Latest buzz has Washington taking Berry at 4 (I’m not sold), which would affect just about every mock I’ve read. There’s some talk that Cleveland or San Fran is interested in Clausen, but again, I’m not sold: Cleveland can land McCoy early in the second (and he’s a perfect fit for the west coast offense) and pick up somebody like Haden or Earl Thomas at 7. And San Fran would

Here is Patterico’s latest, which posits additional hypotheticals in an effort to show how intent is necessarily influenced by convention, the idea being that a knowledge of convention must perforce manifest itself in intent. Which, of course it can — but at the same time, it doesn’t necessarily have to, or else conventions would never change, given that very rarely would one ever find himself in a situation to intend

The argument that an increased federal involvement in the health care industry will over time lead to ever more intrusive regulations on our bodies “for our own good” is one I’ve been making for years now. For my troubles, I’ve been called “paranoid” and “foaming” — and been accused of backing the kind of dogmatic libertarianism that would allow businesses to poison customers while the market sorted things out. Of