Law students — please be aware that this is understatement:
Unsurprisingly, caselaw on coverage for inserting boar tusks into anesthetized patients is rather thin.
Actually, the whole article from which this is drawn Can This Pig Fly? How A Dentist Assaulted A Patient And Made A Million Dollars: Part One in a Two-Part Series and especially part two is pretty interesting and will teach you something about insurance law.
From today's inbox:
Hi Michael,
I will send you $25 in exchange for placing a text ad for a telecom company on this page: [link]
Please let me know if you are interested.
Thanks,
[signed]
I don't know how long the run was to be, so I can't tell if this is a good offer, but in any case, I'm resolutely non-commercial for insurance reasons. So, dear reader, not to worry.
That post, incidentally, is still true, but I can't help but wonder what search led him there.
It's time to check in on Ave Maria, the Catholic law school with plans to relocate to South-West Florida.
Things were already quite bad at Ave Maria — just how bad can be seen from this Feb. '07 resignation letter from Assoc. Prof. Kevin Lee (“In my estimation the Law School operates in a manner more in tune with Thomas Hobbes than Thomas Aquinas.”). [It's an interesting letter on several levels, not least its assertion of a vision of Catholic legal scholarship as based “in true devotion to Mary.”]
But back to Ave Maria today. Set the scene with the Statement at Mirror of Justice (a blog which I really should read more often); then see the subtly-titled post Dean Runs Amok at AveWatch.org…or read the whole series of entries on that topic.
The full text of the letter sent by Dean Dobranski to the tenured Professor he is trying to fire would be appropriate if the Professor were a suspected ax murderer or rapist. The Dean has yet, as I understand it, to make the charges public (it's not even clear if he's informed the subject of them), but the real offense is thought to be that the Professor “was involved with the faculty's complaint to the school's accreditor, has filed a complaint with law enforcement against Dobranski, and recently called for a renewal of the faculty's earlier 'vote of no confidence' in governance.”
Next, there's the stiff, elegant, letter by Professor Emeritus Charles E. Rice, co-founder and former member of the Board of Governors, in which he urges the current Board of Governors of Ave Maria to fire the Dean, then resign en mass in order to save the school (and themselves).
Fumare, another blog that keeps an eye on doings at Ave Maria, reports that “Professors Lyons and Pucillo have cleaned out their offices and were evicted from the law school this past week.” Evicted? Cf. this Statement from Professors Lyons and Pucillo to AMSL Community.
There is no sign of any of this, however, at Incense, the relentlessly upbeat “independent weblog of alumni & supporters of the many good works of the Ave Maria Foundation, where we accentuate the positive about all things Catholic. Dominus vobiscum.”
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Being one who justifies his fanatical comparison shopping by the public good side-effect of keeping markets efficient, I am particularly irked by the tactics of mattress sellers.
As is well known, most mattresses sold in the US are made in a small number of factories. In order to make comparison shopping hard, the mattress provide “unique” product lines to each major retailer. By making minor adjustments to the fabric or something and changing the (almost inevitably ridiculous) model names they sell under, Sealy and the like make price comparison shopping impossible. And they allow each possessor of a 'unique' line to make price-matching guarantees that they know are meaningless since no one else carries goods with the same name.
That's why I'm glad there is a Mattress Comparison Index which (says it) tells you which silly name is comparable to which other silly name.
Even armed with this information there is still a lot of product out there and field testing these things is both ridiculous and not particularly informative. It's easy to dismiss many mattresses as too soft or too hard, but that leaves a large range of choices, about none of which I feel confident about how they will feel in a year.
I wanted to illustrate this with a picture of Li'l Abner in his role a professional mattress tester, but while I could find some of him, there were none of him at work, which somehow seems fitting.
Incidentally, I was surprised to learn that professional mattress testers really exist!
Jim Louderback, outgoing editor of PC Magazine, writes about why he's soured on MS Vista. Money quote: “If Microsoft can't get Vista working, I might just do the unthinkable: I might move to Linux.”
I wonder what former PC World editor, and Vista enthusiast, Ed Bott has to say about this.
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