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[Jun. 14th, 2009|09:57 pm] |
Have you noticed that when that plane crashed over the Atlantic last week, no one really speculated that it was caused by terrorists? I remember a few years ago that when anything bad happened, the very first thing people did was freak out at start blaming 'terrorists', even when it made no sense (like when that Space Shuttle exploded). Maybe the collective paranoid delusion the US has been living under for the past few years is finally starting to lift and people are being more rational these days and risk perception and not not reflexively lashing out whenever something bad happens?
I'm still editing an article for my law school journal, despite the fact that I should have been done with that sort of thing back in May. But if I don't do it, it won't get done, and it needs to get done. I was thinking about how 'global' this article has become. It's for a Washington DC journal, but the editor (me) is stuck up here in Alaska. I asked the author, who is Canadian, to send me some files, but he wrote back and said he couldn't because he was in South Africa. So he asked his coauthor, who is from the Netherlands, to send the files, but that guy can't do it because he is currently in Laos. The joys of working on an International Law journal...
Speaking of crazy, I spent the last few days rewriting all of the Contract Law summaries on my law school web site. I could try and defend my actions by saying that the summaries really needed some revision in order to be up to the standards of the rest of the summaries on the site. But really it was just do to a combination of boredom and OCD. |
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