While watching the Registration table this morning, talk turned to the record attendance at this year's Symposium and anticipated record attendance at the Banquet tonight. As of this morning, the banquet is sold out (that's over 550 Federalists), and just over 435 of them have decided upon filet mignon as their entree of choice. As there's an animal rights event at HLS today, we couldn't help but wonder --> for how many head of steer is the Federalist Society directly responsible for slaughtering? Well Google is a wonderful thing and thanks to our crack registration table research team, we determined that the typical steer yields about 15 filets. Divide 435 by 15, and yup, you got it, we've killed at least 29 steer. So, here's to you, our courageous bovine Federalists, thanks for doing your part to make this year's Symposium a success.

Update: Division corrected. Thanks to readers who pointed this out!