Look, if you just had the decency to have, I don't know, a picture of a typewriter as your avatar, then poor Rick wouldn't have found the whole thing so distressing.
It's amazing to me how we all collectively agree that there are millions upon millions of vastly undereducated, barely literate religious zealots all over America.
But we all still find it incredulous when someone acts totally illogical online. Very interesting psychology phenomena happening there.
I just observed this interaction. But I was immediately struck by how many people, my old ConLaw professor included, are so enamored by Scalia's writing they're completely incapable of recognizing Scalia as a run of the mill gutter bigot who wielded his ethnicity and religion as a cudgel.
I'm a metropolitan snob, I freely admit. But I just feel the group of people who think that the reason who 'someone who sat on the US Supreme Court for *30 years* will be remembered by history isn't their prose style' should include ALL law professors. Just at the basic level of self-respect.
As someone who reads judgments for a living, I want to add that the prose stylings of our judicial officers do not have anything like the lifespan people think they will have (yes even Scalia).
Who are you thinking of? Cardozo leaps to mind, but he was also intimately involved in crafting the common law’s response to industrial capitalism in the most economically significant jurisdiction of the time, and that was BEFORE becoming a major jurist of the New Deal, so that feels… unfair
Yes Cardozo is a great one, but, even then, it helps that his writing on e.g. contract law is still relevant. Learned Hand? Denning, obviously, but he's only post-war. Does Coke count?
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"Look what you made me do by existing."
But we all still find it incredulous when someone acts totally illogical online. Very interesting psychology phenomena happening there.
I like it.
The audacity of you acknowledging I am a shit human when I thought you would never know.
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What a sad little victim he is.