Or maybe a village of ’em.

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I already know that I’m not going to have time to do any significant blogging today. In lieu of that I suggest perusing older articles of mine you may not yet have read, or you can check out Fact-esque, which has a couple of good articles on Social Security. In particular, you might want to […]

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In the classic movie, The Wizard of Oz, little Dorothy becomes stranded in the land of munchkins, witches, flying monkeys and, of course, the “Wizard” for whom the film is named. Unable to obtain help from “the little people” — the munchkins — and still putting her faith in magic, she follows the advice of […]

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It’s been ages since I’ve taken the time to read anything scientific. It struck me the other day that I’d better hurry up and do it, before it becomes illegal….

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…or maybe it’s just that way for fundamentalists. At any rate, if there was a question in my mind whether something has gone seriously wrong with our country, the question was shot dead when I read CNN this morning. “Actually it’s quite fun to fight them, you know. It’s a hell of a hoot,” Mattis […]

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The law school I attend — San Joaquin College of Law — has an agriculturally-oriented law review journal. (For those who don’t know, law reviews are essentially scholarly journals containing articles about legal issues.) Now I have no whit of interest in agriculture. When I was a kid, my mother and I fought constantly over […]

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A couple of days ago, my wife and I watched Paul Newman in The Verdict. It’s a traditional requirement of law students, apparently, to watch the movie and pick out all the ethical violations. The obvious ones jumped out, but we were too distracted to note some of the more subtle contraventions to the American […]

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When he was running for President in 1999, someone put up a website that made fun of George Bush. When asked about it by reporters, he made it clear he was not too happy: There ought to be limits to freedom. The man who wanted to be President of the United States of America — […]

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