The lost cavers were found!! Praise God.
For more on the story, go here: http://media.www.dailytexanonline.com/media/storage/paper410/news/2007/10/15/TopStories/Students.Rescued.From.Cave.Sunday-3031776.shtml
I know, I know...crazy long link. Anyway, it's "The Daily Texan" UT's own, 'little' newspaper. So weird being at a school that's roughly ten times the size of the TOWN in which I grew up.
Speaking of which, did you know my town is famous? Yes little Boerne, no one knows where it is, no one can pronounce the name...and I found it in my Constitutional Law casebook today!
Basically, the city refused to give the Catholic Church a building permit...and that violated the Federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act which in turn (according to the Supreme Court of 1997) violated Congress' power...in spite of Section 5 of the 14th Amendment, the enforcement power section... BUT the really cool thing is that later in my book, in another case, the editors specifically referred to "the Boerne Test" (something this other act hadn't successfully passed). I mean, how COOL is that? My little town....
The other really cool thing is that I was 13 at the time and I remember it all! I don't often come across things in textbooks that I actually remember, so it's clearly a red-letter day for me.
Anyway I know that paragraph went really fast and had a lot of ellipses and very few explanations, for which I apologize. The problem is, I have this four page paper to write tonight and I'm already starting to get sleepy. So, I'll tell you what, I'll write up my whole thrilling brief for the case some other time this week. Exciting, isn't it?
Monday, October 15, 2007
A New Post!
Wow, I'm really bad at this whole thing.
No really....really, really bad.
So, apparently I started a blog, only to cease writing the moment I got to law school....hmm. No good at all. I think, if I remember correctly, the whole reason to HAVE a blog in the first place was that, supposedly, I would have all sorts of interesting things to say once I was IN law school....or something.
The problem is, now that I'm here, I don't know what to say. I mean, it could be one of those semi-whiney blogs...one about who I'm friends with and what I think of them and what I do on the weekends and how hard life is...etc. etc.
Except life isn't hard and I hate blogs like that anyway
The goal was to have it be ridiculously intellectual and informative, of course, and to spark anyone who ever read it to all sorts of wonderful new, deep new thoughts. The problem there is that, after 12-14 hours a day thinking about the law, the LAST, absolute LAST thing I want to do is write a blog about it!!!!
Austin, TX ( http://www.austintexas.org ) by the way, is where I live now. It's the 4th largest city in Texas and the 16th largest in the US...according to Wikipedia at least. It's also often called the live-music capital of the world, a little bit of California in Texas, "the blue spot Texas," and the Third Coast. We, as a culture, include a mix of professors, students, musicians, artists, politicians, lobbyists, and the other Austinites -- the yuppies and the hippies. The city's motto seems to be "Keep Austin Weird." Except for the traffic, it's pretty much awesome. I've never had quite as many quirky, wi-fi coffeeshops with fantastic music playing in such a short circumference. I rather think it's the 2007 version of Budapest in the very early 1700's. Then again the traffic is ridiculous...the lines in HEB horrendous...and you should definitely go to my mom's post for another view of Austin!
I wonder how the traffic was in Budapest in the early 1700's? Of course you'd have to factor in the difference between cars and horse-and-carriages ... but still... any answers from any more-committed-historians-than-I-have-become?
Sad news about my town: 4 cavers went missing last night just outside of Austin, and last time I read the news, they still hadn't been found. If you are in the habit of saying a prayer for people you've never met, say one for them please.
I think that's all for now, but I am hoping to get into the habit of more regular posting...so if you haven't forsaken me just yet, please don't!
Goodnight.
No really....really, really bad.
So, apparently I started a blog, only to cease writing the moment I got to law school....hmm. No good at all. I think, if I remember correctly, the whole reason to HAVE a blog in the first place was that, supposedly, I would have all sorts of interesting things to say once I was IN law school....or something.
The problem is, now that I'm here, I don't know what to say. I mean, it could be one of those semi-whiney blogs...one about who I'm friends with and what I think of them and what I do on the weekends and how hard life is...etc. etc.
Except life isn't hard and I hate blogs like that anyway
The goal was to have it be ridiculously intellectual and informative, of course, and to spark anyone who ever read it to all sorts of wonderful new, deep new thoughts. The problem there is that, after 12-14 hours a day thinking about the law, the LAST, absolute LAST thing I want to do is write a blog about it!!!!
Austin, TX ( http://www.austintexas.org ) by the way, is where I live now. It's the 4th largest city in Texas and the 16th largest in the US...according to Wikipedia at least. It's also often called the live-music capital of the world, a little bit of California in Texas, "the blue spot Texas," and the Third Coast. We, as a culture, include a mix of professors, students, musicians, artists, politicians, lobbyists, and the other Austinites -- the yuppies and the hippies. The city's motto seems to be "Keep Austin Weird." Except for the traffic, it's pretty much awesome. I've never had quite as many quirky, wi-fi coffeeshops with fantastic music playing in such a short circumference. I rather think it's the 2007 version of Budapest in the very early 1700's. Then again the traffic is ridiculous...the lines in HEB horrendous...and you should definitely go to my mom's post for another view of Austin!
I wonder how the traffic was in Budapest in the early 1700's? Of course you'd have to factor in the difference between cars and horse-and-carriages ... but still... any answers from any more-committed-historians-than-I-have-become?
Sad news about my town: 4 cavers went missing last night just outside of Austin, and last time I read the news, they still hadn't been found. If you are in the habit of saying a prayer for people you've never met, say one for them please.
I think that's all for now, but I am hoping to get into the habit of more regular posting...so if you haven't forsaken me just yet, please don't!
Goodnight.
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