I hate to be dogmatic about things, but the US court system is usually pretty dysfunctional, mostly I think, for lack of legislative oversight. And that would be the fault of legislators, whose job is to provide a balance of power by being able to revoke a court’s decision in the legislature if they feel so called. Of course the status quo seems to be that the judicial activism is in, and legislative activism is out. The court system has been trampled over by liberal activists who do what like because they can, and the legislative assemblies have their hands in Big Business’s pie, so they won’t do anything even if they could.

That said, it seems even the US courts are a little nervous with the Patriot and Homeland Security Acts, and the way they chip at the foundations of US civil liberties little by little. In a recent decision they seem to be toeing the line of saying “we don’t like this, Mr Bush. Not in a tree, not with a bee, not in a box, not with a fox.”

In other news, if you want to read something about Quantum Mechanics, try this site. In the venerable tradition of science, it is quite ugly, but informative. Which is about as much as I can say about Eintein too, by the way. Ugly, and really bad hair, but informative as you’ll get.

Want to know the rules of soccer? Well I did, and I found out how complicated they really are. The second link is for a PDF document put out by Fifa (the Federation International de Football Association). By the wayl, who made up that name? Is that like four different languages? I see French in there, and English, so what is this? Goodness, make up your minds people. You might as well have called it the Vereinigung Internazionale de Football Asociación.

Which for those of you who don’t know, is German, Itallian, French, English, and Spanish.

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