So I didn't catch up on my work. Bad me. And I've only got a month until exams. Which used to seem like a lot, until I got to law school. Now, it is not even close to enough. For anyone not dealing with the wonderful world of the law school, let me tell you they are trying to torture us. The work load is higher, we are trying to get jobs, and best of all, Moot Court takes a LOT of time for one stupid credit...

On a lighter not, vacation is wonderful. It is amazing what a week away from school does for the mind. Despite my workload, I am ready to work and not dragging as much as I was. Of course, it is gorgeous outside today, and that might be helping the situation more then anything. It is sunny out, and the temperature is perfect for jeans and a t-shirt. Granted, I am stuck in the tower all day, but who cares, I can pretend that I will see the sunshine before the day is out. :-)

BTW, Happy St. Patty's Day to all. Drink some green beer and do a little jig for me!

One of the worst things that can happen to a law student is getting sick. I mentioned this to a friend once, and they told me I was nuts. But sickess is a true problem for a law student, or a student in general. I have been sick all week, and it has made my life VERY difficult. It is really difficult to read 30 pages of Contracts in general, but when you are sweating out a fever? Forget it. And trying to sit in classes with an ear ache and a wonderful chest cold is pure torture. And yet, we go, sick as hell. Which really just perpetuates the cycle. It is like a choir of illness, the law student coughing choir. And since ventilation sucks, we just get the same colds, again and again. A microbiologists dream (or nightmare.)

All this fun aside, I am going on spring break. A week of visiting friends, seeing my family and best of all, catching up on all the work I have missed this week. Wow, I am insane...

The Supreme Court is getting old. 2 of our justices are getting close to leaving( Rehnquist and Stevens). And looking at that makes me realize that having a position for life may not necessarily be the best idea. Why? Cuz sometimes old people don't necessarily see the world as it is, but as it was, or as they want it to be. This is not to say that us younger people don't do this, but as we age, we tend to become set in our ways, and see the world in a more narrow way.

J. Scalia is one of these set people. Time after time, in situations of discrimination, Scalia has suppported discriminating policies. He does not seem to care what KIND of discrimination it is, whether it discriminates based on gender or sexual preference (see. J.E.B. v. Alabama, United States v. Virginia and Romer v. Evans, all dissenting opinions) His arguements are long winded, and astoundingly archaic. Amongst his dissents he compares homosexuals to polygamists and murders, and long-windedly tries to justify not allowing women in a publicly funded prestigious academic institution. It is astounding to me that in this day and age that a Justice on the highest court in the country could ritually be against such fundamental ideas as protection from discrimination and equal rights to education. Scalia has been on the United States Supreme Court since 1986. Since his appointment, there has been a huge amount of litigation against discrimination in this country. Yet it does not phase our Scalia. And he dissents on his own. He can't even claim peer pressure, like so many people use as an excuse...

It is astounding, that Scalia is so intelligent, and yet so messed up. One of my classmates said that he is just an old white guy, and he just doesn't get it. But you know, J. Stevens is an old white guy, and he gets it more then Scalia even does. It is not acceptable. You can be an old white guy all you want, but when you have that much control, and power, get over your ignorant bias and really look at the world. This country is not the same as it was in the 50s. It is not the same as it was in the 70s. IT is not even the same as it was when Scalia was appointed in 1986. Scalia, wake up! Look at the world around you. And please, if you are going to be ignorant to the changing society, at least write shorter opinions so the law students don't have to spend hours reading your rants...

I hate to admit this, but I think boxing is fascinating. The concept of being entertained by grown men beating on each other is kinda worrisome. Kinda makes me feel like I am regressing back to the barbaric days when we settled things with duels and what not. Then I realized we have not really grown all that far past the barbaric days of old. Look at us now. We don't like someone, what to we do? We beat them up, be it through a law suit, by black balling them, or maybe just a nice mob hit. :-) As a country, we beat on people when we don't like what they are doing. We set up sanctions, we bomb the hell out of the country, we engage in a "military action" (which is really a war, but we can't call it that...) So, in the end, for all we like to say we are a civilized society, are we really so much better then the duelists of old, or the neanderthals clubbing each other?

So after I repeatedly swore I would never, EVER create a Blog, here I am. I figured, rather then go insane with the boredom that it is to be a law student, I would just rant here. You may like what I say, you may not. Either way, here are my tirades. Comment if you feel it is necessary, or just laugh at what law school can do to an otherwise rather sane person. And if you really think I am wrong, by all means, PLEASE tell me. I may even comment back. You never know. That being said, I still have over 30 pages of reading before I can have a life, and this does not count as a life so....