Are you really smart? - F. Scott Fitzgerald said "the test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." So, if you are ready, here is your test.
6:19:45 PM
You've got to love Posner - He's smart, and reasonable. And in this review of Dershowitz's new book he's dead on. Well, okay, you don't have to love him. But I do.
12:25:34 PM
Permission to attack Iraq? Granted, sir. So says the lawyer to the President, and so that's that. On to other things. I don't know enough about the applicability of the War Powers Act, but Jeff Cooper knows a bit (being a law professor and all, which supplies the necessary atmospherics to grok the constitutional vagaries that come into play here). One thought that did pop into my feeble brain as I wondered about the legality of engaging in war with Iraq was this. Back in the really ancient times -- Crusades, Ancient Greece, whatever-- your head military guys would consult an astrologer or a potion-maker to see if the planned attack was propitious. Nowadays, we seem to have to rely on lawyers (no surpise there). Well, each era has to have its high-priests that can peer into the fog of uncertainty, and give comfort that the Gods are with us. Of course, today the lawyers are the ones who created the fog to begin with.
12:01:26 PM
"Liam's death really screwed things up for Murray" - This line is a set up to the short story Ownz0red, in which we learn that programmers who hack their own bodies don't need exercise and never get sick. It's by Cory Doctorow and appears in Salon. Check it out!
