Thursday, August 6, 2009

I lied, You get 2 more posts instead of 1

Here is another cranky metro story for you as a goodbye treat. I was sitting on the metro last night, on my way to meet up with my roommate for happy hour. I was sitting in front of two guys, who just may have been the snobbiest guys I've encountered in D.C. The worst part, they were arguing about Supreme Court cases. Who does that? They were arguing about the Supreme Court case from the 80's involving the Pentagon Papers and the Washington Post. They were loud and annoying, and they were not even correct. At all. For the two obnoxious gentlement on the metro who insist on being loud and geeky, allow me to provide a history lesson, the newspaper was not the Washington Post. It was the New York Times. The guy's name, not Miller. His name was Sullivan. Thus - N.Y. Times v. Sullivan. And oh hey, it didn't occur in the 80's during the Rehnquist court (are you kidding me?) either. Try taking it back 2 decades to the Warren court. And the ruling you are guaranteeing that the Court made, hope you aren't betting anything big because you are entirely wrong about that too. -Now, I'm not sure what is worse. The fact that they were nerdy enough to fight about this on the metro, or the fact that I am nerdy enough to know what they were talking about, know it was wrong, and know the correct case info. (Kudos to you Dr. Smith, job well done.)

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