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It Could Be Worse: You Could Be At One Of These California Law Schools

August 5, 2015 by Bitter Lawyer 2 Comments

Look. We are not actually people who believe that going to Stanford or the Ivys or whatever the hell other schools rich people go to is a necessary predicate to being a lawyer. There are great law students — and great law profs and great law resources — at all types of schools. But maybe…

Filed Under: Lawyer Tagged With: california, unaccredited

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Snapshots From The Other California

June 19, 2015 by Kaleb Horton Leave a Comment

It’s midnight, and I’m sitting on a porch swing in East Bakersfield. I can see the highway from here. It’s mostly trucks. Some nights I can see smoke billowing out of the stacks from the carrot plant, but not tonight. Across the way, there’s a man with a cigarette in his left hand and a…

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Filed Under: Endings Tagged With: bakersfield, california

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My Humble Plan To Run For Governor of California in 2018

April 3, 2015 by Kaleb Horton 1 Comment

Brothers and sisters, there’s trouble out here in the west. California is in the midst of a calamitous drought, one of the worst on record. There’s no water out here. There’s no snow in the mountains and no rain in our forecast. To travel through the Central Valley, which keeps our cities fed, is to…

Filed Under: Endings Tagged With: california, drought, governor, jerry brown

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I Drove One Thousand Miles To See Harry Dean Stanton Sing For Twenty Minutes

March 20, 2015 by Kaleb Horton Leave a Comment

My theory is that you’re not all the way American until you’ve driven a thousand miles for no reason in a vehicle you’re not supposed to be driving. In 1959, my grandpa bought a motorcycle in Detroit and drove it to California because he felt like it. A few decades later my uncle drove a…

Filed Under: Critic Tagged With: california, harry dean stanton, photo essay, repo man

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