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Just finished grading my exams from last semester. What a load off my back.

Read here, just in case you missed it. We are one of his three favorite blogs. His favorite book is Neil Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon, his favorite movie is The Stunt Man, his favorite composer is Bach, I can only say great taste all around! Here is one nice excerpt: “Can you name a major moral, political […]

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“Danes claim blister gas find”: Danish troops have found dozens of mortar rounds buried in Iraq which initial tests show could contain blister gas, the Danish army said on Saturday local time. The Danish army said the 36 120mm mortar rounds found on Friday had been buried for at least 10 years. “All the instruments […]

Reader Jim Herd points to this Toronto Globe & Mail story: Adobe Systems Inc. acknowledged on Friday it quietly added technology to the world’s best-known graphics software at the request of government regulators and international bankers to prevent consumers from making copies of the world’s major currencies. The unusual concession has angered scores of customers. […]

Phil Carter agrees with my analysis from last night, and has more.

From the Washington Post: A survey a judge cited in his decision to move Scott Peterson’s capital murder trial out of Modesto contained made-up information, criminal justice students who conducted the survey told a newspaper. The 10-county survey suggested that more jurors without bias could be found in the San Francisco Bay area or Southern […]

There is a particularly thoughtful article by Thomas Powers in the current Weekly Standard (Due Process for Terrorists? The case for a federal terrorism court) that’s not what you’d expect. Powers contends that the Bush Administration should take the initiative to protect both the national security and the due process rights of detainees by proposing […]

See the update to the post below.

Is there any government boondoggle too wasteful for George W. Bush?

Michael Kinsley (Slate) has a good piece on the subject.

Sex discrimination in New York Times book review? Duncan Frissell discusses the subject.

New Stu’s Views:

Mark Steyn on the limitations of international tribunals: Seems right to me.