Law School Discussion

I always go for medium.

IMPOSTER!!!!!!!!!!!!  Alton will eat his a perfect medium rare. 

my philosophy is, the higher-quality the guy (and the more his woman appreciates him), the less expensive diamond (or other) engagement ring he needs to purchase.
the more supportive and understanding the woman, the less expensive ring she will demand. 
It's just important that everyone's on the same page.  A guy proposing to a girl with a rock as big as her hand is in a great relationship if she expects something that costs about the same as a downpayment on a house.
I know someone recently and all I could think about her ring was: a) REALLY gaudy, and b) what's he overcompensating for?
My husband designed a really unique engraved band, b/c we were too poor for a traditional engagement ring.  The Christmas after we got married, we bought a really nice aquamarine to mount on it.  After a while we would both like to get a nice diamond to replace the aquamarine, but I've been in school and he's been working freelance, so that's not really a priority.  I would have rather married him when I did than wait for him to be able to afford a diamond. 

I just did a lot of homework.  oh, repertory theater?  does that count?  I did speed and debate for a year or two. 

man, I am really dorky, but suddenly I feel less dorky.

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."  -Thomas Jefferson

That pretty much says it all.  I don't advocate violence, but vocal opposition is important. 

Also, I really resent all this prejudice going on.  Not all liberals or democrats or whatever are the same, just as all conservatives or republicans are not the same.  Some of us actually try to look at each issue instead of just sticking with the party line. 

All I needed to see was the vast number of Obama shirts in class.
The cake was the 'morality' discussions that devolved from our discussions. 
Academia is overwhelmingly liberal.  The few educators that aren't left leaning or flat out hard core liberals have to be careful how they discuss their ideology lest they be ostracized.
My K professor wrote an excellent paper on the contractual nature of invading or occupying forces and in that paper, he advocated a change in the humanitarian laws involved, basically calling them antiquated, absurd, and the cause of many soldiers injuries unnecessarily.
His paper was the #1 most downloaded law article on the subject in the country.

My school offered no congratulations for this major academic feat.  I thanked him and told him that more former servicemen should be heard on the subject.

Here's how it works out:
I was at a BBQ on memorial day and I was speaking to a very liberal woman I know.  She was telling me that the reason no one she knew was going out of town for the holiday was because the media kept saying, over and over again, that gas prices were out of control and that it would keep people from traveling.  In reality, that same vacation costs about $100 more than it did last year, which isn't nearly enough to discourage people.
So I asked her why she was surprised when the media shapes public opinion. 
Just take a look at how the media portrays the war and our President.  From day one, the President was a liar, a theif, and a moron.  The war is violent and has only produced death.  The media ignores the scores of schools that have reopened.  They don't report anything positive and as a direct result, most of the country buys it without a second thought.  I am friends with some active military personnel, and their attitude is that America was never really at war.  Only the military was at war.  America was busy trying to villify Bush and impeach the war effort.
And now, after spending months trying to coronate Clinton as the next President, the media has decided that Obama should be king and push his brilliance and legend. 
Unfortunately, I still believe the maxim holds true - those who can, do and those who can't, teach.  It is far easier to be a professor than hold down a real job and actually perform.  This is much of the draw to education for the left leaning and the hardcore liberals and precisely why so few who associate with the right bother to teach at all.  They are too busy 'doing' to stop and teach.  Nothing is sweeter than sucking at the teat of the educational institutions that have been overrun by left-leaning individuals.
At some of the best law schools, we have hard core hippies from the left teaching kids how and what to think.
One of the leaders of the violent Weather Underground group that is responsible for terrible attacks on innocent people who has NEVER disassociated herself from their criminal activities is now a teacher at Northwestern University School of Law.  Her name is Bernardine Dohrn.  The fact that she is allowed to teach ANYWHERE is a travesty of our justice system.

I'm so glad to see your vitriol extends to politics in addition to religion.  The predominance of liberal or "left" leaning individuals in academia has been the topic of some studies and papers.  Note that your post has little to actually do with politics in academia and instead seems to focus more on your personal biases against the media and non-conservatives. 

Here are some links to the article I mentioned before, for all of those who might be interested in reading it.
http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=s1153nnhjkhr407r6ng6gjg8pvc8g2s8
http://www.aei.org/docLib/20071114_WOESSNER.pdf
(Note: in the interests of full disclosure, I have not read the actual study, although I intend to now that I found the link.)