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There’s a new Nike commercial that focuses on Amare Stoudamire. The background music is a version of Clubbed to Death (Kurayamino Mix) by Rob Dougan. This music was part of the Matrix soundtrack, and was played in the movie when Morpheus is teaching Neo not to trust his eyes, with the woman in the red dress. Fiona Johnson played this woman, the only unique background character (as it turned out, sets of twins and triplets were walking everywhere, to approximate a lazy programmer that didn’t want to code completely unique avatars). From this, are we supposed to take the lesson that Amare is a woman, but when you turn back, he’s suddenly a man? I wasn’t watching the commercial, except to confirm it was the Phoenix Sun, so we’ll have to wait for another run to try and figure out what the commercial means.

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“I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.” – E.M. Forster

It turns out that the Model Rules of Professional Conduct are more hamstrings to lawyers than help. Here’s the hypothetical: When attempting to create a security interest in collateral (essentially take a loan from a bank), the description of the collateral was never included in the documents. This results in no security interest, thus no valid loan. As the lawyer, we screwed up. You would think to yourself, just attach the description later. Still, this was an ethical violation if you did so, and there is no easy answer.

This led us to wonder. If C.S. murdered someone, I would try to convince him to turn himself in, before turning in the rat bastard myself. Of course, this would douse me in a barbecue sauce of guilt for the rest of my life. However, if I killed someone, so long as it wasn’t someone’s relative or didn’t have a direct impact on his life, C.S. would let me go. Live and let live, or in this case, live and let die?