t strategize over whether she would be more effective for the people in the Senate and whether she was a willing participant in the decision to appoint someone else–after all the mostly white gentleman’s club that dominates the US Congress doesn’t care for strong capable women. IMHO if elected, Elizabeth Warren will be much more effective in the Senate than in that Consumer Protection position. Of course that wasn’t the conventional wisdom at the over 50 white male professional left PR site.

    Thanks to Criminal Injustice, I found this space and have been lurking for the past couple of days. It’s fantastic. Great work Seeta.

    • Anonymous

      Good morning Tchrldy! Thank you for the kind, encouraging words. :)

      Wow, Elizabeth Warren was your contracts law prof? How cool is that! I imagine she must have made the material very accessible. I didn’t realize you were an employment law trial attorney — that’s wonderful! I know you’ve talked about your teaching and students, so I was under the impression that you were exclusively a professor! So do you teach law?

      I too have wondered about the Consumer Protection Bureau appointment. So much goes on behind the scenes to which we are not privy.

      I hope she is elected — she is a much needed and powerful voice, especially in the patriarchal boys club that Congress embodies.