RC3 has proposed a new Corollary to Zawinski's law.
Zawinski’s law states:
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
I wonder if there’s a corollary that applies to imperialism.
Every empire attempts to expand until it can occupy Afghanistan. Those empires which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
It even provides a testable hypothesis.
Exit Strategy: The two words that you don't hear anymore in the Afghanistan policy debate.
Where did they go?
One of my students, Eric Neff, tells me he has “carved a pumpkin in my image” and sends along this photo of the “frumpkin”:
I think it looks more like one of the Marx Brothers….
In an email to the entire UM Community, UM Pres. Donna Shalala writes,
To the University Community:
On Tuesday someone drew a swastika on a wall in the men's restroom near the Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies in the Merrick Building. This incident and a similar one that occurred last November in the same location have been reported to University Police and are under investigation. Defacement of University property is a crime—and to do so with this symbol of hatred, which is offensive to all of us, is a despicable and cowardly act. The University of Miami is a place where all are welcome in a spirit of learning and acceptance. There is no place in our community for bigotry and intolerance. I condemn these acts in the strongest of terms on behalf of the University.
Anyone with information concerning this crime should immediately contact the University of Miami Police Department at 284-6666.
I presume this was much more than the usual bathroom graffiti. Even so, if this is our worst problem, we're not doing too terribly.
Homeland Security Watch turns the mike over to the former Assistant Chief of the Montgomery County, Maryland, Department of Police in 'Do I have the right to refuse this search?' and she suggests that there are some pretty large gaps in TSA training and procedures at airports.
I look forward to Stewart Baker's reply.
Congrats to the public-spirited lawyers at my old law firm, now called WilmerHale, for spending almost $1 million worth of pro-bono time to free an innocent man — without DNA evidence. Read all the details at TalkLeft, Court Frees NY Man After 26 Years “Compelling Innocence” Case. It is hard not to agree with the conclusion:
How many other innocent persons are languishing in our prisons because of withheld evidence, lying snitches, faulty eyewitness testimony, false confessions, junk science, lab fraud, ineffective counsel and other reasons not able to be discerned by DNA evidence, which either never existed or was not preserved — or because they don't have the means to retain dedicated counsel like those the Innocence Project found for Mr Bozella?
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