If you have any interest in constitutional law, or the fundamental debate over originalism, textualism, and the living constitution...apparently there was a debate between Scalia and Breyer this week, and although it's not a briliant, penetrating analysis of the issues, I just thought this was great article, so I'm just recommending you take 5 minutes to take a look. If you like Dahlia Lithwick's pieces in general, this is just another great one.
Apparently the video is available here, which I will watch as soon as this exam hell goes away. And yes, I'm ten days into this exam push with 14 left to go....
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haha, i read that article yesterday and thought it was really entertaining. i think i'm more of a slate-nerd than a law-nerd, but i love reading slate's supreme court articles.
Come to law school! You can sue people over rocks!
Imagine...Be all dressed up in a pantsuit in a polished wood court room, and bang a rock down on the table as the key piece of evidence in whatever case it would be you're litigating about rocks...and a gasp ripples through the room....
...Montmorillonite.
(It took 20 minutes out of my study time to find a geology term long enough to add effect...which ultimately failed. It got so difficult that I actually typed "crazy rock names" into google.)
hahahaha, it's usually the minerals that have the wacky names, not the rocks. like buttgenbachite, cuprosklodowskite, manganbabingtonite, hardystonite, and my personal favorite, cummingtonite. not kidding.
The one I ended up picking was a mineral! I rule! (Cummingtonite is a pretty awesome name)
And, uh, you just distinguished a rock from a mineral. That must be incorrect...
Wow, a discussion on rocks. Of, course, I must put my two cents in. Personally, I have been quite intrigued by Spectrographic analysis of tourmalines with correlation of color and composition, although I must say that the occurrence of mendozite and tamarugite in Missouri has been quite an interesting me lately as well. Don't you agree?
SJ
Which search term did you use on google? Woulda saved me 20 minutes and the embarassment of having "Crazy Rock Names" saved in my search field.
And Yes. I agree.
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