Janine Turner/Maggie O'Connell, Will You Go on a World Tour With Me to Discuss the Constitution?

Remember the show "Northern Exposure"?  If you're like me, you missed much of the show when it originally aired because you were doing things like working as a legal assistant for a weird law firm in Xiamen, China, but then watched it religiously every night of 1L and 2L year after you finished your homework and had cracked open the beer that signaled the end of serious labor for the day.  It's the fantastic show that featured a Sam and Diane relationship between Fleischman, the conservative doctor from New York City, and Maggie O'Connell, the fiery liberal Alaskan bush pilot who (mostly) couldn't stand him.

Well, the actress who played Maggie O'Connell (and many other roles, including a recent stint on Friday Night Lights and an early one on Dallas, the best show ever of all time in the history of the world), is Janine Turner, a conservative commentator and activist who runs a group called Constituting America, the mission of which, according to its website, is to "utilize the culture and multi-media outreach such as music, film, internet, and social media to reach, educate and inform America's adults and students about the importance of the U.S. Constitution and the foundation it sets forth regarding our freedoms and rights."  Among other things, the organization put together a collection of essays by scholars on pretty much all of the different clauses of the Constitution, including what I like to refer to as the "odd clauses." 

A while back, I issued an open invitation to Ms. Turner to tour the country and/or universe with me to debate the various parts of the Constitution, as well as to provide me with an autographed picture.  Sadly, I never heard from her.  She didn't even accept my friend request on facebook.  :(

I thought that since I now have this more public forum at my fingertips, I might as well reissue my invitation, though this time I want to make it clear that what I've got in mind is not really a debate, because, let's face it, I suck at debating and would get crushed and mangled and ridiculed at every stop (really, ask Sam Bagenstos about our debate round back in 1985), but rather a fun-filled discussion tour to engage the citizenry and also spread the word about our respective projects (Constituting America and The Odd Clauses, that is) and generally bring happiness and joy to every great city and small town we visit. 

I would also, in the alternative, accept that autographed picture.