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POPSTis Better to Be Regulated by One Gorilla Than by Fifty Monkeys As Justice Thomas points out in dissent, the majority has created an unworkable rule that depends on how one frames “the legal duty that is the predicate of the common-law damages action” rather than the text of the federal statute at issue. Thus, not only will cigarette manufacturers who dutifully comply with federal law now face countless suits under countless state laws, but their fates in those suits will hinge on the creativity of counsel and the gullibility of judges. And of course, this type of reasoning can easily be extended to circumvent preemption in other regulatory fields, including this term’s eagerly awaited FDA case, Wyeth v. Levine.
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POPSmuseum of contemporary craft omg- i would love to have bn there for this......the museum of contemporary craft was not ther when i lived there- or if it was it was the best kept secret from this doodle- at any rate- through this link ther are videos- etc
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POPSAbolish Copyright & Patents to Save the Economy Patent and copyright law are stifling innovation and threatening the global economy. The current patent and copyright system should be abolished in order to unleash innovations necessary to reverse the current recession and rescue the economy.
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POPSBernie to Have a Tough Time in Prison "In the beginning, he will be besieged by mail that will be threatening and accusatory," says Park Dietz, a forensic psychiatrist at the David Geffen School of Medicine of University of California at Los Angeles. "There will be people trying to scam him and people who think he’s hiding money. There will be inmates asking for money, and you don’t want them to disbelieve you when you say you don’t have it." I'm not sure I believe him when he says he doesn't have it.
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POPSMichael Phelps Has No Business Apologizing for Taking Bong Hits Pot Use Doesn't Discriminate, but Our Pot Laws Do While society has made some progress on tolerating pot consumption, there are still many laws on the books that cause more harm than the smoking of marijuana. Close to 800,000 people were arrested for marijuana last year, and the vast majority for only possessing small amounts. Harry Levine and Deborah Small put out a report last year that found that between 1998 and 2007, New York City police arrested 374,900 people for low-level, misdemeanor marijuana offenses. That is more than eight times the number of arrests on the same charges for the previous 10-year period (between 1988 and 1997), when 45,300 people were picked up for having small amounts of marijuana.
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POPSFirst CN Gay Marriages Wednesday, November 12, 2008 is the first day the state of Connecticut issues marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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POPSNew "currency" big in US prisons
Mackerel is hot in prisons in the U.S., but not so much anywhere else, says Mark Muntz, president of Global Source, which imports fillets of the oily, dark-fleshed fish from Asian canneries. Mr. Muntz says he's tried marketing mackerel to discount retailers. "We've even tried 99-cent stores," he says. "It never has done very well at all, regardless of the retailer, but it's very popular in the prisons." Mr. Muntz says he sold more than $1 million of mackerel for federal prison commissaries last year. It accounted for about half his commissary sales, he says, outstripping the canned tuna, crab, chicken and oysters he offers. Unlike those more expensive delicacies, former prisoners say, the mack is a good stand-in for the greenback because each can (or pouch) costs about $1 and few -- other than weight-lifters craving protein -- want to eat it. So inmates stash macks in lockers provided by the prison and use them to buy goods, including illicit ones such as stolen food and home-br
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POPSWalking speed in different cities 32) Blantyre (Malawi); 31.60 A new study by quirky psychologist Richard Wiseman has revealed that people's average walking speed in cities has increased by 10% in the last decade. People from 32 countries were timed walking over an 18 metre (60 foot) stretch of un-crowded pavement, and the results were compared to findings from a similar study conducted in the 1990s (by Robert V Levine at California State University).
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POPSThe 'Healthy' Office Of The Future In recent years companies have been putting a lot of time, effort and money into encouraging their employees to get fit and, more important, cut health care costs. But does the next step include a re-engineering of the typical office? It could happen sooner than you think. Dr. James Levine, a Mayo Clinic endocrinologist, is reporting that after six months, 18 employees in an office with walking tracks, desks attached to treadmills and games lost 156 pounds - an average of eight pounds each. Perhaps even more interesting - despite the lack of traditional desks and seating - no productivity was lost and revenue, in fact, rose.
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POPSDepressed? Blame consumerism. Really excellent argument linking consumerism in an advanced society to the rise in depression. Excerpted from "Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy" (Chelsea Green, 2007) by Bruce E. Levine (via Mark Silver, Heart of Business)
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POPSSouth Carolina Steps Up Did a light bulb light up somewhere? Are there some people that really care about education? Apparently so. Except for six holdouts a S. Carolina board of education actually voted to retain a biology textbook that did not include references to myth and fables. Let's hear it for sanity in the South.
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POPSIs Our Worship of Consumerism and Technology Making Us Depressed? The Unhappiness Taboo There are many possible reasons for the increasing rate of depression among Americans, but I believe that one important cause is a culture that demands happiness. The pressure to be in a good mood can make people ashamed of not being in one. This "pain over pain" can then result in normal low moods becoming prolonged bouts of despair.
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