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Website Wednesday

Yesterday was school board election and voting on the school budget day in NJ. It looks like a lot of school budgets passed. Our Murphy Law's Gov (that is, he's in a job above his capabilities) on day before the election bashed teachers for using students as "drug mules."

WTF? Drug mules! Go look it up the story in The Record and The Star-Ledger. Drug mules! What an obscene, vile description of our kids. He explained that teachers were urging the kids to tell their parents to vote for the budget.; carrying the message like drug mules. First, he's factually wrong. Teachers tell kids to tell their parents to vote - that's democracy, Gov.

I asked my mom what she thought a drug mule was and she said: Someone who carries drugs. Then I explained just what a drug mule really was (And yes, the Gov knew, after all he touted his creds as a federal prosecutor all through the campaign.) and she went: Eww! (If you, like mom, are unfamiliar with this term, just goggle.)

Nick Acocella from NJN's Reporters Roundtable said last Friday that this Gov was not out to compromise with the teachers' union; he was out to destroy it. Like the time in LOTR when Aragon had to explain to Theoden that that Orcs were fighting for the total annihilation of men. I've never seen such tactics in NJ politics before.

Noam Chomsky has stated that he has never seen people as angry in the US in his lifetime. Well, he has to be forgetting the Vietnam War protest (he's old enough to remember) among other events but I agree with him in that people are just so angry today. They are so aggrieved. They are even delusional since they can spout nonsense like: Get the government's hands off my Medicare without a blink.

We seem to be living in the Wild West of rational thought. That is, as in the Wild West where there was very little law, today there is very little rational thought.

But on to the website pick. I'm going legal today. Perhaps because I feel we may all need a dose of what the law really states and not what we think, want it to state; especially here in the US.

Cornell University has this legal site:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/

which is a rather lame-looking site but get beyond the lack of bells and whistles and you'll find an excellent resource.

This site is an important legal information site. It's work more than fun in reading but it's worth it. What can you do here? Read US Supreme Court cases. Go through state law for many US states (not all.) Get detailed overviews on hundreds of topics like: adoption, ERISA, health statues of most US states, workers compensation, and how to prepare a legal citation.

Link into a topic, for example, workers comp, and see a list of attorneys in your area. (How do they know where I live? Magic!)

They have a presence on Twittter and Facebook. And, they have an Ask A Lawyer section where they say: Questions asked here are answered promptly and efficiently by experts at our commercial partner, JustAnswer.com.

OK, enough of me palavering. Take a look at this site. Bookmark it so you can visit it again easily. Today, we all live in a legal world. This is a good resource to have handy.