Hello. Welcome to my website. It started while I was in Europe for a semester, and I've kept it up since then. I'm now at the University of Chicago Law School, living in Hyde Park, and the story continues. If you want to say hi or visit me, email cfloyd at uchicago dot edu.
"Life is nothing if not the sum of your anecdotes." -Scotty The Body, on storytelling "But it ain't that bad, man. Just figure out the system before the system figures out you." -T. Matthew Smith, on the 1L year "The beer just doesn't taste as good when you're not drinking it with your buddies." -Anon., on being away from good friends "Somebody has to pay the rent around here. Why the hell not us?" -Cotton, on studying for exams
2/16/2003 This is an interesting NYT article. I respect the principles of antiwar protesters, but I still think they are wrong. And to suggest that the demonstrations show a split between "ruler and ruled"--well screw that. I am led. I am not ruled. We elect leaders to do the right thing, not pander to a crowd. And although the antiwar crowd is a sizable one, it does not make up the whole of the American viewpoint by a longshot. Also, this is a good response to the moral posturing of antiwar demonstrators:
"A great moral choice has been put before us by the people on the march yesterday," John Reid, the Labor Party chairman, said on a Sunday morning talk show. "Let's face that moral choice. It is not a choice between peace and war. It is a choice between doing something and not doing anything.
"If you take the view that we should not do anything, you too have a moral responsibility, because by doing that you are sustaining the status quo under which there are people being murdered, tortured and dying and starving."
Beautiful--straight from the mouth of Cicero. Let us liberate the Iraqi people. If we permit the crime of Saddam Hussein's rule to continue, it is as though we ourselves perpetrate this crime.
