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Today (4 August) is International Owl Awareness Day!

That is the title of this excellent paper by my colleague and friend Michael Smith, who is a law professor at St Mary’s School of Law in San Antonio, Texas. P.S.: I have been meaning to blog about Professor Smith’s … Continue reading →

Sorry, not sorry!

He was the opposition presidential candidate and by all accounts (see this statement from the Carter Center, for example) is the true victor of the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election held on Sunday, 28 July: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmundo_González_Urrutia

These might be the mutterings of an old curmudgeon, but I still don’t get why beach volleyball is an Olympic sport. (See here, for example.) As far as the uniforms for the parade of nations are concerned (the opening ceremonies are … Continue reading →

Via Remember Singapore, I am reblogging below a history of the Garden City’s famed “Road Safety Park”:

I wrote the first draft of “Gödel’s Loophole” in 2012, and it was published in the Capital University Law Review in 2013. Since then, it has been cited by Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker (see here) and has garnered … Continue reading →

I could not help but contemplate our mortality as well as our moral obligations to our ancestors after visiting the great monoliths of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), so among other things, I revised and corrected my homage to my father … Continue reading →