Lawyer Genes
Perhaps they should include the SCOTUS nomination process in the
syllabus for Legal Professions. The coverage on Roberts is
forcing me to evaluate my decisions relating to law. I like this excerpt from Slate:
I am enormously confident, however, that John Roberts has never smoked
pot. And I know this because I knew guys like him in college and at law
school; we all knew guys like him. These were the guys who were
certain, by age 19, that they couldn’t smoke pot, or date trampy girls,
or throw up off the top of the school clock tower because it would
impair their confirmation chances. They would have done all these
things, but for the possibility of being carved out of the history
books for it.
pot. And I know this because I knew guys like him in college and at law
school; we all knew guys like him. These were the guys who were
certain, by age 19, that they couldn’t smoke pot, or date trampy girls,
or throw up off the top of the school clock tower because it would
impair their confirmation chances. They would have done all these
things, but for the possibility of being carved out of the history
books for it.
I actually remember being 19, and having this exact agonizing debate,
both internally and vocally with some of my goody-two-shoes pre-med
friends. Judicial career or satiate youthful curiousity?
God, what a nerd.
But now that I am 27, someone should bring on the trampy girls.
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Otherwise, I donned a hairnet this morning, and spent a couple of hours putting salt and pepper packets on trays at Glide Memorial. My only comment: their cafeteria has a much better scent than the county jail.
badxmaru
August 17, 2005 @ 3:29 pm
yes!
bring on trampy girls! here here!
might be up in city on sunday
Simon
August 18, 2005 @ 11:05 am
I blew my chances of ever running for public office right around the end of high school. It was awesome.