Spoiled...

I just read this about Scalia's visit to Connecticut today:

Inside the lecture hall, students whose names were drawn randomly from a lottery to attend said that having a chance to hear a sitting justice in person was a thrill. "Having a justice visit your campus is exciting no matter what you think about his views," said third-year student Hugo Tomasia of Norwalk, Connecticut.

I can't help but think we're spoiled here. We've had O'Connor and Scalia come...not only that, but both were open forums with questions and answers and neither could fill the auditoriums they'd been assigned (OK, that was a lie...O'Connor's was standing room only...but I didn't want to make Scalia feel bad if he reads this). Anyway, maybe it's because last night was Passover...I mean, maybe if all the jews had been there, we'd have filled the Scalia lecture.

Then again, maybe they knew all he'd do was wave the flag of "originalism" and walk off gruffly and felt their time was better spent watching the American Idol episode they'd recorded.