Pet Peeve

I have a minor pet peeve about the way almost ALL professors answer a similar question students invariably ask, from high school to law school. And it's incredibly boring.

BUT...

When students ask about the level of detail they need to use on the exam, for example, if we need to use citations. The response is always something to the effect of: "Well you don't need to give the name, the citation, the state, the year, the justice, and what page of the reporter it's on, and the name and year of the publisher. Ha ha ha."

Does no one else get annoyed by this response? Well, no shit. Of course we're not going to have to use incredibly irrelevant details that we wouldn't possibly be expected to know, you clod.

This is something that happens all the time. And not even in class. You ask a question about some sort of continuum, and the answer is always some ridiculous illustration of an extreme that is abundantly, and stupidly obvious, that doesn't explain a goddamn thing. And they pretend it does.


And that's my post for today .
I spent precisely 12 hours working all through the day with a single 20 minute break. I don't get much more interesting than this.

And if nothing else, here's a great article/review/take on Jack Black. Something about reading someone analyze and think about Jack Black is just more interesting to me today than reading about Ahmadinejad holding a "Holocaust is a Myth Conference" in Iran. Sigh. The world is certainly getting better.