Lawyers, Guns and Money extends its heartfelt congratulations to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, sausage eating bastard and now Pope Benedict XVI. He's 78, so we'll probably have to go through all of this again in a few years.
Month: April 2005
I don't pick up most trends before they become cool. In fact, I don't pick up many trends that are cool right now. My coolness meter has about a two.
How long must we go without a single infallible human?
Jeffrey Rosen's article about the "Constitution in Exile" movement is good (more on that later, if only to make fun of Richard Epstein), but this being Rosen he concludes with yet another statement that judicial victories won in the courts always produce a much harsher...
Julie Saltman (1,2) and the Mock Turtle offer progressive defenses for keeping the filibuster rules. Since they raise a lot of interesting points, I'll address the most important ones individually..
Shorter Bobo: Even I, a conservative whose stock in trade is dividing groups of people into overgeneralized camps and talks about "epidemics" of oral sex and gnashes his teeth about.
Some people may remember that Ezra Klein was a proponent of Kathleen Sebelius for the Veep slot in '04. Made sense to me--any woman who could attain the Kansas governorship as a Democrat had to have some serious political skills. Anyway, Ezra looks even more...
Ted Barlow points us to an interesting Onion piece about bad scenes in great movies. To me, the choice is easy: the scene in The Godfather Part II where Kay.
Friday Cat Blogging. . . Stromboli
Lindsay has asked me to participate in the "Caesar's Bath" question--i.e., five things that similarly situated people tend to like that you don't really get. Unfortunately, many of the the best answers (Lord of the Rings, Sex and the City, people who call comic books...
Heh-indeedy.
Given the interesting comments by several friends of this blog (including Lance Mannion, Russell Arben Fox, and Ezra Klein), a few more comments in re: cultural conservatism of indeterminate contours..