New York Times, The Fungus That Conquered Europe (on the Great Potato Famine of 1845-6)
Slashdot, Newly Discovered Fungus Threatens World Wheat Crop (a variety of the rust fungus originally detected in Uganda in 1999 has already spread as far north as Iran; is the subcontinent next?)
Can you tell whether The scandal of Olivia Newton-John: 12 surprisingly controversial Wikipedia pages is parody or reality? And does it matter?
The House today passed a FISA bill with some bad aspects, but without the immunity clause. See the EFF press release.
While there's stuff not to like in this bill, all of it can be repealed at some later date — except the immunity, which would not be subject to repeal.
Florida's Senator Nelson voted wrong last time this came up before the Senate. Any chance he'll do better this time?
So I am reading A Critical Guide to Vehicles in the Park, a paper by Frederick Schauer, which was part of Hart-Fuller conference at NYU. Towards the end he writes,
But we are not choosing between Hart and Fuller for a single position on a law faculty. They are, after all, both dead, and that appears to make them unlikely candidates for faculty appointments.
Then there's a footnote, which says:
Which is not to say that we might not prefer to have them, even dead, over some of our colleagues.
Tough crowd they have at the K-School…
Calculated Risk: Hedge Fund Humor
Who is this guy Margin that keeps calling me???
Daily Kos: FISA fight: Leadership maneuvers you'll actually like.
Nice to have something mildly cheerful for a change.
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