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459 contributes scholarly articles to <em>Above The Law</em> and other legal websites. Each week, she chooses a newsworthy legal issue to explore in detail in a thoughtful editorial. Another old friend, <a href="http://abnormaluse.com/2013/04/ryan-steans-a-decade-of-blogging.html">the prolific Ryan Steans</a>, has blogged regularly for the past twelve years (first at <em><a href="http://www.melbotis.com/">The League of Melbotis</a>,</em> and now, at <em><a href="http://www.signal-watch.com/">The Signal Watch</a></em>). All these years later, he still authors comprehensive reviews of works of cinema and comic book literature. Few bloggers are more admirable than the indefatigable Walter Olson, who has maintained his <em><a href="http://overlawyered.com/">Overlawyered</a></em> blog <a href="http://overlawyered.com/july-1999-archives-part-1/">since July of 1999</a>. I first encountered Walter’s website in 2000 while surfing the Internet at Baylor Law School’s law library and read it to this day. I admire what all of them do and feel compelled to attempt something similar in this new enterprise.</p> 460<p>Accordingly, I intend to revisit my early days of personal blogging. I won’t write each day; I may not write each week. I will suffer no deadlines, no unfeasible posting schedule, and no pressure. But when the urge strikes me to recount my fondness for <em>Chungking Express,</em> editorialize on some arcane point of constitutional law, or reminisce about days of yore, I shall do so in detail on this site. In essence, this effort will serve as an expansion of my commentary on Facebook and Twitter and allow me to share some thoughts without the mighty constraints of the tweet or status update.</p> 461 </div><!-- .entry-content --> 462 </article><!-- #post-## --> 463 </div> 464 465<div id="comments" class="comments-area clearfix"> 466 467 468 <div class="comments-wrapper"> 469 <h2 class="comments-title"> 470 One thought on “<span>Mission Statement</span>” </h2> 471 472 473 <ol class="comment-list"> 474 <li id="comment-102" class="comment even thread-even depth-1"> 475 <article id="div-comment-102" class="comment-body"> 476 <footer class="comment-meta"> 477 <div class="comment-author vcard"> 478 <img referrerpolicy="no-referrer" alt='Eric Rowell's avatar' src='https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/166bd04d2a83cc6c37114fd44da3c2b6a24b082dbdec6b7f5258221a92b63bae?s=60&d=identicon&r=G' srcset='https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/166bd04d2a83cc6c37114fd44da3c2b6a24b082dbdec6b7f5258221a92b63bae?s=60&d=identicon&r=G 1x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/166bd04d2a83cc6c37114fd44da3c2b6a24b082dbdec6b7f5258221a92b63bae?s=90&d=identicon&r=G 1.5x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/166bd04d2a83cc6c37114fd44da3c2b6a24b082dbdec6b7f5258221a92b63bae?s=120&d=identicon&r=G 2x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/166bd04d2a83cc6c37114fd44da3c2b6a24b082dbdec6b7f5258221a92b63bae?s=180&d=identicon&r=G 3x, https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/166bd04d2a83cc6c37114fd44da3c2b6a24b082dbdec6b7f5258221a92b63bae?s=240&d=identicon&r=G 4x' class='avatar avatar-60' height='60' width='60' decoding='async' /> <b class="fn"><a href="http://jimdedman.com" class="url" rel="ugc">Eric Rowell</a></b> <span class="says">says:</span> </div><!-- .comment-author --> 479 480 <div class="comment-metadata"> 481 <a href="https://jimdedman.com/mission-statement/#comment-102"><time datetime="2016-12-09T07:01:49-05:00">December 9, 2016 at 7:01 am</time></a> </div><!-- .comment-metadata --> 482 483 </footer><!-- .comment-meta --> 484 485 <div class="comment-content"> 486 <p>I concur, Cash’s version was better.</p> 487<p id="comment-like-102" data-liked=comment-not-liked class="comment-likes comment-not-liked"><a href="https://jimdedman.com/mission-statement/?like_comment=102&_wpnonce=1f555a5399" class="comment-like-link needs-login" rel="nofollow" data-blog="85116814"><span>Like</span></a><span id="comment-like-count-102" class="comment-like-feedback">Like</span></p> 488 </div><!-- .comment-content --> 489 490 <div class="reply"><a rel="nofollow" class="comment-reply-link" href="https://jimdedman.com/mission-statement/?replytocom=102#respond" data-commentid="102" data-postid="69" data-belowelement="div-comment-102" data-respondelement="respond" data-replyto="Reply to Eric Rowell" aria-label="Reply to Eric Rowell">Reply</a></div> </article><!-- .comment-body --> 491 </li><!-- #comment-## --> 492 </ol><!-- .comment-list --> 493 494 </div><!-- .comments-wrapper --> 495 496 497 498 <div id="respond" class="comment-respond"> 499 <h3 id="reply-title" class="comment-reply-title">Leave a Reply <small><a rel="nofollow" id="cancel-comment-reply-link" href="/mission-statement/#respond" style="display:none;">Cancel reply</a></small></h3><form action="https://jimdedman.com/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform" class="comment-form"><div class="jetpack-comments" data-jetpack-comments="{"postId":69,"loginUrl":"
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