Osler's Razor

This morning's Waco Tribune-Herald is reporting that the engineers have finally fixed the Waco Dam, and it will no longer be necessary to drain the Brazos river every year for dam maintenance. As Wacoans well know, for the past several years there have been months where the river was just gone, for the most part. Unfortunately, given the law school's location on the river, this always seemed to be true when we were interviewing potential faculty members.

I was one of those interviewees. On my first trip to Waco, I decided to go for a short run down by the river, which was shown on the map near my hotel. So I headed down to the suspension bridge, looked down, and saw an empty pit with buzzards picking at garbage. It was not a great selling point. Thankfully, those days might just be over.