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Happy Belated Yuletide

2006-01-06T21:03:00.000-05:00

Finally, in what I am sure has become an almost religiously anticipated return to this blog, I am taking time to write something new here. I have been home in PA since mid December. Scranton is still sveet and Xmas was good.

I have been struggling with law school applications for the last couple of weeks. They really suck.

If you are from Scranton, and especially is you attended St. Pauls you should check out a new blog I am contributing to under the name Chuck Norris. It's called the Sister Josaire, IHM, Report and deals with all things Scranton/Green Ridge: www.josaire.blogspot.com.

New Book Action

2005-11-22T16:16:00.000-05:00

I got a new Wittgenstein book today, Culture and Value, which is a collection of excerpts from his notebooks that don't pertain directly to his philosophy, but that treat other random subjects, ie culture and values. The very first excerpt is worth quoting here.

Quote of the Day

"We tend to take the speech of the Chinese for inarticulate gurgling. Someone who understands Chinese will recognize language in what he hears. Similarly I often cannot discern the humanity in man."
-Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1914

Washington DC

2005-11-22T01:04:00.000-05:00

I have been to Washington DC twice in the last month, first for a debate tournament at the Catholic University of America, and more recently at a Model UN Conference at Johns Hopkins SAIS graduate school. (I know what you're thinking; Debate and Model UN? This guy must be a killer with the ladies. And you'd be right.) Anyway, I retract any previous comments about how DC sucks, its actually a fun place - at least Georgetown and Dupont Circle are. Also, I stay repping the Jefferson Memorial, which is super-money.

Highlights from the Model UN conference: the four BC delegates got to meet with two limeys from the British Embassy who told us exactly what their official positions on everything were, then we won an "outstanding delegation award," while also managing to ingest staggering amounts of alcohol in our nation's capital.

LSATS

2005-11-17T00:01:00.000-05:00

On Thursday John is going to accomplish exactly seven tasks: Drink 10 Pots of Coffee (D), Take 2 Complete LSAT exams (L1 and L2), Break-down in tears (B), Fly to Washington DC for a Model UN Conference (F), Miss work (M), and Iron Dress Shirts (I). John will accomplish these tasks between the hours of 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM, in accordance with the following rules:

Either three or four of the tasks must be accomplished in the AM.
John cannot Drink Ten Pots of Coffee in the same hour he Flies to Washington DC.
John must Take one of the LSAT exams in Washington DC.
If John Irons Dress Shirts in the Morning he must Break Down in Tears in the Morning.
John must Miss work in the Afternoon.

1. What is a complete list of tasks John could complete in the Morning?

2. If a plane to Washington must seperate John's taking the first LSAT and Ironing Dress Shirts, how many tasks will John Complete in the Afternoon?

3. If Rule 5 is suspended, what activity must John copmplete in the Morning?

The previous Logic Game is a Logically accurate rewording of a real LSAT logic game. Answers will be posted December 4th.

Quote of the Day: (Brace yourself, this one is for people who think Field Goals are part of Basketball.)

Wittgenstein's philosophy requires us to "think in a new way," and hence its great difficulty. He is the first philosopher who is really outside of modern philosophy - that is, outside the philosophy of the last three hundred years. In an exact way he is the first philosopher of our time who is not a Cartesian.

We have heard this before about other philosophers. It has indeed been fashionable for a long time, on various provocationsm, to sound the death-knell for Cartesianism. But when the noise abates, the patient is found to be still there, gasping but alive. Why is it any different this time?

We will see that is different. This time the patient is gone, and the entire situation is changed. It is as if someone else has taken over the institution.

-Henry Finch

Yet Another Sketchy Appointment

2005-11-09T09:51:00.000-05:00

Bush is awesome at appointing unqualified people to extremely important roles. Here's yet another example, again from the New Republic:

Take Paul J. Bonicelli, who was just appointed to oversee the U.S. Agency for International Development's democracy and governance programs, which play a vital role in Bush's efforts to democratize Iraq and the broader Middle East.

No doubt, Bonicelli will be a welcome addition. After all, he isn't just any run-of-the-mill Bush hack. He's an academic. Just before his appointment, Bonicelli served as dean of academic affairs at Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Virginia, a fundamentalist institution whose motto is "For Christ and for liberty," and which has had notable success placing its students in White House internships. Patrick Henry College requires all its affiliates to sign a "statement of faith" indicating that they believe "Jesus Christ, born of a virgin, is God come in the flesh," "Jesus Christ literally rose bodily from the dead," and "all who die outside of Christ shall be confined in conscious torment for eternity."

