Another quote (here was the first):
This bill is directed against the pot hunter. When you take away his market you destroy his occupation. Take away his market or put that market under the surveilland of the game wardens, and the pot hunter must cease to carry on his nefarious traffic. He is the man who should have no ffriends on the floor of this House or anywhre in the United States of America. He is rhe relentless enemy of all animal life.

33 Cong. Rec. 4872 (1900) (Statement of Rep. Lacey)

I'm not the real tea maven on this blog, but I like tea, and I have tea from all the big tea shops people tend to go to - Mariage Freres, Les Palais des Thes, Teelaaden. But I just discovered our own Upton Tea Imports. They've got an incredibly accessible, informative, online shop, and the selection is terrific. Plus, the bags of tea arrive with your name on them.

Right now, I'm drinking a Japanese green tea called Gen-Mai Cha, a large leaf tea with toasted brown rice. The tea is smooth, and the rice, a throughly unexpected addition to tea, gives it a heady, nutty, flavor.

Anyway, I'll be ordering from there now on. No more dragging my friends in germany or holland or france or England to tea shops and then UPS for me.

Now that I have abandoned my plan to write a paper on legal governance of urban entomology, I have little to add to the New York Times story about bedbugs, and about the effect of the bedbug on crisis on landlord-tenant law. (Via Al Brophy.)

I have lamentably missed some Veronica Mars this fall, so further thoughts on Season 3 will have to wait until I, 1, finish my S.A.W. and 2, call in some favors with Tivo-ing friends. In the meantime, this Entertainment Weekly interview with Kristen Bell (a few spoilers) was quite good. And as the story points out, while VM's ratings have not been as good as its devotees hoped, it's not clear that the CW really has anything to replace it with, so the open question is what the opportunity cost of airing the show is.

I have previously covered the famous world of New Haven pizza, but until now I have been unable to weigh in on the hard question of which particular kind of pie is the best one in New Haven. Sensible people pit Modern Apizza's spinach & garlic pizza against Sally's hot peppers against Pepe's white clam & bacon. I have had the first two several times (both great) but until last night had not sampled the last, not least because Pepe's frequently ran out of clams.

Despite the fact that I really like hot peppers, it seems to me pretty impossible to resist the conclusion that the white clam and bacon pizza is the best of the bunch. I acknowledge that because I am fairly new convert to clams, it is possible that I am merely infatuated by the fresh yummy saltiness that is a very-hot-fired clam, but I will stand by my infatuation.

[Incidentally, certain inside-the-Beltway types would have you believe that the anchovy pizza at AV Ristorante in Wahsington is a better pie than of these. This is triply wrong.]