June 29, 2004

Law and medicine

If you're trying to make a layman's sense of this week's Supreme Court's decisions regarding enemy combatants and their detention, you could do a lot worse than go to SCOTUSblog. Found via Talk Left.

Welcome to the Middle Ages: the FDA this week granted approval to a French firm for the use of leeches to draw blood.

If you remember your Harry Potter, one of the suspicious things about Scabbers the rat was that he'd lived for twelve years, while normal rat life cycles are about three years. So what does one make of Yoda the mouse? He's now over four and has buried two of his life companions. Poor guy.

Posted by Linkmeister at June 29, 2004 10:54 AM
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