It's been a while since I've posted anything, but the intellectual dishonesty of a recent, and in the news, Cato Institute report got the juices flowing. The gravamen (yes, I'm still in law school) of the Cato report in question is that welfare "pays" more in most states than a minimum wage job. From the report: Far from condemning welfare recipients...

I should start this by saying that this post is shaped by the way law school has changed the way I assess things, but it is in no way an attempt to examine or comment on the legal issues surrounding the whole incident. There are lots of those, and there's a good chance they'll keep several attorneys employed for quite a few billable hours. I'm not qualified...

In general, I'm a live and let live kind of guy. Aggressively so. I don't have a lot of time or patience for people who are unwilling to cut others slack - particularly when it comes to relatively harmless foibles. Individual people are the moving parts of society, and biting your tongue around harmless idiots is part of the lubrication that keeps...

As you might guess, time is a bit tight when you are in law school. (Yes, I'm making excuses for the lack of posts again.) Still, every now and then some time becomes available. When you live in Hawai‘i, even a little time can be enough to let you see some amazing things. I got over to the Big Island last weekend. On Saturday evening, we managed to...

Yes, this is a post about the new Pope. And not because he's got a chemistry degree in his background. My feelings about religion at any point in time are rarely clear. My skeptical nature and my Catholic upbringing are usually found in either a state of open conflict or uneasy truce. Fortunately, that doesn't matter so much for this post, since I'm...

There was a time when this was a science-type blog, written by someone on the path to a PhD in the sciences. Same blog. Same writer. But now it's starting to focus more on law, probably because I'm now in law school. The $10K question is why. I love science. Did then, do now. As I write this, I'm multitasking my way through a real property class covering...