Contraband tomatoes

Slightly off topic, but now it is lawful in the Netherlands to buy small amounts of cannabis for medicinal purposes, perhaps some light should be cast on the difficulty of getting superior tomatoes – at least in Britain. The Independent reported on August 19th. I think things are slightly better in Germany, though I recall that manufactum sometimes sells potatoes ‘for cooking only’ that are clearly seed potatoes of a variety of obscure types.
Here is a photo of some nice tomatoes in an Italian supermarket.
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German officialese / Beamtendeutsch

Law blog links to Bild Zeitung’s collection of Die schrägsten Vorschriften Deutschlands – Germany’s weirdest official regulations. Here’s an example:

bq. „Der Tod stellt aus versorgungsrechtlicher Sicht die stärkste Form der Dienstunfähigkeit dar.“
(Unterrichtsblätter für die Bundeswehrverwaltung)

bq. “From the point of view of pensions law, death is the most extreme form of unfitness for work.” (Teaching materials for the German Federal Armed Forces Administration)

EU policy portal

EurActiv.com is a portal with news and documentation on EU policy. It is intended to be independent and has a variety of funding.

This comes from www.llrx.com, links section. LLRX also has an article on Blogs for Public Lawyers, by Jerry Lawson, containing advice on starting a blog, and an Internet Round Table (introduced by Dennis Kennedy) with Jerry Lawson, Brenda Howard, Dennis Kennedy, Ernest Svenson and Tom Mighell, on blogs and law firm marketing.