Attn, DC Reasonoids: Happy Hour, Wed., Nov. 16

Come out Wednesday, November 16, and join Reason's DC staff as we celebrate our December issue and back-to-back months of record-setting traffic at Reason Online (over 1.7 million visits in September and October).

And come meet our extra-special special guest stars for the evening:

Randy Barnett is the Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Law at Boston University and the man who argued for the good guys in Gonzales v. Raich, the wrongly decided Supreme Court case about medical marijuana.

Scott Bullock and Dana Berliner are senior attorneys at the Insitute for Justice. Scott argued the right side in Kelo v. New London, the wrongly decided Supreme Court case about eminent-domain abuse. Dana is similarly well-regarded for her legal prowess when it comes to challenging eminent-domain abuse; she is the author of Public Power, Private Gain, which documents over 10,000 cases of eminent domain abuse.

Tim Harford is the author of the great new book The Undercover Economist: Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor--and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!

We'll be meeting at Mackey's at 1823 L Street NW, Washington DC around 6:30PM.

Comments

[Marcos Vincente]

Word.

As a new DC-bound reasonoid-in-training, I heartily endorse this occasion.

"commandante-of-nothing-in-particular" Marcos V.

[Jason]

Can someone tell me why this month's Reason copied the cover of the September 17 National Journal? Was this intentional or a slip-up?

[thoreau]

What, no love for the DC event this coming Saturday, November 12?

The address of the restaurant is: 7900 Norfolk Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20814

The web site is: http://www.rockbottombethesda.com.

We'll be there at 6:30, come on in whenever you can. Once I have a head count I'll see about reserving a table.

For those libertarians who can bring themselves to use public transit in good conscience , it's a half mile walk from the Bethesda Metro Station. For more info on the DC Metro system, see:

http://www.wmata.com/default.cfm

[MW Hemingway]

I love you guys but you gotta find a better venue then Mackey's. Went to the last Happpy hour and Mackey's was so crowded I was surprised there was any available oxygen.

I'd be happy if there was a place that to go to where you could move once you got in, let alone talk at a reasonable volume.

Anyway, keep up the good work.

[Julian Sanchez]

We're looking into it; next time around I expect we'll have chosen another venue.

[thoreau]

BTW, anybody who's interested in the DC event on Saturday, November 12 should email me. The address listed on this post is real if you take out the part about spam.

And if somebody wants to start a thread about it that would be really cool.

[joe]

Her legal prowess is as well regarded as that of the guy who lost the Kelo case?

Wow.

[ChrisO]

Joe, nonprofit litigation organizations lose a LOT more cases than they win. It's tough to get courts to change the law. I know, I used to work for one (not Institute for Justice, though I would have loved to). The IJ lawyers are very talented and have effected a lot more legal change than most such groups, even if they did lose Kelo.

[William Jennings Bryan]

Clarence Darrow was such an incompetent. He lost the Scopes trial.