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Month: June 2008

Ya Think?

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On June 15, 2008
The punchline to this Times article about Giuliani's fundraising-for-personal-debt-relief racket is so strange that it makes me wonder if the banality is actually deadpan humor:Political analysts say that Mr. Giuliani’s once prolific fund-raising abilities have been hampered by several factors. Perhaps most significant is the...

Retardo Apologizes…

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On June 15, 2008

...in the course of making new accusations. The apology:One thing I do regret and apologise for is the assumption that academics are all wealthy. Obviously, many aren’t, especially adjunct professors..

Against Richardson

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On June 14, 2008
Agreed (see also here.) I stopped taking Richardson's candidacy seriously when he endorsed a dissenter in Roe and Miranda (and the writer of the majority opinion in Bowers) as his model Supreme Court justice, and there's plenty more where that came from. He would make...

Warren G. Harding, accepting the Republican nomination for President, 12 June 1920:The womanhood of America, always its glory, its inspiration, and the potent uplifting force in its social and spiritual.

Worst National [fill in the blank] day

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On June 13, 2008
It's today. National Pigeon Day. Worst. National day of recognition. ever.... UPDATE (from d): I'm going to respectfully disagree with my esteemed colleague here. When I was living in Boston for a summer in the late 1990s -- unemployed, supposedly working on my dissertation, and...

Scalia’s Hysteria

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On June 13, 2008

From Dahlia Lithwick's recap of the Boumediene decision:Scalia points to the 30 detainees released from Guantanamo—by an order of the Bush administration, not a court, it should be noted—who have.

Clinton or a Man?

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On June 13, 2008

Evaluating some arguments for and against Sebellius as a VP choice, Ezra discusses a strange argument I've always wondered about:Then, on the con side, we get an argument that's been.

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