I never read comic books as a child (or adult), but I still think this signals victory in the culture wars:
The January issue of Life with Archie will feature the marriage of hometown hero Kevin Keller, to his partner, an African-American, physical therapist, Clay Walker.
via ACLU Blog, Wedding Bells in Riverdale.
(And who knew that Batwoman “is a Jewish lesbian”? Did they do that in the movies too?)
Slides from my talk on the Internet ‘Kill Switch’ bill, SB 3480. (link fixed, thanks MD)
I haven’t been to the AALS in a long time — maybe not since 2005? — but I’m going this year. The American Association of Law Schools annual convention is the largest meeting of US-based law professors, with some 2,500 attendees. It’s part trade association meeting, part academic conference, part social event. I’m not convinced it does any of those three things terribly well, although there were always some sections that I thought put on good programs including the section on Administrative Law and the section on the Internet and Computer Law.
The main reason I’m going is that I’m speaking on the Internet and Computer Law Section’s panel on the “The Legal and Policy Implications of the Internet Kill Switch,” scheduled for 4:00-5:45 p.m. on Friday, January 6th in Delaware Suite A on the Lobby Level of the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. I think it will be an interesting panel, and I will post my slides once they are more polished.
I’ll also be doing some publicity for the online law journal I edit, Jotwell, plus hosting an informal event for Jotwell editors and reviewed authors.
As usual, I’ve neglected the social side, so please email me if you are reading this and want to get together. I’ll be around Thursday – Saturday.
Perhaps it is time to subject investment bankers and derivatives traders to routine random drug tests. It’s widely believed that many of them use cocaine (although meth use may be rising), and I read that drug use on Wall Street is a real problem, although of course it has also beem rampant for a long time. The health of the economy is too important to be left in the hands of potentially drug-addled brains.
After all if it’s necessary to drug test welfare applicants and unemployed people seeking job training (who have the same 2% positive rate as found on Wall St) and high school football players, it is all the more important to drug test the masters of finance given the enormous effect that their work has on others.
Or, perhaps, we should agree to only drug test people armed with weapons or holding security clearances?
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