This is a non-political post. Yay!
Anyway, this is for law students mainly...
Do any of you ever feel like you aren't able to absorb legal arguments when people say them out loud? Whenever I go to a speech, or in a lecture, or just general classroom time, I generally don't have enough of an idea of what's going on to speak confidently or dig into the issues. Someone will say something with tons of implications, and they no longer appear in my head. I just draw a complete blank. Actually, increasingly it's happening with readings too. I have to read things 3 or 4 times before I have the slightest clue what's going on.
It may just be because I haven't been resting, and my mind is rebelling against me...but I'm increasingly under the impression that I'm just a total moron when it comes to actively dealing with the law. Maybe it's classes here, maybe it's burnout, or maybe I am just an idiot...but I'm increasingly under the impression that my apparent ability in the law is a complete fluke. I am totally going to be sitting in front of a client one day and have absolutely no idea what he's talking about, and it's going to fuck me and everyone else over.
I dunno. But I feel really stupid all the time these days.
3 comments:
Asian Persuasion,
Seeing as how I mostly forget you have a blog, and then get the inestimable pleasure of remembering in Securities Regulation, and thus get to read a whole bunch at one time (an event as fun as getting Crystal Meth and being with a male prostitute all in the same night!), I will take this time to comment on the various posts in your blog. Furthermore, it makes it look like I am actually paying attention to the Section 11 defenses of the '33 Act.
1.) In your post about the WTO, you make a crack at those who believe in creation. Allow me to clarify. I believe in creation simply because saying "God did it" is a whole hell of a lot simpler than saying "ok, so there were dinosaurs, who then went extinct, but before they did, they turned into chickens and flying squirrels and such, at which time some of the bigger mammals decided to go swimming, and then turned into whales, and then the monkeys started coming out of the monkey forest, and ran around Africa, and then walked upright and lost their monkey hair." Personally, I am not a fan of being the descendent of a monkey, despite your girlfriend’s evident love for said monkeys and said monkey forest.
2.) You are quite welcome for the throw the Jew Down the Well clip. Frankly, its been lonely at the bottom of said well since Baby Jessica left. By the way, have you seen baby Jessica lately. Chick is HOTT! (extra “T” intentional)
3.) How can you be bad at math? You are Asian. Its like wall building, you are genetically predisposed to be good at it. Its like me being bad at money lending or bartering (remember the earrings in DC. I saved you big $$$).
4.) My commentary on the election: Frankly, I was mildly happy with the results, with some exceptions. I’ll hit the exceptions first.
Claire McKaskill’s victory. Not happy here, because it shows a bitch can get elected over a smart white male of superior intellect and education. If being a bitch can get you elected, than Hillary looks pretty good for a 2008. Scary thought.
Stem Cell Amendment: Look. We’ve all seen the Alien movie, with the screwed up Sigourney Weaver saying “kill me”. I mean, its just screwed up. Furthermore, how did that amorphous blob Sigourney Weaver clone thing learn to talk?
Eliot Spitzer: The guys a friggin’ jackass. Have you paid attention to him! He goes after companies just for the hell of it, puts them through the enormous cost of discovery, and then says “Oops”. Having a guy who attacks big business whenever he needs to gain some popularity in charge of NY? – Yeah, that’s a good plan.
Good Stuff: basically, and hopefully, this gets the Republicans to pull their head out of their ass, and realize that we need to get back to the Reagan Era Republican Party, i.e. small government, low taxes, strong military, and lots of jellybeans. Rather than this whole religious right stuff. My best hope is McCain. Or maybe Rudy G. Most of the Democrats who were elected were pretty centrist. That and most of them don’t desire to schtup their pages.
I’ve pretty much hijacked your blog, and so I close with a quote by Colbert I found particularly amusing:
You’ve made your bed, now lie in it. Except it is crowded with a gay married couple. Tomorrow you’re all going to wake up in a Brave New World, a world where the constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones created in a stem cell research lab run by homosexual doctors who sterilize their instruments over burning American flags. Where Tax and Spend Democrats take all your hard-earned money and use it to buy electric cars for National Public Radio and teach evolution to illegal immigrants. Oh, and everybody’s high! Whoo! I’ve had it! You people don’t deserve a Republican majority. Screw this, I quit! - Stephen Colbert
SJ
Holy Jesus Christ. I did enjoy your "comment," but I'm under the distinct impression that this happened because, as I understand it, you've formally renounced your participation in the other one. I'd invite you to this one, but as it's called "A Developing Mind" and you're quite clear on the fact that you're "developed" I figure it'd be a bad match. Let's see...I'll just respond Sequentially.
1) Significant blocks of this human race have not really lost their "monkey hair." So, if evolution is real, which I believe it is...then we shall notice that Asians have generally developed in such a fashion as to be less physical and more cerebral (with larger heads mind you), and certainly have less body hair than you neanderthal white folk. Draw the necessary implications.
2) I believe you are mistaken. The Stuff.com interview and picture were fake, at least as far as Wikipedia explains. This...Is not her. http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/EE/images/uploads/babyjessica1.jpg
THIS...is her.
http://people.aol.com/people/article/0,26334,1154151,00.html
3) Dude. What do you mean you being BAD at money lending? Did we miss a link here somewhere? I mean if you being bad means bad for the world and good for your neckbag, you are correct sir.
4) Smart and incisive. Especially the part about Sigourney Weaver Blob.
I'll also close with a quote from Rush Limbaugh, a man of principle (Courtesy of andrew sullivan, of course):
"There have been a bunch of things going on in Congress, some of this legislation coming out of there that I have just cringed at, and it has been difficult coming in here, trying to make the case for it when the people who are supposedly in favor of it can't even make the case themselves - and to have to come in here and try to do their jobs."
Dammit. The pictures didn't work. See the blog for them.
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