HAPPY HALLOWEEN . . . You could say I don't have my law-related weblogging priorities in order. On a morning when President Bush is holding a press conference with his new Supreme Court nominee, Samuel Alito, I'm posting a picture of one of my kids, Sam, who wouldn't know President Bush from the Great Pumpkin. It's disgraceful, although it could be that Sam is on the right track . . .   

Why the briefcase in the background? That's to put things in perspective with last year's photo, when Sam was dressed up like a tiny lawyer.

UPDATE FOR NEW YORK TIMES READERS: While it was nice to be honored in "Blogger Reaction to the Alito Nomination," it's a little puzzling since I didn't really have a reaction. I had to go to court. Now that I'm back, I've offered something more substantive in my next post, "Lawyers on Samuel Alito," which collects some anonymous comments about Alito from the Almanac of the Federal Judiciary.

Comments

[Jazzgirl]

I think that you have your priorities in order. Your son was cute as a tiny lawyer, but he is utterly adorable as the pumpkin. He looks happier in his pumpkin costume, too.

~Jazz~

[JR]

How fast a year goes by! I wouldn't have believed that it has been a year since you took the first picture if each post didn't contain a date.

[Evan]

JR: Yes, another year. You bring to mind that Donald Hall poem, "My Son, My Executioner"--

My son, my executioner,
I take you in my arms
quiet and small and just astir
and whom my body warms.

Sweet death, small son,
our instrument of immortality,
your cries and hunger
document our bodily decay.

We twenty-five and twenty-two
who seemed to live forever
observe enduring life in you
and start to die together.

That's what it's like to be a parent! (Well, partly what it's like, anyway.)

[Zoe Schaeffer]

Thats my little brother!!! Isn't he soooo cute? He didn't get to go trick-or-treating with me cause it was raining.(Stuped rain.) My older sister, Lydia, wanted to go trick-or-treating with him so she could get his candy. Right now it's 11:40pm and my dad (Evan), Lydia, Andrea my step mom,and Sam are all in Chicago. My brother, Austin, my mom, and I are all at our house with our cousins.