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Today in History (1862) - The U.S. government forbids all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation. On the same day in 1865, the Confederate Congress voted to enlist 300,000 black troops, granting them freedom with the consent of their owners. Lee surrendered a few weeks later. |
I think I go out of my way to be an ass...and this is yet another example. I'm watching Comedy Central instead of studying. So, I'd like to prevent YOU from studying as well. It's not all that different from W&V's desire to prevent minorities from playing scattergories.
What are your plans for winter break?
Oops! Did I just put that thought in your head? You wanted to sleep all day and all night? Watch some daytime TV? Say hello to wife/kids/brothers/sisters/parents/grandparents/Bigfoot? Well whatever you had planned, good luck getting it out of your mind. Just go ahead, I dare you. Pick up Gilbert's and tell me you're not thinking about reading a mindnumbing pop magazine that requires three neurons working part-time to digest. [Added bonus to bad joke.]
Seriously though, I'm sick of the "What are you going to do this summer?" talk. If you want to emerge from caselaw land for a brief period, share your winter break plans below. If you're no longer part of the law school community, please share how you will find billable hours in a visit to (or from) the in-laws. And if you're planning on entering the law school community, please tell us how your vacation has been going thus far.
I was mainly going to read thru the old De Novo archives. That, and watch the Rose Bowl. I don't know if you heard, but Texas is playing in it. It should be pretty good.
Posted by: wingsandvodka at December 9, 2004 05:06 PMIt is now the end of the day, and I could not come up with anything better than, "I fart in your general direction."
Posted by: Armen at December 10, 2004 04:16 AMYou could have said "If you were at Boalt for law school instead of UT, you might not be waiting to hear back about that Chick-fil-a night manager thing."
But that would have been pretty tacky.
Posted by: wingsandvodka at December 10, 2004 03:58 PMThe notion that "the president bleeds Texas burnt orange" seems absurd on its face (and yes I realize the whole article is meant humorously), considering that he never has attended a school in the UT system -- actually was rejected by W&V's institution. Surely Bush bleeds Harvard crimson if anything, or perhaps Yale blue blood.
Then again, I always think of Frank Deford's assessment as he was at the Harvard-Yale game one year: The Ivy Leagues have the same attitude towards athletic glory that Victorians had toward sex. They want it but they can't admit it and so they don't often get it.
Posted by: PG at December 11, 2004 04:43 PM