Brian, your blog affects me in weird ways
I was putting together an outline in a binder for a law school exam. I placed a tab in the margin of one of the pages to remind me where a particular chart was. Wanna know what I wrote?
Chart? Chart.
Weird.
In an unrelated matter: The subsidation thesis strikes me as an ex post rationalization of a series of unrelated events that theorists fit into their preconceived notions of how the law developed with respect to economic efficiency.
Thoughts?
December 17th, 2008 at 4:01 PM ^
I concur.
December 17th, 2008 at 4:02 PM ^
I tricked you into agreeing with a liberal point of view.
Score.
December 17th, 2008 at 4:09 PM ^
damn hippies
December 17th, 2008 at 4:13 PM ^
18th century English courts were TEEMING with goddamn hippies.
December 17th, 2008 at 4:19 PM ^
Actually, I was quoting the movie "Catch me if you can." I didn't actually read it the first time, but I went to law school as well and I don't really know what that means.
December 17th, 2008 at 4:05 PM ^
Sounds like you've describanated a very polarizing situation through the paleoscopic use of transplanted megacapacitating gyrosystems, while at the same time floobling the gazoobianator.
Fuck, I dunno.
December 17th, 2008 at 8:45 PM ^
Oh, that's my favorite Jesse Jackson quote!!
December 17th, 2008 at 4:05 PM ^
Is it bad that I graduated from law school recently and have no idea what you wrote means?
December 17th, 2008 at 4:09 PM ^
you studied law and economics and English Legal History.
December 17th, 2008 at 4:13 PM ^
I did neither of those things. Thanks for not making me feel like a failure.
December 17th, 2008 at 4:07 PM ^
Ah, the invasion of the meme...This seems to be a common affliction in the age of the interwebs. For instance, I can no longer refer to Facebook as simply Facebook but instead find myself saying "Capitalist Facebook" (see the WLa sidebar for origin.)
My IRL friends find this both odd and hilarious, going to the point of asking if I was channeling Sean Connery from Hunt For Red October when he says "We will hide off their coast and listen to their Rock-n-Roll".
I'm sure everyone else here has other examples. Well, either that, or we're both just damn odd.
December 17th, 2008 at 4:20 PM ^
As a less-than-recent law school graduate, who also happens to know some things about law and economics, my thought would be this: when you're in law school, you're full of optimism and hubris. The whole world is in front of you; just waiting for you to come along and change it and set it right. A few years after your graduation, you will join the millions of other lawyers waiting either for their novel to be published, or failing that, the sweet release of death.
Sorry for that, but it's better you know the truth now.
December 17th, 2008 at 4:36 PM ^
to burst my bubble but I never had a bubble. I have no illusions of changing the world and will be working at a big law firm starting next year. I suggest you find some law school applicants that are drafting their personal statements if you want to rain misery upon somebody.
December 17th, 2008 at 10:50 PM ^
That reminds me of a conversation I had 15 years ago with my lawyer father as I was leaving undergrad a rudderless and lost soul:
Dad of MBAgoblue: "So, have you thought of law school?"
MBAgoblue: "Yeah, and if there's one thing I'm sure of, I don't want to be a lawyer."
Dad: "Law school prepares you for a lot of things, you don't necessarily have to be a practicing lawyer."
MBAgoblue: "But you fucking hate being a lawyer with ever fiber of your soul."
Dad: "Right...forget law school."
Hence B-school and a different brand of BS.
December 17th, 2008 at 11:34 PM ^
Your dad and my dad ought to get together one time and discuss hatred of being a lawyer. His rationale for going to law school: "Everyone's entitled to one mistake."
December 17th, 2008 at 4:59 PM ^
No results found for "subsidation thesis".
You made it up! God damn you! God damn you all to hell!
December 17th, 2008 at 5:07 PM ^
just how obscure the stuff I am studying is. It is one theorist's view on how the law of nuisance was curtailed in the 18th century in an affirmative effort by the English common law courts to spur innovation and advance social welfare during the Industrial Revolution.
I think it's crap!!!11!!one!!eleven
December 17th, 2008 at 6:02 PM ^
you are bourgeoisie swine!
clearly i was just channeling communist overtones from the WLA and the earlier posts.
December 18th, 2008 at 12:17 AM ^
In that case, I'm with you. Man, they will hand out a PhD (or JD) to anyone these days! ... no offense
December 17th, 2008 at 6:58 PM ^
But do yourself a favor and don't Google it.
December 17th, 2008 at 7:04 PM ^
and a lack of sleep will do that to me. Now, I think the blog will be better off if we stop talking about 18th century English common law.
December 17th, 2008 at 7:26 PM ^
That title led me in the wrong direction of what Brian's blog does for you. Glad to see it's only effecting your typing.
December 17th, 2008 at 7:26 PM ^
I graduated from Michigan Law and I thank god that I didn't discover Mgoblog until after graduation. If I had, I guarantee that my gpa would have been a whole point lower than it was.
December 17th, 2008 at 8:34 PM ^
Post? Post.