How brilliant: If bringing democracy to the Middle East is the Bush administration's crusade (and Muslims have been very touchy about Bush's use of that word), why not put a real evangelist in charge? No doubt Muslims the world over will welcome someone looking to save them, not just from oppressive regimes, but from "conscious torment for eternity" as well.

Quotes

2005-11-08T15:57:00.000-05:00

As I've mentioned here before, I am way too busy this semester to continuously update this thing. BUT, in the interest of maintaning some sort of entertaining content for those few people who have the misfortune of stumbling onto the link in my AIM profile. I have decided to start puting up quotes on the blog. These will come from wherever I see fit, and will be about whatever I want, with no predetermined theme or order. The only goal as currently defined will be one of making fun of Steven Perezelli as much as possible - who has recently made his coming-out-of-the-closet official and public, so do feel free to congratulate him on that whenever you see him. That took a lot of courage big guy.

Anyway, the historic first quotes of the day are as follows:

"Biology is destiny. There's no way in hell this guy would have been elected mayor of Scranton, much less leader of the free world, if he'd been born into a less exalted family."

Michelle Cottle
The New Republic

"Sociological and political factors have combined with the intellectual to ensure that Catholic lawyers continually dominate dominate the pool of Republican candidates for the [Supreme Court's] bench. For starters, there are so many of them. During the early twentieth century, law provided Catholics with an important vehicle for traveling into the middle class.While Catholics couldn’t enter top law schools, they could attend places like Fordham and Villanova.“There was a vast culture of Catholic DAs, lawyers, and judges,” says John McGreevy, the author of Catholicism and American Freedom. Even when discrimination against Catholics faded, the law’s prestige among white Catholics persisted."

Frank Foer
"Brain Trust" (An article about how Catholics are smarter than Evangelicals)
The New Republic

The Harriet And George Letters

2005-10-13T20:38:00.000-04:00

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!

2005-10-12T22:37:00.000-04:00

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

2005-10-07T20:06:00.000-04:00

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.

Mahoney's Website

2005-09-27T11:02:00.000-04:00

Check out my friend Ryan Mahoney's website. By far the funniest web site having anything to do with Boston College on the internet. Check out the Sloppo of the Week for 9/19, none other than Rubenstein D34's own Andrew Burke.

Too Busy for Blog

2005-09-26T12:14:00.000-04:00

Who takes 19 credits their Senior year? This guy. I have been pretty bogged down between school and insane rock star style partying the last week and a half to do much maintenance to this site lately. Hopefully I'll have time to write something substanative this week, but until then, here's a picture of the BC Mods during the FSU/BC football game. Boston College: The only school in this country where you can pay $41 Grand a year to party in a trailer park.

Also, if your at all interested in contaminated wells in North Eastern Pennsylvania you can check out the post I recently wrote for the O&L Law Blog here. It's ghost written under the name Todd O'Malley (the Firm's senior partner).

Nick Marsh Defends Honor

2005-09-11T19:39:00.000-04:00

The months of training and hard work in Jujitzu proved worthwhile for Nick "Nasty" Marsh this weekend when he was thrown into a vicious cockfight Saturday night. Those two high school girls had no idea who they were dealing with.

Steve is Uncleanly

2005-09-10T14:33:00.000-04:00

Today, 9/10/05, at 11:34 AM Steven Perezzelli of D34 Rubenstein was sighted leaving the bathroom without washing his hands. If you see Steve today demand that he wash his hands before hugging you or shaking your hands.

Boston Antics

2005-09-08T14:45:00.000-04:00

Boston has so far been - in the immortal words of Mr. And Mrs. Washo - "unbelievable... unreal..." Tonight will hopefully be my first break from partying since I have been back, my body can't take much more of this hectic routine. At least I am finally settled into my classes, which I will be buying books for this afternoon.

Which reminds me: to anyone at BC, or any college for that matter, don't get ripped off in the student bookstore, its not worth it. What I plan on doing is going there only for the books I need for the first week or two. Buy the rest of your books online, ITS SO MUCH CHEAPER. You can also sell them back at the end of the year online. Last year I got about $250 back from the books I sold online. If I had been lazy and settled for the quicker cash in McElroy it would have been $50.

Last night I went to Harpers Ferry, a bar on Harvard Ave to see some friends from Scranton's band Moon Box, which was awesome. It was fun just to see Scranton people that I don't usually see up here (even though they have been living in Boston for most of my time at school.) But it was also awesome because these guys are seriously REALLY good. When I find out there website and schedule of shows I will definitely be putting that information up here.

