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November 29th, 2008
01:42 pm - Published in the WaPo!!!
I published in the Washington Post!!!! It comes out tomorrow. It's a really silly fluff article, but still--woot! :)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/28/AR2008112802284.html
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November 22nd, 2008
01:34 pm - Federalist Society Conference
I am NEVER leaving DC. Or at least never except maybe for NYC--and maybe Miami for a short time. This weekend is the annual FedSoc lawyer's conference--there's *nothing* more exciting than running into the profs I respect the most, meeting their husbands/wives, talking about their new babies (<3! <3!). This morning I met the guy who wrote the very first case book I ever loved (Epstein, on Torts); I heard Easterbrook debate Rosenkrantz and Epst on judicial review--I met Judge Posner, who Scalia calls the "smartest man on the planet." It's just so freaking exciting to hear from these people--even when I'm constantly reminded how naive I am, and have to filter out the 90% of what I know I don't understand to get to the 10% that means anything at all to me (hence my only attending a few lectures, in favor of studying...!)
Anyway, <3 <3 <3 DC :) :)
(Stars:eyes::eyes:stars)
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November 18th, 2008
05:27 pm - Justice Thomas!
Justice Thomas taught my Con Law class today!! He's equal parts brilliance and peace and humility. I asked a question and he called it a "very good question."
**Stars in my eyes**
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October 17th, 2008
08:58 pm - GREAT Anna Schwartz piece!
"Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, of all people, should understand this, Ms. Schwartz says. In 2002, Mr. Bernanke, then a Federal Reserve Board governor, said in a speech in honor of Mr. Friedman's 90th birthday, "I would like to say to Milton and Anna: Regarding the Great Depression. You're right, we did it. We're very sorry. But thanks to you, we won't do it again."
(Link to interview)
Incidentally, that Friedman Dinner is Cato's major annual event--for all its faults I adore Cato and I'm so glad my first job in DC was there.
I <3 Anna Schwartz. I will never forget when she got trapped Cato's auditorium bathroom bc the doors open in and she coudn't swing it w/ her walker. She's so adorable! I've been 100% stuck on "girlism" (analyzing the femme subordinacy complex) lately, but can you imagine being a woman during the Anna Schwartz/Hannah Arendt/Ayn Rand period? Kinda makes me want to reclaim post-post-modernism!
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October 15th, 2008
10:16 pm - Spectacular Lawyer Quote re UF...
Tonight I had to present to my Inn of Court (a mentoring program between judges who went to Mason, and current Mason law students), and we structured it as a debate between 4 of us--for an hour. Stress, much?
The attorney who introduced us included our undergrad info--and after the loooooong debate this judge came up and goes: which one of you went to Florida?
I did, sir!
"I should have KNOWN it was the CUTE one!"
Aw, go Gators! Politically incorrect, never a feminist bone, and known for our lovely ladies! Take me back to the boys club, PLEASE, I'm tired of political correctness!
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July 2nd, 2008
01:25 pm - WSJ!!
I've been *so* out of touch lately, but is a fruit of my labor - I got a letter to the editor published in the Wall Street Journal today! This was the first time I've ever sent something in, and they printed it!
Scroll down on this link:
http://online.wsj.com/public/page/letters.html?mod=2_0048
Yay!!
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May 5th, 2008
07:28 pm - Two Links
1. Exams are eating me alive - exam season this semester has been ONE MONTH long, and I'm exhausted. Four more days, then to MIAMI and then BARCELONA! :) Hanging in...
2. I have lots to say, esp in the way of CONGRATULATIONS and EXCITEMENT for what's to come, but, bc school is indeed eating me, I'm posting two links instead. One is for Ang (photography), and the other is decidedly NOT for Ang or Dev, but rather for the single gals :)
Photos
How to be divorced by 30
EDIT: I like the second article bc it's affirming all of our decisions NOT to go back to boys or relationships that were crappy...if you're thinking of exes, don't read; it might be a tad sad.
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October 14th, 2007
05:16 pm - Another from Boudreaux...
Par Don Boudreaux sur le sujet Reality Is Not Optional The web-only edition of today's New York Times published this letter of mine on health care. Who cares what modern health care-delivery methods are called? The elemental problem is that more and more people feel entitled to vast quantities of high-quality health care paid for by someone else.
And politicians, ever lusting for office, are only too happy to conjure the ridiculous illusion that A will get top-flight service from B when C is forced by G to pay the bills.
Donald J. Boudreaux
Fairfax, Va., Sept. 28, 2007
The writer is chairman of the economics department, George Mason University.
The author of the letter published along with mine is like so many others: he forgets that -- to steal Thomas Sowell's phrase -- reality is not optional. Calling health care "a necessity" does nothing to make it universally available in quantities and qualities sufficient to satisfy all demands that would be expressed for it by individuals each of whom is not required personally to pay for the care he or she receives (or seeks to receive).
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October 13th, 2007
05:20 pm - This is my econ professor, and I <3 him
11 September 2007
Editor, The New York Post
To the Editor:
George Will is the rare conservative voice of reason on the war in Iraq
("A Bitter War of Choice," September 11). Unlike editorialists at the
Wall Street Journal and on your pages, Will correctly understands that
foreign societies can no more be engineered into peaceful prosperity
by dictates and arms than can our own domestic society. Will also
understands that the same government that conservatives rightly distrust to
regulate business and educate children here at home is the same
untrustworthy agent attempting to build a civil society in Iraq.
What the disconnect?
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
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January 3rd, 2007
04:07 pm - OVERHEARD! OVERHEARD!!
From Overheard in New York - for the Miami ladies :)
Little boy: Smack that, lalalala! [Smacks brother in stroller.] Smack that, lalalala! [Smacks brother again.] Smack that! Lalalala!
--Macy's
Overheard by: amused sales associate
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November 1st, 2003
12:00 am
Ask and I will add you!
~k~
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