10 April 2007

RICO

Revelations from this week's study of Racketeering:
(1) There is no racquet in racketeering. Damnit. There could, actually, be a case of racketeering that involved a racquet. I would like to read that case. Must consistently teach self to spell r-a-c-k-e-teer-ing.
(2) All expectations of titillatling reading on Racketeering terribly misplaced. What's the deal? You go into law classes on shit like murder, rape and racketeering thinking you're going to get all the gory details. Instead you get case after case explaining the meaning of stuff like "malignant heart malice" and "enterprise."
(3) Yet, you then inwardly laugh at the people who ask questions about whether the government could bring a racketeering charge against Carmela. And then realize you're a hypocrite when the professor says, "I don't find shows about the mafia entertaining."

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