Back at BC

2005-09-05T18:23:00.000-04:00

I got back to BC on Friday and am currently in recovery from the long weekend. Class starts tomorrow and I'm not registered yet.

Update On Rich

2005-09-01T15:33:00.000-04:00

As many of you know, my brother, the Demi-God Richard Powell, is currently traversing the Arctic Circle on a Harvard Millenium Fellowship, interviewing eskimos (correct term: inuits) along the way in order to collect field data for the Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC) to help with the creation of formal complaint to the Federation of American States arguing that the inuits are already feeling the effects of global warming and are deserving of humanitarian aid. Rich called last night from a hotel in Intuit (I think thats right. If not, Rich, correct me.) at the very northern tip of the northwest territories. He's traveling to the town of Barrow, Alaska this weekend if (big if) the weather is agreeable to traveling. These are two pictures Rich took in a town called Yellow Knife somewhere way up North. For more info about Rich's project, and for links on the subject, check out this old post.

Essays Coming

2005-08-27T17:38:00.000-04:00

So last year in England I had to write a lot of essays. Seriously, a lot. The system at Oxford cuts out most of the time we spend in class in the states, instead focusing hugely on independent study. The result, one tutorial for one hour, one on one with a professor every week, and another one that meets in the same format every other week on a different subject. Sounds awesome right - max two hours of class time a week? There's a catch: every time you meet with a professor you have to hand in an essay, generally a 2,500 worder. So anyway, I have a bunch of essays on my computer thaty I would like to organize, and I've decided to make part of that process putting some of the essays online. Keep an eye on the right hand column of this page under the book list to see an upcoming list of links to some essays I wrote while cracked out on 10 redbulls at 4:00 AM.

Argument With Chay

2005-08-26T12:47:00.000-04:00

Last night - while enjoying a cold beverage - I was having a conversation with my friend Eric Chase (Aliases: Uncle Oogie, The Unc, Uncle, Chay, Chay-money), and I mentioned that I thought it was annoying that so many people held this unfounded assumption that going to a private school instead of a public one is necessarily an advantage in terms of college admission. It turned out that Chay felt this way as well, and an intense argument insued in which I mercilessly destroyed the Unc. I thought it would be a good idea to recap the argument here. (No offense to you if you went to private school - like probably 80% of my BC friends - I just want to argue that it doesn't make it easier for you to get into colleges.)

Chay's argument: I know a lot more kids in my class at school (Penn State) from Scranton Prep than from Scraton High School.

OK, granted. Thats a fact, sure, and lets also admit that Scranton is significantly larger than prep, too, so there should be a bigger pool of eligible applicants, but for some reason there's not. BUT the question you really have to ask is this: are those 10 (or whatever #) kids from Prep at PSU - compared to Scranton's 4 - because they went to private high school?

I say definitely not. First, the disparity can obviously be attributed to economic factors: probably at least twice as many Prep students apply to Penn State in any given year than Scranton students, but I would say that is largely because a huge percentage of our school, and even a large percentage of qualified students at Scranton (Honors Track, Sports, Clubs, Suck-ups, Dorks etc.), don't even apply to Penn State on the basis that they won't be able to afford it even if they did get in. Having more people accepted to a school means nothing if you have a large number of qualified students from Scranton who didn't apply. The difference here is economic, not educational.

Secondly, I can see that maybe there's a good case for Catholic school students having an easier time getting into Catholic schools, but I see this as a very specific, limited advantage. That means that maybe a marginal Prep applicant will get the edge over a marginal Scranton at a Jesuit school, especially the University of Scranton, but I would argue that that has nothing to do with the quality of the education at the high school, but rather the fact that the Jesuit community tends to be rather tight knit and a recomendation from a Jesuit goes a long way at those schools. Still, this has nothing to do with getting into 95% of the good colleges out there, of which only a handful are Jesuit, and certainly nothing to do with getting into a huge Public institution like Penn State.

Consider: why would a PSU admissions officer favor a private school applicant over a public? He certainly feels no particular allegiance to the old established network of private education. And, lets be honest, we're not talking about Choate or Hotchkiss here. At schools of that nature you're talking about an appreciable difference in educational quality, one has to admit, so its a different story all together. Andover applicants don't have an easier time getting into colleges because Andover is a private school, but because admissions counselors - and everyone else - knows that Andover is a bad ass school and that kid has been academically challenged since he was 13. Unfortunately Scranton does not possess a high school of national name recognition to speak of, unless perhaps you're a member of the Jesuit Community.

