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Friday Follies 2.22

San Francisco’s health department has issued “Regulations for Preparation of Edible Cannabis Products” for the city’s medical marijuana dispensaries.

An Anchorage, Alaska, man was arrested for felony assault after stabbing his roommate with deer antlers during an argument. (via Legally Weird)

Foolishness is not the same as incompetence. Sounds like a new legal maxim to […]

Friday Follies 2.21

“A Missouri man fatally shot his wife while using a gun to put holes in his wall to install a TV. The victim was standing outside in their lawn when the second bullet he fired struck in her in the chest.” Speaking from an evolutionary standpoint, a ricochet into his chest seems more appropriate. (via […]

Friday Follies 2.20

It is evidently cease and desist week:

A website recently received a 12-page cease and desist letter — for a fake product it launched for April Fool’s day. Seems the site calling Canned Unicorn Meat “the new white meat” infringes on the National Pork Board’s slogan, “The Other White Meat.” Being good cyberspace denizens, Think […]

How (not) to teach ethics and integrity

Maybe this is an old fart rant or another display of naïveté but some things really do outrage me. The latest is the NYT article about at least one law school applying “do as I say, not as I do” to ethics and honesty.

According to the article, Loyola Law School Los Angeles is “retroactively […]

Maybe this justifies the cost of an e-reader

Some may recall that retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter bought a new home when he retired because the farmhouse he lived in wasn’t structurally strong enough to hold the thousands of books he owned. One of his former law clerks took steps to perhaps stop the problem from recurring.

According to annual financial […]