Last week was awful. If one were disposed to such abuses of language, one might assert that it sucked. One would be right. Slightly more than half of my deadlines are now in the past (and met!). I think I only have six or seven huge projects or assign­ments on my plate now. It’s like a vacation. I have, literally, whole minutes of free time now. So luxurious. Anywho. I missed a lot this week. Happy Birthday, Atlas Shrugged among them. And Academy Award Winner Al Gore is now Academy Award Winning Nobel Laureate Al Gore. He should go for knighthood, next. Except his magnum propa­gandum got [ . . . ]

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Wednesdays suck. That is all. PS: substantive post coming soon!

Today, my law school hosted a mini-​​​​panel on equality as part of the University’s ongoing “Diversity Week,” and as part of the Law School’s “Constitution Week.” Several professors spoke on their research into equality and the Constitution. All three took a Progressivist stance. By Progressivist, I mean this: It is one thing to insist that the law be applied equally to all. It is entirely another to insist that equality requires the unequal appli­cation of the law. For instance, if equal operation of the law has the effect of ‘disen­fran­chising’ some group (the poor; the uned­u­cated; the disin­ter­ested), then the law must be [ . . . ]

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As you already know, having thor­oughly read and under­stood the About and Policies pages, I am a law student. I attend a public law school in a key Midwestern swing state. This infor­mation is specific enough to narrow the field to a handful of schools, but not so specific that my professors or fellow students might discover my identity. Such a discovery would likely result in an unpleasant situation, as I fully intend to engage in critical commentary on various aspects of my legal education. To wit ~ Law school began for me last year with a one-​​​​week, “intensive,” intro­ductory course titled “Introduction to Law and Legal Systems.” Oh, thought [ . . . ]

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