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Archive for March 28th, 2022

March 28th, 2022 - 3:37 pm § in Law and Courts, Schools & Colleges

Pork and art wars

This is the sort of brain-teaser law school professors love to play with in lectures and class discussions. California Proposition 12, enacted by that state’s animal-loving voters in 2018, “makes it illegal to sell pork in California unless the pig it comes from was born to a sow housed [...]

March 28th, 2022 - 2:42 pm § in Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs, Politics, Russia

Trumpers can’t get Ukraine right

Russia’s vicious, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine is dividing Trump’s fan base. I’ll get to that in a moment. But first, Ukraine, a peaceful country, was attacked because Putin doesn’t like its democracy and wants to grab its territory. He’s bombing apartment buildings, [...]

March 28th, 2022 - 12:09 am § in Misc.

The slap seen around the world

Chris Rock is a comedian who tells jokes. Often about other celebrities. Jokes can fall flat, even go bad. His “G.I. Jane” joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s hair loss (she has alopecia, see story here) triggered Will Smith, her husband. Watch what happened next in the first video bel[...]