Another thing thats important to remember is that we are talking about whether or not equally qualified applicants have a disparity based on a public private divide. That means you take the same kid (hypothetically) and have him apply from a public school standing and then from a private school standing and see if there is a difference in result. I would dare say that for a number of the best Universities in the US, the public school applicant is actually at an advantage in the US. Today at traditionally liberal Northeastern institutions like the Ivy League schools one sometimes gets the sense that there is almost an institutional bias against the old establishment. For a lot of schools its all about having a diverse demographic for politically correct marketing purposes.

I think the prevalence of the "private" means "better" attitude is a symptom of a general feeling of social malaise in this country, in which a loss of faith in broad minded public policy and in public life itself has engendered a desire to insulate: private schools, private communities, private clubs, private beaches, privitize social institutions etc. If this is at all interesting to you I recomend checking out this book, called "For Common Things" by the unfortunately named Jedediah Purdy. This guy is actually not much older than us, and I think he wrote the book as a junior or senior at Harvard. Anyway, he is the man and the book is money.

OK, I could go on about this longer, but I am running short on the lunch hour here, so I'll have to save some for another post. I hope that this generates some comments though, I know out of the few sad individuals that actually read this there is probably a Private High School majority. Please, leave an argument and I would be happy to bring the pain so to speak.

Lackawanna Bar Association Golf Outing

2005-08-24T10:47:00.000-04:00

It's official. Unless you're doing an oil application apprenticeship with Hawaiian Tropics, my summer job is better than yours. Yesterday (Monday) morning I was at my desk just getting into my daily morning ritual of pounding 5-10 cups of coffee when I was called up to a managing partner's office. "Are you a golfer, John?" I have played golf less than ten times in my entire life. Miraculously, each time I played I was worse than the time before. "Sure." Oh God. I had responded confidently.

At noon we left for the Lackawanna Bar Association's annual golf outing at the Glen Oak Country Club in Clark Summit. Thank God it was captain and crew. Attorney O'Malley's son in law was an ace. The Attorney and his daughter, the other 2 in our foursome were ... unremarkable, but having fun. I was horrific. I think Todd had thought I was actually a ringer and just being modest until I sliced my first drive it was almost going backwards. I really sealed the deal by missing the ball on my first swing on the fairway.

Amazingly, though, my sucking in no way put a damper on the day. I actually had a great time. Around the 8th hole I was offered a cigar. "Stogies? Why not?" After the round there was a reception and a dinner. All in all a hard and satisfying days work.

Atlantic City/Avalon NJ Trip

2005-08-21T17:10:00.000-04:00

Any normal college student from Pennsylvania likes to make fun of New Jersey, and I am no exception. But while I enjoy a good jab to the Dirty Jerz as much as the next man I have to admit that the state is not without a few gems here and there. I spent my last weekend between Atlantic City and Avalon, New Jersey, and it was a blast. Myself and five friends went down to AC for a belated celebration of our friend Brian's 21st birthday.

Needless to say we all lost money. I probably lost mine faster than everyone else, which was definitely a low point. There is probably little worse than watching your friends gamble after you've lost everything you planned to spend (obviously I had to hit up the ATM a couple of times to get back in a game.) The highlight of the trip was when five of us made a $100 bet on red - roulette is the worst game in the casino - with the last of our chips that we were depending on for money to get a hotel room the next night. We won. The low point was definitely doing the same thing the next day with $300 and losing it all right before leaving the city. Still, loosing money with friends is alot more fun than losing it by yourself.

Atlantic City was fun, but I can only take so much time in a Casino. At first its sort of glamorous, throwing money around rolling dice, etc. but after a couple of hours the haggard old women chain smoking and staring like zombies at slot machines started to get to me. After AC we headed down to Avalon and had two decent beach days. I have been going to Avalon since I was born, but being 21 this time made the experience a little different. Sweet.

Not Just Shameless Self Promotion?

2005-08-12T17:12:00.000-04:00

Are blogs actually good for anything other than shameless self promotion? Well, certainly not this blog, but it looks like there may be an exception.

I was emailing back and forth with Rich the other day and suggested that he start writing a blog. It makes alot more sense for him than it does for me, really. He is actually doing something interesting (see this previous post), he's a good writer, and it is going to be particularly hard for him to keep in touch with people while he is gone since he will be so far north. Also, with a blog he could make his happenings available to anyone who was interested without shoving one of those awful "I'm Doing So Great! Here's Ten Thousand Words About My Life!" mass emails down people's throats. Keep your eyes open for a weekly Rich update on the web sometime soon. (The Arctic Archive? I suck.)

