It looks like the red blob has eaten Oak Park.

I hope my cat was tasty.

Happy birthday, vw!!

You get the idea that because slavery's in the Constitution, they think it should never have been outlawed. They are conservatives' conservatives, opposed to anything that smacks of change.

Really? You think originalists are secret slavery supporters? Come on. Since it was outlawed by constitutional amendment, I don't think they have a problem with it, but I'll ask. No, wait. No, I don't think I need to do that.

I don't like secret societies, and The Federalist Society comes pretty damn close. I don't mind organizations that get together to discuss topics, but the FS appears to exist to crush opposition. And it's become an odd-boys' network. Membership in it seems to be de rigeur for an appointment.

How are they secret? How do they exist to crush opposition? It's a law school group! They get speakers, hold parties for conservative judges and lawyers. And of course membership is de rigeur for appointment from a conservative to a legal post-- it's the pre-eminent conservative lawyer's society! It's a Republican bona fide!

Yes, at law school the conservative students migrated to the FS, but the moderate ones then migrated away.

I just don't know where the evidence for this is.

The upshot is, of course Roberts has an association with the group. It's not Skull & Bones, for god's sake, it's the conservative lawyer's group, and he's a conservative lawyer. Of course they have connections to every other conservative legal group (IHS, Cato, the Republican party), just as the ACLU would have connections to various liberal groups. Some people are more conservative than others, some are libertarians and some are nuts. But that doesn't make them all nuts, it's just a freaking networking opportunity.

If he was in the Federalist Society in Law School, then looking back at what that group did while he was there might be interesting.

When I was in law school, (10 years ago) our Federalist Society members devoted themselves to making sure their paper/newsletter always had a cartoon which somehow featured topless women.

Yes, at law school the conservative students migrated to the FS, but the moderate ones then migrated away.

I just don't know where the evidence for this is.

OK, at *my* law school.

I just noticed yesterday that my tags expired May 05. Now I feel all trendy.

So procrastination is trendy now? That's awesome, now I can be trendy by putting off becoming more trendy.

Is it still procrastinating if I didn't realize I was supposed to do something, or only if I knowingly put it off?

I think I'm allergic to work. I was fine all weekend. I come in to the office today and my sinuses are killing me. QED

I drove around with NC plates for a whole 4 months even though I was supposed to get MD plates within 60 days or something. I'm sure my neighbors were terribly scandalized. Even worse, my DL was from NM! I was overly stated!

QED

Also, post hoc ergo propter hoc. Except that is considered bad, so maybe you should stick with QED.

Were you trying to make a statement, sarameg?

Obviously, sarameg is a movie stah!!1!