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Looking back on my year at Legal Insurrection

Looking back on my year at Legal Insurrection

As of this past Saturday, I’ve been contributing to Legal Insurrection for one year. The experience has been a truly gratifying one, and I’m very appreciative to have been given the opportunity to do so.

I’ve had the pleasure of writing nearly 100 posts for LI over the past year and in that time, we’ve experienced great victories, as well as frustrating defeats. There have also been a number of national tragedies, the most recent of which has probably put those frustrating defeats into perspective for many.

Yet, even that perspective doesn’t negate the fact that what is done here is not insignificant. The writers, the readers, and the commenters in the LI community produce an important dialogue, and I want to thank Professor Jacobson as well as all of you for allowing me to participate in it over the past year.

I think there is a nice balance achieved at LI, one that’s difficult for most political sites to attain. It represents a cross section of the passion that is deeply rooted in so many political issues, and the logical reasoning that finds its roots in approaching those issues from a legal perspective.

It’s true that not all of us are in the legal field, and that the Professor is the only attorney among us. But by following his lead, I think all of the contributors successfully provide thorough, cogent analyses of the issues they write about.

Passion is obviously an important part of politics. Indeed, it is vital for any political cause to thrive. But too often in politics, rhetoric trumps reasoning. I’ve found that when passionate rhetoric is unaccompanied by reasoning, it succeeds only in producing a shouting match between two diametrically opposed forces in which there can be no real winner.

I hope that by some measure, a majority of my posts have succeeded in being more than just unaccompanied rhetoric.

I also hope that you’ve learned something from me, because I have certainly learned a great deal from you.

Most of all, I want to thank the Professor for providing the platform for me to write, and you all for choosing to read. Thank you for all of your comments, whether they agreed or disagreed with what I had to say.

I have truly enjoyed the past year, and I am looking forward to continuing here at LI and seeing what the future has to hold.

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Comments

legacyrepublican | December 17, 2012 at 7:19 pm

Thank you for you postings. I am looking forward to more intelligent discussions, observations, and thought provoking posts.

My gosh…has it been a year already? Seems like only yesterday we were welcoming you aboard. Time flies when you’re having fun. Thanks for your work, Bryan. Carry on.

A year already? Glad you are here. Each of us brings a small grain of sand to contribute to whatever it is we are building. Without somewhere to begin, those grains would scatter. That’s where you and the other contributors come in. You ground us and give us a place to take refuge and pursue civil discourse. Thank you, and I personally look forward to seeing you here again soon.

Insufficiently Sensitive | December 17, 2012 at 10:04 pm

Many thanks, and keep those thoughts coming in.

Bryan Who?

Seriously,we are glad to have you around.

Gosh – if you wrote 100 articles, Professor Jacobson had to have done 10,000. Whatever the number, his research and writing time spent must be enormous.

You’ve done a great job, Bryan!

Great to have your contributions.

We’re going into territory uncharted in American politics, and it’s going to be a very rough ride. The side of sense will need all the help it can get in the tide of national madness that continues to rise.

As one who has never, ever dwelt north of the MD line, and was born so far south that any further would have meant being born in a boat in the Gulf, who knows Southern ‘from scratch’ cooking is better than French and Italian cuisine, who has friends who can make one syllable words into three, who have nevah pronounced an ‘R’ and consider doing so vulgar, who graduated from UGA and having family who teach and graduated from Auburn, I am very glad for your perspective and the geographical, cultural and philosophical balance that you bring to this blog.

(PS – War Eagle! Go Dawgs!)

I rate Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion as the number one conservative blog in the world.

You have contributed in no small way for that rating, Bryan.

Something I learned during my career which Professor Jacobson obviously ascribes to…

Surround yourself with a team of winners.

The art is in knowing who to pick and cultivating their success.

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“It’s true that not all of us are in the legal field, and that the Professor is [not] the only attorney among us.”