It is getting harder and harder to stay motivated for school. I can only imagine how ready I will be for law school to be over next year. A colleague of mine just came by and said he felt like he was living Groundhog day and my girlfriend woke up this morning and said in half-consciousness but full earnestness: "isn't it Sunday?"
For those of you who read this and who go to school with me, stop by the Men's Law Caucus table and buy some baked goods for our bake sale. We are also selling those cancer bracelet things to support research for testicular and prostate cancer. One student already came up and said she has a friend who had testicular cancer and how goes by the nickname "one-nut."
In other news, the prosecutor scandal keeps going on. I had the opportunity to go have some beers with McKay last week under the auspice of discussing paper topics for his class. We did not talk about the scandal at all and it seems like he is ready for this whole thing to blow over; although people at the bar were buying us beers, so I didn't really complain. We mostly talked about terrorism and whether or not it is a serious problem. I did not think there was much debate about that and most of the public debate was on how to deal with terrorism, but it seems some people do not think terrorism is that big of an issue. At a different event this weekend, I was accused of being Dick Cheney, because I said the issues of terrorism and the law will be important and changing for most of my legal career. It has taken over four years for some of the prisoners at Guantanamo to get charged and sit before a commission. Considering that fact, I do not know how anyone thinks these issues will go away anytime soon. This is an important and changing area of law exactly because terrorism exists now as a particular form of violence against civilians which has grown in our fast moving media environment. Never before could a band of armed rebels bomb a nation's soldiers thousands of miles away from home and have the news reach millions of citizens within hours. Terrorism, as we know it, is only possible because the means of communication allow terror to spread.
For those of you who read this and who go to school with me, stop by the Men's Law Caucus table and buy some baked goods for our bake sale. We are also selling those cancer bracelet things to support research for testicular and prostate cancer. One student already came up and said she has a friend who had testicular cancer and how goes by the nickname "one-nut."
In other news, the prosecutor scandal keeps going on. I had the opportunity to go have some beers with McKay last week under the auspice of discussing paper topics for his class. We did not talk about the scandal at all and it seems like he is ready for this whole thing to blow over; although people at the bar were buying us beers, so I didn't really complain. We mostly talked about terrorism and whether or not it is a serious problem. I did not think there was much debate about that and most of the public debate was on how to deal with terrorism, but it seems some people do not think terrorism is that big of an issue. At a different event this weekend, I was accused of being Dick Cheney, because I said the issues of terrorism and the law will be important and changing for most of my legal career. It has taken over four years for some of the prisoners at Guantanamo to get charged and sit before a commission. Considering that fact, I do not know how anyone thinks these issues will go away anytime soon. This is an important and changing area of law exactly because terrorism exists now as a particular form of violence against civilians which has grown in our fast moving media environment. Never before could a band of armed rebels bomb a nation's soldiers thousands of miles away from home and have the news reach millions of citizens within hours. Terrorism, as we know it, is only possible because the means of communication allow terror to spread.
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