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I'm just your average pro-democracy, anti-death penalty, fiscally conservative, socially liberal, anti-leftist, anti-socialist, evangelical Christian, anti-fundamentalist, pro-freedom, reluctantly-pro-choice, pro-free-speech lawyer. No wonder nobody likes me.
About the anonymity: If I am very, very lucky, someday I just might get a job as a law professor or President of the United States. I'd really rather not have my half-baked, back-of-the-napkin thoughts out there for easy Google searching. The last thing I need at a job interview, tenure hearing, or nationally televised debate is someone calling me out on something I wrote in the heat of the moment on this blog. This does not mean I won't write back if you email.
About the blog name: As a kid, I used to spend hours every summer day in a chinaberry tree in front of our house. Actually, we spent our time in an eyesore of a treehouse we built in the chinaberry tree -- two levels, with extraordinarily attractive bright blue waterbed mattresses wrapped around the lower section (charming AND functional). The chinaberry tree was always a place to dream, to imagine, and to talk about stuff that mattered. Welcome.
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