Enough Already

Okay, NBC has had the pictures and video from the VA Tech psycho for a few hours now, and that crazy guy is sneering at me from practically every news Web site. Why glorify him? He was just a sad, sick, twisted person. My heart is still breaking for the people this lunatic butchered. But I don't think it's necessary to plaster him and his deranged rantings and "justifications" for what he did all over the media. What a nightmare, all the way around.

Although I suppose by blogging about it I'm contributing too. I'm just really tired of seeing his beady hate-filled eyes staring at me whenever I get on the Internet.

The worst, I fear, is yet to come.

Speaking of ENOUGH ALREADY, SCOTUS handed down an abortion rights decision today that, the way I see it, is just step #1 toward the eventual elimintation of a woman's right to choose abortion. And don't think for one minute that they'll stop there. I see a Bush Court as being generally hostile toward the rights of women, other disadvantaged and minority groups, animals, etc. I see them also generally being overly protective of the rights of the executive, corporations, etc. That is not something to celebrate unless you're a rich, white, conservative man, which most of the people in my world (except for my father) are NOT.

I wish I'd been in the Court to hear Justice Ginsburg deliver her dissent directly from the bench. It must have been so powerful to hear. Obviously she was a passionate voice of reason in the middle of the madness.

Prince William

Hmmm....

So apparenly Prince William broke up with his GF.

Now, if you were this Kate, and you had the chance to marry Prince William, wouldn't you find a way to work things out?

Just asking.....

I mean, maybe he's a jerk, or self absorbed, or plays around. Who knows? What I do know is he's hot, British, and richer than God. I, for one, would find a way to hold onto that guy.

But of course such concerns are merely hypothetical, since I'm married to the wonderful SP. :-)

Ah, Wolfowitz....

Paul Wolfowitz, chairman of the World Bank and former Bush administration honcho, is in trouble.

So he was screwing some underling at the World Bank and got her a hefty promotion and pay raise. That's nothing new under the sun. Although if it had been a Democrat appointee, he would have been drawn and quartered by now.

What was much more interesting to me was the following quote from the end of the article:

"He (Wolfowitz) acknowledged the need to reorganize his personal office, where aides have been criticized for a lack of expertise in development economics and for ties to the Republican Party."

Gee, nepotism among the Republican brother/sisterhood is alive and well, not only in our government but also at the World Bank! We've already seen the disastrous consequences of appointing people of questionable competence and experience (who dedicate themselves to ferociously defending the president and the Republican party line) to high-level government posts, just because they're right-wing Christian conservative freaks. See, e.g., Monica Goodling.

I never liked Paul Wolfowitz anyway. He seemed just a bit too eager to get into Iraq. I never believed that stuff about uranium from Africa, or whatever, and I never thought that Saddam had WMDs. Anyone with an ounce of sense could figure out that it was a devastated country, run by a madman, that could never have organized itself enough to put together strong enough weapons to do any real damage. But, hey, if the President and his lackeys, I mean advisors, say it's true, it must be.

So I hope this gets Wolfowitz fired, so he can go and crawl under the same rock that Donald Rumsfeld is hiding under these days. Now, if only we could find some serious skeletons in Karl Rove's closet!

Bumming

Why I'm bumming:

1. I have a major paper due in one month. I just hit a major snag in the research that may force me to change my whole strategy for one of my arguments (it's a motion to dismiss). I was on a roll and I feel like I've taken 20 steps back after researching all afternoon/evening.

2. I have my first final in 25 days. TWENTY FIVE.

3. It won't let up until my last final on May 9th. I didn't think the last semester of law school was supposed to be this hard/stressful.

4. Yesterday I heard some news about a girl I know who graudated from a top-10 law school last year. She went to undergrad where I'm going to law school now (which is not top-10). This girl always struck me as a bit of an overachiever....we played hockey together a while back and she was amazingly talented at that. Apparently she was also amazingly talented at law school because she graduated with honors, passed the bar like it was nothing (I cannot begin to articulate how much I fear the bar at this point, feeling like I won't be smart enough to pass it is pretty much a daily occurrence for me these days), and is now going into a great job. UGH. It made me feel like a total loser. She breezed through law school and pretty much all I've done is struggle. SP and I chalked it up to a lot of things (relative non-youth, long commute to school each day, not being single, not living on campus, etc.). but the thing is I think I've worked pretty hard in law school, basically for average results. Maybe that makes it worth more. I don't know. All I know is I'm done, and tired, and worn out, and I still have a month to go, and no matter what I do I'll never do it as well as this girl I know.

5. I have to read about 30 pages of corporations for tomorrow. F*ck.