I presented my Plato and Darwin paper this morning. It was politiely received. I got more questions from the audience than the other presenters, which means I won. After a day of panel watching I joined I a gaggle of political scientists pretending to be biologists at Nick's, a perfect college hang-out with low hanging lights and a buffalo head on the wall. They served a local microbrew called Dragonfly IPA that was just about good enough to move to Bloomington for.
It turns out I am leaving two days to early to see Ehud Barak, former Prime Minister of Israel who will be speaking on campus here. I am leaving one day too early to see the Gay Miss Bloomington Pageant. That would be a hoot.
Speaking of hoots, I think Professor Schaff nails the medical marijuana inititiative down. It's legalization under another false pretenses. I am voting no, but then I was voting no anyway. I mean like, man, it's not good for this state, man, to ... what was I talking about?
I was ready to vote no on Amendment C until the New Jersey Supreme Court decided to rewrite the constitution of the the garden state. I don't think our state court would such a thing, but maybe the other state court's of this land might need a message that the marriage laws should be written by the legislature and not by judges.
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