Change in Career Path

2005-08-11T12:45:00.000-04:00

Prompted by a recent conversation with my friend Alexa, I plan on shortly making a drastic life change. Alexa is an intern for Polo in NYC. She took this pic of me during a night out in Oxford. Apparently her boss at Polo wants to "use the image in an ad campaign." Basically, I'm expecting a call from Ralph any day now. If any BC people actually read this, keep the spot in my room reserved, I will probably be in Milan for most of the fall but will definitely be around for a few football games. My only real concern now is whether or not the Green Ridge Branch of Penn Security will be able to handle the enormous wire transfers.

No. But seriously, they want to use the pic. Which is sweet.

Great Website

2005-08-05T11:42:00.000-04:00

As I was looking for a legal blog to model something I want to put on the O&L Blog (a sidebar blog for books) I stumbled across this site that has hilarious stuff. It's called "the Striaght Dope" and offers the opportunity to pose questions to the worlds smartest human being, Cecil Adams. It clarifies that we know Cecil Adams to be the worlds smartest human being because: 1. He knows everything, and 2. He's never been wrong. How do we know Cecil Adams knows everything and has never been wrong? "Because Cecil told us, and he would never lie."

Here is a list of questions Cecil Refuses to Answer:

Why do we need a hot water heater? If it's hot it doesn't need to be heated.
How can we have jumbo shrimp?
Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?
Why do our noses run and our feet smell?
Why does quicksand work slowly?
Why are boxing rings square?
Why, when lights are out, they are invisible, but when the stars are out, they are visible?
Why do we call them apartments when they are all together?
If cows laughed, would milk come out of their noses?
Why does Denny's have locks on the door if it's open 24 hours?
Why do ships carry cargoes and cars carry shipments?
When will a building actually become a built?

Because I am a huge dork I will admit that these question remind me of reading Wittgenstein, who illustrates his points on philosophy by pulling up all sorts of funny examples of strange word uses. For a hysterical Straight Dope answer read this one: How come a woman shaving her legs wears out a man's razor so fast?

Oxford Room Picture Collages

2005-08-03T23:18:00.000-04:00

I thought it would be pretty sweet to put up these two pictures I put together with my digital camera and Microsoft Paint during an intense bout of procrastination in Oxford. My room was in the Isis Hotel on Iffley Road in Oxford. Anyone familiar with "Brideshead Revisited" by Evelyn Wagh may remember Iffley Road as the place where the protagonist's loser friends move after their fresher year. The two main characters in that book, by the way, are straight (whatever Mary Greene and Matt Moore say about them.)

Report on Toronto

2005-07-29T21:00:00.000-04:00

I returned from Toronto yesterday, where I had spent five days at the Association of Trial Lawyers of America annual convention. It was amazing. I saw a ton of great speakers, learned a lot about trial law and how trial lawyers see their position and responsibility in society, and drank a lot of Canadian beer, which was awesome.

I also had the opportunity to meet some impressive people, including Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean (the link takes you to Dean's new organization, Democracy for America. I also had the oportunity to meet Delawares Senator (and future Presidential hopeful?)Joe Biden. Senator Biden is an incredible, engaging, common-sense-apealing-to (?) speaker, and an incredibly accomplished man. His most important accomplishment, of course, was growing up in Green Ridge, my awesome neighborhood in Scranton, PA. (For Green Ridge people, Senator Biden lived towards the end of North Washington Ave near Crawly Park.) The word with Washington insiders is that if Senator Biden is ever elected President the Capitol of the US will move, once and for all, to its rightful home, Scranton.

I also had the pleasure of organizing a huge party thrown by O'Malley and Langan at the Fionn MacCool's in downtown Toronto. We had an open bar, an awesome Irish band and some drunken law students. All in all the party was a huge success, and not deplete of relatively heavy hitters in itself. Another Green Ridge native and future Senator, Bob Casey came to our party with his wife Terese. It is easy to see why Casey is leading by 15 points in the extremely early (and, ultimately, extremely useless) election polls. He is the nicest guy in the world. Not to mention he will be replacing the repulsive Rick Santorum - in the words of ATLA speaker Paul Begala "a truly vile creature." The only real downside I can see about Bob Casey is the fact that he graduated from BC rival Holy Cross.

Enough with the shameless name dropping. I'm done. (Vote for Bob Casey.)