Despite my best efforts to kill it, the Lessig-land blog lumbers on, and with a guest blogger no less.
Must try harder
Despite my best efforts to kill it, the Lessig-land blog lumbers on, and with a guest blogger no less.
Month: May 2004
The trees, dude
This is very cool: The folks at GreenWood Resources are working on poplar hybrids that will boost volume and wood quality even more. Its experimental station here has 53 commercial elite-hybrid varieties. “This marries traditional agriculture to forestry,” says Brian Stanton, GreenWood’s plant geneticist, who quickly notes there’s nothing Dr. Frankenstein about this. It’s easy … Continue reading “The trees, dude”
This is very cool:
The folks at GreenWood Resources are working on poplar hybrids that will boost volume and wood quality even more. Its experimental station here has 53 commercial elite-hybrid varieties.
“This marries traditional agriculture to forestry,” says Brian Stanton, GreenWood’s plant geneticist, who quickly notes there’s nothing Dr. Frankenstein about this. It’s easy to see why. Believing GreenWood was doing genetic engineering, eco-terrorists bombed its facilities in 2001. In fact, the company uses traditional cross-breeding. It just does so at a state-of-the-art level.
Of course, there’s nothing new about poplar farms. They were originally developed as a bio-mass source for energy production. When that didn’t work out, poplar was used for wood chips and paper production, but there’s little money in that today. GreenWood’s goal: create fast-growing, high-quality hybrid poplars for furniture stock, veneer, paneling and cabinetry.
Gary LaMusga’s struggle
Here’s an excellent article by Glenn Sacks on the LaMusga case, highlighting the struggle that Gary has undergone to be a father to his children: According to the court testimony of her son?s kindergarten teacher, the boy told the teacher that “my dad lies in court…if you tell the judge…he could talk to you.” That?s … Continue reading “Gary LaMusga’s struggle”
Here’s an excellent article by Glenn Sacks on the LaMusga case, highlighting the struggle that Gary has undergone to be a father to his children:
According to the court testimony of her son?s kindergarten teacher, the boy told the teacher that “my dad lies in court…if you tell the judge…he could talk to you.” That?s funny because my daughter is in kindergarten right now and she?s the smartest little girl in the world but I can?t quite imagine her coming up with ideas like that on her own. Who could have put these ideas into Gary LaMusga?s five year old son?s head?
According to the testimony of the kindergarten teacher, she asked the boy this and the boy said that his mom told him these things. The same mother who has worked so hard to foster the relationship between her sons and their father.
The teacher also testified: “He spoke to me with a similar conversation…I finally sat down with him and told him that it was OK for him to love his daddy. I basically gave him permission to love his father. And he seemed brightened by that.”
Gee, like it?s a revelation–he can love his dad, too! Mom never allowed him to do that!
The teacher continued: “The next day that Gary had seen the kids he came to me the following morning and said ,?what did you say to him?…He was so happy. He just greeted me with open arms…we had one of the best evenings that we have had in a long time.? ”
This kind of behavior is so common it has a clinical name: parental alienation.
The kindergarten teacher’s testimony by itself should have been grounds for a change of custody from mom to dad, but in our bizarre legal system, it’s just barely enough to allow dad to spend tens of thousands of dollars on the outside chance that he can prevent his children from being carted off 2400 miles away to an area where mom can live comfortably off the child support without working, pushing this poison without interference.
BTW, Glenn Sacks has an interesting guest on his show Sunday, the obnoxious advice columnist and erstwhile blogger Amy Alkon. It’s my opinion that Alkon is a man-hater, but her friends say she’s an equal opportunity hater, down on children and feminists as well; if that’s the case, she’s at least got one thing right.
UPDATE: Alkon defends herself in the comments. The defense sounds good, but what has she got against baseball?