There's a New Squirrel in Town!

Yo Yo Yo! I'm Esquirrel's distant relation from the good ol' U.S.A. (land of the free) Super Squirrel! I have super powers (as do all Americans), but please don't make a big deal about it, or you'll embarrass us. I don't live in the same city, or even the same country (Canadia) as Esquirrel. He's a bit of a black sheep [sic] in our family as he LIVES in a Canadian law school. What's up with that anyway? He says he's trapped. But, any squirrel with his wits about him can get up into the duct work and get the H.E. Double Hockey Sticks out of there. Some of our family members think he doesn't want to get out. I mean, can't he get a nice hollowed out tree stump? What did he do to deserve being trapped in a law school? Bad credit? Cast aside by his community and FORCED to live with wannabe LAWYERS? (Shudder). I'm not saying any of that is TRUE, mind you. But, if it were, and if a certain someone in my family would just go to counseling for his "little" problem, the family MIGHT consider taking him back into the fold.

That aside, Hi y'all! It's good to blog here.

On Illogicality as Virtue

It appears I have become a minor celebrity on Facebook, that most important barometer of change in social status. Some of my law school colleagues have decided that it is more exciting than offensive to ignore the fact that a rodent enrolled in law school is one of those things you don't talk about, like Snooki's intellectual prowess. All I have to say to that is this: "the legal position [is] still very far from satisfying the highest demands of reason."

In more exciting news, Animal Law is finally getting some much deserved media attention (h/t SH for the link). Fucking right. While I find the tone of the article a little bit off-putting ("frivolous fido filings"---really?), this is generally a welcome development. Of course, I fully expect U of T Law to rethink the ill-advised step of having a human animal teach this course. Last time I checked, no one had retained non-human animals to deliver lectures on the virtues of tort-ing your neighbours.

Offensive shit I read today, #1

"In this appeal, however, we are only dealing with a small corner of the biotechnology controversy. We are asked to determine whether the oncomouse, a genetically modified rodent with heightened genetic susceptibility to cancer, is an invention" - per Binnie J, Harvard College v. Canada (Commissioner of Patents), 2002 SCC 76, [2002] 4 S.C.R. 45.

Renegade renegade renegade!

Don't even get me started on these blogs fronted by non-human animals. I have read them and I hate them. Biotechnology gone wrong. Non-human animals that can read and write defy the natural order. I am no eugenicist but facts are facts. And here at the prestigious University of Toronto Law, I have been told it's all about facts. Well, at least until you get to the issues and it's all IRAC from there. LOL. Get it? Nevermind--rodent joke.

So welcome to this blog. Because a welcome note is appropriate for a first post. Some ground rules here. No rude comments. When not on YouTube, do not as YouTubers do. Also, be legal. It's all about law kids. Lastly, no rodent jokes. That's racist. Read the Charter.

Someone (specifically, a biotechnologist-psychologist I see regularly about my bookophobia issue) asked me: Why not books for toddlers? You have the name and experiences for it. To which I replied: Fuck that.

I don't get children's books. Maybe because I have NEVER been a child. Res ipsa loquitur. I say write about what you know. Unless of course you are a PhD student.