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12:46am 29/03/2006
  A summary of what I learned from last Friday's Doctor Who ("The Unquiet Dead"):

1) Charles Dickens knows more about gaseous fluid dynamics than I do.
2) Rose likes to ask psychic maidservants about their sex lives.
3) You should not ignore the walking dead.
4) It was "make fun of Wales" week at the BBC.		  
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01:17am 29/03/2006
  I think my current job interferes with enjoying Boston Legal.

Perhaps this is because I work for "the man." For an establishmentarian like me, it is very satisfying. It also reinforces my belief that most people who sue the government deserve nothing, and the tort claims acts should be severely curtailed. If it ain't a constitutional right (and it's usually not), then it's an unnecessary drain on the treasury.

Also, I notice that most things get resolved in briefs without direct witness testimony, so I find the use of such testimony on the show tedious.

Maybe I should have watched Thief.		  
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I'm right - again.   
01:32pm 29/03/2006
  Overlawyered pointed me to this stunning case, which can be summed up in a blockquote:
A man separated from his wife but not quite divorced is suing a popular online matchmaker for refusing to help him find a date.

John Claassen, a 36-year-old lawyer from Emeryville, filed a lawsuit alleging eHarmony abridged his civil rights by refusing to match him up. He said the company, which has an "unmarried only" policy, broke California state law by discriminating against him based on his marital status.
I think eHarmony might lose, and here's why.

California has no-fault divorce, abolished its heartbalm torts, and decriminalized adultery. Therefore, there's no legal reason why a service couldn't enable adulterers, either technical or actual. eHarmony's preferences, and even its market research, must bow to California law.

Now, I think it's pretty unfortunate that California law likely prevents dating services from refusing to abet philanderers. But, as Solzhenitsyn said, in America we confuse what's legal with what's moral, and try to draw the boundaries of moral no farther than the law.		  
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