There are a few interesting cases that will be brought before the US Supreme Court in the coming months. They include patents on Mickey Mouse, a decision on the U of M affirmitive action case, and whether or not states can fine gays and lesbians for sex acts that the state deems abnormal even if they occur in the privacy of your own home.

The two that us Internet users should pay close attention to are the Mickey Mouse patent case, which revolves around how long a patent should be valid for. Currently it’s only supposed to be 20 years I believe, but they can be extended on a case by case basis. The other involves filters in libraries. I’m torn on this issue. Sure a kid could browse to a porn site while visiting the library, but how many actually would? I, personally, would not browse explicit sites and if I did I would think a librarian should be close by to tell me to stop it.

In other news I’m moving. I’m finally getting out of this hell hole of an apartment and moving into a nicer one a few blocks away. We should know if we were approved by the end of today.

Colin Powell, in an amazing display of arrogance, has attempted to tell the nation that the nuclear fiasco in N. Korea is not a crisis.

How this can’t be a crisis I don’t know. Here is an extremely hostile country, who has been caught red handed proliferating arms, that could have a few nuclear warheads within a year or two.

Something interesting that the article points out is that China isn’t happy about this either. Pissing off your biggest ally isn’t usually the best political move.

Maybe I’m not the only one worried about North Korea. There is a story running on CNN about North Korea violating the DMZ between North and South Korea. The story also briefly covers Nor th Korea’s recent decision to boot the UN nuclea watchdogs and restart its nuclear program

This brings me to my main point: Who else is worried about North Korea? At least Iraq is letting us send in inspectors, though he may be giving us a smoke screen again. On the other hand North Korea is basically saying “We want nukes, and when we get them we are going to use them as bargaining power”, which is a dangerous proposition with the current U.S. leader.