An 'Oh!' moment

So I recently experienced an 'oh!' moment in Torts. You see last week we learned the "Learned Hand Formula" which is (I actually can't show you because the blog won't let me publish it..something about the less than symbol is confusing it. It's B (less than) P times L). Without going into too many unnecessary details, the formula is basically looking at the burden on the defendant versus the probability of harm and degree of harm. So then this week we read another case from around the same time period. Once again the case was written by a Justice Hand...now here's where the oh moment comes in: What's the Justice's first name? Learned. That's right. This guy's name is Learned Hand and that formula? It was his formula. It has nothing to do with an experienced person as I had thought (well aside from the Judge being an experienced person I presume).

So yes. That was my first, well-I-feel-like-a-complete-dumb-ass moment of the quarter. It ranked up there with when I realized the Beach Boys were not 1980s music (what? I was born in the 80s, grew up then listening to them and assumed it was new music...I was so wrong) but is nothing out does my greatest moment of this kind: When I realized in elementary school that Saddam Hussein and Hitler were two different bad guys in two different wars and not one. Yep. I was a moron.