Animal House Cleaning

A few things I would like to point out...

1. I am now a regular co-blogger at De Novo. What? A standing ovation? Noooooo!!! My latest musings regarding wireless access in the classroom can be seen here.

2. I made a few changes to the site a few days back such as adding sitemeter and putting the blogroll in alphabetical order. (Sidenote: sitemeter is the most addictive substance I've yet subjected my body to, and I'm a big opiates fan.) If you have any blogs to recommend to be added to the blogroll feel free to submit them as a comment. My sole criteria is that they be entertaining to read (however defined).

3. While reading Johnson v. M'Intosh (Native Americans don't have the right to transfer land since the US government holds ultimate title for various disturbing reasons including the whole only first Europeans to discover America can have title) for Property yesterday I couldn't help but think of my favorite comedian, Eddie Izzard:

So, yeah. There was a lot of that, and we built up empires - we stole countries! That's what you do, that's how you build an empire. We stole countries with the cunning use of flags! Yeah, just sail around the world and stick a flag in.

"I claim India for Britain!"

They go, "You can't claim us, we live here! 500 million of us!"

"Do you have a flaaaaag?"

"We don't need a bloody flag! It's our country, you bastards!"

"No flag, no country, you can't have one! That's the rules that I've just made up, and I'm backing it up with this gun that was lent from the National Rifle Association."