…you read your own previous post and the last line makes you think of erie v. tomkins.

i felt like blogging, but i couldn’t remember what i had wanted to blog about. it was probably my professional responsibility class — the professor has me utterly confused. i understand the concept of being a zealous advocate for your client, but i think that lawyers should have an ethical responsibility to the universe, not just to the particular client. i’m not sure where prof. PR stands on it — as a priest i’d assume he would agree; as a former congresscritter, i’d expect him to disagree. and it’s not much clearer from his lectures.

but i’m sure that my PR quandaries are utterly boring for the few nuts who read this blog, so i’ll limit myself to this joke, just sent to my by my little brother:

q: what’s bush’s position on roe v. wade?

a: he doesn’t really care how people get out of new orleans.

yes, i know. it’s bad. on so many levels. but maybe it’s just too soon — after all, comedy = tragedy + time…

overheard in the hallway today…

him: “is that the movie produced by penn & teller?”
her: “um, i don’t know. but it’s just one long joke.”
him: “yeah, that sounds like the one. i don’t remember the title, though.”
her: “neither do i… but it was a really funny movie.”

if you’ve seen the movie, you’ll know why i found this exchange humorous.

this morning i will not be attending the lecture on psychoceramics as scheduled. whether prof. carberry will signal his approval is irrelevant, as at nine a.m. i will be arguing for a sixth amendment right to counsel, or perhaps a fifth. at any rate, i am sure he has taken no notice of my exam schedule whatsoever, as recent reports indicate he is dead, a state which he denies vigorously.

according to salon (which i won’t link to as a reader pitched a hissy the last time i did) in a little article regarding DOD’s appeal of the third circuit decision enjoining the government from enforcing the solomon amendment,

GOP Congressman Richard Pombo, a co-sponsor of the Solomon amendment, isn’t sympathetic to [the universities'] cause. He told the Los Angeles Times that the amendment was created to “send a message over the wall of the ivory tower of higher education” and that “starry-eyed idealism comes with a price. If they are too good — or too righteous — to treat our nation’s military with the respect it deserves, then they may also be too good to receive the generous level of taxpayer dollars presently enjoyed by many institutions of higher education in America.”

pff. how ironic that having equal treatment standards is somehow disrespectful of the military. the critters on the Hill who think that allowing openly gay people to serve will somehow cause problems are the disrespectful ones.

trying to unwind my brain after nearly seven straight hours of studying criminal justice. i have to wonder how much of selective incorporation i’m going to remember by the middle of may — hopefully more than i will remember of the episode of desperate housewives i just watched in a futile attempt at said unwinding.

black: all for total incorporation (and limited to the text of the original bill of rights). frankfurter: fundamental freedoms. duncan: selective incorporation.

and snuffy is digging through the bedclothes trying to find the patella he was chewing on. you know you’re married when the wet spot in your bed is dogslobber….

it is very, very hard to listen to someone discuss advanced torts after three beers, a glass of wine, and a finger of bourbon. i blame it on the school for holding a last-day-of-classes bash before the final classes were finished.

w00t!

foo. i miss my old site design. this one’s a bit better than the previous default — a little edgier, less blobby.

and crikey. i just found out my criminal justice final is closed book. what gives — BOTH my in-class finals are closed book this semester (wait, make that all three — comparative law was as well).

but i’m sloooooowly figuring out this wordpress thing. a major redesign is still going to have to wait until after finals.

got it, self? AFTER FINALS.