A relatively minor tragedy compared to the rest of the week, I know. He lived a full life, died at age 70. Nevertheless, I can't help feeling a bit sad. I don't believe that my affection for Gilligan's Island as a six year old has...
Month: September 2005
The logic identified in Rob's post last week on the usefulness of incompetence, and vice versa, is rather brilliantly demonstrated in the following call and responses routine. First, Neil Buchanan's.
From MeiZhongTai:Late Presidents Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo will be laid to rest next March or April, according to the Taipei Times. It is understandable if some readers are confused.
Since there seems to be some confusion in the comments here I'm guessing there may be a more general misunderstanding of this point. The Chief Justice is a separate appointment, and there's no requirement (formal or informal) that a justice will be promoted from within....
"He’s done a hell of a job, because I’m not aware of any Arabian horses being killed in this storm."
Billmon on Brown.
Since I've already discussed Rehnquist's Brown memo, I'll leave that mostly for later. Since it is (for good reason) the primary focus of many postmortems, we shouldn't forget that Rehnquist's.
One of the difficulties that those of us who claim that courts and legislatures are not always engaged in a zero-sum struggle for power have is in making the empirical case convincing to skeptics. Indeed, most delegations and deferrals of power by elected officials to...
The first USS Louisiana (BB-19) was a vessel of no great note. Commissioned in 1906, Louisiana was one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships. The completion of the British Dreadnought in.
In general, it is safe to assume that I have never met anyone famous who has passed away, but this is an exception. I met the Chief Justice when I.
I'm sure Scott will have something more substantial.
While it is well-known that Michael Brown was a hack political appointee utterly lacking in relevant experience, I did not know that he does not even seem to have been.
The Republicans have managed a nifty trick over the last twenty-five years. They have worked ceaselessly to make government less effective, while at the same time deriving political benefit from.