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The Noble Experiment

June 8, 2010 – 6:18 am

Until I came to do the research for my MPhil, I didn’t realise that Prohibition — that great failed exercise in mass planning — was also known back in the day as ‘the noble experiment’. I learnt of the alternative moniker through Daniel Okrent’s superb history — Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. [...]

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Libertarian Writing Bleg

April 23, 2009 – 7:40 pm

As a few people around the place know, I’m currently writing a novel. I’d originally had grand plans of getting it finished before starting at Oxford in 2007, but that didn’t happen. It does look likely that it’ll be finished by the end of this year, however, which is both a great relief and slightly [...]

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The Bong Song

March 6, 2009 – 5:23 am

Via Reason, an open letter to President Obama: ease up in the war on drugs. Here’s the composer’s statement to go with the song: Thank you, President Obama, for keeping your campaign pledge to end raids on medical marijuana dispensaries that are legal under state laws in California and elsewhere. Thank you for reversing an [...]

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Theodore Dalrymple stirs the pot

February 26, 2009 – 9:09 am

British psychiatrist Theordore Dalrymple (aka Anthony Daniels) both annoys and interests me in equal measure. On the one hand, he’s a resolute defender of personal betterment: as documented in Life at the Bottom, he was willing to put his career on the line so that welfare recipients could gain an education — up to and [...]

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Duty to restrain drunk drivers

January 23, 2009 – 9:55 am

It is easier to impose a duty on someone for something they have actually done than it is to impose a duty on someone for something they have failed to do (the misfeasance/nonfeasance distinction). Nothing illustrates this more clearly than a case where a pub fails to restrain a drunken patron from driving while drunk. [...]

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Jah on their side…

April 16, 2008 – 5:18 pm

This article about the collapse of a legal trial against some Rastafarians cracks me up. Apparently the five Rastas had been charged with cannabis dealing, and the trial had been running for two weeks when one of the police officers recognised a paralegal from the defence team for one of the defendants. The paralegal was said to [...]

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Carrots that eat milk

July 8, 2007 – 6:53 pm

When my sister and I were little, we came up with the sentence which is the title of this post (during a trip to Jenolan Caves). We found it hilarious because it made no sense. Carrots are incapable of eating, and even if they were capable, they couldn’t “eat” milk anyway. Yeah, we were strange [...]

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Drugs and the law

May 16, 2007 – 8:25 pm

Craziness! A top barrister has been admitted to hospital. He collapsed in a hotel, allegedly after a prostitute administered drugs to him. It is not clear at this point what the drug was or whether it was administered with the barrister’s consent. Another top barrister has said lawyers should be drug tested because of drug [...]

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