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We are now entering Week Six of Spring Semester. The especially avid and motivated among us are already putting together course outlines and scouring Wash Law for the perfect supplement to get through the Spring Exams looming on the horizon.

Hello GW Law! Hopefully you are enjoying this unseasonably warm February. Get outside and enjoy D.C.!

Murderers, thieves, rapists and drug dealers walk freely among us. We count on the police to do the best they can to catch as many of these people as possible, but do not expect that every case will be solved nor every criminal apprehended. The best we can hope for is that those that are caught, whether by their own carelessness or by diligent police work, are brought to justice. For this reason we encourage the police to engage in crime fighting as a competitive and adversarial enterprise.

There's an episode of The Simpsons where the town, faced with impending destruction from an approaching comet, turns to the federal government for help. The local news shows the House of Representatives, where the Speaker announces that "it is unanimous, we are going to approve the bill to evacuate the town of Springfield, in the great state of . .

We are a people prone to sensationalist tendencies, so although it may not be "difficult" to think of things more offensive than the fact that the people who would raise our taxes have not been paying their own, that list is nevertheless fairly short. Why Vice President Biden is the only one in the administration who has been labeled "gaffe-prone" is quickly becoming a quandary; there have already been too many days since January 20 marred by major blunders.