Much has been said about the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Pharmacy ruling against Wal-Mart and requiring it to immediately being providing the emergency contraception drug (aka "morning-after" or "Plan B"). Many folks are arguing that such actions are anti-American, new, and unconstitutional. In fact, the ruling is none of these. Wal-Mart itself is not being required to provide this

SB 63, arguably my favorite bill in the Utah Legislature at the moment (admittedly for trivial and selfish reasons), failed to make it out of committee today. The bill, introduced by Dan Eastman, would have removed the requirement for a front license plate on vehicles in Utah - the argument being that the front plate is unnecessary and causes cosmetic damage to cars. The change also would have

As you probably have already seen, Exxon Mobile posted a record profit the other day, in the amount of $36.2 Billion for 2005. Given the huge increases in prices at the pump recently, there is considerable outrage over such huge profits. It is understandable, then, that executives at Exxon were trying to keep a low profile in recent days. Then the other shoe dropped - yesterday, Arlen Specter

Today, I took some time out of my busy schedule of, umm, doing important stuff, in order to read up on bills currently being considered in the Utah Legislature. A few I found interesting: 1. One of my personal favorites, S.B. 96, from Rep. Buttars, titled "Public Education - Instruction and Policy Relating to the Origins of Life". I'd give this one an award for "Most unintelligent design". This

Speaking of advertising gone wrong, here is a fun ad from the Wall Street Journal. Admittedly, this is a fairly old ad - I don't remember when I found this originally - but I was looking through some old backups I had and found it today. If the humor of the ad isn't obvious at first, look at the bottom - Morrison Foerster has been abbreviated to "MoFo". Morrison Foerster actually advertised the