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Laws are a different thing here in the north
Everyone knows that if you want to get laws passed you have to give them cool names. That's why we have the USAPATRIOT Act instead of the 9/11 Mass Panic Act or the No Child Left Behind as opposed to Making School Suck Worse. It seems that some members of the Maine Legislature did not get that memo. Of the 211 bills currently pending, the ( Read more... ) -
Adeventures in SPAM IV: A New Junk Mail Filter
Yes, it has been a long time since I took this blog seriously. Like months in fact. Yes, everytime I want to trick my readers into coming back after these walkabouts I do one of these SPAM posts. And you know what? These are the most popular thing I post ( Read more... ) -
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Last time on Plato_4_Ever: Monsanto had sold Agent Orange, DDT and a host of other dangerous products. Then they developed the relatively safe herbicide Roundup. In order to make Roundup even more effective, Monsanto invented GMO crops marketed as Roundup Ready, meaning Roundup would not kill them. These new crops quickly built market share and ( Read more... ) -
Crop Wars Episode VII: The Rise of Roundup
Tomorrow I am going to the Supreme Court to hear an argument regarding an injunction against planting Monsanto's Roundup Ready alfalfa. In the lead up to this, I am trying to read up on the case and this research is reminding me of the serious problems I have with the Monsanto Company ( Read more... ) -
Happy New Year (and a few other holidays)!
It is April. I last posted in December. But now I am back to the blog and I promise I will never go away again. Many trivial and mundane things have happened since last I updated, but I will have to go into details later. For now, here is a condensed version of the past three months ( Read more... ) -
One of These Things is Not Like the Others
From time to time I let Netflix suggest what movies I might like based on other movies I have previously enjoyed. Usually this works out okay, but from time to time the Netflix movie matching system seems to break down and it suggests "similar titles" that seem mismatched. Here are a few examples:
1. The Christmas Star Redemption
Movie 1: The ( Read more... ) -
It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas
So Christmas is just under two weeks away and as a result I am getting into the Christmas spirit. Of course my method of getting ready for Christmas involves taking exams and watching Christmas specials and movies. A necessary part of this ritual is my annual viewing of Frank Capra's holiday classic It's A Wonderful Life. Each year I view this ( Read more... ) -
I Fought the Law...
There are some cases that deserve review by the highest court in the land. Others do not. Luckily the Supreme Court is very good at determining the difference, but occasionally they let one through, such as the 2006 case of Marshall v. Marshall, better known as the Anna Nicole Smith case ( Read more... ) -
I Gave a Letter to the Postman
I realize that I have not posted anything here in well over a month. I have been very busy writing things both for school and the Georgetown Law Weekly, our on-campus newspaper, of which I have recently ended my term as editor of the opinions section. All told, I wrote 17,500 words for the paper in the past year, with one third of that having ( Read more... ) -
We made the grade and still we wonder who the hell we are...
So, identity theft is not fun, especially when you are the victim. Now, to be fair, my experience with this is very limited and so far has had next to no actual consequences, but it still made my Friday morning a hellish morass of minor inconveniences ( Read more... )