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Heller symposium at Southern Illinois University

Just got back from it. The symposium was excellent, the flight back terrible, my first really bad experience with American in all the years I've flown it. I was supposed to be back in Tucson (and could have been) at 2:42 PM, instead I landed at 10:40 PM.

But the symposium was great. Every speaker was interesting, including those on the other side. It beat hands-down a general two day symposium on constitutional law that the U of Az law school held last month. Their best speakers would have been below the average of the SIU ones. Their worst speakers ... I prefer not to remember. One spent 20 minutes explaining all the ways that death penalty sentences could be handed out with less than perfect consistencies. Why you could have an incompetent attorney, different juries, and so on. Yes, and remarkably the sun rose in the east this morning.

I suppose a big difference was that every SIU speaker was interested in his topic and speaking for that reason, whereas it is likely a bunch speaking at U of A were just trying to write on article on something, anything, toward getting tenure.