There's a New South Wales State Election on this Saturday (24th March, 2007 - last day of Daylight Saving). It's quite frustrating to hear all the discussion of 'preference deals' and people saying they "won't vote for X because they have preferenced Y" and they don't want to vote for Y ( Read more... )

Something reminded me how much I really regret there not being a substantial set of DVD, or even VHS episodes of 100 Centre Street (the address of the central criminal courts in New York City). I remember it dealing with some of the reasons why things work out as they tend to do in the US courts, and other related parts of the system. If it had ( Read more... )