I Suppose....

...that's it's not a good thing when my Wednesday night class has me contemplating the relative benefits of my own slow, painful death.

How Cool

I opened my front door this morning to go to my car and there were three deer right by my house.  They just stood there and looked at me as I walked to my car and got in.  I think that's the closest I've ever been to a deer. 

Antonin Scalia - Wikiquote

Like some ghoul in a late-night horror movie that repeatedly sits up in its grave and shuffles abroad, after being repeatedly killed and buried, Lemon stalks our Establishment Clause jurisprudence once again, frightening the little children and school attorneys of Center Moriches Union Free School District. Its most recent burial, only last Term, was, to be sure, not fully six feet under: Our decision in Lee v. Weisman conspicuously avoided using the supposed "test" but also declined the invitation to repudiate it. Over the years, however, no fewer than five of the currently sitting Justices have, in their own opinions, personally driven pencils through the creature's heart (the author of today's opinion repeatedly), and a sixth has joined an opinion doing so. The secret of the Lemon test's survival, I think, is that it is so easy to kill. It is there to scare us (and our audience) when we wish it to do so, but we can command it to return to the tomb at will. Such a docile and useful monster is worth keeping around, at least in a somnolent state; one never knows when one might need him."


My personal favorite Scalia quotation.  From Lamb's Chapel v. Center Moriches School District