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By - Kieran offers a taxonomy of bullshit-libertarian justifications for arbitrary executive power. The take on InstaCrocodileTears is particularly priceless: “Oh, puh-leeze. This is nothing new. It’s been going on for years–Americans have no idea how little legal protection they have from arbitrary government surveillance. That’s why I became a libertarian. I still fully support the Government’s right to monitor, lock up, ‘render’ and torture anyone they declare is an enemy combatant, though. I absolutely still don’t trust them to run a Social Security Program or redistribute taxes to the poor, obviously.”
- Really good post by The Happy Feminist on getting canned. The one good thing about the fact this is the first decent job outside of grad school that I’ve ever had means that I’ve never had to go through being fired from a job I wanted to keep. Indeed, my only firing was from a dry cleaning job that I hated (and was probably not ideal for someone with allergies to cat hair in any case.)
- Teresa on The Da Vinci Code.
- MMF finds Rick Santorum adopting the Gregg Easterbrook definiton of “postmodern.”
- I have to admit I’ve never been a fan of The West Wing. Lance is, or at least was, and he offers his take on the show in tribute to the late John Spencer.
- Julian Sanchez on Abu Gonzales’ innovations in statutory interpretation.
- BMM on Bai. I’m sure that Garance is right he’s a good reporter and a nice guy etc., but he’s just out of his depth on policy issues. Like Maureen Dowd, except that Dowd at least makes no pretense about caring about policy.