The Harriet And George Letters

You would have to be even more oblivious to current events than the average BC student to have missed the ongoing discussion of Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the super-money Sandra Day O'Connor. As the entire non-idiot population knows, Harriet Miers is a horrible, horrible choice for Supreme Court Justice. Her complete lack of qualification is only reinforced when contrasted with Bush's surprisingly sweet first nominee, the relatively-money new Chief Justice, John Roberts.

Supreme Court Justices are (arguably) the most powerful people in the federal government, and its ok to be elitist about picking them. You may remember the Supreme Court as the branch of government that brought you such favorites as de-segregation, the right to privacy, and the ability not to have a baby at 17. When selecting a Supreme Court Justice you're looking for an Ivy League educated, wisdom oozing goddamn genius. Harriet Miers is not a genius.

Exhibit A: John Roberts attended Harvard, 2006 US News Ranking 1. Sandra Day O'Connor attended Stanford, 2006 US News Ranking 5, Harriet Miers attended Southern Methodist University (Law and Undergrad), 2006 US News Ranking 71.

Anyway, if the elitist US News college rankings aren't enough to convince you that Harriet Miers is a Bush-ass-sucking sycophant, then check out these recently released Birthday Cards and correspondence sent between her and George Bush. They absolutely reek of pathetic suck up. Additionally, not only do they reveal her to be a suck up, but careful analysis of the cards has confirmed that there is a good chance she is also a douche bag. (See comments like: "I hope your daughters know how 'cool' their parents are!") Really, look at the website, it's informative and hilarious.

While you're at the Smoking Gun Site, you may as well check out the testimony of the girl that Bill O'Reilly sexually harassed, he has some pretty off the wall sexual stuff going on.

Model UN, Yeah!

Check out the BC Model UN Website. Model UN is a money club, BC will pay, or partially pay for you to go Montreal, which is awesome, especially if you're underage. Seriously, it doesn't sound fun at first (and if it does, your probably a nerd) but there are alot of perks, the activity is actually interesting and its a good resume line item.

Law School

Last Saturday were the October LSATS. Unfortunately, I didn't take them. I probably should have but I was too "busy" (see "Scrantastic" in the right hand column) this Summer to get my shit together and study for them. Both my roommate Nick "Nasty" Marsh and my brosef Rich did take them however, and apparently it wasn't as bad as many of the practice tests they both had taken.

This week I have been paging through a book I found in Nasty's room, US News and World Report's "Ultimate Guide to Law Schools." It's terrifying. The middle 50% range of Harvard Law admitees is 169-174. The same state at Dickinson, Penn State's law school is 152-157. The median starting salary for Harvard Law grads is $125,000 a year. For Dickson grads its exactly half that $62,500 a year.

Not that money is the only thing that matters to - although 125 k a year would sweet - but what's really scary is that just over ten points on this test could conceivably result in someone (me) missing out on over $300,000 over the first five years of employment after law school (a $62,500 difference over five years: $312,500).

Obviously this is far from a scientific analysis, but its still pretty staggering to think of the LSAT that way. I am registering to take the test December first. I am planning on locking myself in my room with all Nasty's LSAT books till then.