Welcome Back to Admin Law Prof Blog, and (Unrelated) Try to Die Before 2011

Posted by Alan Childress

Two notes of interest around the blogosphere (posted so early in the U.S. that only Patrick O’D will see them now):

— I was the 10th visitor to the new Administrative Law Prof Blog, resurrected July 5, 2008 and part of the LPB network. I was reading their post entitled test.  Its text is:  “test.”  (Ah, yes, I remember Jeff’s first post, of equal import and intent, albeit not as succinct.) Good luck guys, though differentiate titles from text, and learn Jeff’s Law:  never reply to an angry anonymous commenter.  Welcome!

— Another LPB blog, Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog, has 3 to 4 doses of fiscal reality for the few of us left who let nature run its course.  Find them in Gerry Beyer’s posts called Planning to Die in 2010, More on Dying in 2010, and my favorite:  Should you let a beneficiary prepare your food?  The latter is a follow up to his astute post, Don’t go scuba diving with a beneficiary — especially if he just asked you to increase your life insurance.  A bit morbid, but I guess the blog’s subject matter defintionally tilts that way.  Taxes do alter human behavior; I imagine lots of decisions about life support, if not super size meals or surgery options, to be affected trying to fine-time the end — after 2009, before 2011 — in line with current law on the estate tax.  Hold on, grandma, we love you dearly! But don’t overstay.