Conservative Donnybrook

So I leave work tonight shortly after midnight (big appellate brief due on Monday that I hadn’t yet started), and walked out to my car. Because of all the storms in Indy this weekend, I had the radio set to a station I don’t normally listen to. The first words I heard when the car started were “law school.” Being narcissistic, like most Americans, I paused to find out what the random talk radio commenter was saying about law school.

It turns out he wasn’t talking about law school at all, but rather the Cornell School of Law’s online compilation of federal statutes. In particular, he was talking about this one.

Now, I listen almost exclusively to talk radio these days. And, I’ve pretty much heard almost every national radio program in existence. It didn’t take me long to realize that I was listening to Art Bell on Coast to Coast AM (or whatever his show is called these days). Knowing the caliber and mentality of listener to that show, I thought to myself, “This ought to be interesting.” So, I continued to listen.

Side note: I realize that that is a VERY long way to go to alert our kind readers that I am not a regular listener to UFO/contrails/government conspiracy/remote viewing/paranormal-type shows. Although, the fact that I can string together the programming list I just did may say otherwise. But, please trust me, I don’t listen to it often. For the record, I got hooked on the Midnight Trucking Radio Network for my late-night, after-the-bars-close, talk radio when I lived in Ann Arbor (but, I can’t find it on any station in Indy). But, when your choice is Art Bell v. Alan Colmes, what are you supposed to do? I suppose I could have shoved a CD in the slot. But, he said “law school”…

As I listened, I realized that he was talking about a real-life, no kidding, this is no Bravo Sierra thing. He was talking about a federal statute that is actually verifiable. I arrived home and looked up the statute. I’ve linked to it above, but I’ll reproduce it here because I know there’s a certain population of people (I am often one) who will not click on the links in a blog post, but rather will try to ferret out what the link says from the context. If you are one of those people, don’t bother clicking the link, because here is what it says: Continue Reading »