Are You Ready for Some Foot... Law? Politics?

Ah, Fall, when the leaves start changing colors--well, not in Southern California--they are green or brown pretty much all year long; when the air gets cooler and crisp--well, not in Southern California--September and October are the hot months; when tennis is over and football begins--oh no, the agony; when school starts up--well, poor Adam is just finishing his Fall quarter, but I am getting ready to start my Intro to Law Class. I had a year off of teaching, so I am getting out my new pencils, ordering new books, dusting off the old lesson plan and getting back into the swing of things. I love the Fall.

I've had a whole year to forget those evil girls that ruined my last class. I've had a whole year to come up with cool new additions--Latin words of the day--I think that sounds very cool. Today's latin words will be "stare decisis" which should be elemental to everyone, but mostly thoroughly understood by the US Supreme Court justices. Oh dear, my politics are showing.

Luckily (or tragically as the case may be) my students will not have clue. I like to keep politics out of my discussions, but the more I speak with people, the more I realize that there is a whole lot of education needed out there.

I was speaking with someone whom I would have identified as a liberal and certainly as a dedicated democrate. She was very excited that Palin had been nominated as the VP. I thought is was a little odd that she was so informed that she recognized the possible danger to the Republican party of nominating someone who was so radically conservative in a time when the country was looking for change. Dummy, dummy me. She was excited that a women might have the chance to be President. It sounded as though she couldn't wait to vote for her. I wanted to sit down and cry. The Republican party's motto at the convention was "Country First" and then they nominate a VP who unapoligectically puts religion first.

"Caveat emptor"