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New laws going into effect January 1, 2010
This is just a short list of some of the new laws going into effect for 2010.
Cows. SB 135 makes it a misdemeanor to chop off a cow’s tail, except for when it’s medically necessary.
Dental assistants. AB 667 authorizes dental assistants to apply fluoride to the teeth of school kids, under the “general direction” of [...]
WHAT THE NEW DECADE WILL BE CALLED
Come January 1, we’ll dump the “two-thousands” and get cozy with the “twenty-tens.” So say the language experts. In 2000, there were “uncertainties,” said David Crystal of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, so we ignored the example of 1900 (“nineteen-hundred”), and we said “two-thousand.” Why? “Twenty-hundred” is awkward, said Jesse Sheidlower of the [...]





