To make up for my night of Satan (seeing Saw II), Kim and I went to see Chicken Little last night. Great flick. I felt like it was a too short, I guess because I was entertained throughout. It was like an animated film on crack -- it didn't slow down at all and I'm sure there were probably about 1000 jokes I didn't catch because I couldn't keep up. Still a great movie and I would highly recommend for all ages.

I should add that I haven't seen the original Saw. It's probably obvious that this wasn't one of those movies where you have to see the first one to know what's going on. Anyway, I wouldn't have gone to see the movie in the first place had it not been for a group of guys that invited me out since my wife was out of town.

So, I went to see Saw II last night. Whoever is out there, please don't ever see this movie. I've wasted $6.50 already (student discount) and I would like to make sure that no one else makes the same mistake. Of course if you're into watching people die gruesome deaths and kill each other, then this movie is for you.

But, do you know who this movie isn't for? KIDS. There were probably about 25 people in the theater last night and there were at least 7 or 8 kids. And I don't mean teenagers. I mean 8 and 9 years olds with their parents. And we wonder why kids are screwed up? I could use a good few months of therapy just to get those images out of my mind...those kids are either going to have nightmares for months or they're going to grow up to be the next big school shooter (or both).

Kim is out of town so when I got home last night I wanted to watch The Little Mermaid just to make myself better. If I owned it on DVD I probably would have, but instead I fell asleep to the Fellowship of the Ring. That Samwise Gamgee can put me right to sleep.

So, Admin wasn't so notable today. I've definitely had better. However, there were a few worthwhile moments.

First, the professor claimed today that Solomon was wrong when he said there was nothing new under the sun. Who knew that the reasoning in Mathews v. Eldridge was "something new under the sun" -- Solomon must not have foreseen the third prong ("accuracy") to the not-so-new private/government interest balancing test.

Second, towards the end of class, the professor asked a string of questions related to the Ingraham case. They are as follows:

1. How many of you were spanked in K-12?
2. How many of you are married?
3. How many of you have kids?
4. How many of you spank your own kids?
5. How many of you have spanked a child that wasn't your own?
6. How many of you have ever wanted to spank any child?

Of course, people raised their hands to the questions that applied to them. I raised my hand twice, once because I was spanked when I went to K and 1st in Henderson, TN, and another time because I am married. The breakdown of the responses was something like this (out of approximately 100 people in the class):

1. 5 (from what I could see, I'm in the middle of the room with lots of people behind me)
2. 25
3. 20
4. 4
5. 10
6. 75

Two things worth mentioning:
- the correlation between marriage and having kids was practically non-existent, i.e. those who had kids were not married (yay for marriage!)
- hardly anybody else got spanked in school and that irks me (oh well)

The best part of this questioning was afterwards when the professor asked us why in the world we would so easily raise our hands to answer such personal questions. He made the joke about people saying they had kids and weren't married, he made the joke about parents beating their children, and then made the joke about why we would raise our hands to a question admitting that we want to hit children when he will be attesting to our character before we sit for the bar. (I didn't raise my hand, remember)

I don't really have a lot to say about spanking other than I can actually answer that question honestly (the one to which 75 people raised their hands). I really don't think I've ever wanted to spank a child. I've definitely been angry with annoying kids, but I really have never wanted to hit as if I think that is some solution.

Not to speak against spanking altogether, though. I got whooped enough to know that it was probably good for me. Will I spank my future kids? No idea. Did spanking suck when I was a kid? Yeah, pretty much. Do I feel anger towards those who spanked me? Only the teachers. Which leads to my preliminary conclusion: any teacher that touches my kids is going to get what's coming to them (I don't know what that is yet, but by the time I have kids lawsuits should be my speciality -- note: sue under tort, not due process, see Ingraham) (yay for lawyers!).

Third, this has nothing to do with Admin Law, but my brother sent me a link showing how to make "the best paper airplane ever." http://www.zurqui.holowww.com/crinfocus/paper/airplane.html Tried it out -- not so much the best ever. Let me know if you have better luck.

So, I've lost my blog virginity. It just so happens that I happened to lose it right before my Administrative Law class which meets on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays from 10:55-11:50. This class is by far the most entertaining class I have had in law school...who knew it would be Administrative Law. So, for anyone who happens to be reading this (and I'm not sure why you would), Admin might become a popular topic of blogversation. For now, since I'm sitting in class, I will attempt taking notes.