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Vacation Pics

September 27, 2007

I’ve posted a handful of pictures from Maine on my flickr account this morning. I took about 150 pictures in all, but I’ve only posted a handful of them at flickr.
This particular picture is towards the end of a pretty difficult (but not technical) climb up Mt. Dorr, in Acadia National Park.
I’ll let you [...]

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Public Goods, 1906

September 26, 2007

According to the commemorative plaque in Lily Bay State Parke (ME), the first continuously operated forest-fire lookout station was established privately by M.G. Shaw Lumber Co., a private lumber company in the Moosehead Lake region of Maine, in 1906.

This is not the first time that the quasi-public good of fire protection was provided by [...]

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If you don’t have anything to hide…

September 26, 2007

Michigan’s law which requires those under 21 to submit to a PBT has been struck down as unconstitutional by a federal judge. Sometimes they do get it right. But it doesn’t make whole anyone who was needlessly forced to submit to such a test in the past.
Probably, though, this will just lead to [...]

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Posted in: Legalese, localized | 2 Comments


Get Out of Jail Free

September 25, 2007

What do you think would happen if you stole marijuana from a police car, then “overdosed” on it, and called 9-1-1 to report your “emergency”?
What if you were a cop? [Stale Link because the Detroit Free Press doesn't know how to manage digital content - dz]
Dearborn police allowed Sanchez to resign from his job [...]

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